Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Surface Pro 3?

Well even if you can't figure it out, I'd be happy to do things manually if you open an issue on github for me with some instructions. I know from experience what a pain in the ass git can be for first-timers ;-) On 20/02/17 15:33, Daniel Frey wrote: On 02/19/2017 09:40 AM, Da

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Surface Pro 3?

On 30/01/17 08:24 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > I acquired (on the cheap) a used Surface Pro 3 with the keyboard cover > off of a relative who wasn't using it (they said the screen was too small.) > > I am considering putting Gentoo (or attempting to) and am wondering if > anyone has had success. > > It

[gentoo-user] I'm missing key parts of GNOME

So rather than install *all* of GNOME, I opted for setting `-extras` and then just did an `emerge gnome`. However, now that everything is installed, I have two rather important features missing that I'm wondering if I can install special without rolling in things like evolution and trackers etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else having trouble with x11-libs/cairo?

however it was use conflicted with the would-be drop-in replacement games-misc/lolcat. So kids, let this be a lesson to you. Some drop-in replacements, no matter how fun, can be mighty unkind to your sanity in the long run. On 02/12/16 20:21, Mick wrote: > On Friday 02 Dec 2016 09:57:14 Daniel Qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else having trouble with x11-libs/cairo?

Well the only difference between the output of `emerge -pv x11-libs/cairo` on your machine vs. mine is that you appear to be building 64 and 32 bit: mine: `ABI_X86="64 -32 -x32"` yours: `ABI_X86="64 32 -x32"` As for the global setting for `threads`, I have it enabled, but isn't that a good thing?

[gentoo-user] Anyone else having trouble with x11-libs/cairo?

I just won’t build for me and my research on the forums and BGO keeps turning up very old bugs that don’t really feel like they apply to my case exactly. What’s happened so far: * I installed a complete GNOME/systemd system with no trouble (~amd64) * This installation included a perfect emer

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK+ circular dependency

> Because the ebuild says so. The question you should be asking is "why", > especially as none of the other gtk+ ebuilds contain this DEPEND. And > that's a question that is probably best asked on b.g.o. Sorry, but what's "b.g.o."? Are you saying that this might be a bug?

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK+ circular dependency

On 13/10/16 02:36, wabe wrote: > Since the update process is dead slow anyway and I really don't care about a few minutes less ore more, I always use --backtrack=999. Unfortunately yes. I took your advice just now and it's still complaining about circular dependencies. Maybe I'm missing somethin

[gentoo-user] GTK+ circular dependency

Have any of you seen this before? This is on a fresh install. I can't get anything GNOME-based to install as it looks like gnome-keyring is bringing in an older version of gtk+ which somehow depends on gtk-engines-adwaita which in turn depends on gtk+. Details: * ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" * Profi

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the EFI partition?

On 12/10/16 19:15, Mick wrote: > The OP can mount and have a look in those partitions for any efi files, which > would be a give away; or in MSWindows 10, go to Start menu, press and hold > the Shift key, and click Restart. Then select Troubleshoot/Advanced Options > and check to see if there is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Small computing recommendations?

A while back I looked into a similar setup and was frustrated with the hacker-esque nature of these tiny machines. They typically don't come with a case, sometimes not even with power, and getting a working Gentoo setup was likely going to be an effort I didn't want to spend. So I ended up bu

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the EFI partition?

On 11/10/16 22:47, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > As far as I know, you can’t use UEFI on a msdos partitioned hard drive. > So… are you not just using an old but known and stable BIOS? Honestly, that hadn't occurred to me. The BIOS is fancy (lots of colour and supports a mouse!) and I thought that Wind

[gentoo-user] How to find the EFI partition?

I just bought the prettiest desktop there ever was and I'm having trouble with the install. I'm quite comfortable with a BIOS setup, but UEFI is still making my brain hurt and Windows 10 co-existing on the machine isn't helping. Basically, I can't find where to tell Grub and everything else to lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge is confusing me

On 03/10/16 21:39, Neil Bothwick wrote: > You haven't told us the command that produced this output. Is this a > world update or and you trying to update Bash separately? Sorry, it was part of a world update: emerge --ask --update --deep --changed-use --keep-going --quiet-build --with-bdeps=y

[gentoo-user] Emerge is confusing me

Could someone help explain this emerge output to me? >From what I can tell, it looks like Bash has a new requirement that's not playing nice with 17 other packages on my system. What's the best work around for this? Should I just mask Bash 4.4? !!! Multiple package instances within a single p

Re: [gentoo-user] 2000 emails - printing, sorting by date

I’m a Python guy, so my answer to this would be "use Python" :-) [The ReportLab library](https://www.reportlab.com/docs/reportlab-userguide.pdf) is extremely powerful and can be used to generate a PDF for every email or a pdf for all emails. I've not used it myself, but I hear it's very good.

