Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

2008-03-18 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 19:29 +0100, brullo nulla wrote: > > What output do you get from 'revdep-rebuild -p -i' ? > > Here it is: > > Evaluating package order... > Warning: Failed to resolve package order. > Will merge in "random" order! > Possible reasons: > - An ebuild is no longer in the porta

Re: [gentoo-user] Playsound . . . won't!

2007-09-17 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 18:27 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2007, Mike Williams wrote: > > On Monday 17 September 2007 15:33:54 Mick wrote: > > > This is how I understood that is should work too. If for what ever > > > reason it doesn't rebuild the above packages itself, it should eith

Re: [gentoo-user] slow vmware guest

2007-06-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 21:35 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > Has anyone found a solution to a linux guest under a linux host where the > guest's clock ticks slowly > or quickly depending on different factors? The solution that has worked for me is to ensure that the timer frequency for t

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-31 Thread Paul Varner
that gets much > better results. The use of --emptytree has already been removed in the the 0.2.4 versions of gentoolkit. 2007-03-07 Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * revdep-rebuild: Change ordering algorithm to use --deep instead of --emptytree on the advice of zmedico

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 04:20 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > But at least it will never use the horrible hack that revdep-rebuild uses > with --package-names because of the lack of support for the > =category/package-version:slot syntax in portage-2.0* which it still > supports.. :) Hey, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 20:14 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls / > ls: cannot open directory /: Permission denied > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ What does 'ls -ld /' and 'ls -ld /etc' return? Both of them should look like: drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 May 29 04:40 / drwxr-xr-x 56 root

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 22:29 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:16:59 Florian Philipp wrote: > > > > 1. This page provides no way to handle a binary-only rpm, just sources. > > Yet, sources are no problem since they should be available as a tarball or > > in portage itself

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems rebuilding gtk+ (and many other packages), due to not found /usr/lib/libXCBRenderUtil.la

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 12:15 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > So all you seem to need is to remerge pango before gtk+. The problem here is > that revdep-rebuild is absolutely clueless when in comes to ordering the > rebuilds Try: http://pastebin.ca/raw/383456 Actually emerge -e is being clu

Re: [gentoo-user] Where has gensync moved to?

2007-01-17 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 14:11 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, > > # equery f gentoolkit-dev | grep 'gensync$' > /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.6.2/deprecated/gensync > /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.6.2/deprecated/gensync/gensync > > where has it moved to? >From the ebuild: * The

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why does gcc depend on gtk+?

2007-01-08 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 22:34 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 20:31, Richard Fish wrote: > > > bullet ~ # equery depends gtk+ > > > > equery depends is broken. It shows possible _dependancies_, without > > taking USE flags into account. > > Apparently this is finally fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 21:56 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2006-12-05, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> That's nasty. Why do some equery commands accept regexes and > >> others dont? > > > > Because some equery commands search for packages (ideally > > suited for a regex), and ot

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC server / windows viewer

2006-10-12 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 14:14 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > On a related note, I'm looking for something similar, but I want a > user to be presented with an xdm (or gdm) login. Just one remote > connection, one resolution. Short answer. 1. Emerge xinetd, if not already installed 2. add a vnc file

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST recursive problem

2006-09-04 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 05:18 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > Hi, > > due to my installation fault half a year ago, I have to change CHOST > from i386* to i686* to be able to install gcc-4.1 & Co. since a > better CPU as i386* is needed. I am running an > AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Pr

Re: [gentoo-user] YP domain name in baselayout 1.12

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 23:14 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > That does lead me to another question, though -- the > interface-boundedness of these settings makes me a bit suspicious. > Will /etc/init.d/net.* start rewriting /etc/resolv.conf > and/or /etc/yp.conf for me or something like that, and will

Re: [gentoo-user] YP domain name in baselayout 1.12

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 19:05 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > Hi list! > > I just noticed that /etc/init.d/domainname has disappeared in baselayout > 1.12, but I can't find what is supposed to replace it. > > So, in short: How am I supposed to set my YP domain name with the new > baselayout? > It

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild alternatives?

