[gentoo-user] RE: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 454 (27878-27927)

2005-12-04 Thread Eric Lehmann
Unsubscribe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 7:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 454 (27878-27927) Topics (messages 27878 throught 27927): [gentoo-user] OpenOffice update

Re: [gentoo-user] best make.conf settings for compaq-ml350

2005-12-04 Thread Dale
El Nino wrote: Dear my friends, i'm going to deploy gentoo on a Compaq Proliant ML350 server. so can any body recommend the best make.conf kernel configurations for this server. all advices are welcome... I have a Compaq Proliant 6000 if that would help. I'm not familiar with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Dale
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: do you have WIPE_TMP=yes in /etc/conf.d/bootmisc? if not (and you don't have any other means of cleaning /tmp, chances are you have too many files in /tmp (e.g. every movie you ever viewed with firefox). you can change the setting like the example above and reboot the

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Dale
LOL It helped a little bit, but not much. swifty / # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 3564108 3505584 58524 99% / udev12738880127308 1% /dev /dev/hda148312 37412

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 04 December 2005 09:35, Dale wrote: Hi, I have been up and running a while and am running stable but this is Gentoo. ;) I found a script that tells you what your CFLAGS are suposed to be and it is different from what I am using. This is what I am using now, from make.conf of

Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot 2.6.14

2005-12-04 Thread Sascha Lucas
After Machine check exception polling timer started. Nothing happens any more. I'd start with acpi=off, and try to isolate the problem from there. sorry this doesn't help. BTW: my chipset is on the acpi blacklist, it was allways disabled by default. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Crawford
On Sun December 4 2005 4:11 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Dale wrote: Hi, I have been up and running a while and am running stable but this is Gentoo. ;) I found a script that tells you what your CFLAGS are suposed to be and it is different from what I am using. This is what I

Re: [gentoo-user] C++ missing

2005-12-04 Thread Dale
Mike Kenny wrote: I am trying to install gentoo from the web by following the steps in the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook for a stage 1 install. This works well up to a point. When I execute # emerge --emptytree system after some time the process terminates with a message similar to cd

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
Dale wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: O3 makes binaries much, much bigger. Bigger binaries need more cacheload time. So bigger binaries are slower a lot of time. -fomit-frame-pointer is fine, fmpgmath=sse may or may not make your apps slower or faster. msse, mmmx, m3dnow are (mostly)

Re: [gentoo-user] C++ missing

2005-12-04 Thread Mike Kenny
Dale wrote: Mike Kenny wrote: I am trying to install gentoo from the web by following the steps in the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook for a stage 1 install. This works well up to a point. When I execute # emerge --emptytree system after some time the process terminates with a message similar to

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Dale
Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Personally I stick to -O2 since -O3 usually won't do much in reality. -O3 takes longer to compile, and there is very little or no gain at all (and sometimes the gain is negative). If space is the most important issue you might want to compile for smallest

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
Robert Crawford wrote: On Sun December 4 2005 4:11 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: -mfpmath=sse is not a good idea, the consensus is it actually lowers performance. -msse -mmmx -m3dnow are redundant (implied by -march=athlon-xp), and should be removed from your cflags line, but SHOULD be

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: LOL It helped a little bit, but not much. swifty / # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 3564108 3505584 58524 99% / udev12738880127308 1% /dev /dev/hda148312

Re: [gentoo-user] C++ missing

2005-12-04 Thread Dale
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 252M 5.2M 247M 3% / /newroot/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 59M 59M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom /dev/loop/052M 52M 0 100% /mnt/livecd tmpfs 252M 1.2M 251M 1%

Re: [gentoo-user] C++ missing

2005-12-04 Thread Mike Kenny
Dale wrote: You should have plenty of space then. You are not half way there yet. If you put a full KDE on there, it will be close. You may want to do a env-update then exit the chroot. Just type in env-update the exit to exit. Then go back and chroot in again following this: mount -t

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Dale
Holly Bostick wrote: OK, ideas 1 (Traditional): delete the contents of /usr/portage/distfiles. Already gone. I use http-replicator from my main rig. I do wish I could tell emerge to delete them after it finishes compiling though. 2 (Traditional, little-known): Check

[gentoo-user] dns+mail server is good or bad?

2005-12-04 Thread El Nino
Dear friends, is it a good idea to deploy a dns server + mail server on one server? -- ... The future lies ahead. ___ Have you mooed today? \^__^ \ (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\

Re: [gentoo-user] dns+mail server is good or bad?

