Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Ian Graeme Hilt([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:27:57 pm John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 29. April 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon: Some small corrections: What is the smoothest way to do it? change profile emerge --sync emerge -avuND world First sync, then change profile. Remember, the profiles are in the

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1) Now I have neither of these on my system, so what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to jump an 2006 install up to 2008. I've never made that big an update without a fresh install. There's no such thing as a 2006 install. What does exist, is the collection of packages

[gentoo-user] Linux box - Checkpoint Firewall

2008-04-30 Thread Paul Sobey
Hello All, Does anybody know if it's possible to set up a vpn from a Gentoo machine to a Checkpoint firewall? With pre shared keys it seems easy enough but I need to connect using xauth and RSA tokens. Has anybody attempted such a connection? Cheers, Paul -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo error when booting to windows

2008-04-30 Thread robert anstuther
Hi, it sounds like windows may have become corrupted, you may be able to rescue it with rconsole tools. Boba. hello there...i have a little trouble booting to windows from lilo...windows is on sdb1 and gentoo on sdc2...when i try to boot to windows i get an error ntldr is missing...my

Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo error when booting to windows

2008-04-30 Thread Danis Petkakis
well i did boot with windows cd did a fixmbr, then reinstalled lilo in mbr and now it seems to work...when i choose windows the entry of the ntldr shows up and then i choose to boot to windows without any problems...could i somehow put an entry in ntldr so that instead of booting to windows to

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux box - Checkpoint Firewall

2008-04-30 Thread Paul Sobey
Good question... I've looked in the past, but never found enough time to try figure that one out... There is almost no informatino around on doing it though (At least that I've ever managed to find). I have a user here who does use Gentoo kvpn to a cisco concentrator. So it SHOULD work

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux box - Checkpoint Firewall

2008-04-30 Thread Hamish
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 09:01:11 Paul Sobey wrote: Does anybody know if it's possible to set up a vpn from a Gentoo machine to a Checkpoint firewall? With pre shared keys it seems easy enough but I need to connect using xauth and RSA tokens. Has anybody attempted such a connection? Good

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] subscribe

2008-04-30 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
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Re: [gentoo-user] subscribe

2008-04-30 Thread Justin
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Re: [gentoo-user] 2008.0 profile

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Daniel Mendler wrote: But I think I found the problem. The packages are not masked in emerge, but are shown as masked in eix. It seems to be only an eix problem (version 0.10.5) Daniel Did you run update-eix? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: Hi.  The first case is the correct one -- the packages are in portage, but the version numbers listed are not on the system -- this is what I meant -- so I have two packages blocking each other the blocking versions are not on the system at all

Re: [gentoo-user] 2008.0 profile

2008-04-30 Thread Daniel Mendler
Hi! But I think I found the problem. The packages are not masked in emerge, but are shown as masked in eix. It seems to be only an eix problem (version 0.10.5) Did you run update-eix? Yes I did. It didn't help. Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-04-30 Thread dany2a
Roger Mason wrote: [snip] unpack m4-1.4.11.tar.lzma: file format not recognized. Ignoring. [snip] emerge -1 app-arch/lzma-utils I did that but the error on m4 persists. If anyone has a workaround, please pass it on. You've got to update portage first, looks like you have an

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:24:59 -0400, John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1) Hi. The first case is the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2008.0 profile

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:39:33 +0200, Daniel Mendler wrote: But I think I found the problem. The packages are not masked in emerge, but are shown as masked in eix. It seems to be only an eix problem (version 0.10.5) Try running a later eix, I use 0.12.4 here and the switch to 2008.0 was

Re: [gentoo-user] 2008.0 profile

2008-04-30 Thread Emil Beinroth
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:39:33PM +0200, Daniel Mendler wrote: Hi! [snip] But I think I found the problem. The packages are not masked in emerge, but are shown as masked in eix. It seems to be only an eix problem (version 0.10.5) eix-0.12.4 is the only version that currently works with the

