Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Any thoughts on Intel Skylake SGX?

On Wednesday 24 Feb 2016 19:08:42 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Well my concern was more that SGX would provide leverage for even more > > eavesdropping, rather than prohibit it. > > Yeah, I'm one of those persons who tends to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Any thoughts on Intel Skylake SGX?

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 24 Feb 2016 19:08:42 Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> > Well my concern was more that SGX would provide leverage for even more >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: Attic (cvs) -> ???(git)

Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes: > I used pygit2, but there are a few different implenentations and > plenty of docs online in general. Just emerged this one. thx. > Here is an example program that runs through a history and dumps a > list of commits and their metadata in csv format: >

[gentoo-user] beegfs goes opensource!

Long awaited. This smoking hot (many HPC scientist agree) distributed file system will surely rock the cluster, container and Hi Performance Computing worlds. [1] Now if I were only smart enough to get this puppy into portage... enjoy! James [1] http://www.beegfs.com/content/news/

Re: [gentoo-user] using package.provided

cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I'd like to stay on kernel-4.1.6, rather than keep installing the >>> newest version at each upgrade. >>> >>> As I recall, and a quick look at `man portage', a file named >>> `package.provided' is meant

Re: [gentoo-user] using package.provided

Dale wrote: > Harry Putnam wrote: > > I'd like to stay on kernel-4.1.6, rather than keep installing the > > newest version at each upgrade. > > > > As I recall, and a quick look at `man portage', a file named > > `package.provided' is meant for such things. > > > > The

[gentoo-user] Re: using package.provided

On 25/02/16 05:55, Harry Putnam wrote: I'd like to stay on kernel-4.1.6, rather than keep installing the newest version at each upgrade. I'd instead recommend putting >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.2 in package.mask to stay with 4.1 (it's an LTS kernel) and always get the patches for that

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] thunderbird stop working

On 2016-02-22 12:14, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 22/02/16 13:02, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: Hi, Sorry for such stupid question, but I'm lost :-( I'm using thunderbird and recently I'm not able to login to mail server. Server configuration doesn't changed. I've changed password only, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Print quality unreadable in Firefox

On Thursday 25 February 2016 02:12:16 Dale wrote: > What is this font group switching thingy? Eselect fontconfig list -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Print quality unreadable in Firefox

Daniel Frey wrote: > On 02/23/2016 07:40 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 02/23/2016 09:43 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: >>> Lo and behold, it's not showing a bitmap font now: >>> >>> - >>> # fc-match helvetica >>> n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular" >>> - >>> >>> I don't know if the font

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

Hello, On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, allan gottlieb wrote: [..] >dev-libs/libxml2:2 > > (dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.2-r4:2/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled > in by > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Attic (cvs) -> ???(git)

walt gmail.com> writes: > > So using wget to fetch {package/files} from the gentoo attic was/is a > > reliable exercise to build things removed from the tree, into one's > > /usr/local/portage tree. It still works > Hi James. I need a version of net-libs/gnutls from before the switch > to

[gentoo-user] bluecherry:: video surveillance package

Hello, So, 'zoneminder' has been in portage for a while now. The problem is this open source software is not really aggressive with support on the 'ip video cams' (h.264) that are available (at least last time I hacked on zoneminder). So Bluecherry seems to have opensourced quite a bit of their

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Attic (cvs) -> ???(git)

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:49 PM, James wrote: > Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes: > >> If I were doing anything too >> crazy with all this I'd probably use the python git module. > > dev-python/git-python ??? Any others or related docs/howtos/examples? > I used

Re: [gentoo-user] using package.provided

On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:47:32 -0600, Dale wrote: > Mine here is in: /etc/portage/package.mask It's been there for a long > time. Maybe they are moving things again to something new but it works > here. Things that override global settings in make.conf, like package.mask, go in /etc/portage.

Re: [gentoo-user] Print quality unreadable in Firefox

Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 25 February 2016 02:12:16 Dale wrote: > >> What is this font group switching thingy? > Eselect fontconfig list > Interesting. A whole bunch of mine was not enabled. I fixed it. I'm glad I read some threads that I can't help on. I had forgot all about this

Re: [gentoo-user] using package.provided

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 22:55:30 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'd like to stay on kernel-4.1.6, rather than keep installing the > newest version at each upgrade. > > As I recall, and a quick look at `man portage', a file named > `package.provided' is meant for such things. No it's not.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

On 25/02/2016 03:05, allan gottlieb wrote: On Wed, Feb 24 2016, Alan McKinnon wrote: A finite subset of this package.use file will let skype install, followed of course by emerge skype. I arrived at this list the long hard way, repeatedly running emerge and adding stuffs still portage stopped

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

Both david and alan suggested global icu use flag. Specifically On Thu, Feb 25 2016, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, allan gottlieb wrote: > [..] >>dev-libs/libxml2:2 >> >> (dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.2-r4:2/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled >> in by >> >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Attic (cvs) -> ???(git)

On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:07:34 + (UTC) James wrote: > walt gmail.com> writes: > > Could I trouble you for an example of how you use wget? > Sure, > > I do it file by file; here is one of the 'files' (patches) I pulled > down for 'showconsole' now also deprecated: