Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:26:09 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > > Why not? It's the obvious choice. Have you tried using nail's Mail > > from the command line to see if it works as you expect? > I have been using nail because it has the option to set the smtp server > to use (as an environment variable. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-22 Thread Thanasis
on 04/22/2011 04:00 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:12:39 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > > There you go then, it's man page time :) http://linux.die.net/man/1/nail Do you see anything relevant in the man page? >>> No, but then I don't need to look at it

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:12:39 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > >>> There you go then, it's man page time :) > >> http://linux.die.net/man/1/nail > >> Do you see anything relevant in the man page? > > No, but then I don't need to look at it :) > > > Yea, I don't think it's caused by nail. Why not?

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-22 Thread Thanasis
on 04/22/2011 10:14 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:05:41 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > >>> There you go then, it's man page time :) >> http://linux.die.net/man/1/nail >> Do you see anything relevant in the man page? > No, but then I don't need to look at it :) > Yea, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:05:41 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > > There you go then, it's man page time :) > http://linux.die.net/man/1/nail > Do you see anything relevant in the man page? No, but then I don't need to look at it :) -- Neil Bothwick Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenev

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/22/2011 01:09 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:45:14 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > >>> % qfile -v Mail >>> mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20050715-r3 (/bin/Mail) >>> >>> is what I use >>> >>> >> # qfile -v Mail >> mail-client/nail-12.4 (/usr/bin/Mail) > > There you go then

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:41:08 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > WORLD_MERGE="emerge --update --deep --reinstall changed-use >> > --with-bdeps y --verbose @system @world" > >>  I guess I've lost track. Is @system not a part of @world or is that

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:41:08 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > WORLD_MERGE="emerge --update --deep --reinstall changed-use > > --with-bdeps y --verbose @system @world" > I guess I've lost track. Is @system not a part of @world or is that > done for some other reason? The emerge man page says 'world

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:45:14 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > > % qfile -v Mail > > mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20050715-r3 (/bin/Mail) > > > > is what I use > > > > > # qfile -v Mail > mail-client/nail-12.4 (/usr/bin/Mail) There you go then, it's man page time :) Although I thought nail's code had been m

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > My full sig is like below, and it's originally in HTML, so the links > would've worked. Whenever I post to Gentoo-User, I change to > plaintext, crop the sig to only the top 3 lines (excluding the "--"), > and delete the rest. Signature divi

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/21/2011 04:26 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:57:40 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > >> When i run it, I get a mail with an attachment named attachment.bin >> which is actually a text file. How can I make it appear inline (in the >> message body)? > I'm guessing you hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Here it is, as an attachment too to avoid screwing up the lines > > > #!/bin/bash > > export PORTAGE_ECLASS_WARNING_ENABLE="0" > WORLD_MERGE="emerge --update --deep --reinstall changed-use --with-bdeps y > --verbose @system @world" > Hi Ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:57:40 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > When i run it, I get a mail with an attachment named attachment.bin > which is actually a text file. How can I make it appear inline (in the > message body)? I'm guessing you have a different variant of Mail to me, because I get the text inlin

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/21/2011 11:03 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:44:27 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > >> So, I understand that normally (in my case) there is no need for these >> presync.d and postupdate.d directories, right? >> The script could be stripped from these like so: > > Corre

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/21/2011 11:03 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:44:27 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > >> So, I understand that normally (in my case) there is no need for these >> presync.d and postupdate.d directories, right? >> The script could be stripped from these like so: > Correct

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:44:27 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > So, I understand that normally (in my case) there is no need for these > presync.d and postupdate.d directories, right? > The script could be stripped from these like so: Correct. Actually, I've just noticed an inconsistency in the script, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/21/2011 01:01 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:23:01 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > >> Thanks! Can you add some comments, like what the directories presync.d >> and postupdate.d are supposed to be ... as I don't have those. >> >> I have postsync.d and don't know what i

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 17:24, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday 20 April 2011 16:49:26 Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Google Talk:    pepoluan >> Y! messenger: pepoluan >> MSN / Live:      pepol...@hotmail.com (do not send email here) >> Skype:            pepoluan >> More on me:  My LinkedIn Account

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:23:01 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > Thanks! Can you add some comments, like what the directories presync.d > and postupdate.d are supposed to be ... as I don't have those. > > I have postsync.d and don't know what is it about ... It contains a file > named q-reinitialize : Scri

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 21:06:09 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 15:41 on Wednesday 20 April 2011, Joost > > Roeleveld did opine thusly: > > Alan, > > > > I would love to do a better test then this. > > Reason I took Openoffice is because it's known to be a large build >

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Thanasis
Thanks! Can you add some comments, like what the directories presync.d and postupdate.d are supposed to be ... as I don't have those. I have postsync.d and don't know what is it about ... It contains a file named q-reinitialize : # cat /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize #!/bin/sh [ -x /usr/bi

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:41 on Wednesday 20 April 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: > Alan, > > I would love to do a better test then this. > Reason I took Openoffice is because it's known to be a large build > (requires a lot of diskspace) and takes a long time. > > If you kno

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 15:16:40 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:37 on Wednesday 20 April 2011, Joost > > Roeleveld did opine thusly: > > On Wednesday 20 April 2011 11:25:27 Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > > On Wednesday 20 April 2011 03:42:13 Dale wrote: > > > > Joost Roel

