Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e and --resume

On 01/05/18 18:50, allan gottlieb wrote: On Fri, Jan 05 2018, Daniel Frey wrote: On 01/05/18 13:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:00:20 -0500, allan gottlieb wrote: I am finally moving my production machine the the 17.0 profile. Currently running is emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e and --resume

On Fri, Jan 05 2018, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:00:20 -0500, allan gottlieb wrote: > >> I am finally moving my production machine the the 17.0 profile. >> Currently running is >> >> emerge -e --keep-going @world >> >> So far there is one failure (libcryptui, the fix is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching from Seamonkey to Firefox and Thunderbird

Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-01-05 17:02, Dale wrote: > >> I may just have to find a new password tool to use. LastPass did all >> I wanted and then some but since it no longer works in Seamonkey, I've >> got to find something that will. > Here are some things to be aware of: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Expect a ~15% average slowdown if you use an Intel processor

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 7:26 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >> > So, HAVE_EBPF_JIT=y just means that BPF JIT _can_ be done on x86. There >> > is a separate BPF_JIT setting to actually enable it. >> >> Well, that doesn't seem to be present here. Just the HAVE_ symbol. > > > Careful,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spectre and Meltdown summary

Here's a nice non-expert explanation of Meltdown https://medium.com/@pwnallthethings/time-travelling-exploits-with-meltdown-1189548f1e1d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Expect a ~15% average slowdown if you use an Intel processor

> > > So, HAVE_EBPF_JIT=y just means that BPF JIT _can_ be done on x86. There > > is a separate BPF_JIT setting to actually enable it. > > Well, that doesn't seem to be present here. Just the HAVE_ symbol. Careful, there's BPF and EBPF. $ zgrep BPF /proc/config.gz CONFIG_CGROUP_BPF=y

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching from Seamonkey to Firefox and Thunderbird

On 2018-01-05 17:02, Dale wrote: > I may just have to find a new password tool to use. LastPass did all > I wanted and then some but since it no longer works in Seamonkey, I've > got to find something that will. Here are some things to be aware of: https://github.com/IJHack/QtPass/issues/338

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching from Seamonkey to Firefox and Thunderbird

Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-01-05 15:04, Dale wrote: > >> Without this, I'll have to copy and paste all the links I want to >> open. That is just not a good option. No matter which way I go, >> something is broken. > You can write a script that takes the contents of the clipboard [1], >

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching from Seamonkey to Firefox and Thunderbird

On 2018-01-05 15:04, Dale wrote: > Without this, I'll have to copy and paste all the links I want to > open. That is just not a good option. No matter which way I go, > something is broken. You can write a script that takes the contents of the clipboard [1], possibly makes sure it is a valid

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e and --resume

On 01/05/18 13:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:00:20 -0500, allan gottlieb wrote: I am finally moving my production machine the the 17.0 profile. Currently running is emerge -e --keep-going @world So far there is one failure (libcryptui, the fix is easy). Am I correct

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e and --resume

On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:00:20 -0500, allan gottlieb wrote: > I am finally moving my production machine the the 17.0 profile. > Currently running is > > emerge -e --keep-going @world > > So far there is one failure (libcryptui, the fix is easy). > > Am I correct that when the above emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Seamonkey to Firefox and Thunderbird

On 01/05/2018 12:07 PM, Dale wrote: On 01/05/2018 10:55 AM, Mick wrote: This should help: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Changing_the_web_browser_invoked_by_Thunderbird It does to a point at least.  Thing is, I have multiple profiles and when it asks me which profile and I pick one, if it is

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

On 2018-01-05, Dale wrote: > Yea, sometimes people think everything is ready when some are not. One > would think the more used packages would be noticed tho. Guess not. The iso-codes case is probably unique in that it actually fails to build. The cups brokennes is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

On 01/05/2018 02:02 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2018-01-05, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2018-01-05, Grant Edwards wrote: Is this related: https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2016-06-23-l10n-use_expand.html I don't know. I read that

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

On 2018-01-05, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-01-05, Grant Edwards wrote: > >>> Is this related: >>> >>> https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2016-06-23-l10n-use_expand.html >> >> I don't know. I read that news item and followed its

