Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-27 Thread Thanasis
on 12/27/2007 11:05 PM Matthew R. Lee wrote the following: > On Monday 24 December 2007 19:36:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:28:37 +, Stroller wrote: >>> It might be as simple as completing the `dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb` >>> and then using `fdisk` to delete the last partiti

Re: OT: [gentoo-user] modifying timezone

2007-12-27 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Hi Dale, > > Quoting Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >Norberto Bensa wrote: > > >Hello list, > > > > > >< SNIP > (damn politicians and all their crazy ideas...) > > > >Don't feel bad, we got some of those too. The reason we even have DST > >changes wit

[gentoo-user] Jeff Bilbro is out of the office.

2007-12-27 Thread jbilbro
I will be out of the office starting 12/27/2007 and will not return until 01/04/2008. I will respond to your message when I return. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Any reason to keep older gcc?

2007-12-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On Dec 28, 2007 12:37 AM, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My current version of gcc appears to be 4.12 > > [m3000][waltdnes][~] gcc --version > gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.1) > ...snip disclaimer... > > "emerge -p --depclean" lists the usual suspects, which I know not to > unmer

[gentoo-user] Re: Any reason to keep older gcc?

2007-12-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-28, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would there be any reason to keep the older gcc 3.46? I'm not > familiar enough with Gentoo "under-the-hood" to decide. There is at least one package (e.g. Qemu) that won't build with gcc 4.x (at least that's been my experience). -- Gra

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 20:41 +, Paul Stear wrote: > I am using ext2 on the usb backup disk. I'm not sure if I understand you > correctly. What do you mean by Use --one-file-system ? RTM :) "This tells rsync to avoid crossing a filesystem boundary when recursing. This does not limit the use

Re: [gentoo-user] perl's Chatbot::Eliza

2007-12-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 20:54 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 23 December 2007, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2007 schrieb Uwe Thiem: > > > any idea whether portage contains perl's Chatbot::Eliza. And if so, where > > > I can find it? > > > > > > I looked around in portage but coul

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup

2007-12-27 Thread Michael George
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 02:19:14PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 10:36:16PM -0500, Michael George wrote: > > > I do have this error from startx, though: > > Couldn't establish a connection to :9202: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname > > ':9202' > > I hate to offer so pri

[gentoo-user] Any reason to keep older gcc?

2007-12-27 Thread Walter Dnes
My current version of gcc appears to be 4.12 [m3000][waltdnes][~] gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.1) ...snip disclaimer... "emerge -p --depclean" lists the usual suspects, which I know not to unmerge. The following entry has me wondering... sys-devel/gcc selected: 3.4.

Re: [gentoo-user] brltty

2007-12-27 Thread henkg
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 12:58:06AM +0100, mattias wrote: > Can i install gentoo with braille support in the installation? I normally do this through a running gentoo system: 1. boot up the live cd 2. passwd /etc/init.d/sshd start and than I log into this live cd from another box that has brlt

[gentoo-user] Example Kernel conf for versatile iptables setup

2007-12-27 Thread reader
Where can I see a condensed overview of what needs to be set in the kernel for maximum flexibility using iptables and snort? This google search: site:gentoo.org "kernel settings" iptables Turns up a number of shortish discussions in the forums but nothing in actual gentoo documentation.

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge failing on ebuild [econf failed]

2007-12-27 Thread reader
Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * failed to run configure >> * >> > > It seems, your system tries to use a compiler it doesn't have. Run > "gcc-config -l". Then "gcc-config x" where x is the number of a working > config (most probably "1"). Thanks Florian. I'll remember that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge failing on ebuild [econf failed]

2007-12-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 13:45 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It didn't look like it. > I don't have it now since I've found I the switch to minimal has > caused my gcc to not be ready to compile binaries. > > I'm in there now with live cd trying to fix things up. > > I copied the livecd gcc bi

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-27 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Monday 24 December 2007 19:36:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:28:37 +, Stroller wrote: > > It might be as simple as completing the `dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb` > > and then using `fdisk` to delete the last partition, then recreate it > > with the same start point (and a late

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge failing on ebuild [econf failed]

2007-12-27 Thread reader
Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I've pared down my system to a minimal state. >> >> emerge --depclean returns no actions needed, but I think it may have >> gotten a litte too exuberant. >> >> revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild python but the emerge fails here:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failing on ebuild [econf failed]

2007-12-27 Thread Randy Barlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've pared down my system to a minimal state. > > emerge --depclean returns no actions needed, but I think it may have > gotten a litte too exuberant. > > revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild python but the emerge fails here: > Source unpacked.

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-27 Thread reader
Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > Also I am getting a lot of errors and the backup is finishing early and > not producing the stats. i.e. > > rsync: > symlink > "/mnt/external/OneFileSystemBackup/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libopcodes.so" > -> "/usr/lib32/binutils/i686-pc-linux-

[gentoo-user] emerge failing on ebuild [econf failed]

2007-12-27 Thread reader
I've pared down my system to a minimal state. emerge --depclean returns no actions needed, but I think it may have gotten a litte too exuberant. revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild python but the emerge fails here: >>> Source unpacked. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-27 Thread Paul Stear
> Neil has handled this... I wanted to include the rsync syntax to > collect only directories... full or empty: > > So to collect all the directories regardless of your excludes > put this before any excludes: > --include=/**/ > > The trailing slash confines it to direcotories only. Thanks for

Re: [gentoo-user] how would I use device names in fstab?

2007-12-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Dec 2007, at 09:38, Thufir wrote: I think that the fstab needs to be changed to use device names, but I'm not sure what that means: ... hda: WDC WD800BB-22JHC0, ATA DISK drive hdb: Maxtor 2F030L0, ATA DISK drive hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148C, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: CD-RW CDR-6S52, AT

OT: [gentoo-user] modifying timezone

2007-12-27 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hi Dale, Quoting Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Norberto Bensa wrote: Hello list, < SNIP > (damn politicians and all their crazy ideas...) Don't feel bad, we got some of those too. The reason we even have DST changes with everyone I ask. I have no a problem with DST at all. The problem is how

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying timezone

2007-12-27 Thread Dale
Norberto Bensa wrote: > Hello list, > > < SNIP > (damn politicians and all their crazy ideas...) > > > Many thanks in advance, > Norberto > > > > > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > Don't feel bad,

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-27 Thread purple
still no solution? :\ -- purple..

Re: [gentoo-user] how would I use device names in fstab?

2007-12-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2007 schrieb Thufir: > I think that the fstab needs to be changed to use device names, but I'm > not sure what that means: > > arrakis ~ # cat /etc/fstab > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom autonoauto,user 0 0 > /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 autonoaut

[gentoo-user] how would I use device names in fstab?

2007-12-27 Thread Thufir
I think that the fstab needs to be changed to use device names, but I'm not sure what that means: arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # dmesg |grep hd Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/ dev/hdb3 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio id