Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' .. moved?
On 22/04/10 18:01, laur...@logiquefloue.org wrote: Hi, I can't emerge php4 anymore: USE=cli apache2 emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' '=dev-lang/php-5*' Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =dev-lang/php-4*. Is there a new way to do so ? thx Laurent PHP 4 is no longer in the tree. It hasn't been supported by upstream for 2 years. The only way to even attempt to install it is to retrieve the ebuild from sources.gentoo.org (gentoo-x86 - ignore the name as the same tree is used for all archs). However this will almost certainly fail due to issues with dependencies and patches. The most sensible route would be to upgrade your webapps to support PHP5 (it shouldn't be the hard and you'll gain security and probably performance from doing so). AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages in other architectures (arm)
Stroller wrote: On 5 Aug 2009, at 18:49, Daniel Quinn wrote: ... Unfortunatly though, I've discovered that one of my favourite command-line based torrent clients, rtorrent doesn't have arm in its KEYWORDS variable. Can someone tell me why this is? If it's just due to it not having been tested, I'd be happy to do that, but I'd need to know the right way to do that. Surely no-one here can. Possibly the Gentoo developer for the package could tell you, it's equally possible that no-one's ever tried it. Simply copy the package's ebuild to your local tree, edit it to add the ARM keyword and try it. If it works, open a bug at Gentoo asking for the package to be marked as table on your architecture. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay#Creating_a_local_overlay It looks like rtorrent does compile on ARM: http://www.osix.net/modules/article/?id=827 Stroller. There's no need to edit an ebuild. You can add the package to package.keywords with ** as the keyword. AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update
Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi all!! I tried today : emerge --update --deep world but I get the following error: [blocks B ] kde-base/kdebase (kde-base/kdebase is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6) I'm not very expert about emerge, have you any idea about this error? Can I solve it in some way? (Please, don't ask me to uninstall kdebase :-) ) Thank you, Massimiliano The monolithic packages are obsolete - please switch to split packages: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde-split-ebuilds.xml AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?
From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is not present in any previous version. Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!) AllenJB KH wrote: Hi, I am searching for the opposite of emerge --noreplace atom. I forgot -1 and now the package is part of the world file. It does not belong there, it is a dependency I wanted to update. I don't want to run --unmerge and -av1 again. What can I do? kh
[gentoo-user] Re: Munin Monitor
Paul Littlefield wrote: On 03/05/09 Allen Brooker wrote: I've given you access to the web view at https://admin.apserver.co.uk/munin Username: paully Password: bigj1gs Nope, this does not let me in :-( Try again now. server2.bigjigs.co.uk is currently resolving to my server, so you can see it from the web view above. Eh? Ah, sorry. Please change 'server2.bigjigs.co.uk' to '81.136.133.40' in your munin.conf and change the ... did you not finish what you were writing here? I believe I have it set up as per the information you've given so far, but it's not working. The following is my /etc/munin/munin.conf minus comments: dbdir /var/lib/munin htmldir /var/www/admin.apserver.co.uk/htdocs/munin logdir /var/log/munin rundir /var/run/munin tmpldir /etc/munin/templates [apserver.co.uk] address 127.0.0.1 use_node_name no [server2.bigjigs.co.uk] address 81.136.133.40 use_node_name yes The following is the logs relating to the bigjigs entry: May 05 13:46:01 [27183] - [ERROR] Could not connect to server2.bigjigs.co.uk(81.136.133.40): Bad file descriptor - Attempting to use old configuration May 05 13:46:01 [27182] - connection from server2.bigjigs.co.uk (27183) May 05 13:46:01 [27182] - connection from server2.bigjigs.co.uk (27183) closed May 05 13:46:01 [27182] - Munin-update finished (60.07 sec) Allen
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Munin Monitor
Thanks to those who notified me of this erroneous posting. Obviously the passwords have now been changed. I have absolutely no idea why Thunderbird decided to send that mail to the gentoo-user list. Perhaps it's time I changed my preferred email client! AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond
The list admins have been notified - you can track the issue at https://bugs.gentoo.org/267740 AllenJB zhen wrote: Hi. It seems that somebody has started autoresponder for his email. And now it is replying to it's own replies to lists once an hour. It seems like an endless mail loop. Is there way to stop it? Best regards, Evgeniy B.
