On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:36:59 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
package.provided is intended for use when you install something
without portage - it's your way of telling portage the package is
installed even though it's not in the database.
What is that good for? Say I write my own app (like the
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:16:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I can't believe you are advocating either of those solutions. It means
you retain 500M worth of tgz'ed portage tree for just in case an ebuild
leaves the tree. Any custom changes you make to the tree are wiped out
with the next
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:10:58 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
I'm starting to wonder if you missed this mail on the subject:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/175964/focus=176095
Possibly, I'm still missing mails from Gentoo lists, although the problem
seems less than
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:49:06 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote:
emerge --depclean removes perl-core/DB_File.
emerge -DuN world installs perl-core/DB_File.
Add --tree to the second command.
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On Friday 22 December 2006 11:06, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:16:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I can't believe you are advocating either of those solutions. It
means you retain 500M worth of tgz'ed portage tree for just in case
an ebuild leaves the tree. Any custom changes
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:49:06 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote:
emerge --depclean removes perl-core/DB_File.
emerge -DuN world installs perl-core/DB_File.
Add --tree to the second command.
Here we go:
emerge -DuN --tree world -pv
These are the packages that
Hi users,
some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 since it became stable.
However after this operation, as most of you know,
/etc/hotplug/blacklist stops working. There have been reportings on
this http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130766 but since now, no
reliable solution have been
On 22/12/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:10:58 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
I'm starting to wonder if you missed this mail on the subject:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/175964/focus=176095
Possibly, I'm still missing mails from Gentoo
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:35:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Except it's not 500MB, as you'll see by looking at the snapshots
directory on any Gentoo mirror. Of course, the fact that portage
trees for the last couple of weeks are nicely tarred up on all the
Gentoo mirrors makes this process
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:54:24 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote:
Calculating world dependencies . . done!
[nomerge ] mail-client/squirrelmail-1.4.8 USE=crypt mysql nls
spell ssl vhosts -filter -ldap -postgres
[binary N] perl-core/DB_File-1.814
This looks like
-Original Message-
From: Marco Calviani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 December 2006 10:36
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] udev-103 and blacklisting
Hi users,
some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 since it became stable.
However after this
-Original Message-
From: Marco Calviani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 December 2006 10:36
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] udev-103 and blacklisting
Hi users,
some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 since it became stable.
However after this
-Original Message-
From: Kevin O'Gorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 December 2006 19:54
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Vmware player startup error message
When I start vmware player, I always get this message:
/opt/vmware/player/lib/bin/vmplayer:
Hi Nelson,
Can you divert output to /dev/null?
Or cron a job that chops out all those errors?
Those are good ideas, but i'm questioning how is it possible to mark
stable a so important package that has such improvements over the
previous stable one, without good amplification of the
On Friday 22 December 2006 11:40, Jeff Rollin wrote:
On 22/12/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:10:58 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
I'm starting to wonder if you missed this mail on the subject:
Hi,
It's the first time that etc-update changes something in
my /etc/portage dir.
It has changed x11-themes/emerald-themes cause it has changed its
category and removed ksudoku...
I undestand first change, but not second one, so could someone explain
what checks etc-update in that dir?
many
It is a known problem, discussed in its own bug and on gentoo-dev. A lot of
people (like me), don't get all the mails sent to gentoo-[user,dev,amd64...].
For some unknown reasons that mails are dropped and never delivered. And no,
the spam filters are not part of the problem.
--
OK, sorry.
On Friday 22 December 2006 12:36, Jeff Rollin wrote:
It is a known problem, discussed in its own bug and on gentoo-dev. A lot
of people (like me), don't get all the mails sent to
gentoo-[user,dev,amd64...]. For some unknown reasons that mails are
dropped and never delivered. And no, the
On 22 December 2006 09:03, Alan McKinnon wrote:
package.provided is not there for that purpose. It's there for cases
when a package should be present but portage hasn't installed it (like
highly custom kernels) and you don't intend for portage to ever install
it either. But portage insists
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:45:07 -0800
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
...[snip]...
Oops. I should have known I could answer my own question with a
little more digging. I now see that there's
hostname
hostname --fqdn
dnsdomainname
and they all work by looking in /etc/host.conf, and if (as
Hi,
after update squirrelmail using webapp-config, I saw this note:
# webapp-config -U -h mail.emergetux.net squirrelmail 1.4.9a
* Upgrading squirrelmail-1.4.8 to squirrelmail-1.4.9a
* Installed by root on 2006-09-07 11:22:04
* Config files owned by 0:0
!cfgpro
Hi,
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:26:29 -0800 Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I had this working for years, but some UDEV or something changed and
now my wlan0 is gone and I can't figure out how to get it working
again.
