Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Problems emerging world on new machine

2020-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 23:14:36 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > > You seem to be missing a dash on --deep, which has the unfortunate > > consequence of being parsed as -d -e -e -p instead. -d enables debug > > mode (hence the ludicrously long output), and -e is short for > > --emptytree which is almost

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Problems emerging world on new machine

2020-12-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 05:51:56PM -0800, cal wrote > On 12/21/20 5:33 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > >I'm trying to update world on a new install. I can emerge the > > occasional app like syslog-ng or whatever following the Gentoo install > > manual. But when I try to update world, all hell

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging world on new machine

2020-12-21 Thread cal
On 12/21/20 5:33 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >I'm trying to update world on a new install. I can emerge the > occasional app like syslog-ng or whatever following the Gentoo install > manual. But when I try to update world, all hell breaks loose. > Appended output from... > > emerge -p

[gentoo-user] Problems emerging world on new machine

2020-12-21 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm trying to update world on a new install. I can emerge the occasional app like syslog-ng or whatever following the Gentoo install manual. But when I try to update world, all hell breaks loose. Appended output from... emerge -p --changed-use -deep --update @world > /dev/shm/log.txt 2>&1

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

2020-12-21 Thread antlists
On 21/12/2020 12:53, Dale wrote: Somewhat related.  I googled and it appears I can hook a NAS to my router and share it there.  The router is 1GB, it has yellow ports.  Is it true that I can hook a NAS to the router? I think my router has 4 yellow and 1 red port. The yellow ports are, i

Re: [gentoo-user] sci-electronics/ngspice-27-r1 missing tcl

2020-12-21 Thread Jack
On 2020.12.21 14:42, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Neil Bothwick: > On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:30:47 +0100 (CET), k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > > What can I do to make ./configure below use the suggested option ? > > > > sci-electronics/ngspice-27-r1's build log contains: > > > > checking for

Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi on old Thinkpad

2020-12-21 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 13:21 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Is wpa-supplicant a good idea? That's what the handbook recommends, but I > think I remember > something like wicd being better. It depends on your needs. If you're only going to connect to one or two networks, using wpa_supplicant and

Re: [gentoo-user] sci-electronics/ngspice-27-r1 missing tcl

2020-12-21 Thread karl
Neil Bothwick: > On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:30:47 +0100 (CET), k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > > What can I do to make ./configure below use the suggested option ? > > > > sci-electronics/ngspice-27-r1's build log contains: > > > > checking for tclConfig.sh... > > can't find Tcl configuration script

Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi on old Thinkpad

2020-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:21:59 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > What does the team think is the best way to get WiFi going? Is > wpa-supplicant a good idea? That's what the handbook recommends, but I > think I remember something like wicd being better. Last time I looked, wicd was dead with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WiFi on old Thinkpad

2020-12-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 21 December 2020 15:08:20 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-12-21, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > What does the team think is the best way to get WiFi going? Is > > wpa-supplicant a good idea? > > I've never used anything else. > > > That's what the handbook recommends, but I think I

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] How do I remove pam during/after an install.

2020-12-21 Thread Michael
On Monday, 21 December 2020 04:34:22 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 09:19:33PM -0500, John Covici wrote > > > OK, pardon my ignorance, what is wrong with pam? Aside from the fact > > that when you change versions you have to reboot or restart just about > > everything. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I report a bad distfiles server?

2020-12-21 Thread Dale
Daniel Frey wrote: > On 12/21/20 6:09 AM, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I've been running into this a while now.  It seems one server is no >> longer hosting, is broken or something and it results in wasted time as >> it attempts to use it and retries many times.  The server is >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I report a bad distfiles server?

2020-12-21 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/21/20 6:09 AM, Dale wrote: Howdy, I've been running into this a while now.  It seems one server is no longer hosting, is broken or something and it results in wasted time as it attempts to use it and retries many times.  The server is gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com.  I just removed it from

[gentoo-user] Re: WiFi on old Thinkpad

2020-12-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-12-21, Peter Humphrey wrote: > What does the team think is the best way to get WiFi going? Is > wpa-supplicant a good idea? I've never used anything else. > That's what the handbook recommends, but I think I remember > something like wicd being better. Better how? -- Grant

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] make broken on kernel 5.4.66-gentoo kernel

2020-12-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 02:07:05PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote > Did you cleanup first? > > run "make mrproper", the unpack your saved config then run "make oldconfig". Thank you; that was it. The build is now humming along. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run

[gentoo-user] Should I report a bad distfiles server?

2020-12-21 Thread Dale
Howdy, I've been running into this a while now.  It seems one server is no longer hosting, is broken or something and it results in wasted time as it attempts to use it and retries many times.  The server is gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com.  I just removed it from make.conf so that I don't run into

Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi on old Thinkpad

2020-12-21 Thread Michael
On Monday, 21 December 2020 13:21:59 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Afternoon all, > > I'm reviving a somewhat elderly Thinkpad T61, installing from scratch after > wiping out the old Windows XP setup. It has an Intel core-2 CPU. > > What does the team think is the best way to get WiFi going? Is >

[gentoo-user] WiFi on old Thinkpad

2020-12-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
Afternoon all, I'm reviving a somewhat elderly Thinkpad T61, installing from scratch after wiping out the old Windows XP setup. It has an Intel core-2 CPU. What does the team think is the best way to get WiFi going? Is wpa-supplicant a good idea? That's what the handbook recommends, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

2020-12-21 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 06:20:28PM -0600 schrieb Dale: >> Howdy, >> >> Somewhat related.  I googled and it appears I can hook a NAS to my >> router and share it there.  The router is 1GB, it has yellow ports.  Is >> it true that I can hook a NAS to the router? > Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

2020-12-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 03:19:08AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > > Something to look into before going the traditional raid/nfs route: > > moosefs or lizardfs.  I am using arm based odroid HC2's and over the > > softraid based nfs I was using there are considerable power savings > > (especially if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

2020-12-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 06:20:28PM -0600 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > > Somewhat related.  I googled and it appears I can hook a NAS to my > router and share it there.  The router is 1GB, it has yellow ports.  Is > it true that I can hook a NAS to the router? Maybe they meant that the router itself

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

2020-12-21 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: > On 21/12/20 8:20 am, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Somewhat related.  I googled and it appears I can hook a NAS to my >> router and share it there.  The router is 1GB, it has yellow ports.  Is >> it true that I can hook a NAS to the router?  I'd assume it can be >> shared

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended location of the Gentoo ebuild repository

2020-12-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 20 December 2020 17:16:53 GMT Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 16 December 2020 15:41:11 GMT Dale wrote: > >> This is true. Where can be set in make.conf and > >> /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf. > > > > I thought that setting this in make.conf was frowned on