Re: [gentoo-user] AUTO: Martin Sc hrodi ist außer Haus.
Please don't complain about top posting on this list. This is a public support list with no enforced rules regarding top posting. If you don't like top posting: Tough. (See also the many times this has been discussed previously, with the same conclusion) AllenJB KH wrote: Daniel de Oliveira schrieb: Where is the moderation? 2009/4/28 Martin Schrodi martin.schr...@retarus.de: Ich werde ab 28.04.2009 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 29.04.2009. Ich werde Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten. Note: This is an automated response to your message [gentoo-user] AUTO: Martin Schrodi ist außer Haus. sent on 28/4/09 11:13:49. You will receive a notification for each message you send to this person while the person is away. Please don't do top posting.
Re: [gentoo-user] AUTO: Martin Sc hrodi ist außer Haus.
The problem is that there's no consensus. I top post because I think it's much more sensible. Others think otherwise. I live with it. It's the people who refuse to live with differences of opinion that are the real problem. AllenJB Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:17:36 +0100, AllenJB wrote: Please don't complain about top posting on this list. This is a public support list with no enforced rules regarding top posting. So we need enforced rules to be polite and respect the wishes of others these days? Has the nanny state really reached this list?
Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?
To my knowledge there are currently no plans to release a 2009.x profile. Profile updates are generally little more than changes to the default use flags. Partly due to new features in recent versions of portage and partly due to changes in the release engineering side of Gentoo (automated builds, death of the installer project), there's been no call for a new profile. AllenJB James wrote: hello, When I type 'eselect profile list' I only see 2008 options. Is there no 2009 profile yet, or am I remiss in my admin details? If it is late, then any ideas on when the 2009 profiles might appear? James
Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?
Xav' wrote: To get back with releases, I'm waiting for releases a full well tested version of stage releases, as i don't agree with those saying that weekly stage build are good enough to have updated stage. The autobuild stages are exactly what you would get if you installed a traditional stage 3, then updated to the latest stable packages at the time the stage was autobuilt. There's no difference to an old style stable install, except you have less updating to do (which means less potential issues). AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] reload etc conf files
laurent wrote: Hi, I finished etc-updates with a lot of files, is there a way or even need to make all application reload the updated configuration files? thx Laurent It depends upon the software / changes involved. Many services (eg. web server, mail servers) have a reload option on the init script (ie. /etc/init.d/apache reload), otherwise you generally need to restart them to apply changes. Some services / daemons will pick up changes on the fly, but generally they don't in my experience. Programs which are not services / daemons will pick the changes up the next time they are run. You DO NOT generally need to reboot to make sure config changes are correctly loaded. This is not Windows. You just need to read the documentation for the software involved. AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? - snippage
Can you ALL please take this off-topic conversation off list. This is a general support list used by many users of a wide range of experience, therefore you can not expect to be able to enforce any standards, either way. In addition, please keep language clean on this list. AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerge
