Hello all,
I'm considering rolling out a new server with gentoo, but wanted to base
it on the hardened profile, but the docs I've read so far all seem to be
a bit vague about all the details.
I've been using gentoo for a while on my hobby server, but I installed
it about 8 years ago, and
On 2011-12-10 3:07 PM, Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com wrote:
You may be able to get a better response from the -hardened list,
Dang, I had forgotten gentoo has a bunch of other lists... thanks, just
subscribed...
but I built a hardened server a few months ago without much
Ugh
Guess if Gentoo ever removes Grub1 I'll have to switch to Lilo or
something else - I loathe complicated, especially when there is no good
reason...
On 2011-10-06 8:51 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Grant Edwardsgrant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes:
I've only used it on
On 2011-07-28 12:00 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to
emerge and on at least two machines
On 2011-07-06 3:27 AM, Dale wrote:
But again, it didn't lock up until AFTER I had a power failure. That
was when all this started. If I hadn't had the power failure, I may
not have had the lock ups to begin with. The root of this problem is
what I am hoping to find.
More than once I have
Hello,
I have had rkhunter installed for a long time, been working well, system
was reporting clean...
On Saturday I did an emerge -uDN world and installed the available
updates (not a huge amount), then on Sunday morning, got a report about
6 files whose properties had changed, and I realized I
On 2011-06-17 3:36 AM, Cahn Roger wrote:
Since this night I found something important: the little box
put in the socket wall from where the cable goes out, doesn't
no more work!!!
Wow...
All of this wasted bandwidth and you are just *now* getting around to
mentioning that you are using a
On 2011-06-08 5:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Yes, that stuff can get confusing and it's easy to get it mixed up.
Te way it's done is the only really sane way - consider how it would
play out if the setting was a value or a list of possibilities - you
couldn't put a commented example in there
On 2011-06-08 9:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
After that, machines on my local network (including wifi) can get both
IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from the router and can talk to the outside
world on either network.
I'm getting a headache...
Is there a decent guide that explains IPV6 for noobs who
On 2011-06-06 6:34 AM, Indi wrote:
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:27:48AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Believe it or not you are supposed to make invisible all the junk the app
created.
Dunno what that means... you have to tell it where to store Drafts,
Trash, Sent messages, etc - what is so
On 2011-06-06 7:19 AM, Indi wrote:
Anyone can point to a google search, smartass. :)
I've been called worse... ;)
Of course, the search turns up nothing that works for tbird3.
It doesn't state specifically, but the very first hit works fine for
3.1.10 for me...
Do you *really* imagine I'd
On 2011-06-06 7:22 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
It's a minor gripe, to be sure, but a well-rounded release could have
shown a dialog to the user and asking them to select the various
folders to use. Or even if it finds Trash and expected to find
Junk or Deleted Items it could use what is there.
On 2011-06-06 8:26 AM, Indi wrote:
It forces one to log into the IMAP server manually and restore order,
as the configuration dialog gives no way of doing that. Then, making
sure tbird is not running, one must go into ~/.thunderbird/, find the
files that specify IMAp and local folders,
On 2011-06-06 8:44 AM, Indi wrote:
You need to realize you're giving advice about the windows version of
thunderbird. IOW you can stop now!
As I said, there is nothing indicating that userChrome.css hacks are not
cross-platform. I really did think they were. Also, I *did* state in my
initial
On 2011-06-06 10:48 AM, Indi wrote:
At one point it was far more specific with a number of individual
fonts listed, not one of them worked.
Did you make the change while Thunderbird was running?
As I said, changes to userChromes.css MUST be done while it is NOT
running, otherwise they WILL
On 2011-06-06 11:16 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
All you have to do is first tell Thunderbird which folders you want to use:
Tools Accounts Settings Copies Folders
For Trash:
Tools Accounts Settings Server Settings When I delete a message:
2 different locations to configure the
:18:57 : ~
# grep stratum /var/log/messages
myhost : Sun Jun 05, 11:04:24 : ~
#
On 2011-06-04 9:47 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
Ok, finally took the plunge, and as everyone else said it was pretty
much anti-climactic...