[gentoo-user] How to stop ls from quoting output

Some time ago after an update |ls| started returning output that looked like this: |8hOk25T.jpg 'Janeway Wallpaper-iPhone.png' 'Screenshot from 2016-04-06 16-15-15.png' microsoft.png 'Away mission Wallpaper-iPhone.png' 'Screenshot from 2016-03-18 14-29-06.png' 'Screenshot from 2016-04-07 11-29-02.

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

On 29/03/16 17:18, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: The usbstick I want to make an initial backup is 64GB of size. That means, I will backup mostly zeroes. You could just use dd to take a full backup and then compress it. If it is indeed mostly zeros it’ll compress very well: |# dd if=/dev/usb

Re: [gentoo-user] (Free|Open|Strong)Swan and Gentoo as a client

The problem is that the names of the fields on iThings are different from the fields I see in NetworkManager, so I don’t know what correlates to what. I have just uninstalled libreswan and installed strongswan, but I can’t find evidence of a networkmanager plugin for strongswan in Portage. |eix st

[gentoo-user] (Free|Open|Strong)Swan and Gentoo as a client

Hello all, I’ve been asked to connect my Gentoo box to a StrongSwan VPN and was offered a .mobileconfig file as means to connect. Unfortunately, this appears to be a special-Apple-only-format and I can’t make heads or tails of the contents. I understand that the server is Ubuntu running StrongSwan

Re: [gentoo-user] Modern Docker?

Excellent idea! I hadn't considered that, thank you.

[gentoo-user] Modern Docker?

I tried to run a docker-compose.yaml file and it exploded with a version error. When I asked around about what I did wrong, it turns out that it requires docker-compose version 1.6.x and Gentoo doesn't have anything newer than 1.5.2. Is there an official overlay for this sort of thing, or do Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSL blocking installation of GNOME

Ugh, nevermind. The [howto](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide) I was following had me put `bindist` in the USE flags early in the process and I didn't think twice about it. I've removed it and everything is ok now.

[gentoo-user] OpenSSL blocking installation of GNOME

I’m trying to install GNOME this morning on my new work laptop and it fails out, complaining about OpenSSL: |!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: dev-libs/openssl:0 (dev-libs/openssl-1.0.2f:0/0::ge

[gentoo-user] Why we no Heroku?

I wanted to start fiddling with Heroku , so naturally the first thing I tried was |$ eix heroku | …but alas there was nothing. So I poked around their site to see how one might install their client manually and the instructions

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ujson in a virtualenv explodes with undefined symbol: Buffer_AppendShortHexUnchecked

I've been using Gentoo since 2000 and I've never used elogv or used genlop. Thanks for pointing those out, I'll give them a shot.

[gentoo-user] ujson in a virtualenv explodes with undefined symbol: Buffer_AppendShortHexUnchecked

I'm hoping someone can explain what's going on to me here. I had a perfectly reasonable dev environment for months, and then one day, I upgrade ujson in that virtualenv and it explodes with this: ImportError: /home/daniel/.virtualenvs/myvenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ujson.so: undefined sym

[gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe I'd configured my kernel incorrectly and that this might be a known issue someone here has run across in the past so here goes: My computer is a pretty impressive AMD 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ box with 2GB of RAM an

Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick

On October 7, 2009 10:30:23 pm Mick wrote: > What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? The thing about USB sticks is that if you want to use them to transfer files cross-platform (Windows & Mac as well as Linux) you have to use a common filesystem. Typically, I use FAT32 for this since I do

[gentoo-user] win32codecs on an ARM architecture?

I have 3 Sheevaplugs (http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp) which all run ARM cpus. For the most part I've had very few problems setting these up to run Gentoo but now I'm trying to have one of them run Mencoder to record CBC's The National from an MMS stream and I'm having this pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages in other architectures (arm)

On August 5, 2009 02:09:21 pm Stroller wrote: > Simply copy the package's ebuild to your local tree, edit it to add > the ARM keyword and try it. If it works, open a bug at Gentoo asking > for the package to be marked as table on your architecture. > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay#Creatin

[gentoo-user] Packages in other architectures (arm)

I've just come into possession of a few of these fabulous little machines: http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp They have 512mb ram, 1ghz Arm CPU and a sketchy jffs2 "hard drive" inside, along with an SDHC slot, one USB plug and one gigabit ethern