2005-12-04 Thread gentoo
On 18:28 Sun 04 Dec , El Nino wrote: Dear friends, is it a good idea to deploy a dns server + mail server on one server? -- ... The future lies ahead. ___ Have you mooed today? \^__^ \ (oo)

[gentoo-user] gcc Upgrade Problem

2005-12-04 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, I was upgrading gcc using the directions in the GCC Upgrade Guide. All was going well. I was user what the Guide refers to as the safer method. I got to the 321 of 642 mark and the upgrade bombed. The specific upgrade being done was cyrus-sasl. Early in the output it complained about

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: 3 (Tough Love): You don't want to get rid of KDE, but there's a good chance you don't need all of KDE-- you might consider trimming it. I plan to let my mom use it if I move so I hope I can keep it all. Now, see, that's where you lose me because

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc Upgrade Problem

2005-12-04 Thread gentoo
On 08:06 Sun 04 Dec , C. Beamer wrote: Hi all, I was upgrading gcc using the directions in the GCC Upgrade Guide. All was going well. I was user what the Guide refers to as the safer method. I got to the 321 of 642 mark and the upgrade bombed. The specific upgrade being done was

[gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-04 Thread Jarry
Hi, I tried to update my gcc using emerge -e (Safer method) as described in gcc-upgrading-guide, but apparently I screwed something up. I did: emerge -uav gcc gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 source /etc/profile emerge -e system emerge -e world emerge -aC =sys-devel/gcc-3.3* Now whenever I

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-04 Thread gentoo
Hi, On 14:58 Sun 04 Dec , Jarry wrote: Hi, I tried to update my gcc using emerge -e (Safer method) as described in gcc-upgrading-guide, but apparently I screwed something up. I did: emerge -uav gcc gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 source /etc/profile emerge -e system emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-04 Thread Jarry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 14:58 Sun 04 Dec , Jarry wrote: Hi, I tried to update my gcc using emerge -e (Safer method) as described in gcc-upgrading-guide, but apparently I screwed something up. I did: emerge -uav gcc gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 source /etc/profile emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/4/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL It helped a little bit, but not much. swifty / # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 3564108 3505584 58524 99% / udev12738880127308 1% /dev

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc Upgrade Problem

2005-12-04 Thread cbeamer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, At the end of that same quide there're some hints on most common errors. So to just continue on with the recompile run:#emerge --resume --skipfirst. But that will work only if no other emerge command was run in between. Later you could investigate about this

Re: [gentoo-user] postscript forcing A4 paper size was: kdm will not start

2005-12-04 Thread Joseph
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 14:18 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: Nick Rout wrote: What the hell has xpdf got to do with any of this? Unless I am missing something, you are printing a ps document to the printer. Where does pdf fit into this? xpdf handles ps files. Joseph, have you tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 04:42 -0600, Dale wrote: LOL It helped a little bit, but not much. swifty / # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 3564108 3505584 58524 99% / udev12738880127308 1%

Re: [gentoo-user] courier

2005-12-04 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Smith wrote: thanks, i thought that courier-imap relied on courier, so i assumed it would have emerged it, i was wrong, thanks for the help. If there's anything you need to know about courier-mta on gentoo, just let me know. - -- Arturo

[gentoo-user] Squirrelmail can't attach files!

2005-12-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
My wife alerted me to a problem the other day with SquirrelMail-1.4.5 having a problem with attaching files. I tried it this morning and I couldn't attach files either. I would have just reverted to a previous version of Squirrelmail, but there doesn't seem to be one available. Any thoughts on

Re: [gentoo-user] dns+mail server is good or bad?

2005-12-04 Thread Matan Peled
It's also a good idea to have more than one DNS server, IMO. First of all, HTML mail! Yuck. Back to the point, like DJB said somewhere, having more DNS servers than servers actually serving content is kinda useless. If your DNS server dies, you lose DNS and therefore mail... But if your

[gentoo-user] bash and keeping history

2005-12-04 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi everyone, There's one thing that has kind of been a little annoying since I started using gentoo a few months ago. That's the fact that when you open multiple bash logins, only the history of the last one logged out actually gets saved. Now I know that redhat saves all of them. Does anyone

[gentoo-user] Re: bash and keeping history

2005-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everyone, There's one thing that has kind of been a little annoying since I started using gentoo a few months ago. That's the fact that when you open multiple bash logins, only the history of the last one logged out actually gets saved. Now I

