Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

2021-04-20 Thread Roy Bamford

On 20/04/2021 06:31, Robin H. Johnson wrote:

Here's two I have so far
https://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/neddy/

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:24:41AM +0100, Roy Bamford wrote:

Here's where I reed your help. The missing distfiles are
MD5 38adc94a4953a6b29e8619c25dda4887 4.2.0-4.2.1.diff.gz 54763
MD5 d5cc6a93c7d3ad2eb02bc637a1de9cf3 net-tools-1.60-gentoo-extra.tar.bz2 5785

If your Gentoo history goes back as far as mine and you still have those files, 
please
share them with me.

I am reasonable certain that I have an archive with the others, but it's
a media accessibility problem: they are stuck on either an LTO1 or LTO3
tape, and while I have an LTO drive that might work, I don't have a
suitable external SAS controller on hand. It should probably be a
project for me to media-shift those old backups onto cloud storage.



Robin,

Thank you.

I have a similar media problem with a pile of 5 1/4" floppies. A have a 
drive that reads all the 5 1/4" formats and a motherboard to connect it 
to ... until I replace this 12 year old system.


USB to Floppy interfaces won't do it as they are all made for the data 
rate used in 3 1/2" floppies.


Maybe I'll just move this system along my desk and put it under my
APPLE ][ :)

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Roy Bamford
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

2021-04-20 Thread Peter Stuge
Great idea and happy anniversary! :)

Roy Bamford wrote:
> Here's where I reed your help.

I can't help with that.


Roy Bamford wrote:
> I have a similar media problem with a pile of 5 1/4" floppies. A have a 
> drive that reads all the 5 1/4" formats and a motherboard to connect it 
> to ... until I replace this 12 year old system.
> 
> USB to Floppy interfaces won't do it as they are all made for the data 
> rate used in 3 1/2" floppies.

But with this. Look at these projects:

https://cowlark.com/fluxengine/
https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle

And these ready-to-buy products:

https://shop.deviceside.com/prod/FC5025
https://www.kryoflux.com/


Kind regards

//Peter



[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: x11-misc/xlockmore

2021-04-20 Thread Jonas Stein

Dear all

the following packages are up for grabs after dropping
desktop-misc:

x11-misc/xlockmore
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-misc/xlockmore

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Best,
Jonas