[gentoo-amd64] Re: Update config files

2006-01-09 Thread Duncan
felix posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:48:37 -0800: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:14:03PM -0500, Mark Haney wrote: >> What's the best way to update config files? I am a big fan of RH's >> method of dealing with them, and can't stand the way Debian does it, so

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Who downgrades hal and dbus?

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Ulm
Richard Fish wrote: On 1/9/06, Michael Ulm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I do an emerge --update --deep world the packages hal and dbus get downgraded to versions hal-0.4.8 and dbus-0.23.4-r1 only to be upgraded to the newest versions in the same update. When I just do the update without the

[gentoo-amd64] Re: XOrg 6.9

2006-01-09 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 09 January 2006 23:54, Richard Fish wrote: > Why?  Just copy-n-paste the relevant lines from > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask. Because I prefer to specify the version of the package to unmask. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.15-gentoo, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Wed Jan 4 20:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Update config files

2006-01-09 Thread felix
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:14:03PM -0500, Mark Haney wrote: > What's the best way to update config files? I am a big fan of RH's > method of dealing with them, and can't stand the way Debian does it, so > how do the majority of Gentoo users manage their config files? Don't know how RedHat or De

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Weird net routing

2006-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/9/06, Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is HTTP traffic going the wrong way? It's taking the default route > instead of the specific one it should know about. Bizarrely, Win XP on the > same box has no trouble so I know the hardware is fine. Do you by chance have any firewallin

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: XOrg 6.9

2006-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/9/06, Sebastian Redl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Francesco Talamona wrote: > > >I also made a little script to help unmask all the packages needed, > >anyway it is a process quite tedious :-) > > > > > Care to share? It is indeed quite tedious. Why? Just copy-n-paste the relevant lines from

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: XOrg 6.9

2006-01-09 Thread Jose Maria Alvarez Fernandez
If you don't want to use the modular version, you can always use this overlay: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-396898-start-0.html I prefer not to use the modular version until it gets unmasked (or at least not hardmasked) hope it helps! Chema El Lunes, 9 de Enero de 2006 23:30, Francesco

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Weird net routing

2006-01-09 Thread Brett Johnson
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:23:11PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > No, it's just a WAP. I already have a network with a broadband link. AFAICS > the WAP doesn't have a firewall, but certainly nothing's passing through it. Ah, I missed the last line that said it all works fine in that other virO

[gentoo-amd64] Re: XOrg 6.9

2006-01-09 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 09 January 2006 22:09, Sebastian Redl wrote: > Francesco Talamona wrote: > >I also made a little script to help unmask all the packages needed, > >anyway it is a process quite tedious :-) > > Care to share? It is indeed quite tedious. #!/bin/bash echo -e "=$1\t\t\t~amd64\n" >> /etc/porta

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Weird net routing

2006-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
Brett Johnson wrote: Is the netgear device a WAP only or are you using a broadband router with wireless access? If it's the latter, and you connect the "WAN" interface of the netgear to eth1, than you are hitting the firewall of the netgear. If this is the case, then just connect eth1 to one of

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Update config files

2006-01-09 Thread Scott Stoddard
Mark Haney wrote: Nuitari wrote: What's the best way to update config files? I am a big fan of RH's method of dealing with them, and can't stand the way Debian does it, so how do the majority of Gentoo users manage their config files? with etc-update I know that, but is there a 'bet p

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Update config files

2006-01-09 Thread Barry . SCHWARTZ
Nuitari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skribis: > >What's the best way to update config files? I am a big fan of RH's method > >of dealing with them, and can't stand the way > >Debian does it, so how do the majority of Gentoo users manage their config > >files? > > with etc-update I'm using cfg-update (

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Update config files

2006-01-09 Thread Brett Johnson
I'm partial to the dispatch-conf method in conjunction with rcs and colordiff. Here are some links: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_dispatch-conf http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Colorized_Config_Management On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:14:03PM -0500, Mark Haney wrote: > What's the best way to update config f

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Update config files

2006-01-09 Thread Mark Haney
Nuitari wrote: What's the best way to update config files? I am a big fan of RH's method of dealing with them, and can't stand the way Debian does it, so how do the majority of Gentoo users manage their config files? with etc-update I know that, but is there a 'bet practices' to use wi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Update config files

2006-01-09 Thread Nuitari
What's the best way to update config files? I am a big fan of RH's method of dealing with them, and can't stand the way Debian does it, so how do the majority of Gentoo users manage their config files? with etc-update -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] Update config files

2006-01-09 Thread Mark Haney
What's the best way to update config files? I am a big fan of RH's method of dealing with them, and can't stand the way Debian does it, so how do the majority of Gentoo users manage their config files? -- Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: XOrg 6.9

2006-01-09 Thread Sebastian Redl
Francesco Talamona wrote: I also made a little script to help unmask all the packages needed, anyway it is a process quite tedious :-) Care to share? It is indeed quite tedious. Sebastian Redl -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] Re: XOrg 6.9

2006-01-09 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 09 January 2006 14:28, Hamie wrote: > is there a timetable for 7.0 (The reaosn I ask is so I can get the > r300 support working, which was fine on the CVS version I was > running, but I'd like to update... It is already useable, I made (ehm, copied) an ebuild for x11-7.0 in virtual/x11

Re: [gentoo-amd64] XOrg 6.9

2006-01-09 Thread Nicolas MASSE
Hello, On Monday 09 January 2006 14:28, Hamie wrote: > WOuld it be impolite of me to ask if XOrg 6.9 is ever going to be > available for amd64? I see that 7.0 (Modularised) version is hard > masked, but it doesn't compile anyway when I unmask it (XServer > fails to copmile. I think I've seen it me

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Who downgrades hal and dbus?

