Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> As some know, I like LVM. The Truenas box serves a purpose with zfs but
> I am more familiar with LVM and using zfs is sort of confusing me
> because they do similar things in similar ways but are different. Each
> time I want to do something, I have to figure it out agai
On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 08:07:59 BST Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > As some know, I like LVM. The Truenas box serves a purpose with zfs but
> > I am more familiar with LVM and using zfs is sort of confusing me
> > because they do similar things in similar ways but are differen
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 1:05 AM Ramon Fischer
wrote:
> You may also want to take a look at "distcc", with which you can set up
> compiler farms; this can be even combined with "ccache":
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distcc#With_ccache
>
> -Ramon
>
Hi Ramon,
distcc is way more than I ne
On 11/09/2023 22:19, Alan McKinnon wrote:
chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 and still going
so 9 hours at least on this machine to build a browser - almost as bad
as openoffice at it's worst (regularly took 12 hours). Nodejs also took
a while, but I didn't record time.
Wh
On 11/09/2023 23:21, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Yup, that jibes with what I see. Oh well, just means that the need for
overnight compiles did not go away haha
Ever since I added the following to my make.conf:
PORTAGE_NICENESS=19
PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="sh -c \"schedtool -D \${PID} && ionice -c 3 -p
On Monday, 11 September 2023 22:22:28 BST Michael wrote:
> There's also the option of using bin alternatives where available, e.g.
> google-chrome, firefox-bin, libreoffice-bin.
...and rust-bin, which is now the default in at least some desktop profiles.
--
Regards,
Peter.
Le mar. 12 sept. 2023, 12:14, Peter Humphrey a
écrit :
> On Monday, 11 September 2023 22:22:28 BST Michael wrote:
>
> > There's also the option of using bin alternatives where available, e.g.
> > google-chrome, firefox-bin, libreoffice-bin.
>
> ...and rust-bin, which is now the default in at leas
Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 08:07:59 BST Dale wrote:
>> Dale wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> As some know, I like LVM. The Truenas box serves a purpose with zfs but
>>> I am more familiar with LVM and using zfs is sort of confusing me
>>> because they do similar things in similar ways
On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:45:21 BST Dale wrote:
> I currently have Ubuntu installed. I would have been done with it
> sooner but I had a typo in exports and it wouldn't allow me to mount the
> thing. Wrong IP for my main system. At least it's secure. ROFL So
> far, my biggest gripe is
On 9/12/23 11:55, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:45:21 BST Dale wrote:
I currently have Ubuntu installed. I would have been done with it
sooner but I had a typo in exports and it wouldn't allow me to mount the
thing. Wrong IP for my main system. At least it's secure.
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 8:55 AM Peter Humphrey
wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:45:21 BST Dale wrote:
>
> > I currently have Ubuntu installed. I would have been done with it
> > sooner but I had a typo in exports and it wouldn't allow me to mount the
> > thing. Wrong IP for my main sy
On 2023-09-12, Dale wrote:
> I currently have Ubuntu installed. [...] So far, my biggest gripe is
> sudo this, sudo that. Dang, give me root and be done with it. :/
> I did try, no freaking password for the thing. I gotta google that
> tho. There has to be a way.
$ sudo bash -
It's bee
What problems did you encounter? I mean, this is the Gentoo user community, and even so, I'm still happy to serve you properly-please note that the specific service should be based on your actual situation, if you need my remote service, I will charge for it!Your description is not clear, and it is
On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:19:45 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > I currently have Ubuntu installed. [...] So far, my biggest gripe is
> > sudo this, sudo that. Dang, give me root and be done with it. :/
> > I did try, no freaking password for the thing. I gotta google that
> > tho. There ha
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 11:19 AM Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 11/09/2023 22:19, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 and still going
> > so 9 hours at least on this machine to build a browser - almost as bad
> > as openoffice at it's worst (regularly to
On 9/12/2023 11:57 AM, Jack wrote:
On 9/12/23 11:55, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:45:21 BST Dale wrote:
I currently have Ubuntu installed. I would have been done with it
sooner but I had a typo in exports and it wouldn't allow me to mount the
thing. Wrong IP for my
On 2023-09-12, Alan McKinnon wrote:
[...]
> But anyways, this is not really about how to deal with long compiles, I was
> asking what current packages take a long time after a 5 year absence.
>
> The answer is what it was always - browsers and libreoffice. I do recall
> icu being a bit of a beast b
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2023-09-12, Dale wrote:
>
>> I currently have Ubuntu installed. [...] So far, my biggest gripe is
>> sudo this, sudo that. Dang, give me root and be done with it. :/
>> I did try, no freaking password for the thing. I gotta google that
>> tho. There has to be a way.
On 2023-09-12, Todd Goodman wrote:
>
>> I've generally used "sudo bash" for such stuff.
>
> Or sudo -i
Doh! How did I not know that? I've been doing "sudo bash -" for
years. All those wasted bits...
On 11/09/2023 20:46, Alan McKinnon wrote:
qtwebengine! yes that one took forever also. It also said my 16G of RAM
was smaller than the 16G it needed. Weird.
Anyways I enabled a swapfile and left it to run overnight
16GB physical ram <> 16GB usable ram for the compile ...
I concur with others
On 12/09/2023 08:07, Dale wrote:
I figured out a way to install this to see what it looks like. I found
out it doesn't support encryption. No LUKS stuff or anything. So, it
won't work. Thinking about installing Gentoo or Ubuntu on that old
rig. Most likely Ubuntu. I guess Debian could work
Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2023-09-12, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> I currently have Ubuntu installed. [...] So far, my biggest gripe is
>>> sudo this, sudo that. Dang, give me root and be done with it. :/
>>> I did try, no freaking password for the thing. I gotta google that
>>> tho. The
On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:01:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> But anyways, this is not really about how to deal with long compiles, I
> was asking what current packages take a long time after a 5 year
> absence.
>
> The answer is what it was always - browsers and libreoffice. I do recall
> icu being
On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:43:30 -0500, Dale wrote:
> This last one seemed the simplest and easiest. I might add, it also
> worked. Now I don't have to sudo every time I want to take a breath or
> something. Most any of them would have helped but now I can just login
> as root. I have to be a user
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:43:30 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> This last one seemed the simplest and easiest. I might add, it also
>> worked. Now I don't have to sudo every time I want to take a breath or
>> something. Most any of them would have helped but now I can just login
>> a
Wol wrote:
> On 12/09/2023 08:07, Dale wrote:
>> I figured out a way to install this to see what it looks like. I found
>> out it doesn't support encryption. No LUKS stuff or anything. So, it
>> won't work. Thinking about installing Gentoo or Ubuntu on that old
>> rig. Most likely Ubuntu. I g
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