Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1554 (82878-82927)

2008-08-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 02:10 -0500, toefraz wrote: > unsubscribe NO! -- Iain Buchanan Interestingly enough, since subroutine declarations can come anywhere, you wouldn't have to put BEGIN {} at the beginning, nor END {} at the end. Interesting, no? I wonder if Henry would like it. :-) --lwall

[gentoo-user] Add drivers to custom live CD

2008-08-10 Thread Jan Schneiders
Hi, I created a live CD by following the steps in this tutorial: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_create_a_custom_distro_(in_less_than_three_hours) Everything works perfectly, except for one thing: I don't know how to add drivers. If I just make && install them with DESTDIR=/real, the drivers d

[gentoo-user] python-updater keeps catching same packages

2008-08-10 Thread Adam Carter
voodoo adam # python-updater * Starting Python Updater from 2.4 to 2.5 : * Adding to list: =x11-libs/vte-0.16.13 * Adding to list: =app-office/dia-0.96.1-r1 * Adding to list: =dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 And if i run python-updater again after letting it rebuild these packages it picks them

[gentoo-user] RE: python-updater keeps catching same packages

2008-08-10 Thread Adam Carter
Sorry, should have googled first; http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232467

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-10 Thread Stroller
On 9 Aug 2008, at 14:52, Yoav Luft wrote: In an ideal world users should use their domain username & password to log on when they sit down at the Linux box. And they should be mounting the directories they need off the file server by (double-clicking on a drive icon on their KDE desktop if

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-10 Thread Jil Larner
Hello, I recently set up samba to allow authentification against Active Directory for file sharing on a CentOS 4.5. Even if their installer is supposed to do it correctly, it didn't work the way I wanted, so I had to understand how to set it up manually. The main problem I found with documen

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Alan E. Davis wrote: Norberto and Josh: Thank you for the suggestion. It's on the back burner. I have the space to experiment with it now. I have balked for the time being on basis of, partly, my need to be able to swap drives in and out, and have it clear in mind which partitions belong

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Linux 2.6.25-r7 with gentoo patches fail to boot

2008-08-10 Thread Yoav Luft
Thanks, it works! On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yoav Luft wrote: > >> mount /boot >> copied the kernel, reconfigurated grub, and rebooted. >> > > You can also emerge debianutils (I think it's installed by default, but > check first) which will enab

Re: [gentoo-user] Changes in the way USB devices are mounted

2008-08-10 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:03:34 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspect that something changed recently on the way that USB devices are > mounted. I noticed that mounting a USB flash drive has stopped working as > follows: [snip] > $ pmount /dev/sda > Error: device /dev/sda is not remova

[gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread b.n.
Hi, I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? I wonder in particular if: - there are Linux systems using the BSD userlands - there are Linux systems using completely non-standard userlands... let's say, non-Unix tool

[gentoo-user] mplayer and fontconfig

2008-08-10 Thread dhk
I recently started using tovid again and it seems to be having a lot of problems with the programs it uses. The last time I used it was in November and all worked well. First there was a problem with libGL.so.1, it didn't seem to be on my system. ldd `which mplayer` said it wasn't found. Af

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Florian Philipp
b.n. schrieb: Hi, I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? I wonder in particular if: - there are Linux systems using the BSD userlands - there are Linux systems using completely non-standard userlands... let's say

[gentoo-user] Re: [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-08-10, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. > > Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? What do you mean by "non-Gnu"? SW for which the FSF doesn't own the copyrights? SW which is distributed under

[gentoo-user] Re: [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-08-10, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? What do you mean by "non-Gnu"? SW for which the FSF doesn't own the copyrights? SW which is

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 b.n. wrote: > Hi, > > I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. > > Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? > > I wonder in particular if: > - there are Linux systems using the BSD userlands > - there are Linux

[gentoo-user] Re: [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-08-10, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? >> >> What do you mean by "non-Gnu"? >> >> SW for which the FSF doesn't own the copyrights? >> >> SW which is distributed under something other than one of the >>

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread b.n.
Chuck Robey ha scritto: You might possibly be missing one of the most basic (in organization) differences between any BSD and any Linux is that BSD's are all built and packaged with a set of userland programs. This doesn't include many user applications, just the kind of things that you think of

