Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:57 AM, David Seifert wrote: > On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 08:55 +0100, Lars Wendler wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 08:48:56 +0300 Eray Aslan wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 10:20:56PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: * Posting to the list will only be possible to Ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Providing a `service` scripts that speaks OpenRC and systemd

2017-09-30 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 12:20 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 04:27:31PM -0500, Austin English wrote >> While having the pleasure of working with some proprietary software >> recently, I was asked to run `service foo restart`, and was surprised to >> see: >> foobar ~ # service f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

2017-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Just have a table somewhere (wiki?) to track who is using what UID/GID > and encode those defaults into the ebuild that creates those users. FYI, how Debian and Fedora do it: Debian policy https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersy

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-26 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > requirement for udev to "settle" before it's startup completes. The its startup

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-20 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 15:21 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> but it looks like, unlike for grub-legacy, you need a grub config file >> ("/boot/grub{,2}/grub.cfg") to exist. > > That is reasonable, to cre

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-19 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > On Tue, 2016-10-18 at 12:45 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:54 AM, M. J. Everitt wrote: >>> On 11/10/16 15:42, Tom H wrote: >>>> >>>> You can use exactly the same text in 40_gru

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:54 AM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 11/10/16 15:42, Tom H wrote: >> >> You can use exactly the same text in 40_grub that you'd use in >> grub.cfg and have the latter generated. > > That's a useful tit-bit .. thanks! You're

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-11 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 12:05 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 03:45:11AM +0100, M. J. Everitt wrote: >> On 09/10/16 00:57, Ben Kohler wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Tom H >> <mailto:tomh0...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> On T

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-11 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Oct 8, 2016 10:33 AM, "Tom H" wrote: >> >> Shouldn't "timeout=5", "default=0", "gfxmode=auto", and >> "gfxpayload=keep" be prefixed with "set "? > > Using the set keyword for variable assignments is optional. Many thanks.

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-08 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > I have added an example grub.cfg to the gentoo repository. > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ec629c23a6e8cf6c18fa51d69ae11932c7ada3cc > > Please feel free to commit any obvious improvements or corrections. If > you hav

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-08 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:34 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > You don't have to use grub-mkconfig. You can write /boot/grub/grub.cfg > by hand if you want, and it appears that the syntax is documented in > the grub info pages. If you write "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" by hand and run grub-mkconfig by mistak

Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE

2016-08-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:16 PM, james wrote: > On 08/10/2016 04:07 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> If LXQT's too bloated for you, try Lumina: >> >> https://lumina-desktop.org/ >> >> There's an ebuild. > > I did a quick search and did not find a co

Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE

2016-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 5:06 PM, james wrote: > > I have not had the time to migrate things to lxqt, despite tinkering > around with it. The next system I install, will go direct to lxqt. I > left KDE for many bloated reasons. I sure hope lxqt is light weight, > easy to setup and config and stable

Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

2016-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Richard Yao wrote: > On Apr 6, 2016, at 3:42 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 6:15:58 AM CEST, Richard Yao wrote: >>> >>> Here are the violations: >>> >>> http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html#binEssentialUserCommandBinari