[gentoo-user] Re: (G)vim 9.0.0099 won't start

2022-08-21 Thread nunojsilva
On 2022-08-21, Philip Webb wrote: > Today, I updated to the latest stable Vim 9.0.0099 + GVim same > & it refused to open. No problem back with 8.2.4586. > > Has anyone else encountered this ? Does anyone have a suggestion ? No *vim here, but: what does happen exactly? That is, what do you

[gentoo-user] Re: Layman adding git over ssh only repository

2022-08-15 Thread nunojsilva
On 2022-08-15, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I tried to add a repository which is only reachable via git over ssh; no > access via git port (9418 according to /etc/services) or http(s). Only ssh > connections with public key are accepted. > > I tried > Layman -o

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE update puzzle

2021-09-18 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-09-18, Philip Webb wrote: > It mb that I have to remove the whole of the present versions > in order to (re-)install the new ones ; it usually happens with Qt. > I've never understood why Portage can't handle that itself. Portage might be able to handle this automatically if you upgrade

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE update puzzle

2021-09-18 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-09-18, Philip Webb wrote: > There is an update available for KDE Frameworks. > When I try to perform it, I get a conflict statement which begins > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot

[gentoo-user] Re: Motif compile fails

2021-08-31 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-08-28, Philip Webb wrote: > As part of updating to the latest stable Xscreensaver, > I tried to emerge its requirement Motif, which failed with this message : [...] > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: >

[gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-08-04 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-08-04, Philip Webb wrote: > 210804 Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: >> On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 07:45:27 -0400, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >>> $ emerge --ask --depclean | less >> I tested this using "most" from within a "urxvt" terminal >> and at least with default options it did not work for me. > > Why

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/perl:0

2021-07-30 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-07-30, nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: > On 2021-07-30, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> I'm trying to run an upgrade but I got stuck on perl: > [...] >> (dev-lang/perl-5.34.0:0/5.34::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >> USE="gdbm -berkdb -debug -doc -ithreads -minimal" ABI_X86="(64)"

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/perl:0

2021-07-30 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-07-30, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm trying to run an upgrade but I got stuck on perl: [...] > (dev-lang/perl-5.34.0:0/5.34::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="gdbm > -berkdb -debug -doc -ithreads -minimal" ABI_X86="(64)" pulled in by [...] > Running: "perl-cleaner --all"

[gentoo-user] Re: world update gone astray portage will not let me continue

2021-07-20 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-07-20, John Covici wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:53:30 -0400, > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> [1 ] >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 07:36:27 +0100, (Nuno Silva) wrote: >> >> > As this is a problem with generating documentation, have you tried the >> > following as a workaround?: >> > >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: world update gone astray portage will not let me continue

2021-07-20 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-07-19, John Covici wrote: > Hi. I am having major problems with my world update started a couple > of days ago. There is a long history which I won't go into now, but > what I have immediately is that media-libs/harfbuzz will not install > and even though I have --keep-going, portage

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] tar exclude syntax tip

2021-05-05 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-05-05, tastytea wrote: > On 2021-05-05 09:33-0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > >> tar version >> >> >> tar (GNU tar) 1.34 >> Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later >>

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Saving an image as black and white

2021-03-01 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-03-01, Wols Lists wrote: > On 01/03/21 12:11, (Nuno Silva) wrote: >> On 2021-03-01, Wols Lists wrote: >> >>> I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And >>> they're rather big ... I want to email them. >>> >>> How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b documents? At

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Saving an image as black and white

2021-03-01 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-03-01, Wols Lists wrote: > I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And > they're rather big ... I want to email them. > > How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b documents? At the moment they > are jpegs that weigh in at 3MB, and I guess they're using about 5

[gentoo-user] Re: No logging output to tty12

2020-12-13 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-12-12, Walter Dnes wrote: > I used to get stuff going to tty12, e.g.when attaching a USB drive, > etc. My recent fresh install doesn't have this output. What am I doing > wrong? Have you installed something for syslog? In my installs, I think it is syslog-ng that does this. At least

[gentoo-user] Re: error trying to mount Samsung: Galaxy android models (MTP)

2020-11-22 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-11-22, edward m wrote: > hi, i receive an error when trying to mount an android phone under > gentoo. im wondering if a fix, workaround exists or more likely its a bug. > thanks in advance. I think with MTP there can be issues owing to implementation details - some phones will have

[gentoo-user] Re: dhcpd versus fixed IP addresses

2020-10-05 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-10-05, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 06:31:44PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > >> However, I would wait until the new modem arrives as most do allow >> you to turn off DHCP for the LAN and the information you have may >> only apply to the WAN connection. > > On their

[gentoo-user] Re: gnokii emerge failed

2020-09-05 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-09-05, n952162 wrote: > gnokii wanted to emerge 6 packages and failed on the last: > > /txm1 /var/tmp/portage/app-mobilephone/gnokii-0.6.31-r1 # less > /var/tmp/portage/app-mobilephone/gnokii-0.6.31-r1/temp/autoconf.out// > //* autoconf *// > //* PWD: >

[gentoo-user] Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: ALSA wizard...

