[gentoo-user] loop-aes - detach util-linux dependency

mount with loop-aes specific options with loop-aes-losetup and mount. I will be happy to answer any question regarding the above, please CC me. Regards, Alon Bar-Lev.

Re: [gentoo-user] *draft* for setting up network bridge with systemd (for qemu/kvm)

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: I would not bet on that ;) too much resistance. However it is certainly getting better and better: the LWN article on The Biggest Myths about systemd had an overwhelmingly majority of comments positive to systemd,

Re: [gentoo-user] firehol + gentoo 3.6.11 kernel....

Yes, I use it. Just enable all non experimental iptables settings at kernel including NAT. Works perfectly. On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: hi people! I have used all the time firehol (gentoo sources 3.3.8) to make my firewall rules. After kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: At that time it turned out, that Linus does not seem to be able to understand what changes may break an interface. The real problem however was that he was not

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM networking help

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: Hi, I need some help settling up networking with KVM machines. I have one public interface with four publicly accessible IPs. I want to run a private virtual network for the VMs, such that every VM can access

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote: The 01/08/13, Hans de Graaff wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1chap=2 documents this from the new developer perspective. Note how it says to contact the recruiters if you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: Huh? USE=firmware-loader is optional and enabled by default in sys-fs/udev Futhermore predictable network interface names work as designed, not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

components). There was no reason to merge the code base of udev to any other code base. There was no reason to kill backward compatibility. Well, you all know the reason of why eudev was established. I am very happy with eudev, had zero issues. Thanks! Alon Bar-Lev

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 02/08/13 09:06, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:17 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 02/08/13 11:01, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-12 8:06 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: True, it won't be dropped for long as people are maintaining it. That's how maintainership works. But trying to lie to people it's somehow solving

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 12/08/13 15:17, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-12 8:06 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: True, it won't be dropped for long as people are maintaining it. That's how maintainership works. But trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: On 16.08.2013 15:57, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Alessio Ababilov ilovegnuli...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/8/13 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com I think it's a great experiment, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder andreas_e...@gmx.net wrote: On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: But requiring people to have an initramfs to boot a system that doesn't legitimately require it is silly. I don't even have /usr mounted separately, but there are many, many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:31 PM, staticsafe m...@staticsafe.ca wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:26:34PM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder andreas_e...@gmx.net wrote: On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: But requiring people to have an initramfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/08/2013 11:31, pk wrote: On 2013-08-19 00:49, Dale wrote: Picking random message sort of. Isn't eudev still going to support a separate /usr? That is my understanding. If eudev is not then I may have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Alecks Gates aleck...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-18 10:55 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: And, putting aside systemd and getting back on topic to the council's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Alecks Gates aleck...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Alon Bar-Lev alo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Alecks Gates aleck...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-31 7:04 AM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Everything is dynamic, you would however put a lot of effort into the linux kernel to get to that state...e.g. automated major device

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

are minor for this decision of removing supportability. Especially for servers and for most of workstations. Most sane configuration can be supported with separate /. And of course there is the hidden systemd agenda, which is what I suspect had more impact. Regards, Alon Bar-Lev.

Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim (was: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01)

Science. and I can expand on the parallels if so desired. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com Indeed, you put it in good words, I too claim that the systemd agenda is what began all this, while it is hidden within all claims. Regards, Alon Bar-Lev.

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 2:11 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 01:21:30PM -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:09 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/15/2014 12:30 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: The social tactics at work from the systemd team (and verily, other Red Hat projects like GNOME) are reminiscent of Microsoft through the use of the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is /etc/conf.d/net.example?

/usr/share/doc/netifrc-0.1/net.example.bz2 On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Where is the proper place to specify the gentoo network configuration nowadays? I do not have a file called /etc/conf.d/net.example on my hard drive. That

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes

Checkout[1] [1] http://alonbl.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Gentoo/Linux_Disk_Encryption_Using_LoopAES_And_SmartCards On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I'm trying to set up USB-key-encryption for use with a laptop. I'm running mdev instead of udev on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 12:50:53AM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote Checkout[1] [1] http://alonbl.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Gentoo/Linux_Disk_Encryption_Using_LoopAES_And_SmartCards Unfortunately, 90% of the wiki entry

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Incidentally, what exactly is wrong with systemd writing a dhcp server client, and an ntp client? Is that project prohibited from

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Dutch Ingraham s...@gmx.us wrote: On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: No,

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 05/06/14 02:25, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Dutch Ingraham s...@gmx.us wrote: On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM

Re: [gentoo-user] udev upgrade 208 212-r1, openrc USE flag changed to disabled?

