Dirk Heinrichs writes:
> Hmm, "Not commonly used", don't know. First versions of autofs date back to
> April 97, amd is much older, I think. So no, automounting is NOT new in
> Linux,
> it's there for over a decade now.
At nearly 70, I can call a decade `fairly recent'.
I have to beg to diff
Dirk Heinrichs writes:
> Hi,
>
> I really wonder about this discussion. "This tool can do it, that
>tool can do it, the other one, too". WTF?
No problem, don't read it.
> Just mount the damn share and _EVERY_ tool can access it. So what?
Settle down bub... you're not in a barroom here. Ease u
Dirk Heinrichs writes:
> Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 17:31:28 schrieb Harry Putnam:
>> `eix midnight' fails as does `eix commander'
>>
>> Does it have a different name in portage?
>
> No, it has the same name as everywhere: mc ;-)
Dirk, Your wisacre additi
Roy Wright writes:
> update-eix-remote is an executable, not an option to the eix
> executable. After running update-eix-remote your normal eix queries
> will include overlays.
Ha.. no wonder I didn't find it.
However its not a part of the eix package nor is it visible on
portage. At least
walt writes:
[...]
>> Nifty, I didn't know that. Amazing what mc can do. Couple of points
> that are not obvious in case Harry wants to try mc: it needs to be
> compiled with the samba USE flag set; and you access your samba shares
> using the "Right" or "Left" dropdown menus at the top of
Paul Hartman writes:
[...]
>> It must be common task for people using overlays... so anyone know how
>> its done.
>
> Hi,
>
> Create the file /etc/eix-sync.conf with this one character in it:
> *
>
> Then you can simply run eix-sync to automatically sync your overlays,
> main portage tree, and u
Neil Walker writes:
>> Linux is much older than 1997...
>> Not at all. [...]
I really meant unix... where most of linux cmds and base tools comes
from. But as people do unix/linux is often thought of as one kind of
thing.
[...]
> Hmm. Most of the people who used (actually, played with becau
New to layman but after at least a semi-careful look thru man layman I
don't find anything explaining what the different color asterisks
mean.
I didn't read every word but scanned the whole thing twice and did a
few searchs like /color and /output
But those didn't do much good.
Anyone know what
Stroller writes:
> In separate posts, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I started my computer life on linux 1996.. only moved to windows for
>> some things when editing video (I like the adobe tools... and linux
>> just doesn't have anything remotely comparable.)
>> ...
>
Dale writes:
> I also know the SysReq key trick now. It can take you back to a console.
I'll bite ... what is it?
Alex Schuster writes:
>> I'm curious about the actual key strokes. Is it
>>
>> Alt-SysRq and then REISUB
And what is `SysRq' a reference to on a keyboard?
Zhengquan Zhang writes:
> 2009/10/9 Justin :
>> Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
>>> Hi, Gentoo users,
>>> I am new to gentoo and am wondering if there is a command to show
>>> where a package is installed? which file is installed in which
>>> directory?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>
>> emerge app-portage/port
Dale writes:
> Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
>> Hi, Gentoo users,
>> I am new to gentoo and am wondering if there is a command to show
>> where a package is installed? which file is installed in which
>> directory?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>>
>
> I'm not sure this is what you are talking about but this
I once was a KDE desktop user... Lasted quite a while. But over time
I went to Xfce4 Been using it now a good while, but one applet
from KDE is sorely missed.
There was some kind of panel applet, that was URL aware. Any time you
highlighted text that looked like some kind of URL, a dialog
Keith Dart writes:
> Then, whenever I know I have some url selected (I don't need an applet
> to tell me) I just have to press the key combination and off it
> goes. :-)
Thanks for the input and example.
The applet I'm remembering was very unobtrusive... the one recommended
here by hp_sebastian.
hp_sebastian writes:
>
> xfce-extra/xfce4-clipman-plugin
Thank, that looks pretty flexible.
My profile has been
../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0
starting an update system today I'm told my profile is depricated and
to update to default/linux/x86/10.0
I've forgotten about how this is done. Is it just a matter of
ln -sf
/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10
Alan McKinnon writes:
>> [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 *
>> [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop
>> [3] default/linux/x86/10.0/developer
>> [4] default/linux/x86/10.0/server
>> [5] hardened/linux/x86/10.0
>> [6] selinux/2007.0/x86
>> [7] selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened
>> [8]
Jonathan Callen writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> In fact what does `developer' buy you?
