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

2005-12-29 Thread David Morgan
On 14:24 Thu 29 Dec , Marco Calviani wrote: i have files of the type: duck1.jpg duck2.jpg duck3.jpg and i would like them to become: donald_duck1.jpg donald_duck2.jpg donald_duck3.jpg for i in duck*.jpg ; do mv ${i} donald_${i} ; done -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: printing lots of file.doc files

2006-01-04 Thread David Morgan
On 21:31 Wed 04 Jan , Tom Martin wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:44:05 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Kind of a strange request, but I have been given a work assignment that forces me to keep many documents in .doc format. If I have a dir full of these, but I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Deer Park instead of FireFox

2006-01-14 Thread David Morgan
On 18:15 Sat 14 Jan , Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, i just installed mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9. So when i start it, it says hooray, you've got Deer Park Alpha 2 installed! Thank you, for helping us testing. So what is Deer Park? What's the difference to a normal FireFox 1.5? Or the main

Re: [gentoo-user] *.bin and /dev/loop help

2006-01-17 Thread David Morgan
On 17:13 Tue 17 Jan , krgn wrote: Which Kernel options are necessary (could not find anything about /dev/loop in ck-patched 2.6.15) and how is the procedure to mount this binary image? Symbol: BLK_DEV_LOOP [=y] Prompt: Loopback device support Defined at drivers/block/Kconfig:261

Re: [gentoo-user] big problem with emerge

2006-01-18 Thread David Morgan
On 19:13 Wed 18 Jan , Manuel Pérez López wrote: Hello everyone: Yesterday I did a portage sync, and now I can not emerge anything. Help me to correct this issue. See this lines: # emerge -pvuD world Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2006 (Could take a

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound when playing flash

2006-02-28 Thread David Morgan
On 14:42 Tue 28 Feb , Zac Slade wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 10:19, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I once had the same problem, solved it using ESD (well, not the best solution, but it works), so, at my startup script I have esd and flash anims have sound... It's not only the best

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound when playing flash

2006-02-28 Thread David Morgan
On 15:22 Tue 28 Feb , Zac Slade wrote: Or as I found there are alternatives here, try launching firefox with artsdsp firefox, or alternatively aoss firefox. This will play all sound through a muxer and will allow it to play nice even on machines without hardware mixing. So to recap,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread David Morgan
On 15:14 Tue 12 Apr , Botykai Zsolt wrote: Tuesday 12 April 2005 13.49-n, A. Khattri ezt ?rta: There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread David Morgan
On 15:45 Mon 02 May , Dave Nebinger wrote: I know people say it, but why? It's an extreme waste and provides no value. We're here to post questions and responses, not to create pretty pictures with colored fonts, etc. Not to mention the fact that not everyone is using a client that

Re: [gentoo-user] -fvisibility=hidden

2005-05-21 Thread David Morgan
On 14:11 Sat 21 May , Julien Cayzac wrote: Is anyone here running Gentoo with -fvisibility=hidden in his CFLAGS ? Never experienced any problem? Thanks, Julien iirc it does't make sense to have it in your CLFAGS, since it only affects c++ stuff (so it'd go in CXXFLAGS) It does cause

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread David Morgan
On 01:15 Mon 23 May , Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: that means, if someone (like me) requests blocking of html-mails on the list-servers, this discussion will be gone? (well of course.. when no html-mails are coming through, nobody can dsiscuss them...) Then I request blocking all

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge curiosity

2005-06-09 Thread David Morgan
On 12:16 Thu 09 Jun , reg hughson wrote: As shown below, why wouldn't emerge -u world pick up the update available for gdm? Actually, I think it is probably because it is not listed in /var/lib/portage/world so I guess I am actually wondering why it wouldn't be listed there?

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade cycles

2005-06-16 Thread David Morgan
On 18:36 Thu 16 Jun , Graham Murray wrote: Sometimes a package will upgrade/downgrade alternately when running 'emerge -uD world'. One such that is happening to me right now is libtheora. media-lib/xine-lib has a 'straight' (no version) dependency on libtheora, which causes emerge to

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked baselayout = no console colors

2005-06-18 Thread David Morgan
On 08:38 Sat 18 Jun , Grant wrote: I updated to the masked baselayout and now there is no coloring of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # in the console. Could this be a feature? At a guess, 'if [ -f /etc/bash/bashrc ] ;' then needs changing to 'if [ -f /etc/bashrc ] ;', or vice versa - I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!?

2005-11-02 Thread David Morgan
On 17:28 Wed 02 Nov , Dale wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: The tetex tarball is 85 megs alone. I've managed to emerge and update everything else after last night's sync, so these aren't dependencies of those packages. With qpkg, I could find out what depends on this stuff. Help!.

