Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 10:34:58AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:33 AM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: We'll see if SecureBoot actually even makes it to market; if it does, expect some Class Action lawsuits to occur. We'll see. Don't forget _you can turn the thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:06:44 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use the command: genlop -c That tells what is compiling and some general time info too. +1 for genlop. Also, if you're upgrading a number of large packages, it can help to have an estimate of how long you'll be

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel initramfs and grub2-mkconfig

2012-06-05 Thread morlix
I thought if root= is not set to /dev/ram0 the kernel doesn't use the initramfs as first root. The server is on a remote location so i can't see if it correctly starts the /linuxrc in the initramfs. The server boots without problems, i just wanted to check if root= shouldn't be set to

[gentoo-user] Fetch List

2012-06-05 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, is there a option that i can build a list of Requirements to download of a ebuild? I want build inkscape, but i has only mobile connection at moment. Can i build a list which i can then later load in a cybercafe? In the Handbook i found only a list for world. Thank u. Regards Silvio

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Dale
Bryan Gardiner wrote: On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:06:44 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use the command: genlop -c That tells what is compiling and some general time info too. +1 for genlop. Also, if you're upgrading a number of large packages, it can help to have an estimate of

Re: [gentoo-user] Fetch List

2012-06-05 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:37:11PM +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, is there a option that i can build a list of Requirements to download of a ebuild? I want build inkscape, but i has only mobile connection at moment. Can i build a list which i can then later load in a cybercafe?

Re: [gentoo-user] Fetch List

2012-06-05 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 06/05/2012 01:37 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: is there a option that i can build a list of Requirements to download of a ebuild? I want build inkscape, but i has only mobile connection at moment. Can i build a list which i can then later load in a cybercafe? In the Handbook i found only

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-05 Thread Mick
On Monday 04 Jun 2012 13:57:11 Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 02 Jun 2012 23:50:58 pk wrote: [snip] I'm putting on my tinfoil hat now and I'm going to pretend it's raining... :-/ Can I please join you if you have

[gentoo-user] Re: no keyboard on fresh install

2012-06-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com writes: First off, thanks, thanks and thanks for the details and sharing of your experience. Also helpful tips and suggestions concerning my niece and linux distros. All very helpful and appreciated. Saving both yours and Strollers' posts since as you've noted

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04 Jun 2012 13:57:11 Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 02 Jun 2012 23:50:58 pk wrote: [snip] I'm putting on my tinfoil hat now and I'm going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting to VPN

2012-06-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi massimiliano.zicca...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! Are you aware of a software I can use to connect my gentoo PC to an ATT IPSec DualAccess VPN? Thanks in advance, Massimiliano Ziccardi

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.7 and LTO: it works

2012-06-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 04.06.2012 22:19, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: I've emerged system and world with gcc-4.7.0 and LTO. I'm posting from it right now :-) It's a KDE system with 1043 packages installed. I've posted details on how to do this (including info on how to disable LTO for specific packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Kerwin Hui
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 06:43:30 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Bryan Gardiner wrote: On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:06:44 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use the command: genlop -c That tells what is compiling and some general time info too. +1 for genlop. Also, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting to VPN

2012-06-05 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
Thank you! I'm giving a look to the links: I'll let you know the results! Best regards, Massimiliano Ziccardi On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi massimiliano.zicca...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! Are

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with =x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.4: driver issue or hardware issue?

2012-06-05 Thread Michael Scherer
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 04:11:35 -0400 Andrey Moshbear andrey@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Michael Scherer a6702...@unet.univie.ac.at wrote: - Original Message - From: Andrey Moshbear andrey@gmail.com To: gentoo-user gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent:

[gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Distcc advice needed

2012-06-05 Thread Samuraiii
Thanks for help, this problem is not the one that aches me right now - and when I re-thaught it again I simply realized that it dissapeared. BUT Do somebody know how from distcc tell ssh which port to use to connect to remote machine - all of

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC 4.7 and LTO: it works

2012-06-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/06/12 17:28, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 04.06.2012 22:19, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: I've emerged system and world with gcc-4.7.0 and LTO. I'm posting from it right now :-) It's a KDE system with 1043 packages installed. I've posted details on how to do this (including info on how

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Distcc advice needed

2012-06-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Samuraiii samurai.no.d...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for help, this problem is not the one that aches me right now - and when I re-thaught it again I simply realized that it dissapeared. BUT Do somebody know how from distcc tell ssh which port to use to connect

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 06:43:30 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: If it is updates, I do this: emerge --resume -p | genlop -p Fantastic, thanks, --resume has always seemed like black magic to me (to the point where I do big installs by editing /var/lib/portage/world and emerging

[gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Distcc advice needed

2012-06-05 Thread Samuraiii
I've overcome that problem by modifying ssh wrapper script by adding -F /location/of/.ssh/config Right now Im going to test it S On 2012-06-05 18:00, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Samuraiii

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC 4.7 and LTO: it works

2012-06-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.06.2012 17:54, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Kernel builds and runs fine with 4.7. But I didn't try to use LTO on it. I actually never try to force any custom CFLAGS on the kernel build. I trust upstream to pick safe and fast ones. Good choice. Yes, I also run gentoo-sources-3.4.0

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Distcc advice needed

2012-06-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Samuraiii samurai.no.d...@gmail.com wrote: I've overcome that problem by modifying ssh wrapper script by adding -F /location/of/.ssh/config Right now Im going to test it S BTW, your email client is doing some very bad things to messages it replies to. 1) It

Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc advice needed

2012-06-05 Thread Samuraiii
The Subject problem was solved and about that html thing I don't why it is doing so... I have specially set this lists address to prefers plain text messages (option settable for each recipient) S On 2012-06-05 19:44, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Samuraiii

