Re: [gentoo-web-user] Ebuild for Tiny Tiny RSS

2008-10-31 Thread Peter Volkov
Hi Patrick. В Чтв, 30/10/2008 в 10:41 +0800, Patrick Nagel пишет: It's my first webapp ebuild, and one of my first ebuilds at all, so there may be newbish mistakes in it. I would appreciate if anybody with more experience could have a look at it. Well, in general it looks good. But still some

[gentoo-user] Re: unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-31 Thread James
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: Well, com_err broken openssl which broke wget with ssl USE flag set. I forgot to mention that part. :) Disable ssl USE flag when you rebuild wget, then you can download everything else you need to rebuild. When you're done, you can

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-31 Thread András Csányi
2008/10/31 James [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry. After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I got in a hurry, did not think and ran: emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err sys-fs/e2fsprogs sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs Hi James! This is

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-31 Thread András Csányi
2008/10/30 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Donnerstag 30 Oktober 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 30 Oct, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, I have the same 'problem'. Which portage version are you using? I'm using portage-2.2_rc12 on amd64 hardware. same here. Would nice to

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 31 Oktober 2008 06:07:12 schrieb ext James: Well, I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry. After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I got in a hurry, did not think and ran: emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err sys-fs/e2fsprogs sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-31 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 30 Oktober 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 30 Oct, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, I have the same 'problem'. Which portage version are you using? I'm using portage-2.2_rc12 on amd64 hardware. same here. Would nice to know

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

2008-10-31 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems you did not get the point. To attribute a floating point number to an integer variable is perfectly valid, depending on the specific program. The compiler normally does not even warn about this, as

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

2008-10-31 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm coming into this thread kinda late, so feel free to ignore... ... but Jorge is right. This is easily picked up by a lint tool... and good python programmers use them ;-). Some python-aware editors even have this

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-31 Thread Markos Chandras
On Friday 31 October 2008 04:53:20 Iain Buchanan wrote: Markos Chandras wrote: From my experience i would recommend to use alsa-in-kernel + alsa-libs + FYI that's alsa-lib not alsa-libs :) might confuse someone reading later. True. Sorry for the mistake :) alsa-headers + alsa-utils +

[gentoo-user] OT: Python (was: package.keywords syntax?)

2008-10-31 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Albert, on Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:11:04PM -0400, you wrote: ... but Jorge is right. This is easily picked up by a lint tool... and good python programmers use them ;-). Some python-aware editors even have this functionality built in. Whow...I've been out of Python long enough to totally

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:38:55 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:39:10PM -0400, Eric Martin wrote: Why not go even easier and use bzcat,bzless,zcat,and zless Because bzgrep and many others haven't been written. Shhh, don't tell my computer that! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-31 Thread Pupino
2008/10/31 Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Joshua Murphy wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From my experience i would recommend to use alsa-in-kernel + alsa-libs + alsa-headers + alsa-utils + alsa-tools This combination works perfect on

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Python (was: package.keywords syntax?)

2008-10-31 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Friday 31 October 2008 10:54:23 schrieb Matthias Bethke: Hi Albert, on Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:11:04PM -0400, you wrote: ... but Jorge is right. This is easily picked up by a lint tool... and good python programmers use them ;-). Some python-aware editors even have this functionality

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-31 Thread Patrick Holthaus
But i read this after building alsa-lib: * Please try in-kernel ALSA drivers instead of the alsa-drivers ebuild. * If alsa-drivers works for you where a recent kernel does not, we want * to know about this. Our e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] * However, if you notice no sound output or

[gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Joshua Murphy wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From my experience i would recommend to use alsa-in-kernel + alsa-libs + alsa-headers + alsa-utils + alsa-tools This combination works perfect on my 3 gentoo machines All... *thinks a moment* 6 of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:05:47 +0100, Pupino wrote: But i read this after building alsa-lib: * Please try in-kernel ALSA drivers instead of the alsa-drivers ebuild. * If alsa-drivers works for you where a recent kernel does not, we want * to know about this. Our e-mail address is [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread James Homuth
There are several packages that were thrown around on the list, or versions of packages, that I've come across that I figure I might want to take an active interest in. However, to avoid sending my boxes into a tailspin, I'm staying away from installing the still in development versions. What I'd

[gentoo-user] Updating a system....catch-22...