2020-04-28 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-04-26, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack wrote: >> >> On 2020.04.26 15:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> [snip] > >> I run a mostly stable amd64 system with selected ~amd64 packages. I >> use both slack and zoom reasonably often, and have not had any install >>

[gentoo-user] Re: sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1 failed to emerge

2020-04-09 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-04-09, gevisz wrote: > ср, 8 апр. 2020 г. в 19:31, gevisz : >> >> ср, 8 апр. 2020 г. в 18:13, Michael Orlitzky : >> > >> > The other thing you should be aware of is that dev-lang/julia is, from a >> > software engineering point of view, an absolute trainwreck (upstream, >> > not the

[gentoo-user] Re: sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1 failed to emerge

2020-04-08 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-04-08, gevisz wrote: > I've tried to install julia-1.4.0 but one of its dependencies, namely, > sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1 failed to emerge with the following error message: > > * Failed Running automake ! > * > * Include in your bugreport the contents of: > * > *

[gentoo-user] Re: zoom?

2020-04-01 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-04-01, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 1/4/20 4:55 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 09:12:46 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: >> >>> [blocks B  ] media-libs/mesa[-libglvnd(-)] >>> ("media-libs/mesa[-libglvnd(-)]" is blocking media-libs/libglvnd-1.3.1) >> It looks like you

[gentoo-user] Re: swaps mounted randomly [not out of the woods yet]

2020-03-21 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-03-19, n952162 wrote: > On 2020-03-19 09:36, n952162 wrote: >> On 2020-03-19 09:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:17:58 +0100, n952162 wrote: >>> A couple of years back, I bought these drives to install RAID on them, but gave up on that.  Now, I've decided to

[gentoo-user] Re: Loading Issue

2020-02-19 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-02-19, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Roger, > > On Wednesday, 2020-02-19 09:51:20 +1300, you wrote: > >> ... >> rc_interactive means I can press "I" or "i" during boot and >> INTERRUPT >> the boot process; *otherwise* it will boot as per normal. >> >> Is that not the behaviour you are

[gentoo-user] Re: Web browsers crash when trying to print.

2020-02-15 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-02-15, Mick wrote: > On Saturday, 15 February 2020 04:54:21 GMT Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I first discovered this with Seamonkey. I then tested this with Firefox >> and got the same results. When I go to File and select Print, the print >> dialog window pops up for just a second and

[gentoo-user] Re: Bouncing messages from gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2020-01-13 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-01-13, james wrote: > On 1/13/20 11:32 AM, gentoo-user+ow...@lists.gentoo.org wrote: >> >> Some messages to you could not be delivered. If you're seeing this >> message it means things are back to normal, and it's merely for your >> information. >> >> Here is the list of the bounced

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system …

2019-12-19 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-12-19, Thomas Schweikle wrote: >>> > On 2019-12-18, (Nuno Silva) < >>> > nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt> wrote: >>> > >>> > > The EAPI problem is in a package that is pulled as a dependency of >>> > > portage. >>> > > >>> > > Unless there's a simple hack to solve this, you will need to use older

[gentoo-user] Re: trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system …

2019-12-18 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-12-18, Ilya Trukhanov wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Thomas Schweikle wrote: >> The current version of portage supports EAPI '6'. You must upgrade to a >> newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed. > > The message is pretty clear. You need

[gentoo-user] Re: Network config problem

2019-11-30 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-11-30, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I want to start playing with IPv6 (thanks, Ralph S.) but first I need > to clean up something wrong with my existing IPv4. > > # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart [...] > * Bringing down interface eth0 > RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory > Error

[gentoo-user] Re: Bounced messages

2019-10-31 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-10-31, Mick wrote: > On Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:06:15 GMT Dale wrote: >> Mick wrote: > >> > I'm getting the same. On the same message(s). On user@ only. >> >> I sent for and got the help thingy and tried to get it to send me the >> missed messages. So far, I've yet to get

[gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update.

