Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:05:41 +0300, Thanasis wrote: There you go then, it's man page time :) http://linux.die.net/man/1/nail Do you see anything relevant in the man page? No, but then I don't need to look at it :) -- Neil Bothwick Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-22 Thread Thanasis
on 04/22/2011 10:14 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:05:41 +0300, Thanasis wrote: There you go then, it's man page time :) http://linux.die.net/man/1/nail Do you see anything relevant in the man page? No, but then I don't need to look at it :) Yea, I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:12:39 +0300, Thanasis wrote: There you go then, it's man page time :) http://linux.die.net/man/1/nail Do you see anything relevant in the man page? No, but then I don't need to look at it :) Yea, I don't think it's caused by nail. Why not? It's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-22 Thread Thanasis
on 04/22/2011 04:00 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:12:39 +0300, Thanasis wrote: There you go then, it's man page time :) http://linux.die.net/man/1/nail Do you see anything relevant in the man page? No, but then I don't need to look at it :) Yea, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:26:09 +0300, Thanasis wrote: Why not? It's the obvious choice. Have you tried using nail's Mail from the command line to see if it works as you expect? I have been using nail because it has the option to set the smtp server to use (as an environment variable. If the

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/21/2011 01:01 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:23:01 +0300, Thanasis wrote: Thanks! Can you add some comments, like what the directories presync.d and postupdate.d are supposed to be ... as I don't have those. I have postsync.d and don't know what is it

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:44:27 +0300, Thanasis wrote: So, I understand that normally (in my case) there is no need for these presync.d and postupdate.d directories, right? The script could be stripped from these like so: Correct. Actually, I've just noticed an inconsistency in the script, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/21/2011 11:03 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:44:27 +0300, Thanasis wrote: So, I understand that normally (in my case) there is no need for these presync.d and postupdate.d directories, right? The script could be stripped from these like so: Correct.

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/21/2011 11:03 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:44:27 +0300, Thanasis wrote: So, I understand that normally (in my case) there is no need for these presync.d and postupdate.d directories, right? The script could be stripped from these like so: Correct. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:57:40 +0300, Thanasis wrote: When i run it, I get a mail with an attachment named attachment.bin which is actually a text file. How can I make it appear inline (in the message body)? I'm guessing you have a different variant of Mail to me, because I get the text inline.

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: SNIP Here it is, as an attachment too to avoid screwing up the lines #!/bin/bash export PORTAGE_ECLASS_WARNING_ENABLE=0 WORLD_MERGE=emerge --update --deep --reinstall changed-use --with-bdeps y --verbose @system

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/21/2011 04:26 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:57:40 +0300, Thanasis wrote: When i run it, I get a mail with an attachment named attachment.bin which is actually a text file. How can I make it appear inline (in the message body)? I'm guessing you have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: My full sig is like below, and it's originally in HTML, so the links would've worked. Whenever I post to Gentoo-User, I change to plaintext, crop the sig to only the top 3 lines (excluding the --), and delete the rest.

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:45:14 +0300, Thanasis wrote: % qfile -v Mail mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20050715-r3 (/bin/Mail) is what I use # qfile -v Mail mail-client/nail-12.4 (/usr/bin/Mail) There you go then, it's man page time :) Although I thought nail's code had been merged into

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:41:08 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: WORLD_MERGE=emerge --update --deep --reinstall changed-use --with-bdeps y --verbose @system @world I guess I've lost track. Is @system not a part of @world or is that done for some other reason? The emerge man page says 'world

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:41:08 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: WORLD_MERGE=emerge --update --deep --reinstall changed-use --with-bdeps y --verbose @system @world  I guess I've lost track. Is @system not a part of @world or is

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/22/2011 01:09 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:45:14 +0300, Thanasis wrote: % qfile -v Mail mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20050715-r3 (/bin/Mail) is what I use # qfile -v Mail mail-client/nail-12.4 (/usr/bin/Mail) There you go then, it's man page time :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 17:54:02 Dale wrote: Kfir Lavi wrote: I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay). I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs. Thats how I keep my SSD ;) Kfir -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M.

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday 19 April 2011 17:54:02 Dale wrote: Kfir Lavi wrote: I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay). I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs. Thats how I keep my SSD ;) Kfir -- Poison [BLX]

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 03:42:13 Dale wrote: Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday 19 April 2011 17:54:02 Dale wrote: Kfir Lavi wrote: I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay). I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs. Thats how I

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
Google Talk:    pepoluan Y! messenger: pepoluan MSN / Live:  pepol...@hotmail.com (do not send email here) Skype:    pepoluan More on me:  My LinkedIn Account  My Facebook Account On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 16:25, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Wednesday 20 April 2011

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 16:49:26 Pandu Poluan wrote: Google Talk:pepoluan Y! messenger: pepoluan MSN / Live: pepol...@hotmail.com (do not send email here) Skype:pepoluan More on me: My LinkedIn Account My Facebook Account Wouldn't this fit better at the bottom as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Thanasis
on 04/19/2011 03:40 PM Joost Roeleveld wrote the following: On Tuesday 19 April 2011 09:04:18 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 11:25:27 Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 20 April 2011 03:42:13 Dale wrote: Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday 19 April 2011 17:54:02 Dale wrote: Kfir Lavi wrote: I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. I upgraded my RAM to