>
> Among other things, it enables I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING, which tells you
> the expected audience :). Seriously, the developer profiles are mainly
> for Gentoo Devs, people who a
Alan McKinnon writes:
>> Alan, what does it get you? In fact what does `developer' buy you?
>
> x86/10.0 gives you a baseline for that release
> x86/10.0/desktop|developer|server give you a profile more suited (tweaked)
> for
> that kind of usage.
[...]
Nice.. thanks
I see I already have mos
Grant writes:
[...]
>
> So I need a relay somewhere along with ssmtp to get a message to an
> email address?
Yes, and I know of at least one that will work for you.
If you have a newsguy mail account, newsguy's smtp servers will allow
you to connect regardless of your laptops' outward IP. (unl
My windowsXP video editing machine where I use various adobe tools to
capture and edit video, has lost use of the ohci ports, and seemingly
the usb ports as well. I've been seeing problems with those inputs
for a while and today, finally the machine simply is not `seeing' the
video cam attached to
Looking at the kernel upgrade pages at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml
Its a bit confusing about the symlink creation. I've wondered about
it a few times.
At the top, you're told how to get the sources and then a discussion
of the symlink follows.
It appears you are expected
Nikos Chantziaras writes:
> The link is created only if you have the "symlink" USE flag enabled.
>
> Also, "Gentoo requires that the [...] symbolic link points to the
> sources of the kernel you are running" is not entirely correct. It is
> required only when you want to build something against
Alan McKinnon writes:
> Nikos is being kind to the document writers :-)
Thanks for saving me from the Dunce cap...hehe.
But I might yet acquire full rights to it..
So, is the symlink not really necessary? Doe something look at
/usr/src/linux for files?
For example, if you cd 'ed into the sou
When I noticed the thread here about `hal' that started a while back
it caused me enough curiousity that i ran eix -Ic ^hal$ but found I
have no `hal' installed.
I have keep up with updates somewhat better than usual the last few
months but don't remember when hal went away... I do remember having
Can anyone tell from the tail of emerge -vuD system
what the trouble is with aclocal/autoconf and libxslt.
First it failed on aclocal... I re-emerged
emerge -v sys-devel/aclocal-wrapper
Tried again and it failed on autoconf
emerge -v sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper
But that didn't help it ... st
walt writes:
> On 10/31/2009 06:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Can anyone tell from the tail of emerge -vuD system
>> what the trouble is with aclocal/autoconf and libxslt.
>> ...
>> * Failed Running autoconf !
>> *
>> * Include in your bugreport the co
walt writes:
> On 10/31/2009 07:05 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> ...
>> /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26/temp/autoconf.out
>> * autoconf *
>> * PWD: /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26/work/libxslt-1.1.26
>> * autoconf
>>
When a package comes up as masked in an eix search, they are usually
found in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, but if a particular
masked package is not listed there... where else would it be.
I see libtool is masked above version 1.5.26-r1, but is not in
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask...
Alan McKinnon writes:
> failing that, look in /etc/portage/package.mask*
Sure enough... I masked it.. but like Dick Cheney, I don't recall it.
Ahh the joys of senility
Marc Joliet writes:
> Wait, but those are small 'm's. That means they must have been masked
> manually. As Alan McKinnon mentioned in your other thread ("When masked pkg
> not
> in [...]profiles/package.mask, where is it"), you might have an entry
> in /etc/portage/package.mask.
My god... I'm r
Alan McKinnon writes:
> You read the message, run @preserved-rebuild and x now links to the new y
> library. When everything in @preserved-rebuild has been rebuilt, portage
> knows
> that now nothing links to the old y library, and removes it.
Alan, I haven't followed the introduction of @pre
I noticed I've been masking gcc beyond version 4.3.2-r3, and have
forgotten why I had it masked.
I'm updating world right now, and wondered if I were to move up to
most recent gcc (4.4.2), which would be a 5 version jump, what I could
expect in the way of problems.
Would I need to re-emerge just
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
Harry asked:
>> Would I need to re-emerge just about everything?
>>
>
Volker answered:
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gentoo+gcc+upgrade+guide&l=1
Quoted from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml
,
| To be completely safe that your system is in a sane state
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> your drivers for the ide disks have to be built INTO THE KERNEL! NOT MODULES.
