Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg// database

2013-05-09 Thread staticsafe
On 5/9/2013 22:59, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Having package data in /var/db/pkg// carries the > nuisance factor that finding a package involves a fishing expedition through > many possible categories. > > I am spoiled by having /var/db/pkg/ in NetBSD pkgsrc and > FreeBSD ports, though FreeBSD is

[gentoo-user] Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg// database

2013-05-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
Having package data in /var/db/pkg// carries the nuisance factor that finding a package involves a fishing expedition through many possible categories. I am spoiled by having /var/db/pkg/ in NetBSD pkgsrc and FreeBSD ports, though FreeBSD is wsitching to a different structure nkwon as pkgng. I

[gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm using the 20130207 install iso. This is to enable me to get a *REALLY* predictable NIC name, namely eth0, but I digress. The 2 warnings I get are... 1) > WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util > fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. I've repartitioned

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-09 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, On Thu, 9 May 2013 21:28:40 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Any time I suspect an inconsistency in my system I run > python-updater, then perl-cleaner, then revdep-rebuild. It sometimes > helps. On Desktop after new build the Qt Software and set USE="bash-completion" emerge calibre all is

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 9 May 2013 21:28:40 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > $ eix -c qtwebkit > [I] dev-qt/qtwebkit (4.8.4(4){tbz2}@08/05/13): The WebKit module for > the Qt toolkit > $ qfile /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtWebKit.so.4.9.3 > dev-qt/qtwebkit (/usr/lib64/qt4/libQtWebKit.so.4.9.3) > > Why the mismatched versio

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm puzzled by the following, which I checked to compare with the import > error you quoted: > > $ eix -c qtwebkit > [I] dev-qt/qtwebkit (4.8.4(4){tbz2}@08/05/13): The WebKit module for the Qt > toolkit > > $ equery f qtwebkit | grep '.so.' >

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Setting size of /dev/shm or cleaning up ancient /etc/fstab

2013-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:43:53AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > a tmpfs defaults to half ram size. If yours is 10M, then quite obviously > you run some code somewhere that does it different :-) > > You could go through the effort of tracking down why. Unless this is a > default behaviour of mde

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 09 May 2013 15:36:28 Silvio Siefke wrote: > But what can do? All what they speak i follow, nothing change. The bug i > can not read, when use the link is empty. Can i install icu* 49, or what > should do now. The mistake is on Laptop and on Desktop. It may have nothing to do with your

[gentoo-user] vsftpd & syslog-ng: enemies?

2013-05-09 Thread Jarry
Hi Gentoo-users, I have strange problem: I want to collect vsftpd-logs by syslog-ng, so I added this single line at the end of /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf: syslog_enable=YES Then I restarted vsftpd, but now I can not connect to it! I do not get login/password prompt, all I see is: $ ftp 10.0.0.173

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-09 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Andrea, Thank you so much for your response! I was reluctant to include configuration related material for the sake of not insulting anyone however, on the server we have set: server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst prefer server tock.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst restri

[gentoo-user] Dolphin's nfs:// kioslave transfers files slowly

2013-05-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, Dolphin has a kioslave for nfs, used as nfs:// and mine runs slowly :-) A transfer from my laptop to my media server using a regular nfs mount runs at max speed (100Mb) over the LAN. Using nfs:// it's 15% of that at most, usually around 10Mb or so. I see the same thing at the office when comp

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-09 Thread Silvio Siefke
I have forgetten, why Calibre Install Routine search bash completion in /usr/etc? install: der Aufruf von stat für „/var/tmp/portage/app-text/calibre-0.9.29/image/usr/etc/bash_completion.d/calibre“ ist nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden. I have in /etc not the directory bash_

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-09 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, i have run revdep-build now clean, say me something from sigel, but its not installed. I have run emerge -e system, run clean without errors. I have clean /usr/local/* complete. But the mistake is ever the same, i think its QtWebkit but im not sure. When i run calibre i become: siefke@