However, I'm getting the following error when starting sntp that I
wasn't before
On 2011-06-04 5:10 PM, Indi wrote:
Every single GUI MUA I ever tried would lock up and become unresponsive
at times when dealing with IMAP. It happens in mutt as well, but pretty
rarely and mutt can be killed and started fresh in an instant, unlike
many others.
My experiences with
On 06/04/2011 02:59 PM, Indi wrote:
Maybe I'll put the next person who complains about evolution on
thunderbird and see how they do with it...
I absolutely love Thunderbird, but with one caveat...
I love it because of its stability, how well it does IMAP, but most
importantly, how
Ok, finally took the plunge, and as everyone else said it was pretty
much anti-climactic...
However, I'm getting the following error when starting sntp that I
wasn't before in rc.log:
* Setting clock via the NTP client 'sntp' ...
4 Jun 09:34:15 sntp[1626]: Started sntp
4 Jun 09:34:15
On 2011-06-04 10:02 AM, Indi wrote:
Using ntp-client here, works just fine.
Hmmm... what runlevel do you have ntdp set to? Mine is 'default'...
On 2011-05-31 1:31 PM, James wrote:
The only thing I've read online that may be applicable is that there
have been some issues with kernel panics when you give the guest OS
more than 1 processor. It would suck badly if SMP didn't work well on
vbox.
My understanding is it is a general rule
On 2011-05-29 8:28 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
so - why don't you get a router that ONLY does the routing and a nice
good switch where you can tag the vlans?
Money/knowledge level? I don't know how to do it, so I was looking for
something that will work that I can do myself, that is
On 2011-05-28 8:42 PM, Gregory Shearman wrote:
In linux.gentoo.user, Todd Goodman wrote:
* Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org [110528 12:43]:
Anyone? Will one of the FLOSS builds for the cheap Cable/DSL routers
support VLANs on the different built-in router ports (ie, Tomato, DD-WRT
Hello,
Ok, I'm about to do the deed, but was concerned about one thing...
The migration guide only mentions using dispatch-conf after performing
the update...
I have only/always used etc-update for all the years I've been using
gentoo, and would really, REALLY prefer not to use a new/unfamiliar
After seeing an older thread asking about a router, I figured I'd ask my
own question...
I'm looking for a cheap but reliable router that has decent and SIMPLE
way to add VLANs (I'm not a CISCO guy and don't want to have to become
one)...
Specifically, I want to have one VLAN that my wireless
On 2011-05-12 5:46 PM, Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:00 on Thursday 12 May 2011,
Tanstaafl did opine thusly:
If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case'
something goes south, am I correct that all I need to worry about is /,
since
On 2011-05-13 4:16 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
KDE3 was fine as it was.
I think that pretty much sums it up...
No one forced anyone to upgrade to 4.0 when it was released. Anyone
(you) could have continued using 3.x until *you* were satisfied with 4.x...
On 2011-05-15 10:05 AM, pk wrote:
(I'm not happy with my current mail client either [Thunderbird]).
Why not? It isn't perfect, but is by far the best GUI+IMAP client I've
found...
Maybe you didn't know you could highlight the test you want to include
in your reply, and it will include *only*
On 2011-05-15 10:54 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Why setup didn't get this right via emerge I have no idea, unless it
didn't actually do anything toward actually setting Grub up. If so, it
could be there was already some mismatched Grub code there already from
a previous use of the sectors there
On 2011-05-16 7:38 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:47:59AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
On that note - I think I asked this a few months ago - I'm assuming I
could continue using the old baselayout for a while, if I wanted,
emerging updates (skipping the baselayout/OpenRC
Probably a dumb one, but...
I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions...
If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case'
something goes south, am I correct that all I need to worry about is /,
since /etc is located there?
In other words, is anything on /usr or /var
On 2011-01-05 7:21 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
A ton of crap broke with the PHP 5.2 - 5.3 upgrade. In theory, this
will help with future upgrades; but I'm not sure how, since I can't
*run* both versions at the same time. Does anyone know how having 5.3
installed will help me when I'm stuck
Greetings,
I'm updating an old system I inherited that has postfixadmin 2.1
installed, and I have a question about the vacation user entry in
/etc/passwd...