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-19 Thread David Morgan
On 06:44 Sat 19 Nov , fire-eyes wrote: Well, you aren't running one then :) As for getting around, I haven't figured out a way. It's very frustrating to note that I haven't been able to ever find help about this. Makes one feel on your own... It's not kernel related, it's glibc telling you

Re: [gentoo-user] Created an ebuild for Courier-Imap 4.1.0

2006-03-11 Thread David Morgan
On 13:10 Sat 11 Mar , James Colannino wrote: Hey everyone. I had noticed that all the ebuilds for Courier-Imap were extremely stale. I thought that this was incredibly bad, so I took the ebuild for 4.0.4, and with absolutely no modifications whatsoever (aside from renaming the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread David Morgan
On 23:38 Thu 23 Mar , Renat Golubchyk wrote: Careful with those quotation marks - you might want to escape them ;-) I would use single quotes on the outside to avoid the confusion: sudo 'echo app-portage/porthole ~* /etc/portage/package.keywords' Do that and it'll say sudo: echo

Re: [gentoo-user] System bell

2006-03-31 Thread David Morgan
On 16:46 Fri 31 Mar , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, after emerging and emerging . . . and an enrge --newuse world the system bell keeps on not working. With System bell I mean: KDE Control Center - Sound Miltimedia - System bell I controlled the volume levels on kmix and aumix.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System bell

2006-03-31 Thread David Morgan
On 11:18 Fri 31 Mar , Teresa and Dale wrote: Same here. I just thought it was me changing something and not remembering it. It used to work though. I suspect a etc-update somewhere. Ahh, you weren't clear about whether or not it had stopped working or had never worked. Does it work

Re: [gentoo-user] Quo vadis nethack?

2006-04-01 Thread David Morgan
On 08:27 Sat 01 Apr , Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I just noticed that emerge sync is complaining that there are no packages for nethack. When and why did this venerable game get dropped? It's still there, just masked. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125902 -- Join The no2id

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread David Morgan
On 21:11 Sun 30 Apr , Jeff Rollin wrote: I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE applications too Oh, yeah. I couldn't understand why people raved about the speed of Gentoo till I added USE=-DG_DISABLE_DEBUG -- Join The no2id

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread David Morgan
On 02:04 Mon 01 May , Farhan Ahmed wrote: Jeff Rollin wrote: I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE applications too Read your earlier post.. Anyway where is this CFLAGS 'DG_DISABLE_DEBUG' documented? I cant find any

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't get my wengophone account

2006-05-02 Thread David Morgan
On 12:24 Tue 02 May , Ptitjack wrote: Hi all, I just emerged Wengophone. When I run Wengophone as user, I have to get my first Wengo account. A new window is opening with : You don't have a Wengo account ? Click here. Problem, the link does not work ! When I click on it, nothing happens

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge running forever

2006-06-11 Thread David Morgan
On 10:40 Sun 11 Jun , Teresa and Dale wrote: Till Schwalbe wrote: If you did an upgrade to portage 2.1 you had to run emerge --metadata before any further usage of emerge. I just did another emerge sync. It worked fine after that. Yarrr, emerge --metadata get run as part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Join plain text paragraphs

2006-06-12 Thread David Morgan
On 18:53 Mon 12 Jun , JimD wrote: Sweet. Thanks for the tips. I need to start using OOo more ;-) No need. sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n[^$]//;ta' -e 'p;D' filename -- Join The no2id Coalition, http://www.no2id.net/ djm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Join plain text paragraphs

2006-06-12 Thread David Morgan
On 00:13 Tue 13 Jun , David Morgan wrote: sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n[^$]//;ta' -e 'p;D' filename Gosh, what was I thinking? sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n\([^$]\)/\1/;ta' -e 'p;D' filename I expect there's a slightly nicer way, but I'm tired and I have an exam in the morning... -- Join The no2id

Re: [gentoo-user] Join plain text paragraphs

2006-06-13 Thread David Morgan
On 22:46 Mon 12 Jun , JimD wrote: David Morgan wrote: On 18:53 Mon 12 Jun , JimD wrote: Sweet. Thanks for the tips. I need to start using OOo more ;-) No need. sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n[^$]//;ta' -e 'p;D' filename Close. It is removing the first character of every

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread David Morgan
On 16:54 Wed 06 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: OK, you all likely realize that I responded before I had got the three more messages telling me what to do. I'm sure it will work (three people telling you the exact same thing is pretty convincing ;-) ), but what I don't understand is why/how,

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread David Morgan
On 11:44 Wed 06 Jul , Mike Markowski wrote: I'll be changing jobs Monday and want to be sure I bring along enough to easily rebuild the sort of gentoo set up I currently enjoy. After installing, will it be enough to use my current /var/lib/portage/world and /etc/make.conf followed by

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread David Morgan
On 09:52 Wed 06 Jul , Wade Brown wrote: Actually, you can replace your world file provided you use emerge --emptytree --deep --newuse world, and portage won't complain that packages aren't installed as the emptytree tells portage to (rightly in this case) assume nothing is installed yet,

