Hello,
Blocking means that a package prevents other package from being installed.
I guess you already figured that out... :)
Quote from man pages should be quite clear (if not, ask :), it follows.
From man emerge
[blocks B ] app-text/dos2unix (from pkg app-text/hd2u-0.8.0)
Dos2unix is
Hello,
software as normal, but was told that ftpbase-0.00 was blocking
proftpd-1.something. What, exactly, does this mean and what do I do about
it? I want to continue using Proftpd, and don't know what Ftpbase is.
unmerge the old proftpd version, emerge the new proftpd version. For some
Are there any legalities behind creating your own set of installation
CDs or DVDs - which contain specific packages available through the
Gentoo repository and exclude other default ones - for distribution to
clients?
Email Disclaimer
http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm
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Are there any legalities behind creating your own set of installation
CDs or DVDs - which contain specific packages available through the
Gentoo repository and exclude other default ones - for distribution to
clients?
Email Disclaimer
http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm
--
Hi all,
I've reported this already in a former post and maybe it's too early to
ask this again.
I've bought an Acer 2313NLC notebook. The NIC is a SiS 900 and the
graphics controller is a SiSM661MX. I wasn't able to bring the NIC up.
I gave the notebook to the Acer service because the
I'm seeing a lot of these messages on my laptop currently. Is there
something wrong with it?
Coincidentally I notice that my eth0 (a broadcomm chip) is also down. I
need to restart the interface.
--
Ow Mun Heng
Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM
98% Microsoft(tm) Free!!
Neuromancer
Hi,
Thanks everybody, that solved my problems!
Jayson.
- Original Message -
From: Stefan Onken [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] One package is blocking another?
Hello,
software as normal, but was
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:01:07 +0200, Mark Humphrey wrote:
Are there any legalities behind creating your own set of installation
CDs or DVDs - which contain specific packages available through the
Gentoo repository and exclude other default ones - for distribution to
clients?
I hope not, I've
Frank,
The SiS 900 works fine for me on 100 Mbps without any specific
ifconfig instructions, so should work for you unless Acer have it in a
(very) non-default configuration.
Note however that when you compile the kernel, you do need to change
the config to include SiS 900 support, it's not
Mario Koppensteiner wrote:
Hello Jayson Smith
I had the same problem. I solved it with:
host# emerge --nodeps --update net-ftp/proftpd
and than
host# emerge --deep --update world
I hope this is the right way to solve the problem.
Andy comments?
mfg Mario Koppensteiner
---
Thanks,
that makes me a lot more serene. :))
Frank
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 10:36 +0200, Sandy McGuffog wrote:
Frank,
The SiS 900 works fine for me on 100 Mbps without any specific
ifconfig instructions, so should work for you unless Acer have it in a
(very) non-default configuration.
Hi,
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT)
Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 48 in dummy TAO mode
for single session.
...
Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium -
incompatible format) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
Did
On 8/11/05, Walter Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the install openswan ok but install ipsec-tools and error:
gcc -L../libipsec/.libs -o plainrsa-gen plainrsa-gen.o plog.o vmbuf.o
crypto_openssl.o logger.o misc.o -lssl -lcrypto -lresolv -lipsec
-lflsha2.o
gcc: sha2.o: No such file or
-Original Message-
From: Olli Koskela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 August 2005 07:57
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] One package is blocking another?
[snip]
When I've got a block, I unmerge the blocking package (emerge
-C ftpbase
in your
-Original Message-
From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 August 2005 01:32
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the
scenes payola
[snip]
And if my theory holds water in any way, then the Mozilla Foundation
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 10:48 +0100, Michael Kintzios wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Olli Koskela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 August 2005 07:57
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] One package is blocking another?
[snip]
When I've got a
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 13:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 8/10/05, Craig Zeigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If the developers bothered to write stuff like that for every package
(most of them have changelogs BTW) Gentoo would be like Debian.. years
between releases
--
Yeah, true. Besides,
Michael Kintzios schreef:
[OT]
Holly, you mention that you have a zillion search engines incorporated
in your browser . . . 8O
Where do you get them from? How can these be added to a browser?
