[gentoo-user] emerge fails with syntax error from stage3-amd64-openrc-20250216T164837Z.tar.xz

2025-02-21 Thread Steven Lembark
e.py", line 43, in _initialize self._module = __import__(mod_name, [], [], ["not empty"]) ^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/portage/sync/modules/PaxHeaders/__init__.py", line 1 20 atime=1726641191 ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with mdadm (Software RAID)

2024-12-25 Thread Steven Lembark
root, var, home filesystems another that's striped for /var/tmp and other scratch spaces. This gives an overview: https://speakerdeck.com/lembark/its-only-logical-lvm-for-linux -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

[gentoo-user] Does anyone have Gentoo running on a ThinkPad x13 AMD (Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U)?

2023-05-24 Thread Steven Lembark
et a copy of a working /usr/src/linux/.config file and any information on kwikhaks to get around the install issues. Thanks -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

[solved] [gentoo-user] Completed installing ... into /tmp/portage/app-emulation/virt-manager-4.0.0

2023-02-19 Thread Steven Lembark
> stable (on amd64) uses “gtk”[1], testing uses “gui”[2]. Upgraded to 4.1 & added "gui", got it installed. Thank you -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] Completed installing ... into /tmp/portage/app-emulation/virt-manager-4.0.0

2023-02-18 Thread Steven Lembark
olicykit sasl Global Use Flags gui test python_single_target (Use Expand) python3_9 python3_10 python3_11 -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] Completed installing ... into /tmp/portage/app-emulation/virt-manager-4.0.0

2023-02-18 Thread Steven Lembark
ndbox buildpkg-live userpriv unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans parallel-fetch binpkg-multi-instance sandbox unknown-features-warn strict clean-logs news ebuild-locks" -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

[gentoo-user] Completed installing ... into /tmp/portage/app-emulation/virt-manager-4.0.0

2023-02-18 Thread Steven Lembark
ge: /usr/bin/emerge --deep --backtrack=128 --with-bdeps y --complete-graph y --autounmask-write --verbose-conflicts --jobs --load-average 60 --verbose-conflicts See also: https://pastebin.com/76x7AdB9 Full emerge log https://pastebin.com/EmyLJsyM emerge --info -- Steven Lembark Workhor

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice fails to build, cannot download non-existant ~scarabeus/lpsolve-5.5.2.0.tar.xz ???

2022-02-21 Thread Steven Lembark
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 20:35:23 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/614866 Bug doesn't address it, but shouldn't using the alternate lp library via "coinmp" sidestep the issue? -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-21 Thread Steven Lembark
rives, which means they are possibly imperial threads (vs. SI). Many of the same sorts of screws are used on autombiles; you might find that a local parts store can dig up a pitch guage that'll at least tell you what you're looking for. -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

[gentoo-user] libreoffice fails to build, cannot download non-existant ~scarabeus/lpsolve-5.5.2.0.tar.xz ???

2022-02-21 Thread Steven Lembark
--2022-02-21 12:48:01-- http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/~scarabeus/lpsolve-5.5.2.0.tar.xz * Resolving dev.gentooexperimental.org... failed: Unknown host. * wget: unable to resolve host address ‘dev.gentooexperimental.org’ * !!! Couldn't download 'lpsolve-5.5.2.0.tar.xz'. Aborting. *

[gentoo-user] emerge failes due to no valid source for pythonexec-2.2 when I have pythonexec-2.4 installed???

2022-02-06 Thread Steven Lembark
pypy3 python_targets_python3_8 ) I thought I'd seen news to the effect that the system was standardizing on 3.8 at least, let alone 3.6. Q: What is a reasonable range of Python versions to specify for a current running system? Q: Is there any combination of use flags, make settings,

Re: [gentoo-user] Apparently 2.4 is not >= 2.2?

2021-12-22 Thread Steven Lembark
27;t be this painful to just start a new system. -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Apparently 2.4 is not >= 2.2?