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:18 +, James wrote: > What are the sanctioned and experimental alternatives to > revdep-rebuild. There are no sanctioned alternatives. An experimental alternative that you can look at is udept written by Ed Catmur. You can download an ebuild for use in your overlay at

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge bugzilla w/ postgresql

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:08 -0700, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: > I am creating a new gentoo server, and I am in the handbook section to > specify USE variables. > No matter how I errange my USE variable in the make.conf, > > emerge --update --pretend bugzilla -- wants to use mysql > > [ebuild N

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone know why sys-apps/qtparted went masked

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 18:04 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > A couple days ago I noticed this: > > garbanzo:/root # emerge -auvDNt world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating world dependencies | > !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all > !

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ emerge error

2006-07-18 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 10:52 -0700, Grant wrote: > but the following command returns nothing: > > equery check x11-libs/xextproto > > I'm not sure what that's supposed to do. Unfortunately, you just hit a bug in equery. Run: equery check xextproto That commands verifies that all of the files i

Re: [gentoo-user] revdev-rebuild uing wrong 'ebuilds' ...

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 16:40 +0200, Marc Koschewski wrote: > It wants to emerge the 'emerge.txt ENV.txt ldapdump.1146827010 > ldapdump.1146827010.raw wlan0.txt' ebuils which are, however, just files > within root's home directory. Thus emerge bails out with the above error. > Maybe someone could hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

2006-07-07 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 14:37 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 6/13/06, Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:44 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > > Looks like I'll be masking >=evolution-2.6.0 > > > > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice again

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 23:32 +0200, Mick wrote: > Thanks. The strange thing is that lately Opera and FF-bin are not > re-emerged when I revedep-rebuild, only OOo-bin does. Anyway, its not > a problem from what I read in these links. That is because the ebuilds install a file in /etc/revdep-rebuil

Re: [gentoo-user] equery problem.

2006-06-16 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 21:45 -0400, David Corbin wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade my KDE stuff following the information on this wiki > page. > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_KDE_3.3_to_KDE_3.4 > > When I run "equery d kde" as it suggests, I get: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > F

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:44 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > Looks like I'll be masking >=evolution-2.6.0 > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133241 Masking the following fixed it for me =x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.14.2 I haven't had the time to investigate further or file a bug re

Re: [gentoo-user] sudden portage error "list index out of range"

2006-06-09 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 17:40 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >At the same time the previous error started I also got this second > > > error with layman: > > > > > > lightning ~ # layman -s pro-audio > > > * Running command "/usr/bin/svn update > > > /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio"... > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about package.provided

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 18:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm having a bit of trouble with the package.provided feature. I've > build a new version of Jack that is not available in portage. It was > my understanding that I could tell emerge to not emerge lower version > of Jack by placing th

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 19:31 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 09 March 2006 03:28, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)': > > > > AFAICT equery detects compile time dependencies (DEPEND) and run time > > depencies (RDE

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 11:16 -0700, Kumar Golap wrote: > Thanks now I understand the default USE flags I see, I think. And > apologies for not searching the manual first. > > But I still do not understand why flags like mmx (or 3dnow) flags > that i put in the /etc/make.conf file is not getting pi

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 15:04 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > yes, but you should be able to specify a + OR - for the x and y offset > as well: > > -geometry WxH+Xoffs+Yoffs where > W: width > H: height > Xoffs: x offset* > Yoffs: y offset* > > * x is relative to the left screen edge, if positive, an

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge and old package

2006-01-27 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 09:33 -0200, Thiago Lüttig wrote: > hey, i´m trying to solve a bug with the kdegraphics-3.4.3-r3.. as > described here(This bug #83238 > > ) > > Well, when the revdep-rebuild finishes the list of packages, it can´t > the kdegraph

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 23:29 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Can you tell us what qpkg and etcat are deprecated, Paul? Is it because > of a lack of a maintainer or is there something fundamentally wrong with > them? In the case of qpkg, there are several un-fixable bugs. In the case of etcat, its co

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 19:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:30:57 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote: > > > I too like qpkg more than equery, at least for what I usually need to > > do. My solution is just to put a copy of qpkg and ecat in /usr/bin, and > > make a backup copy somewh