[/OT]
The vast majority of them come from mozdev.org itself. If you click the
search engine button
Wow! Thanks, I've bookmarked this message. :-)
-Original Message-
From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 August 2005 13:39
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the
scenes payola
Michael Kintzios schreef:
--- Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT)
Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 48 in dummy TAO
mode
for single session.
...
Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium -
Using gentoo 2005.0 and trying to install the latest gnuplot, the
compile fails, and appears to be looking for a /dev/svga link.
I've updated udev and svgalib to the latest. There was supposedly a fixed
bug, number 92158, which talks about this. The person who repaired the
bug made a change to
Using gentoo 2005.0 and trying to install the latest gnuplot, the
compile fails, and appears to be looking for a /dev/svga link.
I've updated udev and svgalib to the latest. There was supposedly a fixed
bug, number 92158, which talks about this. The person who repaired the
bug made a change to
bunyip ccze-0.2.1 # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge svgalib -s
Searching...
[ Results for search key : svgalib ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* media-libs/svgalib
Latest version available: 1.9.21
Latest version installed: 1.9.19-r3
Size of downloaded files: 928 kB
Homepage:
Matt Randolph schreef:
Holly Bostick wrote:
Surfing the Internet is a lot like walking down the street.
Do you think Jane and John Doe computer users know that? Do you think
they know that what they do in Word and Outlook is private, and what
they do in Internet Explorer is public?
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:52:56PM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
bunyip ccze-0.2.1 # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge svgalib -s
Searching...
[ Results for search key : svgalib ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* media-libs/svgalib
Latest version available: 1.9.21
Latest version
Holly Bostick schreef:
Matt Randolph schreef:
What if they had binoculars and a camera?
Same with a camera, but if
for some reason somebody was standing right in front of my window taking
pictures of the interior of my house, I would do the same (confront them
and ask why), then
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:01:07 +0200 Mark Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| Are there any legalities behind creating your own set of installation
| CDs or DVDs - which contain specific packages available through the
| Gentoo repository and exclude other default ones - for distribution to
|
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:52:56PM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
bunyip ccze-0.2.1 # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge svgalib -s
Searching...
[ Results for search key : svgalib ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* media-libs/svgalib
Latest version available: 1.9.21
Latest version
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:14:26PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 05:05:34PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:52:10PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
http://www.scroogle.org/gscrape.html#ffox
Just wondering if anyone had heard of this.
Hello,
is anyone using a Palm Tungsten T5 under Gentoo and Udev ? I tried
google up and down, read tons of docs and howtos, but I can get it
to work. Any real life experience would be very helpful.
cu
stonki
--
www.stonki.de
www.krename.net
www.kbarcode.net
www.proftpd.de
--
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 03:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 23:43, Joe Rizzo wrote:
Hi-
I am trying to convert to using udev instead of devfs. I need to load a
raid controller module to access to root fs. I am using mkinitrd to
create the initrd, however the
I tried to update my gentoo instalation with 'emerge update world' ( i have
kde-meta installed instead kde), but 'kolf' (probably it is some game from
kdegames) failed to build. Then I remove kolf (I don't need it) and try
'emerge --pretend world', but 'kolf' and some other not installed
On Thursday 11 August 2005 11:38, Cadaver wrote:
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 03:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 23:43, Joe Rizzo wrote:
Hi-
I am trying to convert to using udev instead of devfs. I need to load
a raid controller module to access to root fs. I
Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
I can't use wget - because I want to put files... I can use the classic
ftp program (which works fine is passive mode) - however I dislike the
user interface... ncftp worked fine for me in the past...
post a trace (or screen grab) of the ftp program running passive mode,
Paul M Foster schreef:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:52:56PM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
bunyip ccze-0.2.1 # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge svgalib -s
Searching...