2019-10-12 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-10-12, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 02:14:51 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> right now the next update is looking **BAD**: >> >> >> >> tortoise ~ # emerge --update --verbose portage --backtrack=30 >> --verbose-conflicts --pretend > > What are you emerging here, @system or

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerging glib-2.60.6 failed

2019-09-08 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-09-08, Hartmut Figge wrote: > my latest update 'emerge -q -uDN @world' failed at glib-2.60.6. > Continuing with --skipfirst succeeded. Today, after a new 'emerge > --sync', 'emerge -q -uDN @system' still failed with the same error. > > My Gentoo is mostly stable. The relevant info can be

[gentoo-user] Re: switch from gnome/systemd to xfce/openrc borked my system - I GIVE UP

2019-08-20 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-08-20, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Raffaele Belardi wrote: [...] > - I grub-loaded a different kernel, one built for systemd. It stops in > the exact same place as the openrc-built one. What are the kernel command lines for both kernels? -- Nuno Silva

[gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

2019-07-13 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-07-12, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2019-07-11 21:28, Nuno Silva wrote: > >> vlock -n -a > > Does vlock work from an XWindow session? Or would I have to use it on > top of whatever I do to lock the XWindow session - xscreensaver/i3lock > etc? It does work from inside X11 here. I can, for

[gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

2019-07-11 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-07-10, François-Xavier CARTON wrote: > On 7/10/19 7:03 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> Here is my next "low information" question, haha. >> >> I use i3lock which is like Xscreensaver but much much simpler; it plays >> no movies or games, just blanks the screen with a configured color or >>

[gentoo-user] Re: fdm fails during ./configure: libssl not found

2019-06-25 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-06-24, Bryant Morrow wrote: > --- > > fdm-1.9 consistently fails to build, with configure citing a lack of > libssl as the reason. I have openssl installed, and > /usr/lib64/libssl.so (symlink to /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.1) exists. > I've looked for similar problems online, with no luck. It

[gentoo-user] Re: x11-libs/guile-gtk-2.1-r3 fails to compile

2019-05-06 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-05-06, Jack wrote: > On 2019.05.06 13:26, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: [...] >> I got curious, so I tried to emerge guile-gtk, too. >> >> After the ebuild failed, the output got dumped to the terminal >> and showed lots of magenta warnings and cyan notes >> and somewhere in there three red

[gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice and copying web pages

2019-05-01 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-04-30, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As some know, I got a printer.  Now I'm trying to get some info and > print it using LOo for the most part.  This is the way I do this.  I go > to a web page, sites will vary, and I highlight what I want and copy it > to the clipboard.  I then go to LOo and

[gentoo-user] Re: Quad UART PCIe Adapter (Oxford-Chipset) seems (not?) to work? Check?

2019-03-24 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-03-24, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > In my PC there is a quad uart PCIe-adapter with Oxford Chipset. > With lspci it is listed as: > 04:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 > UART) function 0 (Uart) > and > 04:00.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd

[gentoo-user] Re: Ssh problem : half-solved

2019-03-12 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-03-11, Philip Webb wrote: > 190311 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> Have you run ssh with -v >> to see what configuration options it is reading from where. >> Bear in mind that ssh stops at the first matching host definition, >> so if you have a "host *" in your config, it must be last. > > This

[gentoo-user] Re: mac-fdisk with different block size

2019-01-13 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-01-13, Andrew Udvare wrote: >> On Jan 13, 2019, at 09:24, (Nuno Silva) wrote: >> >> On 2019-01-13, Andrew Udvare wrote: >> On 2019-01-13, at 07:49, (Nuno Silva) wrote: I am trying to create an Apple partition map with a block size of 4096 bytes, but I can't find

[gentoo-user] Re: mac-fdisk with different block size

2019-01-13 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-01-13, Andrew Udvare wrote: >> On 2019-01-13, at 07:49, (Nuno Silva) wrote: >> >> I am trying to create an Apple partition map with a block size of 4096 >> bytes, but I can't find an option to change the block size in mac-fdisk, >> which defaults to 512 bytes. >> >> Does anybody know

[gentoo-user] mac-fdisk with different block size

2019-01-13 Thread nunojsilva
I am trying to create an Apple partition map with a block size of 4096 bytes, but I can't find an option to change the block size in mac-fdisk, which defaults to 512 bytes. Does anybody know of a utility that can create and modify such partition maps under Gentoo? -- Nuno Silva

[gentoo-user] Re: SystemRescueCD with nonm

2019-01-01 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-01-01, Mick wrote: > Which package do I need to emerge for isohybrid? sys-boot/syslinux -- Nuno Silva

[gentoo-user] Re: Is it that hard to add a package, or am I doing wrong?

