Greetings,
On Wednesday, 2022-03-09 19:28:49 +0100, I myself wrote:
> ...
> until recently my system behaves sort of strangely:
>
>$ touch /tmp/file
>$ ls -l /tmp/file
>-rw--- 1 rainer rainer 0 2022-03-09 19:06 /tmp/file
>$ echo x | sudo tee /tmp/file
>Password:
>
Greetings,
On Wednesday, 2022-03-09 19:28:49 +0100, I myself wrote:
> ...
>$ touch /tmp/file
>$ ls -l /tmp/file
>-rw--- 1 rainer rainer 0 2022-03-09 19:06 /tmp/file
>$ echo x | sudo tee /tmp/file
>Password:
>tee: /tmp/file: Permission denied
>x
>$ ...
>$
Nikos,
On Thursday, 2022-03-10 12:21:36 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> Are you sure that:
>
> sysctl fs.protected_regular=0
>
> does not help? I can reproduce it here on my system with kernel 5.15.27,
> and setting that sysctl to 0 fixes it immediately.
No, I'm not at all sure. Since you
Nikos,
On Thursday, 2022-03-17 19:04:04 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> I don't use fetchmail (just an email client), but fetchmail 7 apparently
> supports oauth2. It's masked in portage because it's still alpha
> (net-mail/fetchmail-7.0.0_alpha9-r1).
>
> And then read:
>
>
Greetings,
until recently my system behaves sort of strangely:
$ touch /tmp/file
$ ls -l /tmp/file
-rw--- 1 rainer rainer 0 2022-03-09 19:06 /tmp/file
$ echo x | sudo tee /tmp/file
Password:
tee: /tmp/file: Permission denied
x
$ chmod a+w /tmp/file
$ ls -l
Wol,
On Sunday, 2022-02-20 14:56:20 +, you wrote:
> ...
>But --deep - that's to do
> with a dependency changing USE flags, and it will block a depclean if
> you don't do it.
Thanks for the reminder! This is in fact mentioned in every output
Greetings,
since the output of "emerge -a" might be long, and since on a stock con-
sole you cannot scroll, I had the idea of piping it into "tee", and in
case I'm unsure just to say "No" to the question of whether or not I
would like to merge these packages and then to inspect the "emerge"
Rich,
On Thursday, 2022-02-24 07:10:10 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
> Wouldn't it be more appropriate to use -p in this case, which will
> require no input?
Running "emerge -p ..." followed by "emerge ..." without "-p" would run
the dependency analysis twice for EVERY package update. Using a
John,
On Thursday, 2022-02-24 09:59:50 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
> I use script for that purpose and it works great, the output is
> complete and I can just say no and its all there.
Nice idea. However, I'd like to keep things as simple as possible, be-
cause an important usecase for me is
Arve,
On Friday, 2022-02-25 10:15:18 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> I'm guessing any proposed solution would fail when what you want to
> capture has an interactive component like this.
I think "fail" is the wrong word here. My own scripts send such quest-
ions to the same device they retrieve
Greetings,
some time back it was pointed out on this list to only use "--changed-
use" rather than "--newuse". So I've meanwhile removed this option (and
also a few others) from my update script which I had created early after
installing Gentoo. It now basically runs
$ sudo emerge --ask
Er ...
On Monday, 2022-02-21 11:13:16 +0100, I myself wrote:
> ...
> But what
> about "--changed-deps"? Can nobody on this list explain what it really
> is or isn't good for, or when to use or not to use it?
Apart from a
Thanks, Michael,
On Tuesday, 2022-02-22 10:05:06 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
> It's really a (portage-only) workaround for developers who don't follow
> the rules, thus ensuring that we'll never have another competing
> package manager again.
So for people like me, neither being a developer nor
Greetings,
On Friday, 2022-03-18 11:50:33 +0100, I myself wrote:
> Nikos,
>
> On Thursday, 2022-03-17 19:04:04 +0200, you wrote:
>
> > ...
> > http://mmogilvi.users.sourceforge.net/software/oauthbearer.html
> > ...
>
> Really interesting reading. Thanks for the pointer. And also thanks to
>
Greetings,
are there any LibreOffice Calc experts on this list?
I have some "*.xlsx" files which were created with Excel under Windows.
