Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 31 Oktober 2008 06:07:12 schrieb ext James: > Well, > > I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry. > > After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I > got in a hurry, did not think and ran: > > emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err > sys-fs/e2fsprogs sys-libs/e2fsprogs

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread András Csányi
2008/10/30 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Donnerstag 30 Oktober 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> On 30 Oct, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have the same 'problem'. Which portage version are you using? >> >> I'm using portage-2.2_rc12 on amd64 hardware. > > same here

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-30 Thread András Csányi
2008/10/31 James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, > > I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry. > > After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I > got in a hurry, did not think and ran: > > emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err > sys-fs/e2fsprogs sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs Hi James!

[gentoo-user] Re: unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-30 Thread James
Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > Well, com_err broken openssl which broke wget with "ssl" USE flag set. > I forgot to mention that part. :) > Disable "ssl" USE flag when you rebuild wget, then you can download > everything else you need to rebuild. When you're done, you can rebuild > wget with

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:38 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:39:10PM -0400, Eric Martin wrote: >> Why not go even easier and use bzcat,bzless,zcat,and zless > > Because bzgrep and many others haven't been written. http://www.bzip.org/bzip2-howto/with-grep.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:38 AM, »Q« <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, >> >> I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry. >> >> After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I >> got in a hurry, did not think and ran: >> >> em

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread felix
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:23:09PM -0700, Andrey Falko wrote: > It does get a little annoying when you want to use grep for all files in the > directory, but nothing a little for loop cannot fix: > > for i in /path/to/dir/*; do echo $i; bzcat $i | grep yay; done Sorry, not good enough. The disk

[gentoo-user] Re: unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-30 Thread »Q«
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, > > I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry. > > After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I > got in a hurry, did not think and ran: > > emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err > sys-fs/e2fsprogs sys-libs/e2

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:07 AM, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, > > I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry. > > After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I > got in a hurry, did not think and ran: > > emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err > sys-fs/e2fsprogs sys-li

[gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-30 Thread James
Well, I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry. After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I got in a hurry, did not think and ran: emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err sys-fs/e2fsprogs sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs So now I cannot emerge anything to fix this. Here I tried (r

Re: [gentoo-user] broken ALSA

2008-10-30 Thread Andrey Vul
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:43 AM, M. Sitorus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no, I did emerge -v. But the asym and empty USE Flag is used on emerge Try -DNv . Sometimes portage is blind to new USE flags / features unless -N or --newuse is used. -- Andrey Vul A: Because it messes up the order in w

Re: [gentoo-user] broken ALSA

2008-10-30 Thread M. Sitorus
no, I did emerge -v. But the asym and empty USE Flag is used on emerge -- Salam, Marc

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Walter Dnes wrote: I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put "resume=" into my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... hibernate: Running /usr/sbin/s2disk ... s2disk: Could not use the resume device (try swapon -a). Reason: No such device ...and backs

[gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-30 Thread Walter Dnes
I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put "resume=" into my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... hibernate: Running /usr/sbin/s2disk ... s2disk: Could not use the resume device (try swapon -a). Reason: No such device ...and backs out gracefully. Accor

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Markos Chandras wrote: From my experience i would recommend to use alsa-in-kernel + alsa-libs + FYI that's alsa-lib not alsa-libs :) might confuse someone reading later. alsa-headers + alsa-utils + alsa-tools This combination works perfect on my 3 gentoo machines -- Iain Buchanan T

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: Iain Buchanan writes: Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: Hi all While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the decompressed form

Re: [gentoo-user] broken ALSA

2008-10-30 Thread Andrey Vul
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:36 PM, M. Sitorus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > unfortunately, my Gentoo box is not connected to Internet ( i'm > writing this from my office :D ) > > Andrey, I've try your advice my alsa still not working. > First I try to put asym after dmix on ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS, but it st

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Andrey Falko
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:40 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:20:40AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > less /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 > > cat /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 | bzip2 -d > > cp /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 ~/; bzip2

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread felix
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:20:40AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > less /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 > cat /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 | bzip2 -d > cp /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 ~/; bzip2 -d ~/blah.doc.bz2 and grep? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. .

