On 26/02/2025 19:26, Rich Freeman wrote:
I'm just saying that in general it is going to be way easier to get a
TV to connect to a media server, than to turn it into one without a
lot of limitations.
And you're doing what Google is doing - reading far more into what I
want to do, and not actual
On 25/02/2025 21:34, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
I don’t even have to format it with the TV. It will only add all the
Android-typical directories when I stick in a drive for the first time. The
only case when I would need to format a drive: if I want to use it to record
TV onto it. Because then the
On 24/02/2025 18:58, Dale wrote:
Thoughts? What would you do? The 480GB is likely big enough for now.
Dunno about your consumer protection laws, but over here
1) Inaccurate description? Automatic right of return for a couple of
months. Opened or not!
2) Mail order? Automatic right of retu
On 25/02/2025 04:20, Dale wrote:
I'm kinda the same way. I rarely buy the latest stuff. To often, it is
just to pricey. Drop down a little and save a lot of money and the
performance is almost as good. I'm the same on this m.2 external
stick. I don't need the very latest products. Odds
On 17/02/2025 03:43, Philip Webb wrote:
The sticks were delivered, so I can't easily return them,
& in any case we've had 50 cm snow dumped on us in the last few days.
If a Linux file system really is unachievable,
I can format the sticks as FAT, which sb adequate for simple archiving.
Don't
On 09/02/2025 05:28, Dale wrote:
Oops. I didn't think about it being on tmpfs.
/var/tmp should not be on tmpfs. /tmp may or may not survive a reboot,
/var/tmp is exlicitly where applications are supposed to store their
crash recovery stuff, and so it is explicitly defined as surviving a rebo
On 01/02/2025 00:13, gevisz wrote:
The problem is that after booting with an additional HDD,
one of these ZFS HDDs does not report any of its disk id:
nor wwn neighter in the form ata-WDC_WD5000*.
The situation remained the same even after swapping the
undetected 500GB WD HDD with the one.
And
On 16/02/2025 13:41, Michael wrote:
nor the "Attached SCSI removable disk" at the end :
This is the message you get when the device is powered up, detected by the
kernel and the filesystem is then being accessed. From this point on the
device can be read from and written to.
So (and this wa
On 19/12/2024 15:46, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
I amn't absolutely sure what started writing stuff onto /dev/nvme1n1p2,
but I strongly suspect it was systemd-boot, still. I'm sure that on my
old machine it was bootctl install that wrote the executable file onto
the EFI partition that WASN'T mounted a
On 18/12/2024 14:30, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday 18 December 2024 12:13:59 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote:
I've been having fun with systemd-boot.
I've been using bootctl from systemd-utils for some years; ever since I
graduated to an EFI system. I don't follow the wiki because of the resulti
On 22/12/2024 15:29, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 22 December 2024 13:43:08 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote:
The trouble [is] that a kernel command line, or /etc/fstab, using lots
of these is not human readable, and hence is at the edge of
unmaintainability. This maintenance difficulty surely outw
On 21/12/2024 12:43, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
, where the extra bit is optional. This enhancement would not be
difficult. The trouble is more political. I think this code is
maintained by RedHat. RedHat's customers all use initramfs, so they
probably think everybody else should, too, hence would
On 20/12/2024 20:19, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
I've just tried it, with metadata 1.2, and it doesn't work. I got error
messages at boot up to the effect that the component partitions were
lacking valid version 0.0 super blocks.
People without initramfs appear not to be in the sights of the
maintain
On 20/12/2024 17:44, k...@aspodata.se wrote:
If I understand things correctly, with this mechanism one can have the
kernel assemble the RAID arrays at boot up time with a modern metadata,
but still without needing the initramfs. My arrays are still at
metadata 0.90.
Please tell if you make bo
On 21/12/2024 22:53, Alan Grimes wrote:
Look at this!!! I cleared cache only 4 days ago and it's already sitting
on 224 GB of cache!!!