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Chris Fairles
Chris Fairles wrote: Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Robert Crawford wrote: On Sun December 4 2005 4:11 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: -mfpmath=sse is not a good idea, the consensus is it actually lowers performance. -msse -mmmx -m3dnow are redundant (implied by -march=athlon-xp), and

Re: [gentoo-user] postscript forcing A4 paper size was: kdm will not start

2005-12-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 10:55:06 -0700 Joseph wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 14:18 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: Nick Rout wrote: What the hell has xpdf got to do with any of this? Unless I am missing something, you are printing a ps document to the printer. Where does pdf fit into this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 09:38:17 -0800, Steven Susbauer wrote: since I want the actual installed programs to stay even with a depclean, I add them to my world file ( equery l kde-base/ | grep kde-base /var/lib/portage/world ). That will put all kde-base files in world, even libraries and other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash and keeping history

2005-12-04 Thread Philip Webb
051204 Harry Putnam wrote: Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when you open multiple bash logins, only the history of the last one logged out actually gets saved. I've used for over a year a bash built-in called 'histappend' that can be put into .bash_profile like this: 'shopt -s

Re: [gentoo-user] postscript forcing A4 paper size was: kdm will not start

2005-12-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 13:24:11 -0700 Joseph wrote: [snip] Nick might be right. Maybe I'm looking at wrong places. What application is used to send print job to a printer? I'm sending postscript file ps with command: lpr -P printer_name Kpdf will not open ps file. when save a

Re: [gentoo-user] postscript forcing A4 paper size was: kdm will not start

2005-12-04 Thread Joseph
[snip] From Sql-Ledger when I select PS (postscript) + Screen it allows me to view it or save it as PS - postscript file. If I select PS (postscript) + printer, it goes directly to printer. I was even following this instruction (an excellent) document the explain some problems with

[gentoo-user] pkg-config and qt4 in an ebuild

2005-12-04 Thread romildo
Hello. I am writing an ebuild for bookmarkbridge (bookmarkbridge.sf.net), which depends on qt-4.0.1. configure (by means of pkg-config) is not findind QtGui, although the file QtGui.pc is installed (as /usr/lib64/qt4/QtGui.pc). First of all, why QtGui.pc is not installed on a standard location?

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Steven Susbauer
It's relatively easy to delete the libraries from the world file. All I keep in there is stuff I know I want, like kscd or whatever. You also have to delete the 3.4.3 version numbers from the files, which can be a pain if you don't know how to use vi. It is for the most part easier to start with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with portage

2005-12-04 Thread Cláudio Henrique
and how do I compile all the packages, since these does not exist in world file? On 12/3/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/3/05, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, there, When I do a emerge -epv world, not all the packages I have installed on the system appears,

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 13:30:57 -0800, Steven Susbauer wrote: It is for the most part easier to start with a blank slate; in my case I like having everything and deleting things I know I don't need, because otherwise I'm likely to forget something I do. I've done it the other way around. unmerge

[gentoo-user] problems emerging kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.4.1-r1

2005-12-04 Thread Cláudio Henrique
Here is the output of the emerge command: test_commands.cc: In function `int main(int, char**)': test_commands.cc:240: error: no matching function for call to `KioSMTP::AuthCommand::AuthCommand(SMTPProtocol*, QStrIList, const char[5], const char[5])' command.h:176: note: candidates are:

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Crawford
On Sun December 4 2005 6:35 am, Dale wrote: Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Personally I stick to -O2 since -O3 usually won't do much in reality. -O3 takes longer to compile, and there is very little or no gain at all (and sometimes the gain is negative). If space is the most important

Re: [gentoo-user] courier

2005-12-04 Thread Nick Smith
On 12/4/05, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Smith wrote: thanks, i thought that courier-imap relied on courier, so i assumed it would have emerged it, i was wrong, thanks for the help. If there's anything you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Pongracz Istvan wrote: Hi, As I can remember, the livecd has a binary. You can copy that library to your /usr/lib and use it to fix your problem. Or: You can make a symlink to the newer libstdc++, maybe can work. I have successfully used a symlink in the past but your mileage may

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2005-12-04 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi, An idea came to my mind. I'm a proud Gentoo User, and I see day by day how portage gets clever and how my Gentoo distro does work better everyday. I'm gonna make a very little proposal (maybe it's now developed, but I've no idea how to make it work). Since Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Dale
Richard Fish wrote: In addition to Holly's comments, I would take a look at the output of emerge --pretend --prune. Funny, that was what I did. Even though it is a recent install it still had several version of some stuff. It took up a bit of room too. You can also delete just the