These feature a "footer" line, which for instance compute the sums for
various columns. If you use Excel under Windows and insert a new row
before this
Dan,
On Sunday, 2022-04-10 13:06:46 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> In LO-Calc:
>
> Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice Calc -> General -> Input Settings -> "Expand
> references when new columns/rows are inserted"
Oops ... let me politely put it this way: apparently it was too late and
I was too tired
Stefan,
On Saturday, 2022-04-09 18:46:00 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> Excel automatically adjusts the formular to include the newly added line,
> while LibreCalc does not ... by default. However, there is
> a setting (Extras -> Optionen -> LibreOffice Calc -> Allgemein ->
> Eingabe-Einstellungen)
Jude,
On Friday, 2022-04-15 09:58:40 -0400, you wrote:
> after the LC_MESSAGES=C
> line, caught signal 2 exiting gets printed in the file.
Try LC_MESSAGES="C"
This is most probably read by Python rather than by a Shell.
Sincerely,
Rainer
Greetings,
since quite some time, longe before "converting" to Gentoo, I've used
"fetchmail" and "ssmtp" to retrieve and send mail via my Google account.
Some time after I had all set up, Google started nagging about my not-
so-secure access to my mail account via just userid and password.
Arve,
On Thursday, 2022-06-02 17:46:14 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> According to https://bugs.gentoo.org/841767 this could possibly be fixed
> for you by either activating the gusb USE flag, or de-activating the
> modemmanager USE flag.
Bingo! Activating the "gusb" USE flag did the trick! Many
Thelma,
On Thursday, 2022-07-07 23:13:47 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> ...
> By upgrading one of my system, I've just noticed this behaviour is enforced
> (I think) by new package that was pulled by emerge:
> [ebuild N] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-42.1 USE="pam ssh-agent (-selinux)
Thelma,
On Friday, 2022-07-08 10:20:12 -0600, you wrote:
> ...
> app-crypt/libsecret-0.20.5-r3 pulled in by:
> app-crypt/gcr-3.41.0 requires >=app-crypt/libsecret-0.20
>
> And "app-crypt/gcr" was an upgrade.
This does not happen with the stable version 3.40.0 of "app-crypt/gcr",
only
xWK,
On Sunday, 2022-07-10 10:56:18 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> There are however some version differences between FreeBSD and Gentoo.
>
> FreeBSD:
> $ gpg --version
> gpg (gnuPG) 2.3.3
> libgcrypt 1.9.4
> Copyright (c) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
>
> Gentoo:
> $ gpg --version
>
Neil,
On Tuesday, 2022-06-14 15:20:36 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> >https://getmail6.org/configuration.html#configuring
>
> Good point, it's that long since I set up getmail, I had to check if it
> was using IMAP or POP, and I'm using it with IMAP. Is there a reason you
> can't or won't use
Neil,
On Monday, 2022-06-13 20:20:46 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> > Anybody knowing about a replacement for "fetchmail" which provides daem-
> > on mode as well as POP and OAuth support, and also allows to directly
> > feed the fetched mails into "procmail"?
>
> net-mail/getmail
Do you know
Alan,
On Saturday, 2022-06-18 23:54:26 -0400, you wrote:
> ...
> At this point in time, if you have a problem, especially on linux, it is
> almost never the problem that existed before a penguin tried to solve it
> for you.
Perhaps Ubuntu would be your friend?
> ...
> Example:
>
> Old way:
>
Walter,
On Monday, 2022-06-13 09:42:39 -0400, you wrote:
> I started getting this today.
>
> fetchmail: Authorization failure on @pop.gmail.com
> fetchmail: For help, see http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#R15
> fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
See the thread with subject
Peter,
On Sunday, 2022-10-23 12:45:42 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> we have a wiki article for this:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel_Modules#Going_completely_.22module-less.22
When I built my first Gentoo system in 2019, the Handbook instructed to
build anything sound related as modules,
Greetings,
after it took about three hours to build "app-office/libreoffice" on my
laptop, I decided to pull the plug and install "app-office/libreoffice-
bin" instead. Installing this one only took some two minutes, and I was
happy.
But today I noticed that "app-office/libreoffice-bin" only
Neil,
On Sunday, 2022-07-31 21:43:12 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> I switched to using git for syncing, from github, and haven't looked
> back. It is *much* faster, several times faster syncing from github than
> using rsync to sync from a local mirror, and github is always there.
The replies from
Cal,
On Sunday, 2023-01-01 13:21:34 -0800, you wrote:
> ...