KiB Mem : 52765632+total, 26441356+free, 44915076 used, 22483510+buff/cache
Don't you mean 22GB cache :-) You can't have more cache than ram (I
guess you'
On 15/11/2024 00:18, Peter Humphrey wrote:
In the 70s and 80s the national grid control centre in this country used three
2MB disks, any one or two of which could be online at any time. I can't tell
you the platter size, but they were mounted in cabinets about 5' long, 3'6"
tall and 2' wide. Each
On 14/11/2024 20:33, Dale wrote:
It's one thing that kinda gets on my nerves about SMR. It seems,
sounds, like they tried to hide it from people to make money. Thing is,
as some learned, they don't do well in a RAID and some other
situations. Heck, they do OK reading but when writing, they c
On 13/11/2024 23:10, Dale wrote:
My question is this. Given they cost about $20 more, from what I've
found anyway, is it worth it? Is there a downside to this new set of
heads being added? I'm thinking a higher failure rate, more risk to
data or something like that. I think this is a fairly n
On 04/11/2024 02:11, Matt Jolly wrote:
Hi,
On 4/11/24 09:35, Wol wrote:
Seeing as it's removable media I would expect most of those to have
problems if you DID have a partition table. It's linux that's unusual
in being happy with a partition table on removable media.
That is not the case
On 01/11/2024 17:50, Michael wrote:
Thanks! From what I read briefly, I understand clang is recommended upstream
and therefore was set as a default flag. However, a rust Vs rust-bin version
clash can occur and since FF patched their code to work with gcc, setting
clang as the default compiler i
On 31/10/2024 11:56, Peter Humphrey wrote:
the load steadies out at about
4, with several more in merge-wait. This is with i24 l30 in make.conf.
How many cores does your CPU have. I've found that load is an
approximation to "how many cores are running at 100%".
It's very noticeable running x
On 04/10/2024 09:01, Dale wrote:
Once I get started, maybe this will go smoothly this time. Just maybe.
You'll need to read the docu, but this is my dovecot config file. Note
that I have NOT changed any files that were installed with dovecot.
This file won't exist on a clean install, but it
On 03/10/2024 12:33, Michael wrote:
Usually this is a POP3 setting. Instead of deleting a message from the server
once it is downloaded by your client, you can configure it to delete the
downloaded message with some delay. With IMAP4 you have to delete the
messages from the server yourself and
On 29/09/2024 11:04, Michael wrote:
On Sunday 29 September 2024 10:04:42 BST Wols Lists wrote:
Since I emerged and Plasma got upgraded, my configuration isn't
remembered from the previous state, nor does it get saved ...
Then I ran dolphin from the command line, and got an error that R
On 29/09/2024 13:03, Michael wrote:
On Sunday 29 September 2024 12:11:13 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 29 September 2024 10:08:36 BST Wols Lists wrote:
It's actually been like this a while - but my Thunderbird has lost its
title bar. The top bars are the search bar, with the men
On 29/09/2024 11:47, Viorel Munteanu wrote:
La 29.09.2024 12:08, Wols Lists a scris:
It's actually been like this a while - but my Thunderbird has lost its
title bar. The top bars are the search bar, with the menu bar
underneath it. So I have an "X" to close thunderbird with on
It's actually been like this a while - but my Thunderbird has lost its
title bar. The top bars are the search bar, with the menu bar underneath
it. So I have an "X" to close thunderbird with on the search bar, but
that's it. The "v" and "^" to maximise and minimise aren't there because
the bar
Since I emerged and Plasma got upgraded, my configuration isn't
remembered from the previous state, nor does it get saved ...
Then I ran dolphin from the command line, and got an error that REALLY
doesn't make sense!
anthony@thewolery ~/Scans/HP-M477/2024_09_28 $ dolphin . &
[1] 23240
anthony
On 24/09/2024 19:32, k...@aspodata.se wrote:
So should computer words be defined by non-professionals or thoose
who knows ?
