[gentoo-user] Error compiling jpeg for kde

2007-06-15 Thread Mike Diehl
Hi all. I'm trying to emerge kde and I'm getting an error when the system tries to emerge media-libs/jpeg. So, where do I get crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o? TIA, i386-pc-linux-gnu-g++: /usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/crtbeginS.o: No such file or

[gentoo-user] Make portage assume, that a package is installed

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Good morning! On my system, I don't use a modem and don't intend to ever do so. Because of this, I did not install net-dialup/ppp. But I'd now like to install kde-base/kde-meta, which will pull in kde-base/kdenetwork-meta, which will pull in kde-base/kppp and this will finally pull in

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling jpeg for kde

2007-06-15 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Friday 15 June 2007, Mike Diehl wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to emerge kde and I'm getting an error when the system tries to emerge media-libs/jpeg. So, where do I get crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o? TIA, i386-pc-linux-gnu-g++:

Re: [gentoo-user] Make portage assume, that a package is installed

2007-06-15 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2007 June 15 Friday 08:55:40 AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: On my system, I don't use a modem and don't intend to ever do so. Because of this, I did not install net-dialup/ppp. But I'd now like to install kde-base/kde-meta, which will pull in kde-base/kdenetwork-meta, which will pull

[gentoo-user] What's creating symlinks in /dev/disk?

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. Under /dev/disk, we find links that point to the devices which host a filesystem. For example, suppose there's a filesystem with the label Home and it's stored on the LV called Home on the sys VG (ie. /dev/sys/Home). We then find: --($:~)-- ls -la /dev/disk/by-label/Home lrwxrwxrwx 1 root

[gentoo-user] Re: Make portage assume, that a package is installed

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On AD 2007 June 15 Friday 08:55:40 AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: On my system, I don't use a modem and don't intend to ever do so. Because of this, I did not install net-dialup/ppp. But I'd now like to install kde-base/kde-meta, which will pull in

Re: [gentoo-user] What's creating symlinks in /dev/disk?

2007-06-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 15. Juni 2007 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: What system is creating those symlinks during boot? Who is responsible for doing that? Is it udev? Or something from util-linux? udev, of course :-) (60-persistent-storage.rules). Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel:

Re: [gentoo-user] Make portage assume, that a package is installed

2007-06-15 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Good morning! On my system, I don't use a modem and don't intend to ever do so. Because of this, I did not install net-dialup/ppp. But I'd now like to install kde-base/kde-meta, which will pull in kde-base/kdenetwork-meta, which will pull in

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade, no sound.

2007-06-15 Thread Dale
Peter Alfredsen wrote: If you post the output of this command: lspci -s 01:0a.0 -n We will have the PCI id to search for. Might make it easier to find bug reports. The output of this command: dmesg|egrep -i -A3 (alsa|sound) Should give us an idea of whether your kernel actually detects

Re: [gentoo-user] Make portage assume, that a package is installed

2007-06-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Make portage assume, that a package is installed': Good morning! On my system, I did not install net-dialup/ppp. But I'd now like to install kde-base/kde-meta, which will pull in kde-base/kdenetwork-meta,

[gentoo-user] Re: Make portage assume, that a package is installed

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Peter Alfredsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: So I tried to create the file in /etc/portage. Contents: --($:~)-- cat /etc/portage/package.provided kde-base/kppp-3.5.7 net-dialup/ppp-2.4.4-r8 [...] Obviously, I'm doing something wrong. How do I

[gentoo-user] Re: Make portage assume, that a package is installed

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I encountered this one (there really should be a ppp flag for the kdenetwork ebuild), I did this: I just filed a bug reg. this. It includes a fixed ebuild. See Bug #182099 at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182099. Alexander Skwar --

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade, no sound.

2007-06-15 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Friday 15 June 2007, Dale wrote: Well, you won't believe this but I rebooted into the newer kernel to get the info for you, now it works fine.  O_O  I have sound when I change desktops, it plays a CD fine, it seems to be working now. That's so great. I couldn't find any reason why it would

[gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages (was: Make portage assume, that a package is installed)

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I suggest that a cleaner method would be to not install kde-meta or kdenetwork-meta at all but instead just install the KDE applications that you require. Actually, I disagree. This would (obviously *g*) mean, that kde-meta cannot be

Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 15. Juni 2007 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: This would (obviously *g*) mean, that kde-meta cannot be installed (just as you say). This means, that a whole shit load of packages would need to be manually installed. And all that, just because you don't want one or two packages?

Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages (was: Make portage assume, that a package is installed)

2007-06-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages (was: Make portage assume, that a package is installed)': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I suggest that a cleaner method would be to not install

Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages (was: Make portage assume, that a package is installed)

2007-06-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: I mean, what's the advantage of the kde*-meta packages over the kde package, when the kde*-meta require just as much junk, as the kde package does? Hm, really, what's the use of the kde*-meta package anyway? The -meta packages are a good idea.