2021-12-22 Thread Steven Lembark
Sorry for the delay. > Post the output of: > > emerge --info dev-lang/python-exec https://pastebin.com/5kQPpRsb -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

[gentoo-user] Apparently 2.4 is not >= 2.2?

2021-12-21 Thread Steven Lembark
t/MarkupSafe/ Description: Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python License: BSD -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: What is "python-exec2c"? Why would "python3" dispatched through it not see an installed copy of pyyaml?

2021-03-07 Thread Steven Lembark
were selected. Thanks -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: What is "python-exec2c"? Why would "python3" dispatched through it not see an installed copy of pyyaml?

2021-03-07 Thread Steven Lembark
lled python library. -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: What is "python-exec2c"? Why would "python3" dispatched through it not see an installed copy of pyyaml?

2021-03-07 Thread Steven Lembark
gentoo, 3.7.9-r2::gentoo, 3.8.7-r1::gentoo, 3.9.1-r1::gentoo * USE="-test" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_7 python3_8 (-pypy3) -python3_9" See <https://pastebin.com/JbKXEptz> for details of --info. -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: What is "python-exec2c"? Why would "python3" dispatched through it not see an installed copy of pyyaml?

2021-03-07 Thread Steven Lembark
0307-183833.log Q: Is it reasonable to simply remove everything other than 3.9 and some version of 2.7? Trying to build 3.9 for one of my co-workers was hell, we ended up using 3.8. Would it make more sense to remove 3.9? Not entirely sure why I have so many versions of python left behind by upgrades. -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: What is "python-exec2c"? Why would "python3" dispatched through it not see an installed copy of pyyaml?

2021-03-07 Thread Steven Lembark
#x27;m fine). Thanks -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: What is "python-exec2c"? Why would "python3" dispatched through it not see an installed copy of pyyaml?

2021-03-07 Thread Steven Lembark
On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 00:09:47 +0100 David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 06 Mar 2021, Steven Lembark wrote: > >Question then is why "python-exec2c" dispatched via a symlink from > >"python3" would fail to see the installed copy of pyyaml (or how > &

[gentoo-user] Q: What is "python-exec2c"? Why would "python3" dispatched through it not see an installed copy of pyyaml?

2021-03-06 Thread Steven Lembark
n1 /scratch/Build/crawl/crawl-ref/source/util/species-gen.py #!/usr/bin/env python3 $ which python3 /usr/bin/python3 $ ls -ld $(which python3) lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 20 10:46 /usr/bin/python3 -> python-exec2c Thanks -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] Going through these one by one.

2021-02-14 Thread Steven Lembark
I've tried this with an initially empty local & zz_autoconfig just moving the generated autoconfig's in place as they are generated but that didn't work either. After zeroing zz_autoconfig and running a few emerges I get a autoconfig file that hits a brick wall. Thank you -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

[gentoo-user] glibc fails to compile for lack of stddef.h that is present

2021-02-14 Thread Steven Lembark
Oddity: I have multiple gentoo systems here happily using the kernel headers, including stddef.h. One of them, screwed up in a variety of other ways, blows up building glibc for lack of an extant header file: # ls -l /usr/include/linux/stddef.h; -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131 Sep 12 22:40 /u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Going through these one by one.

2021-02-14 Thread Steven Lembark
g (-gles2-only) -opengl -static-libs -utils -valgrind" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" <https://pastebin.com/r7Qe4yUf> Running it with a loop moving ._cfg00_autoconfig and re-running emerge eventually brick walls into the same result

Re: [gentoo-user] Going through these one by one.

2021-02-14 Thread Steven Lembark
on_targets_python3_7(-)?,python_targets_python3_8(-)?,python_targets_python3_9(-)?,-python_single_target_pypy3(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_8(-),-python_single_target_python3_9(-)] required by (dev-python/setuptools-53.0.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for m

Re: [gentoo-user] Going through these one by one.

2021-02-14 Thread Steven Lembark
On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 21:42:12 -0700 Dan Egli wrote: > On 2/13/2021 2:41 PM, Steven Lembark wrote: > > [snip] > > Bumps into not having sys-apps/portage-::gentoo: > > # $emerge dev-db/pgmodeler > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > > > !!! All e

Re: [gentoo-user] Going through these one by one.

2021-02-13 Thread Steven Lembark
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:01:36 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 13:04:26 -0500, Steven Lembark wrote: > > > 20 years I've been using Gentoo, I'm about to remove it because I > > have not been able to maintain it since the whole python 2.7 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Going through these one by one.

2021-01-25 Thread Steven Lembark
ps://www.python.org/ Description: An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language License: PSF-2 Q: If you have a working Gentoo system, what version of python do you have installed? What does eselect show you? What are you using for PYTH

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have experience, good or bad, with s6?

2020-12-04 Thread Steven Lembark
on that makes it hell to actually use, however :-) -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

[gentoo-user] Anyone have experience, good or bad, with s6?

2020-12-04 Thread Steven Lembark
Seems like a reasonable idea, wondering if anyone has seen particularly good or bad results from trying to use it (on gentoo or anything else). Thanks -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

[gentoo-user] Going through these one by one.

2020-11-19 Thread Steven Lembark
arget_python3_5(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-)]" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-apps/portage-9999::gentoo (masked by: missing keyword) -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] elogind conversion, loginctl user-status fails.

2020-11-19 Thread Steven Lembark
"emerge @world" (gcc had been updated, etc, seemed like a nice time to sync it all up). At this point I no longer can due to python issues, but the world we re-emerged at that time. -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

[gentoo-user] elogind conversion, loginctl user-status fails.

2020-10-27 Thread Steven Lembark
gt; Q: Is there any documentation anyone knows about that describes this error? Thanks -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

[gentoo-user] Q: Where does elogind get "--keeptty" set?

2020-10-26 Thread Steven Lembark
bmitted all of them but x11-base/xorg-server. The latter has to be started with "-keeptty" to add systemd-login/elogind integration, and that argument is strictly for debugging. Q: Any suggestions as to where or how I might avoid this or supply -keeptty? thanks -- Steven Lembar

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 fails to start up after elogind emerge

2020-10-26 Thread Steven Lembark
<https://pastebin.com/KuGDsWBL> Xorg.0.log: <https://pastebin.com/1b0Wn1D0> strace loginctl:<https://pastebin.com/78F14s8P> -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

[gentoo-user] X11 fails to start up after elogind emerge

2020-10-22 Thread Steven Lembark
erge --info: <https://pastebin.com/Y0FVLLve> emerge --verbose --info: <https://pastebin.com/LDfH4wz5> Running startx as SU does not solve the issue, the user is already in tty and input groups (i.e., has access to /dev/tty* and /dev/input/{event,mouse}*). Q: Any sugges

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail server

2020-07-19 Thread Steven Lembark
Dovecot works well enough, catch is that it has some security issues. My fix is to have it run on localhost and ssh tunnel local ports into 143 & 25 on the in-house server. At that point postfix + dovecot work fine for me. -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-23 Thread Steven Lembark
ory; not enough of us left who really understand how malloc works :-) -- Steven Lembark 5725 Aylesboro Ave Workhorse ComputingPittsburgh PA 15217 lemb...@wrkhors.com+1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Tinderboxes?

2020-04-23 Thread Steven Lembark
tps://www.slideshare.net/lembark/smoking-docker). Adding a Reporter-ish layer to a new version of Portage or a smoke- testing option that does a "emerge --install" into a temp layer in Docker, reports the outcome, and discards the results shouldn't be all that hard. I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-23 Thread Steven Lembark
llers. If you use an offball product you'd have to rely on whomever hacked it to get support -- vs. hitting up the usual gentoo list for help -- but if satisfies your needs using "frobnicate install..." why would having second package manager be all t

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-23 Thread Steven Lembark
omeone feels > someone else's foot on their toes and it gets a little tense.  Q: What part of the entirety of human history have you *not* described? Put it another way: Q: Why should anyone ever expect Gentoo to somehow not reflect the fact that H. Sapiens are its perpetrators?