Well, before computers, I thought servers worked in restaurants ...
(And what the hell are thoose :-)
One effect of letting non-professionals define words is the case w
On 23/09/2024 23:53, k...@aspodata.se wrote:
It's just the pc hoard that thinks a server is some machine handling
databases, mail, files, printers or what
In other words, X uses the words the other way round than most people -
what I said.
Doesn't mean the majority are right! As far as I'm a
On 05/09/2024 23:06, Michael wrote:
There is also dm-verity for a more involved solution. I think for Dale
something like this should work:
Snag is, I think dm-verity (or do you actually mean dm-integrity, which
is what I use) merely checks that what you read from disk is what you
wrote to d
On 04/09/2024 01:39, Dale wrote:
I've seen that before too. I'm hoping not. I may shutdown my rig,
remove and reinstall the memory and then test it for a bit. May be a
bad connection. It has worked well for the past couple months tho.
Still, it is possible to either be a bad connection or jus
On 02/09/2024 06:11, Dale wrote:
If you have a laptop where heat is a issue, you may want to do things
different but if you can, that will give you the most stable system for
updates.
Another tip - if you run into any problems, try to emerge @system, not
@world.
If you know you've successful
On 02/09/2024 00:56, Dale wrote:
Obviously, a news item can change that process. If there is a news item
with a different process, follow that for sure. Following the news item
to the letter is the best way. The devs work out all the kinks and bugs
before they post the news item.
Find the ot
On 01/09/2024 22:36, Dale wrote:
https://linux.die.net/man/1/cgexec
I've never seen that looping ... but there are a few sites like that -
all it is is the linux man page. If you do "man cgexec" you should get
the exact same text.
Cheers,
Wol
On 01/09/2024 15:24, Dale wrote:
From that link, it looks like that is done manually. In other words,
when I start Firefox, I have to add the process to the cgroup by hand.
Shouldn't there be a way to do it automatically? Like add it to the
command that runs the program name in the application
On 31/08/2024 19:39, Dale wrote:
I did a lot of searching and almost all of it relates to using cgroups
for services, like mysql or something. I haven't found anything that
explains how to do it for a program started by a user. It may be doable
but I've yet to find it.
I did a quick search an
On 19/08/2024 00:12, Dale wrote:
It's annoying as heck. I spend twice as much time correcting typos than
I do actually typing something in. My typing was bad enough already. LOL
I normally use an ergonomic keyboard (you know, the v-shaped version),
and when I use the normal oblong one my fi
On 07/08/2024 01:09, Dale wrote:
Well choke me until I look like a Smurf. ROFLMBO That worked. As soon
as I clicked that, it went to the / directory. It seems to stick
there. It actually changed it for every instance I have running too.
It seems that Dolphin wants to run as one instance i
On 07/08/2024 00:02, Dale wrote:
Well, it does it when I'm actually doing things like typing a email or
something. Plus, most energy saving stuff is disabled. It has to stay
on so I can watch TV anyway. Odd tho, only the main monitor does it.
The second monitor stays on and so does the TV. It
On 06/08/2024 16:28, Michael wrote:
to see if you can set / in there? I don't know if this might affect it
permanently, rather than on startup, but its worth trying.
You can also set it on the startup command, so if you went in and edited
the appropriate .desktop file, you can always tell it
On 05/08/2024 17:30, Daniel Frey wrote:
1. Logins don't work reliably. I use KDE/SDDM and when logging in it
appears to start on a new VT and sometime it doesn't start. Or it will
start the new VT and fail to switch to it, leaving a text console and a
blinking cursor. This didn't happen when us
On 04/08/2024 10:54, Dale wrote:
I figure the first step, find a new email provider. Then find out what
software works best with it. I so want to get away from gmail.
Step 1 - look for a nice domain (mine belongs to my brother).
