Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 16 Aug, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:12:30 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:
> 
>> 2) No need to unmerge anything (except one or two blockers).
> 
> However, you can unmerge 4.2.x, if you like to.
> 

How to do that in a simple way?

Unfortunately, 
emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:4.2
only unmerges the meta package itself.

Thanks for a hint ( I'm afraid of any kde updates
since they always have created more headaches than any
other package or set of packages )

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 09:25:55 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 16 Aug, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:12:30 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:
> >> 2) No need to unmerge anything (except one or two blockers).
> >
> > However, you can unmerge 4.2.x, if you like to.
>
> How to do that in a simple way?
>
> Unfortunately,
> emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:4.2
> only unmerges the meta package itself.

Also remove all occurrences of kde-4.2 packages in the world file, then run 
emerge --depclean to get rid of the resulting orphaned deps.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:37:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > while trying to update my gentoo I got this:
> >
> > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpeg-7" have been
> > masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
> > your request: - media-libs/jpeg-7 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
> >
> >
> > I read this as jpeg-7 needs jpeg-7 to update itsself and cannot cause
> > it is masked.
> > I dont like to update to jpeg-7 since this package is used in so many
> > othe rprograms and it is masked.
>
> Don't mask it.  Install it, but also install media-libs/jpeg-compat
> alongside it so packages won't break.

I'm having a hard time imagining how a package like jpeg could cause breakage.

Such breakage would cause half the apps on any typical workstation to have to 
be rebuilt or worse - recoded.
Surely, surely not?

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 05:10:18 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > Sorry, I'm not following what you're trying to say :P
>
> jpeg-7 is masked, Without it any update process stops with this
> failure. jpeg-7 needs itsself to update jpeg-7 (according the output
> I posted).

Incorrect. Something else is pulling it in and you snipped that output. Your 
initial post only says that emerge wants to include jpeg and it won't emerge 
version 7 as it is unstable and your box is stable.

It's from some package that specifically wants jpeg-7 as opposed to just jpeg. 
Most likely netpbm which is hardcoded to DEPEND on jpeg-7.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

[Dale]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 16 Aug, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
>   
>> Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:12:30 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:
>>
>> 
>>> 2) No need to unmerge anything (except one or two blockers).
>>>   
>> However, you can unmerge 4.2.x, if you like to.
>>
>> 
>
> How to do that in a simple way?
>
> Unfortunately, 
> emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:4.2
> only unmerges the meta package itself.
>
> Thanks for a hint ( I'm afraid of any kde updates
> since they always have created more headaches than any
> other package or set of packages )
>
>   

Not tested but should work.  Use the -p option to make sure.

Unmerge kde-meta:4.2
emerge --depclean -p

If that looks good, remove the -p.  It should only remove kde:4.2 and
what depends on it.  If you wait a while, I may be about to do this. 
I'm doing the same thing as you.  This DSL is soo cool.  :-) 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] I am not getting any emails...

[Stroller]

On 25 Aug 2009, at 18:07, Willie Wong wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:03:45AM +0100, Penguin Lover Stroller  
squawked:


On 25 Aug 2009, at 05:41, David Juhl wrote:

I am not getting any emails  I thought this one might make it  
this

time.


You should not post messages to the list simply to see if it is  
working.


The irony, of course, is that he would not be able to read your
admonition and detailed response if there is indeed a problem with his
mail setup AND if he doesn't know how to use the archives.


Except I cc'd him on the message.

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

[Roy Wright]

On Aug 26, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:


On Wednesday 26 August 2009 05:10:18 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

Sorry, I'm not following what you're trying to say :P


jpeg-7 is masked, Without it any update process stops with this
failure. jpeg-7 needs itsself to update jpeg-7 (according the output
I posted).


Incorrect. Something else is pulling it in and you snipped that  
output. Your
initial post only says that emerge wants to include jpeg and it  
won't emerge

version 7 as it is unstable and your box is stable.

It's from some package that specifically wants jpeg-7 as opposed to  
just jpeg.

Most likely netpbm which is hardcoded to DEPEND on jpeg-7.



In my case, it was netpbm.  Here's the steps I took to resolve the  
problem:


1) emerge -1 -av jpeg
2) Do NOT run "emerge @preserved-rebuild"
3) emerge -av jpeg-compat
4) revdep-rebuild

I hit a problem when trying the "emerge @preserved-rebuild" in that  
tightvnc had a jpeg-6b dependency, so pretty much had to use jpeg- 
compat.


HTH,
Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 26 Aug, Dale wrote:
> Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> On 16 Aug, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
>>   
>>> Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:12:30 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:
>>>
>>> 
 2) No need to unmerge anything (except one or two blockers).
   
>>> However, you can unmerge 4.2.x, if you like to.
>>>
>>> 
>>
>> How to do that in a simple way?
>>
>> Unfortunately, 
>> emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:4.2
>> only unmerges the meta package itself.
>>
>> Thanks for a hint ( I'm afraid of any kde updates
>> since they always have created more headaches than any
>> other package or set of packages )
>>
>>   
> 
> Not tested but should work.  Use the -p option to make sure.
> 
> Unmerge kde-meta:4.2
> emerge --depclean -p
> 
> If that looks good, remove the -p.  It should only remove kde:4.2 and
> what depends on it.  If you wait a while, I may be about to do this. 
> I'm doing the same thing as you.  This DSL is soo cool.  :-) 
> 

I have difficulties doing so. 'emerge --depclean' requires a recent
emerge --update --newuse --deep @system @world
which tries to update kde, as well.
I'm just trying to mask all kde-base packages, then doing emerge
--update --newuse --deep @system @world

Still, quite tedious.
Helmut.

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

again, portage's dependencies caculation makes me wonder.

