Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

2005-10-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge korganizer again I get !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem

2005-10-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Yoandy Rodriguez Martinez schreef: Hello everybuddy: I've just installed beagle and it just keeps telling me that I don't have inotify in my kernel but /dev/inotify it's there and /proc/config.gz says inotify is there... any hint? Thanks in advance Beagle requires a very specific version

Re: [gentoo-user] xfs issue

2005-10-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Qv6 schreef: Folks: Just compiled a new kernel - 2.6.13-r3 (was using 2.6.11-r4), and upgraded kde from 3.3.2 to 3.4. On booting into the new kernel, the base system boots fine, but kde hangs. It seems from the error that xfs could not be started. The error when I start xfs manually is:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Digby Tarvin schreef: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:25:52PM -0400, James Hiscock wrote: I gather one cannot just copy the .config file for this much of a jump, so I guess the best thing to do is a simultaneous 'make menuconfig' in both old and new kernel using two different windows so that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

2005-10-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Gysin schreef: Christoph Gysin wrote: Nonetheless this seems like a bug and should be fixed. Could you file a bug and reference it here? Searching google turns out that it has already been fixed. Update to the latest pciutils will fix the issue. Why search Google and not

Re: [gentoo-user] (masked by: missing keyword)

2005-10-29 Thread Holly Bostick
sean schreef: What is the proper way to over ride a package that is (masked by: missing keyword)? From what I read it is supposed to be done with the package.keywords file in /etc/portage. But I must be doing something wrong with format. Specifically I am trying to install openoffice 2.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring fbsplash

2005-10-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Grimaldy Soto schreef: snip i've emerge splashutils and also livecd 2005.1 bootsplash theme the which is the one that i wanna configure, i did #mount /boot later this Create an initramfs image for fbsplash: # splash_geninitramfs -v -g /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1024x768 -r 1024x768 emergence

Re: [gentoo-user] build failed for dev-php/php-4.4.0-r1

2005-10-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Faron Dutton schreef: Can anyone point me to a debug strategy for the following: Build complete. (It is safe to ignore warnings about tempnam and tmpnam). Test phase [not enabled]: dev-php/php-4.4.0-r1 snip Wrote PEAR system config file at:

Re: [gentoo-user] arts crasheing: FIXED!

2005-10-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Schleimer, Ben schreef: Hi again, I figured out that artsd was crashing because I was trying to play a .ogg without having emerged kdemultimedia with the vorbis USE flag set. Well, that makes sense. Congratulations! I added the USE flag, reemerged kdemultimedia (which wasn't autoemerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Alexander Skwar wrote: Don't send out HTML, please. Especially, if you don't make use of HTML features, as it then only wastes bandwidth with nothing useful being added. Well, I'm trying to find out where to change it in Mozilla. Speaking of settings, mail can be set to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: Dale schrieb: Well, I'm trying to find out where to change it in Mozilla. Change what in Mozilla? There's nothing that you can change. Oh for Pete's sake, Alexander. You can so change stuff in Mozilla-- it's a *software suite*, containing a web browser/irc

Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Support in 2.6.13-r5 Kernel?

2005-10-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Drew Tomlinson schreef: I am trying to upgrade from a 2.6.11 genkernel to 2.6.13-r5 genkernel. However when booting, I get a message about root not being a valid root device and then a prompt to enter the correct one. snip it appears likely that my problem is that Advansys SCSI support is

Re: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: John Dangler schreef: Holly Bostick schreef: I'm trying to get a definitive answer to this - when I want to install a new kernel, I know that there are certain packages that will not come back, Is there a way to setup a list of these based on what I have installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Alexander Skwar wrote: Dale schrieb: Well I have to have HTML because I use email for a LOT more than just this list. And why do you need HTML there? Anyway, Mozilla/Thunderbird makes it very easy to decide if HTML is used or not - when you set the default to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: Holly Bostick schrieb: The other joke is similar, but goes like this There are 10 kinds of people in the world Those who understand binary, and those who don't (1 is yes in binary language, which only consists of the letters 1 and 0, and is the basis of all computer

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

2005-10-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Matthias Bethke schreef: Hi Anthony, on Sunday, 2005-10-30 at 16:06:47, you wrote: The main reason for my interest in Gentoo was to replace Suse on my server, since it looked promising in the control I have over the installation. My question is this: I want to replace Suse on the server

