Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:50:44 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 19:09:14 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: (1) I never use testing versions of system pkgs like Glibc Someone has to or they'll never get tested. Come on ! -- not on a production system ! Who mentioned production

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Labels in Handbook

2011-02-10 Thread Petri Rosenström
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:27 on Wednesday 09 February 2011, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James wrote: Hello, So looking at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Labels in Handbook

2011-02-10 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:00:24 +0200, Petri Rosenström wrote: If you use vi(m) you don't have to type too much neither. Just use :r!blkid /dev/sda in vi(m) and you have the UUID, with some additional information, but the rest is just vi(m) magic. None of which

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Labels in Handbook

2011-02-10 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 10 February 2011 06:31:12 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:00:24 +0200, Petri Rosenström wrote: If you use vi(m) you don't have to type too much neither. Just use :r!blkid /dev/sda in vi(m) and you have the UUID, with some :additional

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Labels in Handbook

2011-02-10 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2011 06:31:12 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:00:24 +0200, Petri Rosenström wrote: If you use vi(m) you don't have to type too much neither. Just use :r!blkid /dev/sda in vi(m) and you have the UUID,

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Labels in Handbook

2011-02-10 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 10 February 2011 06:45:53 Dale wrote: Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2011 06:31:12 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:00:24 +0200, Petri Rosenström wrote: If you use vi(m) you don't have to type too much neither. Just use :r!blkid

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Labels in Handbook

2011-02-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:45:53 -0600, Dale wrote: Kewl !! That works. Wonder if I should try this way out. See if I can mess this up. o_O Why would you want to swap a concise, readable fstab for one that needs to be filled with comments to make any sense at all? signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Labels in Handbook

2011-02-10 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:45:53 -0600, Dale wrote: Kewl !! That works. Wonder if I should try this way out. See if I can mess this up. o_O Why would you want to swap a concise, readable fstab for one that needs to be filled with comments to make any sense at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 04:07 on Thursday 10 February 2011, Keith Dart did opine thusly: === On Wed, 02/09, Dale wrote: === Now some of you know how much I hate windows. Of course, DOS wasn't much better, === Yep. I've been using Linux on my desktop since version 1.2, and

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-10 Thread Stroller
On 8/2/2011, at 9:55pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... If you're a gambling man, play it by the numbers: A re-install for a Gentoo user with a clue is a certain 1 hour of your life tops to get it redone with a recent stage 3, more likely 30 minutes. That will give you a working system albeit

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-10 Thread Stroller
On 8/2/2011, at 9:11pm, Nils Holland wrote: On 12:41 Tue 08 Feb , Stroller wrote: If my process wasn't clear from my last email: it looks like, following that document, you have to do the whole thing with changed CHOST, *before* making any changes to CFLAGS. It appears like only after

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Labels in Handbook

2011-02-10 Thread Stroller
On 9/2/2011, at 2:27pm, Mark Knecht wrote: ... Following Walt's recent thread about his experiences using grub2 I think getting folks used to disk labels at installation time, be they names or even better UUID's, might fit in very well with installation instructions that cover using grub2

[gentoo-user] Re: Bug#354229 Disk FS Labels in Handbook

2011-02-10 Thread james
walt w41ter at gmail.com writes: Correct, they are two different (but equivalent) ways of naming a filesystem (partition) for use in fstab. mkfs generates a UUID automatically when the fs is created, but it does *not* generate a label unless you give it one using the -L flag, or create one

[gentoo-user] Re: Disk Labels in Handbook

2011-02-10 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: These aren't needed to get a system up and running. Yeah, Ubuntu uses them for various ID purposes, but nothing really critical. Unless there's a clear need for them, for example if some package in the @system set will use them in a way that

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I don't really know what the -fomit-frame-pointer part does - I imagine someone suggested it, perhaps on here, years ago, and it has got copied from system to system. I think it removes your ability to get a

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-10 Thread Stroller
On 10/2/2011, at 4:22pm, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I don't really know what the -fomit-frame-pointer part does - I imagine someone suggested it, perhaps on here, years ago, and it has got copied from system to

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 10 February 2011 00:02:07 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:48:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: And it's very difficult to downgrade it due to that hidden barf check in the ebuild. I have yet to find a supported, documented way to back out of glibc screw-ups; my way is

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:10:06 -0800 (PST), Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: The trouble is that binpkgs keep a copy of the ebuild in them, so even if you remove the downgrade check fro the in-tree ebuild, it still fails. That one had me scratching my head for a few minutes. what happens if

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Thursday 10 February 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: On 8/2/2011, at 9:55pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... If you're a gambling man, play it by the numbers: A re-install for a Gentoo user with a clue is a certain 1 hour of your life tops to get it

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-10 Thread Nils Holland
On 10:22 Thu 10 Feb , Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I don't really know what the -fomit-frame-pointer part does - I imagine someone suggested it, perhaps on here, years ago, and it has got copied from system to

[gentoo-user] 32bit xulrunner version?

2011-02-10 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, Is there a way to install a 32bit version of xulrunner? An application I am using on top of eclipse apparently needs a 32bit version. Don't know exactly why... Currently I have: /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2 /usr/lib64/xulrunner-devel-1.9.2 /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/LICENSE

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit xulrunner version?

2011-02-10 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 18:32 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Is there a way to install a 32bit version of xulrunner? An application I am using on top of eclipse apparently needs a 32bit version. Don't know exactly why... Currently I have: xulrunner is in the multilib layman overlay;

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit xulrunner version?

2011-02-10 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/10/2011 09:52 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 18:32 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Is there a way to install a 32bit version of xulrunner? An application I am using on top of eclipse apparently needs a 32bit version. Don't know exactly why... Currently I have: