Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg nice-to-have

2021-06-03 Thread n952162
On 6/3/21 4:52 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 15:14:31 +0200, n952162 wrote: It sure would be nice if quickpkg would at least save config files by default, like to inittab.saved, for when you forget to supply --include-unmodified-config empty file because --include-config=n when

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg nice-to-have

2021-06-03 Thread n952162
On 6/3/21 3:14 PM, n952162 wrote: It sure would be nice if quickpkg would at least save config files by default, like to inittab.saved, for when you forget to supply --include-unmodified-config empty file because --include-config=n when 'quickpkg' was used. If the installation can test

[gentoo-user] quickpkg nice-to-have

2021-06-03 Thread n952162
It sure would be nice if quickpkg would at least save config files by default, like to inittab.saved, for when you forget to supply --include-unmodified-config empty file because --include-config=n when 'quickpkg' was used. If the installation can test if the target config file is modified,

[gentoo-user] strange messages in emerge(1) output: "sandbox" broken?

2021-06-02 Thread n952162
Is this an error?  The messages don't even say what pgm they come from: >>> Installing (1 of 103) sys-devel/automake-1.16.3-r1::gentoo  * ACCESS DENIED:  open_wr:  /dev/tty  * ACCESS DENIED:  open_wr:  /dev/tty  * ACCESS DENIED:  open_wr:  /dev/null

[gentoo-user] pango failed to build

2021-06-01 Thread n952162
on two different machines.  Is there some new USE variable I need?

Re: [gentoo-user] is "scp" reliable?

2021-06-01 Thread n952162
On 6/1/21 6:42 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: If there are differences, I would definitely suspect memory and CPU. -- Joost CPU?  USB was mentioned which set off alarm bells for me.  In general though, I would suspect the media  - either source of destination.

Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-01 Thread n952162
On 6/1/21 5:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:14 AM Dale mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hund wrote: > > On June 1, 2021 3:38:30 PM GMT+02:00, n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: > >> 337 packages this month to be updated

Re: [gentoo-user] can anybody recommend any VoIP package?

2021-06-01 Thread n952162
On 6/1/21 4:52 PM, n952162 wrote: Has anybody good luck with any gentoo VoIP package? I imagine the skype package is binary, right? I've tried linphone and some others over the years, but they didn't perform acceptably.  Has there been any progress in that regard? Okay, thanks

[gentoo-user] can anybody recommend any VoIP package?

2021-06-01 Thread n952162
Has anybody good luck with any gentoo VoIP package? I imagine the skype package is binary, right? I've tried linphone and some others over the years, but they didn't perform acceptably.  Has there been any progress in that regard?

[gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-01 Thread n952162
337 packages this month to be updated.  It keeps getting more and more.  Pretty soon, gentoo will overtake Bitcoin in energy use.

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread n952162
On 5/16/21 2:24 PM, Andreas Fink wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2021 13:14:26 +0200 n952162 wrote: On 5/16/21 12:53 PM, Andreas Fink wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2021 12:49:26 +0200 n952162 wrote: On 5/16/21 11:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2021 11:26:37 +0200, n952162 wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread n952162
On 5/16/21 12:53 PM, Andreas Fink wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2021 12:49:26 +0200 n952162 wrote: On 5/16/21 11:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2021 11:26:37 +0200, n952162 wrote: There are no use flags defined for any of the packages I did a random check for, either on the server

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread n952162
On 5/16/21 12:49 PM, n952162 wrote: On 5/16/21 11:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2021 11:26:37 +0200, n952162 wrote: There are no use flags defined for any of the packages I did a random check for, either on the server or the client.  I am worried that it is as you say

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread n952162
On 5/16/21 12:01 PM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: On 5/15/21 7:24 AM, Dan Egli wrote: The R status means REBUILD. Usually, if it's an @world it's pulling that in because something about that package changed and so it needs to rebuild it. The --noreplace option would block that if portage didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread n952162
On 5/16/21 11:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2021 11:26:37 +0200, n952162 wrote: There are no use flags defined for any of the packages I did a random check for, either on the server or the client.  I am worried that it is as you say: that the ebuild has a change of USE flags

