[gentoo-user] Subtle Denial of Medical Treatment by the Singapore Government for Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)

2015-03-14 Thread Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Dear Sir/Madam, Please refer to the attached PDF document. It is a very important letter. Please read the letter very carefully, word by word. The letter details how the Singapore Government led by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has ***SUBTLY*** denied me medical treatment for ***SUSPECTED**

Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-03-14 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 15/03/2015 00:34, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >>> >>> But let's consider this: what level of chaos would arise if @system were >>> dropped? Surely the problem of tracking all deps would

Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid init thingy. It's on my nerve, again.

2015-03-14 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm going to try to keep my cool but ya know. I built me a updated > kernel, 3.18.9 to be more precise. A few weeks ago dracut was updated. > It went to version dracut-041. Well, it wouldn't build anything. It > spit out a bunch of stuf

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-14 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > I'm not sure how to put everything dev-java into a set; so that > > it will updated but not depclean out those packages. > A set can be simply a list of packages in a file in /etc/portage/sets. Ok so I created this file (644): /etc/portage/sets/dev-j

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2015 01:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I delete package.use and have no backup >> >> Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the >> long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get past the blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2015 01:39, James wrote: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > >> That is the process I'm using. >> I'm looking for an easier way > > > Surely an admin_wizard has backups? > > At least of /etc/? Um, err, yeah, well, ahem. No backups on this host. I forgot -- Alan McKinno

[gentoo-user] Stupid init thingy. It's on my nerve, again.

2015-03-14 Thread Dale
Howdy, I'm going to try to keep my cool but ya know. I built me a updated kernel, 3.18.9 to be more precise. A few weeks ago dracut was updated. It went to version dracut-041. Well, it wouldn't build anything. It spit out a bunch of stuff about not finding things that I know is installed such

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 23:03:26 + (UTC), James wrote: > > Why not simply create a set containing all the ebuilds you are > > experimenting with? > > I'm not sure how to put everything dev-java into a set; so that > it will updated but not depclean out those packages. > > Gotta quick example?

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I delete package.use and have no backup > > Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the > long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get past the blocking > USE, then see all the flags that portage thinks

Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-03-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I don't follow. How do virtuals connect with @system? > Are you suggesting separating @system out into several more narrowly > defined virtuals? Essentially. > > I'm undecided on the wisdom of that approach. My own preference would be > t

[gentoo-user] Re: Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > That is the process I'm using. > I'm looking for an easier way Surely an admin_wizard has backups? At least of /etc/? James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-14 Thread Mick
On Saturday 14 Mar 2015 23:03:26 James wrote: > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > > Today, I have many many ugly and hacked java projects > > > on my "munge" system. I have spend countless hours hacking > > > at java; so I do not wish for any dev-java codes to be removed > > > by --depclean

Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2015 00:34, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> >> But let's consider this: what level of chaos would arise if @system were >> dropped? Surely the problem of tracking all deps would get so out of >> hand so quickly, that @system or something e

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2015 00:36, Simon Thelen wrote: > On 15-03-15 at 00:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in >> Gentoo: >> >> I delete package.use and have no backup >> >> Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the >> l

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-14 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > Today, I have many many ugly and hacked java projects > > on my "munge" system. I have spend countless hours hacking > > at java; so I do not wish for any dev-java codes to be removed > > by --depclean, but the others can be cleaned up. > Why not simply

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Simon Thelen
On 15-03-15 at 00:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in > Gentoo: > > I delete package.use and have no backup > > Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the > long way round - repeatedly running emerge world,

Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-03-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > But let's consider this: what level of chaos would arise if @system were > dropped? Surely the problem of tracking all deps would get so out of > hand so quickly, that @system or something equivalent would immediately > be reinstated? > I

[gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in Gentoo: I delete package.use and have no backup Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get past the blocking USE, then see all the flags that p

Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/03/2015 23:49, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Correct. With most Linux package managers, everything is a package and >> everything has strict dependencies. You install the bits you want and >> the PM installs the bits it needs. >> >> Gentoo is o

Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-03-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Correct. With most Linux package managers, everything is a package and > everything has strict dependencies. You install the bits you want and > the PM installs the bits it needs. > > Gentoo is one of the very few PMs that even has a concept o

[gentoo-user] Re: lisp variant for ARM (ARM926EJ-S rev 5) ?

2015-03-14 Thread James
gmx.de> writes: > I am looking for a LISP version for my embedded system. Hello Meino, app-emulation/armv8-fast-model It might be useful to test your lisp code for arm on this platform, for faster work, before compiling and executing natively on your more humble arm resources, particularly

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 16:39:58 + (UTC), James wrote: > Ok, so I use this syntax (in make.conf) to protect gentoo-source > kernels, as I like to keep kernel codes around for quite a while: > > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--exclude gentoo-sources" > > It works just fine. > > Today, I have many many ug

[gentoo-user] Re: lisp variant for ARM (ARM926EJ-S rev 5) ?