Step 2 - look for a small(ish) Internet Services Provider which
On 04/08/2024 10:54, Dale wrote:
I've read about people pulling their hair out trying to set up email
software and it sounds like a nightmare and they know more about it than
I do. I'd like to do this but I'd need a good howto.
Thing is, there's too many jobs required to process email, and in
On 03/08/2024 18:15, Dale wrote:
Well, what I'd like to do, install a email program that fetches the
emails and then stores them on my system. Then I can have Thunderbird
or any other email program connect to that and view, create, send or
whatever emails. Thing is, setting up the first progr
On 15/07/2024 07:22, Dale wrote:
Is this about the -1 or --oneshot option?
Yes.
Once your system is stable it's a damn good idea :-)
Cheers,
Wol
On 14/07/2024 13:04, Peter Humphrey wrote:
It doesn't do that here. It tries to fetch the binary and bombs out when it
can't be found. Then I have to edit make.conf to update Gentoo, then put it
back as it was for the rest of the system.
Do you have PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTIONS or whatever it's call
On 09/07/2024 06:25, Arve Barsnes wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 at 00:41, Thelma wrote:
I'm on profile:
default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop (exp) *
but it seems to me it is obsolete. Has anybody switched to a new profile?
How complicated is it?
Gentoo instruction page is not very clear.
==> NEW d
On 08/07/2024 11:48, Michael wrote:
Devices send a viewport size to the server to fetch scaled images and fonts as
required, instead of downloading a huge resolution only for it to be consumed
on the small screen of a phone or tablet. I'm not sure how the screen size
information is shared betwee
On 08/07/2024 10:57, Michael wrote:
will show you what different resolutions the streaming server offers and you
can then select the one you need/prefer. Of course this is conditional on yt-
dlp being capable of parsing the stream you want to download and on the
streaming server offering differe
On 07/07/2024 21:08, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
I read once where a
person had a monitor that had a great picture at 60Hz refresh. Even tho
it would work at 75Hz, the picture wasn't as good. It seems that
something didn't like that 75Hz setting. That person used the 60Hz
setting. Some things a
On 07/07/2024 00:31, Thelma wrote:
I have in my make.conf:
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="mail"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="i...@domain.com /usr/sbin/sendmail"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="package \${PACKAGE} merged on \${HOST} with
notice"
I
On 02/07/2024 10:17, Arve Barsnes wrote:
IMO, only bring out the hammer if you're having a problem.
And when you run emerge --update, does that sometimes find nothing to
upgrade? No reason why it *should* find something.
There's a couple of commands like that that sometimes find nothing to d
On 01/07/2024 11:34, Michael wrote:
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Whenever I have a problem involving perl I first run:
/usr/bin/perl-cleaner --reallyall
I don't know if it will fix your problem, but it won't hurt trying this first.
Yup. I discovered this. A lot of perl stuff doesn'
On 28/06/2024 08:32, Dale wrote:
Also, some software can add files to the bashrc.d directory too. I'm
not sure what added the gentoo-color file but I also found a file for
kitty that I installed recently. If I remove kitty, it removes the file
too. From what I've read, this is why it is changi
On 24/06/2024 02:55, Dale wrote:
Now to ponder what comes next.
Stibbons?
Cheers,
Wol
On 22/06/2024 21:04, Michael wrote:
This is the other info except nothing xorg there, just wayland. See
below for more on that.
root@Gentoo-1 ~ # cat/home/dale/.local/share/sddm/wayland-session.log
I thought you said you were having a problem starting a X session, not
starting a Wayland sessi
On 20/06/2024 16:29, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Anyway, it still rankles that I can't use more than half the machine's power
because of limits in portage. This can't be the only 64GiB machine in gentoo-
land, surely.
Well, I think my machine has 4x32GiB slots, and two are full, so that
makes 64GiB
On 17/06/2024 12:17, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Sadly, the FBR never made it into commercial deployment.
Was that the one with the heavy water moderator? So a thermal runaway
was impossible because you'd have no moderator left?
