Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick

2011-11-28 Thread Philip Webb
28 Róbert Čerňanský wrote: Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 17:04:24 schrieb Colleen Beamer: I used to use ImageMagick to quickly resize images and convert from one format to another (jpg to png, for example), but I'm darned if I can find an executable to run the program. There used to be

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:26:48 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just in case anyone wonders where the multiplier 1.6 comes from: There had been a discussion somewhere (I forgot where exactly, sorry) about load numbers. The final conclusion was that the ideal load number for today's processors is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:34:14 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: The problem I found with that is the ebuilds load the system lightly to start with, before they enter the compile phase, to portage starts dozens of parallel ebuilds, then the system gets completely bogged down when they start

[gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-28 Thread Philip Webb
Since updating to Openrc 0.9.4 , I'm getting some opaque messages : (1) When starting eth0 : You are using a bash array for config_eth0. This feature will be removed in the future. Please see net.example for the correct format for config_eth0. (2) When starting D-BUS system messages: Use of the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 16:27, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:26:48 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just in case anyone wonders where the multiplier 1.6 comes from: There had been a discussion somewhere (I forgot where exactly, sorry) about load numbers. The final

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 17:17, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Since updating to Openrc 0.9.4 , I'm getting some opaque messages : (1) When starting eth0 : You are using a bash array for config_eth0. This feature will be removed in the future.  Please see net.example for the correct

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 17:29, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: (2) When starting D-BUS system messages: Use of the opts variable is deprecated will be removed in the future.  Please see extra_commands or extra_started_commands. I've looked in the obvious places in /etc , but see

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:29:26 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Open /etc/conf.d/net Compare it with /etc/conf.d/net.example That file should be removed, the elog message states this. The example file /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.9.4/net.example. -- Neil Bothwick I thought I saw the light at the end

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 28, 2011 5:53 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:29:26 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Open /etc/conf.d/net Compare it with /etc/conf.d/net.example That file should be removed, the elog message states this. The example file

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick

2011-11-28 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 17:04 -0500, Colleen Beamer wrote: [..] yes :) It's /usr/bin/convert This isn't quite what I wanted - you have to add options to the command. I was hoping to get the graphical interface that I had before. Please don't tell me they took a great little program and

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:28 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: With 100% repeatability, mind you, which does raise same questions on the amount of testing done before release. Yes, it's ~arch and rc_parallel is explicitly marked experimental, but it's not expected to be completely and consistently

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Jorge Martínez López
Hi there 2011/11/28 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info: ... TL;DR : 2*N for non-hyperthreaded cores, N for hyperthreaded cores. (Disclaimer: Above is my pure speculation. Feel free to debunk it based on your tests (: ) Rgds, So with a 6 core Phenom it would look like this: MAKEOPTS=-j 12 -l

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
2011/11/28 Jorge Martínez López jorg...@gmail.com: Hi there 2011/11/28 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info: ... TL;DR : 2*N for non-hyperthreaded cores, N for hyperthreaded cores. (Disclaimer: Above is my pure speculation. Feel free to debunk it based on your tests (: ) Rgds, So with a 6

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 16:27, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:34:14 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: The problem I found with that is the ebuilds load the system lightly to start with, before they enter the compile phase, to portage starts dozens of parallel

Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feeling that my bug report re: emerge failure will be marked WONTFIX thanks to the 'ricer special' CFLAGS The CFLAGS you showed me weren't any more ricer than -O2 -march=native. (I

[gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/28/2011 02:29 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:28 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: With 100% repeatability, mind you, which does raise same questions on the amount of testing done before release. Yes, it's ~arch and rc_parallel is explicitly marked experimental, but it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 18:15 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Generally true, but not when something is obviously broken. That means not even its upstream dev bothered to test it. ~arch is for we think this works, but please give it a go in case there are problems. It's *not* for we have

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.11.2011 10:27, schrieb Neil Bothwick: From the description, it should do just that, there may still be dozens of ebuilds in progress, but only the first few will actually start compiling. Adding it now. It should also helps when there are multiple emerge processes running, my desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:31:44 -0500 Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 18:15 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Generally true, but not when something is obviously broken. That means not even its upstream dev bothered to test it. ~arch is for we think

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feeling that my bug report re: emerge failure will be marked WONTFIX thanks to the 'ricer special' CFLAGS The

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feeling that my bug report re: emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 28.11.2011 17:15, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 11/28/2011 02:29 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:28 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: With 100% repeatability, mind you, which does raise same questions on the amount of testing done before release. Yes, it's ~arch and

[gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-11-28, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 18:15 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Generally true, but not when something is obviously broken. That means not even its upstream dev bothered to test it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 18:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: My experience is different to both of yours. I too have been using Gentoo for many years and had good results with unstable. Hardly ever, if even at all, have I run into packages that would not compile at Build failures for me have always