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Well, I have Mozilla set up to send both types, plain and HTML, so that you can get whatever you want. It makes it take longer to send over my slow dial-up but I thought it polite, maybe it is not after all. In that case, you're wasting your own bandwidth, since many of us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: I wonder which one worked, the telling it to ask first, which it didn't, or setting the domain thing. I don't know why the asking thing didn't work (I'd have to look, and it's not really important anymore), but the domain thing doesn't have to ask you, because you've told it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Sometimes this 'educating' may sound much harsher than ment - but don't forget, that for a lot of people on this (or every public) mailing list english is only the second or third language - and hitting the right 'tone' is not easy, if you are not

[gentoo-user] Weird pauses making me nuts

2005-10-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey, all, Sorry that this will not be an extremely clear question, but I really have no idea where to start, or what the problem is. Basically, my system is running fine (no overt problems), but about every 30 seconds or so, it 'pauses' to do something, and I have to wait for 5-10 seconds while

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird pauses making me nuts

2005-10-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Martins Steinbergs schreef: On Monday 31 October 2005 18:24, Holly Bostick wrote: Basically, my system is running fine (no overt problems), but about every 30 seconds or so, it 'pauses' to do something, and I have to wait for 5-10 seconds while it does it before I can go further. Or the display

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird pauses making me nuts

2005-10-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Robert Svoboda schreef: * Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-10-31 18:50]: Hey, all, Hi, [...] Since all the problems seem to be related to the X server, maybe it's an X problem; So have you tried it without X running? Not yet; can't kill X without killing a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: top quotes, html mail, and binary jokes

2005-10-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Antoine schreef: Indeed, life is harder for those of us who don't have English as first language. kashani, still trying to get his German, Spanish, and Farsi up to speed Can you imagine how hard it is to learn another language when everyone wants to speak English to you? We used to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Hi, I have ran into this error a lot of times. I posted it the other day but have learned that a lot of people don't read HTML stuff. So here I go again. This is the whole thing, sorry it is a bit long but I didn't want to cut out the very part you need. Yes, my rig

Re: [gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Meira schreef: This is what emerge would do: # emerge -Dav dbus hal Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/dbus-0.36.2 +X -debug -doc -gtk -mono +python +qt +xml2 0 kB [ebuild UD] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 [0.36.2] +X -debug -gtk -mono +python +qt +xml2 0 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Programs That Depend On xmlto app-text/robodoc dev-util/mercurial sci-geosciences/gpsd sys-auth/libnss-pgsql doc media-gfx/k3d Which, if any of these programs do you have installed on your system? I have none of those installed

Re: [gentoo-user] realplayer emerge problem

2005-11-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Will White schreef: When I emerge realplayer I get: emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / Downloading https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync

2005-11-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Qian Qiao schreef: On 11/2/05, Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 002617 !!! Digest verification Failed: 002618 !!! /usr/portage/dev-python/pyrex/pyrex-0.9.3.1.ebuild 002619 !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size 002620 002621 Please ensure you have sync'd properly.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: in order to build documentation. Remove the doc USE flag if you don't want it to. So the Kernel has documentation or is this the little help screen in menuconfig? I need that help screen. I don't know what half that stuff is even with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Old devfs files in /etc

2005-11-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Hi, I switched to udev a while back and have some old devfs files left in /etc. Here is a list: /etc/devfs.d /etc/devfs.d/.keep /etc/modules.devfs.256 /etc/config-archive/etc/udev/scripts/ide-devfs.sh /etc/config-archive/etc/udev/scripts/ide-devfs.sh.dist

Re: [gentoo-user] Old devfs files in /etc

2005-11-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: There is, of course, an option to tell it to; you just don't know about it :-) . You're kidding right. Something that I don't know about, yea right. LOL LOL Treat me like a sponge, I'm absorbing your knowledge, I hope anyway. I have been

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: There is no , or = in there. I copy and paste all I can because my typing sucks. I type slow and it still sucks. :( emerge gtypist emerge tuxtype emerge tuxtype2 emerge dvorak7min (if you happen to have a dvorak keyboard) emerge dvorakng (ditto) emerge typespeed emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc, userlocales, and ENV Variables

2005-11-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Hans-Werner Hilse schreef: Hi, On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:53:11 +0100 Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] /etc/locales.build which says # This file names the list of locales to be built when glibc is installed. # The format is locale/charmap, where locale is a locale from

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE GUI for network settings

2005-11-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Qv6 schreef: On Wednesday 02 November 2005 09:02 am, Mark wrote: I have a KDE desktop on one of my machines, and noticed I couldn't find any GUI interface to manage the IP address and related configurations for the 2 ethernet cards on the box. I have installed kdenetworks, but still don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!?