Cheers,
Wol
On 15/06/2024 21:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Why didn't you keep a copy of the old file?
Because that's one of the itsy-bitsy routine things that ought to be
automatic, not something that each user should have to think out for
himself.
Dunno which update tool it is, but istr there is a tool th
On 16/06/2024 09:40, Michael wrote:
Now to get temp sensors and stuff to work. I want to keep a eye on
temps for a bit. I think the boot media was reporting the wrong info.
Even the ambient temp was to high for this cool room. It showed like
100F or something when my A/C is set to 68F or so.
On 16/06/2024 23:39, Nuno Silva wrote:
And of course, all the rules get bent by the various
manufacturers. Bear in mind that basic EFI predates vFAT so even in
UEFI vFAT isn't actually mandatory. Apple don't use it, iirc. There's
nothing stopping GNU's OpenBIOS project or whatever it is using
ext
On 05/06/2024 20:15, Meowie Gamer wrote:
I must've taken too long to join the mailing list because I missed the first
part of whatever's happening here. How did this turn from python 3.12 to a
conversation about USE?
Because they're using USE or whatever to force packages to stay on 3.11,
b
On 05/06/2024 13:12, Eli Schwartz wrote:
Which I think is fine, if people want that, but not everyone does, so
delaying the update altogether might be preferable to those people.
Ie people like me who don't give a monkeys about python, and consider it
a necessary evil.
As far as I'm concerne
On 05/06/2024 13:28, Rich Freeman wrote:
Implementing dynamic USE management would take somebody a fair bit of
effort, and for all I know it would make every emerge you run take an
hour to recompute the dependency tree. The ability to configure USE
flags, along with the ability to dynamically de
On 03/06/2024 16:34, Dale wrote:
The way I did my last two rigs is this. Find the fastest CPU. Drop
down about 2 models. That is not the fastest but very close to it but a
LOT cheaper. Then buy a mobo and memory to go with it. You get a
system that is likely close to 90% of the fastest you c
On 03/06/2024 12:07, MasterP wrote:
*NOTE*: Almost minutes after I wrote this, and before posting it, AMD
announced at Computex that the new gen will be available next month. So
maybe waiting for the new processors could be a good idea. Although at the
launch, both the new boards and cpus are pro
On 02/06/2024 14:27, Dale wrote:
Should I put
the portage work directory on a spinning rust drive to save wear and
tear on the SSD or have they got to the point now that doesn't matter
anymore? I know all the SSD devices have improved a lot since the first
ones came out.
The stuff I've seen sa
On 02/06/2024 06:38, Dale wrote:
My plan is the CPU above for now. Later, I will upgrade to the Ryzen 9
7900X to get even more speed. I'll also max the memory out too. I'm
unclear on the max memory tho. One place shows 128GB, hence two 32GB
sticks.
Go on the manufacturer's website, find the
On 28/05/2024 20:51, Jude DaShiell wrote:
My machine has protected mbr with gpt partitions on it. Are those kind of
partitions hybrid?
This is completely standard nowadays. I think the "protected MBR" just
points to the first four GPT partitions.
This is basically down to the fact that (a)
On 15/05/2024 11:40, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I think whoever named grub had delusions of grandeur. 🙂 Anyway, I never let
it near my systems.
I liked lilo. And then it disappeared :-(
Grub isn't that bad - it's just that insists on trying to do everything
itself - and if you've got at all a st
On 02/05/2024 11:46, Peter Humphrey wrote:
When I started using Linux, the received wisdom was to keep a separate /boot,
and leave it unmounted during normal operation. The idea was that a successful
hacker would not, supposedly, be able to corrupt the kernel ready for a reboot
into their system.
