Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 08:34:06 Thanasis wrote: > on 04/19/2011 12:56 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > > Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with > > emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to > > update. > > Can you post the script?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-18 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday 18 April 2011 22:31:38 Harry Putnam wrote: > So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home > lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ > informative logging options? Not familiar with specific types, but I've had best results with the routers

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Cygwin

2011-04-18 Thread Nils Andresen
Hi, I kind of stumbled across http://gentoocygwin.sourceforge.net/ - sounds interesting... Since there is no "News" after 2003 I did not try to install... (need a vm first...) Does anyone know about the project? Is it dead? Nils

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-18 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 04:31:38 Harry Putnam wrote: > So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home > lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ > informative logging options? Have you gone through the documentation to see if there isn't a more verbose

[gentoo-user] gentoo guest vm - vlan support kills eth0

2011-04-18 Thread Adam Carter
If i enable 802.1q kernel support in a gentoo vmware guest and reboot (even as a module which is not loaded), eth0 is no longer available. (ifconfig -a shows nothing). Is this expected?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm up, at long last!

2011-04-18 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 04:35:09 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On 2011-04-19, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Alan Mackenzie writes: > >> I think there's really only two ways to install Linux: you either go the > >> Ubuntu route, where everything's done for you and you accept somebody > >> else's defaults, or y

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Thanasis
on 04/19/2011 12:56 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > > Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with > emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to > update. > > Can you post the script?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm up, at long last!

2011-04-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On 2011-04-19, Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan Mackenzie writes: > >> I think there's really only two ways to install Linux: you either go the >> Ubuntu route, where everything's done for you and you accept somebody >> else's defaults, or you go with Gentoo, where you do everything >> yourself. I thi

[gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-18 Thread Harry Putnam
This is way OT, but this list is such a great resource I suspect the advice gotten here will be more to the point. ( I have posted to a network hardware group as well) I've bumped my home lan router to a gigabit from the old 10/100 (NETGEAR FVS318). I made the move for the gigabit lan ports mainl

[gentoo-user] Re: I'm up, at long last!

2011-04-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Mackenzie writes: > I think there's really only two ways to install Linux: you either go the > Ubuntu route, where everything's done for you and you accept somebody > else's defaults, or you go with Gentoo, where you do everything > yourself. I think anything in the middle, like Debian, jus

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:18:17 -0500, Dale wrote: I might add, he has the -p option in there. It's not going to *do* anything but show if it will work or not. Then a person can adjust the USE settings the correct way and remove the -p option or add -a. I do the later m

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:18:17 -0500, Dale wrote: > I might add, he has the -p option in there. It's not going to *do* > anything but show if it will work or not. Then a person can adjust the > USE settings the correct way and remove the -p option or add -a. I do > the later myself. I hadn't

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:26:06 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: I would do USE="static-libs" emerge -Dup libgcrypt & if that works, add the flag to /etc/portage/package.use . That will also set the USE flag for any other packages in libgcrypt's dependency tree. Add

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:26:06 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > I would do > > USE="static-libs" emerge -Dup libgcrypt > > & if that works, add the flag to /etc/portage/package.use . That will also set the USE flag for any other packages in libgcrypt's dependency tree. Additionally, it will add lib

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:51:32 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your > server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded > files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public > Gentoo mirrors but becau

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:21 on Monday 18 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: > > These are the items that require libgcrypt with static-libs USE flag > > set. Sometimes changing USE flags on thse packages will change the > > dependency requirements. Sometimes it's just somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Paul. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:52:17AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, gentoo. > > When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: > > # emerge --update --deep -p world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in o

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:20:02 +0200, Carlos Sura wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!: [snip] >You should: nano /etc/make.conf > >and add the flag: static-libs > >USE="static-libs" This is not, in the general case, a good idea. This will enable the stati

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Philip Webb
110418 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: > # emerge --update --deep -p world > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > Calculating dependencies... done! > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy > "dev-libs/li

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Carlos Sura
On 18 April 2011 10:21, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, gentoo. > > When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: > > # emerge --update --deep -p world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with U

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, gentoo. When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: # emerge --update --deep -p world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "dev-libs/libgcrypt[

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, gentoo. > > When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: > > # emerge --update --deep -p world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there are no ebuilds bui

[gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, gentoo. When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: # emerge --update --deep -p world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "dev-libs/libgcrypt[static-libs]". !!! One o

Re: [gentoo-user] What is libX11.la, and how do I build it?

2011-04-18 Thread Philip Webb
110418 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I try to emerge, say, gtk+. It fails building the cairo lib. > The build log indicates: > /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory I have root:504 ~> cd /usr/lib64 root:505 lib64> ls libX11* libX11.la libX11.so libX11.so.6 l

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 18 April 2011 16:48:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 18 April 2011 15:51:32 Florian Philipp wrote: > > In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your > > server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded > > files). For downloading files, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 18 April 2011 15:51:32 Florian Philipp wrote: > In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your > server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded > files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public > Gentoo mirrors but because

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 18.04.2011 16:35, schrieb Peter Humphrey: > On Monday 18 April 2011 13:44:45 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:22:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> Has anyone here managed to get http-replicator running on a non-Gentoo >>> box? It would be good to keep a distfiles repository somew

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 18 April 2011 13:44:45 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:22:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Has anyone here managed to get http-replicator running on a non-Gentoo > > box? It would be good to keep a distfiles repository somewhere on the > > LAN, and the box in question is

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:22:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Has anyone here managed to get http-replicator running on a non-Gentoo > box? It would be good to keep a distfiles repository somewhere on the > LAN, and the box in question is supposed to be the LAN server, after > all. Why do you need

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 18 April 2011 02:44:19 Dale wrote: > How long does it take to open it when it gets done? Seconds? Minutes? I was going to check, but now I can't starrtx on that box. Because of the http-replicator problem I mentioned in another thread I decided to throw the book at it and ran "emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 18.04.2011 10:12, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:52:56 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > >>> it's tedious to install things >>> through an intermediary system all the time. The fullsize laptop, when >>> it gets its rebuild over the next week (it's been a windows 2k3 server >>> de

Re: [gentoo-user] What is libX11.la, and how do I build it?

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:35:56 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I try to emerge, say, gtk+. It fails building the cairo lib. The build > log indicates: > > /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory Run: emerge lafilefixer lafilefixer --justfixit Later portage versi

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:52:56 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: >> it's tedious to install things > > through an intermediary system all the time. The fullsize laptop, when > > it gets its rebuild over the next week (it's been a windows 2k3 server > > development system lately) > My strategy for getti

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 18.04.2011 06:53, schrieb Joshua Murphy: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Dale wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> >>> Hello list, >>> >>> How's this for sheer persistence and grit? >>> >>> $ genlop -c >>> >>> Currently merging 321 out of 368 >>> >>> * www-client/chromium-10.0.648.204 >>> >

[gentoo-user] What is libX11.la, and how do I build it?

2011-04-18 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. I try to emerge, say, gtk+. It fails building the cairo lib. The build log indicates: /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory . Looking into lib64, most libraries have versions .a, .la, .so*. What is .la? "file libevtlog.la" says "libtool library

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid1 (continued) mdadm

2011-04-18 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday 15 April 2011 20:46:47 Mark Shields wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Am 15.04.2011 16:56, schrieb James: > > > Hello, > > > > > > New day, and a fresh approach to fixing the raid one install. > > > Following this doc (no lvm no intramfs): > > > http:/