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread n952162
On 5/16/21 11:23 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2021 11:11:54 +0200, n952162 wrote: My guess is that one of the USE flags changed.  Compare which USE flags is it currently installed with and which it wants for the reinstall.  It might even be that a USE flag changed in the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread n952162
On 5/15/21 7:24 AM, Dan Egli wrote: The R status means REBUILD. Usually, if it's an @world it's pulling that in because something about that package changed and so it needs to rebuild it. The --noreplace option would block that if portage didn't think it was needed. Based on your options, I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread n952162
On 5/14/21 8:11 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2021 11:54:30 +0200, n952162 wrote: Why does portage want to build this: [ebuild   R    ] x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10::gentoo 0 KiB given this, already installed: /var/db/pkg/x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10/xmodmap-1.0.10.ebuild and these on my

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread n952162
On 5/14/21 6:07 PM, Jack wrote: On 5/14/21 3:54 AM, n952162 wrote: Why does portage want to build this: [ebuild   R    ] x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10::gentoo 0 KiB given this, already installed: /var/db/pkg/x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10/xmodmap-1.0.10.ebuild and these on my binary server (which

[gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-14 Thread n952162
Why does portage want to build this: [ebuild   R    ] x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10::gentoo 0 KiB given this, already installed: /var/db/pkg/x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10/xmodmap-1.0.10.ebuild and these on my binary server (which is apparently not working properly for reasons I'm trying to track down):  

Re: [gentoo-user] how to clean up

2021-05-13 Thread n952162
On 5/14/21 12:36 AM, Dale wrote: Manuel McLure wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 2:47 PM n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: Hi, I'm running out of space and I see I have many versions of all pkgs.  Is the proper way to get rid of all older tarballs - but

Re: [gentoo-user] how to clean up

2021-05-13 Thread n952162
On 5/13/21 11:58 PM, Manuel McLure wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 2:47 PM n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: Hi, I'm running out of space and I see I have many versions of all pkgs.  Is the proper way to get rid of all older tarballs - but retain the current

[gentoo-user] how to clean up

2021-05-13 Thread n952162
Hi, I'm running out of space and I see I have many versions of all pkgs.  Is the proper way to get rid of all older tarballs - but retain the current ones - to simply use the --clean option with emerge?  Any other options necessary?

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update [RESOVLED]

2021-05-06 Thread n952162
On 5/6/21 5:17 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 17:04 +0200, n952162 wrote: How naive of me.  After 5 tries (average of 25 minutes a pop), it worked. I am happy to hear my cynicism was not misplaced =) :-

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update [RESOVLED]

2021-05-06 Thread n952162
On 5/6/21 2:37 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 07:30 +0200, n952162 wrote: Yes!  It did!  It does, every time!  But why?  I have enough disk space... I have no idea. I fix it by re-syncing until the error stops. That's how computers work. How naive of me.  After 5

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update

2021-05-06 Thread n952162
On 5/6/21 2:37 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 07:30 +0200, n952162 wrote: Yes!  It did!  It does, every time!  But why?  I have enough disk space... I have no idea. I fix it by re-syncing until the error stops. That's how computers work. Oh bummer.  So, I started

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update

2021-05-06 Thread n952162
On 5/6/21 10:55 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 07:42:19AM +0200, n952162 wrote This forum entry from 2018: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1085556-start-0.html <https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1085556-start-0.html> lists various possible causes, all of

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update

2021-05-06 Thread n952162
On 5/6/21 11:00 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, May 6, 2021 9:40:21 AM CEST n952162 wrote: On 5/6/21 7:42 AM, n952162 wrote: On 5/6/21 7:30 AM, n952162 wrote: On 5/5/21 8:24 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 20:11 +0200, n952162 wrote: Hello. I update several machines

