[gentoo-user] Re: gcc 4.2 and Core 2 Duo

2007-07-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
instructions, even if they would not be used automatically? Because of that, I'd refrain from using stuff like -msse for each and every package. There might be the odd package out there, where something like this would help. Conclusion: I'd use: CFLAGS=-Os -march=native Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] -Os = Nono? (was: gcc 4.2 and Core 2 Duo)

2007-07-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then Os. That is a big nono. Why's that? Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] USB devices and CDs don't get mounted automatically anymore

2007-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
` Thanks a lot, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: USB devices and CDs don't get mounted automatically anymore

2007-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
(video),35(games),80(cdrw),85(usb),100(users),250(portage), | 443(plugdev) ` Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Stop net.eth0 from starting?

2007-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
- RC_PLUG_SERVICES=net.wlan !net.* | # This allows net.wlan and any service not matching net.* to be plugged. | | RC_PLUG_SERVICES=!net.eth* ` That's what I do at home as well. Works very fine. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Cannot compile texinfo: Illegal instruction - Wrong -march and -mtune flags?

2007-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Thanks a lot, Alexander Skwar -- Can you MAIL a BEAN CAKE? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot compile texinfo: Illegal instruction - Wrong -march and -mtune flags?

2007-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
for -mtune. Well, I'll just give it a try. Alexander Skwar -- Another dream that failed. There's nothing sadder. -- Kirk, This side of Paradise, stardate 3417.3 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot compile texinfo: Illegal instruction - Wrong -march and -mtune flags?

2007-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Me, myself I: Indeed, I think that I just have mixed up -march and -mtune (aka. -mcpu). Seems like. I now have: CFLAGS=-O2 -mtune=pentium-m -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer and with this CFLAGS, I am able to compile texinfo. Alexander Skwar -- Q: What does it say

[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot compile texinfo: Illegal instruction - Wrong -march and -mtune flags?

2007-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
will run, but maybe not so well. Is that understanding correct? If so, then I really should think twice about using -mtune=pentium-m -march=athlon-xp, shouldn't I? Curious, Alexander Skwar -- No matter how many resources you have, it is never enough. -- Murphy's Computer Laws n�1 -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: USB devices and CDs don't get mounted automatically anymore

2007-08-03 Thread Alexander Skwar
I wrote: Since this morning, Gnome (?) doesn't mount USB sticks and CDs automatically anymore. How I hate that... I now have reinstalled udev, hal dbus with CONFIG_PROTECT=-*, and now automounting works again. Even in Gnome. Strange. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! Is it just me, or is http://packages.gentoo.org/ not available? Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Is it just me, or is http://packages.gentoo.org/ not available? Port 80 closed, ping answers (RTT ~216ms). Tested from Argentina. Thx. So it's not just me. BTW: ping time: ~180ms, from Switzerland. VERY slow

[gentoo-user] Cannot build mono: The contents of your 'monolite' directory may be out-of-date

2007-08-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
security enhancements (PaX and the like) enabled. I don't have this now. Any ideas about what I might have to do to be able to build mono? Thanks a lot, Alexander Skwar -- Free markets select for winning solutions. -- Eric S. Raymond -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: is http://packages.gentoo.org/ off-line?

2007-08-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it for me only? No, it's not. Please see the other thread, I started shortly :) before yours *g* BTW: It's still offline. Alexander Skwar -- Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom

[gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org: dead?

2007-08-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I have problem on my side, Yes, you do. You seem to be unable to scroll back a few pages in this mailing list, to see that this question has been asked two times. or is that site really down? Yep. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
, on the Gentoo homepage would have been good. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
. Alexander Skwar -- 'Mounten' wird für drei Dinge benutzt: 'Aufsitzen' auf Pferde, 'einklinken' von Festplatten in Dateisysteme, und, nun, 'besteigen' beim Sex. -- Christa Keil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
, you are saying, that you don't use UTF-8, though. but your mailer marked the message with charset=iso-8859-1. That is what I would expect Mutt to use. Why? Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: Cannot build mono: The contents of your 'monolite' directory may be out-of-date

2007-08-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install mono on a new system. To do that, I'm building everything inside a chroot (it's the same system I referred to in the [...] mono-1.2.4 fails as well: [...] | [build/deps/basic-profile-check.exe] Error 1 make[6]: Entering directory

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: Cannot build mono: The contents of your 'monolite' directory may be out-of-date

2007-08-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: [...] mount -t proc ChrootProc /mnt/gentoo/proc [...] I thought this was the proper command to mount proc: mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc What is the ChrootProc part? It doesn't matter if you write -t proc proc /mnt

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-portage.com gentoo-wiki.com

2007-08-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Anybody knows what is going on there? Their mysql server is down. I bet, it's because too many people used these sites, while the official sites are down. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Portage File Search gone - alternatives?

