Re: [gentoo-user] Is There a Way to Re-emerge Software and Its Dependencies?
Well, the quickest way to emerge all dependencies to an application is to use the --emptytree option, e.g. emerge --emptytree --ask ffmpeg will spit out a long list everything from kernel and gcc on up. I'm guessing you're wanting to go back to a non ~x86 style system, at least as far as ffmpeg is concerned. What you might just try is removing the ~x86 from /etc/portage/package.keywords (assuming you did things as intended) on ffmpeg, and try an emerge --update --deep --newuse --ask ffmpeg, this may catch some of the other dependencies that are ~x86 that are now missing that flag and try to downgrade them to what portage flags with x86. -- Wade Brown On 9/16/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set the ~x86 use flag for ffmpeg, getting the newest version in the tree. However now I'm having issues. What I'd like to try is re-emerging ffmpeg and all it's dependencies before reverting back to the older version. Is there a way to do this with the emerge tool? I've read the man page and Googled but I am unable to turn anything up. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?
I suppose to make this thread complete I'll be the first (maybe only?) one to voice support for good old WindowMaker. I think the biggest reason I still use it is that I'm just stuck in a rut, I have been running it for ages and have never wanted anything better. It's definitely light weight enough to suit most needs for people who have that desire, theming exists, but no actual skinning support. It's a bit boxier than most so for eyecandy, it's not stellar, but has a simple clean feel to it. I think my favorite feature is the dockapps (check http://www.bensinclair.com/dockapp/ for examples), which I know are clearly portable, but integrate most cleanly into WindowMaker. These can provide that desired eyecandy, such as wmBlob, or simple controls to your favorite programs, like wmXMMS. With adjustable icon width, these can take up almost no space around your edges leaving plenty of real estate for your web browsers and such. Better still, they don't even have to be reserved space, they can just fade into the background. One extra bonus to XFCE users is WindowMaker works fairly well with that on top, not that I use it, but I've known a few people who do because they like the added functionality. I'm sure none of my reasons justify WindowMaker as the best choice for my desires, but like I said, I'm in a rut, and it's quite comfortable. Maybe when the bedsores start popping up I'll come back to this thread... -- Wade BrownOn 9/2/05, Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Matt,on Wednesday, 2005-08-31 at 17:28:21, you wrote: Anyway, I was just hoping to start a pub-style conversation on what people like/disklike in a window manager.It's been XFCE here for a while. When I ran NetBSD years ago, nothing but fvwm would run at decent speed (not that there had been muchchoice), so I used this for a while. Then it was Linux/KDE for a whileon a 486, which was quite a pain. When I discovered Gnome, I liked theclean look of GTK and its speed. Version 2 annoyed me because everything got fatter and had less features than the 1.x version, but I stuck withit out of inertia, it was well configured and all...XFCE is for me what Gnome used to be: slim and fast, a clean look andjust as many knobs to tweak as I need but no more. Now, WMII looks interesting as well. Unlikely I'm going to switch butI'll have a look at it.cheers!Matthias--I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?
Easiest way would be to try mformat a: (yes, that is the actual command), I'm not sure if it's part of the basic utilities set or not, but it's about as simple as you can get regarding FAT floppies. -- Wade Brown On 8/29/05, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output: === # fdisk /dev/fd0 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/fd0: 0 MB, 737280 bytes 2 heads, 9 sectors/track, 80 cylinders Units = cylinders of 18 * 512 = 9216 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/fd0p1 ? 103864578 194646963 817041466 44 Unknown Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(10, 0, 13) logical=(103864577, 1, 6) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(363, 105, 51) logical=(194646962, 1, 7) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/fd0p2 ?6179775091741548 269494180+ 65 Novell Netware 386 Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(370, 108, 53) logical=(61797749, 1, 7) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(0, 13, 10) logical=(91741547, 1, 3) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/fd0p3 ?62565495625665949895+ 42 SFS Partition 3 has dirderfferent physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(329, 79, 13) logical=(62565494, 0, 8) Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(335, 77, 4) logical=(62566593, 1, 7) Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order === What's the appropriate way to format a floppy with FAT using Linux, so that it can be used in M$Windoze without the need of a native re-formatting? -- Regards, Mick Lycos email has now 300 Megabytes of free storage... Get it now at mail.lycos.co.uk -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a screensaver that shows emerge status?
