Re: [gentoo-user] first ebuild, looking for reviewer

On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:50:54 -0500 Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | mkdir /usr/share/castpodder | cp -f -R * /usr/share/castpodder dodir /usr/share/castpodder cp -f -R * "${D}"/usr/share/castpodder will work. Or insinto and doins -r, if you prefer. -- Ciaran M

Re: [gentoo-user] make -j 4 recoverable ?

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:43:56 +0100 (CET) Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | With "make -j 4", which I could add to the make flags, compiling is a | lot faster. But some packages may fail to compile. You absolutely do not want to do "make -j 4"... The

Re: [gentoo-user] What on Earth is Portage doing for so long?

f cache data, leading to utterly inappropriate packages being installed. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

flags work. Adding apache2 and emboss to the default USE flags does not mean that users will get Apache or Emboss. Having these USE flags in the defaults is entirely sensible and correct, and provides expected behaviour for the majority of users. Anyone claiming otherwise simply doesn't understa

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

that someone else has done said work for you. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

otally off base, | (except, perhaps, where I'm concerned ;-)). Hah. Try doing bug wrangling for a week and you might change that opinion. Anyway, part of the point of using a distribution is that it spares you from having to know what's best for you. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Deve

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:29:52 -0500 "John J. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:11:08PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Absolutely not. If there's one thing we've established over the | > years, it's that the vast majority of o

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

| > Any package setting KEYWORDS="-*" and nothing else is abusing -*, | > and will flag a warning on the QA checkers. | | You mean like gcc-4.1.0_pre20060219.ebuild? Yyyyup. The -* abuse is one of the many things on QA's list of "stuff we want to get fixed". However, it

Re: [gentoo-user] What does the use flag "gtk" for gcc?

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:24:39 +0100 Wolfgang Liebich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I did a query for packages using the gtk use flag. I found gcc | (3.4.4-r1) among these. Why? It's for the Java gtk frontend. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shin

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

), and so will only run on archs that are explicitly listed. Any package setting KEYWORDS="-*" and nothing else is abusing -*, and will flag a warning on the QA checkers. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

are in the way they do, if they do, create their config.cache. confcache. It's, uh, kinda experimental right now. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuilds gone to the happy hunting-grounds

erge | dead-package" won't do it because the ebuild doesn't exist any more. It will unless you installed said package a very long time ago. Portage keeps a copy of the ebuild in the vdb when you install something. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Ma

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

t's brilliant. For small packages or those oh so icky packages that force -j1, things aren't so shiny... Still, there aren't any particular problems running Gentoo on SMP systems. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:41:37 +0100 Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > the many ways in which parallel merges can still break. | | Please give us one example. You install a package that runs autotools and a package that provides an aclocal entry at

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:33:01 -1000 "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sunday 29 January 2006 09:59 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:51:32 -1000 "Beau E. Cox" | > | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | Can I safely emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:51:32 -1000 "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in | different terminal sessions at the same time? No. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciara

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:38:14 -0500 "Michael A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Weird, huh? Not weird at all. emerge reads target names from the commandline, but not from stdin. Chris should know this... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

sole. | Is there some similar channel for vim in linux? "+ and "* , but only if you USE="vim-with-x". -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:14:01 +0100 Paweł Madej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | for me it is used to make vim modular X compatible. Wha? No no no. If that flag is off, vim won't go anywhere near X. If that flag is on, vim will link against either modular or non-modular X. -- Ciar

Re: [gentoo-user] big problem with emerge

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:13:08 +0100 Manuel Pérez López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Yesterday I did a portage sync, and now I can not emerge anything. | Help me to correct this issue. See this lines: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119352 -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (K

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild defaults?

tware so you can't make an ebuild for it. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] help

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:14:41 +0800 gentoo user mail list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Cut the blue wire first, then the green wire within the next five seconds. Whatever you do, don't touch the red wire! -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix

; 'donald_' duck*.jpg -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

performance wise. I guess this is where the IT types step in and say | it scales poorly. The scalability issues have nothing to do with us using files. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

ches that I can apply to get what I cry for... I've tried them... | None of them put "all the data" into a real database... A shame | too Wrong solution. You do realise that the "updating Portage cache" thing is due to a Portage deficiency, and that the real cache is cen

