Cfg-update has such a logic. It looks for user changes, If there are
decisions to make at all and previous decisions.
Ihatethespellcheckerofmyphone.
Am 31.05.2011 08:49 schrieb "Alan McKinnon" :
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:08 AM, David W Noon wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2011 21...
The logic appears
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast.
>>
>> *My* suggested solution:
>>
>> Generate an initramfs containing udev. The hands-down easiest way is
>> using genkernel's 'only create an initramfs' s
On Mon, 30 May 2011 23:08:08 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
> You have just touched on an annoyance of unmerge, in that it does not
> clean up configuration files that have been modified. It removes files
> that are still in the same state as when the package was emerged, but
> not those modified by
On Mon, 30 May 2011 22:34:46 +0200
Nils Larsson wrote:
> Eh... Right, so ...
>
> The echo example might have been a bit blunt. I've found myself using
> echo examples as a general "you need to add this setting here"
> device, like you learn to do when you start using Gentoo, might have
> been a b
Alan McKinnon writes:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin
> O'Gorman did opine thusly:
> > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel
> > a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away.
>
> I know how you feel :-)
>
> I've tried to
On May 31, 2011 3:02 AM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 May 2011 23:08:08 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
>
> > You have just touched on an annoyance of unmerge, in that it does not
> > clean up configuration files that have been modified. It removes files
> > that are still in the same state a
* Tanstaafl [110530 16:40]:
> On 2011-05-28 8:42 PM, Gregory Shearman wrote:
> > In linux.gentoo.user, Todd Goodman wrote:
> >> * Tanstaafl [110528 12:43]:
> >>> Anyone? Will one of the FLOSS builds for the cheap Cable/DSL routers
> >>> support VLANs on the different built-in router ports (ie, To
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:30 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Alex Schuster
did opine thusly:
> Alan McKinnon writes:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin
> >
> > O'Gorman did opine thusly:
> > > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:46 on Monday 30 May 2011, Mick did opine
thusly:
> e17 is the best desktop for me, because it is extremely light footed, has
> enough eye candy (if you need that) and it is relatively
> configurable. Until it becomes stable you'll need to compile it from
> sv
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:33 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Harry Putnam did
opine thusly:
> Alan McKinnon writes:
> >> modules=fuse
> >>
> >> Which appears to be the proper syntax judging from the comments in
> >> the stub file provided (/etc/conf.d/modules).
> >>
> >> But `fuse' never ge
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:22 on Monday 30 May 2011, Colleen Beamer
did opine thusly:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:47 AM, James Wall wrote:
> > I have had that particular problem if I mounted /dev before extracting
> > the stage3 tarball. Just follow those instructions and you sill be fin
On Tue, 31 May 2011 07:34:22 -0500, James Wall wrote:
> > It doesn't remove *any* files that have been modified, the reasons
> > systems used to get cluttered with orphaned .la files. The logic is
> > quite simple, if it is not the file portage installed with the
> > package, it should not be unin
On 31 May 2011 14:38, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 14:30 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Alex Schuster
> did opine thusly:
>
>> Alan McKinnon writes:
>> > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin
>> >
>> > O'Gorman did opine thusly:
>> > > It looks like
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN
wrote:
> Trying to update from kde4.5 to kde4.6
I find that it is easier to unmerge old version :4.5 KDE, then emerge
the new version :4.6. Upgrade always seems to be a mess like that.
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN
> wrote:
>> Trying to update from kde4.5 to kde4.6
>
> I find that it is easier to unmerge old version :4.5 KDE, then emerge
> the new version :4.6. Upgrade always seems to be a mess like tha
Try to modify conf file "/etc/conf.d/hwclock"
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From: "András Csányi"
To:
Subject: [gentoo-user] time issue
Date: Mon, May 30, 2011 16:15
Hi All,
I have a little problem regarding time. After every boot I have to
setup my clock because about my machi
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:19:16AM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> Why not use "echo >> ..." ??
>
> Since the ">>" does an append, the original file contents are still
> available for reference.
>
> Since the added line is at the end of the file, the new value will be
> used instead of the old val
On 30 May 2011 10:15, András Csányi wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a little problem regarding time. After every boot I have to
> setup my clock because about my machine the current time is +2 hour
> more. To be honest, this is a little bit annoying.
> What I did:
>
> - According to install guide I h
On Tue, 31 May 2011 10:10:01 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files:
>On Mon, 30 May 2011 23:08:08 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
>
>> You have just touched on an annoyance of unmerge, in that it does not
>> clean up configuration files that have been
Anyone having any problems with VirtualBox and kernel panics?
I've tried vbox 3 and 4, both with the same behavior. Installing
Windows 7 as a guest and either (a) my system will completely freeze
(I'm assuming the kernel panicked), or (b) I'm thinking the Linux raid
module dies because the system
Hello!