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-30 Thread Stroller
On 29 Apr 2008, at 23:16, b.n. wrote: Willie Wong ha scritto: 1) Yes, switched to TexLive (on at least one box) 2) No, no problems that I can remember. Just need to follow the guide http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml and make sure to select the modules you

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:24:59 -0400, John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is

Re: [gentoo-user] subscribe

2008-04-30 Thread felix
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 06:48:59AM -0500, Eddie Mihalow Jr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dang, I don't have a subscribe kit to send you. scratches head and walks away, muttering -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket

[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I cannot seem to get past a kernel panic that appears to be expecting an intramfs (You may remember this from a previous thread) After hand rolling 3 different kernels and trying genkernal all its all ended in the same kernel panic. Yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:16:46AM +0200, Penguin Lover b.n. squawked: Whoa. I didn't know anything about that. Thanks for you linking that. BTW, where should I have read the announcement of that stuff? Behold! The Power of Google! I wanted to test out the TeX Live ebuild (partly because it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like you got to a working state - unorthodox method, but it does seem to have worked :-) snip But now that blockage is solved... I'm getting a failure in the dependancy gpm when I try to emerge -vu portage. I've included that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to try a saner approach to getting it updated. I thought the first move would be to set the make.profile to 2007 then emerge --sync Before changing the profile are you clean with emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world? (Or

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 John covici([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:24:59 -0400, John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:03:29 -0400, John covici wrote: But now I have still more problems with blocking -- [blocks B ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6-r1 (is blocking media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.19) [blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2) Please show

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:49:25 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: eix-sync eix-test-obsolete emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world emerge -p --depclean emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world revdep-rebuild -p eix-test-obsolete I'd run the first eix-test-obsolete after emerge --depclean since adding.

[gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-04-30 Thread Gavin Seddon
skype /opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by /opt/skype/skype) /opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.4' not found (required by /opt/skype/skype) when I try skype

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-04-30 Thread Pupino
Hi, have you tried running revdep-rebuild? it should fix this problem... is in the gentoolkit package HTH Davide 2008/4/30 Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: skype /opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-04-30 Thread Mick
2008/4/30 Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: skype /opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by /opt/skype/skype) /opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.4' not found

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: skype /opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by /opt/skype/skype) /opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.4' not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:49:25 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: eix-sync eix-test-obsolete emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world emerge -p --depclean emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world revdep-rebuild -p

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: KAudioCreator - Stopped Working

2008-04-30 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Paul Sobey wrote: Wow, well done that man! I got bitten by broken config files often enough in the early KDE 3.x days, especially on minor version changes. It has gotten much better since 3.3 or so though, I'm actually a bit suprised... Also, changing from SuSE on reiserfs to gentoo on xfs

[gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

2008-04-30 Thread Matthew R. Lee
I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and replace in each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I know I can do this using the following from the command line: sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' file.html newfile.html | mv newfile.html file.html Problem is I need

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-04-30 Thread Gavin Seddon
Pupino wrote: Hi, have you tried running revdep-rebuild? it should fix this problem... is in the gentoolkit package HTH Davide 2008/4/30 Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: skype /opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: OK, here is the requested output. These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things installed. Basic ideas of blockers; The output doesn't mean that you have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

2008-04-30 Thread Johann Schmitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This should work (untested!): for x in $(find YOUR-DIR-WITH-HTML-FILE -name *.htm*); do ~ tmp=$(mktemp); ~ sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' $x $tmp mv $tmp $x; ~ rm $tmp; done Matthew R. Lee schrieb: | I have a folder full of .html files and I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and replace in each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I know I can do this using the following from the command line: sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' file.html

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Mick wrote: 2008/4/30 Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: skype /opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by /opt/skype/skype) /opt/skype/skype:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:52:10AM -0400, Matthew R. Lee wrote: I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and replace in each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I know I can do this using the following from the command line: sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/'

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

2008-04-30 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, 17:52, Matthew R. Lee wrote: I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and replace in each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I know I can do this using the following from the command line: sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' file.html