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

build related. With MAKEOPTS=-j1 it goes away, but with anything higher it fails consistently. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable versions vanished!?

r x86 arch lead is going to hit them with a lead pipe. You shouldn't encounter forced downgrades in stable unless something really icky happens. You shouldn't encounter forced downgrades in ~arch unless someone commits a version that works for them and it later turns out that it

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

rror from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host mail1.radix.net [207.192.128.31]: 550 5.0.0 Unauthorized Sender Sep 05 9.5 is in the tree and should be correct, anyway. Still looking for someone to maintain it... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can k

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:33:04 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:34:08 +0100 Harald Arnesen | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | There is no ebuild, but you can download and compile vi.

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:10:03 -0500 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | You can set Vim up to act as if it were Vi : look at its dox. Bad idea. You lose multiple undo levels and the ability to edit more than two files at once... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you w

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

rmcap" setup, hence why the ebuilds were removed. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] i'm new of list

t I was told they do. | | Because it is insecure on some mail readers and unreadable on others. Or, because any HTML email is either spam or written by a moron. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 100K#of users vs. others

On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:52:56 -0700 Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | According to recent Gentoo news we crossed 100K registered users. | Does anybody have any reliable numbers how we compare to other | distros? Uh. That'd be forums accounts. Not users. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo D

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing old version of a package

t way is to add >=dev-db/mysql-4.1_alpha to /etc/portage/package.mask . -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Still not getting how to influence compile flags with emerge

On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:55:47 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:25:07 - "Michael Kintzios" | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > Which USE flag will make that +xterm_clipboard | > | | > | This i

Re: [gentoo-user] Still not getting how to influence compile flags with emerge

On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:30:35 -0600 Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Does it mean that the flags displayed are the only ones I can adjust? USE flags are not the same as Vim's internal feature flags. Adding a USE flag for every single Vim feature flag would be silly. -- Ciar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Still not getting how to influence compile flags with emerge

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:25:07 - "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Which USE flag will make that +xterm_clipboard | | This is a dependency flag which I guess can be flipped by first | emerging x11-apps/xclipboard. Er. No. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Develo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

is trying to do lots of DNS queries... Does 'top' tell you anything useful? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (The one that looks before leaping) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] usb key question

need to run fdisk /dev/sd? then mkfs.* /dev/sd?? . If you don't have a /dev/sd? , check your kernel for SCSI block device support. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (The one that looks before leaping) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gen

Re: [gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:06:02 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Am I doing things wrong, or is this a valid enhancement request for | b.g.o? Unlikely to happen... Dependency resolution doesn't work that way. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (The one that looks bef

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: masked package woes

oesn't look like it was ever in the tree... [EMAIL PROTECTED] net-analyzer 0 0.45 $ cvs log jffnms cvs log: nothing known about jffnms -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Supreme Lord Gerbil Wrangler) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: changing CHOST in stage3

start from scratch, hence building up from a stage 1. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Supreme Lord Gerbil Wrangler) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: changing CHOST in stage3

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:34:27 -0500 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | At Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:17:27 + Ciaran McCreesh | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > The only way you can safely change CHOST is by making new stages | > through catalyst. There're various script

Re: changing CHOST in stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] default stage3)

es through catalyst. There're various scripts which *sometimes* fix your system after a CHOST change, but they're not reliable... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 *** [SOLVED]

| it was pointing at... Consider using boost::shared_ptr<> instead. You don't have to worry about delete or exception-checking then. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

urn off the detection, it's probably not a good idea because you'd end up with random, hard to trace memory corruption... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

wed up some dynamic memory allocation somewhere. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

ult, and not have all the problems with circular dependencies. [ Note: looks like I'm missing half this thread because certain jackasses are posting HTML messages to the list. You'd think people would've learned by now... ] -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!)

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

, | I do not take care about versions, portage does it instead of me. | All I do is running this set of commands every night from crontab: | | emerge --sync | emerge --update --deep --newuse world | emerge --depclean | revdep-rebuild I really hope you don't want your system to carry on working..