This time, 
emerge  --update --newuse --deep @system @world

tells me quite a few dependencies like
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1

I do have x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 and x11-libs/qt-4.5.2 installed.
How can I find out which package is pulling x11-libs/qt-4.5.1 in ?

Many thanks for a hint.
(I have portage-2.2_rc40 installed here)
Helmut.

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Dale]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> again, portage's dependencies caculation makes me wonder.
>
> This time, 
> emerge  --update --newuse --deep @system @world
>
> tells me quite a few dependencies like
>  *   ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1 pulled in by:
>  * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
>
> I do have x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 and x11-libs/qt-4.5.2 installed.
> How can I find out which package is pulling x11-libs/qt-4.5.1 in ?
>
> Many thanks for a hint.
> (I have portage-2.2_rc40 installed here)
> Helmut.
>
>   

Usually adding the -t option will tell what is pulling it in.  man
emerge for more info on that option.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Fabrice Delliaux]

Le Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:35:37 +0200 (CEST),
Helmut Jarausch a écrit :

> How can I find out which package is pulling x11-libs/qt-4.5.1 in ?

# emerge gentoolkit
# equery d qt

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

[Dale]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 26 Aug, Dale wrote:
>   
>> Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> 
>>> On 16 Aug, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
>>>   
>>>   
 Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:12:30 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:

 
 
> 2) No need to unmerge anything (except one or two blockers).
>   
>   
 However, you can unmerge 4.2.x, if you like to.

 
 
>>> How to do that in a simple way?
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, 
>>> emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:4.2
>>> only unmerges the meta package itself.
>>>
>>> Thanks for a hint ( I'm afraid of any kde updates
>>> since they always have created more headaches than any
>>> other package or set of packages )
>>>
>>>   
>>>   
>> Not tested but should work.  Use the -p option to make sure.
>>
>> Unmerge kde-meta:4.2
>> emerge --depclean -p
>>
>> If that looks good, remove the -p.  It should only remove kde:4.2 and
>> what depends on it.  If you wait a while, I may be about to do this. 
>> I'm doing the same thing as you.  This DSL is soo cool.  :-) 
>>
>> 
>
> I have difficulties doing so. 'emerge --depclean' requires a recent
> emerge --update --newuse --deep @system @world
> which tries to update kde, as well.
> I'm just trying to mask all kde-base packages, then doing emerge
> --update --newuse --deep @system @world
>
> Still, quite tedious.
> Helmut.
>
>   

It may not work but then again it might.  emerge --depclean -p
kde-meta:4.2 .

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Roy Wright]

emerge --unmerge =x11-libs/qt-4.5.1

The meta package is no longer used.

HTH,
Roy

On Aug 26, 2009, at 4:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:


Hi,

again, portage's dependencies caculation makes me wonder.

This time,
emerge  --update --newuse --deep @system @world

tells me quite a few dependencies like
*   ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1 pulled in by:
* x11-libs/qt-4.5.1

I do have x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 and x11-libs/qt-4.5.2 installed.
How can I find out which package is pulling x11-libs/qt-4.5.1 in ?

Many thanks for a hint.
(I have portage-2.2_rc40 installed here)
Helmut.

--
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 26 Aug, Fabrice Delliaux wrote:
> Le Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:35:37 +0200 (CEST),
> Helmut Jarausch a écrit :
> 
>> How can I find out which package is pulling x11-libs/qt-4.5.1 in ?
> 
> # emerge gentoolkit
> # equery d qt

Thanks, this shows all packages which depend on qt:4.5 (e.g.)
Since I have qt-4.5.2 installed, how can I find out which packages
pulls in version 4.5.1 ?

Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 26 Aug, Roy Wright wrote:
> emerge --unmerge =x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
> 
> The meta package is no longer used.
> 

But how it comes that
emerge --depclean -p

tells me

 * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
 * the following required packages not being installed:
 * 
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
 * 
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1

and many more such lines?

Thanks,
Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:35:37 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> again, portage's dependencies caculation makes me wonder.
>
> This time,
> emerge  --update --newuse --deep @system @world
>
> tells me quite a few dependencies like
>  *   ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1 pulled in by:
>  * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
>
> I do have x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 and x11-libs/qt-4.5.2 installed.
> How can I find out which package is pulling x11-libs/qt-4.5.1 in ?
>
> Many thanks for a hint.
> (I have portage-2.2_rc40 installed here)
> Helmut.

run your emerge with -t

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 26 Aug, Dale wrote:
> Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> On 26 Aug, Dale wrote:
>>   
>>> Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>>> 
 On 16 Aug, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
   
   
> Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:12:30 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:
>
> 
> 
>> 2) No need to unmerge anything (except one or two blockers).
>>   
>>   
> However, you can unmerge 4.2.x, if you like to.
>
> 
> 
 How to do that in a simple way?

 Unfortunately, 
 emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:4.2
 only unmerges the meta package itself.

 Thanks for a hint ( I'm afraid of any kde updates
 since they always have created more headaches than any
 other package or set of packages )

   
   
>>> Not tested but should work.  Use the -p option to make sure.
>>>
>>> Unmerge kde-meta:4.2
>>> emerge --depclean -p
>>>
>>> If that looks good, remove the -p.  It should only remove kde:4.2 and
>>> what depends on it.  If you wait a while, I may be about to do this. 
>>> I'm doing the same thing as you.  This DSL is soo cool.  :-) 
>>>
>>> 
>>
>> I have difficulties doing so. 'emerge --depclean' requires a recent
>> emerge --update --newuse --deep @system @world
>> which tries to update kde, as well.
>> I'm just trying to mask all kde-base packages, then doing emerge
>> --update --newuse --deep @system @world
>>
>> Still, quite tedious.
>> Helmut.
>>
>>   
> 
> It may not work but then again it might.  emerge --depclean -p
> kde-meta:4.2 .

