Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs for portage: how much?

2014-01-25 Thread Jackie
Jarry wrote: I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not guess how much do I need. I'm rather limited with RAM, if I use more than 512MB for /var/tmp/portage... OMG, I was really over-optimistic! Even 2 GB tmpfs for /va

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge R715/R720

2014-01-25 Thread Kerin Millar
Johann Schmitz wrote: We use Dell servers exclusively and have for 15 years. I think we're up to 400+ physical boxes now and the number of Linux-compatibility issues in all that time is exactly zero :-) That's good to hear. If Dell sold server-class hardware that wasn't 100% supported in Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py

2014-01-25 Thread Joseph
On 01/25/14 14:21, David Abbott wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Joseph wrote: I'm using a python script "cdnpayroll.py" but for some reason or another is giving me an error: File "./cdnpayroll.py", line 160 ''' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax I tried to remove the single quote fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Mick wrote: > Perhaps I'm getting older or just bored with change, but is there an > alternative to grub2 that has the simplicity of grub-legacy, for more complex > than your average Ubuntu-like user requirements? > > I have used grub2 on some Ubuntu and Kubuntu in

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs for portage: how much?

2014-01-25 Thread Jarry
Jarry wrote: I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not guess how much do I need. I'm rather limited with RAM, if I use more than 512MB for /var/tmp/portage... OMG, I was really over-optimistic! Even 2 GB tmpfs for /va

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread James
Mick gmail.com> writes: > Perhaps I'm getting older or just bored with change, but is there an > alternative to grub2 that has the simplicity of grub-legacy, for more > complex than your average Ubuntu-like user requirements? >From my research, nothing that is gaining ground. Grub2 is bein

Re: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py

2014-01-25 Thread David Abbott
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Joseph wrote: > I'm using a python script "cdnpayroll.py" but for some reason or another is > giving me an error: > > File "./cdnpayroll.py", line 160 > ''' > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > I tried to remove the single quote from several places but I'm s

Re: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py

2014-01-25 Thread Chris Stout
- Original Message - From: Joseph Sent: 01/25/14 10:15 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py I'm using a python script "cdnpayroll.py" but for some reason or another is giving me an error: File "./cdnpayroll.py", line 160 ''' ^ SyntaxError: invalid synt

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Mick
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 17:22:27 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote: > > Maybe it'll become clear over time how to arrange the input to > > grub2-mkconfig to achieve a similar result. Meanwhile I'v

[gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py

2014-01-25 Thread Joseph
I'm using a python script "cdnpayroll.py" but for some reason or another is giving me an error: File "./cdnpayroll.py", line 160 ''' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax I tried to remove the single quote from several places but I'm still getting an error. File "./cdnpayroll.py", line 1328

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Graham Murray wrote: > Andrés Becerra Sandoval writes: > >> If you put the kernels in /boot with proper names and launch: >> >> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg >> >> Grub will set up the kernels for you. > > How do you then choose which one to boot by defau

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: >> > Any ideas anyone? >> >> Here's a manually written grub.cfg that should do pretty much what >> your old menu.lst did. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 13:51:01 Martin Vaeth wrote: > An example for a manual setup (i.e. not autogenerating grub.cfg) > using this technique can be found here: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7426932.html#7426932 Good $(DEITY)! I'd have to enlarge my boot partition to cram all that in!

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Any ideas anyone? > > Here's a manually written grub.cfg that should do pretty much what > your old menu.lst did. --->8 Well, what a gent! I didn't mean to imply that someone shoul

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-25 Thread Graham Murray
Andrés Becerra Sandoval writes: > If you put the kernels in /boot with proper names and launch: > > ​ grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > Grub will set up the kernels for you. How do you then choose which one to boot by default? I normally run hardened-sources but also want to occasional b

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Any ideas anyone? > Here's a manually written grub.cfg that should do pretty much what your old menu.lst did. root=(hd0,msdos1) timeout=10 default=0 fallback=3 color_normal=white/blue color_highlight=black/light-gray insmod all_video term

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini-XML license

2014-01-25 Thread hasufell
On 01/25/2014 08:07 AM, Pavel Volkov wrote: > Is Mini-XML license (/usr/portage/licenses/Mini-XML) considered a free > license? > > If so, why is it not in @FREE group? I have @FREE in my ACCEPT_LICENSE= in > make.conf. > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/license_groups?

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
Tanstaafl wrote: >On 2014-01-25 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> I've been operating this way for years and maintained the kernel >versions >> manually. That was not a lot of work, with the help of some >elementary bash- >> ing and copy&pasting, and I don't want the flexibility of boot >options

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Martin Vaeth
Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Now, my question is how to have grub2 offer me a choice of kernels from all > those that are present in /boot (a separate ext2 partition). Not only that, > but pass different softlevel selectors to them. In my opinion you should decide for either manually writing a grub.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-25 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I've been operating this way for years and maintained the kernel versions manually. That was not a lot of work, with the help of some elementary bash- ing and copy&pasting, and I don't want the flexibility of boot options thrown away by switching to a

[gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, James's recent thread on grub2 with several kernels prompted me to have another play with grub2. I followed the grub2 migration guide[1] up to and including where it says "At this point you should reboot your machine and select GRUB2 Chainload." I did that and found I was offered only

Re: [gentoo-user] stomping on gnomes

2014-01-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:36:36 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > I am running the use flags of -gnome and -systemd and a desktop profile > of /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/13.0 What's wrong with default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop? > Can someone suggest a more appropriate use flag/profile com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 01:27:52 + (UTC), James wrote: > > Also, dont forget /etc/default/grub (nicely hidden!) for fine tuning > > such as custom commandline args like memmap to lock out bad memory. > > > Is this where --verbose --quickbooting > --parallel booting? options are set? It cont