It looks like version 0.18 is no longer on mirrors. Workaround: Using the ~arch version should work -Add the following line to /etc/portage/package.keywords (create it if it doesn't exist): perl-core/Sys-Syslog See the Gentoo Handbook on Mixing Software Branches for more information. I've filed a bug to resolve the issue: http://bugs.gentoo.org/262899 AllenJB ThrepwooD wrote: I'm trying to emerge apache, and I always get this error: # emerge apache Calculating dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild manifests Starting parallel fetch Emerging (1 of 15) perl-core/Sys-Syslog-0.18 Downloading 'ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/Sys-Syslog-0.18.tar.gz' --12:32:02-- ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/Sys-Syslog-0.18.tar.gz = `/usr/portage/distfiles/Sys-Syslog-0.18.tar.gz' Resolving ftp.tu-clausthal.de... 139.174.2.36 Connecting to ftp.tu-clausthal.de http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de|139.174.2.36|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! == SYST ... done.== PWD ... done. == TYPE I ... done. == CWD /pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles ... No such directory `pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles'. Downloading 'http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SA/SAPER/Sys-Syslog-0.18.tar.gz' --12:32:04-- http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SA/SAPER/Sys-Syslog-0.18.tar.gz = `/usr/portage/distfiles/Sys-Syslog-0.18.tar.gz' Resolving search.cpan.org... 84.45.68.23 Connecting to search.cpan.org http://search.cpan.org|84.45.68.23|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://ftp.gui.uva.es/sites/cpan.org/authors/id/S/SA/SAPER/Sys-Syslog-0.18.tar.gz [following] --12:32:05-- http://ftp.gui.uva.es/sites/cpan.org/authors/id/S/SA/SAPER/Sys-Syslog-0.18.tar.gz = `/usr/portage/distfiles/Sys-Syslog-0.18.tar.gz' Resolving ftp.gui.uva.es... 157.88.36.5 Connecting to ftp.gui.uva.es http://ftp.gui.uva.es|157.88.36.5|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 12:32:05 ERROR 404: Not Found. Downloading 'http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SA/SAPER/Sys-Syslog-0.18.tar.gz' --12:32:05-- http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SA/SAPER/Sys-Syslog-0.18.tar.gz = `/usr/portage/distfiles/Sys-Syslog-0.18.tar.gz' Resolving www.cpan.org... 66.39.76.93 Connecting to www.cpan.org http://www.cpan.org|66.39.76.93|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 12:32:07 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download 'Sys-Syslog-0.18.tar.gz'. Aborting. * Fetch failed for 'perl-core/Sys-Syslog-0.18', Log file: * '/var/tmp/portage/perl-core/Sys-Syslog-0.18/temp/build.log' Failed to emerge perl-core/Sys-Syslog-0.18, Log file: '/var/tmp/portage/perl-core/Sys-Syslog-0.18/temp/build.log' * Messages for package perl-core/Sys-Syslog-0.18: * Fetch failed for 'perl-core/Sys-Syslog-0.18', Log file: * '/var/tmp/portage/perl-core/Sys-Syslog-0.18/temp/build.log' Any idea? -- Yo soy cola, tú pegamento.
Re: [gentoo-user] getting digest verification failed when emerging bittorrent
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:54:22 -0600, Dale wrote: wait 24 hours, resync, try again. Or just re-digest the package manually: ebuild path_to_ebuild_file manifest Bear in mind this overrides the security that digests provide, although it is harmless when it is only a Chnagleog file. Does emerge --digest still exist? I recall using something like that a long time ago. I think I used it for googleforearth which never matches. That's not a good idea as the mismatch could be caused by a hacked source or binary file. The problem with Google Earth was that they used unversioned tarballs. Whenever you gt a digest error on a distfile, the first step is to delete the distfile and let emerge download it again. If that doesn't help, resync and then check Bugzilla. Don't redigest a distfile unless you can e 100% certain of its validity. It's not just security. It's a basic measure to ensure the source files haven't changed (some projects are known to change the source files without changing the tarball name) and that the installation instructions in the ebuild are still valid. Note that it's possible for the source files to change and the instructions in the ebuild appear to work, but to not correctly install the package. AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] Is the Monthly newsletter no more?
KH wrote: AllenJB schrieb: Grant Edwards wrote: Has the monthtly newletter been discontinued, or is it just no longer being archived at http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/? This is probably more likely to be answered if you send it to the -project mailing list. AllenJB Hi, please let us talk about it here. I really miss something if there are more than two month without this Those are the first singes that gentoo is dead ... themes in this list or in the forum. Keep smiling kh It's not about being allowed, it's that the people who can answer this question (devs) don't watch this list much. The -project list has a much higher population of devs. AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] Is the Monthly newsletter no more?