You could try a combination of XOSD with some of the suggestions at gentoo-wiki.com, for example http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Watch_emerge_progress could be tweaked to replace all echo commands with xosd ones. Basically you'd end up with some amount of text over the top of everything else (configurable of course) and the last line would be relevant to your progress. As for actual screen savers, I doubt you'll find one already built for xscreensaverd, but I've been wrong in the past. -- Wade Brown On 8/23/05, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm emerging 'world', sometimes (like today) there are 50 packages that need to be done. Fine. No problemo. It would be nice to have a screensaver, or even better, an overlay of some-kind (so I could have my normal OpenGL screensavers running in the background) that told me the basic statistics. Then I could leave my box locked and know that stuff is hapily working. As it is, I have to continually interrupt the screen-saver, login, notice it's fine, then logout. * Which # emerge out of total I'm on. * what stage of this emerge I'm in: - downloading - unpacking - compiling/linking - installing - unmerging old package + error (this should notify me visualy/audibly) * If it's downloading, how may bytes (a moving bar would be ideal) it has out of how many to go. * if possible, the estimated time to complete the current emerge * and of course, the estimated time to complete all emerges Does such a thing exist? D.Vin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive activity indicator light
You might want to check a few other options available to you. Often times, hard drives have a specific 2-pin LED connector on the drive itself. This is typically used for having one LED per drive instead one LED per bus, and most commonly found in RAID solutions. Being a SATA drive, it's likely your drive has this connecter as well, and it would be worth looking in your product specifications for. Granted, this solution means you only receive a blinking LED for the SATA drive (all other devices are SOL), but it's at least one more option to consider. As a side note to Mark's comment, I'm not sure it's standard specification. I have a Biostar iDeq 220T, with on board SATA RAID, and the access LED lights up fine for me in Gentoo with no cajoling to speak of. It seems more chipset specific than a standard specification. -- Wade Brown On 8/19/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, None of my Linux boxes with SATA drives (3 machines) show drive activity via the LED. It seems to be some limitation of the Linux drivers. The SATA bus is a different hardware interface from the EIDE interface. My suspicion has been that the LED is hard wired into the EIDE controller and probably has to be driven by extra commands (somehow...) when using the SATA interface. Keep in mind that the EIDE controller is in your chipset and the Silicon Image SATA controller is a completely separate chip so what it's doing may or may not be visible to the hardware that drives the LED. Anyway, a bit long winded but you are not alone. ;-) Cheers, Mark On 8/19/05, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, Something that's been bothering me, although not that much, for about 3 years now. I've never investigated, and perhaps the answer is simple, but every distro I've used (RH9, FC1, FC2, Suse 9.1, and now Gentoo), has not shown the tiny blinking drive activity indicator on the front of my tower. This machine has always, until a few weeks ago when I finally dumped it for good, dual-booted with XP. And XP always showed activity via the light when there was activity. I would have thought that this was actually a hardware signal, and not OS related. But it doesn't appear that way. This is with a WD 36GB SATA drive on a ASUS A7N8X deluxe mobo w/ onboard Silicon Image controller. Any, and all, help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, John -- Contrary to the lie machine, the world is not safer. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' anymore
The environment variable $PS1 controls what your prompt is, assuming you're using bash. This can be set in many many places, such as ~/.bashrc, /etc/profile (controlled by something along the lines of /etc/env.d/##bash), or even as a simple export. Try searching through your /etc on your different machines for the PS1 setting, and copy it to the one that's missing, a good place to start is grep -r PS1 /etc/* On 8/17/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On my laptop only when I open a gnome-terminal I'm no longer greeted with a prompt that says: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ - it now it just says flash ~ $. What controls this? I thought it was .bashrc but comparing my non-working laptop with my 3 working desktop machines, which do say [EMAIL PROTECTED], I see no differences. Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for slow system on a big host