[gentoo-user] Emerge -P kde-3.4.3

2005-12-04 Thread Tony Davison
A couple of days ago someone posted a magic incantation to prune kde-3.4.3 from its slot. I can't find it again not even in my own mailboxes. I may have imagined it, if not point me to it please. -- Big Tone -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2005-12-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 04 December 2005 05:56 pm, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want to download newer versions of Linux kernel, because my computer does work perfectly with the current one. If I set gentoo-sources in package.mask, an emerge -vuD world will fail, and

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:49:16 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote: Have you deleted the content in /var/tmp/portage (not the directory itself)? It doesn't matter if you delete the directory too, portage will create it when needed. However, it is inadvisable to delete the entire directory if it

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -P kde-3.4.3

2005-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 23:45:13 +, Tony Davison wrote: A couple of days ago someone posted a magic incantation to prune kde-3.4.3 from its slot. This one? qpkg -I -nc -g kde-base | xargs emerge -P -- Neil Bothwick Vuja De: the feeling that you've never been here before. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Crawford
On Sun December 4 2005 6:37 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Robert Crawford wrote: On Sun December 4 2005 4:11 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: -mfpmath=sse is not a good idea, the consensus is it actually lowers performance. -msse -mmmx -m3dnow are redundant (implied by

[gentoo-user] Seeking USB help

2005-12-04 Thread michael
Hi, I have an ancient Dell Inspiron 3000 running Gentoo with a 2.6.14 kernel. I'm trying to get USB to work. # grep USB .config | grep =y$ CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y CONFIG_USB=y CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y

[gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-04 Thread Joseph
I want to print to letter size paper. I'm using Sql-Ledger to print invoices, program is set to print with command: lpr -P Printer Name Sql-Ledger is using latex forms to generate invoices. So to my understanding the program will be using dvips to convert latex to postscript and send it directly

[gentoo-user] Optical mouse lights off on kernel 2.6.14 but works on kernel 2.4.30

2005-12-04 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Hi there, I got a new VCOM optical mouse, model C235-PS2-V. And I'm having problems with it. On Windows XP or with the Linux kernel 2.4.30 (OpenMosix) it works fine. But on linux kernel 2.6.14-r2 (Gentoo Sources), it lights off and stays off unless I halt the system. I believe this is

[gentoo-user] What package contains startkde

2005-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
I've unmerged several kde packages from what was originally probably a full kde install. Now on starx the startkde command cannot be found. I hate to reinstall everthing I unmerged just to find this command. These are the candidates from emerge.log 1132029646: *** emerge --verbose unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-04 Thread Joseph
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 18:05 -0700, Joseph wrote: I want to print to letter size paper. I'm using Sql-Ledger to print invoices, program is set to print with command: lpr -P Printer Name Sql-Ledger is using latex forms to generate invoices. So to my understanding the program will be using

Re: [gentoo-user] What package contains startkde

2005-12-04 Thread Steven Susbauer
kdebase, I believeOn 12/4/05, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've unmerged several kde packages from what was originally probably afull kde install.Now on starxthe startkde command cannot be found.I hate to reinstall everthing I unmerged just to find this command. These are the candidates

Re: [gentoo-user] What package contains startkde

2005-12-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:27:28 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: I've unmerged several kde packages from what was originally probably a full kde install. Now on starx the startkde command cannot be found. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ which startkde /usr/kde/3.4/bin/startkde [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ qpkg

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:05:31 -0700 Joseph wrote: I want to print to letter size paper. I'm using Sql-Ledger to print invoices, program is set to print with command: lpr -P Printer Name Sql-Ledger is using latex forms to generate invoices. So to my understanding the program will be using

[gentoo-user] Re: What package contains startkde

2005-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry wrote: . . . . . . Now on starx the startkde command cannot be found. Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kdebase, I believe Sorry folks this was something of a false alarm or at least the wrong question. It wasn't really missing (startkde) but whatever package puts that bin

[gentoo-user] Re: Squirrelmail can't attach files!