> You're right, it looks like the Thunderbird ebuild has a clang USE
> turned on by default;
On my rig "clang" and "llvm" used about 90 minutes each to build and af-
terwards often caused rebuilds for other packages which, too, took
Greetings,
after upgrading "xfce-base/xfce4-panel" from version 4.17.3 to 4.17.4 my
digital clock uses a tiny font which I cannot change. Whatever font and
font size I select in its "Property" dialog is ignored. It stubbornly
stays with "Sans Regular 8 px".
Searching the web did not turn up
Greetings,
On Tuesday, 2022-11-29 17:03:18 +0100, I myself wrote:
> ...
> after upgrading "xfce-base/xfce4-panel" from version 4.17.3 to 4.17.4 my
> digital clock uses a tiny font which I cannot change. Whatever font and
> font size I select in its "Property" dialog is ignored. It stubbornly
Dale,
On Friday, 2022-11-11 13:18:08 -0600, you wrote:
> ...
> I did build a new kernel from the old config and running make
> oldconfig.
Perhaps you should rather use
make olddefconfig
It tries not to just ignore any newly introduced configuration variables
but rather to provide
Paul,
On Thursday, 2022-11-17 17:52:17 +1100, you wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 16, 2022 6:11:18 P.M. AEDT Alan Grimes wrote:
> > ...
> >Usually I should wait six months just to save myself
> > the aggrivation...
>
> No, waiting 6 months between updates *causes*
Alan,
On Friday, 2022-11-25 16:40:11 +, you wrote:
> ...
> I have a problem, in that I need to join several PDFs or jpegs output
> from xsane (the scanner program) into a single document.
For joining PDFs I use "pdftk" from "app-text/pdftk".
Sincerely,
Rainer
Grant,
On Thursday, 2023-01-19 22:59:48 -0700, you wrote:
> ...
> I tried it a few times.
>
> I'd see mail log entries where the re-sent messages would fail the same
> way that the original sent message failed. :-/
Me too :-(
But isn't this changeable? It's a list maintained by
Greetings,
On Sunday, 2023-04-16 18:56:35 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 01:29:46AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> > When I installed Gentoo on my desktop PC, I could've sworn that I
> > selected...
> >
> > [15] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib (stable)
> >
> > ...as
Mitch,
On Sunday, 2023-04-16 07:16:09 -0400, you wrote:
> ...
> "grub-install" copies Grub from your Gentoo installation to your hard drive
> / SSD / etc. This has nothing to do with your kernel, it only involves
> Grub. Rerun this command when you emerge updates to Grub.
Is this really
Mitch,
On Monday, 2023-04-17 08:15:51 -0400, you wrote:
> I just took a quick glance at the ebuild, and it looks like it should print
> a reminder ("Re-run grub-install to update installed boot code!") every
> time you upgrade from an older version to a newer one, but it also looks
> like the
Netfab,
On Monday, 2023-04-17 13:49:57 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> Is the following file readable ?
>
> > $ ls -l $(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo)/profiles/profiles.desc
Yes:
$ ls -l $(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo)/profiles/profiles.desc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20443 2023-03-24 15:05
Netfab,
On Tuesday, 2023-04-18 19:23:08 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> Please post your emerge --info.
$ emerge --info
Portage 3.0.44 (python 3.10.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop,
gcc-12, glibc-2.36-r7, 6.1.19-gentoo x86_64)
Netfab,
On Friday, 2023-04-21 14:43:32 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> I do not see anything particular in your emerge --info.
> What is your eselect version ?
> > $ eselect --version
$ eselect --version
eselect 1.4.20
Copyright (c) 2005-2020 Gentoo Authors.
Distributed under the terms
Netfab,
On Friday, 2023-04-21 19:41:54 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> You should open a bug to explain that ARCH variable is already defined
> in your shell environment. As a consequence the results on the following
> commands are different :
Hm, I'm not at all sure this would qualify as a bug. A
Peter,
On Tuesday, 2023-05-02 15:04:54 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> Meanwhile, is it possible to set things up so that, say, qtwebengine is never
> compiled at the same time as anything else? I don't want to rely on my
> noticing and intervening, and besides, it isn't always possible just to
>
Dale,
On Thursday, 2023-04-20 17:36:23 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
> * Package: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-470.182.03:0/470
> * Repository: mine
Maybe I'm missing something, but as of today "x11-drivers/nvidia-dri-
vers" version 470.182.03 is still in the normal Gentoo tree. So why use
your
Peter,
On Tuesday, 2023-04-11 11:19:31 +0100, you wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 06:44:03 BST the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> > After update I get:
> > * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating.
> > ...
