Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Nick Rout
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:10:22 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: I am hoping that someone can provide me with resources - examples and/or a walkthrough would be especially helpful. I realize that the Gentoo team can only do so much and carefully test each package before pu

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman archives are not written anymore - why??

2007-03-11 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:24:21AM +0100, Alexis Lahouze wrote: > Hi, > I know there are basic questions but: > - do you have any free space on your fs? Yes, enough for now (>70MB, it's text only msgs). > - is the destination folder for mailman writable for the user or the > group which ex

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild gcc-3.4.6-r2 error

2007-03-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 03:00:53PM +, Andrew Dean wrote > I have managed to get around > this problem by downloading the gdc-0.23-src.tar.bz2 file from my local > mirror (e.g. http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/distfiles) to the > /usr/portage/distfiles folder. When I then tried the update world

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiz keeps putting titlebars under gnome-panel

2007-03-11 Thread C Lee Davis
Mark David Dumlao wrote: I have a button on my desktop that runs compiz-start if compiz is off and metacity --replace if compiz is off. I'm having fun playing wtih this thing except one annoying feature is when I switch from metacity to compiz all existing windows are bumped up by one titlebar

[gentoo-user] Compiz keeps putting titlebars under gnome-panel

2007-03-11 Thread Mark David Dumlao
I have a button on my desktop that runs compiz-start if compiz is off and metacity --replace if compiz is off. I'm having fun playing wtih this thing except one annoying feature is when I switch from metacity to compiz all existing windows are bumped up by one titlebar's worth. this means that a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 11 March 2007 15:01:27 Steve Long wrote: > > I don't know what you mean by making Portage recognize the software > > installed this way. Do you want Portage to be able to uninstall and/or > > upgrade this software? If so, the simple answer is you it can't do > > that. You have to manage t

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and device ownership

2007-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:07:00 +0100, paulie.x wrote: > Yes I'm in plugdev group. Problem is that I'm owner of the /dev/sdc > block device but owner and group of link that udev creates is root. OK, instead of SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", ATTRS{model}=="LYRA_MPHR2301_EU", OWNER="user", SYMLINK+="lyra" do

Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov writes: > You most likely want to install that software in /usr/local as per > Gentoo's filesystem layout [1]. The way you can do that with > autotoolized software is like this: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local > make > make install > > I don't know what you mean by m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: adesklets

2007-03-11 Thread Rodrigo Lazo
On 3/11/07, Rodrigo Lazo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On 3/9/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 09 March 2007 05:25, Wayne Oliver wrote: > > > If you select test from the menu it should show the desklet on screen > > you can now move it around, play with it etc. > > Exit the deskl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: adesklets

2007-03-11 Thread Rodrigo Lazo
Hi, On 3/9/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 05:25, Wayne Oliver wrote: > If you select test from the menu it should show the desklet on screen > you can now move it around, play with it etc. > Exit the desklet re run the > > $/path/to/calendar/Calender.py > > This tim

[gentoo-user] Re: A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Long
Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: > On 3/10/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in >> *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the >> Portage tree at all. I would like to compile and install them in such

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and device ownership

2007-03-11 Thread paulie.x
Dne ne 11. březen 2007 09:45 Neil Bothwick napsal(a): > On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:51:56 +0100, paulie.x wrote: > > I created new user and just changed OWNER in 10-local.rules to new > > username. Now when I plug in mp3 player it created device node > > (example) /dev/sdc and rightly I'm owner of this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: adesklets

2007-03-11 Thread Neal McConachie
Mick said the following: > Thank you all for your help, > > It seems that there is something wrong with the fonts(?) I have managed to > launch weatherforecast which works fine, but calendar and volume do not. I > tried testing them and this is what I get: > > raise ADESKLETSError(4,me

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID

2007-03-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 10 March 2007, mwq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] RAID': > Imagine such a situation: I have two > hard drives but drive A is twice faster when reading and writing then > drive B. I want to make RAID 0 using A and B. Why are the stripes sizes > on both drives excacly the

Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:10:22 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > I am hoping that someone can provide me with resources - examples > > and/or a walkthrough would be especially helpful. I realize that the > > Gentoo team can only do so much and carefully test each package > > before putting it in

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and device ownership

2007-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:51:56 +0100, paulie.x wrote: > I created new user and just changed OWNER in 10-local.rules to new > username. Now when I plug in mp3 player it created device node > (example) /dev/sdc and rightly I'm owner of this file but I'm not owner > of the link so I cannot mount it lik