Did you actually try what David answered to your last question
Hi,
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:51:58 +0100 Marco Calviani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and now i've changed it to be:
SUBSYSTEMS==scsi,KERNEL==sd*,ATTR{vendor}==FUJIFILM,ATTR{model}
==USB-DRIVEUNIT,NAME==%k,SYMLINK==camera
read and understand man udev: matching is not assignment! The first
ones
On Friday 22 December 2006 13:26, Arnau Bria wrote:
Hi,
after update squirrelmail using webapp-config, I saw this note:
[...]
* To complete your install, you need to run the following command(s):
^^
*
kashani wrote:
Jerry McBride wrote:
Can someone tell me the major differences between mysql and
mysql-community?
Thank you, in advance...
P.S. before you beat me up too badly, I've googled this one to death
and not found anything that satisfies my curiousity.
I've been trying to figure
Hi Hans,
well, you're correct. The other thing i had to change to have it
working is the ATTR -- ATTRS change.
Best regards,
mc
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Hi,
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:36:07 +0100 Marco Calviani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 since it became stable.
However after this operation, as most of you know,
/etc/hotplug/blacklist stops working. There have been reportings on
this
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:48:09 +0100
Naga Naga wrote:
On Friday 22 December 2006 13:26, Arnau Bria wrote:
Hi,
after update squirrelmail using webapp-config, I saw this note:
[...]
But, what command does it refer to?
The following :)
That is
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:54:24 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote:
Calculating world dependencies . . done!
[nomerge ] mail-client/squirrelmail-1.4.8 USE=crypt mysql nls
spell ssl vhosts -filter -ldap -postgres
[binary N] perl-core/DB_File-1.814
On 12/21/06, Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark,
There's some dictionaries you've got to include to allow for the spell
check to work in OO.o... From memory, try:
# emerge -DNuva aspell-en
# emerge -DNuva hunspell
I'm sure there's more to include, but I can't remember them. Don't
Mark Knecht wrote:
if binary packages were built and stored in some reasonable
location then I could probably prune out things that I'm not
worried about,
But then, one day, you'll see that you've pruned something you
shouldn't have, something that one of the things you did keep needs
as a
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Any custom changes you make to
the tree are wiped out with the next --sync anyway,
Who is talking about making custom changes? Who would make such
changes to the main /usr/portage tree anyway? We're talking about
a simple user here, no extras, no frills, no adaptations.
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 18:38, James wrote:
Hello,
I've been trying to get 3D working on a amd64(pci-3e) mobo that has an ATI
1900 video card:
TI Technologies Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] Primary
I first setup the radeon driver and it crawled with bzflag (the 3D software
I test with).
Sometime in the past week or two, doing and emerge sync/update
appears to have changed the default charset from iso-8859 to
UTF8. There are still too many apps I use everyday that don't
support UTF8, so this was a problem.
Creating /etc/env.d/02locale and running env-update fixed the
problem,
This can be marked solved, thanks to DaleI recompiled my kernel to
include Power Management with ACPI and my box now shutsdown normally.
Douglas
On 12/21/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote:
What filesystems do you have mounted usually?
David
*Note: These
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:45:40 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
if binary packages were built and stored in some reasonable
location then I could probably prune out things that I'm not
worried about,
They are stored wherever you tell portage to store them.
But then, one day, you'll see
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You need to learn more about portage. Read:
man portage
man 5 portage
man ebuild
man 5 ebuild
Now I have a better idea how things are meant to work... but if I want
to violate that... by that I mean ..not work on my own ebuild enough
to begin to
I'm getting this kind of error with wine 0.9.25 and 0.9.27. On .25 it
is on same directory, and on .27 on different. My friend _compiled_
wine with same USE flags, but he has pre 4.1 gcc.
I can't find on google similar bug with wine, but there were same
errors in other projects but soloved by
Sometime in the past week or two, doing and emerge sync/update
appears to have changed the default charset from iso-8859 to
UTF8. There are still too many apps I use everyday that don't
support UTF8, so this was a problem.
Creating /etc/env.d/02locale and running env-update fixed the
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\) wrote:
I may be preaching to the converted, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys
to try and get a console? Does the keyboard have any odd switches to
turn the F keys on? My logitech keyboard does - to switch between
hotkeys and Fx keys.