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 6/14/2014 2:15 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 6/14/2014 1:02 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014

Re: [gentoo-user] udev upgrade 208 212-r1, openrc USE flag changed to disabled?

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Alon Bar-Lev alo...@gentoo.org wrote: And in addition add the following at make.conf, as it seems that we are enforced to have files we never use. Hate to break the news to you

Re: [gentoo-user] udev upgrade 208 212-r1, openrc USE flag changed to disabled?

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/14/14 23:39, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: [snip] It means that openrc users should strongly consider migrate to eudev. I use eudev since its beta and never had any issue, nor systemd leaking into my system. And in addition add

Re: [gentoo-user] yubikey

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:21:27 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Anyone using that (with gentoo) ? I got one a few days ago to check out. It's basically a USB keyboard, so it works with Gentoo exactly the same way it

Re: [gentoo-user] accidentally deleted the /usr (I'm gonna kill myself!)

before you install everything, try to boot from installcd, extract stage3 over your rootfs, chroot to rootfs, then: # emerge --emptytree @world On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:28 PM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I just accidentally removed the /usr folder! And I am sure the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:25:07 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: The current Gentoo policy is that maintainers cannot block other devs from adding support for systemd/openrc/etc to their packages if they lack such support.

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn

you can install app-crypt/easyrsa On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've openvpn installed: Installed versions: 2.3.6(11:44:47 PM 01/30/2015)(lzo pam plugins ssl -down-root -examples -iproute2 -passwordsave -pkcs11 -polarssl -selinux -static -systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/15 13:47, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 02/09/2015 01:42 PM, Joseph wrote: I've openvpn installed: ... amd I'm trying to generate server key but I don't have directory: /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa/ does openvpn

Re: [gentoo-user] Java VM and SDK: icedtea X oracle's

Set the following for now: /etc/portage/package.mask/java.conf --- dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin =virtual/jdk-1.8.0 =virtual/jre-1.8.0 --- I am unsure why none free alternatives were added before the free alternatives. Regards, Alon On 22 April 2015 at 16:34, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Will emerge-webrsyc work in the future?

On 12 August 2015 at 11:20, gevisz gev...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-08-12 11:10 GMT+03:00 Alon Bar-Lev alo...@gentoo.org: I am waiting as well... :) In the meantime, please do not use this script directly any more. Why? What is the shotcomings of using that script directly? I hope

Re: [gentoo-user] Will emerge-webrsyc work in the future?

I am waiting as well... :) In the meantime, please do not use this script directly any more. Create: /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf --- [DEFAULT] main-repo = gentoo [gentoo] location = /usr/portage sync-type = webrsync --- Then use: # emerge --sync On 12 August 2015 at 11:01, gevisz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zsh: not so bad?

On 14 July 2015 at 08:42, Martin Vaeth mar...@mvath.de wrote: Alon Bar-Lev alo...@gentoo.org wrote: Only issue I could not find a solution to is tab completion after '=', for example: xxx --file=TAB This will not complete files, while it will be nice if it does. For standard commands

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zsh: not so bad?

On 14 July 2015 at 10:47, Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com wrote: In my setup (borrowed from grml, which has an AWESOME zsh setup), ^xf (ctrl-x f) is bound to insert-files and completes file names, regardless of other completion rules for the command I'm typing. -- Emanuele Rusconi Great!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use unetbootin to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

On 16 July 2015 at 23:48, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] zsh: not so bad?

On 13 July 2015 at 10:12, Alon Bar-Lev alo...@gentoo.org wrote: On 13 July 2015 at 04:52, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe someone here has missed the recent discussion of zsh? ;) I just found this website, giving a wonderful primer on how to configure zsh: http

Re: [gentoo-user] zsh: not so bad?

On 13 July 2015 at 04:52, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe someone here has missed the recent discussion of zsh? ;) I just found this website, giving a wonderful primer on how to configure zsh: http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/Account_Customisation_(zsh) I also moved to zsh just to check.