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread David Morgan
On 19:04 Wed 06 Jul , Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:31:03 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: But I'd still be worried that adding a package that does not have dependencies satisfied to the world file would not be a good thing (unless of course you are using the emptytree

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-07 Thread David Morgan
On 08:51 Thu 07 Jul , Dave Nebinger wrote: Then set the same environment variables in your current shell and they should stick. Nope, .bash_history completely empty after a bunch of ls's. At least it didn't tell me to become root :o So if you do ls -l .bash* in your home

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-12 Thread David Morgan
On 18:12 Tue 12 Jul , Ow Mun Heng wrote: [ebuild N] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7 -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext +X [SNIP] (-win32codecs) -xanim -xinerama +xmms +xv +xvid +xvmc 0 k grep win32 /etc/make.conf USE=acl acpi dvd minimal aac apache2 win32codecs ssl mmx xine \

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread David Morgan
On 10:50 Wed 13 Jul , Ow Mun Heng wrote: uclibc profile /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/ That's probably the problem then How can I check? Profiles have use.mask files. uclibc/x86 doesn't have one, but it's parent is uclibc whose parent is base, and win32codecs is in

Re: [gentoo-user] ogle and mplayer

2005-07-13 Thread David Morgan
On 22:19 Tue 12 Jul , Canek Pel??ez wrote: Isn't ogle unsupported? I suppose it has to do with Xv, but I don't know really. Anyway, I'm pretty sure ogle is unsupported. What makes you say that? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread David Morgan
wrote: David Morgan schreef: On 12:39 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: Obviously -- or at least it seems obvious to me, but that doesn't say much-- that if the package is hard-masked, the USE flag that is associated with it will be disabled (because the package the USE flag would call

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread David Morgan
On 14:49 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: But the use.mask-- even the correct one-- still does not lead to an explanation or documentation of what the mask of a USE flag actually means or what it means in this particular case (why this specific USE flag is masked under this specific

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread David Morgan
On 22:21 Wed 13 Jul , Ow Mun Heng wrote: What is SOL? Someone care to tell me? (I'm the OP) Sh*t out of luck emerge wtf wtf sol :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-18 Thread David Morgan
On 15:42 Mon 18 Jul , Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:46:23 +0100, David Morgan wrote: You could remove win32codecs from base/use.mask, try and use it and see if it works since it shouldn't break anything. But each time you did emerge sync it'd get written over. Profile

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread David Morgan
On 13:07 Mon 18 Jul , John J. Foster wrote: Good afternoon all, A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to create

Re: [gentoo-user] pruning /usr/portage/distfiles/

2005-07-21 Thread David Morgan
On 16:22 Thu 21 Jul , James wrote: Hello, /usr is the only partion I seem to have trouble filling up. After poking around I've decided to 'prune' /usr/portage/distfiles. Before automating this action, via crontab, I'm soliciting any other, slicker/cooler/better method to auto prune

Re: [gentoo-user] jpeg-mmx-0.1.6 ebuild problem

2005-07-29 Thread David Morgan
On 09:47 Fri 29 Jul , Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, Anyone else getting the following error on jpeg-mmx-0.1.6? ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib

Re: [gentoo-user] can't unload modules

2005-08-02 Thread David Morgan
On 12:36 Tue 02 Aug , maxim wexler wrote: dayglo root # modprobe -rv fglrx rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko FATAL: Error removing fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Kernel does not have module unloading support none the wiser :/ Sounds like you

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with genlop

2005-08-03 Thread David Morgan
On 18:59 Wed 03 Aug , Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 01:49:15AM +0300, Yuval Scharf wrote: On Thursday 04 August 2005 01:29, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Yuval Scharf wrote: Why when ever I execute cgext03 ~ # genlop --current I get... !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-24 Thread David Morgan
On 8/24/05, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, sorry about top posting that's the way Gmail does it and you cant change the settings. S**t, look at this. I'm using gmail and not top posting. Just how stupid are you that you can't move the cursor to the bottom of the

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-24 Thread David Morgan
On 10:39 Wed 24 Aug , Michael Crute wrote: Hey buddy go troll on somebody else's thread. -Mike Seriously, just press the down key a few times before you start typing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-24 Thread David Morgan
On 21:45 Wed 24 Aug , Jerry McBride wrote: For me, top posting keeps me from having to wade through the entire message to Well that wouldn't be a problem if people only quoted the bits of the email that were relevant to their reply. Apparently trimming the other bits is beyond most people

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread David Morgan
On 14:20 Sat 17 Sep , Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Once again I must be doing something wrong. I see the Add more... and I can navigate it okay, but nothing new ever shows up in the list of search engines. I've tried 4 or 5, so it's not the particular one... I seem to remember that this never

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable MythTV removed from portage?

2006-07-03 Thread David Morgan
On 09:34 Tue 04 Jul , Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:05:30 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: More importantly (to me) is that when looking at a distro like this what are the issues with leaving an older revision in portage? I don't see what the maintainance issues are. It's been a