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread felix
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:39:10PM -0400, Eric Martin wrote: > Why not go even easier and use bzcat,bzless,zcat,and zless Because bzgrep and many others haven't been written. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket sur

Re: [gentoo-user] broken ALSA

2008-10-30 Thread M. Sitorus
unfortunately, my Gentoo box is not connected to Internet ( i'm writing this from my office :D ) Andrey, I've try your advice my alsa still not working. First I try to put asym after dmix on ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS, but it still not working. And then I run emerge -pv alsa-lib, and look at the USE Flag. I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:39:10 -0400, Eric Martin wrote: > Why not go even easier and use bzcat,bzless,zcat,and zless On HTML documentation? -- Neil Bothwick Bury a lawyer 12 feet under, because deep down they're nice. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-30 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Markos Chandras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From my experience i would recommend to use alsa-in-kernel + alsa-libs + > alsa-headers + alsa-utils + alsa-tools > > This combination works perfect on my 3 gentoo machines All... *thinks a moment* 6 of mine as well. -

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Albert Hopkins writes: >> , >> | % emerge --info libxcb >> | Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.2, >> glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) > [blah] >> Any ideas why PORTAGE_COMPRESS_* aren't set on my box. > Because you haven't set them. Therefore they tak

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Iain Buchanan writes: > Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: >> Hi all >> >> While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( >> /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now >> I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the >> decompressed form, hmm...? > why

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-30 Thread Markos Chandras
On Friday 31 October 2008 01:04:42 Andrey Vul wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Pupino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > i was used to intall alsa-lib and co. and use tools like alsamixer to > > manage the audio on my gentoo; now i've tryied to switch to the > > in-kernel way. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Eric Martin
Why not go even easier and use bzcat,bzless,zcat,and zless On 10/30/08, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> , >> | % emerge --info libxcb >> | Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.2, >> glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) > [blah] > >> Any ideas why

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-30 Thread Andrey Vul
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Pupino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > i was used to intall alsa-lib and co. and use tools like alsamixer to > manage the audio on my gentoo; now i've tryied to switch to the > in-kernel way. > I've built the relevant part into the kernel, no module, but now

Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

2008-10-30 Thread Mark Knecht
Good ideas all. Thanks. I can do some work setting things up and then not test it until I have my dad sitting in front of the machine. He can hit Ctrl-D. We've seen that one before. Cheers, Mark On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:12 PM, BRM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That might work for some scenerios;

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
> , > | % emerge --info libxcb > | Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.2, > glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) [blah] > Any ideas why PORTAGE_COMPRESS_* aren't set on my box. Because you haven't set them. Therefore they take the defaults. BTW, 'emerge --

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-30 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I usually use emerge -p > file in order to see the difference in > dependencies from testing USE flags. > I would always choose -pN over -aN. > > Where's the portage to-do list? > If you can find it, add these two items:

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: Hi all While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the decompressed form, hmm...? why? less /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah

[gentoo-user] alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-30 Thread Pupino
Hi all, i was used to intall alsa-lib and co. and use tools like alsamixer to manage the audio on my gentoo; now i've tryied to switch to the in-kernel way. I've built the relevant part into the kernel, no module, but now i'm stuck. If i try to emerge alsa-utils (wich has alsamixer) it pulls in als

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Thanks Albert and Daniel for the replies. Daniel Pielmeier writes: > 2008/10/30 Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( >> /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now >> I'm wondering is there anyway to install that

Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

2008-10-30 Thread BRM
That might work for some scenerios; however, it wouldn't likely for the recent e2fsprogs-lib/ss/com_err fiasco because the booting system would be unable to execute mount and wait until the user either entered the root password for maintenance mode or pressed "CTRL+D" to continue. (Yep, I hosed

Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:44:53 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> Unless you have a kernel panic, and the system is just halted. Does >> anyone know if there is something one could do about that? > > Isn't there a kernel option

Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

2008-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:44:53 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > Unless you have a kernel panic, and the system is just halted. Does > anyone know if there is something one could do about that? Isn't there a kernel option to force a reboot in the event of a panic? -- Neil Bothwick Death to all fana

Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

2008-10-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > Having a second install is a reasonable idea. I suppose I can probably > install that remotely but I cannot test it remotely (AFAIK) without > someone handy to choose the right line in the grub menu... You can use the grub-set-default command to boot another than the default