[ Results for search key : svgalib ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* media-libs/svgalib
Latest version available: 1.9.21
Holly Bostick wrote:
Michael Kintzios schreef:
Sharing our private information (i.e. our own browsing
trends) for profit without our consent is evidently not on
This carries the assumption that our own browsing trends is, in fact,
private information, which I do not necessarily agree
Michael Kintzios wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 August 2005 01:32
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the
scenes payola
[snip]
And if my theory holds water in any way, then the
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:36:07 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:38:03 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| 2. Various packages have licences which prohibit either
| redistributing the source, or redistributing the package in binary
| form, or redistributing a
Hi all,
I just recently took the plunge and bought 4 250 GB Seagate drives
and a 2 port Silicon Image 3112A controller card for the 2 drives my
motherboard doesn't handle. No matter how hard I try, I can't get the
hard drives to work: they are detected correctly and work reasonably
well
Antoine schreef:
How would you feel if a company bought lots of
too-small-to-be-readily-visible flying cameras (like the mosquito-cams
in the Dan Brown book Deception Point :-)) and followed you around
wherever you went (in these public places, which would certainly
include shops but not the
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:13:08 +0300, Cadaver wrote:
I tried to update my gentoo instalation with 'emerge update world' ( i
have kde-meta installed instead kde), but 'kolf' (probably it is some
game from kdegames) failed to build. Then I remove kolf (I don't need
it) and try 'emerge --pretend
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:33:21 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| Some even have mixed licences within the same package, win32codecs
| comes to mind, so grepping the ebuilds for LICENCE isn't enough.
If that's the case, you may have found a bug. LICENSE supports syntax
which allows specifying
Hi!
I'm building a USE=-pam system and thus don't have pam installed.
Now I wanted to compile openoffice and found, that it would install
pam:
server tmp # USE=-* emerge -vpt app-office/openoffice
These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
Hi,
vpopmail and courier-imap is running on my server and it mostly works great,
but sometimes the user login fails. The log file has the following output:
Aug 11 20:33:35 nerdig authdaemond: vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has
gone away
But, mysqld is running the whole time, and I set in
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:32:26 +0200 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I don't really want to install pam just because of OOo. Does OOo
| *REALLY* require pam?
No, but tcsh does, and openoffice's build system requires tcsh.
--
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools,
Hi folks,
this message is rather lengthy. If you don't feel like reading all of it
please don't bother to answer. You'll need the whole lot to get the
picture. ;-)
I have run into a weird network problem with 1Gb NICs. It involves these two
boxes:
Box A
P4 2.8Ghz HT
512GB ram
Tigon Gb NIC
Hi all,
I'm a complete newbie to Linux (and Gentoo) - just trying to install it
on my old laptop (not so old - 1999 or so), in a first attempt to free
myself from Windows.
It's a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop, running on a Pentium 3.
I'm installing the 2005.1 build, and following the handbook
Hi,
this is how my disk is divided:
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot
Start
End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1
*
1 1275
10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2
1276 4208
23559322+ f W95 Ext'd
Holly Bostick wrote:
I have the right to observe, and I also have
the right to record my observations,
Yes, as an individual you have that right (unless you're observing
military installations :). But Google is a company, and companies
are bound to some rules:
Fernando Meira wrote:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1276 4208 23559322+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 4209 4271 506047+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4 4272 4864 4763272+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 1276 4208 23559291 b W95 FAT32
[...]
1.
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:32:26 +0200 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I don't really want to install pam just because of OOo. Does OOo
| *REALLY* require pam?
No, but tcsh does, and openoffice's build system requires tcsh.
So it's possible to
#emerge -Ca
On 8/11/05, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So it's possible to
#emerge -Ca app-shells/tcsh
#emerge -p --depclean
[have a nice reading]
#emerge --depclean
To get rid of them after them after ?
Couldn't you use the binary ooo package to avoid the build-time dependency?
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Holly Bostick wrote:
I have the right to observe, and I also have
the right to record my observations,
Yes, as an individual you have that right (unless you're observing
military installations :). But Google is a company, and companies
are bound to some
Joseph wrote:
How to list real-time priority in Linux for an application (example
asterisk)?
Do you mean processor scheduling? This program deserves more processor
time/power than others?