> /etc/mtab should be a symlink to /proc/self/mounts, so it ought to be kept
Neil,
On Tuesday, 2023-04-11 08:19:10 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> So now we kn ow, ChatGPT is case-insensitive, it gave you answers for -u
> and -n.
You aren't really flabbergasted, are you? After all Microsoft is known
for having a particularly soft spot for case-insensitiveness :-)
Greetings,
does anybody know about some command to convert shell globs (shell pat-
terns) into regular expressions? Back in the old Unix days there was a
"glob" command, but "e-files" only turns up a GNU library.
I am aware of Python's "fnmatch.translate()" function, but this -- of
course
Dale,
On Saturday, 2023-07-08 03:33:30 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
> I was wondering. Is there a way to highlight certain packages that are
> about to be upgraded? Example, I like to know when some larger packages
> like Firefox, LOo, that excessively long qt package and a couple others
> are
Steven,
On Wednesday, 2023-05-24 16:25:05 -0400, you wrote:
> I've re-loaded stage3 adm64 tarballs for a few weeks, keep
> failing due to SIGILL running tar & bzip2.
Commands "bzip2" or "bunzip2" are not made to uncompress "*.xz" files.
According to
Matt,
On Tuesday, 2023-06-06 10:31:01 -0400, you wrote:
> ...
> dev-util/otf2bdf is available in the 4nykey repository.
Thanks for the pointer. And also thanks to Grant for providing another
pointer.
> media-gfx/psftools is in the gentoo repository as far as I can see.
You are perfectly
Grant,
On Monday, 5 June 2023 16:51:51 BST you wrote:
> ...
> This package claims to be able to generate console fonts (.psfu) from
> TrueType fonts (.ttf) such as DejaVu mono:
>
> https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/repos/ttf-console-fonts/about/
This URL mentions three requirements:
-
Thelma,
On Monday, 2023-06-19 23:29:52 -0600, you wrote:
> Trying to send email via Google SMTP and postfix but getting authentication
> failed.
> ...
> The user and password are correct.
Starting at 2022-06-01 Google requires either an application password or
OAuth2 for logging in. Check the
Dale,
On Monday, 2023-05-15 11:35:33 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
> If you got a minute, what is the reason for split-log? What exactly
> does it split? I'm guessing this is new since I don't recall reading
> about it.
Under Gentoo each package has a name consisting of two parts: "category/
Dale,
On Monday, 2023-05-15 12:58:43 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
> Would this make using tab completion easier too? I ask because when I
> want to cat a error log file, tab completion gets difficult pretty
> quick.
At least the first part -- selecting the category directory -- should
become
Greetings,
skimming through "man make.conf" looking for something else I stumbled
upon
split-log
Store build logs in category subdirectories of
PORTAGE_LOGDIR/build, instead of using PORTAGE_LOGDIR di‐
rectly.
and I decided to give it a try. After
On Monday, 2023-05-15 15:39:57 +0200, I myself wrote:
> ...
>After adding "split-log" to variable
> "FEATURES" in file "make.conf" I updated a single small package, but the
> build log did not turn up anywhere, even though file "/var/log/emerge.
> log"
Greetings,
since a few month or so off and on my laptop fails to resume from hiber-
nation due to the "dirty bit" being set on the ext4 "/home" partition.
At least up to now this never happened when resuming from suspension.
Is my laptop just aging or did I miss some new "mount" option or
Philip,
On Wednesday, 2024-01-17 22:28:27 -0500, you wrote:
> I want to be able to download photos from my new cellphone to Gentoo.
If all else fails, you could use "adb" from package "dev-util/android-
tools". However, "adb" requires "USB Debugging" to be enabled on the
cell phone.
Greetings,
during my last routine upgrade package "media-video/vlc" installed new
dependency "media-libs/libmpg123". However, after installation "eix"
did not list the new package, while "eix-installed" did:
# eix-update --quiet
# env -i eix | grep -E
Arve,
On Sunday, 2024-01-07 19:43:31 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> running eix
> on its own by default only outputs 50 packages, so there's that.
Not here:
# env -i eix | grep -v : | grep -c /
24900
#
Where do you take this limit
Michael,
On Sunday, 2024-01-07 14:21:20 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
> I do have to follow up on this, the package was renamed,
Bingo! That's it. Soon after my last routine upgrade which installed
"media-video/vlc" version 3.0.20-r2 and its new dependency "media-libs/
libmpg123" I
Michael,
On Tuesday, 2023-11-28 10:13:56 +, you wrote:
> ...