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound issue - can't use /dev/dsp

2008-10-30 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ Andrey Vul [gentoo-user] [Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:01:39PM -0400]: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Andrew MacKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have tried without this asound.conf and see the same issue. > Try using alsaconf as root. alsaconf ran fine. I stopped 'alsa' (and noted that

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Paul Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Donnerstag 30 Oktober 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >>> On 30 Oct, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > I have the same 'pr

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Donnerstag 30 Oktober 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> On 30 Oct, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have the same 'problem'. Which portage version are you using? >> >> I'm using portage-2.2_rc12 on a

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 30 Oktober 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 30 Oct, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have the same 'problem'. Which portage version are you using? > > I'm using portage-2.2_rc12 on amd64 hardware. same here. Would nice to know the version from peoples without the probl

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

2008-10-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
>> The real problem is when you type >> float real_number = 4e10; >> int integer = real_number; >> If your integer can only hold values up to 2^31 - 1 , the behavior of >> the above code is undefined. >> In a language like Python, everything either behaves as you intended, >> of throws an exception

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

2008-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:54 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > To back myself up: > > > > > > #!/usr/bin/python > > > > import random > > > > for i in range(1,1): > >if random.random() < 0.001: > >print "rare" > >if malformed < beast: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

2008-10-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> To back myself up: > > > #!/usr/bin/python > > import random > > for i in range(1,1): >if random.random() < 0.001: >print "rare" >if malformed < beast: >print "kick me in the ..." >else: >print "whatever"

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 30 Oct, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Hi, > > I have the same 'problem'. Which portage version are you using? I'm using portage-2.2_rc12 on amd64 hardware. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

2008-10-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:46:30 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: > >> > It's a bit late now, but installing a second distro, or a bare stage 3 >> > gentoo, as a dual boot so you can still access the machoine if it >> > breaks. As

Re: [gentoo-user] more than one package directory ?

2008-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:25:37 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I'd like to use more than one package directory, e.g. > /usr/portage/packages plus plus all stuff on a DVD. Mount (or symlink) the DVD within the packages directory. -- Neil Bothwick Member, National Association For Tagline As

Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

2008-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:46:30 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > It's a bit late now, but installing a second distro, or a bare stage 3 > > gentoo, as a dual boot so you can still access the machoine if it > > breaks. As an alternative, send the user a GRML CD and get them to > > boot that if things

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound issue - can't use /dev/dsp

2008-10-30 Thread Andrey Vul
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Andrew MacKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My MythTV Gentoo box has recently started having issues recording sound. > The TV tuner re-plays audio through the "mic" interface on my soundcard. > It has worked for months, but now MythTV can't read anything from /de

[gentoo-user] Sound issue - can't use /dev/dsp

2008-10-30 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
My MythTV Gentoo box has recently started having issues recording sound. The TV tuner re-plays audio through the "mic" interface on my soundcard. It has worked for months, but now MythTV can't read anything from /dev/dsp. Any device that uses ALSA directly seems to work fine (like TVTime which pla

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, I have the same 'problem'. Which portage version are you using?

Re: [gentoo-user] broken ALSA

2008-10-30 Thread Andrey Vul
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:53 AM, M. Sitorus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, thanks. I'll try that later. I'm not on my gentoo box right now > There's always SSH... -- Andrey Vul A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 30 Oct, Michele Schiavo wrote: > Il giorno gio, 30/10/2008 alle 09.13 +0100, Helmut Jarausch ha scritto: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a (nearly) identical Gentoo system on several machines. >> On all machines except one, there is a directory >> >> /usr/portage/packages/All >> >> which contains syml

Re: [gentoo-user] more than one package directory ?