2005-11-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: You still can, gentoolkit still installs qpkg, but doesn't put it in your path. You'll find it in /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-version/deprecated/qpkg 'Problem' is, if you also have portage-utils installed, that package also includes a *different program* which is

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild is giving me fits

2005-11-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Bob Sanders wrote: Before you do that, get rid of /root/.revdep* Run - python-updater Then - perl-cleaner all Then - emerge -uDNav world Then - revdep-rebuild -p OK. I went in circles with those for a while. I have now come to a brick wall here. I had a earlier

Re: [gentoo-user] beagle compile error

2005-11-03 Thread Holly Bostick
karlos schreef: Hi, I run into this compilation error when trying to emerge beagle: Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 12) dev-dotnet/gtk-sharp-2.3.92 to / cp ../gtk-sharp.snk . cp ../AssemblyInfo.cs . /usr/bin/mcs -nowarn:0169,0612,0618 -unsafe

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild is giving me fits

2005-11-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Did you re-emerge gentoo-sources after removing the doc USE flag? Yup, I sure did. What is the format of the relevant entry in /etc/portage/package.use? If it does not look like this sys-kernel/gentoo-sources -doc

Re: [gentoo-user] wine emerge wants to downgrade?

2005-11-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: Is there some small thing I'm overlooking. It seems that portage thinks that wine-20050930 is newer than the first official release wine-0.9 and therefore wants to 'upgrade' Wine when it's really a downgrade. Does portage need to be informed of something special

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/local/portage does not seem to have a valid PORTDIR structure.

2005-11-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Norberto Bensa schreef: Hello list, I'm trying to make an ebuild for kbfx (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=24898) but when I do: sudo ebuild ./kbfx-0.4.8beta.ebuild digest I get: Appending /usr/local/portage to PORTDIR_OVERLAY... !!! /usr/local/portage does not seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/local/portage does not seem to have a valid PORTDIR structure.

2005-11-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Norberto Bensa schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Norberto Bensa schreef: sudo ebuild ./kbfx-0.4.8beta.ebuild digest I get: Appending /usr/local/portage to PORTDIR_OVERLAY... !!! /usr/local/portage does not seem to have a valid PORTDIR structure. So I would first suggest that you

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/local/portage does not seem to have a valid PORTDIR structure.

2005-11-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Norberto Bensa schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: you're using sudo. I find many anomolies in sudo; Why does people hate sudo so much? Actually, I don't hate sudo at all; I use it all the time, and it saves a lot of difficulty. I just get annoyed because I, in my ignorance, generally expect

Re: [gentoo-user] viewing quicktime online

2005-11-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: What do I need to do to be able to view a quicktime video online? I see a couple of quicktime library packages but neithers website mention plugin tools for Mozilla. I'm guessing there are viewers available that employ these libs. But need to know what combination

[gentoo-user] Big problem with module-rebuild

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
.. and that problem is, in short, that the rebuild unmerges the previous version, in the currently-running (or previous) kernel modules folder, breaking the previous kernel. And my question is, how to get it to stop doing that. If Portage has a FEATURES setting that prevents the previous version

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Qian Qiao schreef: On 11/6/05, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I do is running this set of commands every night from crontab: emerge --sync emerge --update --deep --newuse world emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild So my portage is also always updated, to the last stable version. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] Big problem with module-rebuild

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:26:02 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: And my question is, how to get it to stop doing that. If Portage has a FEATURES setting that prevents the previous version being unmerged this way, I don't know what it is. Doesn't AUTOCLEAN=no do

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Jarry schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Qian Qiao schreef: On 11/6/05, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I do is running this set of commands every night from crontab: emerge --sync emerge --update --deep --newuse world emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild Omg, you have emerge --deep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big problem with module-rebuild [SOLVED]

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Remy Blank schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: And the drivers build and install fine... then this: | Safely unmerging already-installed instance... snip ==--- cfgpro obj /lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r4/video/fglrx.ko ==--- cfgpro dir /lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r4/video ==--- cfgpro dir /lib

Re: [gentoo-user] two ati-drivers packages using --deep --update

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, Is the following expected with recent ati-drivers? Is this slotted? No, and no. If so, and if I did the --deep --update command, then how do I know which one I'm using when I load fglrx? fglrxinfo would tell you the version of the ati-drivers in use. But... there