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update

2021-05-06 Thread n952162
On 5/6/21 7:42 AM, n952162 wrote: On 5/6/21 7:30 AM, n952162 wrote: On 5/5/21 8:24 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 20:11 +0200, n952162 wrote: Hello. I update several machines every month.  This month, most of the machines needed to update more than 300 packages.  But one

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update

2021-05-05 Thread n952162
On 5/6/21 7:30 AM, n952162 wrote: On 5/5/21 8:24 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 20:11 +0200, n952162 wrote: Hello. I update several machines every month.  This month, most of the machines needed to update more than 300 packages.  But one, which isn't any different than

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update

2021-05-05 Thread n952162
On 5/5/21 8:24 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 20:11 +0200, n952162 wrote: Hello. I update several machines every month.  This month, most of the machines needed to update more than 300 packages.  But one, which isn't any different than the others, has 0 to update, after

[gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update

2021-05-05 Thread n952162
Hello. I update several machines every month.  This month, most of the machines needed to update more than 300 packages.  But one, which isn't any different than the others, has 0 to update, after running --sync. Does anybody have an explanation for that?

Re: [gentoo-user] portage has 0 debugging support for binary emerges

2021-04-04 Thread n952162
On 4/4/21 12:37 PM, n952162 wrote: After re-running quickpkg, I still get no "binary"s in the emerge output dependency tree. At some point, I started getting 304 errors here again. |304 Not Modified| <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/304>

Re: [gentoo-user] portage has 0 debugging support for binary emerges

2021-04-04 Thread n952162
On 4/4/21 10:56 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 10:33:15 +0200, n952162 wrote: [ebuild   R    ]    dev-libs/libuv-1.40.0:0/1::gentoo USE="-static-libs" 0 KiB I'm not sure where the static-libs USE flag comes from, it's not in /etc/portage/package.use. The flag

Re: [gentoo-user] portage has 0 debugging support for binary emerges

2021-04-04 Thread n952162
On 4/4/21 12:31 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 3 Apr 2021 22:03:46 +0200, n952162 wrote: I find no clue why the binary packages on my server aren't being picked up.  The --debug option  (and --verbose, naturally) has no additional information.  Running the --getbinpkgonly stops immediately

[gentoo-user] portage has 0 debugging support for binary emerges

2021-04-03 Thread n952162
I find no clue why the binary packages on my server aren't being picked up.  The --debug option  (and --verbose, naturally) has no additional information.  Running the --getbinpkgonly stops immediately, saying 0 packages are selected. I found one problem: on my server, my apache log file had a

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread n952162
On 2/9/21 3:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 14:25:01 +0100, n952162 wrote: gentoo policy is that administrators need to keep their systems up-to-date.  The promise is, if they do so, the dependency system will be reliable. The kernel version is apparently an exception

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread n952162
On 2/9/21 2:56 PM, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:25:01 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2/9/21 12:57 PM, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 10:01:04 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2/9/21 10:05 AM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread n952162
On 2/9/21 12:57 PM, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 10:01:04 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2/9/21 10:05 AM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new kernel, as in: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade I currently have

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread n952162
On 2/9/21 10:05 AM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new kernel, as in:   https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade I currently have this situation: $ uname -a Linux host *4.19.72-gentoo* #7 SMP Tue Jun 9 19:51:52 CEST 2020

[gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread n952162
Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new kernel, as in: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade I currently have this situation: $ uname -a Linux host *4.19.72-gentoo* #7 SMP Tue Jun 9 19:51:52 CEST 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ eselect kernel list Available

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update [ probably RESOLVED ]

2021-02-08 Thread n952162
On 2/8/21 10:47 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Thelma On 2/8/21 2:39 PM, n952162 wrote: On 2/8/21 9:17 PM, n952162 wrote: VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in the strace is a clone

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update [ probably RESOLVED ]