2006-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/9/06, Michael Ulm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I do an emerge --update --deep world the > packages hal and dbus get downgraded to versions > hal-0.4.8 and dbus-0.23.4-r1 only to be upgraded to > the newest versions in the same update. When I just > do the update without the --deep option

Re: [gentoo-amd64] XOrg 6.9

2006-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/9/06, Hamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WOuld it be impolite of me to ask if XOrg 6.9 is ever going to be > available for amd64? I see that 7.0 (Modularised) version is hard > masked, but it doesn't compile anyway when I unmask it (XServer > fails to copmile. I think I've seen it mentioned he

[gentoo-amd64] amd64 2005.1 installer problems

2006-01-09 Thread Spencer Ogden
I recently tried using the 2005.1 installer on an Athlon 3200 Venice running on a GIGABYTE GA-K8N51PVMT-9, which has an Nvidia 430 chipset (I believe it is referred to as either C51 or MCP51 in the kernel). I ran into two problems. 1) The boot process hangs on loading the sata_nv module. Using

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Weird net routing

2006-01-09 Thread Brett Johnson
> > (netgear is the WAP and spirit is a laptop the other side of it.) Is the netgear device a WAP only or are you using a broadband router with wireless access? If it's the latter, and you connect the "WAN" interface of the netgear to eth1, than you are hitting the firewall of the netgear. If thi

[gentoo-amd64] XOrg 6.9

2006-01-09 Thread Hamie
WOuld it be impolite of me to ask if XOrg 6.9 is ever going to be available for amd64? I see that 7.0 (Modularised) version is hard masked, but it doesn't compile anyway when I unmask it (XServer fails to copmile. I think I've seen it mentioned here before), but 6.9 doesn't appear to be avail at

[gentoo-amd64] Weird net routing

2006-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
This may not be amd64-specific, in which case I apologise, but I'm having problems commissioning a wireless network. I've connected a wireless access point to a second NIC on this box and given them both new network addresses. Both eth0 and eth1 are up and I can ping the WAP, but I cannot connec

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc wants emul libc.so.6

2006-01-09 Thread Domingo Suárez
2006/1/9, Daiajo Tibdixious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 1/9/06, Daiajo Tibdixious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On 1/9/06, Harm Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > On Monday 09 January 2006 10:51, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: > > > # emerge --ask --verbose gcc> > >> > > These are the packages that I would m

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc wants emul libc.so.6

2006-01-09 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 09 January 2006 13:26, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: > On 1/9/06, Daiajo Tibdixious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/9/06, Harm Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Monday 09 January 2006 10:51, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: > > > > # emerge --ask --verbose gcc > > > > > > > > These are th

[gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc wants emul libc.so.6

2006-01-09 Thread Daiajo Tibdixious
On 1/9/06, Daiajo Tibdixious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/9/06, Harm Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 09 January 2006 10:51, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: > > > # emerge --ask --verbose gcc > > > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > > > Calculating depen

[gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc wants emul libc.so.6

2006-01-09 Thread Daiajo Tibdixious
On 1/9/06, Harm Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 10:51, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: > > # emerge --ask --verbose gcc > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > [ebuild N] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1 (-altivec

Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc wants emul libc.so.6

2006-01-09 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 09 January 2006 10:51, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: > # emerge --ask --verbose gcc > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild N] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1 (-altivec) -bootstrap > -boundschecking -build +fortran -gcj +gtk -harden

Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc wants emul libc.so.6

2006-01-09 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Пнд, 2006-01-09 at 20:51 +1100, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: > # emerge --ask --verbose gcc > fails with this error > /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find /emul/linux/x86/lib/libc.so.6 Try this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-387931-highlight-gcc+libc+6 +emul.html Peter.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Fwd: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 and gnome

2006-01-09 Thread Domingo Suárez
2006/1/9, Jamie Dobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Jamie Dobbs wrote:> Richard Fish wrote:>>> On 1/8/06, Jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>>> I'm still having the same error and cannot work out any way to fix it >>> without removing gnome - which I do not want to do if I can avoid it.>>> Can anyone sugg

[gentoo-amd64] gcc wants emul libc.so.6

2006-01-09 Thread Daiajo Tibdixious
# emerge --ask --verbose gcc These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1 (-altivec) -bootstrap -boundschecking -build +fortran -gcj +gtk -hardened -ip28 -mudflap (-multilib) +multislot (-n32) (-n64) +nls -nocxx -no

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Who downgrades hal and dbus?

2006-01-09 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 09 January 2006 08:34, Michael Ulm wrote: > I played with equery depends, but found no dependency > on the old versions. Any ideas how to find and remove > those dependencies? Probably not the nicest way but you "could" use this: find /var/db/pkg/ -name "*.ebuild" -exec grep sys-apps/dbus