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:37 on Wednesday 20 April 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: On Wednesday 20 April 2011 11:25:27 Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 20 April 2011 03:42:13 Dale wrote: Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday 19 April 2011 17:54:02 Dale wrote: Kfir

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:07:46 +0300, Thanasis wrote: That's the gist of it, although it also emails the output from emerge -pvDN world, so I can see what needs to be done. It runs a few other bits, like glsa-check. Neil, do you mind posting it (after changing any private bits to

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 15:16:40 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 14:37 on Wednesday 20 April 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: On Wednesday 20 April 2011 11:25:27 Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 20 April 2011 03:42:13 Dale wrote: Joost Roeleveld

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:41 on Wednesday 20 April 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: Alan, I would love to do a better test then this. Reason I took Openoffice is because it's known to be a large build (requires a lot of diskspace) and takes a long time. If you know

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Thanasis
Thanks! Can you add some comments, like what the directories presync.d and postupdate.d are supposed to be ... as I don't have those. I have postsync.d and don't know what is it about ... It contains a file named q-reinitialize : # cat /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize #!/bin/sh [ -x

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 21:06:09 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:41 on Wednesday 20 April 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: Alan, I would love to do a better test then this. Reason I took Openoffice is because it's known to be a large build (requires

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:23:01 +0300, Thanasis wrote: Thanks! Can you add some comments, like what the directories presync.d and postupdate.d are supposed to be ... as I don't have those. I have postsync.d and don't know what is it about ... It contains a file named q-reinitialize :

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 17:24, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Wednesday 20 April 2011 16:49:26 Pandu Poluan wrote: Google Talk:    pepoluan Y! messenger: pepoluan MSN / Live:      pepol...@hotmail.com (do not send email here) Skype:            pepoluan More on me:  My LinkedIn

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 08:34:06 Thanasis wrote: on 04/19/2011 12:56 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. Can you post the script? My

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. Can you post the script? My guess is that the script would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Thanasis
on 04/19/2011 11:04 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. Can you post the script?

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 09:04:18 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. Can you

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, How's this for sheer persistence and grit? $ genlop -c Currently merging 321 out of 368 *

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Dale
Kfir Lavi wrote: I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay). I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs. Thats how I keep my SSD ;) Kfir -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy I got 16Gbs in my rig and I mounted portages work

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 18.04.2011 06:53, schrieb Joshua Murphy: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, How's this for sheer persistence and grit? $ genlop -c Currently merging 321 out of 368 * www-client/chromium-10.0.648.204 current

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:52:56 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: it's tedious to install things through an intermediary system all the time. The fullsize laptop, when it gets its rebuild over the next week (it's been a windows 2k3 server development system lately) My strategy for getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 18.04.2011 10:12, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:52:56 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: it's tedious to install things through an intermediary system all the time. The fullsize laptop, when it gets its rebuild over the next week (it's been a windows 2k3 server development

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 18 April 2011 02:44:19 Dale wrote: How long does it take to open it when it gets done? Seconds? Minutes? I was going to check, but now I can't starrtx on that box. Because of the http-replicator problem I mentioned in another thread I decided to throw the book at it and ran emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:22:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Has anyone here managed to get http-replicator running on a non-Gentoo box? It would be good to keep a distfiles repository somewhere on the LAN, and the box in question is supposed to be the LAN server, after all. Why do you need

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 18 April 2011 13:44:45 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:22:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Has anyone here managed to get http-replicator running on a non-Gentoo box? It would be good to keep a distfiles repository somewhere on the LAN, and the box in question is

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 18.04.2011 16:35, schrieb Peter Humphrey: On Monday 18 April 2011 13:44:45 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:22:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Has anyone here managed to get http-replicator running on a non-Gentoo box? It would be good to keep a distfiles repository somewhere on

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 18 April 2011 15:51:32 Florian Philipp wrote: In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public Gentoo mirrors but because all

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 18 April 2011 16:48:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 18 April 2011 15:51:32 Florian Philipp wrote: In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded files). For downloading files, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:51:32 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public Gentoo mirrors but because

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Thanasis
on 04/19/2011 12:56 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. Can you post the script?

[gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, How's this for sheer persistence and grit? $ genlop -c Currently merging 321 out of 368 * www-client/chromium-10.0.648.204 current merge time: 11 hours, 41 minutes and 9 seconds. ETA: any time now. This is my Atom N270 LAN server box. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-17 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, How's this for sheer persistence and grit? $ genlop -c Currently merging 321 out of 368 * www-client/chromium-10.0.648.204 current merge time: 11 hours, 41 minutes and 9 seconds. ETA: any time now. This is my Atom N270 LAN server box.

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-17 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, How's this for sheer persistence and grit? $ genlop -c  Currently merging 321 out of 368  * www-client/chromium-10.0.648.204        current merge time: 11 hours, 41 minutes and 9