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-23 Thread Steven Lembark
process along quite nicely]. Q: What is it about configuring a kernel that you are finding most difficult? I may be able to provide some poitners to simplify it. -- Steven Lembark 5725 Aylesboro Ave Workhorse Computing

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner problem

2018-07-17 Thread Steven Lembark
of them affect scanning, dbus, usb (anything else that might be used by sane)? -- Steven Lembark 1505 National Ave Workhorse Computing Rockford, IL 61103 lemb...@wrkhors.com+1 888 359 3508

[gentoo-user] Xen fails to build with gcc warnings as errors.

2018-03-24 Thread Steven Lembark
og: <https://pastebin.com/UMbpPDxJ> -- Steven Lembark 1505 National Ave Workhorse Computing Rockford, IL 61103 lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @world and package.mask ?

2018-02-27 Thread Steven Dürl
on-vlc-0.10 Also there's no phonon-vlc-4.9.9. phonon-vlc only goes up to 0.10.1, that's why portage tries to update phonon-vlc. Steven

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 boot problem

2018-02-07 Thread Steven Lembark
draid*" "raid5rec"). -- Steven Lembark 1505 National Ave Workhorse Computing Rockford, IL 61103 lemb...@wrkhors.com+1 888 359 3508

[gentoo-user] Q: pp requires --uesr option t hat doesn't exist?

2017-12-24 Thread Steven Lembark
the paths. Or, for that matter, does anyone know how to avoid the "--user" requirement using pip? thanks -- Steven Lembark 1505 National Ave Workhorse Computing Rockford, IL 61103 lemb...@wrkhors.com+1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM not accessible after reboot

2015-08-12 Thread Steven Lembark
RAID for you. If booting the install consistently shows your RAID built at boot time then the problem is either in your kernel configs or LVM. If nothing else, having the thumb around makes dealing with hardware failures a helluva lot easier. -- Steven Lem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

2015-07-16 Thread Steven Lembark
mlinuz root=/dev/sdc1 ro echo'Loading initrd ...' initrd /boot/rescue.cpio.gz } - Run grub2-mkconfig once. - Never touch the grub.cfg file ever again (unless you switch the boot filesystem type). If I went from XFS -> btrfs for the root filesys

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd and kernel developers cooperating to turn it into a global cgroup manager?

2013-10-23 Thread Steven J. Long
Daniel Campbell wrote: > Do you know the design consequences of opt-in versus opt-out? I'll keep > this short: When evolving a codebase, new behavior for core parts of the > system should not be pushed or forced on users. If you must, keep the > old behavior around as a default and allow users to t

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-11 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:42:33AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:36:02 +0100, Steven J. Long wrote: > > > > It's evolution. Linux has for years been moving in this direction, > > > now it has reached the point where the Gentoo devs can no longe

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-11 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:50:05AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 11/10/2013 09:54, Steven J. Long wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:04:38AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 29/09/2013 23:41, Dale wrote: > >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>>> >

[gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-11 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 09:17:02PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 19:04:41 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > I suppose that what I am about to say isn't really relevant, but it is > > > unfortunate over the past year that people blamed udev specifically > > > for this. It is

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-11 Thread Steven J. Long
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:35:58PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> wrong analogy and it goes down from here. Really. > > Ohh, but they are inspired on YOUR analogy, so guess how wrong yours was. > > your trolling is weak. And since I never saw anything worth reading > posted by you, you ar

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-11 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:37:53PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:05:39 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > If *something1* at boot time requires access to *something2* at boot > > > time that isn't available then I would say that *something1* is broken > > > by design not the

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-11 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:04:38AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 29/09/2013 23:41, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 29/09/2013 18:33, Dale wrote: > that gnome is very hostile when it comes to KDE or choice is not news. > > And their dependency on systemd is just the usual ma