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 14:25 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: > But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was replaced by > equery. See other messages for how to get qpkg back. > However, there are two problems with equery: > 1. it disregards the use flags. equery depends displays

RE: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 15:32 +, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 19 January 2006 12:42 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package > > > > > > On Thu, 1

[gentoo-user] gentoolkit-0.2.1 stable on x86

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Varner
All: As I type this gentoolkit-0.2.1 has been marked stable on x86 and I expect it to be marked stable on other architectures in the next few days. Here is a summary of the major changes between gentoolkit-0.2.0 and gentoolkit-0.2.1. A detailed listing of the changes are in /usr/share/doc/gentool

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling Kde-Graphics 3.4.3-r3

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:04 -0200, Thiago Lüttig wrote: > !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4.3-r3 failed. > !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 175, Exitcode 2 > !!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make > !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status > message. This b

Re: [gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:26 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Statux schreef: > > Unmerge the BOINC from portage and download/manually install it from > > the site. The version in portage is very old and for some reason, it > > hasn't been updated. > > I haven't had time to try to figure out what to d

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild defaults?

2006-01-04 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 17:35 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > > --- Lares Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:25 -0800, maxim wexler > > wrote: > > > Is there a default, eg for LICENSE, in an ebuild > > if > > > the ebuild's author can't discover it? > > > > What package?

Re: [gentoo-user] $PKGDIR is getting full of old cruft - script for cleaning?

2006-01-01 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 22:10 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hi! > > In my $PKGDIR, old cruft gets accumulated over time - eg. > 6 versions of kernel source (suspend2-sources), multiple > releases of mozilla-firefox and so on. > > Does anyone know of a script that cleans all that stuff? > Basicall

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install CPAN modules not breaking portage tree

2005-12-27 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 17:19 +0100, Paweł Madej wrote: > As i have read [1] documentation portage should provide g-cpan.pl tool > but on my system there is no such script. Any ideas how to install cpan > perl modules via portage? > > I know that I can do it via cpan tool but manual [1] suggests u

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy way to unmerge all of KDE?

2005-12-23 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 08:06 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > You can list all installed kde packages with > > qpkg -g kde-base > or > equery list | grep kde-base > For equery, you can use: equery list kde-base/ This tells equery to list the installed packages in category kde-base. The command w

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug report.

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:22 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Where Do I do a bug report > > I received this a moment ago when I run emerge --sync. > >>> Updating Portage cache: 88%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package > name to an ebuild. > !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/x11-6.8

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug report.

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:22 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Where Do I do a bug report > > I received this a moment ago when I run emerge --sync. > >>> Updating Portage cache: 88%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package > name to an ebuild. > !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/x11-6.8

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 20:08 +, James wrote: > OK, let's say I'm looking or 'theoraenc' > > I just ran 'qgrep theora *' and got lots of hits, > > I ran 'qgrep theoraenc *' and got nothing > > Does this mean no (ebuild) contains theoraenc ? > > qpkg -i theoraencreturns emptytoo >

Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:12 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:11:04 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: > > > why not to do a litle jump and go with app-portage/portage-utils ? > > Because it doesn't appear to offer features that qpkg does, for example; > listing all installed packag

Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:22 +, James wrote: > qpkg is not accessible, due to the path, unless > I use: /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg > > Where is the best (bash shell) place to > set this path once, so I do not have to > type out the fully qualified pathname > of the executable? > I'd like it

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleanup kde-3.4

2005-12-07 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 17:46 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: > Isn't qpkg deprecated? > Does anybody know the equivalent un-deprecated replacement of this > command? > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > As posted yesterday: > > > > qpkg -I -nc -g kde-base | xargs emerge --prune The replacement is equ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in equery

2005-11-24 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 08:01 +0100, Mariusz Pękala wrote: > Not precise enough. You need to enclose only those characters, like: > equery files --type ">"=vim-6.2 > or you may use backslash, like: > equery files --type \>=vim-6.2 > > Saying that you MUST enclose the entire argument woul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in equery

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 23:34 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It appears here that the symbols themselves must be quoted as well as > the package like this: > > equery files --type ">=vim-6.2" > Which is what I m

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a bug in equery

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 20:02 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm trying to learn equery since qpkg is being laid to rest. However > I'm finding the hints that appear when you syntax is wrong very > confusing. I have opened bug #113423 Does the following make more sense to you: $ ./equery files --ty

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!?

