[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also things like [[ $foo == "" ]] should rather be [[ -n $foo ]] but > that's a minor. [[ -z $foo ]] seems to work much better. ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com not responding

Does anybody knows what had happened to: http://gentoo-wiki.com ? -- #Joseph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:10:30 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 19 August 2007 04:00:45 »Q« wrote: > > It works as it is, but I'm interested in learning about any newbie > > traps into which I might be falling or about any better practices I > > should use. This is my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

On Sunday 19 August 2007 04:00:45 »Q« wrote: > It works as it is, but I'm interested in learning about any newbie traps > into which I might be falling or about any better practices I should > use. This is my first attempt at printing a usage message or parsing > arguments. > > The script is at

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 09:00:45PM -0500, ?Q? wrote: > > > The script is at . Feel > > free to reply to me off-list (or just to flame me) if you think > > this kind of non-Gentoo-specific stuff has no place here. > > I took a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 09:00:45PM -0500, ?Q? wrote: > The script is at . Feel free > to reply to me off-list (or just to flame me) if you think this kind of > non-Gentoo-specific stuff has no place here. I took a quick look and about the only advice I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

On Sunday 19 August 2007 00:05:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In answer to the other question, I'm using portage-2.1.2.11 Soo.. as said. You should fix that. That will change the order in which revdep-rebuild rebuilds things.. -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signe

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

On Sonntag, 19. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> it does, if you run revdep-rebuilt without options. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > Right, Ignoring all the kde and media stuff in the revdep-rebuild -p > > output leaves the following packages: > > dev-libs/ap

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> it does, if you run revdep-rebuilt without options. >> >> >> -- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >> >> >> > Right, Ignoring all the kde and media stuff in the revdep-rebuild -p > output leaves the following packages: > dev-libs/apr-util-1.2.8 > dev-libs/apr-util-0.

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

On Sonntag, 19. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > it does, if you run revdep-rebuilt without options. > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > Right, Ignoring all the kde and media stuff in the revdep-rebuild -p > output leaves the following packages: > dev-libs/apr-util-1.2.8

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

> >> >> it does, if you run revdep-rebuilt without options. >> >> >> -- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >> >> > Right, Ignoring all the kde and media stuff in the revdep-rebuild -p > output leaves the following packages: > dev-libs/apr-util-1.2.8 > dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.12-r1 > x11-libs/pango-1.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

Am Samstag 18 August 2007 23:57:02 schrieb b.n.: > Walter Dnes ha scritto: > > This is getting frustrating. All my searching turns up stuff that > > involves responding to some "event" that is triggered by closing the lid > > on a laptop. That is obviously not going to happen on a desktop PC. >

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

> > it does, if you run revdep-rebuilt without options. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > Right, Ignoring all the kde and media stuff in the revdep-rebuild -p output leaves the following packages: dev-libs/apr-util-1.2.8 dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.12-r1 x11-libs/pango-1.16.4 x11-libs/wxGTK-

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

Walter Dnes ha scritto: > This is getting frustrating. All my searching turns up stuff that > involves responding to some "event" that is triggered by closing the lid > on a laptop. That is obviously not going to happen on a desktop PC. > I've got a few reasons for wanting the desktop to suspen

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Today after an emerge update the system wants to update to kde 3.5.7 > > However I've run into a major problem, kdelibs wont compile > > It keeps stopping at the following point: > > > > checking for Qt... configure:

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am Samstag 18 August 2007 22:51:20 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: > > > Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? > > > > SLAB > > > > slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Today after an emerge update the system wants to update to kde 3.5.7 > However I've run into a major problem, kdelibs wont compile > It keeps stopping at the following point: > > checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (library > qt-mt) not found.

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

Am Samstag 18 August 2007 22:51:20 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: > > Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? > > SLAB > > slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy. > > Don't use slub except on test systems. I wouldn't rec

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

On Saturday 18 August 2007 04:51:20 pm Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: > > Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? > > SLAB > > slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy. > > Don't use slub except on test systems. That said, s

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

On Saturday 18 August 2007 22:43:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There was no mention of qt-3.3.8-r3, but of course the first thing > revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild is kdelibs which wont rebuild because of the > qt problem. Probably bug #188782. Make sure you have the latest version of portage (at

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

On Samstag, 18. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Probably just means that qt-3.x is broken e.g. cause by the expat bump. > > Use > > revdep-rebuild to fix it (see the numerous recent threads on this list). > > > > -- > > Bo Andresen > > I'm in a right mess here. I did a revdep-rebuild -p.