2008-10-31 Thread BRM
I have a system that I'm just bringing back online after a few months down due to hardware issues and lack of resources to get new hardware. Some things are going okay - I got it past the e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-lib update fiasco (after hosing it and using GRML to get it back up). However, I'm now

RE: [gentoo-user] Updating a system....catch-22...

2008-10-31 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: BRM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 31, 2008 9:10 AM To: Users Gentoo Subject: [gentoo-user] Updating a systemcatch-22... I have a system that I'm just bringing back online after a few months down due to hardware issues and lack of resources to get

Re: [gentoo-user] How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread Justin
James Homuth schrieb: There are several packages that were thrown around on the list, or versions of packages, that I've come across that I figure I might want to take an active interest in. However, to avoid sending my boxes into a tailspin, I'm staying away from installing the still in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: void shameless_plug() { One of the reasons I love Gentoo is because it allowed me to recompile all apps without ALSA support and use OSS (version 4) instead which for me worked much, much better than ALSA. } g++ plug.cpp -o plug plug.cpp:

Re: [gentoo-user] How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
James Homuth wrote: There are several packages that were thrown around on the list, or versions of packages, that I've come across that I figure I might want to take an active interest in. However, to avoid sending my boxes into a tailspin, I'm staying away from installing the still in

[gentoo-user] did anyone just get 400+ emails from this list?

2008-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, yes, I did... or at least I think. I'm using thunderbird (shredder) 3.0a2 (yes, aware of the risks, see the release name). all the emails are from before 10/09/2008 (that's september for you US folks). Funny thing is, the emails were deleted long ago, so I don't know how shredder

[gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Iain Buchanan wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: void shameless_plug() { One of the reasons I love Gentoo is because it allowed me to recompile all apps without ALSA support and use OSS (version 4) instead which for me worked much, much better than ALSA. } g++

[gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Justin wrote: James Homuth schrieb: There are several packages that were thrown around on the list, or versions of packages, that I've come across that I figure I might want to take an active interest in. However, to avoid sending my boxes into a tailspin, I'm staying away from installing the

[gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel

2008-10-31 Thread Marko Kocić
I have a quastion related to vanilla-sources kernel. After upgrading vanilla-sources from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28_rc2 I am not able to boot anymore. I tried playing with menuconfig couple of times, but couldn't find what I have to change in order to make it work again. The error message while booting

Re: [gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel

2008-10-31 Thread deface
Marko Kocić wrote: I have a quastion related to vanilla-sources kernel. After upgrading vanilla-sources from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28_rc2 I am not able to boot anymore. I tried playing with menuconfig couple of times, but couldn't find what I have to change in order to make it work again. The error

[gentoo-user] Re: Error booting new kernel

2008-10-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Marko Kocić wrote: I have a quastion related to vanilla-sources kernel. After upgrading vanilla-sources from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28_rc2 I am not able to boot anymore. I tried playing with menuconfig couple of times, but couldn't find what I have to change in order to make it work again. The error

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:37:58 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I wonder why emerge doesn't do something like this by default, actually. Say a package has a serious exploit and an update was made. If the package isn't in world, emerge will never grab the update. If it's not is world, or a

Re: [gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel

2008-10-31 Thread James
On Fri, October 31, 2008 10:41 am, Marko Kocić wrote: I have a quastion related to vanilla-sources kernel. After upgrading vanilla-sources from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28_rc2 I am not able to boot anymore. I tried playing with menuconfig couple of times, but couldn't find what I have to change in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-31 Thread Pupino
2008/10/31 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:05:47 +0100, Pupino wrote: But i read this after building alsa-lib: * Please try in-kernel ALSA drivers instead of the alsa-drivers ebuild. * If alsa-drivers works for you where a recent kernel does not, we want * to know