This gives

>>> No packages selected for removal by depclean

Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 26 Aug, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:35:37 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> again, portage's dependencies caculation makes me wonder.
>>
>> This time,
>> emerge  --update --newuse --deep @system @world
>>
>> tells me quite a few dependencies like
>>  *   ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1 pulled in by:
>>  * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
>>
>> I do have x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 and x11-libs/qt-4.5.2 installed.
>> How can I find out which package is pulling x11-libs/qt-4.5.1 in ?
>>
>> Many thanks for a hint.
>> (I have portage-2.2_rc40 installed here)
>> Helmut.
> 
> run your emerge with -t
> 

Unfortunately, that doesn't help
Helmut.

 emerge --depclean -t -p

 * Always study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious
 * mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always
 * be kept.  They can be manually added to this set with
 * `emerge --noreplace `.  Packages that are listed in
 * package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by
 * depclean, even if they are part of the world set.
 * 
 * As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages
 * unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved.  As a
 * consequence, it is often necessary to run `emerge --update
 * --newuse --deep @system @world` prior to depclean.

Calculating dependencies... done!
 * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
 * the following required packages not being installed:
 * 
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
 * 
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
 * 
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
 * 
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
 * 
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
 * 
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-assistant-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
 * 
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
 * 
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-xmlpatterns-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
 * 
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
 * 
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
 * 
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
 * 
 *   ~x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.1 pulled in by:
 * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Port Multiplier Support

[Mike Kazantsev]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:15:54 -0700 (PDT)
Jon Hardcastle  wrote:

> I am looking at ways to increase the drive capacity of my machine. It has 4 
> in built sata ports, and currently 2 off the PCI port - which is only sata 
> 150 - this has proved a troublesome route. I have the option of a 2 port 
> sata-300 off the 1 pci-express I have but I was looking to increase slightly 
> more than that. to a total of 8.
> 
> I have come across Sata Port Multiplying before and saw the support was abit 
> weak. I have come back to it again.
> 
> i am lookin at this bad boy.
> 
> [Lycom ST-158 SATA II-3Gbps 1-To-5Ports H/W RAID Host Adapter]
> http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Lycom-ST-158-SATA-II-3Gbps-1-To-5Ports-H-W-RAID-Host-Adapter
> 
> Can anyone advise if they have any experience in this area? Or indicate some 
> level of success failure? (it is £50 so i dont want to buy it unless there is 
> a reasonable chance of success!

I believe this card should present all the disks connected to it as a
single device (disk) to the controller it's 1-sata plugged in to, so
there should be no problems with support as the whole thing is
transparent to software.

Alas, I've only heard of such devices, but never used one and I have no
clue about the performance.

-- 
Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net


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Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Dale]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 26 Aug, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>   
>> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:35:37 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> again, portage's dependencies caculation makes me wonder.
>>>
>>> This time,
>>> emerge  --update --newuse --deep @system @world
>>>
>>> tells me quite a few dependencies like
>>>  *   ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1 pulled in by:
>>>  * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
>>>
>>> I do have x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 and x11-libs/qt-4.5.2 installed.
>>> How can I find out which package is pulling x11-libs/qt-4.5.1 in ?
>>>
>>> Many thanks for a hint.
>>> (I have portage-2.2_rc40 installed here)
>>> Helmut.
>>>   
>> run your emerge with -t
>>
>> 
>
> Unfortunately, that doesn't help
> Helmut.
>
>   

LOL  Try this:

emerge -uvDNpt @system @world

That should work better.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 12:06:44 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 26 Aug, Roy Wright wrote:
> > emerge --unmerge =x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
> >
> > The meta package is no longer used.
>
> But how it comes that
> emerge --depclean -p
>
> tells me
>
>  * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
>  * the following required packages not being installed:
>  *
>  *   ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1 pulled in by:
>  * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
>  *
>  *   ~x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1 pulled in by:
>  * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
>
> and many more such lines?

You probably have qt-4.5.1 in world. Run 

emerge -t 

to see why qt-4.5.1 is being pulled in.

Portage supplies a multitude of tools to help you drive portage. Why have you 
not read the man page and learned how to use them?


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:23:32 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 26 Aug, Dale wrote:
> > Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >> On 16 Aug, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> >>> Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:12:30 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:
>  2) No need to unmerge anything (except one or two blockers).
> >>>
> >>> However, you can unmerge 4.2.x, if you like to.
> >>
> >> How to do that in a simple way?
> >>
> >> Unfortunately,
> >> emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:4.2
> >> only unmerges the meta package itself.
> >>
> >> Thanks for a hint ( I'm afraid of any kde updates
> >> since they always have created more headaches than any
> >> other package or set of packages )
> >
> > Not tested but should work.  Use the -p option to make sure.
> >
> > Unmerge kde-meta:4.2
> > emerge --depclean -p
> >
> > If that looks good, remove the -p.  It should only remove kde:4.2 and
> > what depends on it.  If you wait a while, I may be about to do this.
> > I'm doing the same thing as you.  This DSL is soo cool.  :-)
>
> I have difficulties doing so. 'emerge --depclean' requires a recent
> emerge --update --newuse --deep @system @world
> which tries to update kde, as well.
> I'm just trying to mask all kde-base packages, then doing emerge
> --update --newuse --deep @system @world
>
> Still, quite tedious.
> Helmut.

Run emerge -avuND world and unmerge the blockers, then emerge -avuND world and 
let portage take care of the updates.

