Re: [gentoo-user] mailto net-mail/metamail

2023-12-06 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Wednesday, 6 December 2023 02:45:00 CET the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I think "mailto" used to be part of the package net-mail/metamail > But I think is long time gone. > > What is the replacement? > I just need to send myself an email from the command line to test postfix. Postfix should

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and EFI partitions

2023-12-06 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Wednesday, 6 December 2023 17:49:43 CET Victor Ivanov wrote: > So, without knowing much about systemd-boot from the guide linked it > seems to me that its implementation doesn't differ too much from this > reasonably well established model, except for a few additional > constraints which, based

Re: [gentoo-user] Debugging NFS mounts

2023-11-16 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 17:29:19 CET Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > My little server needs help with compiling, so I NFS-export /var (which has > its own partition) to a chroot on my workstation. I mount all the partitions > on both server and workstation. Then when I chroot,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge asynchronous anomoly

2021-10-03 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Sunday, 3 October 2021 10:28:49 CEST n952162 wrote: > Is it so on top of things that it's downloading many packages early, > and the download is so aggressive, that nothing else can run? emerge downloads distfiles for all packages to install in the background while the compile jobs are

Re: [gentoo-user] Master PDF Editor - version 4, without watermark

2021-09-25 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Saturday, 25 September 2021 09:06:20 CEST the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Any idea where I can find "Master PDF Editor - version 4" ebuild? > Ver. 4 is without watermark. You can find it in the git repository history: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.

2021-09-24 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Friday, 24 September 2021 19:47:24 CEST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I may > not be doing a lot of rebasing, since I'm creating patches for already > released versions rather than keeping up to date with the head of the > master branch. It works the same way there: take the current branch which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.

2021-09-24 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Friday, 24 September 2021 10:49:53 CEST Peter Humphrey wrote: > This raises the question of which kernel to work with: vanilla source > or Gentoo? Gentoo's patches are kept minimal so it shouldn't really matter (and I don't think they'd touch this part of the code anyway). Personally I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.

2021-09-23 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Thursday, 23 September 2021 20:23:57 CEST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Where would I find a suitable kernel git repository to clone? An > "official" repository, whatever that means? Ideally, I want one with > just the various kernel releases, not one containing gigabytes of > intermediate

Re: [gentoo-user] Official support for the s6 init on Gentoo

2021-09-19 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Sunday, 19 September 2021 19.15.50 CEST lum...@disroot.org wrote: > The worst thing for OpenRC > (native, by default and alternative to systemd) is to adopt binaries > from it Hi, Those binaries (I'm assuming you're talking about udev and tmpfilesd) don't really have any overlap with what

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend replacement?

2021-09-18 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Saturday, 18 September 2021 20.39.45 CEST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I used to have a utility pm-suspend which would suspend the current > state of the machine to RAM (or, maybe to the swap partition) and shut > the machine down to a resting state. A keypress or mouse movement > would restore

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update puzzle

2021-09-18 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Saturday, 18 September 2021 17.19.45 CEST Philip Webb wrote: > Here is the whole command + output in gruesome detail : > > root:522 ~> !498 > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_9" emerge -pv --backtrack=30 attica > frameworkintegration kactivities kactivities-stats kcmutils kconfig > kcoreaddons