2021-02-08 Thread n952162
On 2/8/21 9:17 PM, n952162 wrote: VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in the strace is a clone. Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix? VBoxClient has behaved like this before, if memory

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update

2021-02-08 Thread n952162
On 2/8/21 10:10 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 2/8/21 1:17 PM, n952162 wrote: VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in the strace is a clone. Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update

2021-02-08 Thread n952162
On 2/8/21 9:17 PM, n952162 wrote: VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in the strace is a clone. Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix? VBoxClient has behaved like this before, if memory

[gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update

2021-02-08 Thread n952162
VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in the strace is a clone. Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix? VBoxClient has behaved like this before, if memory serves. Either I've just forgotten

[gentoo-user] binary server's decisions arbitrary?

2021-02-05 Thread n952162
Hi, I'm updating my vbox's via a binary server on the host. I'm disappointed to see that the client is going to want to build firefox, even though the version it wants is the same as offered by the hosts and the USE flags are the same.  What factor am I missing? The client: [ebuild   R   

Re: [gentoo-user] reflexive dependencies?

2021-02-04 Thread n952162
On 2/4/21 10:45 PM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: On 2/4/21 9:05 PM, Stefano Crocco wrote: On giovedì 4 febbraio 2021 20:49:37 CET n952162 wrote: Is this ok?  It's stopped my update in its tracks: $ equery d dev-ruby/*bundler*    * These packages depend on dev-ruby/bundler: ... dev-ruby/*rdoc

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch

2021-02-04 Thread n952162
On 2/4/21 5:58 PM, Jack wrote: On 2/4/21 11:37 AM, n952162 wrote: On 2/4/21 5:17 PM, Jack wrote: On 2/4/21 10:10 AM, n952162 wrote: On 2/4/21 3:47 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 12:37 +0100, n952162 wrote: The VirtualBox kernel modules do not match this version

Re: [gentoo-user] reflexive dependencies?

2021-02-04 Thread n952162
On 2/4/21 9:24 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 20:49 +0100, n952162 wrote: Is this ok? It's stopped my update in its tracks: /var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/bundler-2.1.4/temp/environment: line 663: rdoc: command not found Emerging rdoc fails because it tries to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] reflexive dependencies?

2021-02-04 Thread n952162
On 2/4/21 9:05 PM, Stefano Crocco wrote: On giovedì 4 febbraio 2021 20:49:37 CET n952162 wrote: Is this ok? It's stopped my update in its tracks: $ equery d dev-ruby/*bundler* * These packages depend on dev-ruby/bundler: ... dev-ruby/*rdoc*-6.1.2 (test ? dev-ruby/bundler

[gentoo-user] reflexive dependencies?

2021-02-04 Thread n952162
Is this ok?  It's stopped my update in its tracks: $ equery d dev-ruby/*bundler*  * These packages depend on dev-ruby/bundler: ... dev-ruby/*rdoc*-6.1.2 (test ? dev-ruby/bundler[ruby_targets_ruby25(-)])     (test ? dev-ruby/bundler[ruby_targets_ruby26(-)]) $ equery d

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch [ RESOLVED ]

2021-02-04 Thread n952162
On 2/4/21 6:36 PM, Michael wrote: On Thursday, 4 February 2021 17:25:35 GMT n952162 wrote: Sorry, if I gave the impression, when I said: /I tried that (using "module-rebuild")/ that I ran it without the "@". I was just referring to the original suggestion had

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch [ RESOLVED ]

2021-02-04 Thread n952162
On 2/4/21 5:56 PM, Michael wrote: On Thursday, 4 February 2021 16:37:01 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2/4/21 5:17 PM, Jack wrote: On 2/4/21 10:10 AM, n952162 wrote: On 2/4/21 3:47 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 12:37 +0100, n952162 wrote: The VirtualBox kernel modules do