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-31 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2008, 13:06, Stroller wrote: Ok, that's OT, but it's not that difficult. They just moved the ftp functionality from Internet explorer to Windows explorer [snip] No, they just REMOVED any extended functionality

[gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:37:58 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I wonder why emerge doesn't do something like this by default, actually. Say a package has a serious exploit and an update was made. If the package isn't in world, emerge will never grab the update. If it's not

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: October 31, 2008 10:38 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable? Justin wrote: James Homuth schrieb: There are several

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-31 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:23:23AM +, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Have you considered the use of webdav, or webdavs? I believe it works fine with either MSIE and/or MSWE. Of course it works a treat with Konqueror. The only challenge would be to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread Dale
James Homuth wrote: That'll teach me to just read the Gentoo documentation. I figured emerge --update --deep world covered system, too. As far as what I was told on -dev, it still does. If you use the @system or @world, then that is a different thing. I'm assuming what I was told

Re: [gentoo-user] How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread Justin
James Homuth schrieb: There are several packages that were thrown around on the list, or versions of packages, that I've come across that I figure I might want to take an active interest in. However, to avoid sending my boxes into a tailspin, I'm staying away from installing the still in

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-31 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put resume= into my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... hibernate: Running /usr/sbin/s2disk ... s2disk: Could not use the resume device

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-31 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:07 AM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry. After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I got in a hurry, did not think and ran: emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err sys-fs/e2fsprogs

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-31 Thread Markos Chandras
On Friday 31 October 2008 19:53:28 Joshua Murphy wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:07 AM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry. After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I got in a hurry, did not think and ran: emerge --unmerge

[gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel-2.5.0 emerge error

2008-10-31 Thread Fernando Antunes
Hi everybody ! Is someone having a problem with xf86-driver-intel-2.5.0 compilation like this? ... In file included from /usr/include/xorg/vdif.h:24, from /usr/include/xorg/edid.h:15, from bios_reader.c:45: /usr/include/X11/Xmd.h:152: error: conflicting types

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel-2.5.0 emerge error

2008-10-31 Thread Markos Chandras
On Friday 31 October 2008 21:56:56 Fernando Antunes wrote: Hi everybody ! Is someone having a problem with xf86-driver-intel-2.5.0 compilation like this? ... In file included from /usr/include/xorg/vdif.h:24, from /usr/include/xorg/edid.h:15, from

Re: [gentoo-user] did anyone just get 400+ emails from this list?

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, yes, I did... or at least I think. I'm using thunderbird (shredder) 3.0a2 (yes, aware of the risks, see the release name). all the emails are from before 10/09/2008 (that's september for you US folks). Funny

[gentoo-user] FIXED: unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-31 Thread James
Markos Chandras markos.chandras at gmail.com writes: Here I tried (re) emerge wget: emerge e2fsprogs again after unemerging the older version. If wget doesnt work put the .tar.gz of sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.2 on your /usr/portage/distfiles and emerge it :) Many things failed. I could

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-31 Thread Walter Dnes
mkswap /dev/sda6 swapon /dev/sda6 Thanks, that worked. Having been bitten before by doing the obvious, I was wondering if something else was required. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:11:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If it's not is world, or a dependency of a world package, it's not needed and --depclean will catch it. No, it will not :P Don't ask me why, because I don't know. I only know from experience that --depclean does not catch

[gentoo-user] Burn-in test

2008-10-31 Thread Andrey Vul
I just bought a new laptop: http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProductcmd=pdpid=019626cid=896.645 Which packages should I emerge (and run) as a burn-in test? Note: I will run the burn-in off either a stock or custom-mastered Gentoo LiveDVD. If the disc needs custm mastering, please

[gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?

