Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

[gentoo-user] Re: Dynamically change PORTAGE_TMPDIR via bashrc?

2015-09-26 Thread James
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
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: > >> >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dynamically change PORTAGE_TMPDIR via bashrc?

2015-09-26 Thread Rich Freeman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] CMYK comparison to sRGB between platforms

2015-09-26 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-26 Thread Rich Freeman
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)

[gentoo-user] Re: Dynamically change PORTAGE_TMPDIR via bashrc?

2015-09-26 Thread James
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'

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-26 Thread lee
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

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-26 Thread lee
"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 >> >> >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo as a xen guest

2015-09-26 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
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

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo as a xen guest

2015-09-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
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

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo as a xen guest: installing grub

2015-09-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
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

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] how to solve this dependency problem?

2015-09-26 Thread lee
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

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-26 Thread lee
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

[gentoo-user] Dynamically change PORTAGE_TMPDIR via bashrc?

2015-09-26 Thread Florian Gamböck
(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