[gentoo-user] Good ID3 Tag Editor

2012-06-05 Thread Willie Matthews
I have been using Easytag for awhile. I would like to try a program that gets updates and is GTK based. Does anyone know of another program. I can't seem to find anything! -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Good ID3 Tag Editor

2012-06-05 Thread Willie Matthews
That is alright folks. I figured out what the problem with Easytag is. Whenever saving tags with odd characters it would crash out. Guess I will have to just change the characters. On 06/05/12 11:32, Willie Matthews wrote: I have been using Easytag for awhile. I would like to try a program that

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 22:41:26 +0800, Kerwin Hui wrote: If it is updates, I do this: emerge --resume -p | genlop -p Any reason why genlop instead of qlop (app-portage/portage-utils)? Last time I looked, qlop did not provide any estimate of time remaining. -- Neil Bothwick Bug:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good ID3 Tag Editor

2012-06-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: That is alright folks. I figured out what the problem with Easytag is. Whenever saving tags with odd characters it would crash out. Guess I will have to just change the characters. Do you have unicode support

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good ID3 Tag Editor

2012-06-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: That is alright folks. I figured out what the problem with Easytag is. Whenever saving tags with odd characters it would crash out. Guess I will have to just change the characters. That's weird, I've used Easytag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good ID3 Tag Editor

2012-06-05 Thread Willie Matthews
These are the use flags for easytag [ebuild R] media-sound/easytag-2.1.7-r2 USE=flac mp3 mp4 vorbis -speex -wavpack 0 kB Locale setting are en_US. On 06/05/12 12:34, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: That is alright

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good ID3 Tag Editor

2012-06-05 Thread Willie Matthews
On 06/05/12 12:40, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: That is alright folks. I figured out what the problem with Easytag is. Whenever saving tags with odd characters it would crash out. Guess I will have to just change the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good ID3 Tag Editor

2012-06-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/05/12 12:40, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: That is alright folks. I figured out what the problem with Easytag is. Whenever saving tags

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good ID3 Tag Editor

2012-06-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: These are the use flags for easytag [ebuild   R    ] media-sound/easytag-2.1.7-r2  USE=flac mp3 mp4 vorbis -speex -wavpack 0 kB But what about the things easytag depends on? A package doesn't live in a vacuum.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good ID3 Tag Editor

2012-06-05 Thread Willie Matthews
On 06/05/12 13:11, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: These are the use flags for easytag [ebuild R] media-sound/easytag-2.1.7-r2 USE=flac mp3 mp4 vorbis -speex -wavpack 0 kB But what about the things easytag depends

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good ID3 Tag Editor

2012-06-05 Thread Willie Matthews
On 06/05/12 13:10, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/05/12 12:40, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: That is alright folks. I figured out what the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good ID3 Tag Editor

2012-06-05 Thread Willie Matthews
On 06/05/12 13:10, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/05/12 12:40, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: That is alright folks. I figured out what the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good ID3 Tag Editor

2012-06-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/05/12 13:10, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/05/12 12:40, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Willie Matthews

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC 4.7 and LTO: it works

2012-06-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-06-05 18:56, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 05.06.2012 17:54, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Kernel builds and runs fine with 4.7. But I didn't try to use LTO on it. I actually never try to force any custom CFLAGS on the kernel build. I trust upstream to pick safe and fast ones.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 22:41:26 +0800, Kerwin Hui wrote: If it is updates, I do this: emerge --resume -p | genlop -p Any reason why genlop instead of qlop (app-portage/portage-utils)? Last time I looked, qlop did not provide any estimate of time remaining.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:54:44 -0500, Dale wrote: Last time I looked, qlop did not provide any estimate of time remaining. That will teach me to take a nap. That's why I use genlop too. I rarely use any of the q commands. It seems something is always missing for one reason or the other.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:54:44 -0500, Dale wrote: Last time I looked, qlop did not provide any estimate of time remaining. That will teach me to take a nap. That's why I use genlop too. I rarely use any of the q commands. It seems something is always missing for one

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-05 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 10:21 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04 Jun 2012 13:57:11 Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 02 Jun 2012 23:50:58 pk wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good ID3 Tag Editor

2012-06-05 Thread Willie Matthews
On 06/05/2012 01:41 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/05/12 13:10, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/05/12 12:40, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue,

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild

2012-06-05 Thread Willie Matthews
Hello Everyone, I am trying to run revdep-rebuld on my Gentoo Dell Mini and can't figure out why I keep getting this error when it trys to re-emerge packages. Here is what it say in it entirety. ~ # revdep-rebuild * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild

2012-06-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: (sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r3 is blocking sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2)  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be  * installed at the same time on the same system.  

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild

2012-06-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: (sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r3 is blocking sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2)  * Error: The above package list contains packages which

Re: [gentoo-user] Fetch List

2012-06-05 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:37:11 +0200 Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, is there a option that i can build a list of Requirements to download of a ebuild? I usually use emerge --pretend --fetchonly media-gfx/inkscape files_to_fetch.txt or in a short form

[gentoo-user] Fwd: Gentoo Prefix Issue...

2012-06-05 Thread Nima Talebi
Hi All, Could someone point out what's the deal with the following: % emerge --oneshot virtual/os-headers Calculating dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild manifests Starting parallel fetch Emerging (1 of 2) sys-kernel/linux-headers-3.3 * gentoo-headers-base-3.3.tar.xz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good ID3 Tag Editor

2012-06-05 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
Running easytag from a terminal emulator gives you any further hints about the error? By the way, a good pygtk based tag-editor I could recommend is exfalso (I would also recommend picard, but it's qt based...). On 06/06/2012, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/05/2012 01:41