On 02/05/2024 10:35, Michael wrote:
Besides the automation this feature affords, I find it useful to know what a
partition contains without having to mount it. On GPT labelled disks I make
use both of the Partition Type UUID and the Partition Name. A quick glance at
the gdisk output and if need
On 27/04/2024 17:53, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I'm installing Gentoo on another old box. To be consistent I like to
use cgdisk, GPT I think it is called, to partition all my drives,
regardless of size. Thing is, Grub works differently with GPT than it
does with the old DOS or whatever it is called, l
On 17/04/2024 10:10, Michael wrote:
I am not sure the assumption "... aging hardware possibly can less and less
cope with newer and newer kernels" is correct. As already mentioned newer
kernels have both security and bug fixes. As long as you stick with stable
gentoo-sources you'll have these i
On 13/04/2024 14:23, Dale wrote:
I see lots of mobos with those little hard drives on a stick. I think
they called NVME or something, may have spelling wrong. For most
people, that is likely awesome. For me, I think I'd be happy with a
regular SSD. Given that, I'd like them to make a mobo whe
On 08/04/2024 15:03, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
the upgrade on my old laptop with two 2.7GHz Dual-Core Skylake proces-
sors took slightly more than 2 hours for the manual upgrading of "bin-
utils", "gcc" and "glibc", and slightly more than 21.5 hours for the fi-
nal upgrade of "@world", which h
On 07/04/2024 16:08, Michael wrote:
Cool, once your system is up to date you should be able to change your profile
and follow the rest of the instructions. I hope all goes well. 🙂
emerge --emptytree is now running well - 122 of 1534 so it has some way
to go ...
Cheers,
Wol
On 07/04/2024 15:46, Wols Lists wrote:
On 07/04/2024 13:07, Michael wrote:
On Sunday, 7 April 2024 12:04:32 BST Wols Lists wrote:
On 07/04/2024 11:48, Wols Lists wrote:
On 07/04/2024 11:23, Michael wrote:
On Sunday, 7 April 2024 11:21:00 BST Wols Lists wrote:
On 07/04/2024 11:00, Wols Lists
On 07/04/2024 13:07, Michael wrote:
On Sunday, 7 April 2024 12:04:32 BST Wols Lists wrote:
On 07/04/2024 11:48, Wols Lists wrote:
On 07/04/2024 11:23, Michael wrote:
On Sunday, 7 April 2024 11:21:00 BST Wols Lists wrote:
On 07/04/2024 11:00, Wols Lists wrote:
What do I do here - "e
On 07/04/2024 11:48, Wols Lists wrote:
On 07/04/2024 11:23, Michael wrote:
On Sunday, 7 April 2024 11:21:00 BST Wols Lists wrote:
On 07/04/2024 11:00, Wols Lists wrote:
What do I do here - "emerge binutils" (step 9) wants to emerge gcc,
which the instructions say "emerge
On 07/04/2024 11:23, Michael wrote:
On Sunday, 7 April 2024 11:21:00 BST Wols Lists wrote:
On 07/04/2024 11:00, Wols Lists wrote:
What do I do here - "emerge binutils" (step 9) wants to emerge gcc,
which the instructions say "emerge AFTER binutils".
With gcc it says "
On 07/04/2024 11:15, Michael wrote:
On Sunday, 7 April 2024 11:00:49 BST Wols Lists wrote:
What do I do here - "emerge binutils" (step 9) wants to emerge gcc,
which the instructions say "emerge AFTER binutils".
With gcc it says "don't let it emerge glibc", sh
On 07/04/2024 11:15, Michael wrote:
On Sunday, 7 April 2024 11:00:49 BST Wols Lists wrote:
What do I do here - "emerge binutils" (step 9) wants to emerge gcc,
which the instructions say "emerge AFTER binutils".
With gcc it says "don't let it emerge glibc", sh
On 07/04/2024 11:00, Wols Lists wrote:
What do I do here - "emerge binutils" (step 9) wants to emerge gcc,
which the instructions say "emerge AFTER binutils".
With gcc it says "don't let it emerge glibc", should I apply the same
logic and not let binutils
What do I do here - "emerge binutils" (step 9) wants to emerge gcc,
which the instructions say "emerge AFTER binutils".