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME

2013-08-03 Thread Steven J. Long
Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > Steven J. Long wrote: > > > Again you're wilfully misinterpreting what I've said, and answering a > > completely different > > point. You didn't know the basics of how to go about approaching Gentoo. > While I (and others BTW)

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME

2013-08-02 Thread Steven J. Long
Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > Steven J. Long wrote: > > > Again, I proposed myself to the dev list two times in the past. Nobody > > > cared and I had no answers. > > > > Because that has never been the process: anyone can post to the > > mailing-list, it >

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread Steven J. Long
Samuli Suominen wrote: > FUD again. The backwards compability is still all there and udev can be > built standalone and ran standalone. Sorry I'm going to call "bullshit" on this one. You know damn well "upstream" moved udev into systemd, promising everyone it would be possible to continue to b

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread Steven J. Long
Samuli Suominen wrote: > Futhermore predictable network interface names work as designed, Unfortunately the "design" is crap. -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME

2013-08-02 Thread Steven J. Long
Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > hasufell wrote: > > You can use the command line too. > > > > www-client/pybugz > > I know this tool. I did try it. At that time it was buggy and did not > work for me. Though, this would still be a busy process as this is just > another interface og the bugzilla thing.

[gentoo-user] Reinventing the wheel

2013-07-27 Thread Steven J. Long
Alan McKinnon wrote: > Steven J. Long wrote: > > "POSIX 4: Programming for the Real World" (Gallmeister, 1995) > > "UNIX Network Programming vol 2: Interprocess Communications" (Stevens, > > 1999) > > > > More here: > > https://foss

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Fresh install and problem with net.* init.d script

2013-07-24 Thread Steven J. Long
Alan McKinnon wrote: > Peace and hugz OK? Definitely :-) "POSIX 4: Programming for the Real World" (Gallmeister, 1995) "UNIX Network Programming vol 2: Interprocess Communications" (Stevens, 1999) iirc the first is on safari-online; you can download code from the second here: http://www.kohala.c

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Fresh install and problem with net.* init.d script

2013-07-24 Thread Steven J. Long
Alan McKinnon wrote: > you forgot that shared library nonsense. Every app should just bundle > static copies of everything it needs and leave it up to the dev to deal > with bugs and security issues And you forgot: -lc prob'y because it's not required. -lrt comes into play too. I'd recommend a boo

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Fresh install and problem with net.* init.d script

2013-07-24 Thread Steven J. Long
Neil Bothwick wrote: > Steven J. Long wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > You might as well ask why do you need or want any other form of IPC > > > you already have, as that is what dbus is. It's a very small, light > > > daemon, can run system-wid

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install and problem with net.* init.d script

2013-07-23 Thread Steven J. Long
Alan McKinnon wrote: > dbus is NOT a desktop daemon. This is very important, and that single > misunderstanding is probably behind all the fud you read about it. > > dbus implements a message bus - an amazingly useful thing to have. > > Why do you need or want a message bus? > > You might as wel

[gentoo-user] Re: mutt configuration advice

2013-06-01 Thread Steven J. Long
Mick wrote: > I would be grateful if some kind soul guided my hand on configuring mutt to > behave like ... errm ... kmail! O_o Funnily enough I did just that, for the same reasons (You want what?! a full-blown MySQL production server just to notify me about email? YDIW.) and wrote it up here:

[gentoo-user] Re: Logitech MX620 mouse

2013-05-18 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:57:40AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 18.05.2013 00:57, schrieb John Campbell: > > > Take a look at imwheel. It's a little unmaintained but it still works. > > I've used it on an old MX1000 and my current PreformanceMX. > > > > You can set mouse buttons on a

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems with aclocal

2013-05-03 Thread Steven J. Long
Andre Lucas Falco wrote: > > > It's possible to use the package.env, described here: > > > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/env. > > > > > > I use this for 2 packages (ghostscript-gpl and orbit), runs flawlessly. > 2013/5/2 Neil Bothwick > > > > You could, but then you need to remove the s

