On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 20:16:09 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Portage can't unwind the most recent merges so you have to rely on a
> side-effect - hoping that portage will notice your package of X isn't in
> the current tree then will downgrade it to one that is.
You can use app-portage/demerge for
On 26/09/2015 18:47, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> The other one is portage snapshots.
>> >
>> > That sounds like something I should learn about.
> See above re backups, it's just a tarball of the portage tree.
Just beware of one thing. Syncing the tree and then *using* it is often
a one-way street
On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:10:48 +0200, lee wrote:
> It seems that everyone has the problem that some versions of some
> packages don't go together with some versions of other packages the
> 'some versions of some packages' depend on.
That's just life, and 99% of th time it either doesn't matter or i
Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes:
> One thing that both zfs and bcachefs seem to be doing (not that I'm in
> an expert in either) is taking a multi-tiered approach to storage.
> That is, writes can go into a durable log on a separate device and
> then be consolidated onto more long-term storage.
On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:51:07 +0200, lee wrote:
> + need to rebuild (large) packages (like libreoffice) which I expect to
> be upgraded and thus get rebuilt later anyway (to keep the package
> management happy because it cannot figure this out for us and give us
> a choice to upgrade these (l
On Saturday, September 26, 2015 03:10:48 PM lee wrote:
> "J. Roeleveld" writes:
> > On Sunday 20 September 2015 16:25:34 lee wrote:
> >> Alan McKinnon writes:
> >> > On 19/09/2015 21:36, lee wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> how could I solve these updating problems:
> >> >>
>
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 10:08 AM, James wrote:
> Florian Gamböck floga.de> writes:
>> Now, before I try some crazy stunts like bind-mounting $D and $ED on
>> "preinst"
>> and cleaning up in "postinst", I wanted to know if some of you guys did
>> similar experiments and/or have some advice that y
On Thursday 10 Sep 2015 22:07:44 waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > On the same hardware I noticed that a CMYK photograph converted to
> > sRGB looked mostly the same (indistinguishable) on Linux, but the
> > sRGB colours were brighter on MSWindows.
> >
> > I tried this by dual booting b
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 9:51 AM, lee wrote:
> |
> | (dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> pulled in by
> | (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot)
> |
> | (dev-libs/boost-1.55.0-r2:0/1.55.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
Florian Gamböck floga.de> writes:
> Now, before I try some crazy stunts like bind-mounting $D and $ED on "preinst"
> and cleaning up in "postinst", I wanted to know if some of you guys did
> similar experiments and/or have some advice that you could share with me.
I have been following 'bcache'
Rich Freeman writes:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 1:24 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> On Sunday 20 September 2015 16:25:34 lee wrote:
>>> So I decided I'd better ask what to do. It's hard to believe that we
>>> are seriously expected to remove lots of software which we might not be
>>> able to install
"J. Roeleveld" writes:
> On Sunday 20 September 2015 16:25:34 lee wrote:
>> Alan McKinnon writes:
>> > On 19/09/2015 21:36, lee wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> how could I solve these updating problems:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> emerge -j 8 -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world
>> >>
>> >>
Den 26. sep. 2015 14:00, skrev J. Roeleveld:
>
>> Depending on your hardware you will want to use hvm or pvm for
>> efficiency. (VT-x means hvm is more efficient).
> What do you base this on?
> Without VT-x, HVM doesn't even work, which means PV is only option.
I stand corrected :/ .
I'l refrain f
On Thursday, September 24, 2015 03:33:28 PM Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
> Den 24. sep. 2015 14:53, skrev Rich Freeman:
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 6:05 AM, hw wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm installing Gentoo as a xen PV guest. Do I need to install a
> >> bootloader
> >> like grub, or should I rather
On Friday, September 25, 2015 01:11:53 PM hw wrote:
> grub2-install /dev/xvda
> Installing for i386-pc platform.
> grub2-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding.
> grub2-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be
> installed in this setup by using blocklis
On 26/09/2015 11:47, lee wrote:
> Rich Freeman writes:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Alan McKinnon
>> wrote:
>>> On 19/09/2015 21:36, lee wrote:
dev-libs/boost:0
(dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
pulled in by
(no
Peter Humphrey writes:
> On Sunday 22 February 2015 00:35:59 lee wrote:
>
>> how would I solve this dependency problem:
>>
>> media-libs/openjpeg:2
>>
>> (media-libs/openjpeg-2.1.0:2/7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>> conflicts with > (app-text/mupdf-1.3_p20140118:0/1.3::gentoo, instal
Rich Freeman writes:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Alan McKinnon
> wrote:
>> On 19/09/2015 21:36, lee wrote:
>>>
>>> dev-libs/boost:0
>>>
>>> (dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>>> pulled in by
>>> (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packa
(This is my third E-Mail and I hope this time it gets through. Sorry to the
sysadmins if I caused you trouble with my rejected mails, I'm still trying to
get used to Mutt.)
Greetings,
let me quickly explain my setup: I use BTRFS snapshots and chroot to create
binaries of upgradeable packages with
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