Re: [gentoo-user] bring back emerge to terminal window

Checkout app-misc/reptyr On 11 November 2015 at 08:38, wrote: > I was running and emerge -uDNavq world and accidentally closed the > terminal window. > I know the process ID as it is still running. > > ps fax |grep emerge > -- 19131 pts/1 SN+ 4:03 | | \_

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe questions

On 7 November 2015 at 20:21, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > Alon Bar-Lev <alo...@gentoo.org> writes: > >> On 6 November 2015 at 17:28, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> finally I got set up pppoe, which turned out to be sur

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe questions

On 6 November 2015 at 17:28, lee wrote: > Hi, > > finally I got set up pppoe, which turned out to be surprisingly easy. > It's working fine, though I'm getting a warning when the pppoe interface > is brought up: > > > heimdali init.d # service net.ppp0 start > * Bringing up

Re: [gentoo-user] workstation iptables

On 6 October 2015 at 22:14, James wrote: > > Hello, > > I just ran across this page: > > http://gentoo-en.vfose.ru/wiki/Iptables/Iptables_and_stateful_firewalls#State_basics > > It has a basic firewall using iptables. > Not bad for a generic firewall on a openrc

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching current java-vm for a single application

bin/java, which itself is a script that checks the user choice > regarding the selected java-vm: setting JAVA_HOME does nothing to fix that. > I can edit the SenchaCmd script to run java directly, that would be the > quickfix. > > Thanks for the input. > > Em seg, 1 de fev de 201

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching current java-vm for a single application

On 31 January 2016 at 19:17, Leonardo Guilherme wrote: > > Hello. > > I'm using OpenJDK JVM regularly on my machine instead of Oracle's one, > primarily because of the infinality patches and because I prefer open source > software. > > There are some applications,

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

On 19 February 2016 at 23:13, Daniel Frey wrote: > > I have been having a problem printing in Firefox for quite some time. It > seems fonts are being rendered in an unreadable way, but it doesn't > always do this. > > I've also noticed that Firefox is the only application that

Re: [gentoo-user] net-libs/gnutls-3.3.26, compile fail

Hi, Please open bug when you have such issues. In this case: """ autogen /var/tmp/portage/net-libs/gnutls-3.3.26/work/gnutls-3.3.26/src/p11tool-args.def Throw without catch before boot: Aborting. Throw without catch before boot: Aborting. Throw without catch before boot: Aborting. make[2]:

Re: [gentoo-user] how to start KDE

Hi, You should install plasma-desktop and use startkde in your ~/.xinitrc if you do not use session manager. Regards, Alon On 21 September 2016 at 06:46, Philip Webb wrote: > I've got Gwenview to behave by installing Plasma-meta : > Systemsettings shows up with adequate

Re: [gentoo-user] libgcrypt-1.7.3 build fail

Hi, Please open a bug. You probably updated gcc and should run revdep-rebuild or similar, see [1][2] for reference. Alon [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561938 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578302 On 10 November 2016 at 21:14, Willie M

Re: [gentoo-user] Use brctl from bridge-utils or bridge from iproute2?

On 16 October 2016 at 08:10, Miroslav Rovis wrote: > On 161016-03:05+, Erik Mackdanz wrote: >> Miroslav Rovis writes: > ... >> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Iproute2#iproute2_for_net-tools_swappers >> > >> > -- also notice that

Re: [gentoo-user] Use brctl from bridge-utils or bridge from iproute2?

On 16 October 2016 at 23:19, Miroslav Rovis <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> wrote: > On 161016-09:33+0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> On 16 October 2016 at 08:10, Miroslav Rovis >> <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> wrote: >> > On 161016-03:05+, Erik Mackdanz

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives?

On 29 November 2016 at 08:42, wrote: > > Hi, > > I get sick of this [CESNORED] HTML5 stuff coming from YouTube! > Most of the videos while playayaingnaying arereare stututterutering > liiklike helellell. > I use "VLC Youtube Shortcut" extension, right click a page or link to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gpgme oddity

On 5 March 2017 at 00:59, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I just can't believe it. They're issuing a general-purpose tool, to work > everywhere, and they don't test it on a representative sample of systems? It was tested, otherwise how could the conflict with kde-apps/gpgmepp

Re: [gentoo-user] Gpgme oddity

On 5 March 2017 at 11:06, Mick wrote: > I guess it wasn't tested on a no-multilib as I'm running on a box here. Kmail > needs to be rebuilt, but it fails like so: Can you please disable cxx and qt5 USE and use the old kde gpgme library instead? Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] pkcs#11

On 13 June 2017 at 21:26, james wrote: > I guess what I'm really looking for is a master list of ebuilds > (overlays) that one has or possible could use to implement any form of > PKCS#11 on a gentoo server, workstation, or embedded system? I've been > googling on this a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

I use autofs and very happy. I do not need udisks at all, while it is mandatory dependency of solid. I remember old discussion in which kde developer did not understand the concept of optional for this slot.