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch

2021-02-04 Thread n952162
On 2/4/21 5:17 PM, Jack wrote: On 2/4/21 10:10 AM, n952162 wrote: On 2/4/21 3:47 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 12:37 +0100, n952162 wrote: The VirtualBox kernel modules do not match this version of VirtualBox. Whenever you update app-emulation/virtualbox *or* your

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch

2021-02-04 Thread n952162
On 2/4/21 3:47 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 12:37 +0100, n952162 wrote: The VirtualBox kernel modules do not match this version of VirtualBox. Whenever you update app-emulation/virtualbox *or* your kernel version, you need to update app-emulation/virtualbox-modules

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch

2021-02-04 Thread n952162
On 2/4/21 12:42 PM, Michael wrote: On Thursday, 4 February 2021 11:37:59 GMT n952162 wrote: After updating, when I try to start my virtual machine (to update it), I get this: RTR3InitEx failed with rc=-1912 (rc=-1912) The VirtualBox kernel modules do not match this version

[gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch

2021-02-04 Thread n952162
After updating, when I try to start my virtual machine (to update it), I get this: RTR3InitEx failed with rc=-1912 (rc=-1912) The VirtualBox kernel modules do not match this version of VirtualBox. The installation of VirtualBox was apparently not successful. Executing

Re: [gentoo-user] syslogd hibernating

2021-01-15 Thread n952162
On 1/15/21 4:30 PM, Michael wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2021 15:23:34 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2021 15:08:15 GMT n952162 wrote: On 1/15/21 10:24 AM, Michael wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2021 08:47:18 GMT n952162 wrote: Hello, can anyone explain this? I noticed today

Re: [gentoo-user] syslogd hibernating [RESOLVED]

2021-01-15 Thread n952162
On 1/15/21 5:29 PM, n952162 wrote: On 1/15/21 4:30 PM, Michael wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2021 15:23:34 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2021 15:08:15 GMT n952162 wrote: On 1/15/21 10:24 AM, Michael wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2021 08:47:18 GMT n952162 wrote: Hello, can

Re: [gentoo-user] syslogd hibernating

2021-01-15 Thread n952162
On 1/15/21 4:30 PM, Michael wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2021 15:23:34 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2021 15:08:15 GMT n952162 wrote: On 1/15/21 10:24 AM, Michael wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2021 08:47:18 GMT n952162 wrote: Hello, can anyone explain this? I noticed today

Re: [gentoo-user] syslogd hibernating

2021-01-15 Thread n952162
On 1/15/21 10:24 AM, Michael wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2021 08:47:18 GMT n952162 wrote: Hello, can anyone explain this? I noticed today (15. January) that the /var/log/{messages,kern.log,etc.} files on a box were last touched on 22. November. sysklogd was in the rc-open /started/ state

[gentoo-user] syslogd hibernating

2021-01-15 Thread n952162
Hello, can anyone explain this? I noticed today (15. January) that the /var/log/{messages,kern.log,etc.} files on a box were last touched on 22. November. sysklogd was in the rc-open /started/ state and was running. The configuration file, /etc/syslog.conf matches completely that file on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python3 question

2021-01-13 Thread n952162
On 1/13/21 9:22 PM, Victor Ivanov wrote: On 13/01/2021 20:06, n952162 wrote: What encoding is your editor using? vi?  How would I determine that?  My locale is C You could use:   :set fenc to display the current encoding used for the file, or   :set fenc=utf8 to force UTF-8 or any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python3 question

2021-01-13 Thread n952162
On 1/13/21 8:57 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2021-01-13, n952162 wrote: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- [ this has to be in line1 or line2!!! ] If you have that line in your source code, make sure your editor is saving the file in UTF-8 encoding. Oh, I think that gave me a solution! # -*- coding

Re: [gentoo-user] python3 question [RESOLVED]