KDE-4.3 introduced some new packages and moved others around. Portage does not 
know how to deal with this.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:00:35 Roy Wright wrote:
> On Aug 26, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 05:10:18 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> >>> Sorry, I'm not following what you're trying to say :P
> >>
> >> jpeg-7 is masked, Without it any update process stops with this
> >> failure. jpeg-7 needs itsself to update jpeg-7 (according the output
> >> I posted).
> >
> > Incorrect. Something else is pulling it in and you snipped that
> > output. Your
> > initial post only says that emerge wants to include jpeg and it
> > won't emerge
> > version 7 as it is unstable and your box is stable.
> >
> > It's from some package that specifically wants jpeg-7 as opposed to
> > just jpeg.
> > Most likely netpbm which is hardcoded to DEPEND on jpeg-7.
>
> In my case, it was netpbm.  Here's the steps I took to resolve the
> problem:
>
> 1) emerge -1 -av jpeg
> 2) Do NOT run "emerge @preserved-rebuild"
> 3) emerge -av jpeg-compat
> 4) revdep-rebuild
>
> I hit a problem when trying the "emerge @preserved-rebuild" in that
> tightvnc had a jpeg-6b dependency, so pretty much had to use jpeg-
> compat.

tightvnc works just fine with jpeg-7. You can do what I did and copy the 
tightvnc ebuild to a local overlay, patch with this, and let it rip:

# diff -u net-misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild local/alan/net-
misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild
--- net-misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild 2009-04-20 20:52:22.0 
+0200
+++ local/alan/net-misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild  2009-08-25 
17:00:54.0 +0200
@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@
 LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"

-CDEPEND="~media-libs/jpeg-6b
+CDEPEND="|| (
+   ~media-libs/jpeg-6b
+   ~media-libs/jpeg-7
+   )
server? (
media-fonts/font-misc-misc
media-fonts/font-cursor-misc


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Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 12:10:15 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 26 Aug, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:35:37 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> again, portage's dependencies caculation makes me wonder.
> >>
> >> This time,
> >> emerge  --update --newuse --deep @system @world
> >>
> >> tells me quite a few dependencies like
> >>  *   ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1 pulled in by:
> >>  * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
> >>
> >> I do have x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 and x11-libs/qt-4.5.2 installed.
> >> How can I find out which package is pulling x11-libs/qt-4.5.1 in ?
> >>
> >> Many thanks for a hint.
> >> (I have portage-2.2_rc40 installed here)
> >> Helmut.
> >
> > run your emerge with -t
>
> Unfortunately, that doesn't help
> Helmut.
>
>  emerge --depclean -t -p

I said to run emerge -t

I didn't say to run emerge --depclean -t

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 26 Aug, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 12:10:15 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> On 26 Aug, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:35:37 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> again, portage's dependencies caculation makes me wonder.
>> >>
>> >> This time,
>> >> emerge  --update --newuse --deep @system @world
>> >>
>> >> tells me quite a few dependencies like
>> >>  *   ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1 pulled in by:
>> >>  * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
>> >>
>> >> I do have x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 and x11-libs/qt-4.5.2 installed.
>> >> How can I find out which package is pulling x11-libs/qt-4.5.1 in ?
>> >>
>> >> Many thanks for a hint.
>> >> (I have portage-2.2_rc40 installed here)
>> >> Helmut.
>> >
>> > run your emerge with -t
>>
>> Unfortunately, that doesn't help
>> Helmut.
>>
>>  emerge --depclean -t -p
> 
> I said to run emerge -t
> 
> I didn't say to run emerge --depclean -t

OK, here is the output

emerge -t
emerge: the other white meat (command-line interface to the Portage system)
Usage:
   emerge [ options ] [ action ] [ ebuild | tbz2 | file | @set | atom ] [ ... ]
   emerge [ options ] [ action ] < system | world >
   emerge < --sync | --metadata | --info >
   emerge --resume [ --pretend | --ask | --skipfirst ]
   emerge --help [ --verbose ] 
Options: -[abBcCdDefgGhjkKlnNoOpqPsStuvV]
  [ --color < y | n >] [ --columns]
  [ --complete-graph ] [ --deep   ]
  [ --jobs JOBS ] [ --keep-going ] [ --load-average LOAD]
  [ --newuse] [ --noconfmem  ] [ --nospinner  ]
  [ --oneshot   ] [ --onlydeps   ]
  [ --reinstall changed-use  ] [ --with-bdeps < y | n > ]
Actions:  [ --depclean | --list-sets | --search | --sync | --version]

   For more help try 'emerge --help --verbose' or consult the man page.


Helmut

[gentoo-user][awesome] where can i find a default rc.lua

[Xi Shen]

Hi,

i am new to awesome, after i have successfully emerged
awesome-3.2.1-r3, and started the X, i cannot find the default rc.lua.
i tried right-clicking on the blank area and choose 'awesome'->'edit
config', but it gives me a file with nothing; actually, the file which
the editor trying to open '/root/.config/awesome/rc.lua' does not
exist at all.

please point me to the right direction.