If so, find out the process ID of the app you want to 'promote' or 'demote'
and take it with you into a
Fernando Meira wrote:
Hi,
this is how my disk is divided:
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1
Holly Bostick wrote:
[snip]
Go, dev team! We believe in you! If anybody can manage this migration
(relatively) painlessly, you can!
have a preview, pasting from gentoo-dev:
Donnie Berkholz wrote:
|Donnie Berkholz wrote:
|
| I started a brief migrating to modular X howto, on popular demand.
|
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Assaf Urieli wrote:
However, after I ran the genkernel script, and I do a: # ls
/boot/kernel* /boot/initrd* I get: ls: /boot/initrd*: No such file
or directory /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6
There is, however, a file called
Hi,
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:30:31 +0930
Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd vote for a preference setting for prefetching:
- disable / enable / enable for the same host only
a little bit like cookie handling.
from http://www.scroogle.org/gscrape.html#ffox Fortunately, you can
Hi Francesco,
thanks for your reply.
You gave me a new idea.
I can't create 2 partition as you proposed, but only one. This because
I already have 3 primary and 1 extended. Yes.. big mess.. have to fix
it later...
So, what I will do is this:
- leave around 32M in the beginning of the disk for a
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:32:26 +0200 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I don't really want to install pam just because of OOo. Does OOo
| *REALLY* require pam?
No, but tcsh does, and openoffice's build system requires tcsh.
Is that really
Christer Ekholm wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:32:26 +0200 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I don't really want to install pam just because of OOo. Does OOo
| *REALLY* require pam?
No, but tcsh does, and openoffice's build system requires
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:09:38 +, Fernando Meira wrote:
Now I want to clean hda1 (which has windows) and mount there /usr and
point $PORTAGE_TMPDIR there (because my gentoo system, in hda4, run out
of space). Once I'm doing this, I could split that partition into
smaller ones (e.g. to
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 15:06 +, Ian K wrote:
Joseph wrote:
How to list real-time priority in Linux for an application (example
asterisk)?
Do you mean processor scheduling? This program deserves more processor
time/power than others?
If so, find out the process ID of the app
On 8/10/05, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How to list real-time priority in Linux for an application (example
asterisk)?
man schedtoot
man chrt
Have fun,
Mark
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gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 17:19 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 8/10/05, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How to list real-time priority in Linux for an application (example
asterisk)?
man schedtoot
man chrt
Have fun,
Mark
Thanks Mark,
But they must be part of some other package.
I can
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 20:40 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Case 5:
I log into B and sftp into A. It sits there for about 10 seconds before
presenting me with a password prompt. After, I get transfer rates close
to case 2 and case 3, just the other way round.
The issues with the slow logon
On 8/11/05, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 17:19 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 8/10/05, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How to list real-time priority in Linux for an application (example
asterisk)?
man schedtoot
man chrt
Have fun,
Mark
Thanks Mark,
Right - I saw this a few weeks ago when I took a new Myth frontend
machine to my dad's house and had my DNS server as the top server in
/etc/resolv.conf instead of the ones he should use on his network.
On 8/11/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 20:40 +0100, Uwe Thiem
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:19:43 +0200
Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How would you feel if a company bought lots of
too-small-to-be-readily-visible flying cameras (like the mosquito-cams
in the Dan Brown book Deception Point :-)) and followed you around
wherever you went (in these public
no but I have used a treo 600 and it works fine.
whats more i found this last night:
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
(near the bottom)
which also points to this:
http://www.clasohm.com/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=12096
I am yet to set up any udev rules for it. Some points to
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:40:12 +0100
Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am puzzled. First I thought that the Gb NIC on box A is somehow kaput but
case 1 surely shows it is performing. What the heck is going on here? I would
be deeply indebted to any person on this list that could shed some
I manually configured a kernel during the install and went
back afterward and added a genkernel version since I was having a few problems
during boot (resolution, network, etc).
In /boot, I have both linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 and
kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.
In
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:15:38 -0400
John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In /boot, I have both linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 and
kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.
In /boot/grub/grub.conf, only the genkernel is listed
Just edit /boot/grub/grub.conf.
You can read about how in the -
Joseph wrote:
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 17:19 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 8/10/05, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How to list real-time priority in Linux for an application (example
asterisk)?
man schedtoot
man chrt
Have fun,
Mark
Thanks Mark,
But they must be part of
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