[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I completely agree with Alexander about this. Meta (not only the kde ones) packages should definitely have USE flags. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182106 Let's see how fast Jakub is to close that bug... In that bug, I'm only talking about KDE

[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yep. You get kde-meta or individual kde packages or you get your own ebuild that depends on a number of KDE packages. The Gentoo developers do quite a bit of work just to give us

[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages (was: Make portage assume, that a package is installed)

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: I mean, what's the advantage of the kde*-meta packages over the kde package, when the kde*-meta require just as much junk, as the kde package does? Hm, really, what's the use of the kde*-meta package

Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

2007-06-15 Thread Mick
On Thursday 14 June 2007 21:19, Roy Wright wrote: I just switched to shorewall. I configured it to only allow in SSH, but have one weirdy when I try to test using nmap -v -A -P0 in that sometimes nmap reports only port 22 open and 113 closed as expected, but other times it also reports ports

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages (was: Make portage assume, that a package is installed)

2007-06-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Perhaps the best route (maybe a good feature request?) is to put USE flags in the -meta ebuilds. That's what I'd like to get as a result of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182106 I see we're thinking along the same lines. Now, how fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on Dell Servers

2007-06-15 Thread Mick
On Thursday 14 June 2007 22:29, kashani wrote: Mick wrote: Guys, has anyone installed a gentoo LAMP on: Dell Server: == If yes, what are the gotchas, in terms of kernel config, hardware, etc? I have never installed a 64bit system yet, so I

[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Perhaps the best route (maybe a good feature request?) is to put USE flags in the -meta ebuilds. That's what I'd like to get as a result of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182106 I see we're

Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

2007-06-15 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Roy Wright wrote: but other times it also reports ports 80, 554, and 1755 open, which has me really confused and concerned. Typical case when you scan from behind your ISP's NetApp NetCache appliance. Same thing happens in Argentina when using

[ot] Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Installers for Blizzard Products

2007-06-15 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Daniel Iliev wrote: I lost my interest in games mostly because I have changed. Heh, and I feel old, man! :) - A couple of days ago I installed descent3, of course under Gentoo, and I got nausea. Everything was moving afterwards :P Oh god I love

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: and a mechanism to put use flags into split ebuilds and let the devs decide which ones are worth persuing? With split ebuilds you mean for example the ebuild for kppp? Or are you talking about the kde*-meta ebuilds? Sorry for not being

[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Sorry for not being clearer. I meant USE flags in the -meta ebuilds, to disable undesired apps like kppp. Sort of like: DEPEND= kde-base/this-app !nokppp? ( kde-base/kppp ) kde-base/that-app

Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Dale
Peter Ruskin wrote: With big hard discs cheap and with ADSL connection, the advantages of the meta packages are diminished. If I understand your meaning correctly, not everyone can get broadband. I'm on dial-up and it is all that is available here where I live. DSL may be here soon but

[gentoo-user] Throttled connection?

2007-06-15 Thread Mick
Hi All, Some times of the day connecting to a machine across the pond becomes really difficult (UK to USA). RealVNC crashes or takes ages, Skype breaks down, ssh hangs, etc. On the other hand http/https connections seem to work fine, or only slightly slower (this is all subjective, but it'll

[gentoo-user] Importing Certificate Authority

2007-06-15 Thread Willie Wong
Hi group, Is there anyway of importing a certificate authority for just one user? My university/department uses a self-signed SSL certificate for IMAPS, and since it was implemented, 'fetchmail' from my machine always generates an error message fetchmail: Server certificate

[gentoo-user] Re: Importing Certificate Authority

2007-06-15 Thread Xavier Parizet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, June 15, 2007 18:34, Willie Wong wrote: Hi group, Is there anyway of importing a certificate authority for just one user? My university/department uses a self-signed SSL certificate for IMAPS, and since it was implemented,

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling jpeg for kde

2007-06-15 Thread Mike Diehl
On Friday 15 June 2007 01:02:06 am Peter Alfredsen wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Mike Diehl wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to emerge kde and I'm getting an error when the system tries to emerge media-libs/jpeg. So, where do I get crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o? TIA,

[gentoo-user] Re: Importing Certificate Authority

2007-06-15 Thread Xavier Parizet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, June 15, 2007 19:12, Xavier Parizet wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, June 15, 2007 18:34, Willie Wong wrote: Hi group, Is there anyway of importing a certificate authority for just one user? My

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Importing Certificate Authority

2007-06-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 07:45:38PM +0200, Penguin Lover Xavier Parizet squawked: So the certificate (I think) is here: http://www.math.princeton.edu/math.crt How do I tell my computer to trust the certificate? (In particular, with fetchmail?) Retrieve the certificate from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Installers for Blizzard Products

2007-06-15 Thread b.n.
Kent Fredric ha scritto: I argued I don't game any more _because_ of the lack of linux games that were not already bored with. HIstorically, game dev's argument has been along the lines of 'if they want to game, they'll just use windows, or get a console'. What they don't realize, is its

[gentoo-user] Default CApath for openssl [was: Importing Certificate Authority]

2007-06-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 03:54:11PM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: But thanks to that, I got on the right direction: turns out that my department switched from using a self-signed certificate to using one from IPSCA, so I've been barking up the wrong tree when trying to solve the

[gentoo-user] [OT] Freeciv tourney? (Was: Linux Installers for Blizzard Products)

2007-06-15 Thread darren kirby
quoth the b.n.: My luck is that all I want from gaming is freeciv. And freeciv runs on Linux. Do you ever play networked games? We should organize an online game/tourney for interested freeciv fans in Gentooland... Any interest? -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 ::

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] The ppp flag is already known to portage. --($:~/tmp)--

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages': Suppose you've got the following use case: Install all of KDE, but leave out PPP stuff. How would you solve that? Intall all the kde*-meta packages except kde-meta (I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Kent Fredric
On 6/16/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages': Suppose you've got the following use case: Install all of KDE, but leave out PPP stuff. How would you solve

[gentoo-user] lpr quit working

2007-06-15 Thread James
Hello, I have a postscript printer HP4000N that is working fine. All printing works except lp or lpr when sending a plain ascii file, If I print a postscript file with lpr it works fine. So where cups is suppose to automagically convert the ascii file to postscript it fails. It all use to

[gentoo-user] Re: lpr quit working

2007-06-15 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: I have a postscript printer HP4000N that is working fine. All printing works except lp or lpr when sending a plain ascii file, If I print a postscript file with lpr it works fine. Well, I hate to answer my own posts, but, this file was missing