Can I just change it directly (by editing the file with a text editor)
without worrying about anything breaking?
Currently it is:
On 2010-12-29 3:50 PM, kashani wrote:
On 12/29/2010 9:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
I'm updating an old system I inherited that has postfixadmin 2.1
installed, and I have a question about the vacation user entry in
/etc/passwd...
snip
I would consider a plan to upgrade to 2.3.2,
I guess I could
On 2010-10-28 9:39 AM, Graham Murray wrote:
The 'XXX is depreciated messages are not normally errors. They are just
to inform you that the script is using a depreciated feature and that
unless it is changed (to use a non depreciated mechanism) that it will
stop working in a future version.
On 2010-10-19 1:45 PM, Jarry wrote:
Hi,
I just tried to upgrade gcc (stable amd64, from 4.4.3-r2
to 4.4.4-r2) following the procedure recommended in Gentoo
GCC Upgrade Guide:
? Current stable gcc is 4.4.3-r2 on amd64?
On 2010-10-15 4:00 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I have a dim memory of some recent blog post somewhere. One of the
alternate package managers has better support for this kind of thing
than portage.
Not paludis, rather something with cave in it's name
Cave is part of paludis... I've been
Hello,
I'm ready to update grub, but just realized I'm not sure if I need to
mount /boot before I emerge update it or not...
Anyone?
On 2010-10-09 1:48 PM, Andrea Conti wrote:
On 09/10/2010 18:30, Tanstaafl wrote:
I'm ready to update grub, but just realized I'm not sure if I need to
mount /boot before I emerge update it or not...
/boot must be mounted, but the ebuild will mount it for you if it is not.
Thanks - I thought
On 2010-10-03 12:15 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
Yes once 2.1.9.x series of Portage goes stable (i.e.: if all goes well,
by November) there won't be any need for adding the snipped; you'll
still have to run at least once lafilefixer to avoid keeping stuff
around on the system unfixed, but
On 2010-09-29 6:40 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
First of all, you should install lafilefixer and let it pass through the
currently-installed system:
# emerge lafilefixer
# lafilefixer --justfixit
This will convert the references to libtool archives to the -llibname
form, which works
On 2010-09-02 3:43 PM, Jim Cunning jcunn...@cunning.ods.org wrote:
It appears that the default configuration for MAXPERIP (maximum number
of connections to accept from the same IP address) was set to 4. (I
assume it's the default, since I never changed it myself.) Changing the
value to 10
On 2010-09-01 5:18 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
I think it's not an urgent problem when this happens. With portage
2.2 and the preserve-libs FEATURE,
You are assuming everyone runs unstable portage??
On 2010-08-05 9:25 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com
mailto:kogor...@gmail.com wrote:
I may have found the root of the problem: examine the following
output of an eix query on apache, and note that the cgi
Top posting because I can't contribute anything meaningful inline...
Wow, Albert, this looks very, very cool. I have heard of using 'make'
and creating your own make files to do things like this, but after a few
minutes of perusing these files I realize this is just way over my head,
at least
On 2010-07-03 6:55 AM, Mick wrote:
Before TB implemented Reply-To-List, I preferred lists that munged
the Reply-To, but no longer.
Sometimes I receive a personal email response to a message that I
have posted to the list. This seems to happen because the person
that kindly responded has for
On 2010-07-01 8:54 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
I'm often stucked by the current policy in this mailing list changing
the 'Reply-To' header to the mailing list address. Most mailing lists I
use don't do that.
It is usually better and prefer the answer to all policy
-10 this is plain
On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote:
And finally, don't even mention how braindead the new improved
grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six
paragraphs in some one-off bash-like language, which needs to be
debugged, is better than four lines in a config file.
On 2010-06-13 6:37 PM, David W Noon wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:20:02 +0200, Tanstaafl wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Anything better than procmail?:
On 2010-06-12 5:17 PM, David W Noon wrote:
I wanted the messages to be stored in a single, dedicated
logical volume in my DASD farm
On 2010-06-14 9:09 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:15:43 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
That said... does anyone know of a repo that provides good quality
up to date builds of dovecot - maybe even including the 2.0 betas?