2007-08-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
to enter a filename of a *NOT* *INSTALLED* *FILE*, and it'll return me to which package this file belongs. Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- If it wasn't for Newton, we wouldn't have to eat bruised apples. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] df shows /dev/dm-* instead of LV name

2007-08-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
/dev/mapper/sys-ng_Var 524268139316384952 27% /var [...] Any idea about why the hetzner system shows dm-1? And what needs to be done to change that? Thanks a lot, Alexander Skwar -- Jealousy is all the fun you think they have. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: df shows /dev/dm-* instead of LV name

2007-08-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A bug report is certainly warranted, the information reported now is useless. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190853 Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to have an initrd (or initramfs). You only need an initrd, if you wish to have / on LVM. But if you put / (incl. /boot) on a normal partition, there's no need at all for an initrd. Alexander

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
GRML as a rescue disc. Alexander Skwar -- Promising costs nothing, it's the delivering that kills you. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
it? How do you have different filesystem types for different directories? How do you minimize the effect of a corrupted filesystem? Really, LVM is the answer to all those prayers you have been sending up to $DEITY for years :-) Exactly. I don't get why people try so hard to not use LVM. Alexander

[gentoo-user] Re: Extending a partition with LVM on it

2007-09-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
added a new partition (via cfdisk, that I did dare do) that takes up the entire gap and extended maindisk to that. Fine. It's not what I wanted, but it works. What do you dislike about this? Alexander Skwar -- MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it. -- from Lars

[gentoo-user] Re: Mouse Paste

2007-09-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Korthrun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This did work before I changed everything from the basic xmouse config. I'd change everything back to the normal config and then gradually at stuff, until it breaks again. This way, you'll see when it breaks and it'll be easier to help you. Alexander Skwar

[gentoo-user] Re: Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
or attempt to change revision numbers by hand on the fly in the long command that revdep-rebuild -p creates. revedep-rebuild -X. That's default in the rewritten version. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the revdep-rebuild guys should (could?) include -X if it's the right thing to do? They do. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs for Xen

2007-09-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo#TLS_and_CFLAGS states, that '-mno-tls-direct-seg-refs' is to be added to the CFLAGS. Do I need this flag on my dom0, or just on my domU's? Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo]Block certain websites

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
/proxy/. Blacklists don't work. BTW: This has nothing at all to do with Gentoo. Alexander Skwar -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo]Block certain websites

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could you not add the sites to your hosts file and point them back to local? No. This won't hinder a user from accessing a proxy site and have that site fetch and display the content. Check out one of the MANY MANY proxy sites at http://proxy.org/. Alexander Skwar

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: [gentoo]Block certain websites

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 16 September 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: · Balaviswanathan Vaidyanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, This is to know how to block certain websites as I intend to set up a browsing centre based on Gentoo OS Forget about it. There are far

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
/versions are active. Alexander Skwar -- Seeing is believing. You wouldn't have seen it if you hadn't believed it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 16 September 2007 16:40:45 Alexander Skwar wrote: openssh, in some circumstances (I believe to be openssl changing ABI), will not restart as you found. It will only not restart when it's being actively used, so you can't do so will logged

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
allow all of us to stop worrying about a potential restart/lockout issue. A /etc/init.d/sshd stop won't kill any SSH sessions. It'll simply the sshd master process. Because of that, additional logins won't be possible. Alexander Skwar -- I remember Ulysses well... Left one day for the post

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Alexander Skwar wrote: A /etc/init.d/sshd stop won't kill any SSH sessions. It'll simply the sshd master process. Because of that, additional logins won't be possible. You seem to believe

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2007 18:01:48 Alexander Skwar wrote: Key words in some circumstances. Like? Actually, I never found this to be true. Never? Good for you. Yep. Grant, the original poster would disagree (who got himself locked out due

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Well, I also found myself being unable to start sshd, but these most often were due to some configuration changes. And exactly for this is why test-restart was proposed by me. And exactly in these cases, a test

[gentoo-user] Re: Hacked by association?