[gentoo-user] Re: [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-08-10, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? What do you mean by "non-Gnu"? SW for which the FSF doesn't own the copyrights? SW which is distributed under something other than one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 10. August 2008, b.n. wrote: > Hi, > > I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. > > Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? linux + uclibc + busybox? yes. And maybe you even get X or KDE run on it - google and tell us your results ;) http://www

[gentoo-user] Re: [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-08-10, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry. Here is the definitive list of all software provided > by the GNU project: > > http://directory.fsf.org/GNU > > Given how much software GNU provides, I imagine it's pretty much > impossible to find a Linux or BSD these days tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Mike Edenfield
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-08-10, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The last time I did a basic FreeBSD install, it included Gnu user-land stuff (e.g. gcc). Anything else besides GCC? I can't think of anything else off the top of my head, but it's been a couple years since I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 00:54 +0200, b.n. wrote: > That's why I asked if there is some Linux that is not "a little bit" but > *wildly* different, as to be almost unrecognizable as the Linux we're > all familiar with (that usually is done by a bash/zsh/ksh shell + other > gnu coreutils etc.) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread b.n.
Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: On Sonntag, 10. August 2008, b.n. wrote: Hi, I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? linux + uclibc + busybox? yes. And maybe you even get X or KDE run on it - google and tell us

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 b.n. wrote: > Chuck Robey ha scritto: >> You might possibly be missing one of the most basic (in organization) >> differences between any BSD and any Linux is that BSD's are all built and >> packaged with a set of userland programs. This doesn't inclu

[gentoo-user] cannot compile net-fs/mount-cifs using gcc 4.3.1

2008-08-10 Thread John covici
cifs.c -o mount.cifs || die "make * mount.cifs failed"; * The die message: * make mount.cifs failed * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/net-fs:mount-cifs-3.0.28:2008

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 11. August 2008, b.n. wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: > > On Sonntag, 10. August 2008, b.n. wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. > >> > >> Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? > > > > linux + uclibc + busyb

[gentoo-user] Re: cannot compile net-fs/mount-cifs using gcc 4.3.1

2008-08-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
John covici wrote: Hi. I tried to compile net-fs/mount-cifs because when I used smbfs I got a very prominent message from the kernel saying that smbfs would be removed in 2.6.27 and I should use cifs instead. However when I tried to compile it, I got the following error: less /usr/portage/net

[gentoo-user] Re: cannot compile net-fs/mount-cifs using gcc 4.3.1

2008-08-10 Thread John covici
on Monday 08/11/2008 Nikos Chantziaras([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > John covici wrote: > > Hi. I tried to compile net-fs/mount-cifs because when I used smbfs I > > got a very prominent message from the kernel saying that smbfs would > > be removed in 2.6.27 and I should use cifs instead. Howeve

[gentoo-user] Shell problem

2008-08-10 Thread Ivan Alden
Hi all, I was working in a shell with tar and I changed something where now when I type "*" it interprets it as --exlucde i.e $ * bash: --exlucde: command not found or $ ls * ls: unrecognized option `--exlucde' Try `ls --help' for more information. how can I fix this? thanks, Ivan

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem

2008-08-10 Thread Francisco Ares
looks like an "alias", maybe you have accidentaly edited .bashrc or .bash_profile hope this helps Francisco On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Ivan Alden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was working in a shell with tar and I changed something where now when > I type "*" it interprets it

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem

2008-08-10 Thread Zhou Rui
2008/8/11 Francisco Ares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > looks like an "alias", maybe you have accidentaly edited .bashrc or > .bash_profile > Just input alias in shell to check if the alias about * exists. > hope this helps > Francisco > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Ivan Alden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem

2008-08-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 11. August 2008, Ivan Alden wrote: > Hi all, > > I was working in a shell with tar and I changed something where now when > I type "*" it interprets it as --exlucde > > i.e > > $ * > bash: --exlucde: command not found > > or > > $ ls * > ls: unrecognized option `--exlucde' > Try `ls --he

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem

2008-08-10 Thread felix
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:57:26PM +, Ivan Alden wrote: > Hi all, > > I was working in a shell with tar and I changed something where now when > I type "*" it interprets it as --exlucde > > i.e > > $ * > bash: --exlucde: command not found > > or > > $ ls * > ls: unrecognized option `--exl