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-26 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 04:50:43PM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > And you are vastly overstating the desirability of having pulseaudio > > enforced on users without very good cause > How much barefaced lying can you do in one sentence

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Steven J. Long
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 09:31:43PM +0400, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > On 25.04.2013 19:48, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Walter Dnes > > wrote: > >> I think you've hit the nail on the head. Complex setups require > >> complex software... deal with it. An analogy is

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage screwup

2013-04-19 Thread Steven J. Long
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:34:42PM -0600, Joseph wrote: > On 04/18/13 22:10, Michael Hampicke wrote: > >Am 18.04.2013 15:33, schrieb Joseph: > >> What is going on with portage? > >> All the older packages are being removed and and some of them are not > >> even made stable. > >> > >> I've masked cu

Re: [gentoo-user] Any UPS recommendations?

2013-01-08 Thread Steven Lembark
ut. Reboots don't take that long and the cost+overhead of running an oversize unit adds up. You have a different calculation for servers or racks, where uptime is more of an issue. The bigger ones also weigh a helluva lot more, which doesn't sound like anything until you break a desk o

[gentoo-user] Re: System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-10 Thread Steven J. Long
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 04:30:33PM -0800, Grant wrote: > And then attended like this: > > emerge -DuN world > revdep-rebuild > etc-update > elogv > emerge --depclean > eclean distfiles > eclean packages > > Am I missing any good stuff? I've recently modified update[1] to use --changed-use by de

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC with multiple targets

2011-11-19 Thread Steven J Long
David W Noon wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:49:04 +0100, Kamil Domański wrote: > >> I've been trying to figure out a way to emerge GCC with multiple >> target architectures. > > Try using the crossdev package. Yeah crossdev _rocks_. #gentoo-embedded is a good place to get help, as well as the

[gentoo-user] Re: Progress on s/udev/mdev/

2011-11-19 Thread Steven J Long
Pandu Poluan wrote: > Great! BTW, if the ebuild goes into overlay, it could use a newer EAPI, > couldn't it? Sure. -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)

[gentoo-user] Re: udev with separate /usr and no initramfs

2011-11-19 Thread Steven J Long
Some fool wrote: > Following the debates over the summer, about plans to require an > initramfs for udev, I put together a slightly different approach using > the dependency tracking in openrc. It's outlined (in Unsupported Software) > at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6866484.html Just wo

[gentoo-user] Re: The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

2011-11-15 Thread Steven J Long
Mick wrote: >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 694, in finish >> self.wfile.flush() >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/socket.py", line 303, in flush >> self._sock.sendall(view[write_offset:write_offset+buffer_size]) >> error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe >> -

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-15 Thread Steven J Long
Dale wrote: > Of course, if I find something better, I can backup the /home > directory and install something else then restore the /home and carry on > with something new. > I strongly recommend keeping a separate partition for /home; it makes things a lot easier if and when you switch. It also m

[gentoo-user] Re: The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-15 Thread Steven J Long
Michael Mol wrote: > Isn't there a kernelland HTTP server? ISTR seeing the option. I don't > know anything about it, though. > Yeah there was; as I recall it got removed a while back. Google got me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server and khttpd at: http://www.fenrus.demon.nl/ ..both of

[gentoo-user] Re: Handbook as epub

2011-11-09 Thread Steven J Long
Michael Mol wrote: > I'd like to have the Handbook in a format convenient for reading in > ebook readers. > > Now, I know I could take the existing HTML files and convert them, but > I think it'd be nicer if I could get the handbook maintenance scripts > to automate a conversion process, and then

[gentoo-user] Re: udev with separate /usr and no initramfs

2011-11-08 Thread Steven J Long
>> This is on stable udev (164-r2.) I'm not running unstable, so be careful >> if you are, and let us know if there are any changes needed. You can get >> in touch on IRC, or via the forum post. -- or ofc this list. Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > I am running ~amd64 and I'll try this, when I h