I've been having problems with my Squid-equipped Gentoo box: For some
sites, Squid just times out. But if I access the sites directly, they
appear in my browser. And doing a direct wget from the Squidbox also
works.
Now I'm not sure whose 'fault' it is, but just in case it's Squid's,
I'll
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 17:05:06 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> Sabayon Linux is said to be "derived" from Gentoo. Yet, reading reviews
> of Sabayon (from www.distrowatch.org), I fail to see any similarity
> between G and S; S is a binary distribution, doesn't have portage, and
> doesn't loo
Hi, all.
Sabayon Linux is said to be "derived" from Gentoo. Yet, reading reviews
of Sabayon (from www.distrowatch.org), I fail to see any similarity
between G and S; S is a binary distribution, doesn't have portage, and
doesn't look like having much flexibility.
Purely out of curiosity, what is
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 May 2011 17:05:06 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > Sabayon Linux is said to be "derived" from Gentoo. Yet, reading reviews
> > of Sabayon (from www.distrowatch.org), I fail to see
Am 31.05.2011 19:36, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
> Hello!
>
> I've been having problems with my Squid-equipped Gentoo box: For some
> sites, Squid just times out. But if I access the sites directly, they
> appear in my browser. And doing a direct wget from the Squidbox also
> works.
>
> Now I'm not sur
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:27 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Mark Knecht did
opine thusly:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Paul Hartman
>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN
> >
> > wrote:
> >> Trying to update from kde4.5 to kde4.6
> >
> > I find that it is e
On 2011-05-31 1:31 PM, James wrote:
> The only thing I've read online that may be applicable is that there
> have been some issues with kernel panics when you give the guest OS
> more than 1 processor. It would suck badly if SMP didn't work well on
> vbox.
My understanding is it is a general rule
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:18 PM, skiarxon wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday 31 May 2011 17:05:06 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> > Hi, all.
>> >
>> > Sabayon Linux is said to be "derived" from Gentoo. Yet, reading reviews
>> > of Sabayon (from
On 05/30/2011 06:03 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Are you using a recent stage3 tarball? If so, I suspect your booting
> problem has got something to do with this bug:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368597
That was it, thanks! Nothing to do with the kernel after all.
I created /dev/conso
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 08:07:24 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon
wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> >> Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast.
> >>
> >> *My* suggested solution:
> >>
> >> Generate an initramfs containing udev. The hands-
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2011-05-31 1:31 PM, James wrote:
>> The only thing I've read online that may be applicable is that there
>> have been some issues with kernel panics when you give the guest OS
>> more than 1 processor. It would suck badly if SMP didn't work w
On 5/31/2011 12:11 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2011-05-31 1:31 PM, James wrote:
The only thing I've read online that may be applicable is that there
have been some issues with kernel panics when you give the guest OS
more than 1 processor. It would suck badly if SMP didn't work well on
vbox.
My un
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:27 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Mark Knecht did
opine thusly:
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN
wrote:
Trying to update from kde4.5 to kde4.6
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:27 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Mick did opine
thusly:
> On Tuesday 31 May 2011 08:07:24 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon
>
> wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > >> Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fas
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Considering that ~250 devices consumes a teeny-weeny bit of disk space and
they are hidden from view normally, I say it's worth it leaving them in. Which
is what vapier also says.
+1 They are tiny plus when devfs mounts, they aren't visible anymore if
I recall corre
tisdagen den 31 maj 2011 22:00:28 skrev Dale:
> Does anyone remember the discussion I had about kde packages being in
> the system set when doing a emerge -e system? If I for example unmerge
> kde-meta then run --depclean, I bet I would get the error about system
> packages being removed. It may
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:12 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Dale did opine
thusly:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Considering that ~250 devices consumes a teeny-weeny bit of disk space
> > and they are hidden from view normally, I say it's worth it leaving them
> > in. Which is what vapier also say
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 17:26:43 David W Noon wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2011 10:10:01 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
>
> [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files:
> >On Mon, 30 May 2011 23:08:08 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
> >> You have just touched on an annoyance of unmerge, in tha
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 16:44:25 William Hubbs wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:19:16AM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> > Why not use "echo >> ..." ??
> >
> > Since the ">>" does an append, the original file contents are still
> > available for reference.