-- 
Best Regards,
David Shen

http://twitter.com/davidshen84

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 12:30:40 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 26 Aug, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 12:10:15 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >> On 26 Aug, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:35:37 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> again, portage's dependencies caculation makes me wonder.
> >> >>
> >> >> This time,
> >> >> emerge  --update --newuse --deep @system @world
> >> >>
> >> >> tells me quite a few dependencies like
> >> >>  *   ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1 pulled in by:
> >> >>  * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1
> >> >>
> >> >> I do have x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 and x11-libs/qt-4.5.2 installed.
> >> >> How can I find out which package is pulling x11-libs/qt-4.5.1 in ?
> >> >>
> >> >> Many thanks for a hint.
> >> >> (I have portage-2.2_rc40 installed here)
> >> >> Helmut.
> >> >
> >> > run your emerge with -t
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, that doesn't help
> >> Helmut.
> >>
> >>  emerge --depclean -t -p
> >
> > I said to run emerge -t
> >
> > I didn't say to run emerge --depclean -t
>
> OK, here is the output
>
> emerge -t
> emerge: the other white meat (command-line interface to the Portage system)
> Usage:
>emerge [ options ] [ action ] [ ebuild | tbz2 | file | @set | atom ] [
> ... ] emerge [ options ] [ action ] < system | world >
>emerge < --sync | --metadata | --info >
>emerge --resume [ --pretend | --ask | --skipfirst ]
>emerge --help [ --verbose ]
> Options: -[abBcCdDefgGhjkKlnNoOpqPsStuvV]
>   [ --color < y | n >] [ --columns]
>   [ --complete-graph ] [ --deep   ]
>   [ --jobs JOBS ] [ --keep-going ] [ --load-average LOAD   
> ] [ --newuse] [ --noconfmem  ] [ --nospinner  ]
>   [ --oneshot   ] [ --onlydeps   ]
>   [ --reinstall changed-use  ] [ --with-bdeps < y | n >
> ] Actions:  [ --depclean | --list-sets | --search | --sync | --version 
>   ]
>
>For more help try 'emerge --help --verbose' or consult the man page.
>
>
> Helmut

Dude,

you need to read the emerge man page. Seriously.

I intend you to think with my posts, not follow them blindly.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Richard Marzan]

I'm sorry but I have never used @system and @world. What is the difference and 
why the new syntax. I will surely rtfm.

-- Sent from my Palm Prē
Alan McKinnon wrote:

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 12:30:40 Helmut Jarausch wrote:

> On 26 Aug, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 12:10:15 Helmut Jarausch wrote:

> >> On 26 Aug, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> >> > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:35:37 Helmut Jarausch wrote:

> >> >> Hi,

> >> >>

> >> >> again, portage's dependencies caculation makes me wonder.

> >> >>

> >> >> This time,

> >> >> emerge  --update --newuse --deep @system @world

> >> >>

> >> >> tells me quite a few dependencies like

> >> >>  *   ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1 pulled in by:

> >> >>  * x11-libs/qt-4.5.1

> >> >>

> >> >> I do have x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 and x11-libs/qt-4.5.2 installed.

> >> >> How can I find out which package is pulling x11-libs/qt-4.5.1 in ?

> >> >>

> >> >> Many thanks for a hint.

> >> >> (I have portage-2.2_rc40 installed here)

> >> >> Helmut.

> >> >

> >> > run your emerge with -t

> >>

> >> Unfortunately, that doesn't help

> >> Helmut.

> >>

> >>  emerge --depclean -t -p

> >

> > I said to run emerge -t

> >

> > I didn't say to run emerge --depclean -t

>

> OK, here is the output

>

> emerge -t

> emerge: the other white meat (command-line interface to the Portage system)

> Usage:

>emerge [ options ] [ action ] [ ebuild | tbz2 | file | @set | atom ] [

> ... ] emerge [ options ] [ action ] < system | world >

>emerge < --sync | --metadata | --info >

>emerge --resume [ --pretend | --ask | --skipfirst ]

>emerge --help [ --verbose ]

> Options: -[abBcCdDefgGhjkKlnNoOpqPsStuvV]

>   [ --color < y | n >] [ --columns]

>   [ --complete-graph ] [ --deep   ]

>   [ --jobs JOBS ] [ --keep-going ] [ --load-average LOAD   

> ] [ --newuse] [ --noconfmem  ] [ --nospinner  ]

>   [ --oneshot   ] [ --onlydeps   ]

>   [ --reinstall changed-use  ] [ --with-bdeps < y | n >

> ] Actions:  [ --depclean | --list-sets | --search | --sync | --version 

>   ]

>

>For more help try 'emerge --help --verbose' or consult the man page.

>

>

> Helmut



Dude,



you need to read the emerge man page. Seriously.



I intend you to think with my posts, not follow them blindly.



-- 

alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 13:38:59 Richard Marzan wrote:
> I'm sorry but I have never used @system and @world. What is the difference
> and why the new syntax. I will surely rtfm.


It's the new set syntax, available in recent 2.2 portages. I believe there is 
some support in recent 2.1 as well

@system consists of the same packages as the old "system"
@world is the world set - the contents of your world file. It's not the same 
as "world" as it excludes "system" whereas "world" implies that system is 
included.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

[Richard Marzan]

Thanks. That clears things up for me.

-- Sent from my Palm Prē
Alan McKinnon wrote:

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 13:38:59 Richard Marzan wrote:

> I'm sorry but I have never used @system and @world. What is the difference

> and why the new syntax. I will surely rtfm.





It's the new set syntax, available in recent 2.2 portages. I believe there is 

some support in recent 2.1 as well



@system consists of the same packages as the old "system"

@world is the world set - the contents of your world file. It's not the same 

as "world" as it excludes "system" whereas "world" implies that system is 

included.



-- 

alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user][awesome] where can i find a default rc.lua

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i am new to awesome, after i have successfully emerged
> awesome-3.2.1-r3, and started the X, i cannot find the default rc.lua.
> i tried right-clicking on the blank area and choose 'awesome'->'edit
> config', but it gives me a file with nothing; actually, the file which
> the editor trying to open '/root/.config/awesome/rc.lua' does not
> exist at all.
>
> please point me to the right direction.

I've never used awesome before, but google rc.lua comes up with some examples.