Is that really a hard rule? I've done it both ways successfully in the
past.
And in fact, I didn't record my first builds on this kernel but I'm
pretty sure my first build did have all P
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:03:24 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the
>> things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have
>> messed up mouse and keyboard in X
I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always
been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in
10+ yrs..
Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me.
So I'm back in the soup.
[I hope what I try to layout below is not overly confusing]
Nice... good advice all around. Thanks posters.
Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the
things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have
messed up mouse and keyboard in X.
But even that, is a lesser problem than my kernel build ends up in a
kernel
walt writes:
> There's no reason to use menuconfig after running oldconfig, If your
> old kernel was using all of the hardware, then the new kernel should,
> too, just with oldconfig.
I don't know about that. I found a whole lot of stuff different when
I ran menuconfig and checked the old and
hamilton writes:
> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:18 -0800, walt wrote:
>> On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>> I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always
>>> been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a pr
"John H. Moe" writes:
> I stopped using that option in my systems, as there is now a AHCI SATA
> option to use instead. It appears CONFIG_ATA_SFF (which CONFIG_ATA_PIIX
> requires) is deprecated. From the help on it:
Do you notice some kind of difference from switching?
I've been fiddling with a new kernel, and have had several occasions
to reboot lately.
If I mounted /boot to cp the new kernel etc over, I have a problem on
reboot for sure.
Somehow the date of last fsck on /boot is seen as `in the future' so
fsck fails on /dev/had1 (/boot).
Which means nearly a
I didn't want to derail the ongoing thread about hal/xorg with this
question there.
Far as I remember I haven't done anything special concerning hal but
at some point hal disappeared. And is not on my system anymore.
I've always used and /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for starting X.
What I'm wonderin
Mike Edenfield writes:
> The 'make' man page wouldn't know anything about the kernel's
> makefile. You want the README file that's included in the top of the
> kernel source folder. That file says, among other things:
>
> "make oldconfig" Default all questions based on the contents of
>
Alex Schuster writes:
> Strange. Is hal still in your USE flags?
> It is not really neded, but I think it's nice to have - maybe not for
> x.org, but for other things like automounting devices. Here's the list of
> my packages that need HAL:
I didn't tell quite all of it. Hal was not in my us
"Dirk Heinrichs" writes:
> If it still won't work, you can also post your kernel config and the output
> of
> lspci -vv here and somebody will find out what's wrong/missing.
Good input thanks. I did get it working. It was an IDE selection I
missed.
>From the lspci -vv you mentioned (aggrav
Stroller writes:
> On 4 Nov 2009, at 15:45, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> ...
>> Somehow the date of last fsck on /boot is seen as `in the future' so
>> fsck fails on /dev/had1 (/boot).
>
> The first thing I would want to check is the motherboard battery. Is
>
ust a fake come-on and the
price is like that all over.
Is there anyone here who is willing to correspond with me privately
about this project? Maybe someone who can vouch for some of the more
recent equipment out there.
Since gmane obfuscates the email address on From line here it is:
Harry Pu
walt writes:
> One caution there -- newer computer hardware demands a great deal of
> power, and older power supplies may not be up to the task. Don't try
> to squeak by with a wimpy power supply.
>
>>
>> I thought maybe a mobo bundle would be a good starting place...
>
> I've been building my o
daid kahl writes:
> 2009/11/4 Harry Putnam :
>> I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always
>> been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in
>> 10+ yrs..
>>
>> Many people here seem to find it compl
Stroller writes:
> Any time I spend messing with obscure kernel config options is time I
> could be spending reading a good book, instead [1].
> Sorry, spending time configuring my kernel loses, as does this thread.
I'm with you Stroller.
Although I do have to admit and should admit since I'm
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> configuring is easy.
>
> enable the hardware you have.
> disable the hardware you don't have.
> read the help to all options that are default on - do you really need it?
> Really?
> read the help to all options that are off but might be usefull for you.
> change wh
I keep having a problem where the OS becomes inaccessable after
running in X for a while. I haven't noticed a time pattern yet but it
doesn't take long sometimes.
Today I started from an OFF machine, booted up, started X did a few
things A few minutes later I attempted to login via ssh from a re
How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without
opening the case.
Various hardware reporting tools such as uhinv and syscriptor do not
give that information (far as I can tell).