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

On 2018-01-05, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Is this related: >> >> https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2016-06-23-l10n-use_expand.html > > I don't know. I read that news item and followed its instructions at > the time. My make conf contains: > > LINGUAS="en en_US"

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

On 2018-01-05, Dale wrote: > On 01/05/2018 12:53 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I tried to update today using my normal "emerge --sync; emerge -auvND >> world" sequence and it's failing when it gets to iso-codes: >> > Emerging (1 of 1) app-text/iso-codes-3.75::gentoo >>

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

On 2018-01-05, Grant Edwards wrote: > I tried to update today using my normal "emerge --sync; emerge -auvND > world" sequence and it's failing when it gets to iso-codes: [...] > I haven't changed LINGUAS or L10N for ages, but I've noticed that > suddely other

Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

On 01/05/2018 12:53 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: I tried to update today using my normal "emerge --sync; emerge -auvND world" sequence and it's failing when it gets to iso-codes: Emerging (1 of 1) app-text/iso-codes-3.75::gentoo * iso-codes-3.75.tar.xz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Expect a ~15% average slowdown if you use an Intel processor

On Friday, 5 January 2018 18:04:10 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-01-05 11:10, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Symbol: HAVE_EBPF_JIT [=y] > > │ > > │ Type : boolean > > │ Defined at net/Kconfig:436 > > │ Selected by: X86 [=y] && X86_64 [=y] > > > > So it's on, like it or not. This is kernel

[gentoo-user] LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

I tried to update today using my normal "emerge --sync; emerge -auvND world" sequence and it's failing when it gets to iso-codes: >>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-text/iso-codes-3.75::gentoo * iso-codes-3.75.tar.xz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Seamonkey to Firefox and Thunderbird

On 01/05/2018 10:55 AM, Mick wrote: This should help: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Changing_the_web_browser_invoked_by_Thunderbird It does to a point at least. Thing is, I have multiple profiles and when it asks me which profile and I pick one, if it is already open I get the error that

[gentoo-user] Re: Expect a ~15% average slowdown if you use an Intel processor

On 2018-01-05 11:10, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Symbol: HAVE_EBPF_JIT [=y] > > │ > │ Type : boolean > │ Defined at net/Kconfig:436 > │ Selected by: X86 [=y] && X86_64 [=y] >

[gentoo-user] emerge -e and --resume

I am finally moving my production machine the the 17.0 profile. Currently running is emerge -e --keep-going @world So far there is one failure (libcryptui, the fix is easy). Am I correct that when the above emerge completes, I should run simply emerge --resume Thanks, allan PS in

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Seamonkey to Firefox and Thunderbird

On Friday, 5 January 2018 16:39:49 GMT Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > [[[SNIP]]] > > > > Has anyone moved from Seamonkey to Thunderbird recently? Anyone know of > > a howto that I missed? Anyone know of a reason this just won't work? > > > > Thanks much. > > > > Dale > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Seamonkey to Firefox and Thunderbird

Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > [[[SNIP]]] > > Has anyone moved from Seamonkey to Thunderbird recently?  Anyone know of > a howto that I missed?  Anyone know of a reason this just won't work? > > Thanks much.  > > Dale > > :-)  :-)  > After no one replied, I figured either no one ever did this or it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: old kernels are installed during the upgrade

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 7:34 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I wonder if it's possible to compile a web browser with protection > against the exploits, but turn it off for other apps. That would > protect against external attacks, while not hurting local app speed. > There

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: old kernels are installed during the upgrade

The most heavily exposed application will be your web browser. It runs various foreign code directly on your machine... * web assembler * java * javascript * ecmascript (part of Adobe Flash) I wonder if it's possible to compile a web browser with protection against the exploits, but turn it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Expect a ~15% average slowdown if you use an Intel processor

On Friday, 5 January 2018 01:18:23 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > I believe CONFIG_HAVE_EBPF_JIT isn't actually modifiable via make > config - it is a dependency and I think it is there to indicate > whether the feature is supported (maybe it is arch-specific, or there > is some complex rule for it

Re: [gentoo-user] Expect a ~15% average slowdown if you use an Intel processor

Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Jalus Bilieyich wrote: > > Is my Pentium D from 2007 affected? > > > > Any Intel x86 chip after and including the Pentium Pro should be > affected. That came out in 1995. The Pentium D is almost