2021-01-13 Thread n952162
On 1/13/21 8:41 PM, n952162 wrote: On 1/13/21 7:57 PM, n952162 wrote: On 1/13/21 7:31 PM, n952162 wrote: Hello.  In python3, how do you do this? tgt = 'gebuchte Umsätze;' In python2, you could do this: tgt = unicode ('gebuchte Umsätze;'.decode ('latin1')) but that gives: SyntaxError

Re: [gentoo-user] python3 question

2021-01-13 Thread n952162
On 1/13/21 7:57 PM, n952162 wrote: On 1/13/21 7:31 PM, n952162 wrote: Hello.  In python3, how do you do this? tgt = 'gebuchte Umsätze;' In python2, you could do this: tgt = unicode ('gebuchte Umsätze;'.decode ('latin1')) but that gives: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'utf-8' codec can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python3 question

2021-01-13 Thread n952162
On 1/13/21 7:59 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2021-01-13, n952162 wrote: Hello. In python3, how do you do this? Please explain what "this" is trying to accomplish, and we can tell you how to do it in Python3. Are you trying to convert from Unicode to Latin1 and back to Unicode?

Re: [gentoo-user] python3 question

2021-01-13 Thread n952162
On 1/13/21 7:31 PM, n952162 wrote: Hello.  In python3, how do you do this? tgt = 'gebuchte Umsätze;' In python2, you could do this: tgt = unicode ('gebuchte Umsätze;'.decode ('latin1')) but that gives: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 12: invalid

[gentoo-user] python3 question

2021-01-13 Thread n952162
Hello.  In python3, how do you do this? tgt = 'gebuchte Umsätze;' In python2, you could do this: tgt = unicode ('gebuchte Umsätze;'.decode ('latin1')) but that gives: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 12: invalid continuation byte In fact, any

Re: [gentoo-user] binary server in both directions?

2021-01-06 Thread n952162
On 1/6/21 5:50 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:29:45 GMT n952162 wrote: On 1/6/21 4:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 16:46:49 +0100, n952162 wrote: I set up a binary server on one of my real machines to service a vbox hosted on it. It seems to work

Re: [gentoo-user] binary server in both directions?

2021-01-06 Thread n952162
On 1/6/21 4:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 16:46:49 +0100, n952162 wrote: I set up a binary server on one of my real machines to service a vbox hosted on it.  It seems to work okay, but both firefox and thunderbird are re-emerging ... I suspect that they changed between when I

[gentoo-user] binary server in both directions?

2021-01-06 Thread n952162
I set up a binary server on one of my real machines to service a vbox hosted on it.  It seems to work okay, but both firefox and thunderbird are re-emerging ... I suspect that they changed between when I did a --sync on the host and a --sync on the client. I can't see any problem with

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /var/tmp/portage

2021-01-05 Thread n952162
On 1/5/21 11:46 PM, n952162 wrote: On 1/5/21 11:38 PM, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 5 January 2021 22:33:44 GMT n952162 wrote: On 1/5/21 11:17 PM, n952162 wrote: I'm thinking about putting the stuff in /var/tmp/portage on another drive and linking with a symlink.  Is there a better way? Thank

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /var/tmp/portage

2021-01-05 Thread n952162
On 1/5/21 11:38 PM, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 5 January 2021 22:33:44 GMT n952162 wrote: On 1/5/21 11:17 PM, n952162 wrote: I'm thinking about putting the stuff in /var/tmp/portage on another drive and linking with a symlink. Is there a better way? Thank you all for the suggestion about

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /var/tmp/portage

2021-01-05 Thread n952162
On 1/5/21 11:17 PM, n952162 wrote: I'm thinking about putting the stuff in /var/tmp/portage on another drive and linking with a symlink.  Is there a better way? Thank you all for the suggestion about make.conf.  I'd seen something about configuring it in *|/etc/portage/env/notmpfs.conf

[gentoo-user] moving /var/tmp/portage

2021-01-05 Thread n952162
I'm thinking about putting the stuff in /var/tmp/portage on another drive and linking with a symlink.  Is there a better way?