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Jarry schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: The Gentoo Handbook does *not* recommend you do these procedures *unattended*, the way you are doing them. Well, gentoo says ...update your system regularly I thought it means really regularly, not when root finds some spare time to do

Re: [gentoo-user] [OTAnn] Feedback

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
shenanigans schreef: We have mirrored your mail list in a new application Is this permitted? (a mirror of the mail list that is unaffiliated with the Gentoo organization and administration? or is this affiliated?) And is there something wrong with me that it rather gives me the creeps if it

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Jeff Smelser schreef: On Monday 07 November 2005 02:04 pm, Jarry wrote: Which you are not doing, and frankly, you're pretty lucky that something hasn't blown up up to now. That might happen, sooner o later. But still I think it is still better than leaving some hole for uninvited

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: A recent update to dovecot stopped it completely until you updated the config file. I suppose you could fix that with a cron job that did echo -5 | etc-update :-) My goodness, Neil-- are you aiming to be the next Stephen King? You certainly have an eye for true

Re: [gentoo-user] X freezes locks up, constantly

2005-11-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Phill MV schreef: Every now and then, usually while doing something related to firefox ( mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2) but it's also happened when someone sent me a file over MSN in gaim (gaim-1.5.0), my copy of xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 will lock up and refuse all interaction. All windows stop

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Digby Tarvin schreef: Something which I havn't found any explicit elaboration of in the documentation... The convention in the Linux/gentoo filesystem seems to be to have a unique directory for each installed kernel in /usr/src, with a symbolic link to the 'current' kernel directory

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kino problem

2005-11-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:34:59 +1000 Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. In other words, please post the 10-20 lines *above* the lines you posted (which were the status report); the actual

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Norberto Bensa schreef: Peter Ruskin wrote: ebegin Checking that /usr/src/linux is linked to booted kernel... if [ /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r) != $(ls -l /usr/src/linux|cut -f2 -d\|cut -f2,3,4 -d' ') ] This looks more complicated than it really should be. Just run ln on reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Digby Tarvin schreef: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:35:42PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: -- If you have some external module that compiles against the kernel source, you most likely need it against *all* kernel sources, not just the running one (so redirecting the link is only of limited

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautified kernel config

2005-11-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: On 11/9/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/9/05, ellotheth rimmwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'afternoon, list, silly question for you. Often here or in the forums, a user will post a snippet of his kernel configuration, a la snip Bus options PCCARD *

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-10 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Hmmm. I not sure I did compile the ati-drivers: media-video/ati-drivers Available versions: 8.14.13-r2 [M]8.14.13-r3 8.14.13-r4 8.14.13-r5 *8.16.20 *8.16.20-r1 8.18.6 8.18.6-r1 8.18.8 8.18.8-r1 Installed: none Well, depending on which ATI video card you have,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: If you want to try the ati-drivers, generally you just need to merge the package and change the Driver setting in xorg.conf from radeon to fglrx. Not completely true; the ati-driver module (fglrx) will not work if the kernel DRM is compiled (either as a module or

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

2005-11-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Mrugesh Karnik schreef: Richard Fish wrote: The via_drv I am talking about is an _x.org_ driver, not a kernel driver. It has nothing to do with the kernel sources or rebuilding the kernel. It should exist at /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o (along with all other X11 drivers). I

Re: [gentoo-user] strange problem with fam USE-flag

2005-11-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Rumen Yotov schreef: Hi, Recently (last two days) when running:emerge -DNu world -ptv receive the following: ... #emerge -DNu world -ptv These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] mail-filter/maildrop-2.0.1 +berkdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: Apparently you too are not looking at the router I've specified: NETGEAR FVS318 Not to mix in (not having a Netgear router), but I wonder if perhaps the reason you are not seeing the ability to block IPs (which several people have said exists) is because you have not

Re: [gentoo-user] what z p2p clients for linux?

