LVM - is thin provisioning used? - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-12-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-15 5:18 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/11/2013 23:58, Tanstaafl wrote: Now, the question is, what the heck is thin-provisioning in lvm2, am I using it, and if not, do I need it? I'm pretty sure I'm not using it, but how to be sure? If you use thin

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-15 5:18 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/11/2013 23:58, Tanstaafl wrote: Now, the question is, what the heck is thin-provisioning in lvm2, am I using it, and if not, do I need it? I'm pretty sure I'm not using it, but how to be sure? Google for

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2013/11/15 Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com Not an answer to your question, but yesterday ruby got pulled in by an update to thin-provisioning-tools, which was required by lvm2. It looks like ruby is only required for the tests of sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools [1]. The new ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-15 5:56 AM, Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org wrote: The new ebuild thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 reflects this. So if you update to this version and don't use FEATURES=test it should not pull in ruby anymore. I don't have FEATURES=test and it still wants to pull all the ruby

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2013/11/15 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org On 2013-11-15 5:56 AM, Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org wrote: The new ebuild thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 reflects this. So if you update to this version and don't use FEATURES=test it should not pull in ruby anymore. I don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: The new ebuild thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 reflects this. So if you update to this version and don't use FEATURES=test it should not pull in ruby anymore. I don't have FEATURES=test and it still wants to pull all

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Chris Stankevitz schrieb am 15.11.2013 16:29: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: The new ebuild thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 reflects this. So if you update to this version and don't use FEATURES=test it should not pull in ruby anymore. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-15 5:56 AM, Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org wrote: 2013/11/15 Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com mailto:adamcart...@gmail.com Not an answer to your question, but yesterday ruby got pulled in by an update to thin-provisioning-tools, which was required by lvm2. It looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Ok, so... is there or is there not a way to prevent ruby from being installed? Yes I've tried adding -ruby and -test to package.mask for thin-provisioning-tools, and even tried adding them to USE= in make.conf, to

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-15 3:01 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Follow these steps: 0. undo whatever you did Already did... 1. emerge --sync 2. echo =sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 ~amd64 /etc/portage/package.keywords 3. update your system Or, I could just echo

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/11/2013 23:58, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-11-15 3:01 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Follow these steps: 0. undo whatever you did Already did... 1. emerge --sync 2. echo =sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 ~amd64 /etc/portage/package.keywords 3.

[gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-14 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, If possible please phrase your response in a way that will make sense to someone who was no idea what is ruby, has no desire to learn what is ruby, and who doesn't [directly] even want ruby on his system. True or false: The correct way to appease portage's error message below is to add a

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-14 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, If possible please phrase your response in a way that will make sense to someone who was no idea what is ruby, has no desire to learn what is ruby, and who doesn't [directly] even want ruby on his

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-14 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, If possible please phrase your response in a way that will make sense to someone who was no idea what is ruby, has no desire to learn what is ruby, and who doesn't [directly] even want ruby on his