Re: [gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package [SOLVED]

2014-02-01 Thread Thanasis
on 02/01/2014 12:47 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: I think it would, I used to have a general gentoo-sources plus specific versions in world before it was possible to use sets to stop older kernels being depcleaned. If you have the above line plus an unversioned atom, I think you

[gentoo-user] How to remove a single binary package

2014-02-01 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have a couple of binary packages in a box under /usr/portage/packages that I no longer need. How can I selectively remove one or some of them only? qpkg -c www-client/chromium or eclean packages nukes the lot. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove a single binary package

2014-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 1 Feb 2014 10:55:39 +, Mick wrote: I have a couple of binary packages in a box under /usr/portage/packages that I no longer need. How can I selectively remove one or some of them only? rm -- Neil Bothwick What do you call a dead bee? - A was. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove a single binary package

2014-02-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/02/2014 12:55, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have a couple of binary packages in a box under /usr/portage/packages that I no longer need. How can I selectively remove one or some of them only? qpkg -c www-client/chromium or eclean packages nukes the lot. man eclean the

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2014-02-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-19 11:22 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: vmware-tools: I have tested open-vm-tools but now I'm running my VMs without them because every kernel upgrade was a real pain in a**. Jarry - can you elaborate on this? I'm trying to see why updating the kernel would be a problem, as

Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove a single binary package

2014-02-01 Thread Mick
On Saturday 01 Feb 2014 12:33:33 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/02/2014 12:55, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have a couple of binary packages in a box under /usr/portage/packages that I no longer need. How can I selectively remove one or some of them only? qpkg -c www-client/chromium

[gentoo-user] open-vm-tools: seems to be working but...

2014-02-01 Thread Tanstaafl
I'm getting an error I start it, but it says it starts: dinkumthinkum : Sat Feb 01, 09:52:46 : ~ # /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start * /tmp/VMwareDnD: correcting mode * /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint: creating directory * checkpath: mkdir: No such file or directory * Mounting vmblock ... mount:

Re: [gentoo-user] open-vm-tools: seems to be working but...

2014-02-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/01/2014 07:13 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm getting an error I start it, but it says it starts: dinkumthinkum : Sat Feb 01, 09:52:46 : ~ # /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start * /tmp/VMwareDnD: correcting mode * /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint: creating directory * checkpath: mkdir: No such

[gentoo-user] The latest java plugin is a giant PITA

2014-02-01 Thread walt
I admit that Oracle finally did something right by requiring a white-list of all java websites you want to use, but it's taken me all morning to understand how to do it. AFAICT, the only way to white-list a website is to use the Java Control Panel (jcontrol) and type the full URL including the

Re: [gentoo-user] open-vm-tools: seems to be working but...

2014-02-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-02-01 10:45 AM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/01/2014 07:13 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm getting an error I start it, but it says it starts: dinkumthinkum : Sat Feb 01, 09:52:46 : ~ # /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start * /tmp/VMwareDnD: correcting mode *

Re: [gentoo-user] The latest java plugin is a giant PITA

2014-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, February 1, 2014 16:59, walt wrote: I admit that Oracle finally did something right by requiring a white-list of all java websites you want to use, but it's taken me all morning to understand how to do it. AFAICT, the only way to white-list a website is to use the Java Control Panel

[gentoo-user] Re: The latest java plugin is a giant PITA

2014-02-01 Thread walt
On 02/01/2014 10:30 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sat, February 1, 2014 16:59, walt wrote: I admit that Oracle finally did something right by requiring a white-list of all java websites you want to use, but it's taken me all morning to understand how to do it. AFAICT, the only way to white-list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove a single binary package

2014-02-01 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Saturday 01 Feb 2014 12:33:33 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/02/2014 12:55, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have a couple of binary packages in a box under /usr/portage/packages that I no longer need. How can I selectively remove one or some of them only? qpkg -c www-client/chromium

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-02-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-17 11:57 AM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/17/2014 05:10 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: One major reason is open-vm-tools requires modules to be enabled in the kernel, and . But... does NUT require modules? Or can I just compile in whatever I need? I generally have always run my

Re: [gentoo-user] open-vm-tools: seems to be working but...

2014-02-01 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2014-02-01 10:45 AM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/01/2014 07:13 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm getting an error I start it, but it says it starts: dinkumthinkum : Sat Feb 01, 09:52:46 : ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] The latest java plugin is a giant PITA

2014-02-01 Thread Stroller
On Sat, 1 February 2014, at 6:30 pm, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: ... If there is a better way, please let me know. The IPMI of my servers use a Java application to allow me to see the console. Not Dell DRACs, by any chance? I thought of them when I saw Walt's original posting

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-02-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/01/2014 05:05 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Coming back to this now... Is there a list of all kernel modules that need to be installed for open-vm-tools? Nope, but here's a list (through trial and error): General setup --- -*- Namespaces support --- [ ] User namespace (This needs to