Grant Edwards wrote: Has the monthtly newletter been discontinued, or is it just no longer being archived at http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/? This is probably more likely to be answered if you send it to the -project mailing list. AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets
Hi, Portage documentation: http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/portage.html Built-in sets specification file: /usr/share/portage/config/sets.conf For KDE sets, check the sets directory in the kde-testing overlay: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=tree User sets are specified in the /etc/portage/sets.conf file (doesn't exist by default). AllenJB Dale wrote: Hi I'm wanting to experiment a little with the new sets feature of portage. I have searched around the forums, even looked at gentoo wiki and read a few man pages. I can not find a good link to a how to for sets. I would like to have a couple things if someone has them. 1) a link to a good how to. 2) could someone send me a copy of a sets file for something like KDE or something. Just something I can use for a template if you would. Thanks much. Oh, yea, I may be about to break something. I got my backups up to date tho. o_O Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets
Hi again, One more note. I recommend you use a prefix for your own sets, to avoid conflicts with official or overlay sets. ie. I call my kde-3.5 set: ajb-kde-3.5 While portage almost certainly has a system for handling conflicting sets (at a guess, probably user overlay official tree, the same way everything else goes), this removes any ambiguity. AllenJB Dale wrote: Hi I'm wanting to experiment a little with the new sets feature of portage. I have searched around the forums, even looked at gentoo wiki and read a few man pages. I can not find a good link to a how to for sets. I would like to have a couple things if someone has them. 1) a link to a good how to. 2) could someone send me a copy of a sets file for something like KDE or something. Just something I can use for a template if you would. Thanks much. Oh, yea, I may be about to break something. I got my backups up to date tho. o_O Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with e2fsprogs
CJoeB wrote: AllenJB wrote: CJoeB wrote: On step 3, e2fsprogs-libs emerged fine, but at the end of the emerge of e2fsprogs, the emerge bombed and I got a message saying that e2progs was not merged due to file collisions. Please post the complete message (ie. the complete list of file collisions). This is what displayed at the end of the attempt to emerge e2fsprogs: Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3-r1 * /lib/libblkid.so * /lib/libblkid.so.1 * /lib/libblkid.so.1.0 * /lib/libuuid.so * /lib/libuuid.so.1 * /lib/libuuid.so.1.2 * /usr/include/blkid/blkid.h * /usr/include/blkid/blkid_types.h * /usr/include/uuid/uuid.h * /usr/lib/libblkid.a * /usr/lib/libblkid.so * /usr/lib/libuuid.a * /usr/lib/libuuid.so * /usr/lib/pkgconfig/blkid.pc * /usr/lib/pkgconfig/uuid.pc * /usr/share/info/libext2fs.info.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/libblkid.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_clear.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_compare.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_copy.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_generate.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_generate_random.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_generate_time.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_is_null.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_parse.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_time.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_unparse.3.bz2 * * Package 'sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.9' NOT merged due to file collisions. * If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the * above message. Note the version numbers here - you're trying to use e2fsprogs-1.40.9 with e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3 - these packages should both be at the same version. Please check package.keywords and package.mask for any entries relating to e2fsprogs. I'm surprised portage even attempted to merge these without a fight. AllenJB Regards, Colleen
Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with e2fsprogs
