Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2010/11/2 Gary Golden m...@garygolden.me: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I safely do: mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage ln -s /etc/portage /var/lib/portage/world Will portage update handle

Re: [gentoo-user] HP C4795 All-in-One

2010-11-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2010/11/2 CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com:  Hi, Before someone asks Haven't you posted this before?, I'll respond, Sort of, but not really! Anyway, I've reread all the previous posts.  Mostly, they were related to the printer portion of the device.  The printer works fine. The current

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2010-11-02 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Possible noob question. I have installed a 64 bit gentoo on my intel Pentium D machine. Now I am reading through /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example My CFLAGS on that machine is the default currently: CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe But according to

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2010-11-02 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 02.11.2010 09:43, schrieb Coert Waagmeester: Hello all, Hello! Possible noob question. We all was noobs once, maybe I am still ;-) If I do change, how do I recompile everything? (like --newuse for USE changes?) To recompile all use emerge -e world The switch -e lets portage think

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 10:43 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Coert Waagmeester did opine thusly: Hello all, Possible noob question. I have installed a 64 bit gentoo on my intel Pentium D machine. Now I am reading through /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example My CFLAGS on

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Gary Golden
On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/11/2 Gary Golden m...@garygolden.me: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I safely do: mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage ln -s /etc/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2010-11-02 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Tuesday 02 November 2010 2:13:41 pm Coert Waagmeester wrote: I have installed a 64 bit gentoo on my intel Pentium D machine. also as far as i know, core2 is for core 2 duo quad etc cpus ... not for pentium D. -O2 -march=core2 -pipe use native as Alan suggested. or refer to

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:54 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden did opine thusly: On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/11/2 Gary Golden m...@garygolden.me: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Gary Golden wrote: On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/11/2 Gary Golden m...@garygolden.me: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I safely do: mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage ln -s

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2010-11-02 Thread Chris Reffett
I feel like the Pentium D is march=prescott though, again, native should work fine as well. Chris Reffett On 11/02/2010 06:40 AM, Yohan Pereira wrote: On Tuesday 02 November 2010 2:13:41 pm Coert Waagmeester wrote: I have installed a 64 bit gentoo on my intel Pentium D machine. also as far as i

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git

2010-11-02 Thread BRM
The cvs2svn project also has a cvs2git tool. http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/ HTH, Ben - Original Message From: fe...@crowfix.com fe...@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 12:02:58 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Gary Golden
On 11/02/2010 03:53 PM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Gary Golden wrote: On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/11/2 Gary Golden m...@garygolden.me: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git

2010-11-02 Thread felix
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:41:27AM -0700, BRM wrote: The cvs2svn project also has a cvs2git tool. http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/ Interesting ... downloaded and tried it, but no time for a full reading of the docs ... got an empty git repository so I will have to explore it further later :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git

2010-11-02 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: fe...@crowfix.com fe...@crowfix.com On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:41:27AM -0700, BRM wrote: The cvs2svn project also has a cvs2git tool. http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/ Interesting ... downloaded and tried it, but no time for a full reading of the docs

[gentoo-user] Search for a file that is not installed in the system?

2010-11-02 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not currently installed in the system? For example: $ equery belongs zzdir [ Searching for file(s) zzdir in *... ] dev-libs/zziplib-0.13.59-r1 (/usr/bin/zzdir) $ eix -I zziplib [I] dev-libs/zziplib Available versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] Search for a file that is not installed in the system?

2010-11-02 Thread Dale
Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not currently installed in the system? For example: $ equery belongs zzdir [ Searching for file(s) zzdir in *... ] dev-libs/zziplib-0.13.59-r1 (/usr/bin/zzdir) $ eix -I zziplib [I] dev-libs/zziplib

Re: [gentoo-user] Search for a file that is not installed in the system?

2010-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Kfir Lavi writes: Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not currently installed in the system? Have a look here: http://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php/Special:PFLQuery2 This is not 100% reliable, as sometimes the files that get installed depend on USE flags and

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Stroller
On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... hard links will only work if /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage are on the same filesystem. Frequently, they are not. For small values of frequently. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Stroller wrote: On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... hard links will only work if /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage are on the same filesystem. Frequently, they are not. For small values of frequently. Stroller. for every sane system out

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Gary Golden
/var is a candidate for surprisingly filling up / to 100% so it is a smart and sane choice to put it on its own partition where damage will be reduced to some log files or an aborted emerge. It is safe for everyday laptop with 500Gb to have solid / ;) -- Gary Golden

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: /var is a candidate for surprisingly filling up / to 100% so it is a smart and sane choice to put it on its own partition where damage will be reduced to some log files or an aborted emerge. It is safe for everyday laptop with 500Gb to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Search for a file that is not installed in the system?

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:25 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Kfir Lavi did opine thusly: Hi, Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not currently installed in the system? For example: $ equery belongs zzdir [ Searching for file(s) zzdir in *... ]

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:19 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Stroller wrote: On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... hard links will only work if /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage are on the same

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:19 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Stroller wrote: On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... hard links will only work if

[gentoo-user] Re: Search for a file that is not installed in the system?

2010-11-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-02, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not currently installed in the system? With a meta-distribution, that's not quite possible to do in a definitive way. With a binarydistribution like Fedora or Ubuntu, you know

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:21 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:19 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: On Tuesday 02 November

[gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I safely do: mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage ln -s /etc/portage /var/lib/portage/world Will portage

[gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread walt
On 11/02/2010 03:05 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Right now I sit with 60+ SLES 9 machines that cannot be taken offline for any reason, and EVERY SINGLE ONE has one giant filesystem... How did this happen? The man in charge three managers ago thought this was a cool way to configure critical

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 02 November 2010 22:05:21 Alan McKinnon wrote: rant over Relief! :-) -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:21 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Francesco Talamona did opine thusly: On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:49 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, walt did opine thusly: On 11/02/2010 03:05 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Right now I sit with 60+ SLES 9 machines that cannot be taken offline for any reason, and EVERY SINGLE ONE has one giant filesystem... How did this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:21 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Francesco Talamona did opine thusly: On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into

Re: [gentoo-user] HP C4795 All-in-One Att'n Neil Bothwick

2010-11-02 Thread CJoeB
On 11/02/10 07:27, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/11/2 CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com: Hi, The current problem is related to the scanner. My previous post was about not being able to use xsane as a normal user, it would only work as root. Since posting that, I've done upgrades to my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Francesco Talamona francesco.talam...@know.eu wrote: On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I safely do: mv