> >
> > Since the added line is at the end
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 21:02:46 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 21:27 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Mick did
> opine
>
> thusly:
> > On Tuesday 31 May 2011 08:07:24 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 31, 2011
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:00 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Dale did opine
thusly:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:27 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Mark Knecht
> > did
> >
> > opine thusly:
> >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Paul Hartman
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On
Nils Larsson wrote:
tisdagen den 31 maj 2011 22:00:28 skrev Dale:
Does anyone remember the discussion I had about kde packages being in
the system set when doing a emerge -e system? If I for example unmerge
kde-meta then run --depclean, I bet I would get the error about system
packages bei
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:12 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Dale did opine
thusly:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Considering that ~250 devices consumes a teeny-weeny bit of disk space
and they are hidden from view normally, I say it's worth it leaving them
in. Which is
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:20 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Nils Larsson did
opine thusly:
> tisdagen den 31 maj 2011 22:00:28 skrev Dale:
> > Does anyone remember the discussion I had about kde packages being in
> > the system set when doing a emerge -e system? If I for example unmerge
> > k
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:20 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Nils Larsson did
opine thusly:
tisdagen den 31 maj 2011 22:00:28 skrev Dale:
Does anyone remember the discussion I had about kde packages being in
the system set when doing a emerge -e system? If I f
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:55 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Dale did opine
thusly:
> > It appears I was wrong after all.
> >
> > Manners dictates that apologies to Dale are in order.
> >
> > Sorry Dale.
> >
> >
>
> No need. I'm more worried about the heat over here. It's going to be
>
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:55 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Dale did opine
thusly:
It appears I was wrong after all.
Manners dictates that apologies to Dale are in order.
Sorry Dale.
No need. I'm more worried about the heat over here. It's going to be
1
On Tue, 31 May 2011 22:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
Cleaning redundant configuration files:
>On Tuesday 31 May 2011 17:26:43 David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
>> To repeat myself: I do not see a customized configuration file as
>> being any more important than a vanilla one. If I unde
David W Noon wrote:
On Tue, 31 May 2011 22:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
Cleaning redundant configuration files:
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 17:26:43 David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
To repeat myself: I do not see a customized configuration file as
being any more importan
On Tue, 31 May 2011 23:43:59 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
> Remember that I am writing purely about *unmerged* packages. In the
> case of a rebuild or upgrade, customizations would be preserved just
> as they are now.
Sometimes it is necessary to unmerge a package before emerging a newer
version,
On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:26:43 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
> >> You have just touched on an annoyance of unmerge, in that it does not
> >> clean up configuration files that have been modified. It removes
> >> files that are still in the same state as when the package was
> >> emerged, but not those
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:35 on Wednesday 01 June 2011, Dale did
opine thusly:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:55 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Dale did
> > opine
> >
> > thusly:
> >>> It appears I was wrong after all.
> >>>
> >>> Manners dictates that apologies
On Wednesday 01 June 2011 00:14:04 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> It's quite simple logic... If a file is modified, it is no longer the file
> portage installed, so portage does not uninstall it. If anything, the
> problem is that the logic used by portage is too simple.
I don't think it's too simple. It
On Wednesday 01 June 2011 00:30:37 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> And what's that gigantic gate over the river behind you in the profile
> pic? Looks a bit like the sea wall gates on the Thames.
A good deal less elegant though :)
--
Rgds
Peter
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 31 May 2011 23:43:59 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
Remember that I am writing purely about *unmerged* packages. In the
case of a rebuild or upgrade, customizations would be preserved just
as they are now.
Sometimes it is necessary to unmerge a package befor
Alan McKinnon wrote:
So that's what you look like :-) I had a ... very different ... mental
picture (also a complete fiction).
There's no public photos on your page though :-(
And what's that gigantic gate over the river behind you in the profile pic?
Looks a bit like the sea wall gates on the
>
> I've been having problems with my Squid-equipped Gentoo box: For some
> sites, Squid just times out. But if I access the sites directly, they
> appear in my browser. And doing a direct wget from the Squidbox also
> works.
>
> Now I'm not sure whose 'fault' it is, but just in case it's Squid's,
I get the following error several times when trying to emerge
gnome-panel on "oldlap", an ~x86 gentoo.
CCLD panel-test-applets
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
cannot find -lxcb-aux
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bi
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 03:35, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 May 2011 21:02:46 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> Apparently, though unproven, at 21:27 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Mick did
>> opine
>>
>> thusly:
>> > On Tuesday 31 May 2011 08:07:24 Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKi
On 05/31/2011 01:31 PM, James wrote:
> Anyone having any problems with VirtualBox and kernel panics?
>
> I've tried vbox 3 and 4, both with the same behavior. Installing
> Windows 7 as a guest and either (a) my system will completely freeze
> (I'm assuming the kernel panicked), or (b) I'm thinking
Hi.
Maybe it offtop, but are you know about yet another gentoo-based distro
Calculate?
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=calculate
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Paul Hartman <
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:18 PM, skiarxon wrote:
> >
> >
> > O
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 20:55:08 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Tanstaafl
wrote:
> > On 2011-05-31 1:31 PM, James wrote:
> >> The only thing I've read online that may be applicable is that there
> >> have been some issues with kernel panics when you give the guest OS
> >> m
On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011 05:00:08 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> I get the following error several times when trying to emerge
> gnome-panel on "oldlap", an ~x86 gentoo.
>
> CCLD panel-test-applets
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
> cannot find -lxcb-aux
>
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