2015-03-14 Thread James
gmx.de> writes: > I am looking for a LISP version for my embedded system. # eix -Cc dev-lisp Shows a list and common description. There is another tool/syntax, that I cannot remeber atm, but it filters for the arch type. Perhaps a younger mind will help out on the syntax ==> ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/03/2015 20:53, Matti Nykyri wrote: >> On Mar 14, 2015, at 12:47, German wrote: >> >> On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 10:33:59 + >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:08:34 -0400, German wrote: >>> > Forget about "chmod 770". Better do a "chmod g+rw". :-) Tried it, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-14 Thread Matti Nykyri
> On Mar 14, 2015, at 12:47, German wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 10:33:59 + > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:08:34 -0400, German wrote: >> Forget about "chmod 770". Better do a "chmod g+rw". :-) >>> >>> Tried it, it also doesn't stay permanently. OK, no solution

[gentoo-user] lisp variant for ARM (ARM926EJ-S rev 5) ?

2015-03-14 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, I am looking for a LISP version for my embedded system. I tried CLISP and the compilation of the ffcall-package fails do to some (embedded?) assembler codes... Does anyone know of a Lisp variant (near CLISP), which successfully compiles on ARM architecture (ARM926EJ-S rev 5)? Best regards

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-14 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:08 AM, German wrote: > On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 01:16:32 +0100 wrote: >> wrote: >>> >>> So it seems that after login you first have to chmod 770 the tty >>> before you do a su - user (user have to be in group tty of course). >> >> Forget about "chmod 770". Better do a "chmod

[gentoo-user] depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-14 Thread James
Howdy, Ok, so I use this syntax (in make.conf) to protect gentoo-source kernels, as I like to keep kernel codes around for quite a while: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--exclude gentoo-sources" It works just fine. Today, I have many many ugly and hacked java projects on my "munge" system. I have spend c

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-14 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:14 PM, wrote: > wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> On Friday 13 March 2015 23:28:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: I have this in /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules: SUBSYSTEM=="tty", KERNEL=="tty[0-9]*", GROUP="tty", MODE="0620" >>> >>> # grep tty /lib

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/03/2015 14:50, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi Alan, > > ...finally... :) > > I found the one application, which creates all this mess: > media-sound/sonic-visualiser > > I removed that one (emerge -C) and everything works. > It seems, that that package is in conflict with the 'rest of the

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Samstag, 14. März 2015, 13:51:03 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Andreas K. Huettel [15-03-14 13:48]: > > Am Samstag, 14. März 2015, 08:36:16 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > > > Hi, > > > > > > emerge hits me: > > > > > > Whiletrying to reolve a

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Meino . Cramer
Andreas K. Huettel [15-03-14 13:48]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Am Samstag, 14. März 2015, 08:36:16 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > > Hi, > > > > emerge hits me: > > > > Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild > > gives me this: > > > > em

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Meino . Cramer
Alan McKinnon [15-03-14 10:39]: > On 14/03/2015 11:10, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Alan McKinnon [15-03-14 09:48]: > >> On 14/03/2015 09:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> emerge hits me: > >>> > >>> Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild > >>> giv

Re: [gentoo-user] Make the user the member of portage group or not?

2015-03-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Freitag, 13. März 2015, 10:08:16 schrieb German: > Question is in the subject line. Another question I have is there any point > to use other frambuffer device ( I currently use efifb) and I am thinking > to use fb for my radeon r4 graphics in hop

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Samstag, 14. März 2015, 08:36:16 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi, > > emerge hits me: > > Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild > gives me this: > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/solid:4". > (d

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-14 Thread German
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 10:33:59 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:08:34 -0400, German wrote: > > > > Forget about "chmod 770". Better do a "chmod g+rw". :-) > > > > Tried it, it also doesn't stay permanently. OK, no solution :( > > The correct solution is a udev rule, but it a

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:08:34 -0400, German wrote: > > Forget about "chmod 770". Better do a "chmod g+rw". :-) > > Tried it, it also doesn't stay permanently. OK, no solution :( The correct solution is a udev rule, but it appears that something may be overriding that when you login. A kludgy so

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-14 Thread German
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 01:16:32 +0100 wrote: > wrote: > > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:16:28 -0400, German wrote: > > > > > > > after searching, I found the following solution to chmod tty1, > > > > like so: chmod o+rw /dev/tty1 and this worked, I was able to use > >

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/03/2015 11:10, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Alan McKinnon [15-03-14 09:48]: >> On 14/03/2015 09:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> emerge hits me: >>> >>> Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild >>> gives me this: >>> >>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Meino . Cramer
Alan McKinnon [15-03-14 09:48]: > On 14/03/2015 09:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > emerge hits me: > > > > Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild > > gives me this: > > > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/solid:4". > > (dependency req

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/03/2015 09:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > emerge hits me: > > Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild > gives me this: > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/solid:4". > (dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild" [argument]) > > emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Meino . Cramer
Dale [15-03-14 09:20]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > emerge hits me: > > > > Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild > > gives me this: > > > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/solid:4". > > (dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild" [ar

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > emerge hits me: > > Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild > gives me this: > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/solid:4". > (dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild" [argument]) > > emerge itself can be called wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-14 Thread Mick
On Saturday 14 Mar 2015 00:24:30 Mick wrote: > On Friday 13 Mar 2015 22:24:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:54:01 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > > IIRC, there are ebuilds for ddrescue, photorec, and testdisk. > > > > There's also app-cdr/dvdisaster. > > Thank you all. dd

[gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, emerge hits me: Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild gives me this: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/solid:4". (dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild" [argument]) emerge itself can be called without that error. How can an argument to a com