[gentoo-user] pidgin 2.6.1 and video

[Paul Hartman]

FYI if anyone wants to try audio and video chat on the new pidgin
2.6.1 release, it didn't work for me (UVC webcam) until I emerged
these packages:

pidgin-2.6.1 (with "gstreamer" USE flag enabled)
gst-plugins-v4l2
gst-plugins-farsight
gnome-media

The last item was need to get gstreamer-properties, which let me
define which audio/video devices to use for input and test them. If
you're a gnome user you've probably already got it. Pidgin devs say
they hope to allow configuration from within the app in the future,
but right now it has to be done externally.

Re: [gentoo-user] Port Multiplier Support

[Anthony Mutiso]

Wikipedia  says that after
3 disks you start to saturate the controller.

Mike Kazantsev wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:15:54 -0700 (PDT)
> Jon Hardcastle  wrote:
>
>   
>> I am looking at ways to increase the drive capacity of my machine. It has 4 
>> in built sata ports, and currently 2 off the PCI port - which is only sata 
>> 150 - this has proved a troublesome route. I have the option of a 2 port 
>> sata-300 off the 1 pci-express I have but I was looking to increase slightly 
>> more than that. to a total of 8.
>>
>> I have come across Sata Port Multiplying before and saw the support was abit 
>> weak. I have come back to it again.
>>
>> i am lookin at this bad boy.
>>
>> [Lycom ST-158 SATA II-3Gbps 1-To-5Ports H/W RAID Host Adapter]
>> http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Lycom-ST-158-SATA-II-3Gbps-1-To-5Ports-H-W-RAID-Host-Adapter
>>
>> Can anyone advise if they have any experience in this area? Or indicate some 
>> level of success failure? (it is £50 so i dont want to buy it unless there 
>> is a reasonable chance of success!
>> 
>
> I believe this card should present all the disks connected to it as a
> single device (disk) to the controller it's 1-sata plugged in to, so
> there should be no problems with support as the whole thing is
> transparent to software.
>
> Alas, I've only heard of such devices, but never used one and I have no
> clue about the performance.
>
>   

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:37:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > while trying to update my gentoo I got this:
> > >
> > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpeg-7" have been
> > > masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to
> > > complete your request: - media-libs/jpeg-7 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
> > >
> > >
> > > I read this as jpeg-7 needs jpeg-7 to update itsself and cannot cause
> > > it is masked.
> > > I dont like to update to jpeg-7 since this package is used in so many
> > > othe rprograms and it is masked.
> >
> > Don't mask it.  Install it, but also install media-libs/jpeg-compat
> > alongside it so packages won't break.
>
> I'm having a hard time imagining how a package like jpeg could cause
> breakage.
>
> Such breakage would cause half the apps on any typical workstation to have
> to be rebuilt or worse - recoded.
> Surely, surely not?

/usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62 changed to /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7.0.0

hilarity insued. 

Seriously all packages on my system that broke installed fine with jpeg-7. It 
was just a long revdep run. But no breakage. Well, some breakage because until 
revdep rebuilt all the packages affected, everything using jpegs (and that 
is... a lot) didn't work ;) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I download gentoo 3.3.5.20050130-r1?

[Willie Wong]

Huh? I don't quite understand your subject. 

Googling leads me to believe you are talking about the gcc version?
The version you referred to is 4 years old and not in the tree
anymore. If you really want it, however, you can get the ebuild from
the CVS and throw it in your own overlay. 

http://anoncvs.gentoo.org/

W

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 05:11:58PM -0700, Penguin Lover david steephan squawked:
> Thanks
> David
> 
> 
> 
>   
-- 
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~Daniel Jonathan Peng
Sortir en Pantoufles: up 992 days, 14:47

[gentoo-user] Re: pidgin 2.6.1 and video

[7v5w7go9ub0o]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> FYI if anyone wants to try audio and video chat on the new pidgin
> 2.6.1 release, it didn't work for me (UVC webcam) until I emerged
> these packages:
> 
> pidgin-2.6.1 (with "gstreamer" USE flag enabled)
> gst-plugins-v4l2
> gst-plugins-farsight
> gnome-media
> 
> The last item was need to get gstreamer-properties, which let me
> define which audio/video devices to use for input and test them. If
> you're a gnome user you've probably already got it. Pidgin devs say
> they hope to allow configuration from within the app in the future,
> but right now it has to be done externally.
> 
> 
Thanks for posting this!

But. ugh!; the last one is a killer. Is there any way that I can
vim some config somewhere, and avoid installing all of the gnome stuff
required by gnome-media?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Volker Armin
Hemmann wrote:
> On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:37:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> > On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > while trying to update my gentoo I got this:
>> > >
>> > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpeg-7" have been
>> > > masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to
>> > > complete your request: - media-libs/jpeg-7 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I read this as jpeg-7 needs jpeg-7 to update itsself and cannot cause
>> > > it is masked.
>> > > I dont like to update to jpeg-7 since this package is used in so many
>> > > othe rprograms and it is masked.
>> >
>> > Don't mask it.  Install it, but also install media-libs/jpeg-compat
>> > alongside it so packages won't break.
>>
>> I'm having a hard time imagining how a package like jpeg could cause
>> breakage.
>>
>> Such breakage would cause half the apps on any typical workstation to have
>> to be rebuilt or worse - recoded.
>> Surely, surely not?
>
> /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62 changed to /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7.0.0
>
> hilarity insued.
>
> Seriously all packages on my system that broke installed fine with jpeg-7. It
> was just a long revdep run. But no breakage. Well, some breakage because until
> revdep rebuilt all the packages affected, everything using jpegs (and that
> is... a lot) didn't work ;)

In my gentoo, portage upgraded to jpeg-7 and added jpeg-compat-6b at
the same time. Nothing had to be rebuilt and everything "seems" to be
working okay so far.