CJoeB wrote: Hi everyone, I know there is a bug here, but I followed this from the bug comments: It's not a bug. It's a valid blocker. They happen. 1. emerge -NuDav --fetchonly world 2. emerge -C ss com_err e2fsprogs 3. emerge -NuDav --nodeps e2fsprogs-libs e2fsprogs Using -D (--deep) and --nodeps is contradictory. In addition, you just unmerged e2fsprogs, which means using --update (-u) now makes very little sense. -N (--newuse) also makes very little sense (in addition to the fact that it implies --update). 4. echo sys-libs/com_err /etc/portage/package.mask 5. echo sys-libs/ss /etc/portage/package.mask 6. echo sys-libs/com_err-1.40.11 /etc/portage/profile/package.provided 7. echo sys-libs/ss-1.40.11 /etc/portage/profile/package.provided You should not add these packages to package.provided. There should be no need for this. I can see this causing issues. From the forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-712898.html # echo =app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.6.3-r2 /etc/portage/package.keywords # emerge --sync # emerge -f e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs # emerge --unmerge ss com_err e2fsprogs # emerge -av e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs You should also try to make sure you're using the latest version of portage (=2.1.6) as this has blocker handling functionality. This worked from a few people, so I felt safe doing it. On step 3, e2fsprogs-libs emerged fine, but at the end of the emerge of e2fsprogs, the emerge bombed and I got a message saying that e2progs was not merged due to file collisions. Please post the complete message (ie. the complete list of file collisions). I have no idea what to do now. I googled, but didn't see anything relevant. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Colleen AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] ezmlm
he...@brankie.xs4all.nl wrote: Hello, I have been using ezmlm for the past few yeears to manage some mailing lists. Now emerge is warning me that these packages are masked for removal. So what shoud I do next: - stick with ezmlm as long as it keeps functioning - uninstall ezeml an reinstall from source - find a new mailinglist manager that works with qmail (and which one would you advise?) Thanks. Kind regards, Henk. This package is masked for removal because it's unmaintained. That means upstream aren't releasing updates or working on the code in any way. You need to consider that this introduces problems with the software working with newer versions of its dependencies and the potential security issues. (No matter how great a code djb thinks he is) Just because a package keeps functioning, doesn't mean it's safe to keep. You have to consider security issues, bugs, etc. Uninstalling it and installing it from source is plain silly. Overlays mean you can move the package to your own overlay and maintain it there under the package manager. Why on earth would you choose to install manually when you can use the package manager? You might also want to look at ezmlm-idx, which appears to be an at least somewhat active project that has maintained (a patch set for) ezmlm. My recommendation would be to find an actively maintained replacement (and for qmail too, while you're at it) AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LANG/LC_ALL to html
Frank Schwidom wrote: Hi, im searching for a suitable package which provides locales for html. Is there any existing known package? When not, is it possible to create such a package, and how? Regards What exactly are you trying to do? LANG usually specifies the language you want software to use while LC_ALL usually specifies the locale settings (things like what format do you want long numbers in) software should use. AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu ?
Hi, It looks like you've probably used the x86 stage3 tarball instead of the i686 one. While you can change it [0], the best option is probably to start again using the correct tarball. Note that if you do want to change CHOST, you _MUST_ follow the guide[0] or you will end up with problems. [0] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml AllenJB Grant wrote: I'm installing Gentoo on an Acer Aspire 110. It's one of the netbook laptops. /etc/make.conf says: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu Is that correct? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Network access to mysql
Peter Humphrey wrote: Afternoon all, I have mysql running on my workstation and on my local server, and I want to connect as an ordinary user from the workstation to the server; I can't. This is what happens: $ mysql -p -h serv.ethnet Enter password: ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'serv.ethnet' (111) The same thing happens if I try as root. I can connect locally as myself or as root on either machine and manipulate tables in various ways. I haven't yet installed a firewall on either machine. I've set DEBUG=4 in /etc/conf.d/mysql on both machines, but nothing shows up in /var/log/mysql/*; only some startup debug messages. I've run tcpdump on the server, which shows that one packet passes in each direction, followed immediately by a reverse lookup of the workstation being sent to the name server. I don't know why nothing happens after the name-service request is answered, but it seems to imply that the workstation is refusing the request itself rather than forwarding it to the server. I can't see anything in /etc/conf.d/mysql or in /etc/mysql/* on either machine to restrict network access, so what have I missed? Check the bind-address setting in /etc/my.cnf - if this is 127.0.0.1 then no other machines will be able to connect to the mysql server. To listen on all available interfaces, this setting should be 0.0.0.0 or unset. Also check that skip-networking is not enabled.
