[gentoo-user] Re: odd portate BINARY_HOST behaviour after sync

2006-01-06 Thread Trenton Adams
Oh, in case you don't believe me, here's the full transcript of what I did. :) the update alias is emerge --update --getbinpkg --getbinpkgonly --usepkgonly ephraim ~ # update -p world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Fetching binary packages info... Loaded metadata pickle.

Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-06 Thread Trenton Adams
I've never specified -p, so I think it must be default, because I always have permissions preserved when I use tar. Perhaps this is a GNU tar default setting? On 1/6/06, Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just boot with a gentoo CD, tar up my

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-06 Thread Trenton Adams
On 1/5/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:32:20 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote: something like if_blocked_by('openmotif') ewarn You must unmerge openmotif before proceeding Yes, or as follows... if_blocked_by('openmotif') auto_unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-06 Thread Trenton Adams
On 1/6/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trenton Adams schreef: On 1/5/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:32:20 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote: something like if_blocked_by('openmotif') ewarn You must unmerge openmotif before proceeding

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-06 Thread Trenton Adams
On 1/6/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:14:36 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: | if_blocked_by('openmotif') | ewarn You must unmerge openmotif before proceeding | It would be icky to have to specify blocker logic/messages like that. Not in the sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-06 Thread Trenton Adams
Oops, forgot to reply to everything. On 1/6/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trenton Adams schreef: On 1/5/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:32:20 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote: something like if_blocked_by('openmotif') ewarn You must

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-05 Thread Trenton Adams
On 1/5/06, Tom Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 00:29:57 -0700 Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I get the output below when trying to merge after a sync today. My guess is that the openmotif package was made into two separate packages, correct

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-05 Thread Trenton Adams
On 1/5/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:10:38 +, Tom Martin wrote: To the portage developers, how could this be handled? Perhaps emerge could somehow figure out the reason for such a conflict, and then automatically unmerge the original package?

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-05 Thread Trenton Adams
On 1/5/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:08:04 +, Tom Martin wrote: if_blocked_by('openmotif') ewarn You must unmerge openmotif before proceeding An error message like that doesn't really tell the user anything that he doesn't already know. It

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-05 Thread Trenton Adams
Oh, and one other thing. This should also be done for packages that get moved to different categories, because I've been getting errors like the following lately... Calculating world dependencies | emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =dev-perl/PodParser-1.22. (dependency required by

Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-05 Thread Trenton Adams
I just boot with a gentoo CD, tar up my entire system, and untar it on the new system. If your new system boots with the gentoo CD as well, then you can pipe this over ssh. Something like the following... cd /mnt/gentoo tar -cz ./ | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cd /mnt/gentoo; tar -xz' I personally

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-05 Thread Trenton Adams
On 1/5/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/5/06, Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calculating world dependencies | emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =dev-perl/PodParser-1.22. (dependency required by mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.0 [binary]) This is something

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 fails to compile

2006-01-05 Thread Trenton Adams
Are you running distcc? If so, try it without distcc. On 1/5/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys - I was just doing an emerge -uD world and it comes to a screeching halt with i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: dbus_bindings.c: No such file or directory when compiling

[gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-04 Thread Trenton Adams
Ok, so I get the output below when trying to merge after a sync today. My guess is that the openmotif package was made into two separate packages, correct? To the portage developers, how could this be handled? Perhaps emerge could somehow figure out the reason for such a conflict, and then

[gentoo-user] Re: package conflict on update

2006-01-04 Thread Trenton Adams
Oh, if someone does make emerge detect how to resolve the conflict, perhaps it should ask the user if they would like to continue with the unmerge/re-emerge. After all, it could be a critical system utility that is running. On 1/5/06, Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I get

[gentoo-user] courier-imap package enhancement

2006-01-03 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi everyone, Might I suggest that the courier-imap package adds a directory of /etc/skel/.maildir during install? That way any new users created on the system would automatically have .maildir for use with courier-imap. Otherwise, courier-imap complains, in /var/log/mail.log, that the .maildir

[gentoo-user] imapsync dependency not merged

2006-01-03 Thread Trenton Adams
Mental note to package maintainer... The merge of imapsync should have included dev-perl/Net-SSLeay. [18:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] # imapsync-ssl Can't locate Net/SSLeay.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6

Re: [gentoo-user] imapsync dependency not merged

2006-01-03 Thread Trenton Adams
sure. On 1/3/06, Tom Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:36:58 -0700 Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mental note to package maintainer... The merge of imapsync should have included dev-perl/Net-SSLeay. [18:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] # imapsync-ssl Can't locate

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Duplicate symbol __glXSingleTable in libglx.a

2005-12-31 Thread Trenton Adams
fix it. On 12/29/05, Francesco Talamona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 01:47, Trenton Adams wrote: Here I go again. This never got to the list, which I assume is because it had an attachment. So, this time it doesn't, I've inlined the xorg log. It did, but gmail has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Duplicate symbol __glXSingleTable in libglx.a

2005-12-31 Thread Trenton Adams
December 2005 09:22, Trenton Adams wrote: Oh well, I wasn't able to get this to work. So, I copied my entire gentoo system from another system that is identical hardware, and it worked just fine. I don't know what I did different, or if I did anything different. I did try doing an emptytree

[gentoo-user] Duplicate symbol __glXSingleTable in /usr/.../libglx.a:glxmodule.o

2005-12-29 Thread Trenton Adams
I get the following error in my Xorg log when trying to start X. I can't figure out what is happening. Duplicate symbol __glXSingleTable in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a:glxmodule.o I've searched the internet for this problem, to no avail. I've installed the ati-drivers, and I

[gentoo-user] Duplicate symbol __glXSingleTable in libglx.a

2005-12-29 Thread Trenton Adams
Here I go again. This never got to the list, which I assume is because it had an attachment. So, this time it doesn't, I've inlined the xorg log. I get the following error in my Xorg log when trying to start X. I can't figure out what is happening. Duplicate symbol __glXSingleTable in

[gentoo-user] bash and keeping history

2005-12-04 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi everyone, There's one thing that has kind of been a little annoying since I started using gentoo a few months ago. That's the fact that when you open multiple bash logins, only the history of the last one logged out actually gets saved. Now I know that redhat saves all of them. Does anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash and keeping history

2005-12-04 Thread Trenton Adams
Thanks guys.On 12/4/05, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 051204 Harry Putnam wrote: Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when you open multiple bash logins, only the history of the last one logged out actually gets saved. I've used for over a year a bash built-in called 'histappend

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