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread James Wall
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Won't file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 17:19 +, Grant Edwards wrote: I don't think that's fair. Perhaps nobody had compiled it using the exact set of USE flags and the exast set of library versions and configurations you were using, but I've never seen anything appear in testing that was so broken it

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin I simply

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.11.2011 17:54, schrieb Mark Knecht: I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin I simply cannot find using Google? Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

2011-11-28 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 11/28/2011 02:41 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: Since I didn't write it at work it's all yours. :) Thanks. Posted here: https://blog.hartwork.org/?p=1516 Best, Sebastian

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feeling that my bug report re: emerge

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread kashani
On 11/28/2011 9:28 AM, James Wall wrote: I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin I simply cannot find using Google? - Mark

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed

2011-11-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.11.2011 23:11, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 2011-11-26 22:56, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Let me get this straight: if I want to somehow stay in the world of gnome-2.32 (panels, desktop, etc) I could simply avoid masking any of the new stuff and use the mentioned

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM, kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: On 11/28/2011 9:28 AM, James Wall wrote: I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is really pretty racist, so I wonder if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:22:48 -0500 Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: But my feeling is, if you use the testing branch and you *don't* find bugs, then you aren't testing hard enough :P Or maybe I just got used to dealing with occasional oopsies and stopped noticing them... I do

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Nov 28, 2011 11:32 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Unfortunately, striving for 2*N will inadvertently result in short bursts of 2*N, and this potentially induce a stall, which will be very costly. 1.8*N

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: [snip] FWIW, I strongly suspect that N should be your number of *logical* cores, not your number of physical cores. I believe most of the overhead

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 28.11.2011 18:56, schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Won't file a bug report, though. I have a

[gentoo-user] Re: Disappearing useflag hell [SOLVED]

2011-11-28 Thread walt
On 11/27/2011 02:34 PM, walt wrote: Somewhere deep in the bowels of portage my 'introspection' useflag is vanishing -- but on just one of my three machines. I set the introspection useflag on all three machines (two ~amd64 and one ~x86) but when I run emerge --info, only two of the machines

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 28.11.2011 18:56, schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: No, you've got some ugly flags in there. -fexcess-precision and -funsafe-math-optimizations, in

[gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/28/2011 06:59 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 28.11.2011 17:15, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 11/28/2011 02:29 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:28 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: With 100% repeatability, mind you, which does raise same questions on the amount of testing

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 29, 2011 2:02 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 28.11.2011 18:56, schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 28.11.2011 20:14, schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 28.11.2011 18:56, schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: No, you've got some ugly flags in there.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 11/28/2011 06:59 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 28.11.2011 17:15, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 11/28/2011 02:29 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:28 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: With 100%

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Nov 29, 2011 2:02 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 28.11.2011 18:56, schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, Michael

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 28.11.2011 20:14, schrieb Michael Mol: Upstream devs might take issue with them, but I'm still not sure they should affect bug reports of build-time failures. I would *hope* upstream gcc is doing tests on its own

[gentoo-user] Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Japanese youngsters doing bizarre mods to cars that produce absolutely no net gain are indeed the source of the term ricer. Yes, it is rude and disparaging but it's also the real root of the term. There's no need to politically correct it, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 28.11.2011 20:16, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 11/28/2011 06:59 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 28.11.2011 17:15, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 11/28/2011 02:29 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:28 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: With 100% repeatability, mind you, which does

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-28 Thread Mick
On Monday 28 Nov 2011 11:50:30 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 28, 2011 5:53 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:29:26 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Open /etc/conf.d/net Compare it with /etc/conf.d/net.example That file should be removed, the elog message

[gentoo-user] Re: scanner with ADF for Linux

2011-11-28 Thread James
Joseph syscon780 at gmail.com writes: Any suggestion for scanner with good Linux support and ADF I have an old HP that works just fine. http://www.sane-project.org hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 20:57 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Sorry if that sounded harsh but really, what you want is what Redhat (maybe) does for its releases and those only occur every few years and cost lots of money. Yeah, and even *they* send test pre-releases to some of their clients and

[gentoo-user] Converter parallel-port to USB

2011-11-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Dear gentoo-users, pls tell me if this is true: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3742 Does anyone use this USB-adapter-cable: ID 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel Port successfully with gentoo? If no, are there any yes, works recommendations for an adapter-cable or -card to

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed

2011-11-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:11:27PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Right now I use some package.mask-list from a posting in the gentoo-forums I'd be happy if the maintainers would provide us with a way to easily chose to stay w/ gnome-3 somehow (without maintaining a long list of

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Php cgi and user_dirs

2011-11-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 Nov 2011 20:36:06 Samuraiii wrote: Hello, Today Im form morning trying to get working apache 2.2.21-r1 and php 5.3.8 with userdirs mod. The problem is that apache is capable of opening ~/public_html but when it gets to open folder with index.php it fails with this error: (in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently timing MAKEOPTS=-j16 -l13 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--jobs --load-average=13 with 493 packages (base plus X plus XFCE and chromium, and, of course, USE flags), but I'll start another timed run with MAKEOPTS=-j16