Re: [gentoo-user] could there be a problem with acct-group/lp? [RESOLVED]

2021-01-01 Thread n952162
On 12/30/20 11:17 PM, n952162 wrote: When I try to restore my pkgs, after the --depclean, the emerge fails. It seems like there's an error in the pre-inst script of acct-group/lp? That's need by cups: 1270~/adm/gentoo/emerged>sudo cat /var/tmp/portage/acct-group/lp-0-r1/temp/build.

Re: [gentoo-user] could there be a problem with acct-group/lp?

2021-01-01 Thread n952162
On 1/1/21 8:47 PM, n952162 wrote: On 12/31/20 2:14 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 12/31/20 2:34 AM, n952162 wrote: cups was already installed.  I considered removing it, but several other things, like ghostscript (!) are dependent on it.  I'm using --keep-going for now.  I suspect a bug

Re: [gentoo-user] could there be a problem with acct-group/lp?

2021-01-01 Thread n952162
On 1/1/21 8:47 PM, n952162 wrote: On 12/31/20 2:14 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 12/31/20 2:34 AM, n952162 wrote: cups was already installed.  I considered removing it, but several other things, like ghostscript (!) are dependent on it.  I'm using --keep-going for now.  I suspect a bug

Re: [gentoo-user] could there be a problem with acct-group/lp?

2021-01-01 Thread n952162
On 12/31/20 2:14 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 12/31/20 2:34 AM, n952162 wrote: cups was already installed.  I considered removing it, but several other things, like ghostscript (!) are dependent on it.  I'm using --keep-going for now.  I suspect a bug in acct-group/lp that will get cleared

Re: [gentoo-user] could there be a problem with acct-group/lp?

2020-12-30 Thread n952162
On 12/31/20 1:29 AM, Michael wrote: On Wednesday, 30 December 2020 23:33:47 GMT Jack wrote: On 2020.12.30 17:17, n952162 wrote: When I try to restore my pkgs, after the --depclean, the emerge fails. It seems like there's an error in the pre-inst script of acct-group/lp? That's need by cups

Re: [gentoo-user] could there be a problem with acct-group/lp?

2020-12-30 Thread n952162
On 12/31/20 12:33 AM, Jack wrote: On 2020.12.30 17:17, n952162 wrote: When I try to restore my pkgs, after the --depclean, the emerge fails. It seems like there's an error in the pre-inst script of acct-group/lp? That's need by cups: 1270~/adm/gentoo/emerged>sudo cat /var/tmp/portage/a

[gentoo-user] could there be a problem with acct-group/lp?

2020-12-30 Thread n952162
When I try to restore my pkgs, after the --depclean, the emerge fails.  It seems like there's an error in the pre-inst script of acct-group/lp?  That's need by cups: 1270~/adm/gentoo/emerged>sudo cat /var/tmp/portage/acct-group/lp-0-r1/temp/build.log  * Package:    acct-group/lp-0-r1  *

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why [PROGRESS]

2020-12-30 Thread n952162
On 12/30/20 9:35 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 at 08:46, n952162 wrote: Well, yes, the current version, indeed requires python3_8. The version that was installed on my system, however, to be updated, listed python3_7 in the PYTHON_TARGETS section. That was the only difference

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why [PROGRESS]

2020-12-29 Thread n952162
On 12/30/20 1:05 AM, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 29 December 2020 22:55:03 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 23:16:11 +0100, n952162 wrote: So, I tried to do an emerge on @system. I got another slot conflict! This time for mako, which I'd seen go by sometimes as a "pa

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why [PROGRESS]

2020-12-29 Thread n952162
On 12/30/20 1:05 AM, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 29 December 2020 22:55:03 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 23:16:11 +0100, n952162 wrote: So, I tried to do an emerge on @system. I got another slot conflict! This time for mako, which I'd seen go by sometimes as a "pa

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why [PROGRESS]