2018-12-20 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-12-20, YUE Daian wrote: > On 2018-12-20 03:50, Nils Freydank wrote: >> Hi Danny, >> >> first I want to thank you for submitting your ebuild, and I'm quite sorry to >> see another contributor who doesn't get responses for a long while. This is >> no >> evil intention, just a lack of

[gentoo-user] Re: trouble with my normal emerge --update @world

2018-12-02 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-12-02, allan gottlieb wrote: > On one of my stable amd64 systems, I just ran > > emerge --update --changed-use --with-bdeps=n --deep @world > > and received a list of 65 packages to merge (many gnome). > > The update completed and I was told > > !!! existing preserved libs: package:

[gentoo-user] Re: net-nntp/inn - This package is masked and could be removed soon!

2018-11-25 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-11-25, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 1:28 PM Grant Taylor > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I happily use net-nntp/inn on my server and was surprised to find that >> it is now masked and apparently up for removal. It looks like >> maintenance has dropped off on the package. >> >> I've

[gentoo-user] Re: copy text file to clipboard on startup

2018-11-22 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-11-22, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 11/22/2018 10:02 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:35:42 -0700 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> I have a simple text file (with few lines in it) and using XFCE. >>> >>> How do I copy text from that file to "clipboard" so that

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

2018-11-20 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-11-18, Daniel Frey wrote: [...] > It's really unfortunate that on massive builds distcc is not an option. > Maybe I should consider -bin instead. If you do happen to have a more powerful machine running Gentoo on a compatible architecture[1], you could also try Gentoo binary packages

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

2018-11-18 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-11-18, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 11/18/18 02:47, Alarig Le Lay wrote: >> Hi Daniel, >> >> Didi you tried to remove the temporary directory (inside /var/tmp) and >> re-emerge id again? It looks like an incorrectly decompressed archive. >> > > I just tried this, to no avail. > > I'm trying

[gentoo-user] Re: PSI+ compile error

2018-09-10 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-09-09, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hi, > > I try to compile psi+ as I depend on OTR. You might be also interested in the following bug report https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651248 -- Nuno Silva

[gentoo-user] Re: PSI+ compile error

2018-09-10 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-09-09, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > I created a ebuild patch that fixes the issue. Unfortunatelly I do not > know where to report that error in gentoo. > > There is no reportbug binary and I do not know a mail address where to > post that to. > > Does anybody have an idea? Bugzilla at

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice 6

2018-09-04 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-09-04, james wrote: > I recently upgraded to LO 6.0.6.2; the upgrade went fine. > > > When saving docs, I had it default to ".doc" as the most > common format and I mostly use libreoffice for doz based > folks. > > > Now the save option does not list out all of those choices to save > a

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg on really old PC

2018-08-31 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-08-30, François-Xavier CARTON wrote: > Hi, > > I'm installing Gentoo on a really old PC (with a Pentium III and a > i815 graphic card). I've installed a minimal Gentoo system, and I'm > trying to get Xorg working. > > I've searched on the Gentoo wiki, and found that I should use an old >

[gentoo-user] Re: python targets problem

2018-08-25 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-08-25, Philip Webb wrote: > For a long time, several pkgs have been refusing to install, > apparently due to a conflict re python targets : > > root:595 ~> emerge -pv certifi file pyblake2 meson setuptools What if you add dev-python/pygments to this list? This might be a stupid guess,

[gentoo-user] Re: Update circle

2018-08-22 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-08-22, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: > I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite > a long while, actually. > > Now I needed to install a package, and I did so. It went up, no > problem. Except that it relies on a newer version of openrc than > what's on the system. From

[gentoo-user] Re: Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat

2018-08-22 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-08-21, Grant Edwards wrote: > There are a handful of 3rd party, closed-source apps that I run on my > Gentoo systems. Often they're available for RedHat or Ubuntu, > sometimes for "generic" Linux. > > The apps for "generic" Linux usually run without too much trouble, > since they tend to

[gentoo-user] Re: Is this a portage bug?