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:57:59 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | >A really really dumb bit of code in Portage itself was changed. See | >the gentoo-portage-dev list archives if you want technical details. | | Is that the same reason it was sticking at 50%

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

ode in Portage itself was changed. See the gentoo-portage-dev list archives if you want technical details. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpHWB90ogx0k.pgp Descr

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimal time to 'emerge world'?

American, so there're a few hours in the day (~UTC0500) when things are really quiet, but apart from that there's no real timing. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

There should be a cutoff or trip_points file in there too... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpuo8TLQHUDP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] (masked by: missing keyword)

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:17:07 -0400 sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Specifically I am trying to install openoffice 2.0 on my amd64 | system. I have unmasked it, but the keyword is still blocking me. Unmasking it won't do you any good. It won't work. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gento

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

can't connect it | via ssh. I had to hard reset the machine, therefore no error message | is left in the log files. How can I find the reason? Check the CPU temperature. My T30 used to do that when it had a small furry animal blocking the fan outlet... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Develo

Re: [gentoo-user] Um...Who can fix this?

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:16:50 +1300 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:02:14 +0100 | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | | > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:54:14 +1300 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > wrote: | > | I agree it is necessary when doing somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] Um...Who can fix this?

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:54:14 +1300 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I agree it is necessary when doing something in your overlay. It seems | most people who post to bugs.gentoo.org do not post a digest file. | Perhaps they should. Oh please no. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Develope

Re: [gentoo-user] Um...Who can fix this? -- SOLVED

happened is that the cvs pull happened mid-commit, after some files had been committed but before the manifest recommit. It's a pretty narrow time slot but it can happen occasionally. Usually an emerge sync will fix it. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Flu

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng can't be removed by rc-update

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:25:48 -0400 Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | No, I don't think it is silly Oh, I do for /etc/init.d | but based on a discussion on gentoo-dev recently I was under the | impression it was not enabled by default That was collision protection. -- Ciar

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng can't be removed by rc-update

n your make.conf: CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp75ZiisVUdF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng can't be removed by rc-update

e | > from /etc/init.d. | | It should be deleted when you unmerge syslog-ng. No it shouldn't. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpwsIJAQ0xbi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

ouble if you don't do it than that anyone actually thinks it'll protect them. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpzlayTT7rFP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

sed by sneakily changing stuff in response to mailing list questions and not bothering to announce the fact. You're all crazy, anyway. There's no "ing" in the description. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

to any package emerge sync -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpCCsCfdO7bQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

| less frustration. Sure. Put together a proposal that doesn't involve LSB, persuade the other big name distros that it's a good idea and maybe we'll consider it. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org W

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

Not going to happen. We're not going to dignify LSB by adding that kind of nonsense... You can get the current release using: cat $(portageq portdir)/metadata/timestamp assuming the user isn't running off CVS rather than rsync. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fl

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

everyone over to ipv6 and kidnap all the world's goats. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpwfMMurADEq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

e, say, 3dfx enabled, most will not want it. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpwjVMowamHH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

applications which have a 3dfx USE flag do not require 3dfx support. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpdkOD0bJNWL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:54:58 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh schrieb: | > So, for things with optional emboss support, by default the emboss | > support will be enabled. Which makes sense, because if you're | > installing science apps, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

behaviour is to enable it by default. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpHRi4F6qGtA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:19:55 -0300 Matias Grana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I'm trying to compile vim with +clipboard support. One can do this | by passing --enable-clipboard to configure. There's no USE flag for | this feature. Incorrect. USE="vim-with-x". --

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:03:44 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > So, for things with optional emboss support, by default the emboss | > support will be enabled. Which makes sense, because if you're | > ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

ackage (for example postgresql) and suddenly found that | the next "emerge --newuse world" spits out a list of packages it will | rebuild with a new flag. Currently, yes. In future portage releases, no. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

he emboss support will be enabled. Which makes sense, because if you're installing science apps, you'll probably want it, and if you're not installing science apps you'll never see it anyway. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] os-headers differ from kernel version

eaders info back to the sys-kernel/linux-headers package, which it | seems the most recent is 2.6.11-r2. Why the difference? Does it | matter? Your os-headers should be of the same or an earlier version than your kernel. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Flu

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel on sparc won't unmount initrd

rnel and | copied the config file from the livecd. Genkernel on sparc is only supported for the purposes of livecd creation. Don't use it. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ci