Re: [gentoo-user] Port Multiplier Support

[Mike Kazantsev]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:39:04 -0600
Anthony Mutiso  wrote:

> Wikipedia  says that after
> 3 disks you start to saturate the controller.

Guess I was wrong about the whole 'Port Multiplication' thing, if it
works in that mode.

Still, the original post also mentions that it's an H/W RAID
controller, so I guess the problem can be negated just by packing disks
into RAID0 or linear array, so it'll be one channel instead of three
separate ones.

Kinda curious about it's performance - H/W RAID cards seem to be more
expensive than fifty pounds and this one shouldn't have any interface
to draw power from CPU via OS drivers.

-- 
Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pidgin 2.6.1 and video

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:18 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o<7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>> FYI if anyone wants to try audio and video chat on the new pidgin
>> 2.6.1 release, it didn't work for me (UVC webcam) until I emerged
>> these packages:
>>
>> pidgin-2.6.1 (with "gstreamer" USE flag enabled)
>> gst-plugins-v4l2
>> gst-plugins-farsight
>> gnome-media
>>
>> The last item was need to get gstreamer-properties, which let me
>> define which audio/video devices to use for input and test them. If
>> you're a gnome user you've probably already got it. Pidgin devs say
>> they hope to allow configuration from within the app in the future,
>> but right now it has to be done externally.
>>
>>
> Thanks for posting this!
>
> But. ugh!; the last one is a killer. Is there any way that I can
> vim some config somewhere, and avoid installing all of the gnome stuff
> required by gnome-media?

gnome-media is optional. PIdgin will let gstreamer try to autodetect
the appropriate device to use. So try it and see what happens. :) In
my case that didn't work right away, so I emerged the 10 packages
needed for gnome-settings.

Also the video only works if the other person is using the Gmail video
chat plugin for windows (or pidgin on linux, I suppose... didn't try
it that way yet)

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 09:25:55 schrieb Helmut Jarausch:
> On 16 Aug, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:12:30 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:
> >> 2) No need to unmerge anything (except one or two blockers).
> >
> > However, you can unmerge 4.2.x, if you like to.
>
> How to do that in a simple way?

paludis --uninstall --with-unused-dependencies "=kde-base/*:4.2"

Bye...

Dirk


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[gentoo-user] Yasm?

[meino . cramer]

Hi,

does anything configure-spezific changed according to
the usage of nasm?
Blender 2.49+ svn source as well as blender2.5 svn source do
not find nasm.inc anymore.
I thought it would be a temporary bug in the svn check in
but this seems to be a little more "permanent" so would
believe that the source of the problem is not the svn
sources but the nasm installation?

Thank you very much in advance for any help!

Have a nice evening!
Best regards,
mcc
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unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

[meino . cramer]

Paul Hartman  [09-08-26 18:30]:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Volker Armin
> Hemmann wrote:
> > On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:37:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> > On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> >> > > Hi,
> >> > >
> >> > > while trying to update my gentoo I got this:
> >> > >
> >> > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpeg-7" have been
> >> > > masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to
> >> > > complete your request: - media-libs/jpeg-7 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > I read this as jpeg-7 needs jpeg-7 to update itsself and cannot cause
> >> > > it is masked.
> >> > > I dont like to update to jpeg-7 since this package is used in so many
> >> > > othe rprograms and it is masked.
> >> >
> >> > Don't mask it.  Install it, but also install media-libs/jpeg-compat
> >> > alongside it so packages won't break.
> >>
> >> I'm having a hard time imagining how a package like jpeg could cause
> >> breakage.
> >>
> >> Such breakage would cause half the apps on any typical workstation to have
> >> to be rebuilt or worse - recoded.
> >> Surely, surely not?
> >
> > /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62 changed to /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7.0.0
> >
> > hilarity insued.
> >
> > Seriously all packages on my system that broke installed fine with jpeg-7. 
> > It
> > was just a long revdep run. But no breakage. Well, some breakage because 
> > until
> > revdep rebuilt all the packages affected, everything using jpegs (and that
> > is... a lot) didn't work ;)
> 
> In my gentoo, portage upgraded to jpeg-7 and added jpeg-compat-6b at
> the same time. Nothing had to be rebuilt and everything "seems" to be
> working okay so far.

I got this one, which seems to tell me, that joeg-compat is also
masked ???


solfire:/home/mccramer>emerge jpeg-compat
Calculating dependencies... done!

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "media-libs/jpeg-compat" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- media-libs/jpeg-compat-6b (masked by: ~x86 keyword)

For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Paul Hartman  [09-08-26 18:30]:
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Volker Armin
> >
> > Hemmann wrote:
> > > On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > >> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:37:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > >> > On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > >> > > Hi,
> > >> > >
> > >> > > while trying to update my gentoo I got this:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpeg-7" have been
> > >> > > masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to
> > >> > > complete your request: - media-libs/jpeg-7 (masked by: ~x86
> > >> > > keyword)
> > >> > >
> > >> > >
> > >> > > I read this as jpeg-7 needs jpeg-7 to update itsself and cannot
> > >> > > cause it is masked.
> > >> > > I dont like to update to jpeg-7 since this package is used in so
> > >> > > many othe rprograms and it is masked.
> > >> >
> > >> > Don't mask it.  Install it, but also install media-libs/jpeg-compat
> > >> > alongside it so packages won't break.
> > >>
> > >> I'm having a hard time imagining how a package like jpeg could cause
> > >> breakage.
> > >>
> > >> Such breakage would cause half the apps on any typical workstation to
> > >> have to be rebuilt or worse - recoded.
> > >> Surely, surely not?
> > >
> > > /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62 changed to /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7.0.0
> > >
> > > hilarity insued.
> > >
> > > Seriously all packages on my system that broke installed fine with
> > > jpeg-7. It was just a long revdep run. But no breakage. Well, some
> > > breakage because until revdep rebuilt all the packages affected,
> > > everything using jpegs (and that is... a lot) didn't work ;)
> >
> > In my gentoo, portage upgraded to jpeg-7 and added jpeg-compat-6b at
> > the same time. Nothing had to be rebuilt and everything "seems" to be
> > working okay so far.
>
> I got this one, which seems to tell me, that joeg-compat is also
> masked ???
>
>
> solfire:/home/mccramer>emerge jpeg-compat
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "media-libs/jpeg-compat" have been
> masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
> your request: - media-libs/jpeg-compat-6b (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>
> For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
> man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