2005-11-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Csányi András schreef: 2005/11/15, El Nino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dear friends, what is the best p2p (Gnutella support) client for linux? -- IMHO the best is MLDONKEY Not if you've ever used aMule--- but El Nino asked for a p2p client with *Gnutella support* so I see your point. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: realplayer download security problem

2005-11-15 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: How does a gentoo system know the difference between an rpm file that it can install and a rpm file that it cannot or should not install on a gentoo system? It's not like RPMs (or DEBs for that matter) just *appear* on the system and are installed by mental telepathy if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: realplayer download security problem

2005-11-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: [1] The easiest way i have found to look inside an rpm is to use midnight commander (mc) and hit enter with the rpm highlighted. You get a virtual look inside the rpm, including all the metadata, the install scripts, and the files to be installed. The rpm package must

Re: [gentoo-user] Local dictionary in KDE?

2005-11-16 Thread Holly Bostick
abhay schreef: On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 4:25 am, Willie Wong wrote: An option to skip installing dictd is to install the commandline version of StarDict, http://sdcv.sourceforge.net/ Last I checked it is not in portage. It doesn't really work like Kdict, but suits my needs well enough.

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate

2005-11-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: On 11/17/05, Michael Kjorling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card (lspci says ATI Technologies, device 5940, rev 01) which currently drives my monitor at 48.5 kHz 60 Hz 1024x768 using

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate

2005-11-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: On 11/17/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The point being, you need to know your monitor's specs. Back in the day, that was true. But with modern monitors (I'm not sure of the spec, I think is part of the VESA compliance requirements) the video driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:19:58 + (UTC), James wrote: Do the (2) layer NEC devices, such as the NEC ND-3540A work on linux? It works, whether it works in DL mode I have no idea as I haven't tried it. DL discs are so expensive. Is there anything special about

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: Patrick McLean schrieb: Running a system withoug pam is a rather strange thing to do on a modern Linux system, and I can think of very few reasons to do it. What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one (human) user on the system and the system

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: and, *on the other hand*, the whole point of using free, open source software, is usually to get hands-on software on a lower level than in windows like platforms. That's what I wanted to say. Most gnu/linux/oss users like screwing up their systems :P

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread Holly Bostick
James Colby schreef: Thanks, revdep-rebuild did give me the list of files that would not link, and equery belongs FILENAME tells me that the files are part of the kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r7 package. Is there a way for me to find out which packages on my system depend on kdelibs-3.3.2-r7?

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Alexander Skwar wrote: /etc/passwd like on HP-UX 11.00. Ie. no /etc/shadow. /etc/shadow was provided by an additional package and libraries. Just like PAM. Shadow changed from being a security measure to be an auth storage backend. As a storage

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: As you see, all the relevant programs that *can* use PAM (which is *optional*) do *not* do so on my system. I do not need PAM authentication, and I do not use PAM authentication. As far as I know, my system runs fine (or at least has

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Hemmann, Volker Armin schreef: On Monday 21 November 2005 13:33, Steve B wrote: WTF.. I'm getting ready to rebuild my gentoo box. I have always did a stage 1 install. i was under the impression that if u used a stage 3 u couldn't muck with your CFLAGS or what not. If I'm forced to use

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel da Veiga schreef: Gentoo is not easy, its not simple and its not designed or the best distro to start in the Linux world. Hogwash. What's so hard about it, as opposed to any other Linux distro, once you get past the install issue? Is learning Portage somehow intrinsically harder than

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: On Sunday 20 Nov 2005 7:16 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: equery hasuse pam Wow!!! I performed that thing on my system and the stupid PAM is everywhere (I am scared as shit after reading this thread). What would be the easiest way to get rid of PAM from a single user

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with wxGTK

2005-11-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Antoine schreef: !!! set-wxconfig: /usr/bin/wxgtk2u-*2.4*-config not found [ebuild R ] x11-libs/wxGTK-*2.6.1* -debug -doc +gnome +gtk2 -joystick +odbc +opengl +sdl +unicode -wxgtk1 0 kB equery belongs /usr/bin/wxgtk2u-2.4-config [ Searching for file(s)

Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature

2005-11-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Jason Ausmus schreef: -Original Message- From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 3:48 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature You're answer was to a different question. Whose answer was

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread Holly Bostick
George Garvey schreef: On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 04:17:45PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: reinstall, again I must wonder why he would complain that such a reinstall is now likely to be much easier, and lead to a functioning system (from which he can emerge -e world to his heart's content

Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature

2005-11-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: Holly Bostick schrieb: However, other than pointing this out by the simple expedient of confusing everyone further, Alexander's reply was less than helpful, since it neither pointed out why the answer given was presumably not correct, Uhm. Yes, I did not point