Using FEATURES=buildpkg is always a great place to start on your 'big' system. For more detail than that (all one lines of it), check the gentoo-wiki site, it's full of useful information, well, sometimes. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host On 7/27/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I finally bought myself a somewhat low end notebook on which I want to install Gentoo as well. Since this is a low end box and since my main system is not low end :), I'd like to compile as much as possible on the big server and then later copy (or whatever) the compiled packages over to the slower system. Those two systems will be in a LAN. Always. What's the best method to accomplish that? I guess, that there's already documentation about such a setup out there. Thus, I would of course very much appreciate, if you could point me to good documentation. Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. -- Grace Murray Hopper -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] non-sudo way for user to run shutdown -h now? (or any equivalent)
I thought linux wouldn't allow suid shell scripts to work as suid. The reasoning is a shell script doesn't quite execute, it gets interpeted by the command on the first line. Just as a test I made a simple script modded root.root 4755 that consists of the /bin/bash line, and cat /etc/shadow. Root can run just fine obviously, but permissions don't exist for other users to do that. What may work a little better is either chmod s+x `which shutdown`, or writing a C wrapper and modding that s+x. On 7/20/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/20/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my mythfrontend box to allow a user to shut the machine down without the use of a keyboard. We are only using remote controls. suso doesn't seem to be an option because it requires a password. (AFAICT) Is there some other way that I could make this work? 2 options: 1. Sudo can be setup to allow some commands to be run without a password. I think this entry in /etc/sudoers should work: mythtv ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown Yes, I have this working. My problem with this solution was slightly deeper. To get MythTV to execute this command I have to put 'sudo shutdown -h now' in a setup screen within the setup portion of mythfrontend. In a general sense I don't know how to do that without a keyboard being attached to the machine. So far I haven't found where MythTV stores this information so that I could edit it from an ssh login. Granted I can attach a keyboard for a few minutes when the machine is here at my house, but I'm hesitant to use a solution that I cannot fix via ssh when the machine is remote at my folks house. I have not tested this, so if something goes wrong, you'll have to try and figure out man sudoers. 2. Create a setuid (chmod 4711 /sbin/shutdown_by_anyone.sh) shell script that runs shutdown. Be sure to export the PATH, and unset LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables at the very beginning of the script. Also make sure the interpreter line is /bin/bash --. This doesn't fix all of the security holes with setuid shell scripts, just the most common and easiest to fix... I don't know how this is much of a security issue for me, but then again I don't know much about security, and I suppose it could be if someone plugs a keyboard in and wants to cause some harm. Shame on them, but good of you to consider it. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition
That doesn't seem to address the issue as mounting by hand still spits out errors relative to partition problems. What's the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda? On 7/13/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aabb wrote: Hi, Here's a strange one... I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type c (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries in /etc/fstab are almost identical: /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 /dev/hda5/mnt/win_dvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 Any of the mask entries correspond to octal permission; therefore, they need to be three-digit numbers. I recommend 022 (rwxr-xr-x), but I assume you want 000 (rwxrwxrwx). Don't forget to set uid and gid or else only root will have access to the files! -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] error loading several modules (at boot)
One useful piece of information would be the output of dmesg, usually module loading errors will appear in there. On 7/8/05, dini mamma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI folks I got the problem, that several modules couldnt be loaded at boot. some of them are filesystems (xfs,jfs,ntfs). and some device drivers (aic7xxx, 3c59x).. But why? At least the device drivers should work. I compiled these ones, that have been loaded with the livecd. I cant imagine, what happens. This error occurs too, when i only load the modules as modules [M]. If you need additional information, ask. At the moment, i dont know, what information seems to be useful to explain my problem. And i dont have any boot logs. maybe it would be good, if i had... -- 5 GB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS http://www.gmx.net/de/go/promail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] equery caching?