2018-08-15 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-08-15, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > While trying to get a USB printer recognised on an Atom box, I found this, > immediately after emerge --sync && eix-update: > > (atom) peak / # eix -c kyocera > [N] net-print/kyocera-1x2x-mfp-driver (--): Printer descriptions (PPDs) and >

[gentoo-user] emerge: custom formatting for USE flags in -pv/-av output

2018-08-12 Thread nunojsilva
Hello, I see there is a way to customize colors in the output of emerge, but is there a way to customize the other formatting attributes, short of editing the source itself? What I would like to do is to change the way USE flags are shown, possibly - Removing the bold attribute for disabled USE

[gentoo-user] Re: [Bulk] Re: Back to openrc from systemd

2013-03-23 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-03-22, Kevin Chadwick wrote: If you don't need user session monitoring for anything (which is what ConsoleKit and logind provides), nor interactive privilege granting (which is what polkit provides), then I believe you will have no Thanks. Now *that* is what I call explaining

[gentoo-user] Re: Back to openrc from systemd

2013-03-22 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-03-22, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:45 PM, João Matos jaon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, do you know some guide to switch form systemd to openrc, or keep both? I googled and I didn't find. The motivation is that I'm studing many server stuff, and I'm tired of

[gentoo-user] Re: Back to openrc from systemd

2013-03-22 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-03-22, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Nuno Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: On 2013-03-22, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:45 PM, João Matos jaon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, do you know some guide to switch form systemd to

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD64, Firefox = Java Plugin?

2013-03-19 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-03-17, walt wrote: On 03/16/2013 06:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am looking for a useable howto/tutorial which describes howto install the java plugin for the current fireox. I see your question is already answered, but I'll add that there are a zillion open security

[gentoo-user] Re: I guess it is time to update udev from 171-r10 to 197-r8...

2013-03-18 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-03-17, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-03-17 2:17 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:46:39 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Also, should I manually fix the blockers: [blocks B ] sys-apps/module-init-tools (sys-apps/module-init-tools is blocking

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-15 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-03-15, Dale wrote: I didn't miss anything. I get what some are saying. The reason for my question is this. Gentoo allows a person to customize the OS to the specific hardware it is being run on. Redhat and other binary distros don't allow this, unless you compile your own packages

[gentoo-user] udev rules and hibernation

2013-03-04 Thread nunojsilva
Hello, Currently, I decided to rely on udev to give me predictable network interface names. Strangely, the rules I am using do not seem to work after resuming from hibernation. For example, for one of my interfaces, I have SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTR{address}==xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, NAME=lan0

[gentoo-user] Re: Acroread

2013-02-17 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-02-17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Feb 17, 2013 3:04 PM, Yohan Pereira yohan.pere...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/02/13 at 02:44pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: That's what I did. But I tend to switch browsers too often (chromium and Firefox). Firefox has a pdf.js addon, doesn't work

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-197: what to do -- S0LVED

2013-02-15 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-02-15, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 28.01.2013 00:00, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: Thanks for all the suggestions. I did the following, which worked. 1. Built and installed kernel with CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y 2. Moved udev-postmount back to /etc/init.d (I had moved it to /tmp).

[gentoo-user] Re: Delayed update semantics

2013-02-14 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-02-14, James wrote: So, my latest ideas is to sync up and then wait one week before acutally installing those new packages. This would allow the fodder that the good folks on this list catch, bitch about (um, I mean file bug reports) and fix, to occur first; then I can complete the

[gentoo-user] Re: No server profile anymore???

2013-02-12 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-02-10, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/02/2013 19:25, Jarry wrote: !!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore. !!! Use eselect profile to update your profile. !!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible: default/linux/amd64/13.0 [...] So is

[gentoo-user] Re: No server profile anymore???

2013-02-10 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-02-10, Jarry wrote: Hi gentoo-users, today after syncing portage tree I tried to update my system, but I was greeted with message: !!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore. !!! Use eselect profile to update your profile. !!! Please upgrade to the following

[gentoo-user] Re: error: Cg/cg.h: No such file or directory

2013-02-04 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-02-03, João Matos wrote: Dear list, I'm trying to build dolphin-emu from gamerlay, and I got the following error: error: Cg/cg.h: No such file or directory But the file actually exists: /opt/nvidia-cg-toolkit/include/Cg/cg.h Should it be a problem that I can solve myself? I

[gentoo-user] Re: Binary chrome - is it safe in terms of dependencies?

2013-01-31 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-01-31, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Yohan Pereira yohan.pere...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/01/13 at 11:09pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Since Gentoo updates libraries very quickly, I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: Binary chrome - is it safe in terms of dependencies?

2013-01-31 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-01-31, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Jan 31, 2013 5:38 PM, Nuno Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: Also, I suppose that, if there were library incompatibilities, the package would never go stable, or would at least, like Yohan said, lead to a block/version dependency. Well, many

[gentoo-user] Re: can not print pdf w/e-document viewer

2013-01-25 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-01-24, Joseph wrote: On 01/24/13 11:25, Bruce Hill wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 09:43:06AM -0700, Joseph wrote: I have a document letter size in landscape mode and I'm trying to print it with e-document viewer 4-pages per side and it will not print. Some documents prints OK but