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me too. Seems that the system didn't get that change. Please send output of: grep dev-db/mysql /etc/portage/package.use dev-db/mysql mysql mysqli dev-db/mysql doc dev-db/mysql ndb-doc Harry, put all the USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Could not emerge app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r2 due to new kernel being emerged too

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Jules Colding schreef: Hi, Todays emerge -vauDN world failed with gnupg not being emerged. The reason seems to be that I am emerging a new kernel too. This new kernel has obviously not been configured/build yet which makes gnupg unable to find .config in /usr/src/linux/. I expect this

Re: [gentoo-user] Could not emerge app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r2 due to new kernel being emerged too

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:49:04 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Fortunately, I noticed that it was going to happen before the emerge proceeded (I was getting a new kernel, and upgrading the ati-drivers package, which I know must compile against a configured kernel), so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: Since syncing yesterday and emerge -u world, I now get mysql-5.0.16-r1 when I emerge mysql. It doesn't have the docs built either regardless of what USE variable are in force. Are there in fact docs available for this version yet? From MYSQL, I mean, not Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, you might want to upgrade to -r2, since clearly some things didn't work in -r1 (in ebuild terms) You might also want to stick with stable until things settle down a bit. Holly, Thanks for the usual helpful

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: media-libs/smpeg-0.4.4-r6 failed

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Ernie Schroder schreef: I've figured out most of my 11 month updates, but this one is driving me mad. I would appreciate some advice here. I still have a few apps to update that fail like this: checking for SDL - version = 1.2.0... no *** Could not run SDL test program, checking why...

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --newuse misses package that new USE affects

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
glen martin schreef: snip I've changed some USE flags deliberately to add features to a package snip Despite the USE change, I find that that apache is not being caught by emerge --newuse world. snip I added threads nptlonly mpm-worker to USE in make.conf. I've probably made some

Re: [gentoo-user] masked package woes

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Hello, Jffnms is masked. However I am able to install it on an intel portable by adding this line to the /etc/portage/package.keywords net-analyzer/jffnms ~x86 This is pretty must standard approach. However, on a gentoo system that I manually hacked a jffnms

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone know where I can find an ebuild for projectx?

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: ProjectX is a java mpeg2 editor. It used to be in portage but has been dumped with no warning. I didn't have a chance to move it to overlay. Does anyone have an ebuild for this package? If it used to be in Portage, you can probably find it in the CVS attic-- check the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --newuse misses package that new USE affects

2005-11-25 Thread Holly Bostick
glen martin schreef: As an aside, I wonder whether it is a good feature idea that ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=keyword emerge foo without --oneshot should automatically add foo keyword to the package.keywords file. That's an idea with some merit, but imo not enough (merit) to make it feasible (but

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --newuse misses package that new USE affects

2005-11-25 Thread Holly Bostick
glen martin schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: glen martin schreef: As an aside, I wonder whether it is a good feature idea that ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=keyword emerge foo without --oneshot should automatically add foo keyword to the package.keywords file. That's an idea with some merit, but imo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: First let me add that (mjpegtools-1.6.2-r3) isn't even installed: root # qpkg -v -I |grep mjpegtools media-video/mjpegtools-1.8.0-r1 * equery depends mjpegtools [ Searching for packages depending on mjpegtools... ] media-video/transcode-0.6.14-r2

Re: [gentoo-user] dovecot problem

2005-11-25 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: I'm having a problem with dovecot. I upgraded dovecot yesterday to 0.99.14-r1, although dovecot --version still claims to be 0.99.14 I don't know how to fix your problem (sorry); just wanted to mention that the reason that the version is still claimed to be 0.99.14

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Including Richard in reply as well) Nagatoro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Assigning files to ebuilds... using existing /root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds. Evaluating package order... using existing Nagatoro replied:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: I still don't see the actual error there and it was the output of: revdep-rebuild -nc 21|tee revdep.log revdep.log is what I posted online. Richard Fish replied with the specific issue about half an hour ago: Richard Fish schreef: Ok, now we are going to

[gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-26 Thread Holly Bostick
OK, I take it back. I said that the situation of upgrading a kernel with the 'symlink' USE flag active occurring at the same time as a (particular) program needing to compile against a configured kernel was not likely to occur all that often, but I was wrong. It's happened again today, but with a

Re: [gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Zac Medico schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: I said that the situation of upgrading a kernel with the 'symlink' USE flag active occurring at the same time as a (particular) program needing to compile against a configured kernel was not likely to occur all that often, but I was wrong. It's

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