Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF TOPIC] PGP Messages Email clients

2008-03-16 Thread Graham Murray
Gustavo Campos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone knows if gmail (and the other clients) can mask the PGP singnatures from mail? For me at least it's pretty much enough for it to just show me that the message is indeed signed, I don'n care about the public key stuff and all xD gnus lets you

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:54:52 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I wasn't even aware of the ask option, It is explained in the emerge man page. I think I realize now, that even thoughthe program name is emeerge, I didn't realize you folks call the job of installing a program, merging As is this. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-16 Thread Jan Seeger
On Sun, 16. Mar, Stroller spammed my inbox with Well, I've heard otherwise. Use jffs2 or the CF card will wear out prematurely... I've heard lots about using flashdrives for filesystems, but I've never read on a mailing list anything actually definitive on the subject. I find many

[gentoo-user] wireless not working

2008-03-16 Thread Dani Crisan
Hello, Here is the scenario: -wireless card: Intel PRO/WIRELESS 3945ABG -lsmod | grep 3945 iwl3945 144628 0 mac80211 108932 1 iwl3945 -iwlist wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:17:9A:F4:CE:B5 ESSID:a

Re: [gentoo-user] hugin error message

2008-03-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 March 2008, David Harel wrote: Don't you think the error message should have been more specific about which library causes the conflict? Is it hugin error message? Yes, the message is not very illuminating. You'd think the app that emitted it would mention where it comes from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 16 March 2008, Jan Seeger wrote: Yeah, it's the same here. I read an article in the german computer magazine c't, and they said that they have tried to break USB sticks with repeated writes, but have never succeeded (I think they ran 1 writes, but I could be wrong). That test is

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:13:05 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I haven't been able to find any syntax to actually use slots, In general, you don't. Slots are mainly used for libraries and similar programs that are used by other programs. One program

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: SNIP Portage handles SLOT updates by only considering the latest SLOT (unless you say otherwise). If I issue 'emerge kde-meta' on my box, portage wants to install kde-4.0.2 because that is the latest version (portage always wants to upgrade to the latest possible version

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | Hmmm. There are many thousand ebuilds in the tree. Many more in | 3rd party overlays. Your idea fixes 1 problem in 1 ebuild. Just for the sake of amusment and to give a sense of perspective.

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-16 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 16 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: 12618 packages! Didnt realise it was so many. And just the sunrise overlay has 943. That's probably more packages than even Debian has ... Well, while I love Gentoo and would never change it with anything else, Debian is (still) the undiscussed

Fw: [gentoo-user] wireless not working

2008-03-16 Thread Dani Crisan
Update on this matter. -issued the command: wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -Dwext -d -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -then dhcpcd wlan0 Then everything is ok and my wireless works. My question is why when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-16 Thread Emil Beinroth
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:11:21PM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Well, while I love Gentoo and would never change it with anything else, Debian is (still) the undiscussed champion in terms of number of available packages. $ wget -nv http://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages 12:32:32

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-16 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 16 March 2008, 13:22, Emil Beinroth wrote: 27602 That is not really fair, we do not have foo-qt3, foo-qt4, foo-mysql, foo-psql .. We have foo with useflags. So either remove the -dev, -qt3, -qt4, virtual packages, [..] from that list, or calculate the number of use-flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-16 Thread Gustavo Campos
$ grep '^dt' allpackages | \ sed 's/.*a href[^]*\([^]*\)\/a.*/\1/g' | \ cut -d '-' -f 1 | \ uniq | wc -l 12225 No matter how much I live and code, regular expressions always scare me like hell Comments (also about the methodology used to calculate this) are left as an exercise

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:54:52 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I wasn't even aware of the ask option, It is explained in the emerge man page. I think I realize now, that even thoughthe program name is emeerge, I didn't realize

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:31:57 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: As is this. You really need to read man emerge and man portage to understand what you are doing. I've read it 4 times already, I just donm['t have it memorized. I did check and prove that it doesn't even mention the word slot % man

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:13:05 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I haven't been able to find any syntax to actually use slots, In general, you don't. Slots are mainly used for libraries

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-16 Thread Jan Seeger
As a followup, I have actually written said script (in perl), and would welcome any improvement comments. File size of the test file shouldn't matter, since without wear leveling, the same cells should get written over and over again. Only thing I need to do now is run it for a long time...

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 16 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: It certainly does!  AND I found that there IS one document that tells you more than a fleeting hint about slots: the eix man page.  Someone else sort of snidely said you should read the emerge man page after giving me (once again) description of

[gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde

2008-03-16 Thread Strong Cypher
hi, i have install kde 3 and 4. when i set kdm 4 to be defaut xdm to launch, they won t start nor kde 3 and 4 sessions. any idea where can i find the log that describe the error? the xsession-error doesn t show anything thanks -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-16 Thread W.Kenworthy
I have been following this thread intermittantly and have not seen a comment on the following: I believe that writing a file to a single location is not the way to do this: you need to write a byte to the usb key in the same location, but need to ensure it continually changes: perhaps rotating

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:43:28 +0900, W.Kenworthy wrote: I believe that writing a file to a single location is not the way to do this: you need to write a byte to the usb key in the same location, but need to ensure it continually changes: perhaps rotating 1's/0's. Alternatively, the concern is

[gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-16 Thread John J. Foster
I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every emerge command

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-16 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *if* you move /usr/portage to something like reisterfs, you will get better performacem even on slower machines. my PIII/800 can update the cache in ~ 3 minutes now ext3 just doesn't cut it in a busy tree like portage ... the filesystem just

[gentoo-user] Received: from unknown

2008-03-16 Thread Jason Carson
Greetings, When I send an email to myself, in the header information it says the following... Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 5901 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2008 23:57:45 - Received: from unknown (HELO jasoncarson.ca) (127.0.0.1) by