Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM

2008-06-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: | On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:32:33 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: | Sorry for replying to my own message, just had a thought. Could | this all be a udev rules problem? I mean could some new rules in | the updated udev package be

[gentoo-user] beagle and thunderbird

2008-06-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, I never used beagle so far, only recently read an article about it and thought I would give it a try, so I emerged it yesterday. So I have app-misc/beagle-0.2.18 now, with USE-flags eds gtk pdf python thunderbird xscreensaver, along mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.14 ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros 5xxx driver in kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5

2008-06-24 Thread Zhou Rui
Thanks for your help, but I'm still puzzled with the madwifi driver and the build-in ath5k driver. Does it mean if I choose to install a madwifi driver I can still use my 2.6.24 kernel? But the problem is I cannot find the non-hamradio WLAN option in current kernel either... -邮件原件- 发件人:

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros 5xxx driver in kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5

2008-06-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Zhou Rui: I'm using gentoo in my UMPC fujitsu U1010 which has a Atheros superG wireless card. I found the wiki says there is a kernel option can compile Atheros 5xxx WLAN driver into the kernel, but I cannot find it in my kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 (emeged as

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Continuing to use cdrkit affords me that luxury of not getting involved, so I can carry on blissfully not caring and instead devote my energies to the projects I do care about. Things are not as simple as you seem to believe. You cannot stay off the

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros 5xxx driver in kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5

2008-06-24 Thread Kan-I Jyo
2008/6/24 Zhou Rui [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for your help, but I'm still puzzled with the madwifi driver and the build-in ath5k driver. Does it mean if I choose to install a madwifi driver I can still use my 2.6.24 kernel? Though ath5k driver will eventually replace the madwifi driver

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Continuing to use cdrkit affords me that luxury of not getting involved, so I can carry on blissfully not caring and instead devote my energies to the projects I do care about. Things are not as simple

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools? CDDL licensing?

2008-06-24 Thread Stroller
On 23 Jun 2008, at 19:54, Joerg Schilling wrote: ... The license of the original cdrtools has been examined by specialized lawyers and these lawyers did not see any license problem in the original software. A bit of Googling lead me to a couple of articles which appear to indicate you

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-24 Thread luis jure
el 2008-06-23 a las 14:58 Joerg Schilling escribió: Cdrecord is known to work with all drives and media. Other software may have problems with some drives or media. that's exactly my personal experience. i won't comment about license issues, because although i always try to support free

[gentoo-user] single package backup

2008-06-24 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, Let's say there's a new version of a given package. I'd like to make a backup, update, test and if I liked the old version better restore. What is (is there?) the Gentoo way to do that? -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] single package backup

2008-06-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel Iliev asks: Let's say there's a new version of a given package. I'd like to make a backup, update, test and if I liked the old version better restore. What is (is there?) the Gentoo way to do that? Let's assume you upgrade from package/foo-1.0 to package/foo-1.1. You can then use

[gentoo-user] Re: Error compiling ATI drivers 8.28.8

2008-06-24 Thread James
Ivan Alden ivan.alden at gmail.com writes: I am trying to compile the ATI proprietary drivers for my DELL D600 lap. I found in a web search that the last working drivers for this card was the 8.28.8 version. H, I got this version installed and working: Installed versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jörg, you appear to be making a fundamental error of assumption. It looks like you consider that simply because you think this matter important (and in your life it probably IS important), that therefore it must be important in mine. This is not true.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] single package backup

2008-06-24 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:54:09 +0200 Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Iliev asks: Let's say there's a new version of a given package. I'd like to make a backup, update, test and if I liked the old version better restore. What is (is there?) the Gentoo way to do that?

Re: [gentoo-user] single package backup

2008-06-24 Thread 陈帮玉
Thanks Alex, this is also useful to me. I'm fresh here. On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Iliev asks: Let's say there's a new version of a given package. I'd like to make a backup, update, test and if I liked the old version better restore.

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM

2008-06-24 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:41:12 +0100 Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Some of you may remember my problems with lvm after an update in http://www.archivum.info/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/2008-04/msg00899.html I'm now headed back towards the same situation. I have a load

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] single package backup

2008-06-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:32:57 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: quickpkg is exactly what I was looking for. You can also add buildpkg to FEATURES, then portage will create a binary package for every package you install. It can use a fair amount of disk space, but it means you can always roll back from

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] single package backup

2008-06-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: You can also add buildpkg to FEATURES, then portage will create a binary package for every package you install. It can use a fair amount of disk space, but it means you can always roll back from a broken version, even if you managed to break portage. And there's also

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-24 Thread Dan Johansson
On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:39:12 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: treat Virtual Machines # emerge -at gnucash These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] single package backup

2008-06-24 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:23:45 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:32:57 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: quickpkg is exactly what I was looking for. You can also add buildpkg to FEATURES, then portage will create a binary package for every package you install. It

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps emerging gcc

2008-06-24 Thread Peter Wood
Hi, yesterday I tried emerging pdftk and was instructed by the emerge output to add 'gcj' to my USE flags. I did that, reemerged gcc and was able to emerge pdftk just fine. Now, whenever I do revdep-rebuild, gcc gets reemerged. Does anybody have a better idea, than to change my USE flags and

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps emerging gcc

2008-06-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:47:56 -0400, Peter Wood wrote: Now, whenever I do revdep-rebuild, gcc gets reemerged. Does anybody have a better idea, than to change my USE flags and reemerge gcc without the 'gcj' flag set? This is a long-standing bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps emerging gcc

2008-06-24 Thread felix
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:56:29PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: This is a long-standing bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728 Long long Long LONG standing bug. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-24 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jörg, you appear to be making a fundamental error of assumption. It looks like you consider that simply because you think this matter important (and in your life it probably IS important), that therefore it must be important

[gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-24 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Thanks to all who replied to my previous question. This question is related. Has anyone gotten the 'extra-ciphers' (you can get them from the loop-aes site) to compile with the loop-aes kernel patch in place? If so, could you give me a hint on