Does anyone know of a good all-round font to use for a unicode console?
Ideally, I want to be able to display mostly European languages (though,
if there is a font out there that can deal with Asian languages too, that
would be great ;-)
--
A
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
Overlays are there specifically for people who need
something different from the standard portage tree. They are
hardly difficult to use,
Not difficult, but it is clumsy:
mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/category/package
## Dont't copy all ebuilds, just the one to be tweaked:
On Friday 22 December 2006 19:40, A. Khattri wrote:
Does anyone know of a good all-round font to use for a unicode console?
Ideally, I want to be able to display mostly European languages (though,
if there is a font out there that can deal with Asian languages too, that
would be great ;-)
fire-eyes sgtphou at fire-eyes.org writes:
I've been trying to get 3D working on a amd64(pci-3e) mobo that has an ATI
1900 video card:
TI Technologies Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] Primary
Yep. This is a known problem and there have been bugs open on it for a while.
Not sure why it isn't
Hi Hans,
$ echo alias evbug off /etc/modules.d/my-aliases
$ update-modules
thanks this solution is working. Will this be the solution for the
future or a blacklist file will be reintroduced?
Cheers,
mc
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On 12/22/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thanks this solution is working. Will this be the solution for the
future or a blacklist file will be reintroduced?
If you don't want udev to load any modules at all, you can set
RC_COLDPLUG=no in /etc/conf.d/rc. [1] This should restore the
On AD 2006 December 21 Thursday 10:35:47 AM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Or is it about KDE4?
KDE is the most advanced desktop I've used (that doesn't include vista's
'new' desktop). The desktop that ships with OSX may come close to KDE
for features but it is styled to the point of annoyance both
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:09:55 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Overlays are there specifically for people who need
something different from the standard portage tree. They are
hardly difficult to use,
Not difficult, but it is clumsy:
mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/category/package
##
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:05:40 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All that said, what then would be the best way to let gentoo know I
have installed a very recent emacs and any dependancies gentoo may
need are available at /usr/local/share/emacs.
I've been doing it by putting this in
Hi guys,
Does anyone know of a kernel config manager that manages the kernel
configuration settings that I want? For instance, I want this network
driver, and that driver, and the other driver.
Want this to be managed outside the standard menu config because it
will make it easier to switch to
I apologize that this question is somewhat off topic, perhaps. I have
found this to be a very helpful list, and in desperation I thought to
turn here.
After installing the Sabayon mini 3.2 x86 install on my laptop, the
boot failed. Grub gave an error (Error number 15, If I recall
correctly)
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whats going on...?
No has slipped something deadly into portage or otherwise caused
upgrade world calamity.
After about 1 mnth, I just did -uD world and had no problems during or
after the update. And revdep-rebuild also came up clean.
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 21:32, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Hi all
A discussion on the staff blogs over at OSNews about the Linux desktop
got me thinking. Thom and Eugenia seem to think that the linux
desktop peaked in 2001-2004, but I don't remember the hype around
Ubuntu starting till well
Hi there,
I installed Gentoo ala the most excellent Gentoo Handbook, and I extend
a million thank yous. I'm having a lot of fun with it, and the whole
venture is turning out to be very satisfying.
I do have a little problem emerging linphone, however.
It decides that it's appropriate to set
Trenton Adams wrote:
Hi guys,
Does anyone know of a kernel config manager that manages the kernel
configuration settings that I want? For instance, I want this network
driver, and that driver, and the other driver.
Want this to be managed outside the standard menu config because it
will
Daniel Barkalow wrote:
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whats going on...?
No has slipped something deadly into portage or otherwise caused
upgrade world calamity.
After about 1 mnth, I just did -uD world and had no problems during or
after the update. And revdep-rebuild
Jerry McBride wrote:
PURE Microsoft FUD... They are pulling out all the stops now, trying to
block the advancement of Linux in any areas they can. The fact is, they are
loosing big time, big money.
Do a simple google safari for ie 7 and windows vista and read the posts
from ordinary
On Saturday 23 December 2006 02:07, Trenton Adams wrote:
Hi guys,
Does anyone know of a kernel config manager that manages the kernel
configuration settings that I want? For instance, I want this network
driver, and that driver, and the other driver.
Want this to be managed outside the
I had a power outage here in Seattle, WA since last Thursday. Server is
finally online. I suspect the mail server suspended or unsubscribed me due
to bounces because I've not received any for a few days, when normally there
are plenty per day.
However, how can I turn it back on?
I tried to send
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