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 23:24 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > Silly me, I went and RTFM'd before doing anything. TFM says, and I > quote... > > > Unimplemented Options > >changes > > > >depends > > > >glsa - use glsa-check for the time being. > > > >stats > > Gu

Re: [gentoo-user] module-rebuild script

2005-10-24 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 23:32 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > John Green wrote: > > As a check, I then ran module-rebuild list again, and it > > listed the same three modules as before. > > This is the way it is supposed to work at the moment. module-rebuild > list is meant to give you a list of module

Re: [gentoo-user] Should emerge --sync be so slow?

2005-10-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:48 +0400, Andrew Kirilenko wrote: > I do have portage on the separate partition, but this caching process is > _DAMN_ slow. I remember times when it was really, really fast. WTF? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108412 Regards, Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

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

2005-10-17 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 19:14 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > But man 5 portage doesn't say anything about /etc/portage/env.d, and it > doesn't say anything much about what precisely you can put in > /etc/portage/bashrc either: The /etc/portage/bashrc file can be (ab)used to do all kinds of things wit

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2 rc3 & revdep rebuild

2005-10-17 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 05:58 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 051016 John J. Foster wrote: > > I've been fighting the install of OOo rc3 for a few days now. > > Everything is fine until running revdep-rebuild, > > which wants to re-install the OOo I just installed. > > I haven't done this with OO, but m

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 13:15 -0700, Manuel McLure wrote: > One question for those with more USE flag-fu than I have - does the > default set of USE flags depend on the packages that have been installed > into world? It seems to me that at some point I have installed a package > (for example postg

Re: [gentoo-user] qpkg gone with gentoolkit update

2005-10-12 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 21:55 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: > On Wednesday 12 October 2005 10.04, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > emerge portage-utils. That will give you qpkg back (equery told me so ;-) > > portage-utils gave me qpkg back allright - but not with the same functions > (especially --dups is

Re: [gentoo-user] equery not working

2005-10-04 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 10:53 -0700, Wes Gray wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:50:03PM -0500, Paul Varner wrote: > > equery works fine for me here. Two questions, which version of > > gentoolkit do you have installed? What does "ls > > -ld /var/db/pkg/kde-base/kde*&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] equery not working

2005-10-03 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 16:03 -0700, Wes Gray wrote: > Why doesn't equery actually show me all the installed packages? I > know I have lots of versions of kde installed, but equery doesn't show them: > > # equery l -i kde > [ Searching for package 'kde' in all categories among: ] > * installed pac

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo workstation x/kde: disk size requirement...

2005-09-24 Thread Paul Varner
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 11:14 +0200, Jarry wrote: > I want to make my notebook dual-bootable (i must keep win because of > some software), and I would like to know how big partition do I need > for gentoo (basic workstation install, with X/KDE). > > Would single (except for swap) 10 GB partition be

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them?

2005-09-23 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 11:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi all. Sorry in advance for the rash of emails today but the topics > seem to be varying and hopefully folks will read only the ones they > think they could help with. > > QUESTIONS: > > 1) What causes a 'collision' on a network interface?

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding trick portage.mask situation

2005-09-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 21:20 -0400, Matthew Cline wrote: > I've been having serious problems with newer versions of > gentoo-sources (basically 2.6.12-r9 and 2.6.12-r10), so I have > downgraded to 2.6.12-r4, which is rock solid for me. So, I thought to > add something like this atom to /etc/portage/

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync

2005-09-11 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 16:49 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Is it worth going unstable with rsync for this? meaning, will using an > unstable rsync cause me any "real" problems, even as it (hopefully) > solves this (relatively minor) annoyance? I have not seen any stability issues with 2.6.4 or high

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync

2005-09-11 Thread Paul Varner
> What is going wrong here? It can't be my implementation of rsync (latest > stable), or the US pool would fail as well. It could be the servers in > the European pool, but... all of them? > > Or am I simply using the wrong SYNC= in /etc/make.conf? My default is > rsync.europe.gentoo.org, and I do

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 23:45 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > equery seems crazy. I have gentoolkit-0.2.0, and just reemerged it for > good measure. > > $ equery depends vim > [ Searching for packages depending on vim... ] > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin

Re: [gentoo-user] Realplayer unsupported scheme?