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync kde-base/
Norberto Bensa wrote: Hello, I'm wondering. Is it posible to emerge --sync part of the tree. For example, I want to only sync kde-base/ and kde-misc/? Thanks in advance, Norberto No, there isn't. You wouldn't want to try either - there will be relevant files in other parts of the tree (eg. eclasses, related packages in other categories) that you'll also want to make sure are up-to-date. AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage
Fernando Antunes wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:03 AM, econti contiemi...@alice.it mailto:contiemi...@alice.it wrote: AllenJB ha scritto: cut On to your next issue where 2 versions of firefox are being pulled in. First of all you need to remove the package.mask entry you added, since it masked out all versions of firefox above 2.0.0 - that includes both firefox 2 and firefox 3 - not particularly useful. The correct resolution here is not obvious. You need to edit your /etc/make.conf and set -firefox xulrunner. This is because a core piece of the mozilla framework, on which firefox is built, called xulrunner has been split out from the firefox package. This will help to avoid issues in the future and allow for faster upgrades. This change should get all applications using firefox 3 instead of firefox 2. Please, help me to understand more about this. firefox use flag is for version 2 and xulrunner is for version 3 ? Correct AllenJB That worked fine! AllenJB Thank you, AllenJB emilio
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage
You have several issues here. First of all, a tip: If a portage upgrade is available, do emerge portage first. New versions of portage often have new or improved features - in this case portage 2.1.6 includes, among other things, the ability to automatically handle most blockers. The blocker says that gamin 1.10 is blocking the gamin-server 1.10 package. This looks to me like gamin has been split into multiple parts or renamed. portage 2.1.6 should handle this block automatically. On to your next issue where 2 versions of firefox are being pulled in. First of all you need to remove the package.mask entry you added, since it masked out all versions of firefox above 2.0.0 - that includes both firefox 2 and firefox 3 - not particularly useful. The correct resolution here is not obvious. You need to edit your /etc/make.conf and set -firefox xulrunner. This is because a core piece of the mozilla framework, on which firefox is built, called xulrunner has been split out from the firefox package. This will help to avoid issues in the future and allow for faster upgrades. This change should get all applications using firefox 3 instead of firefox 2. AllenJB econti wrote: Hi all, to-day I am having some trouble to update my system. Well, 'emerge --sync' and I received a message telling me a new version of portage is available and I should update it immediately. But, before upgrading it I ran 'emerge -NDpvu world'. Here is the output: localhost ~ # emerge -NDpvu world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies | !!! The following installed packages are masked: - app-admin/gnome-system-tools-2.14.0 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org (12 Apr 2008) # Masking gnome-system-tools because it is broken, # to help fix it, see bug #214265 - app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.4.2-r1 (masked by: package.mask) - media-video/realplayer-11.0.0.4028-r1 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Steve Dibb bean...@gentoo.org (5 Nov 2008) # Mask realplayer, real codecs for security, upstream issues, bug 245662 # http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713051.html !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all !!! masked or don't exist: app-admin/gnome-system-tools media-video/realplayer ... