Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync kde-base/

2009-01-27 Thread AllenJB
. eclasses, related packages in other categories) that you'll also want to make sure are up-to-date. AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] Network access to mysql

2009-01-28 Thread AllenJB
Peter Humphrey wrote: Afternoon all, I have mysql running on my workstation and on my local server, and I want to connect as an ordinary user from the workstation to the server; I can't. This is what happens: $ mysql -p -h serv.ethnet Enter password: ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu ?

2009-02-02 Thread AllenJB
. [0] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml AllenJB Grant wrote: I'm installing Gentoo on an Acer Aspire 110. It's one of the netbook laptops. /etc/make.conf says: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu Is that correct? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LANG/LC_ALL to html

2009-02-06 Thread AllenJB
to use while LC_ALL usually specifies the locale settings (things like what format do you want long numbers in) software should use. AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] ezmlm

2009-02-07 Thread AllenJB
at ezmlm-idx, which appears to be an at least somewhat active project that has maintained (a patch set for) ezmlm. My recommendation would be to find an actively maintained replacement (and for qmail too, while you're at it) AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with e2fsprogs

2009-02-22 Thread AllenJB
was not merged due to file collisions. Please post the complete message (ie. the complete list of file collisions). I have no idea what to do now. I googled, but didn't see anything relevant. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Colleen AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread AllenJB
are specified in the /etc/portage/sets.conf file (doesn't exist by default). AllenJB Dale wrote: Hi I'm wanting to experiment a little with the new sets feature of portage. I have searched around the forums, even looked at gentoo wiki and read a few man pages. I can not find a good link

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread AllenJB
, the same way everything else goes), this removes any ambiguity. AllenJB Dale wrote: Hi I'm wanting to experiment a little with the new sets feature of portage. I have searched around the forums, even looked at gentoo wiki and read a few man pages. I can not find a good link to a how to for sets

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with e2fsprogs

2009-02-23 Thread AllenJB
CJoeB wrote: AllenJB wrote: CJoeB wrote: On step 3, e2fsprogs-libs emerged fine, but at the end of the emerge of e2fsprogs, the emerge bombed and I got a message saying that e2progs was not merged due to file collisions. Please post the complete message (ie. the complete list of file

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the Monthly newsletter no more?

2009-03-03 Thread AllenJB
Grant Edwards wrote: Has the monthtly newletter been discontinued, or is it just no longer being archived at http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/? This is probably more likely to be answered if you send it to the -project mailing list. AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the Monthly newsletter no more?

2009-03-04 Thread AllenJB
KH wrote: AllenJB schrieb: Grant Edwards wrote: Has the monthtly newletter been discontinued, or is it just no longer being archived at http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/? This is probably more likely to be answered if you send it to the -project mailing list. AllenJB Hi, please let us

Re: [gentoo-user] getting digest verification failed when emerging bittorrent

2009-03-08 Thread AllenJB
in the ebuild appear to work, but to not correctly install the package. AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerge

2009-03-18 Thread AllenJB
filed a bug to resolve the issue: http://bugs.gentoo.org/262899 AllenJB ThrepwooD wrote: I'm trying to emerge apache, and I always get this error: # emerge apache Calculating dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild manifests Starting parallel fetch Emerging (1 of 15) perl-core/Sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? - snippage

2009-03-25 Thread AllenJB
Can you ALL please take this off-topic conversation off list. This is a general support list used by many users of a wide range of experience, therefore you can not expect to be able to enforce any standards, either way. In addition, please keep language clean on this list. AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] reload etc conf files

2009-03-30 Thread AllenJB
they are run. You DO NOT generally need to reboot to make sure config changes are correctly loaded. This is not Windows. You just need to read the documentation for the software involved. AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

2009-04-06 Thread AllenJB
builds, death of the installer project), there's been no call for a new profile. AllenJB James wrote: hello, When I type 'eselect profile list' I only see 2008 options. Is there no 2009 profile yet, or am I remiss in my admin details? If it is late, then any ideas on when the 2009 profiles

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

2009-04-06 Thread AllenJB
stage 3, then updated to the latest stable packages at the time the stage was autobuilt. There's no difference to an old style stable install, except you have less updating to do (which means less potential issues). AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread AllenJB
The list admins have been notified - you can track the issue at https://bugs.gentoo.org/267740 AllenJB zhen wrote: Hi. It seems that somebody has started autoresponder for his email. And now it is replying to it's own replies to lists once an hour. It seems like an endless mail loop

Re: [gentoo-user] AUTO: Martin Sc hrodi ist außer Haus.

2009-04-28 Thread AllenJB
Please don't complain about top posting on this list. This is a public support list with no enforced rules regarding top posting. If you don't like top posting: Tough. (See also the many times this has been discussed previously, with the same conclusion) AllenJB KH wrote: Daniel de

Re: [gentoo-user] AUTO: Martin Sc hrodi ist außer Haus.

2009-04-28 Thread AllenJB
The problem is that there's no consensus. I top post because I think it's much more sensible. Others think otherwise. I live with it. It's the people who refuse to live with differences of opinion that are the real problem. AllenJB Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:17:36 +0100

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread AllenJB
From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is not present in any previous version. Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!) AllenJB KH wrote: Hi, I am searching for the opposite of emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: Munin Monitor

2009-05-05 Thread AllenJB
Paul Littlefield wrote: On 03/05/09 Allen Brooker wrote: I've given you access to the web view at https://admin.apserver.co.uk/munin Username: paully Password: bigj1gs Nope, this does not let me in :-( Try again now. server2.bigjigs.co.uk is currently resolving to my server, so you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Munin Monitor

2009-05-05 Thread AllenJB
Thanks to those who notified me of this erroneous posting. Obviously the passwords have now been changed. I have absolutely no idea why Thunderbird decided to send that mail to the gentoo-user list. Perhaps it's time I changed my preferred email client! AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding slotting of KTorrent

2008-12-09 Thread AllenJB
on this - see http://bugs.gentoo.org/250279 for the response AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dispatch-conf problem

2009-01-01 Thread AllenJB
is: diff old-file new-file You may prefer the -u option: diff -u old new Or, in the package of the same name, colordiff: colordiff -u old new There are also graphical diff tools (eg. kompare) AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage

2009-01-10 Thread AllenJB
a core piece of the mozilla framework, on which firefox is built, called xulrunner has been split out from the firefox package. This will help to avoid issues in the future and allow for faster upgrades. This change should get all applications using firefox 3 instead of firefox 2. AllenJB econti

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage

2009-01-11 Thread AllenJB
Fernando Antunes wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:03 AM, econti contiemi...@alice.it mailto:contiemi...@alice.it wrote: AllenJB ha scritto: cut On to your next issue where 2 versions of firefox are being pulled in. First of all you need to remove the package.mask

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update

2009-06-30 Thread AllenJB
it in some way? (Please, don't ask me to uninstall kdebase :-) ) Thank you, Massimiliano The monolithic packages are obsolete - please switch to split packages: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde-split-ebuilds.xml AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages in other architectures (arm)

2009-08-05 Thread AllenJB
no need to edit an ebuild. You can add the package to package.keywords with ** as the keyword. AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' .. moved?

2010-04-24 Thread AllenJB
to issues with dependencies and patches. The most sensible route would be to upgrade your webapps to support PHP5 (it shouldn't be the hard and you'll gain security and probably performance from doing so). AllenJB