Re: [gentoo-user] src_install: dobin failed while merging ebuild

2024-11-16 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, On 17/11/24 17:22, whiteman808 wrote: > > I need help with writing ebuild. Ebuild fails to merge. > Necessary information is located in attachments. I haven't actually built this, but if dobin is failing after this step: > cp $WORK/b001/exe/a.out goimapnotify Where is goimapnotify actually

[gentoo-user] librsvg fails to install

2024-11-16 Thread Philip Webb
/virtual/rust has been masked & I've been updating pkgs which require it. One of them is /gnome-base/librsvg , but when I try to update it, I get : warning: `librsvg` (lib) generated 2 warnings Running `/opt/rust-bin-1.81.0/bin/rustc --crate-name librsvg_c --edition=2021 librsvg-c/src/lib

Re: [gentoo-user] librsvg fails to install

2024-11-16 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 11/17/24 1:43 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > I've searched the bug list for 'librsvg', but nothing seems relevant. > Can anyone suggest a solution ? -- I can post more info, if needed. Portage told you which info to post when asking for help. Please include this information (and in particular note

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate hard drives with dual actuators.

2024-11-16 Thread Wol
On 16/11/2024 20:13, Rich Freeman wrote: Well, drive-managed SMR drives typically have CMR regions for data caching, and they could also be used to store the bitmap. Cheap drives might not support trim at all, and would just preserve all data on write. After all, it isn't performance that is dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Question on ebuild naming/numbering

2024-11-16 Thread Ionen Wolkens
On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 05:04:43PM -0500, Jack Ostroff wrote: > There's been an update to the gkrellm mailing list about progress on the > gtk3 conversion.  It seems much of the work is being done in a specific > git branch.  If I want to create an ebuild to track that branch instead > of master

Re: [gentoo-user] Question on ebuild naming/numbering

2024-11-16 Thread Jack
Ionen, Thanks for the feedback. On 2024.11.16 17:33, Ionen Wolkens wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 05:04:43PM -0500, Jack Ostroff wrote: > There's been an update to the gkrellm mailing list about progress on the > gtk3 conversion.  It seems much of the work is being done in a specific > git

[gentoo-user] Question on ebuild naming/numbering

2024-11-16 Thread Jack Ostroff
There's been an update to the gkrellm mailing list about progress on the gtk3 conversion.  It seems much of the work is being done in a specific git branch.  If I want to create an ebuild to track that branch instead of master, what would be an appropriate numbering of that ebuild?  Just using

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate hard drives with dual actuators.

2024-11-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 2:47 PM Michael wrote: > > As I understand it from reading various articles, the constraint of having to > write sequentially a whole band when a random block changes within a band > works the same on both HM-SMR and the more common DM-SMR. Correct. > What differs with >

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate hard drives with dual actuators.

2024-11-16 Thread Michael
On Saturday 16 November 2024 14:36:02 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 6:02 AM Michael wrote: > > I assume (simplistically) with DM-SMRs the > > discard-garbage collection is managed wholly by the onboard drive > > controller, while with HM-SMRs the OS will signal the drive to sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate hard drives with dual actuators.

2024-11-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 6:02 AM Michael wrote: > > I assume (simplistically) with DM-SMRs the > discard-garbage collection is managed wholly by the onboard drive controller, > while with HM-SMRs the OS will signal the drive to start trimming when the > workload is low in order to distribute the ti

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate hard drives with dual actuators.

2024-11-16 Thread Michael
On Friday 15 November 2024 22:13:27 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 10:35 AM Michael wrote: > > Host managed SMRs (HM-SMR) require the OS and FS to be aware of the need > > for sequential writes and manage submitted data sympathetically to this > > limitation of the SMR drive, by