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:58:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things installed. [good stuff snipped] Two other things that help. You have 228 packages marked for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:00:13 +0200, Johann Schmitz wrote: sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' $x $tmp mv $tmp $x; Use sed -i to save messing around with temporary files yourself. -- Neil Bothwick Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:58:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things installed. [good

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 06:02:38PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and replace in each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I know I can do this using the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

2008-04-30 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 12:00:13 Johann Schmitz wrote: This should work (untested!): for x in $(find YOUR-DIR-WITH-HTML-FILE -name *.htm*); do ~ tmp=$(mktemp); ~ sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' $x $tmp mv $tmp $x; ~ rm $tmp; done Matthew R. Lee schrieb: | I have a folder full of

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: USE=doc adds extra documentation, usually API information for programmers, which is why it is rarely needed globally. The doc flag increases the dependencies of some packages, sometimes massively. Thanks Neil, thanks a lot for mentioning that.

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: I put the doc flag in there because a number of packages -- and I can't remember which ones now -- needed it, I think apache was one of them, so I gave up and did it -- maybe taking it out for the time being will help things along. 'equery hasuse

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:49:25 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: eix-sync eix-test-obsolete emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world emerge -p

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: USE=doc adds extra documentation, usually API information for programmers, which is why it is rarely needed globally. The doc flag increases the dependencies of some packages, sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:16:07 -0400, John covici wrote: I put the doc flag in there because a number of packages -- and I can't remember which ones now -- needed it, I think apache was one of them, so I gave up and did it -- maybe taking it out for the time being will help things along. I

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:00:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Thanks Neil, thanks a lot for mentioning that. Now I have horrifying images burned into my brain of doxygen, openjade, SGML and DTDs lumbering out of holes in the ground and slithering towards me, zombie-like, hell bent on devouring

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:45:35 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: Thanks Neil, thanks a lot for mentioning that. Now I have horrifying images burned into my brain of doxygen, openjade, SGML and DTDs lumbering out of holes in the ground and slithering towards me, zombie-like, hell bent on devouring me

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: /me lumbers off in search of mind-altering substances with depressant side-effects Just watch TV for a while. Yeah right :-) 4 possibilities: SABC 1 SABC 2 SABC 3 eTV Which would you recommend? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail

[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread reader
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: eix-sync eix-test-obsolete emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world emerge -p --depclean -p --depclean tells me: !!! You have no system list. What does that mean? Also: emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world neither man emerge nor man portage show any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: eix-sync eix-test-obsolete emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world emerge -p --depclean emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world revdep-rebuild -p eix-test-obsolete Assuming

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-30 Thread b.n.
Willie Wong ha scritto: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:16:46AM +0200, Penguin Lover b.n. squawked: Whoa. I didn't know anything about that. Thanks for you linking that. BTW, where should I have read the announcement of that stuff? Behold! The Power of Google! I wanted to test out the TeX Live

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: eix-sync eix-test-obsolete emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world emerge -p --depclean emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world revdep-rebuild -p eix-test-obsolete Assuming everything is totally

[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread reader
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: eix-sync eix-test-obsolete emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world emerge -p --depclean -p --depclean tells me: !!! You have no system list.

[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread reader
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: eix-sync eix-test-obsolete emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world emerge -p --depclean emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world revdep-rebuild -p eix-test-obsolete Assuming everything is totally clean, or at least understood, now I change the profile and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: eix-sync eix-test-obsolete emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world emerge -p --depclean -p --depclean tells me: !!! You have no system list. What does that mean? Trouble, big trouble. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: OK, here is the requested output. These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:33:04PM +0200, b.n. wrote: ehm, I guess I wasn't clear. You *already* knew: - That there are texlive and tetex - That tetex was EOLed and texlive was the next choice - That tetex and texlive are mutually exclusive - That the ebuild was in the tree Oh.. that... I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP !!! Error: --with-bdeps=y is an invalid option. it's --with-bdeps y (no minus/dash) So right you are Alan. Thanks. Sorry to reader. cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] -p --depclean tells me: !!! You have no system list. What does that mean? Trouble, big trouble. Does /etc/make.profile point to an actual existing profile? That's the only thing I can think of that takes system away. It's defined in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Announcement of tricky upgrades stuff [was: lyx texlive]