2005-07-08 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 13:37 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > I understand that there's a security update out for Realplayer. But > when I try to emerge it, this happens... > > > [m1800][root][~] emerge --ask realplayer > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculatin

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild reports broken libs, should I worry?

2005-07-07 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:49 -0700, Wade Brown wrote: > In this specific case, "Broken" means "Binary Package". Binary > packages are distributed with all kinds of libraries linked to so that > they can minimize the amount of binary packages they need to maintain > (e.g. they don't need an eclipse-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: telnet into embedded devices

2005-06-30 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 14:42 +, James wrote: > Nope, It's an embedded device on a flat hub with a Gentoo and Debian > workstation, nothing else. Telnet to an IP address on the same > class C (/24) network does not use DNS. The embedded device has no > DNS or Authentication set up, as it's new

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet into embedded devices

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 13:39 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:59:17 + (UTC) > James wrote: > > 1. If this is not what's happening, what is to cause telnet to react so > > slowly? > > probably dns - most servers do a reverse dns lookup when a client > connects, and if the lookup

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -auDv world question

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 20:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > Calculating world dependencies - > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6" have been > masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > request: > - sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6 (masked by:

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild questions...

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 08:32 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > So revdep-rebuild is currently running on the box but I'm wondering how > often the revdep-rebuild needs to be run... > > Any suggestions from you folks out there in gentoo land? > > I'm thinking about building a cron script to run early i

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:24 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > Maybe a better way is to emerge hard-masked "gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre3" > (cause it's only tested on x86). > In it there is a new version on 'revdep-rebuild' which allows you to > mask certain dirs, by using (mine): > ... > SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 12:55 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > But we agree that this just squelches the messages, correct? It's not > making the system's linkages more correct. It's just saying we don't > care about that directory. I think that's fine for binary packages but > it's not the same as having

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 18:44 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Except I didn't report a delay -- I reported outright failure. I very > quickly get a dialog reporting > "Alert -- Error trying to validate certificate from > sofrwarereg.sun.com using OCSP - directory lookup failure." > > I guess it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't install Xosview

2005-06-13 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 05:40 +, askar ... wrote: > Hello! > > My this message left unanswered. > I notice when I install gentoo only using live cd, xosview can not be > installed with error below. It seems this problem can be solved after > updating portage. > In my case I cannot update portage

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild testing (was Re: 3 - ERRORS)

2005-06-12 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 12:07 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > In bugzilla the patch is dated 2005-05-04 18:18 PDT so it's newer than > gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre2. > > ls -l /usr/portage/app-portage/gentoolkit/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre2.ebuild > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1499 Apr 25 19:13 > /usr/portage/app-portage

Re: [gentoo-user] 3 - ERRORS

2005-06-12 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 20:31 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Thanks for the info, but I notice that there's also a patch to > portage.py attached to the bug. Is it correct to just patch it with the > standard "patch -p1 blah blah blah" (patch syntax doesn't roll > trippingly off my typing finger, but

Re: [gentoo-user] fix_libtool_files.sh failed

2005-06-06 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 22:19 +0200, Luigi Pinna wrote: > Alle 21:20, lunedì 06 giugno 2005, Paul Varner ha scritto: > > > The parameter to fix_libtool_files.sh is the previous version of gcc > > that was installed. Try "fix_libtool_files.sh 3.4.3-20050110" > >

Re: [gentoo-user] fix_libtool_files.sh failed

2005-06-06 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 20:55 +0200, Luigi Pinna wrote: > Hello! > I try to emerge cdk (a dependency fot licq) and received this error: > > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++: > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3-20050110/crtendS.o: > No such file or directory > make: *** [libcdk.la] Error 1 > > !!! ERR