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.4 [2.1.4.5] USE=-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) LINGUAS=-pl 0 kB *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, then resume the merge. [ebuild U ] dev-libs/expat-2.0.1-r1 [2.0.1] 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-libs/eventlog-0.2.9 [0.2.7] 323 kB [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p39 [3.2_p33] USE=nls -afs -bashlogger -examples% -plugins -vanilla 19 kB [ebuild UD] app-editors/nano-2.0.9 [2.1.7] USE=ncurses nls unicode -debug -justify -minimal -slang -spell 1,371 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.63 [2.61-r2] USE=-emacs 1,527 kB [ebuild U ] dev-libs/check-0.9.5-r1 [0.9.5] 0 kB [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r1 [3.3.8-r4] USE=cups ipv6 opengl -debug -doc -examples (-firebird) -immqt -immqt-bc -mysql -nas -nis -odbc -postgres -sqlite -xinerama (-gif%) 16,909 kB [ebuild UD] www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.19 [3.0.5] USE=ipv6 -bindist -debug% -filepicker% -gnome -iceweasel -java -mozdevelop -moznopango% -restrict-javascript -xforms% -xinerama% -xprint% (-custom-optimization%) (-dbus%) (-startup-notification%) (-xulrunner%*) LINGUAS=it -af -ar -be -bg -ca -cs -da -de -el -en -en_GB -en_US -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gu -gu_IN -he -hu -ja -ka -ko -ku -lt -mk -mn -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn -nn_NO -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -sk -sl -sv -sv_SE -tr -uk -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW (-bn%) (-bn_IN%) (-cy%) (-eo%) (-et%) (-gl%) (-hi%) (-hi_IN%) (-id%) (-is%) (-kn%) (-lv%) (-mr%) (-oc%) (-si%) (-sq%) (-sr%) (-te%) (-th%) 25,401 kB [ebuild N] gnome-extra/yelp-2.22.1-r2 USE=-beagle -debug -lzma -xulrunner 0 kB [ebuild U ] app-admin/gamin-0.1.10 [0.1.9-r1] USE=(-debug%) (-python%*) 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10 USE=python -debug 639 kB [ebuild N] app-admin/gam-server-0.1.10 USE=-debug 0 kB [blocks B ] app-admin/gamin-0.1.10 (is blocking app-admin/gam-server-0.1.10, dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10) Total: 13 packages (8 upgrades, 2 downgrades, 3 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 46,185 kB As you can see the first package to upgrade is portage. Then 'emerge portage' and after 'emerge -NDpvu world' and here the new output: localhost ~ # emerge -NDpvu world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] dev-libs/expat-2.0.1-r1 [2.0.1] 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-libs/eventlog-0.2.9 [0.2.7] 323 kB [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p39 [3.2_p33] USE=nls -afs -bashlogger -examples% -plugins -vanilla 19 kB [ebuild U ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3-r1 [1.41.3
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dispatch-conf problem
John covici wrote: on Thursday 01/01/2009 Graham Murray(gra...@gmurray.org.uk) wrote Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: You cannot roll back if you choose to keep the new file with dispatch-conf and didn't backup the current one first. You can if you have use-rcs=yes in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf, which the OP is probably using as the post mentions the archive directory. In fact, I have rcs=no, but the directory does have files in it, so if I know which file to copy back, I can restore things -- but my questions remain -- what is the file naming conventions for those files and what happens if I update the same file again? If you have rcs=no, the files are, to my knowledge, the previous version of the configuration file and use exactly the same filename. In my experience dispatch-conf will _always_ ask about a file the first time it encounters it. Once it has asked you once, it then knows about the state of that file and can obey things like the unmodified rule when a new version of the file is considered. You can check the differences between 2 files using diff, eg: diff /etc/config-archive/etc/init.d/fsck /etc/init.d/fsck The format is: diff old-file new-file You may prefer the -u option: diff -u old new Or, in the package of the same name, colordiff: colordiff -u old new There are also graphical diff tools (eg. kompare) AllenJB
Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding slotting of KTorrent
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I don't get the slotting scheme of KTorrent: [I] net-p2p/ktorrent Available versions: (0) 2.2.7 2.2.8 (4.1) ~3.1.5 (3) ~3.1.5-r1 [M]~3.2_beta1 OK, 0 seems to be actually 3.5. 4.1 is KDE 4.1. But so is 3 too... I filed an issue on this - see http://bugs.gentoo.org/250279 for the response AllenJB