Re: [gentoo-user] Ideas for a mini-FAQ/HOWTO

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:25:40 -0400 Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | It may be simpler to look at | http://www.freehackers.org/gentoo/gccflags/flag_gcc3.html for the Except that it's oh so very wrong... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox,

Re: [gentoo-user] other packages

ted on bugzilla with a REVIEWED tag. * Stuff in the tree. * Stuff off developer overlays. * Stuff in maintainer-wanted with no REVIEWED tag. * Stuff off random russian websites. * Stuff off the forums. Expect to have to fix stuff. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron

Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

we can SLOT things, so we don't need separate foo-1, foo-2 and foo-3 packages, and b) we don't need to do a zillion foo, foo-python, foo-perl etc packages because of USE flags. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org W

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

ave to scroll down to view the post. Q. What is the most annoying thing you can do on mailing lists? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgplG4zUpcn8w.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | You know bud, read some rules, be polite. There are many who consider top posting to be just about the rudest thing you could possibly do on a mailing list. HTML email is worse, but not by much. -- Ciaran Mc

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

PTION item in ebuilds) Already there. Check metadata.xml. It supports long descriptions in multiple languages. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgppYMqWodOe9.pgp D

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:45:52 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:41:31 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > /dev is a managed filesystem. You shouldn't be tinkering with it | > manually. | | You shouldn't need to tinker with it manually,

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

cal.start) and it works fine! Please | esplain. /dev is a managed filesystem. You shouldn't be tinkering with it manually. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm p

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

t.d. Don't do that. Instead, fix your udev rules. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp6nKvS4T4wM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:46:39 -0400 Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Why dont we just change it so that unsubscribe in the subject line | unsubscribes you (like every other mailing list on the internet)? We did that already. Read the subject line more carefully. -- Ciaran Mc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: C++ code on Gentoo

gentoo linux system. The author claims it works on SUSE. It works by coincidence only. He's got some invalid memory allocation or deallocation code. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http:

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotting same version?

king | is that I have 'audacity' installed and it requires 'wxGTK 2.4' built | without the 'GTK2'-USE flag. Whilst I'm trying to install | 'scorched3D' which requires 'wxGTK 2.4' built with the 'GTK2'-USE | flag. | | Tricky, no? Im

Re: [gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?

process's umask in the usual way: the permissions of > the created directory are (mode & ~umask & 0777). Other mode bits > of the created directory depend on the operating system. For Linux, > see below. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: bash details

pecial (encrypted)key | or another form of chicanery (biometric generated | key). Yup. It also lacks an example showing how you can make a mysql-driven ecommerce website which sells books to preschool children who have credit cards. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bash details

's the "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide", but it's neither advanced nor particularly good. The devmanual [1] has a fair bit of related information, but it mostly focuses upon the ebuild environment. [1]: http://dev.gentoo.org/~plasmaroo/devmanual/ -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Does openoffice really require pam?

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:32:26 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I don't really want to install pam just because of OOo. Does OOo | *REALLY* require pam? No, but tcsh does, and openoffice's build system requires tcsh. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-Distro

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:36:07 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:38:03 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > 2. Various packages have licences which prohibit either | > redistributing the source, or redistributing the package in binary | > form, or r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-Distro

weird trademark restrictions to do with shipping modified binaries. Anything Mozillaish comes to mind... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgplOhDsLfpMg.pgp Descriptio

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

art with something that doesn't teach you rely on GUIs | and crap like that. If you're going to learn Linux, why not start with a distribution which caters for newbies when making design decisions, rather than one which assumes that its users know what they're doing? -- Ciaran McCrees

Re: [gentoo-user] When is Gentoo CVS synched to the trunk?

aintainers | committing to a different repository? And if so, how often are the | two repositories synched? viewcvs updates pretty quickly. We're talking hours, not weeks. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at ge

Re: Insulting People or Projects On The List [Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption]

On Tue, 31 May 2005 11:26:31 -0400 fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Could we consider not insulting people or projects which people work | very hard on? Does that extend to Windows ME, or only to projects which have a fan-base? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

orted for a very long time. When it actually works we might start to think about it, but that'll be several years off. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpud99q3L8X9

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