[gentoo-user] udev with separate /usr and no initramfs

2011-11-08 Thread Steven J Long
Hi, Following the debates over the summer, about plans to require an initramfs for udev, I put together a slightly different approach using the dependency tracking in openrc. It's outlined (in Unsupported Software) at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6866484.html and consists of a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encrypted email (gentoo-windows)

2011-03-27 Thread Steven Susbauer
On 3/27/11 5:00 AM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > In linux.gentoo.user, James wrote: >> >> What I would really like is to be able to exchange encrypted mail >> with any MS user > > What, you've never received an encrypted email from a windows user > before? If you think about it, surely you have... >

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync to a USB stick

2010-05-29 Thread Steven
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I run: > > rsync -a -l --delete -v /mnt/Business_dir /media/sdf1 > > to back up a directory from a PC to a USB stick. However, from a cursory > look > this *seems* to copy the complete directory (every time I run it) and > overwrites th

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-04 Thread Steven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22:13/02/04/10, Leon Feng wrote: > ??? 2010/2/4 05:45:00???Harry Putnam ??? > > After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils > > broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another > > revdep-rebuild and it f

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-04 Thread Steven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09:58/02/04/10, Mariusz Ceier wrote: > W dniu 04.02.2010 08:15, Steven pisze: > > I am having a recurring error for the last few weeks > > > > revdep-rebuild -p > > > > * Configuring search environment for r

[gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-03 Thread Steven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I am having a recurring error for the last few weeks revdep-rebuild -p * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package * update * will be emerged.

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-03 Thread Steven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15:45/02/03/10, Harry Putnam wrote: > After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils > broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another > revdep-rebuild and it finds the same thing. > > Anyone seen somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc

2010-01-26 Thread Steven
I had this problem with a SanDisk usb drive. Its been years since I did this but If my memory serves me correct I had to go to the SanDisk website and download a program for windows to remove the problem. I don't know if there is a linux alternative to something like this but I know how annoying i

Re: [gentoo-user] where can I find USE flags description?

2009-11-19 Thread Steven Ringwald
Don't know how current the list is, but: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml Steve On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I want to emerge a certain package, let's say x11-base/xorg-drivers, > so I try first "emerge --pretend xorg-

Re: [gentoo-user] umask 002 in /etc/profile

2009-03-31 Thread Steven Lembark
g private dir's (largely $HOME) to have tighter mods with files below them "group readable" by a single-user group. The scheme works rather nicely in nearly every situation (POSIX ACL's play hell with the scheme, but, then, they are supposed to). enjoi -- Steven Lembark

Re: [gentoo-user] Grep question

2009-03-02 Thread Steven Lembark
asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf bar -- Steven Lembark85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Steven Lembark
painful is it, really, to run the job when you are asleep or away from the machine? Cron the update or use "at" to get the changes you want when you are away from the console. -- Steven Lembark85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Steven Lembark
pendency hell as a form of performance hit: if you spend X hours trying to work around the library glitches it's that much dead time on the box you aren't using. -- Steven Lembark85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-05 Thread Steven Lembark
for disaster recovery just name it "stable" and have two hard-wired entries for the vmlinuz and 'stable'. -- Steven Lembark85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 lemb...@wrkhors.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-24 Thread Steven Lembark
>> How can I accomplish this?: Use a non-standard port for yourself (e.g., , 34567). A port entry in your .ssh/config will handle that. With that back door you can set up any remaining rules on port 22. -- Steven Lembark85-09 90th St. Wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good instructions for creating a Live CD?

2009-01-24 Thread Steven Lembark
they worked for me. -- Steven Lembark85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-24 Thread Steven Lembark
FM). Face it: we've all become addicted to amounts of RAM that didn't even exist on the planet 25 years ago, let alone disk :-) -- Steven Lembark85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-24 Thread Steven Lembark
disk. It may use a lot of virtual memory, but with sufficient swap it will [eventually] get done. -- Steven Lembark85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 lemb...@wrkhors.com

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