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:07:46 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > > That's the gist of it, although it also emails the output from emerge > > -pvDN world, so I can see what needs to be done. It runs a few other > > bits, like glsa-check. > > > > > Neil, do you mind posting it (after changing any private bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:37 on Wednesday 20 April 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: > On Wednesday 20 April 2011 11:25:27 Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 April 2011 03:42:13 Dale wrote: > > > Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 19 April 2011 17:54:02 Dale wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 11:25:27 Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday 20 April 2011 03:42:13 Dale wrote: > > Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > > On Tuesday 19 April 2011 17:54:02 Dale wrote: > > >> Kfir Lavi wrote: > > >>> I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for > > >>> embedded. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Thanasis
on 04/19/2011 03:40 PM Joost Roeleveld wrote the following: > On Tuesday 19 April 2011 09:04:18 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it > with > emerge-uDNf world, so the files a

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 16:49:26 Pandu Poluan wrote: > Google Talk:pepoluan > Y! messenger: pepoluan > MSN / Live: pepol...@hotmail.com (do not send email here) > Skype:pepoluan > More on me: My LinkedIn Account My Facebook Account Wouldn't this fit better at the bottom a

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
Google Talk:    pepoluan Y! messenger: pepoluan MSN / Live:  pepol...@hotmail.com (do not send email here) Skype:    pepoluan More on me:  My LinkedIn Account  My Facebook Account On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 16:25, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 April 2011 03:42:13 Dale wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 03:42:13 Dale wrote: > Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 April 2011 17:54:02 Dale wrote: > >> Kfir Lavi wrote: > >>> I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. > >>> I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay). > >>> I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday 19 April 2011 17:54:02 Dale wrote: Kfir Lavi wrote: I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay). I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs. Thats how I keep my SSD ;) Kfir -- Poison [BLX]

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 17:54:02 Dale wrote: > Kfir Lavi wrote: > > I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. > > I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay). > > I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs. > > Thats how I keep my SSD ;) > > > > Kfir > > > > -- > > Poison [BLX] >

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Dale
Kfir Lavi wrote: I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay). I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs. Thats how I keep my SSD ;) Kfir -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy I got 16Gbs in my rig and I mounted portages work director

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Dale wrote: > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> > >> Hello list, > >> > >> How's this for sheer persistence and grit? > >> > >> $ genlop -c > >> > >> Currently merging 321 out of 368 > >> > >> * www-client/chro

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 09:04:18 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > > > Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it > > > > with > > > > emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I > > > > want > > > > to upd

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Thanasis
on 04/19/2011 11:04 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. >>> Can you p

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > > Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with > > > emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want > > > to update. > > > > Can you post the script? > > My guess is that the script wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 08:34:06 Thanasis wrote: > on 04/19/2011 12:56 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > > Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with > > emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to > > update. > > Can you post the script?

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Thanasis
on 04/19/2011 12:56 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > > Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with > emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to > update. > > Can you post the script?

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:51:32 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your > server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded > files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public > Gentoo mirrors but becau

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 18 April 2011 16:48:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 18 April 2011 15:51:32 Florian Philipp wrote: > > In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your > > server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded > > files). For downloading files, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 18 April 2011 15:51:32 Florian Philipp wrote: > In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your > server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded > files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public > Gentoo mirrors but because

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 18.04.2011 16:35, schrieb Peter Humphrey: > On Monday 18 April 2011 13:44:45 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:22:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> Has anyone here managed to get http-replicator running on a non-Gentoo >>> box? It would be good to keep a distfiles repository somew

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 18 April 2011 13:44:45 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:22:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Has anyone here managed to get http-replicator running on a non-Gentoo > > box? It would be good to keep a distfiles repository somewhere on the > > LAN, and the box in question is

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:22:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Has anyone here managed to get http-replicator running on a non-Gentoo > box? It would be good to keep a distfiles repository somewhere on the > LAN, and the box in question is supposed to be the LAN server, after > all. Why do you need

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 18 April 2011 02:44:19 Dale wrote: > How long does it take to open it when it gets done? Seconds? Minutes? I was going to check, but now I can't starrtx on that box. Because of the http-replicator problem I mentioned in another thread I decided to throw the book at it and ran "emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 18.04.2011 10:12, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:52:56 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > >>> it's tedious to install things >>> through an intermediary system all the time. The fullsize laptop, when >>> it gets its rebuild over the next week (it's been a windows 2k3 server >>> de

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:52:56 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: >> it's tedious to install things > > through an intermediary system all the time. The fullsize laptop, when > > it gets its rebuild over the next week (it's been a windows 2k3 server > > development system lately) > My strategy for getti

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 18.04.2011 06:53, schrieb Joshua Murphy: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Dale wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> >>> Hello list, >>> >>> How's this for sheer persistence and grit? >>> >>> $ genlop -c >>> >>> Currently merging 321 out of 368 >>> >>> * www-client/chromium-10.0.648.204 >>> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-17 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> How's this for sheer persistence and grit? >> >> $ genlop -c >> >>  Currently merging 321 out of 368 >> >>  * www-client/chromium-10.0.648.204 >> >>        current merge time: 11 hours, 41 minutes and 9 se

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-17 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, How's this for sheer persistence and grit? $ genlop -c Currently merging 321 out of 368 * www-client/chromium-10.0.648.204 current merge time: 11 hours, 41 minutes and 9 seconds. ETA: any time now. This is my Atom N270 LAN server box.

[gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, How's this for sheer persistence and grit? $ genlop -c Currently merging 321 out of 368 * www-client/chromium-10.0.648.204 current merge time: 11 hours, 41 minutes and 9 seconds. ETA: any time now. This is my Atom N270 LAN server box. -- Rgds Peter