[gentoo-user] [Fwd: baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers]

2005-06-01 Thread Paul Varner
Forwarded from gentoo-dev at author's request to gentoo-user Forwarded Message From: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers Date: 2005-05-25 22:20:02 GMT yes, it's finally that time ... after months of hearing us say 'we want to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-06-01 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 00:03 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Is something more than creating and editing the subject file required? > I don't see any difference in emerge -v -p output having created it. > Maybe its not correct: > cat /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > > --- >dev-utils/cvs-1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 22:15 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > > > > Where to look to learn about the required syntax? > man portage Specifically for the package.provided file it wants the package and version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 21:35 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 10:13 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think those bi

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging "extra" python

2005-05-26 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 02:36 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > For a system package, this does not seem to work: > > mutable root # emerge -Cav =dev-lang/python-2.4.1 > >>> These are the packages that I would unmerge: > > > !!! Trying to unmerge package(s) in system profile. 'dev-lang/python' > !!! T

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem

2005-05-13 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 21:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > No, it's something more nefarious than that > > 1) All machines have the same hosts file. None of the machines are using dhcp. > > 2) The FC2 client logs into both Gentoo and FC2 hosts fast > > 3) The Gentoo client logs into both Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution 2.2.1.1 can't subscribe to folders

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 10:35 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Is there something else I need to do, or has anyone else got > subscriptions working with evolution 2.2.1.1? If so, I will start > looking at our mail server... It is working fine here against courier-imap and whatever my hosting provider

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.4-r1 had failed.

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 19:16 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > I Already try to use fix_libtool.sh 3.3.5 and I am still having the problem > ... does any one knows what I can do next ? My make.conf is : > > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" > CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 00:08 -0500, Canek Peláez wrote: > The problem is that, at some update, the libraries that EDS depends > upon were changed, and now EDS doesn't work. > > Run revdep-rebuid. > > Canek The machine that had the problems was already running a revdep-rebuild overnight. That fix

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution

2005-05-03 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 11:44 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > In the calendar mode: menu:view/current_view/day_view ?? > Then check again. > > On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 03:37 +0100, José Moreira wrote: > > Nope it aint here :| > > > > > > Qua, 2005-05-04 às 06:32 +0800, W.Kenworthy escreveu: > > > Someti

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.2.1 fails to compile

2005-05-03 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 17:22 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Checked here: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&bug_status=__open__ > &product=&content=%22gnome-extra%22%20%22evolution-data-server%22%201.2.1&&o > rder=bugs.bug_id > > But there are 200 bugs listed and I'm not se

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 emerge error

2005-05-02 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 00:23 +0200, Maerlyn wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hy, > > when I try to emerge xorg-x11, I have the following output: > http://maerlyn.uw.hu/xorg.log > I already tryed other use flags, but nothing changed. Has anyone met > something like this

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-04-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 08:44 -0400, daniel wrote: > On April 28, 2005 11:14 pm, Paul Varner wrote: > # ls -l /etc/make.profile > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Apr 2 03:55 /etc/make.profile > -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0 > > oh that's what it mea

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-04-28 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 22:46 -0400, daniel wrote: > i've been noticing lately that the output of emerge -pv is giving me some > interesting output: > > $ emerge -pv mplayer > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild R ] me

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild error on python

2005-04-18 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 18:14 -0400, Chris Bare wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Chris Bare wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure what I should do at this point. > > > Do I still need python 2.2.3 at all? can I safely unmerge it? > > > Or should I force python-2.2.3-r6 to be installed? > > > > Im no Python

Re: [gentoo-user] VT Switching doesn't work (Ctrl-Alt-F1)

2005-04-09 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 02:21 +0100, Francis Barton wrote: > If I do Ctrl-Alt-F1 while in a GNOME Terminal, it just prints a "P". > If I press Ctrl-Alt-F3 this performs a "switch to external monitor" on > my laptop, meaning my screen goes black (and I can't get it to come > back). This is the actio