2008-04-30 Thread b.n.
Willie Wong ha scritto: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:33:04PM +0200, b.n. wrote: ehm, I guess I wasn't clear. You *already* knew: - That there are texlive and tetex - That tetex was EOLed and texlive was the next choice - That tetex and texlive are mutually exclusive - That the ebuild was in the

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote [nomerge ] media-sound/sound-juicer-2.22.0 [2.20.1-r1] USE=-debug -test (-flac%*) (-ogg%*) [ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r2 [0.10] USE=X alsa

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: /me lumbers off in search of mind-altering substances with depressant side-effects Just watch TV for a while. Yeah right :-) 4 possibilities: SABC 1 SABC 2 SABC 3 eTV Which would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once I followed the recipe above all that disappeared along with the list error. I think that older version of portage was really what was causing most of the trouble. Makes sense. Portage is rather fond of finding the kind of files and

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote [nomerge ] media-sound/sound-juicer-2.22.0 [2.20.1-r1] USE=-debug -test (-flac%*) (-ogg%*)

[gentoo-user] Kaffeine audio problem

2008-04-30 Thread Danis Petkakis
hello there i try to play .mkv files with kaffeine but there is no sound...when i play some .avi files the sound is proper...also when i play .mkv files with vlc sound is also ok...what might be the problem and i don't have any sound in .mkv when using kaffeine?? this seems to happen only for .mkv

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging R and tcltk

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John P. Burkett wrote: On a x86 machine operating under Gentoo Linux, I'm having persistent difficulty in emerging R and tcltk in a manner that allows the former to find the latter. On this machine, in R version 2.6.1, the command library(tcltk) elicits the

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: OK, I will try making all the gst-plugins unstable and see if that fixes things -- I have been warned not to convert the whole box to unstable -- is this a correct warning? Depends how much you adore gentoo and how much time you are willing to

[gentoo-user] trouble emerging R and tcltk

2008-04-30 Thread John P. Burkett
On a x86 machine operating under Gentoo Linux, I'm having persistent difficulty in emerging R and tcltk in a manner that allows the former to find the latter. On this machine, in R version 2.6.1, the command library(tcltk) elicits the following response: Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc,

[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [2] vi /var/lib/portage/world What if I emerge -vC all I know I don't want. All kde all gnome all xorg for example, before update world. I was hoping to accomplish much the same thing by editing world. But strangely I see only a few candidates to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [2] vi /var/lib/portage/world What if I emerge -vC all I know I don't want. All kde all gnome all xorg for example, before update world. I was hoping to accomplish much the same thing

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:15:12 -0400, John covici wrote: OK, I will try making all the gst-plugins unstable and see if that fixes things -- I have been warned not to convert the whole box to unstable -- is this a correct warning? I don't believe so. Marking a few packages as testing on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:17:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: [2] vi /var/lib/portage/world Edit at will with sense of abandon vi /etc/make.conf Edit where appropriate vi /etc/portage/* Fearlessly edit throwing caution to the winds loop_entry:

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2008-04-30 Thread WJ Koh

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging R and tcltk

2008-04-30 Thread John P. Burkett
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John P. Burkett wrote: On a x86 machine operating under Gentoo Linux, I'm having persistent difficulty in emerging R and tcltk in a manner that allows the former to find the latter. On this machine, in R version 2.6.1, the command library(tcltk)

Re: [gentoo-user] Announcement of tricky upgrades stuff [was: lyx texlive]

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:53:21PM +0200, Penguin Lover b.n. squawked: It basically doesn't say you better upgrade to texlive before tetex goes in the /dev/null department. It says well, tetex maintainer steps down. That's very much different -someone could have stepped in and replaced

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging R and tcltk

2008-04-30 Thread Greg Bowser
(off topic) John P. Burkett... I knew I recognized that name... it's on my schedule for the fall. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list