With gcc it says "don't let it emerge glibc", should I apply the same
logic and not let binutils emerge gcc?
Cheers,
Wol
On 03/04/2024 19:53, Jack wrote:
Are you certain it hasn't started on some TTY other than 8? I always
start out on TTY1, although I start up text only, no SDDM. However, I do
have a very vague memory of something similar, and I believe it was that
I needed to change one of the kernel FB relate
On 10/03/2024 22:44, Carsten Hauck wrote:
The CPU of the machine in question is in deed an old AMD. It's good to
know the reason for that build-failures, thanks a lot.
I certainly will stick to "-clang" in my package.use.
Interesting. I'm not at all sure how old my CPU is, but at four cores i
On 03/03/2024 23:13, Carsten Hauck wrote:
So I don't know what's going on, but basically Mozilla won't emerge,
and I don't know why ...
Cheers,
Wol
Did the other 19 package emerge OK? Are the mozilla progs crashing
when running, or when emerging? If emerging, the log is just console
output,
On 04/03/2024 16:20, ralfconn wrote:
Il 03/03/24 10:47, Wols Lists ha scritto:
I'm getting this output from
emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world
Calculating dependencies... done!
* Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
* the following required package
On 03/03/2024 09:47, Wols Lists wrote:
I'm getting this output from
emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world
whoops I mean "emerge --depclean"
I'm trying to get a clean system, and don't know what exactly is wrong,
or what to try ...
Cheers,
Wol
I'm getting this output from
emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world
Calculating dependencies... done!
* Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
* the following required packages not being installed:
*
* >=dev-libs/icu-73.1:0/73.1= pulled in by:
* www-clien
On 28/02/2024 02:17, Jack wrote:
On 2/27/24 20:54, Adam Carter wrote:
To clean up csv files I use excel's find/replace to swap the commas
occurring within fields for something benign. How does this magic
work? Different character sets within the same file?
Is it possible to do this with shell
On 23/02/2024 00:28, Grant Edwards wrote:
In my experience, 's bootloader does not boot other
installations by calling other bootloaders. It does so by rummaging
through all of the other partitions looking for kernel images, intird
files, grub.cfg files, etc. It then adds menu entries to the con
On 09/02/2024 12:57, J. Roeleveld wrote:
I don't understand it exactly, but what I think happens is when I create
the snapshot it allocates, let's say, 1GB. As I write to the master
copy, it fills up that 1GB with CoW blocks, and the original blocks are
handed over to the backup snapshot. And whe
On 08/02/2024 06:38, J. Roeleveld wrote:
ZFS doesn't have this "max amount of changes", but will happily fill up the
entire pool keeping all versions available.
But it was easier to add zpool monitoring for this on ZFS then it was to add
snapshot monitoring to LVM.
I wonder, how do you deal with
On 08/02/2024 06:32, J. Roeleveld wrote:
Personally, I'd go the MPL2 route, but that's my choice. It might not
suit you. But to achieve what you want, you need a copyleft, GPL-style
licence.
I'll have a look at that one.
Basically, each individual source file is copyleft, but not the work as
On 07/02/2024 11:11, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 9:27:35 PM CET Wols Lists wrote:
On 06/02/2024 13:12, J. Roeleveld wrote:
Clearly Oracle likes this state of affairs. Either that, or they are
encumbered in some way from just GPLing the ZFS code. Since they on
paper own
On 07/02/2024 11:07, J. Roeleveld wrote:
Because snapshotting uses so much less space?
So much so that, for normal usage, I probably have no need to delete any
snapshots, for YEARS?
My comment was based on using rsync to copy from the source to the backup
filesystem.
Well, that's EXACTLY what
On 06/02/2024 16:19, J. Roeleveld wrote:
Ah! Got it. That's one of the things I've been trying to figure out
this entire thread, do I need to switch home and root to ZFS to take
advantage of its snapshot support for backups? In the case you're
describing the "source" filesystem(s) can be anything
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