2008-10-31 Thread Erik Hahn
Why the hell do these packages depend on corefonts?: app-emulation/wine-1.1.6 net-www/netscape-flash-10_rc20080915 x11-misc/slim-1.3.1 It somehow makes sense with wine, maybe even - remotely - with flash. But why, why should *slim* need Windows fonts to work? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Burn-in test

2008-10-31 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a new laptop: http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProductcmd=pdpid=019626cid=896.645 Which packages should I emerge (and run) as a burn-in test? Note: I will run the burn-in off either a stock or

Re: [gentoo-user] Burn-in test

2008-10-31 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Joshua Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of an old habit of abusing windows boxes with prime95 at work... emerge gimps mprime -t -w/tmp/ Err... that *should* have been... emerge gimps /opt/gimps/mprime -t -w/tmp/ -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?

2008-10-31 Thread Steven Susbauer
Erik Hahn wrote: Why the hell do these packages depend on corefonts?: app-emulation/wine-1.1.6 net-www/netscape-flash-10_rc20080915 x11-misc/slim-1.3.1 It somehow makes sense with wine, maybe even - remotely - with flash. But why, why should *slim* need Windows fonts to work? According to

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?

2008-10-31 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Why the hell do these packages depend on corefonts?: app-emulation/wine-1.1.6 net-www/netscape-flash-10_rc20080915 x11-misc/slim-1.3.1 It somehow makes sense with wine, maybe even - remotely - with flash. But why, why should *slim* need Windows fonts to work? Not only that, but why don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:51:58PM -0400, Joshua Murphy wrote Umm... if you're hibernating to the same swap partition you're using when the system's live... I'm pretty sure you can't do that... even if everything does manage to fit, having sort out what belongs back in ram and what doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Burn-in test

2008-10-31 Thread Andrey Vul
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Joshua Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Joshua Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of an old habit of abusing windows boxes with prime95 at work... emerge gimps mprime -t -w/tmp/ Err... that *should* have been... emerge

[gentoo-user] Input in Vmware console is delay

2008-10-31 Thread Astomi Chen
Hi folks, I have installed gentoo in Vmware, currently the problem is when I input some command it will delay 1 second shows on console screen. I have checked the system, there are no abnormal process, system load is OK. When try to use Windows Putty to connect gentoo box, no delay, erverything

Re: [gentoo-user] Input in Vmware console is delay

2008-10-31 Thread Andrey Vul
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Astomi Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I have installed gentoo in Vmware, currently the problem is when I input some command it will delay 1 second shows on console screen. I have checked the system, there are no abnormal process, system load is OK.

Re: [gentoo-user] Input in Vmware console is delay

2008-10-31 Thread deface
Astomi Chen wrote: Hi folks, I have installed gentoo in Vmware, currently the problem is when I input some command it will delay 1 second shows on console screen. I have checked the system, there are no abnormal process, system load is OK. When try to use Windows Putty to connect gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Input in Vmware console is delay

2008-10-31 Thread Astomi Chen
I agree with you. Now my console still in 800*600 mode, I have tried lots of ways, but failed. http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/http://dev.gentoo.org/%7Espock/projects/uvesafb/ On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:35 AM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Input in Vmware console is delay

2008-10-31 Thread Astomi Chen
Not yet, I will give a try. On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:03 PM, deface [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Astomi Chen wrote: Hi folks, I have installed gentoo in Vmware, currently the problem is when I input some command it will delay 1 second shows on console screen. I have checked the system, there

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
Joshua Murphy wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Walter Dnes[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put resume= into my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... [snip] What did I did? And how do I straighten it out?

Re: [gentoo-user] Input in Vmware console is delay

2008-10-31 Thread Andrey Falko
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Astomi Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not yet, I will give a try. If this is a Gentoo VM emerge open-vm-tools...my Gentoo VMs work very well with it :). You might need to do echo app-emulation/open-vm-tools /etc/portage/package.keywords first. Also within the