2008-10-30 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to use more than one package directory, e.g. > /usr/portage/packages plus plus all stuff on a DVD. > > Is there a Gentoo specific way to do so or > do I need an overlay file system like aufs ? > > Many th

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/10/30 Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( > /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now > I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the > decompressed form, hmm...? I tink there is the PO

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 19:13 +0530, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: > While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( > /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now > I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the > decompressed form, hmm...? See the POR

Re: [gentoo-user] A question about emerge --info

2008-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 13:43 +0100, Heiko Wundram wrote: > Again, this is utter bullshit. Python doesn't have a "shoddy" implementation > of libc_ver(), it just doesn't give you what you expect it to give you (it's > not a package manager, for gods sake), but rather what's of actual interest >

[gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Hi all While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the decompressed form, hmm...? Thanks Ashish Shukla -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ ww

Re: [gentoo-user] A question about emerge --info

2008-10-30 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Thursday 30 October 2008 13:26:27 schrieb Albert Hopkins: > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 20:47 -0400, Joshua Murphy wrote: > > Hrm. I know just enough about python to get myself in trouble here... > > but it looks like a python bug in magicking up the libc name and > > version... but the below is WAY o

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread Michele Schiavo
Il giorno gio, 30/10/2008 alle 09.13 +0100, Helmut Jarausch ha scritto: > Hi, > > I have a (nearly) identical Gentoo system on several machines. > On all machines except one, there is a directory > > /usr/portage/packages/All > > which contains symlinks to the packages in the specific > directo

Re: [gentoo-user] A question about emerge --info

2008-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 20:47 -0400, Joshua Murphy wrote: > > Hrm. I know just enough about python to get myself in trouble here... > but it looks like a python bug in magicking up the libc name and > version... but the below is WAY outside my level of practice with > python (it'll take re-reading a

Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

2008-10-30 Thread KH
Allan Gottlieb schrieb: > At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:43:38 -0400 James Homuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Mark Knecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [snip] >> >> E1fsprogs and com_err have apparently been merged into the new package >> portage wants t

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

2008-10-30 Thread Dirk Uys
To back myself up: #!/usr/bin/python import random for i in range(1,1): if random.random() < 0.001: print "rare" if malformed < beast: print "kick me in the ..." else: print "whatever" Regards Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

2008-10-30 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The real problem is when you type > float real_number = 4e10; > int integer = real_number; > If your integer can only hold values up to 2^31 - 1 , the behavior of > the above code is undefined. > In a langua

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 19:59:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: > A last note on emerge's output, especially with blockers: the time spent > to read all the portage pages (several times) is time very well spent. I > recommend when next you get blockers, is to rerun emerge with -t and take > note of wha

Re: [gentoo-user] A question about emerge --info

2008-10-30 Thread Geralt
Hi, I don't know if this is clear by now, but apparently the glibc version which is printed is the glibc version used to built python, because >libcname,libcversion = libc_ver(sys.executable) in this line the version is determined of sys.executable which is the python interpreter used to run the sc

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 30 Oct, András Csányi wrote: > >> 2008/10/30 Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a (nearly) identical Gentoo system on several machines. >>> On all machines except one, there is a directory >>> >>> /usr/portage/packages/All >>> >>> whic

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread András Csányi
2008/10/30 Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 30 Oct, András Csányi wrote: >> 2008/10/30 Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a (nearly) identical Gentoo system on several machines. >>> On all machines except one, there is a directory >>> >>> /usr/portage/packages/All

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 30 Oct, András Csányi wrote: > 2008/10/30 Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi, >> >> I have a (nearly) identical Gentoo system on several machines. >> On all machines except one, there is a directory >> >> /usr/portage/packages/All >> >> which contains symlinks to the packages in the spec

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread András Csányi
2008/10/30 Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I have a (nearly) identical Gentoo system on several machines. > On all machines except one, there is a directory > > /usr/portage/packages/All > > which contains symlinks to the packages in the specific > directories. This is quite comforta

[gentoo-user] more than one package directory ?

2008-10-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to use more than one package directory, e.g. /usr/portage/packages plus plus all stuff on a DVD. Is there a Gentoo specific way to do so or do I need an overlay file system like aufs ? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen Univ

[gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a (nearly) identical Gentoo system on several machines. On all machines except one, there is a directory /usr/portage/packages/All which contains symlinks to the packages in the specific directories. This is quite comfortable when copying the most recent packages. How can I set up Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] hibernate fails, "s2disk" not found

2008-10-30 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:27:39PM +0100, Pint?r Tibor wrote >>> [d530][root][~] emerge -pv s2disk >>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: >>> Calculating dependencies | >>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to