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed

2011-11-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Nov 28 2011, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Though I don’t use either Gnome version, I believe that we are quite safe with Gentoo for a while longer, as compared with most other distros out there. At least that is what I remember from my KDE experience; (almost) all distros jumped on the

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 29, 2011 2:53 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I use Intel boxes, unfortunately. Are you using a 64-bit x86-derived system? Same difference in this context. AMD hit the market with a good 64-bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:22:48 -0500 Albert W. Hopkinsmar...@letterboxes.org wrote: But my feeling is, if you use the testing branch and you *don't* find bugs, then you aren't testing hard enough :P Or maybe I just got used to dealing with occasional oopsies and stopped

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-28 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Monday 28 Nov 2011 11:50:30 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 28, 2011 5:53 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:29:26 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Open /etc/conf.d/net Compare it with /etc/conf.d/net.example That file should be removed, the elog message

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disappearing useflag hell [SOLVED]

2011-11-28 Thread Dale
walt wrote: Thanks, Dale for all of your research. It prodded my fuzzy old brain into looking in different directions. I'm glad you got yours sorted out but I'm still curious as to how it is on in one place and off somewhere else. I know a dev has it set that way and I'm SURE he/she

Re: [gentoo-user] 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

2011-11-28 Thread Dale
Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 11/28/2011 02:41 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: Since I didn't write it at work it's all yours. :) Thanks. Posted here: https://blog.hartwork.org/?p=1516 Best, Sebastian *cough cough* Maybe a good burp too. I get this: This Connection is Untrusted

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread James Wall
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:22:48 -0500 Albert W. Hopkinsmar...@letterboxes.org  wrote: But my feeling is, if you use the testing branch and you *don't* find bugs, then you aren't testing hard enough :P Or

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:35:02 -0600, Dale wrote: I update regularly and just got the same message. I wonder why didn't the dev create a symlink from the /etc/conf.d/net.example - /usr/share/doc/openrc- latest_version/net.example to save a need for the enotice? Because that would mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Dale
James Wall wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:22:48 -0500 Albert W. Hopkinsmar...@letterboxes.orgwrote: But my feeling is, if you use the testing branch and you *don't* find bugs, then you aren't testing

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 29, 2011 8:51 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:35:02 -0600, Dale wrote: I update regularly and just got the same message. I wonder why didn't the dev create a symlink from the /etc/conf.d/net.example - /usr/share/doc/openrc-

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-28 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 29, 2011 8:51 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:35:02 -0600, Dale wrote: I update regularly and just got the same message. I wonder why didn't the dev create a symlink from the

[gentoo-user] Re: Converter parallel-port to USB

2011-11-28 Thread James
Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at writes: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3742 Does anyone use this USB-adapter-cable: ID 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel Port Unknown. Look in the driver section of building a kernel for the supported devices. I have use FTDI usb-serial

[gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
I've got four 750GB drives in addition to the installed system drive. I'd like to aggregate them and split them into a few volumes. My first inclination would be to raid them and drop lvm on top. I know lvm well enough, but I don't remember md that well. Since I don't recall md well, and this

[gentoo-user] Tcl in your system...

2011-11-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., automating repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] Tcl in your system...

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., automating repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. Not me, but Tcl is one of the best-represented langauges on the site I run.

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner with ADF for Linux

2011-11-28 Thread Stroller
On 27 November 2011, at 03:30, Joseph wrote: Any suggestion for scanner with good Linux support and ADF I guess you mean Auto Document Feeder? It might be worth clarifying this, as I didn't notice / understand this when I originally saw your post yesterday. Stroller.

[gentoo-user] Gentoo + HP + Quickmedia

2011-11-28 Thread Carlos Sura
Hello Mates, I have a new HP laptop i5, this came with Windows 7 pre-installed with HP quickweb (a tool that let me skype, check my email and navigate Interne, whitout loading WINDOWS). I'm wondering if there any way to leave quickweb with gentoo, or windows + quickweb + gentoo would be fine...

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 29.11.2011 05:10, schrieb Michael Mol: I've got four 750GB drives in addition to the installed system drive. I'd like to aggregate them and split them into a few volumes. My first inclination would be to raid them and drop lvm on top. I know lvm well enough, but I don't remember md that

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-28 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 29, 2011 8:51 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:35:02 -0600, Dale wrote: I update regularly and just got the same message. I wonder why didn't the dev create a symlink from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Converter parallel-port to USB

2011-11-28 Thread John Campbell
On 11/28/2011 07:16 PM, James wrote: An old parallel port on an old pci card should do the trick, if all you needs is a parallel port. Some of those old Laserjet printer could be set up across a serial port, if nothing else works. I'd also check your computer's innards for a parallel