2005-12-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 12:09 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife alerted me to a problem the other day with SquirrelMail-1.4.5 having a problem with attaching files. I tried it this morning and I couldn't attach files either. I would have just reverted to a previous version of

[gentoo-user] Re: What package contains startkde

2005-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:27:28 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: I've unmerged several kde packages from what was originally probably a full kde install. Now on starx the startkde command cannot be found. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ which startkde

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What package contains startkde

2005-12-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 21:03:50 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:27:28 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: I've unmerged several kde packages from what was originally probably a full kde install. Now on starx the startkde command cannot be

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-04 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 15:57 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:05:31 -0700 Joseph wrote: I want to print to letter size paper. I'm using Sql-Ledger to print invoices, program is set to print with command: lpr -P Printer Name Sql-Ledger is using latex forms to generate

[gentoo-user] Re: What package contains startkde

2005-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The point being that when you upgrade kde the environment variable may not be reset until you re-read those files (which I think happens if you run env-update). Haa that sounds like a very likely suspect and also a command I'd completely forgotten. I

[gentoo-user] problems emergeing (through winxp shared connection)

2005-12-04 Thread Nacho
Hi, I'm trying to emerge kde-meta, but i get stuck here (the error reproduces with emerge kde-meta): -- gentoo ~ # emerge kde-meta Calculating dependencies ...done!

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:29:05 -0700 Joseph wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 15:57 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:05:31 -0700 Joseph wrote: I want to print to letter size paper. I'm using Sql-Ledger to print invoices, program is set to print with command: lpr -P

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-04 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:25 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:29:05 -0700 Joseph wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 15:57 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:05:31 -0700 Joseph wrote: I want to print to letter size paper. I'm using Sql-Ledger to print

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash and keeping history

2005-12-04 Thread Trenton Adams
Thanks guys.On 12/4/05, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 051204 Harry Putnam wrote: Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when you open multiple bash logins, only the history of the last one logged out actually gets saved. I've used for over a year a bash built-in called 'histappend' that

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-04 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:25 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:29:05 -0700 Joseph wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 15:57 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:05:31 -0700 Joseph wrote: I want to print to letter size paper. I'm using Sql-Ledger to print

[gentoo-user] IMAP Server - authenticating off a Windows Domain?

2005-12-04 Thread Stroller
Hi there, Does anyone have any experience of this, please? I have a number of users with roaming profiles on a Windows Domain Controller (SBS 2003). I don't want to use Exchange as a mailserver but instead an IMAP sever such as Courier (which I'm familiar with). Each user will have to

Re: [gentoo-user] courier

2005-12-04 Thread Stroller
On Dec 4, 2005, at 6:03 pm, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Nick Smith wrote: thanks, i thought that courier-imap relied on courier, so i assumed it would have emerged it, i was wrong, thanks for the help. If there's anything you need to know about courier-mta on gentoo, just let me know.

Re: [gentoo-user] bash and keeping history

2005-12-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:11:45PM -0700, Trenton Adams wrote There's one thing that has kind of been a little annoying since I started using gentoo a few months ago. That's the fact that when you open multiple bash logins, only the history of the last one logged out actually gets saved.

Re: [gentoo-user] write to attached USB drv from windowsXP

2005-12-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:28:03PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote Once more for clarity: I can access them from windows xp and view contents but cannot write to them. Let's see if I have this right... - the Windows XP machine is connected to the Gentoo machine - the Gentoo machine is

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:26:48 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have tracked down the code for printing to the file SL/Form.pm (I tracked it by grepping the source for outr likely commands, dvips, pdflatex etc.) Unfortunately I am not a perl guru, but there are clearly

[gentoo-user] emerge history

2005-12-04 Thread Joseph
Is there a way to tell which packages got upgraded in the past week? I have /etc/config-archive/ but if the configuration did not change it will not help me. One of the upgrades, has caused tetex sending wrong information during conversion to postscript and that is causing my my printer demanding

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-04 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 20:22 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:26:48 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have tracked down the code for printing to the file SL/Form.pm (I tracked it by grepping the source for outr likely commands, dvips, pdflatex etc.)

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge history

2005-12-04 Thread Dale
Joseph wrote: Is there a way to tell which packages got upgraded in the past week? I have /etc/config-archive/ but if the configuration did not change it will not help me. One of the upgrades, has caused tetex sending wrong information during conversion to postscript and that is causing my my

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem: wxGTK-2.4.2-r4 doesn't compile

2005-12-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/4/05, Luigi Pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I have a problem with the opengl: if I emerge the wxGTK-2.4.2-r4 package (stable on AMD64 profile), I read that: [...] checking for GL/gl.h... yes checking for -lGL... no checking for -lMesaGL... no configure: error: OpenGL libraries

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with portage

2005-12-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/4/05, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and how do I compile all the packages, since these does not exist in world file? Well, if you don't want to add them to world, the hard way: cd /var/db/pkg for x in */*; do emerge --oneshot =$x; done -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org