Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 03 December 2015 18:38:02 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I spent quite a long time playing with these programs back in September, > getting rid of that blasted zero stroke. Trouble was, if I got rid of > the whole stroke, it looked too much like a capital o, and if I got rid > of just the mi

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally

2015-12-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 03 December 2015 23:01:27 lee wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > Have you looked into net-dns/dnsmasq? > > "Small forwarding DNS server"? Why would I want a forwarding one? Because it only forwards queries that it can't answer itself - see lines 72 - 74 in the attached config file

[gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

2015-12-04 Thread gevisz
Recently, I finally created my own keyboard layout by edining /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file. In the nearest future, I also will edit the corresponding xml file that provides the menu for the xfce4 keyboard layout switch plugin file deleting from it all the entries about keyboard layouts for th

[gentoo-user] Open RC problem?

2015-12-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Has anyone had problems with sys-apps/openrc-0.18.4? I upgraded to it this morning and on rebooting, my md devices were left inactive. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

2015-12-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 gevisz wrote: > So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already > edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file will not be overwritten > during the next system update. Add it to CONFIG_PROTECT in make.conf. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Open RC problem?

2015-12-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 12:01:48PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > Has anyone had problems with sys-apps/openrc-0.18.4? I upgraded to it this > morning and on rebooting, my md devices were left inactive. I upgraded yesterday, and on rebooting, nothing gave me cause to

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

2015-12-04 Thread Stroller
> On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:10 p.m., Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 gevisz wrote: > >> So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already >> edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file will not be overwritten >> during the next system update. > > Add

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

2015-12-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Stroller wrote: > >> On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:10 p.m., Peter Humphrey >> wrote: >> >> On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 gevisz wrote: >> >>> So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already >>> edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file will not be

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

2015-12-04 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 01:55:30PM +0200, gevisz wrote: > > So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already > edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file will not be overwritten > during the next system update. Thabk you. > Use a configuration management tool like puppet or ansible. It w

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

2015-12-04 Thread gevisz
2015-12-04 14:10 GMT+02:00 Peter Humphrey : > On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 gevisz wrote: > >> So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already >> edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file will not be overwritten >> during the next system update. > > Add it to CONFIG_PROTECT in make.

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

2015-12-04 Thread gevisz
2015-12-04 14:38 GMT+02:00 Stroller : > >> On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:10 p.m., Peter Humphrey >> wrote: >> >> On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 gevisz wrote: >> >>> So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already >>> edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file will not be overwritte

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

2015-12-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 04 December 2015 12:38:16 Stroller wrote: > > On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:10 p.m., Peter Humphrey > > wrote:> > > On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 gevisz wrote: > >> So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already > >> edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file will not b

Re: [gentoo-user] Open RC problem?

2015-12-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 04 December 2015 12:19:28 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 12:01:48PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Has anyone had problems with sys-apps/openrc-0.18.4? I upgraded to it > > this morning and on rebooting, my md devices were left inactive. > > I upgraded yesterday, and o

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread wabenbau
Peter Humphrey wrote: > A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been working > on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. It's bad > enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries, without going the > whole hog. That's right. I talked about X fonts. Didn't noti

Re: [gentoo-user] Beast / BSE

2015-12-04 Thread Meino . Cramer
Daniel Frey [15-12-04 03:32]: > On 12/03/2015 09:53 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Beast BSE is a soft syntesizer for (beside others) Linux. > > > > The application ( https://testbit.eu/wiki/Beast_Home ) needs > > to be compiled from source and is not part of the portage. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:02:59AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been working > on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. It's bad > enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries, without going > the whole hog. Speakin

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread wabenbau
waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:02:59AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > > > A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been > > working on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. > > It's bad enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Open RC problem?

2015-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 04 Dec 2015 17:05:49 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Alan. I did some more poking around and found > that removing zerotier-one and netmount from the default run-level > fixed it. Or maybe it was just coincidence again - this box certainly > does some odd things at tim

[gentoo-user] Re: Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/04/2015 02:45 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:02:59AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote >> >>> A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been >>> working on console fonts

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:45:43PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > Try consolefont="ter-124n". But as Peter said, the terminus-font > needs some X libraries. I never noticed that, because on my system > X was already installed before I installed media-fonts/terminus-font. I couldn't get anyth

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread wabenbau
waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:45:43PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > > > Try consolefont="ter-124n". But as Peter said, the terminus-font > > needs some X libraries. I never noticed that, because on my system > > X was already installed before I installed > > media-

Re: [gentoo-user] Beast / BSE

2015-12-04 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/04/2015 09:44 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > (WARNING! I am no native english speaker! :) No problem, so far I can understand what you are saying. :-) > I tried to compile the beast outside but regardless what I > was doing, it bests configure insists of not seeing libpng, > which definit

Re: [gentoo-user] Beast / BSE

2015-12-04 Thread Meino . Cramer
Daniel Frey [15-12-05 06:44]: > On 12/04/2015 09:44 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > (WARNING! I am no native english speaker! :) > > No problem, so far I can understand what you are saying. :-) > > > I tried to compile the beast outside but regardless what I > > was doing, it bests configure