2007-09-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
a grep -r 444 /etc/apache2 444 is the number associated with snpp. Alexander Skwar -- Ever get the feeling that the world's on tape and one of the reels is missing? -- Rich Little -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
if they are unpacked using star. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
it's supposed to be used on unix, according to its manpage. as you can see, you need to play around with pipes anyway when you use star. So switching just because of one compression algo and become incompatible with the way emerge unpacks packages sounds pretty stupid IMHO. ACK Alexander

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

2007-09-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Sep 2007, at 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: ... and if p7zip supports pipes, you don't need its support in tar. Just pipe from/to it. It does and that's the way it's supposed to be used on unix, according to its manpage. GNU tar features the -j

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

2007-09-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar schrieb: Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip. Uhm, what's bad about tar cf - | p7zip It's a bit cumbersome

[gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar ha scritto: Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Sep 2007, at 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: ... and if p7zip supports pipes, you don't need its support in tar. Just pipe from/to it. It does and that's the way it's supposed to be used

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

2007-09-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:34:41 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: What does this have to do with GNU tar and it adding superflous options? Quite a lot. -j et.al. are non-standard options. If a (badly written) script relies on the presence of -j, this script

[gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Alexander Skwar, Yes, it's very bad that Gentoo scripts don't limit themselves to POSIX. Another windmill to fight against. Artificially limiting yourself to the lowest common denominator when better options are available is bad

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

2007-09-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:14:58 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Back to tar: Why use tar -j in scripts, when bzip2 | tar does the same thing? I very much disagree that tar -j is the better option here; Either way requires that you first determine

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: star

2007-09-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:45:51 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Either way requires that you first determine the type of compression used before you can decide where to pipe tar's output, if at all. Whereas something like tar xf somefile avoids the need

[gentoo-user] hald won't start

2007-09-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! Since this morning, I'm unable to start hald. This is in so far a pretty big problem, as this means, that I cannot boot :| After setting HALD_VERBOSE=yes in /etc/rc.conf, I found that it filled the syslog with a lot of lines like device_info.c:984: Unhandled rule (0)! Searching the

Re: [gentoo-user] hald won't start [SOLVED, sort of...]

2007-09-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi again! Quoting Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since this morning, I'm unable to start hald. [...] device_info.c:984: Unhandled rule (0)! I found that this bug 172830 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172830. This bug has to do with libgphoto2. Yesterday, I set

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge world

2007-09-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
version before 1.5.2 is blocking. So, do: emerge -C 'media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.2' Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
in the original software and because no bugs are fixed since nearly 6 months. Latest *RELEASE* was at 2007/05/06. Latest *RELEASE* of cdrecord is dated 09.09.2004. You cannot rely on it because it has been initiated by people who attack free software. You're talking about cdrecord? Alexander Skwar

[gentoo-user] X.Org 1.4 with Nvidia?

2007-10-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
-drivers-100.14.19). Does anyone know, if it's now safe to use xorg 1.4 with nvidia-drivers? Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: To Neil Bothwick: Question re ntfs-3g

2007-10-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
in the kernel. Is there something else I should be doing? Install sys-fs/fuse :) Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros cons

2007-10-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
. But nobody in a right state of mind would do that :) (Well, generally speaking at least. There will certainly be some corner cases, I suppose.) Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: permissions, fstab and LVM

2007-10-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
, then (recursively) change permissions... Well, the then was missing :) Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] libxml++config.h missing - what package should provide the file?