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: > Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? SLAB slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy. Don't use slub except on test systems. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

> > Probably just means that qt-3.x is broken e.g. cause by the expat bump. > Use > revdep-rebuild to fix it (see the numerous recent threads on this list). > > -- > Bo Andresen > I'm in a right mess here. I did a revdep-rebuild -p. It wanted to rebuild, essentially all of kde-3.5.5, because I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a package on a box with no network

Hello Mick, > > A better solution is to copy the whole of the gentoo-sources directory > > from the networked box as this includes the Manifest. > Copying over the manifest file didn't do it, so I ran your suggested > command and it looks good so far. Copying the manifest file is not enough. U

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

On Saturday 18 August 2007 21:05:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Today after an emerge update the system wants to update to kde 3.5.7 > However I've run into a major problem, kdelibs wont compile > It keeps stopping at the following point: > > checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and <

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet bridge

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:56:13 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What interfaces was the win2003 server using previously for bridging > and connecting to the Internet? I'm not entirely sure windows 'bridging' is equivalent to linux Ethernet bridging. Specifically, wouldn't linux Eth

[gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

Today after an emerge update the system wants to update to kde 3.5.7 However I've run into a major problem, kdelibs wont compile It keeps stopping at the following point: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For m

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

Am Samstag 18 August 2007 19:38:01 schrieb Mick: > Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? Both should work fine. As far as I can remember SLUB was created because of SLAB's huge overhead on clusters with more than 100 processors. SLAB is well tested. SLUB is less complex and might give y

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

Am Samstag 18 August 2007 20:01:15 schrieb Walter Dnes: > This is getting frustrating. All my searching turns up stuff that > involves responding to some "event" that is triggered by closing the lid > on a laptop. That is obviously not going to happen on a desktop PC. > I've got a few reasons f

[gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

This is getting frustrating. All my searching turns up stuff that involves responding to some "event" that is triggered by closing the lid on a laptop. That is obviously not going to happen on a desktop PC. I've got a few reasons for wanting the desktop to suspend, or at least sleep... 1) Sa

[gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a package on a box with no network

On Saturday 18 August 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Mick, > > > I transferred manually the ebuild files and the source file & patches, > > but it tells me that the package is masked (masked by: corruption). > > Apparently, the relevant ebuild file is not in the Manifest. > > ebuild /path/to/eb

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

On Saturday 18 August 2007 16:40:34 Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 02:21 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > `revdep-rebuild -X --library libexpat.so.0`. And make sure it remerges > > both fontconfig and gtk+-2.x (amongst a lot of other stuff). If you have > > more problems with this

Re: [gentoo-user] #Gentoo

On Saturday 18 August 2007 10:05:32 Steen Eugen Poulsen wrote: > > Could we please re-educate the #Gentoo ops and get them to have a bit > > more professionalism and tact or maybe consider that not everyone has > > the skills to be a good community representative. > > I got banned from the channel

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 02:21 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > `revdep-rebuild -X --library libexpat.so.0`. And make sure it remerges both > fontconfig and gtk+-2.x (amongst a lot of other stuff). If you have more > problems with this feel free to ask again. I think the -X is implied on the "ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 20:28:43 schrieb Florian Philipp: > Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 13:03:40 schrieben Sie: > > Am Mittwoch 15 August 2007 21:07:49 schrieb Michael Gisbers: > > > Am Mittwoch 15 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > > > Okay, I've found option.ko and airprime.ko. tail -

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a package on a box with no network

Hello Mick, > I transferred manually the ebuild files and the source file & patches, > but it tells me that the package is masked (masked by: corruption). > Apparently, the relevant ebuild file is not in the Manifest. ebuild /path/to/ebuild manifest A better solution is to copy the whole of the

Re: [gentoo-user] #Gentoo

Steen Eugen Poulsen schrieb: > Steen Eugen Poulsen skrev: > >> Every day for around a hour the same op comes around and their is always >> trouble for some reason in that short period. The channel works >> perfectly the other 23 hours a day... So one has to wonder if the op is >> creating the pr

[gentoo-user] Updating a package on a box with no network

Hi All, I am trying to update a single package (gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2) on a machine that has no network (borked NIC driver). I transferred manually the ebuild files and the source file & patches, but it tells me that the package is masked (masked by: corruption). Apparently, the relevant e

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

Am Samstag 18 August 2007 04:51:50 schrieb Crayon Shin Chan: > On Saturday 18 August 2007 06:30, Philip Webb wrote: > > I've successfully mounted the stick & copied a file onto it: > > it seems you have to 'umount' it before the file is really stored. > > For performance reasons a write-cache is us

Re: [gentoo-user] #Gentoo

Steen Eugen Poulsen skrev: > Every day for around a hour the same op comes around and their is always > trouble for some reason in that short period. The channel works > perfectly the other 23 hours a day... So one has to wonder if the op is > creating the problems... > > Things like kicking someo