090517 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:18:14 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>> 'make oldconfig' is the usual recommendation, but there's no help:
>> it's just a list of "Do you want to ... ?" which you can't save easily.
> Of course there's help. Most options give a choice of y/n/m/?.
Ye
On Mon, 18 May 2009 07:29:00 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> > Of course there's help. Most options give a choice of y/n/m/?.
>
> Yes (red face). However, the crucial option here was ATA_SFF ,
> for which 'make oldconfig' gives :
>
> ATA SFF support (ATA_SFF) [Y/n/?] (NEW) ?
>
> This option
090518 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2009 07:29:00 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>> The blurb tells me nothing, but if I follow its advice, I do get :
> I said there was help, I didn't claim it was helpful :)
> I got bitten by this one a while ago on a box using a mixture
> of SATA and PATA dis
Philip Webb ha scritto:
> 090518 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 May 2009 07:29:00 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>>> The blurb tells me nothing, but if I follow its advice, I do get :
>> I said there was help, I didn't claim it was helpful :)
>> I got bitten by this one a while ago on a box using a
090518 bn wrote:
> Philip Webb ha scritto:
>> Hopefully, the OP has got some useful hints out of all this ...
> Yes. I'm kinda considering switching to Ubuntu.
> I love Gentoo, it's almost 4 years I'm using it, but I need this laptop
> to *work*, and I cannot afford to be consistently bitten by suc
Philip Webb ha scritto:
> 090518 bn wrote:
>> Philip Webb ha scritto:
>>> Hopefully, the OP has got some useful hints out of all this ...
>> Yes. I'm kinda considering switching to Ubuntu.
>> I love Gentoo, it's almost 4 years I'm using it, but I need this laptop
>> to *work*, and I cannot afford t
Hi,
yes I know I could use ~ in package.keywords. But is there a good reason
why postgres is still @8.0 and not at least 8.2?
Regards,
Konstantin
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Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185
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On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 05:42:54PM +0100, bn wrote:
> So, I would really want to understand where the Gentoo flexibility beats
> down a binary distro.
>
> Don't get me wrong -I like Gentoo. Really. But the claim that a binary
> distro is "unfixable" j
On Monday 18 May 2009 18:42:54 bn wrote:
> But anyway you have packages in Gentoo or in Ubuntu: in Gentoo you are
> stuck with what whatever the packagers give you the same. You probably
> have more versions available and some more flexibility, but that's it.
>
> So, I would really want to understa
On Monday 18 May 2009 19:12:22 William Hubbs wrote:
> Another difference is that, since you are compiling everything from
> source, with the correct CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS settings in make.conf, you
> can optimize the binaries you produce to take full advantage of your
> processor, which you can't do
090518 bn wrote:
> Philip Webb ha scritto:
>> With binary distros, you are stuck with whatever their makers give you.
> whatever distro you're using, Linux is Linux. You're not locked out.
> If my xorg.conf doesn't work (it happened with Ubuntu),
> I can edit it on Ubuntu just like on Gentoo.
> I c
William Hubbs wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 05:42:54PM +0100, bn wrote:
> > So, I would really want to understand where the Gentoo flexibility beats
> > down a binary distro.
>
> > Don't get me wrong -I like Gentoo. Really. But the claim that a binary
> > distro is "unfixable" just because I had
On Monday 18 May 2009 19:59:14 William Hubbs wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 07:39:48PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Monday 18 May 2009 19:12:22 William Hubbs wrote:
> > > Another difference is that, since you are compiling everything from
> > > source, with the correct CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS s
Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> Genuine analysis of Gentoo machines admined by someone who knows how to do it
> should that the machine can easily have only the features and software on it
> that the admin say it should have. Like LDAP - not everyone needs it. On a
> binary distro, if the maintainer su
Philip Webb ha scritto:
> 090518 bn wrote:
>> Philip Webb ha scritto:
>>> With binary distros, you are stuck with whatever their makers give you.
>> whatever distro you're using, Linux is Linux. You're not locked out.
>> If my xorg.conf doesn't work (it happened with Ubuntu),
>> I can edit it on Ub
On Monday 18 May 2009 22:14:43 bn wrote:
> > If you use Ubuntu, you've got to accept their eccentric & questionable
> > attitude to passwords, esp that they don't have a separate root password.
> > I find that a piece of cheap popularisation contrary to UNIX principles.
Huh?
The package you are t
Hi group,
The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook. But one thing has
always bothered me: What's the point of specifying a *negative* flag with a
hyphen? Why not just leave the flags you don't use out of the file entirely?
In a related matter, is there a paludis equivalent
> The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook.
> But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of
> specifying a *negative* flag with a hyphen? Why not just
> leave the flags you don't use out of the file entirely?
Some flags are on by default, so this stops their use.
Adam Carter wrote:
The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook.
But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of
specifying a *negative* flag with a hyphen? Why not just
leave the flags you don't use out of the file entirely?
Some flags are on by default, so this stops
2009/5/19 Kevin Coetzee
> Adam Carter wrote:
>
>> The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook.
>>> But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of
>>> specifying a *negative* flag with a hyphen? Why not just
>>> leave the flags you don't use out of the file entirely?
>>
Ric de France wrote:
2009/5/19 Kevin Coetzee mailto:kdcoet...@gmail.com>>
Adam Carter wrote:
The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook.
But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of
specifying a *negative* flag with a hyph
A couple of days ago chronyd stopped functioning.
This is all that the logs tell me but I don't know what I can do to fix it:
=
May 19 06:25:13 lappy chronyd[6756]: chronyd version 1.23 starting
May 19 06:25:14 lappy chronyd[6756]: Se
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