How about the portage tree, which goes up to 2.0 bets 5
On 2010-06-12 5:17 PM, David W Noon wrote:
On 12 Jun 2010, at 12:35, David W Noon wrote:
... Dovecot, but quickly replaced by dbmail.
Can I ask you why?
Certainly.
I wanted the messages to be stored in a single, dedicated logical
volume in my DASD farm. Dovecot always stored them in
On 2010-06-09 11:08 AM, Dale wrote:
If I recall correctly, there are a few programs that can run with
python 3. Thing is, there are still a LOT of them that can't run with
it and must have python 2. If you switch to python 3, you will have a
mess on your hands. If nothing actually requires
On 2010-06-09 12:28 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:21:17 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
I'm guessing it won't hurt anything, again as long as I don't
stupidly switch to it?
Right.
And if a script specifically wants Python 3, it is there for it to
use.
Cool, thanks guys...
On 2010-05-27 1:06 PM, Brandon Vargo wrote:
You mentioned in your first mail that you use Dovecot. The easiest
way to setup SASL for Postfix is to have Postfix authenticate
against Dovecot,
+1, with one caveat - it doesn't work in client mode, only server mode...
I also recommend adding the
On 2010-05-13 7:21 PM, walt wrote:
AFAIK most laptops don't (yet) have 2TB disks, which is why Vista is
a poor choice for laptops. Vista needs most of a terabyte after
installing all the bug fixes and service packs
Ok, either you are joking (but the wording doesn't make that very
clear), or
On 2010-05-14 8:23 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 14 May 2010 07:34:49 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
AFAIK most laptops don't (yet) have 2TB disks, which is why Vista is
a poor choice for laptops. Vista needs most of a terabyte after
installing all the bug fixes and service packs
Ok, either
On 2010-05-11 6:43 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
My question is, is *anything* in /usr/local/mailman still used by
mailman? Or can I safely rm -r that entire directory?
No other mailman users out there?
Hello,
Some time ago one of the mailman minor updates (2.1.9-r3) introduced
major changes with the location of lists and archives from
/usr/local/mailman to /var/lib/mailman...
My question is, is *anything* in /usr/local/mailman still used by
mailman? Or can I safely rm -r that entire directory?
On 2010-04-18 2:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:37:40 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
Like I said, I have a bunch of *individual* logs (for individual
ebuilds)... I was hoping for something a little easier to manage/read,
all in one file...
My preferred approach is to add mail
On 2010-04-18 1:56 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Understand what the gcc upgrade guide is:
a quick simple guide for user who don't know tool chains inside out, that
give
the minimal sequence of commands that is GUARANTEED to NOT leave the user in
the lurch. It's not the minimum possible
On 2010-04-18 2:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
My preferred approach is to add mail to PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM to get
each elog message mailed to me. That's still separate message, but I
think that's better as I can mark each one read as I've actioned it,
leaving me with a clear list of what's left
On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote:
I was reminded that I do not understand sendmail enough for my liking.
Does anybody?
flame-protect
That's why Wietse invented postfix.
/flame-protect
--
Charles
On 2010-04-17 6:29 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-17 6:06 PM, Vincent Launchbury wrote:
On 04/17/10 17:09, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile
everything *but* gcc)?
Of course I meant:
emerge -e
I must be missing something obvious...
When updating gcc, and thus emerging -e both system and world, where are
the info/warn/errors logged? I see a whole bunch of separate/individual
logs ion /var/log/portage/elog, but what I'm looking for is a single,
easily readable log of all of the result
On 2010-04-18 11:38 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
I must be missing something obvious...
When updating gcc, and thus emerging -e both system and world, where are
the info/warn/errors logged? I see a whole bunch of separate/individual
logs ion /var/log/portage/elog, but what I'm looking
On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
well... you could use --keep-going and kill something when gcc compiles.
not very nice, but will work without breaking anything.
Dang - I already started the emerge...