> I suggested enabling the SPI modules because they are used by the CPU to
> communicate with various sensors, adjust clock frequency between components
> and thereafter to receive signals a/synchronously to control temperatures.
Michael,
On Wednesday, 2023-11-29 17:56:37 +, you wrote:
> ...
> It depends on the hardware, this is what I have enabled on an AMD MoBo:
>
> ~ $ grep SPI /usr/src/linux/.config
> ...
> CONFIG_SCSI_SPI_ATTRS=y
> CONFIG_SPI=y
> CONFIG_SPI_MASTER=y
> ...
> CONFIG_SPI_AMD=m
> ...
>
Wol,
On Tuesday, 2024-04-09 18:36:53 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> Btw, where are all the messages for packages stored? I ought to go
> through them and make sure there aren't any messages of interest...
My script for package installations or upgrades sets
begin=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z')
Grant,
On Tuesday, 2024-04-16 19:26:25 -, you wrote:
> ...
> That means that all gentoo-sources stable kernels are "longterm"
> kernel versions on kernel.org. It does not mean that all "longterm"
> kernel versions from kernel.org are available as "stable" in
> gentoo-sources.
>
> It is a
Grant,
On Wednesday, 2024-04-17 14:11:21 -, you wrote:
> ...
> If what you want is access to all upstream longeterm kernel versions,
> then you should be using sys-kernel/vanilla-sources.
I was not aware of this package. Excatly what could come in handy, if
everything else fails. Thank
Michael,
On Wednesday, 2024-04-17 10:10:56 +0100, you wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:26:25 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2024-04-16, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> > ...
> > > But, to get back to the beginning of this discussion: if there is a
> > > risk th
Greetings,
On Friday, 2024-01-05 18:46:09 +0100, I myself wrote:
> ...
> since a few month or so off and on my laptop fails to resume from hiber-
> nation due to the "dirty bit" being set on the ext4 "/home" partition.
I was reading this flickering by on the screen, and it wasn't quite cor-
Michael,
On Monday, 2024-04-15 12:48:34 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> Why have you set your /boot to be mounted at boot?
Well, I think, I then just followed the Gentoo Handbook. But I see your
point of saving time which could be better used to successfully unmount
the "/home/" partition. I'll
Michael,
On Tuesday, 2024-04-16 11:15:07 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> > But this brings up two related questions:
> >
> > 1. Why does Gentoo not somehow mark LTS kernels either in the version
> >number or in the slot name? This would make it easier to prevent the
> >installation of too
Arve,
On Tuesday, 2024-04-16 15:53:48 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> Only LTS kernels get stabilised, so this information is readily available.
I'm sure I don't understand this: According to "https://www.kernel.org/;
kernel 6.6.27 is "longterm", but according to "eix" the most recent
6.6.*
Walter,
On Wednesday, 2024-05-15 17:28:46 -0400, you wrote:
> What I *CAN* do... upload/download/create/delete *FILES* on SD card
>
> What I *CANNOT* do... create new *DIRECTORIES* on SD card
>
> [x8940][waltdnes][~/tablet/sdcard1] mkdir data
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘data’:
Michael,
On Thursday, 2024-05-16 09:26:39 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> > > I liked lilo. And then it disappeared :-(
> > ...
> > Still available and still working on non-uefi setups:
> > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-boot/lilo
> >
> > ...
>
> There's also 'sys-boot/elilo' for EFI
Michael,
On Thursday, 2024-05-16 17:46:04 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> > The homepage returned by
> >
> >$ eix --verbose sys-boot/elilo
> >* sys-boot/elilo
> > Available versions: ~3.16-r5
> > ...
> >$
> >
> > hints that this package is no longer maintained ... :-(
> > ...
>
Greetings,
the upgrade on my old laptop with two 2.7GHz Dual-Core Skylake proces-
sors took slightly more than 2 hours for the manual upgrading of "bin-
utils", "gcc" and "glibc", and slightly more than 21.5 hours for the fi-
nal upgrade of "@world", which had to process a total of 1061
Dale,
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 04:36:41 -0500 you wrote:
> ...
> I read the thread linked to by the OP. I just wonder if waiting a
> little longer would have helped.
Did nobody of ye all ever read news item 48, dated 2024-05-09? It laid
out a three-step approach which surely caused at least some
Grant,
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 17:00:29 - (UTC) you wrote:
> ...
> I don't see how (even in theory) steps 2 and 3 can work when you have
> packages installed that won't build with 3.12.
That depends on your definition of "work". It occurs even when doing
normal updates that you run into a
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