2007-10-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
the now gone PFS, Portage File Search service, which used to be at http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~fejf/cgi-bin/pfs-web.pl? Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Using Amazon S3 as a PORTAGE_BINHOST

2007-10-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. I'd like to use one of my public buckets at Amazon S3 to store the package files. To do so, I uploaded the packages to s3. They are available at http://public-files.askwar.gentoo-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/, all stored under the prefix GentooUSB/packages, eg. at

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
at Novell. friends? Novell, that's the enemy! Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
volume group (vg). It's sized 42g (42GiB). mkfs /dev/data/lvol0: Create a file system on the newly created lv. with your users or the implementation is really off. Nope. Some things simply *ARE* complicated. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
a VGA scan etc., never work for me. What VGA scan? Usually the drive would not be recognized and as far as the new system is concerned, the only useful thing you could do with it was format. WFM. You must be doing something strange. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: pvcreate /dev/hda vgcreate data /dev/hda lvcreate -L42g data mkfs /dev/data/lvol0 What's so hard about that? Does that fit on a postcard? it needs

[gentoo-user] glibc upgrade - re-emerge system?

2007-11-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! This morning, I upgraded to glibc 2.7 from whatever used to be current in ~x86 before that (2.6.). Do you guys do a emerge -e system, ie. recompile everything, after such an upgrade? Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Trying to install binary package - Endless loop of cache miss?

2007-11-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
://public-files.askwar.s3.amazonaws.com/public-files.askwar.gentoo-packages.s3.amazonaws.com_GentooUSB_packages_All.index.htm). Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Disk ARchiver command line questions

2007-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
. Dennis, the author of dar, reads it and very quickly responds there as well; always very helpful! Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
and emerge glibc. [...] busybox ash Hopefully it's not dynamically linked ... But even then, he won't have much luck emerging something, as gcc requires glibc. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
. He also said, that he cannot use common shell commands anymore, that's true. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems

2007-11-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:47:24 +, Thufir wrote: Now, http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-ruby/rails?full_cat shows that 1.2.5 is stable, though. 1.8.6_p110-r1 looks to be latest stable release of ruby available through portage for x86 systems.

[gentoo-user] Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?

2007-12-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. I installed stage-3 2007.0 and am now trying to configure it to my liking. For example, I dislike nano and would like to use vim instead. vim (among other editors) provides virtual/editor. So I thought, that I could add virtual/editor app-editors/vim to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?

2007-12-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. On Dec 7, 2007 3:56 PM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7 Dec 2007, at 13:29, Alexander Skwar wrote: Emil Beinroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is a virtual/editor package in the tree, that selects nano as the default choice. How does it do that? How do I make

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?

2007-12-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Emil Beinroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, there is a virtual/editor package in the tree, that selects nano as the default choice. How does it do that? How do I make it select something else? A virtual/mta package does not exist ATM. True. There are just packages which PROVIDE

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?

2007-12-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Emil Beinroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:29:54PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Emil Beinroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is a virtual/editor package in the tree, that selects nano as the default choice. How does it do that? It's done by using the RDEPEND

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?

2007-12-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Dec 7, 2007 4:37 PM, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 December 2007 16:21:31 Alexander Skwar wrote: So the expectation should be, that it's not going to be possible to preselect an mta the way I've shown, as soon as virtual/mta is converted to a new style virtual

[gentoo-user] Picasa 2.7 Beta

2007-12-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. Google just (?) released a new version of Picasa - 2.7 beta. Did somebody of you manage to get this to run on Gentoo Linux? I downloaded the RPM from http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html, http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/testing/i386/picasa-2.7.3736-7.i386.rpm, and unpacked it by

[gentoo-user] Re: Picasa 2.7 Beta

2007-12-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:49:03 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: cd / rpm2cpio /tmp/picasa-2.7.3736-7.i386.rpm | cpio -id http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200568 reports success using rpm2targz And why should that make any

[gentoo-user] Re: Picasa 2.7 Beta

2007-12-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:49:03 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: cd / rpm2cpio /tmp/picasa-2.7.3736-7.i386.rpm | cpio -id http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200568 reports success using rpm2targz BTW: It also now reports

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Picasa 2.7 Beta

2007-12-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:01:55 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200568 reports success using rpm2targz And why should that make any difference? I mean, after all, I am able to extract the package. It's just

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating a restricted user

2007-12-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then can't log in via GDM. Makes sense. I want the user to be able to log in via GDM but not via ssh. Is that configured in ssh? Yes, you can configure that in SSH. There are the DenyUsers DenyGroups keywords for sshd_config. Alexander --

[gentoo-user] Re: Python vs C++

2007-12-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect C++ runs somewhat faster, but that's not the issue here. Is that actually true (especially for the Portage case)? I'd suspect that portage sometimes tends to be slow, because of the myriad of files it has to deal with. So it's I/O which is slow.