I'm surprised there's no easy way to do this... I guess just because you
don't
On 2010-04-18 11:54 AM, Arttu V. wrote:
On 4/18/10, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
You could try temporarily masking it:
#echo sys-devel/gcc /etc/portage/package.mask
Then updating:
#emerge -e system
Then removing the mask:
#sed -i '$d' /etc/portage/package.mask
I don't
On 2010-04-18 11:57 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
well... you could use --keep-going and kill something when gcc compiles.
not very nice, but will work without breaking anything.
Hmmm... clarification though... when you say 'kill something'... how
would I
On 2010-04-18 12:29 PM, YoYo siska wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:57:48AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
well... you could use --keep-going and kill something when gcc
compiles. not very nice, but will work without breaking
anything.
Dang - I
On 2010-04-18 1:11 PM, Vincent Launchbury wrote:
On 04/18/10 11:00, Tanstaafl wrote:
Crap, doesn't look like this will work...
After masking gcc (and glibc - same argument there), I get:
emerge -pev world
snip
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/libc have been masked.
!!! One
On 2010-04-18 1:05 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010 17:38:19 Tanstaafl wrote:
I must be missing something obvious...
When updating gcc, and thus emerging -e both system and world
Why are you doing that?
Because it wasn't a minor bugfix update? I'm going from 4.1.2 to 4.3.4
On 2010-04-18 1:09 PM, YoYo siska wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:52:26PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 12:29 PM, YoYo siska wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:57:48AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
well... you could use --keep-going and kill
On 2010-04-18 3:57 PM, YoYo siska wrote:
Will etc-update still prompt for all necessary changes for config
files for *all* of the installs done, considering I did ctrl-c 3
times (glibc, and both gcc's)?
yes, if new config files got installed, etc-update will show them (I
think it uses 'find'
On 2010-04-18 1:58 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:00:40 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
After masking gcc (and glibc - same argument there), I get:
emerge -pev world
snip
Total: 351 packages (351 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 5 kB
Portage tree and overlays:
[0] /usr/portage
Subject says it all...
I've had openldap installed on my system since forever but never used it
(always meant to, but honestly I really don't need it).
Now I'm wanting to uninstall unused stuff before switching gcc versions
and recompiling system and world.
Whats the best way to uninstall a
On 2010-04-17 3:42 PM, KH wrote:
Am 17.04.2010 21:30, schrieb Jarry:
On 17. 4. 2010 21:20, Tanstaafl wrote:
Whats the best way to uninstall a package - in this case, openldap, but
really for any package - and get all of the dependencies it pulls in,
but only ones that are not required
Is there a way to emerge, say, system, but omit one package in it?
For example, I've already recompiled gcc 4.3.4 with itself... is there a
way to now do something like:
emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile
everything *but* gcc)?
Its not a big deal, I'm just
On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile
everything *but* gcc)?
Of course I meant:
emerge -e system -gcc
Ok, maybe I'm missing something...
The first time I compile a kernel, it takes at least 4 or 5 minutes, if
not longer (never really timed it)...
But, I just switched my compiler from 4.1.2 to 4.3.4, and wanted to
recompile the kernel, so, I change to the /usr/src/kernel dir and ran
make again,
On 2010-04-17 6:06 PM, Vincent Launchbury wrote:
On 04/17/10 17:09, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile
everything *but* gcc)?
Of course I meant:
emerge -e system -gcc
You could try temporarily
On 2010-04-17 6:31 PM, Alexander Tanyukevich wrote:
If you want to compile whole kernel with new compiler you should run
make clean first.
Crap, I remember that now... thanks for taking it easy with the
cluestick... ;)
--
Charles
On 2010-04-11 9:20 AM, Graham Murray wrote:
Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org writes:
I'm a bit clueless when it comes to firewalls, and have no idea what
these numbers mean/do:
*raw
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [4911:886011]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [4546:2818732]
COMMIT
The numbers are [packets:bytes
On 2010-04-12 11:05 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
I use the --keep-going always, it was a great addition and especially
helpful when there is a bad package that won't compile for a week or
two, it makes it easier to just ignore it.
