Re: [gentoo-user] Portage + Package Version

2006-05-22 Thread Ron Bickers
On Mon May 22 2006 15:36, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: > Ok. The package in question is mysql. I what to install version 3, but > I masked the oldest 4.0 and emerge search returns mysql version 5. How > can I install version 3? Put >=dev-db/mysql-4 in package.mask, or just emerge =dev-db/mysql-3*

Re: [gentoo-user] thanks and farewell

2006-05-19 Thread Ron Bickers
On Fri May 19 2006 13:09, Antoine wrote: > I have just finished moving the last of my boxes over to fedora, and > am saying goodbye (for now at least) to the list. I would like to > thank all for their great help - I know there are many things I will > miss not running gentoo but I am now at a sta

Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG depends on gentoo-sources?

2006-02-11 Thread Ron Bickers
On Sat February 11 2006 05:09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > in one of the inherited eclasses. :/ You can > use /etc/portage/package.provided (IIRC) to tell gentoo you will provide > this package, rather than have portage install it. You may need to > specify the virtual package (virtual/linux

Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG depends on gentoo-sources?

2006-02-11 Thread Ron Bickers
On Fri February 10 2006 02:59, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I just checked the .ebuild in my portage tree does not list gentoo-sources > as direct dependency of gunpg-1.4.2.r3. Please do a emerge -pvt > =app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r3 and give us the output (you might have to unmask > gentoo-sources

[gentoo-user] GnuPG depends on gentoo-sources?

2006-02-09 Thread Ron Bickers
I haven't had gentoo-sources installed on one of my machines for a while, but all of sudden today it wants to install it. I masked it and emerge -u world complains that it's required by "app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r3", which is already installed. So why does it need gentoo-sources all of a sudden f

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2006-01-27 Thread Ron Bickers
On Thu January 26 2006 17:41, Tom Smith wrote: > Sheesh, I finally found a solution to this very annoying problem (may > also help the gentleman with the UK keyboard problem (Peter Ruskin?)... > I actually discovered this while playing around with QEMU, it had the > EXACT same problem as WTS. I j

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-22 Thread Ron Bickers
On Thu September 22 2005 07:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For RAID I'm running RAID10 on an existing SCSI system - two RAID1 > combined to a RAID0 but I'm open to better things. I don't have any experience with RAID10, but I've read good things about it. > Filesystem of choice is XFS but wha

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-21 Thread Ron Bickers
On Wed September 21 2005 09:51 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > 1. For SATA RAID what cards and drives do you recommend for a desktop > system running Gentoo. I will be doing some audio recording on a dual AMD > 1.6 with 2 gig > of memory I'm running several Seagate 200GB drives with the SATA cont

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

2005-08-30 Thread Ron Bickers
On Mon August 29 2005 04:19 pm, A. Khattri wrote: > > And last question: I have access to one Debian box (which uses mbox > > format). After logging there I get either message "No mail", or > > "You have new mail". But I do not get any similar message on my > > Gentoo box. Why? Can I somehow activ

Re: [gentoo-user] A Gentoo Firewall howto?

2005-08-26 Thread Ron Bickers
On Fri August 26 2005 06:36 pm, James wrote: > I've decided to take the plunge and build my first, full featured > firewall on Gentoo. > Any other ideas or recommendations on documents or firewall install > config on gentoo or a gentoo derivative are most welcome? I've had good luck using Shore

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Ron Bickers
On Fri August 26 2005 01:21 pm, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I have a modified gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r11 ebuild that I've been using > > as an overlay and it's been working fine for me for months. I'll be > > happy to share if anyone is interested. > > Yes please. Ok. You can get the ebuild tree s

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Ron Bickers
On Thu August 25 2005 09:47 pm, John Jolet wrote: > I've purchased the win4lin product, (the home version) to test out certain > windows apps I need to run. They claim that gentoo has a patched kernel > available for this. Does anyone know anything about this? I have a modified gentoo-sources-2

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating Users - BEST way

2005-07-21 Thread Ron Bickers
On Thu July 21 2005 10:56 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I would like to know what would be the best or most proper method for > migrating a user database from flat files /etc/passwd etc on a Redhat > System to a newly set up'ed gentoo box. > > Do I just copy and paste the relevent details into the Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP 5 and MySQL 5

2005-07-09 Thread Ron Bickers
On Sat July 9 2005 12:16 am, Colin wrote: > Are these in Portage? Masked versions are fine. PHP: http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-php;name=php MySQL: http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-db;name=mysql -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/ss breaks Apps

2005-07-08 Thread Ron Bickers
On Fri July 8 2005 01:38 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Which is a huge bummer since most of us don't go checking the ebuilds > for these specific lines. How I wish It would just abort and BLAST the > Einfo on the screen for me to see the next day and decide to do it > manually. I have this concern as

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftp .vs. ftpbase WTF??

2005-06-30 Thread Ron Bickers
On Thu June 30 2005 12:27 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: > The thing is, because vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 is a dependency of ftpbase, > ftpbase would install this version itself. ftpbase is a runtime dependency of vsftpd as of vsftpd-2.0.3-r1. Basically, some common ftp server things were put into ftpbase for

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftp .vs. ftpbase WTF??

2005-06-29 Thread Ron Bickers
On Wed June 29 2005 05:58 am, Stoian Ivanov wrote: > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00) [ebuild N] net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 > [ebuild U ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 [2.0.3] > So the answer is "Den't emerge until things are sorted out (ftpbase-0.01 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin problems

2005-06-25 Thread Ron Bickers
On Sat June 25 2005 09:53 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Are you running a Win4Lin patched kernel (eg, win4lin-sources)? > > Yes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a > Linux baby 2.6.11-win4lin #1 Fri Jun 24 15:34:04 CDT 2005 i686 AMD > Duron(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux You should also h

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin problems

2005-06-24 Thread Ron Bickers
On Fri June 24 2005 04:35 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I was trying to install Win4Lin and Windows 98 on my computer, but it > gave me this output (including error): > MERGE_NL: dos: ERROR: Win4Lin drivers are not loaded or > not available for use. Cannot run DOS or Windows. > Either Win4Li