2020-12-29 Thread n952162
On 12/30/20 1:21 AM, Dale wrote: Michael wrote: I expect in a few weeks the tree will settle on python3_9, so all this rinse and repeat exercise with all the python updates should hopefully go quiet. :-) It may not be a bad idea for the OP to sync again and see if that helps.  It's rare but

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why [PROGRESS]

2020-12-29 Thread n952162
On 12/29/20 11:07 PM, n952162 wrote: So, I tried to do an emerge on @system.  I got another slot conflict! This time for mako, which I'd seen go by sometimes as a "package of interest".  It's only transgression: PYTHON_TARGET containing python3_7. Note that both the "sche

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why [PROGRESS]

2020-12-29 Thread n952162
On 12/3/20 9:33 PM, n952162 wrote: I'm trying to update the gentoo system that I last updated 6 weeks ago, but it seems not to work.  Can somebody explain to me why? I tried and tried to figure out how I could determine what the fatal slot conflict would be.  No matter how I mixed things

[gentoo-user] libxml2 has 7 different versions in slot 2?

2020-12-27 Thread n952162
This script:      equery -CN d libxml2 | sed -n -e '/^[  ]/d' -e 's/[^(]*(//' -e 's/)[^)]*$//' -e 's,[^/]*/,,' -e '/:/p' | sort -u gets the package atom of each version of libxml2 in slot 2: libxml2-2.4.12:2 libxml2-2.4.16:2 libxml2-2.6.21:2

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-19 Thread n952162
On 12/19/20 12:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 12:12:21 +0100, n952162 wrote: Your output gives away that you STILL have not run depclean, so you STILL have dev-python/ipaddress installed, which has been removed from the tree, and requires python 2.7. Unless you remove old

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-19 Thread n952162
On 12/19/20 12:35 PM, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 19 December 2020 10:20:26 GMT n952162 wrote: I don't think this output or any list participant has actually identified where the problem here is. In my original posting, the only difference causing the slot collision for jinja was that one had

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-19 Thread n952162
On 12/19/20 12:12 PM, bobwxc wrote: 在 2020/12/19 下午6:20, n952162 写道: On 12/16/20 11:59 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 11:34, Miles Malone wrote: What's happening when you do emerge -avuDN --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=100 @world ? Giving portage the flexibility to solve

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-19 Thread n952162
On 12/19/20 11:45 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: Backtracking rarely helps in my experience. check the blocks: using --nodeps forces the install, then it may work (you may have to add to package.accept_keywords etc. to cover that angle - but I am on arm and arm64 where the most difficult of the

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-19 Thread n952162
On 12/16/20 11:34 AM, Miles Malone wrote: What's happening when you do emerge -avuDN --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=100 @world ? Giving portage the flexibility to solve it with some extra backtracking and increasing the scope to world might fix it, if not then we can revisit it? That's how I

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-16 Thread n952162
if I've tried that combination, I'll do so now. ... you include -a.  Under what situation might I respond to the prompt with 'no'? On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 20:24, n952162 wrote: In an update with several slot collisions (see attachment), I'm zero-ing in on the simplest, where a package

[gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-16 Thread n952162
In an update with several slot collisions (see attachment),  I'm zero-ing in on the simplest, where a package is to be replaced by the same package, but with different PYTHON_TARGETS (at least, that's how I interpret it). Is there a way to force the PYTHON_TARGETS of the dependency? Slot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-14 Thread n952162
On 12/14/20 11:17 AM, Wols Lists wrote: On 14/12/20 08:51, Dale wrote: If you are able, maybe you can compile the bigger packages on a faster system? If it is a option, it may help. If I have multiple similar machines, I create a shared a shared local repository. Then I run emerge with the

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
On 12/14/20 1:04 AM, Michael wrote: If you're running a stable system then you should not *need* to define a particular python version or python target manually in your USE preferences configuration and you should not need to add python or any lib packages in general, in your

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