Hopefully no one will mind a slight OT question, but still
On 2010-04-12 12:23 PM, Dale wrote:
+1 I been using the latest portage for a long time too. I don't recall
any problems with it and the new features sure do help.
If you keyword portage, you need to do the same for its friends. Mainly
gentoolkit and eix. They seem to go together better.
On 2010-04-10 10:26 PM, Kerin Millar wrote:
On 10/04/2010 23:17, Tanstaafl wrote:
This is on a server box, and I am *not* doing NAT on it...
Do I even need the nat table? If not, I'd like to build the kernel
without NAT support, but if there's a good reason not to do that, I
won't
I was doing some updates and getting ready for my gcc switch, and in the
process saw these two errors pop-up in the logs:
Apr 10 15:31:10 myhost kernel: ReiserFS: dm-1: warning: vs-8115:
get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item
Apr 10 15:31:10 myhost kernel: ReiserFS: dm-1: warning: vs-8115:
Hello,
This is on a server box, and I am *not* doing NAT on it...
Do I even need the nat table? If not, I'd like to build the kernel
without NAT support, but if there's a good reason not to do that, I won't...
Thanks
--
Charles
On 2010-03-10 4:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2010-03-10 12:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
equery can be unreliable. If emerge --depclean -a wants to remove one
of both of them, let it, otherwise leave well alone.
How
On 2010-03-09 8:36 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Today is when running a lilo menu with production and experimental
kernels saved me. production is 2.6.30-r8. experimental is
2.6.31-r6 or 2.6.31-r10 (same problems with either one). I set
/usr/src/linux to point at 2.6.31-r6 (or 10), copied .config
On 2010-03-10 8:38 AM, Dale wrote:
I use make oldconfig all the time and have only had problems with it
once. I would trust make oldconfig looong before I would even think to
trust genkernel. I have never got it to work for me.
Using make oldconfig should be fine for the OP.
My point is,
Hello,
I currently have 3 versions of automake installed (1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r3,
and 1.10.2).
emerge -pvuDN world shows an update available for each one, but, my
question is, do I need all 3 versions?
'equery depends automake' shows 44 packages, all depending on 1.10* or
higher.
So, can I safely
On 2010-03-10 8:47 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:22:41 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
Today is when running a lilo menu with production and experimental
kernels saved me. production is 2.6.30-r8. experimental is
2.6.31-r6 or 2.6.31-r10 (same problems with either one). I set
On 2010-03-10 9:07 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The current opinion of the current author of the kernel upgrade
guide says what you quoted.
It's his opinion, it's what he thinks will work best for the
majority of people. It's probably also the wording that has been
proven to result in the least
On 2010-03-10 9:09 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Whatever the guide says, the third part of the kernel version is
considered the minor revision, anything after that is a patch level.
Gotcha - and I guess I was using those terms in my own way - the guide
didn't use the word major or minor - I just
On 2010-03-10 9:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:27:19 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
But... my understanding is that, by copying your old .config to the
new kernel dir before running make menuconfig, you *are* reusing
your old config... I sure hope I'm not reading *that* wrong
On 2010-03-10 1:45 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
And this means multiple automake versions on the system are perfectly
normal.
Ok, that's what I needed to hear... :)
Thanks Nikos...
--
Charles
On 2010-03-10 12:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
equery can be unreliable. If emerge --depclean -a wants to remove one
of both of them, let it, otherwise leave well alone.
Understood, thanks...
Just to be sure... the -a in the 'emerge --depclean -a' above will 'ask'
me if I want to continue and
On 2010-03-07 1:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 06 March 2010 20:39:05 Tanstaafl wrote:
Baselayout2 is still not stable, so, yes, I'm still on baselayout1,
and now you've gone and made me nervous again. ;)
Are you suggesting I should already be using it??
You are going to have
On 2010-03-07 9:14 AM, Florian Philipp wrote:
Tanstaafl schrieb:
The Gentoo udev guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml) says
specifically to make sure that:
'General setup ---
[*] Support for hot-pluggable devices'
is enabled, but I didn't have this option available
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