Equery, esearch, and einfo (I think) are from an index built by running eupdatedb. I'd imagine you're using esync which is just a very small script that does emerge sync eupdatedb, so doing a fresh esync would alleviate the problem you seem to be having, albeit with a bit of overkill. Just run eupdatedb as root and see if everything updates properly. On 7/7/05, Catalin Grigoroscuta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've just rebuilt my system without motif use flag (with emerge --newuse, etc). Everything works fine, except that equery shows stale data. For example: 1. equery depends emacs shows openmotif as dependency, but emacs is rebuilt without motif USE (emerge -pv emacs clearly shows this). 2. equery hasuse motif also shows emacs Is there any caching done by equery? How can I invalidate it? Thank you, Catalin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild reports broken libs, should I worry?
In this specific case, Broken means Binary Package. Binary packages are distributed with all kinds of libraries linked to so that they can minimize the amount of binary packages they need to maintain (e.g. they don't need an eclipse-gnome and an eclipse-nognome package). The program will ideally run as if those features were disabled at compile time, but usually does spit out a few errors on console about missing libraries. Revdep wanting to rebuild binary packages everytime is a known issue, and in newer (still masked?) versions there is a specific directory omission setting to tell it to ignore /opt, and anywhere else there may be binary packages. If it is still masked as I think, then you could just $EDITOR `which revdep-rebuild` and take out /opt from the SEARCH_DIRS variable. Anyway, quick answer, No, your packages are not broken, so no worries. On 7/6/05, Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a run of revdep-rebuild I get the following output: butthead ~ # revdep-rebuild -p Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by any package update, will be recompiled. Collecting system binaries and libraries... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files) Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath) Checking dynamic linking consistency... broken /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/python-core-2.2.2/lib/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so (requires libtk8.4.so libtcl8.4.so) broken /opt/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.swt.gtk_3.0.1/os/linux/x86/libswt-gnome-gtk -3063.so (requires libgnomeui-2.so.0 libbonoboui-2.so.0 libgnomecanvas-2.so.0 libgnome-2.so.0 libbonobo-2.so.0 libgconf-2.so.4 libgnomevfs-2.so.0 libbonobo-activation.so.4 libORBit-2.so.0 liblinc.so.1) broken /opt/firefox/components/libmozgnome.so (requires libgconf-2.so.4 libORBit-2.so.0 liblinc.so.1 libgnomevfs-2.so.0 libbonobo-activation.so.4 libgnome-2.so.0 libbonobo-2.so.0) broken /opt/firefox/components/libnkgnomevfs.so (requires libgnomevfs-2.so.0 libbonobo-activation.so.4 libORBit-2.so.0 liblinc.so.1) done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild) Assigning files to ebuilds... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds) Evaluating package order... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order) Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. Now the reason for 'broken' is that I don't have gnome installed, that much I understand. And I'm cool with the fact that revdep-rebuild didn't try to install gnome even though these are marked as broken. The question is, I guess, whether 'broken' has some other meaning than what I'm thinking, and do I need to be worried? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box
Actually, you can replace your world file provided you use emerge --emptytree --deep --newuse world, and portage won't complain that packages aren't installed as the emptytree tells portage to (rightly in this case) assume nothing is installed yet, including portage itself. On 7/6/05, David Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11:44 Wed 06 Jul , Mike Markowski wrote: I'll be changing jobs Monday and want to be sure I bring along enough to easily rebuild the sort of gentoo set up I currently enjoy. After installing, will it be enough to use my current /var/lib/portage/world and /etc/make.conf followed by 'emerge -uDf world', etc., to get me going? Or am I overlooking other important system files? (I'll remember to remove hardware dependent world entries like graphics card drivers.) Thanks! Mike Not exactly - you can't just copy /var/lib/portage/world, since portage will complain about packages in the world file not being installed (at least, that was the behaviour not long ago and I don't imagine it's changed). You can however copy /var/lib/portage/world to some other location on your new computer, and do something like emerge `cat oldworld`. You might want to copy things other than just /etc/make.conf from your current install - if you've edited any config files (say /etc/vim/vimrc, for example). I can't think of anything you'll definitely want to copy across when changing computers, just stuff that you know you've edited a lot and don't want to loose. (Oh, and I assume you know that you might need to have a different make.conf to before depending on how different the 2 computers are). Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)
Liar! Well, we forgive you, I think =). Actually the better (Gentoo suggested) way to squelch these packages is to exclude /opt from the search path in the revdep-rebuild script. Just do EDITOR `which revdep-rebuild` and take /opt out of the SEARCH_DIRS, most anything that goes in there should be a binary release, but sadly not every binary package ends up in there (azureus-bin comes to mind). On 6/16/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zac Medico wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/16/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:34:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong but if what revdep-rebuild does is important then I want to kow about any program on my system that doesn't have all it's dependencies met, right? Seems that OO-bin has this problem and, unless I find out what USE flags the -bi versio was built with and match them in my setup then I'm going to be subject to a problem. (possibly...) revdep-rebuild is irrelevant to ooo-bin, and others, because you cannot rebuild a binary package. All it does is reinstall the same binary, not build a new one. Right, but.the errors within revdep-rebuild are not irrelivant to a user who's just run revdep-rebuild and has to sort through a number of errors to decide what to do. My point was that I'd like to know how my copy of oo-bin was built/linked so that I could (possibly) set my systems up so that everything is 100% cool. It's only slightly frustrating to deal with that. Not a big deal. And since oo-bin hasn't crashed on me in quite awhile it would seem that whatever the dependency issues are they aren't serious. thanks, Mark At least on my system, the problem with openoffice-bin-1.9.104 isn't actually broken dynamic links. It's just that ldd complains ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `something.so' for these files: /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/python-core-2.3.4/lib/lib-dynload/_bsddb.so /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/python-core-2.3.4/lib/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/python-core-2.3.4/lib/lib-dynload/bz2.so /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/python-core-2.3.4/lib/lib-dynload/dbm.so /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/python-core-2.3.4/lib/lib-dynload/gdbm.so /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/python-core-2.3.4/lib/lib-dynload/readline.so If I chmod +x those files then it stops complaining. I lied, there really are broken dynamic links :-). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Java java java, I miss my java
Java 1.5 is in the portage tree, though I'm not entirely sure on its masked state. I do know that some programs have issues with 1.5, and there are plenty of warnings all over the place that using a system-wide configuration of java 1.5 is potentially hazardous when building up some of the older packages that depend on a sane version of java. Anyway, to unmask it (I use it, and it does work just fine so far, but my use of java is limited), do the following echo dev-java/sun-jdk ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords echo dev-java/sun-jre-bin ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords echo =dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.99 /etc/portage/package.unmask echo =dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.99 /etc/portage/package.unmask emerge -DuvaN world java-config -S sun-jdk-1.5.0.03 env-update source /etc/profile Should this ever become a problem down the road, your old version of java still exists, use java-config -L to see which one to set it back to. So far I've been able to run eclipse, azureus, and mozilla java with no problems using the latest sun-jdk, but do be warned several programs are expected to fail building. On 6/13/05, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been about 9 months now that Java 1.5 has been an official release from Sun and I see no ebuilds, masked or not. I'm going to be teaching this puppy starting in September, and I need to start using it. This raises two questions: 1) Is there a simple way to install the current release without damaging the ebuild-installed ones I have, or should I just blunder ahead and mangle my own PATH and such in .bashrc_local (or whereever -- this is a one-user machine). 2) Better yet, is there a way to integrate such a release with java-config. I took a very brief look at the Python, and java-config is just cryptic and undocumented enough for me to prefer to *not* learn it well enough to answer this myself. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Java java java, I miss my java
JDK is more than likely the one you want, the difference is exactly as you said, one is supposed to be just runtime environment (what most Windows users get to view java on web pages) whereas JDK lets you build java applications on your machine. You can probably ignore that line with jre-bin seeing as how the JDK provides everything the JRE provides and then some (If you use java-config to set your java to a JRE, it informs you several functions are missing). They both point you to the same website, but from there you can choose which to download, including rpm binaries and documentation, though you'll want the one that matches the filename portage instructed you to use. On 6/13/05, Matthew Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: echo dev-java/sun-jdk ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords echo dev-java/sun-jre-bin ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords echo =dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.99 /etc/portage/package.unmask echo =dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.99 /etc/portage/package.unmask What's the difference between sun-jdk and sun-jre-bin? At first glance, it appears that one should be the development kit whereas the other should only install the runtime environment, however URL for each ebuild points to the same website and the tarbell that the sun-jre-bin ebuild instructs you to download contains the full J2SE development kit and runtime environment. I'm mostly interest, because the sun-jdk-1.5.03 is hard-masked, whereas sun-jre-bin-1.5.03 is not. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge curiosity
It's likely that gnome-base/gdm isn't in your world file. An easy way to check this is: grep gnome-base/gdm /var/lib/portage/world It's more than likely a dependancy of some other gnome project that hasn't upgraded its requirements to gdm. A way to upgrade dependancies is to add --deep or just -D to your emerge world, e.g. emerge -Duva world One other useful flag you may have missed is also --newuse or -N, which rechecks use flags on all packages, just in case you've tweaked your flags recently. On 6/9/05, reg hughson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As shown below, why wouldn't emerge -u world pick up the update available for gdm? Actually, I think it is probably because it is not listed in /var/lib/portage/world so I guess I am actually wondering why it wouldn't be listed there? Obviously my system knows gdm is installed but how does it know this? I guess I was always under the impression that everything I installed would be placed in /var/lib/portage/world. Obviously not. I know I can edit that file and add gdm dut that doesn't really answer my question. I am sure this is a minor issue that I just can't find in the man pages but I am trying to 1) learn something that I am obviously missing 2) determine if there are any other updates that emerge -Du world might be missing. Thanks in advance. Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo emerge -ua world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! Nothing to merge; do you want me to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] no Quitting. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo emerge -ua gdm These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] gnome-base/librsvg-2.9.5 [2.8.1-r1] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gdm-2.6.0.9-r3 [2.6.0.6] Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no Quitting. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] why does emerge --update --deep world try to emerge stuff I never had installed in the first place?
If you don't want to bother compiling any sound on your system, then add -alsa -arts -esd to your use flags. It's more than likely one of your packages found in the update --deep had the alsa tagged on itself by default, which requires an override described above either in /etc/make.conf or just on the command line. On 5/18/05, Trey Gruel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's probably being brought down as a dependancy of something else (because of the --deep). imho, you should always look at what is going to be installed before actually installing it with either --pretend or --ask. the best way to see what is causing it to be installed is to run 'emerge -uDptv world' (aka --update --deep --pretend --tree --verbose). this will show you a 'tree' of dependancies. also, the -v causes emerge to show the use flags used by a package, which can influence what it depends on. -- trey -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Console background images and colored ls output
In response to the second portion, it varies from shell to shell. Assuming you're using bash, add the following line to your ~/.bashrc alias ls='ls --color' On 5/18/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to get a background image for the console like it is on the LiveCD? Also, how do you make the output of ls colored? -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ complie error... where do I start?
Glad to see I'm not the only one having this problem, though I'm
having it on gnome-print with a very slightly different output,
(ltmain.sh version 1.3.5). Likewise I wouldn't mind finding the root
of this, I just haven't had the time to dive into it.
On 5/12/05, Charles Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey everybody!
Loving Gentoo! Trying to 'emerge mplayer' and the gtk+ package is
complaining with
Unpacking source...
Unpacking gtk+-1.2.10.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/gtk+-1.2.10-r11/work
* Applying gtk+-1.2.10-m4.patch ...
[ ok ]
* Applying gtk+-1.2.10-r8-gentoo.diff.bz2 ...
[ ok ]
* Applying gtk+-1.2-locale_fix.patch ...
[ ok ]
* Patching ${S}/ltmain.sh ...
* Portage patch failed to apply (ltmain.sh version 1.3.4)!
!!! ERROR: x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r11 failed.
!!! Function elibtoolize, Line 240, Exitcode 0
!!! Portage patch failed to apply!
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status
message.
Is this my problem or a bug? Can somebody please point me in the right
direction? Any help is appreciated!!!
Thanks!
Charles
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