*sigh* again, it is not 'masked'. Masked means 'package.mask entry' in gentoo-
user speak. Masked in package.mask means 'unfit for human consumption'.

Masked by unstable keyword means exactly that: the package is marked as 
unstable at the moment. One of your many packages installed depends on an 
unstable package. If you only have stable packages installed, you just hit a 
bug. But if you have unstable packages installed, this happens all the time. 
Add jpeg7 and -compat to your package.keywords file and go on.

Another reason, why mixing trees is a bad idea...

Re: [gentoo-user][awesome] where can i find a default rc.lua

[Marc Joliet]

Am Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:35:28 +0800
schrieb Xi Shen :

> Hi,
> 
> i am new to awesome, after i have successfully emerged
> awesome-3.2.1-r3, and started the X, i cannot find the default rc.lua.
> i tried right-clicking on the blank area and choose 'awesome'->'edit
> config', but it gives me a file with nothing; actually, the file which
> the editor trying to open '/root/.config/awesome/rc.lua' does not
> exist at all.
> 
> please point me to the right direction.

Gladly:

mar...@marcec ~ % qlist awesome | grep rc.lua
/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua

HTH
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[gentoo-user] Why so many duplicate entries in K menu?

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Hi all,

the subject says it all: I've got multiple multiple duplicate entries in KDE's 
(4.3.0) K menu. Any idea how to get rid of them? Google doesn't give a 
definitive answer :(

Thanks...

Dirk


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[gentoo-user] Re: Why so many duplicate entries in K menu?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 08/26/2009 09:04 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

Hi all,

the subject says it all: I've got multiple multiple duplicate entries in KDE's
(4.3.0) K menu. Any idea how to get rid of them? Google doesn't give a
definitive answer :(


Looks like you have KDE3 installed too?

Re: [gentoo-user] Why so many duplicate entries in K menu?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the subject says it all: I've got multiple multiple duplicate entries in
> KDE's (4.3.0) K menu. Any idea how to get rid of them? Google doesn't give
> a definitive answer :(
>
> Thanks...
>
>   Dirk

look out for multiple .desktop files in /usr. Maybe paludis forgot to unmerge 
something.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why so many duplicate entries in K menu?

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 20:21:27 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> On 08/26/2009 09:04 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > the subject says it all: I've got multiple multiple duplicate entries in
> > KDE's (4.3.0) K menu. Any idea how to get rid of them? Google doesn't
> > give a definitive answer :(
>
> Looks like you have KDE3 installed too?

Nope. It's gone since a long time now.

Bye...

Dirk


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Re: [gentoo-user] Why so many duplicate entries in K menu?

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 20:04:57 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:
> Hi all,
>
> the subject says it all: I've got multiple multiple duplicate entries in
> KDE's (4.3.0) K menu. Any idea how to get rid of them? Google doesn't give
> a definitive answer :(

Ok, some more details. I'm using Lancelot since some time and thought it would 
show the same things as the K menu. That's not the case. The K menu only shows 
one entry for each app. However, both Lancelot _and_ the KDE menu editor show 
duplicate entries for each non-KDE app, where clicking one one of them (in 
Lancelot) opens the app, while the other opens kwrite with an empty desktop 
file for that app.

So for now I will switch back to the original K Menu.

Bye...

Dirk


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Re: [gentoo-user] Yasm?

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:57 AM,  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anything configure-spezific changed according to
> the usage of nasm?
> Blender 2.49+ svn source as well as blender2.5 svn source do
> not find nasm.inc anymore.
> I thought it would be a temporary bug in the svn check in
> but this seems to be a little more "permanent" so would
> believe that the source of the problem is not the svn
> sources but the nasm installation?
>
> Thank you very much in advance for any help!

I just compiled blender 2.49a & yasm 0.8.0 from portage (~amd64) and
everything worked. Is there an blender SVN ebuild in an overlay or
bugzilla that I can try?

[gentoo-user] Re: Decreasing volume of an mp3 audio

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 08/24/2009 09:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

On 08/24/2009 08:32 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

Hi,

is there an application, which is able to physically decrease
the volume level of an mp3 with as less as possible loss of
sound quality.


Unfortunately, no.


It seems I was wrong:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3gain

This program can alter volume without re-encoding.  And the process is 
fully reversible two.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Decreasing volume of an mp3 audio

[meino . cramer]

Nikos Chantziaras  [09-08-27 04:29]:
> On 08/24/2009 09:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >On 08/24/2009 08:32 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>is there an application, which is able to physically decrease
> >>the volume level of an mp3 with as less as possible loss of
> >>sound quality.
> >
> >Unfortunately, no.
> 
> It seems I was wrong:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3gain
> 
> This program can alter volume without re-encoding.  And the process is 
> fully reversible two.
> 

Hi Nikos !

THAT is exactly what I have searched for ! :)

GREAT! Thank you very much!!!

Have a nice weekend!
Best regards
mcc


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