[gentoo-user] Re: Mounting Question...

2007-12-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is what I would recommend for a normal linux system: [hs]da1: /boot, 64M, ext2 [hs]da2: /, 256M, ext3 or xfs [hs]da3: LVM I used to use something like this for a long time as well, but I think it was Neil from this list, who made me think about

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
-masked. bash-3.1-r1 isn't hard masked anymore. Is it now safe to upgrade to bash v3.1? Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:53:34 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: bash-3.1-r1 isn't hard masked anymore. Is it now safe to upgrade to bash v3.1? It seems so, I've just upgraded and rebooted without incident. Ah, great to hear - I was too much of a chicken to try it myself

[gentoo-user] Influencing mount options of hal/udev/gnome-volume-manager/pmount?

2005-12-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
could of course make it so, that I wouldn't have to reference /dev/sda1 but maybe something like /dev/camera. Using: Gentoo sys-apps/hal-0.5.5.1-r1 sys-apps/pmount-0.9.6 sys-fs/udev-078 Gnome gnome-volume-manager 1.5.4 gnome-base/gnome-2.12.1 Thanks a lot. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Ernie Schroder schrieb: Just for fun, why would one want to emerge an unstable bash? Is there some feature that I have to have? The point is, that it is in the unstable Gentoo tree. And people that have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in make.conf will install this. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Klaus Fabritius schrieb: * Alexander Skwar schrieb: Ivan Novick schrieb: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? No, as there's no normal VI for Linux. There are just clones. [...] In 2002 Caldera opened the original vi from Bill Joy under a BSD-style

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
George Ellison schrieb: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivan Novick schrieb: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? No, as there's no normal VI for Linux. There are just clones. But if you don't like the vim clone, why don't you try

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

2005-12-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
into an appropriate inbox on the IMAP server? With fetchmail. It should be configured to pass the mails to the MDA procmail, which can then also use spam filters like SpamAssassin. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf + KDE + emerge whackiness...

2005-12-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jeff schrieb: app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r1 is already installed, so why would xpdf come out to be a blocker as well as try to install 2 instances of itself, emerge -C poppler xpdf ; emerge -vat poppler Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
* versions than 'ssh hostname tar c /source/path backup.tar'? Isn't that just a question wrt. the shell? Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:58:17 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: tar outputs to stdout by default, Not always. From man tar So, why do you suppose that the command is called tape (file) archiver? While you're right as far as GNU tar is concerned, you're wrong as far

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuilds available, how to unmerge them ?

2005-12-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
/db/pkg/x11-plugins/desklet-psisensors/desklet-psisensors*.ebuild But, as I said, you don't need the ebuild. You can unmerge it by running: emerge -C app-emacs/mule-gbk x11-plugins/desklet-psisensors Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Filename modification with suffix

2005-12-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
*.jpg`; do echo $f; done foo bar.jpg Still wrong. Still just one line of output. Cause of error: The use of in the for loop. Further: No need to use ls. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] suspend2-sources-2.6.14-r9 - Hard Maskd: Why?

2006-01-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! Does anybody know, why suspend2-sources-2.6.14-r9 all of a sudden got hardmasked? Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] suspend2-sources-2.6.14-r9 - Hard Maskd: Why?

2006-01-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
is something like this not listed in the changelog on CVS? Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] suspend2-sources-2.6.14-r9 - Hard Maskd: Why?

2006-01-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Petteri Räty schrieb: Alexander Skwar wrote: Rumen Yotov schrieb: Run: nano /var/portage/profiles/package.mask - search for suspend; Ah, yes, right, forgot about this. Why is something like this not listed in the changelog on CVS? ChangeLog only lists changes done in the package folder

[gentoo-user] $PKGDIR is getting full of old cruft - script for cleaning?

2006-01-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
available in $PKGDIR. Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] $PKGDIR is getting full of old cruft - script for cleaning?

2006-01-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Paul Varner schrieb: eclean from gentoolkit-0.2.1 Great! Just what I was looking for. Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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