In fact syscriptor cannot even report pci info and gives the message
`cannot open /proc/pci'
(n
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:37:49 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without
>> opening the case.
>
> sys-apps/lshw
Good call Neil, I found that tool shortly after posting. It gives as
good as d
Dan Cowsill writes:
>
> As a matter of curiosity, why can't you open the case?
Aside from extreme laziness, I'd prefer to spend 2 seconds getting the
info than first pulling the machine out of some piled up mess of
several machines, then getting my beat up old body into some contorted
position w
Marcus Wanner writes:
> On 11/30/2009 9:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Dan Cowsill writes:
>>
>>
>>> As a matter of curiosity, why can't you open the case?
>>>
>>
>> Aside from extreme laziness, I'd prefer to spend 2 seconds g
Can anyone show me how to write a logrotate rule that will rotate on
either size or age?
I use some very simple scripting for yrs but don't really see how to
rotate on more than one condition.
I'd like to rotate a certain log weekly or over 7000k and keep no more
than 12 rotations for whatever re
This machine was my local lan httpd server, but then I switched that
functionality to an opensolaris machine... due to problems with a
recent osol build I switched back temporarily. Meantime I must have
allowed a new config to get setup ... maybe thru careless allowing of
new conf files.
Whatever
Grant writes:
> rsync -vr --inplace --delete /path/to/music/ gr...@192.168.1.2:/path/to/music
what OSs' are the hosts?
I've had that happen a time or two when the source host was a windows
machine, having something to do with the way windows handles
permissions and dates. The windows files wer
I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I
don't have root. I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote.
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:32:07 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I
>> don't have root. I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote.
>
> Provided the kernel has ecrypt support an
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:12:29 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I have an encfs encrpted partition on my home machine.. However I want
>> a back up offsite.
>>
>> The encrypted partition would be mounted, the contents tarred/gzipped,
>
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:09:03 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> > Why not just tar up the underlying encfs partition? The data
>> > is already encrypted, what's the point of decrypting it to encrypt it
>> > again? That way you don't
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:27:32 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> > Then use rsync instead of tar, then you can mount the remote
>> > filesystem using sshfs and encfs to read individual files. It's a
>> > little slow as you are laye
I'm experiencing a problem where during an X session the machine
inexplicably freezes up... networking along with mouse keyboard etc.
No access is then possible via ssh or any other way other than a hard
reboot.
I've attempted to debug the problem by first searching the logs. But
not finding any
Helmut Jarausch writes:
> To "exclude" a software problem, try booting from a
> SystemRescue-CD
> http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
>
> It's Gentoo based and sports an X-Server.
Thanks for the recue disk tip.
> That are the problems that makes one crazy!
Well put... hehe.
But I chickened ou
Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of
anything better.
I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall
So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when
I test what all gets installed with:
emerge -vp xfce4-meta
I notice that xorg-x11 is no
Helmut Jarausch writes:
>>> Does the machine run well enough that you can reinstall both glibc
>>> and udev again?
>>
>> Not right now. After the boot complains that the super block isn't
>> right the disk is getting mounted read only. I cannot even edit a file
>> with vi.
>
> Try booting by usi
[Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have
made it to the mail/news server]
Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of
anything better.
I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall
So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
>
> On Friday 15 January 2010 20:43:32 Harry Putnam wrote:
> > [Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have
> > made it to the mail/news server]
> >
> > Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but coul
I'm probably way behind the eightball asking something like this,
but I'm wondering what role `dev-libs/boost' plays with encfs.
The home page indicates its something of a helper application for
using cpp++ programming language and applications.
The reason I ask is that it appears to be up there
Albert Hopkins writes:
> If you *really* want to know what encfs uses Boost for you could, of
> course, examine the source :) But you really only need to know that
> it's a big C++ library that's used by encfs.
>
> Go grab a coffee or do a load of laundry or something.
Good idea... thanks .. :)
In the course of a full reinstall I've run into several packages that
appear not to be findable... watching emerge race all over the glob
looking for certain packages...there seems to be some problem with
what portage is looking for and pushing those packages out to repos.
I've already forgotten t
Harry Putnam writes:
> In the course of a full reinstall I've run into several packages that
> appear not to be findable... watching emerge race all over the glob
> looking for certain packages...there seems to be some problem with
> what portage is looking for and pushing thos
I hadn't done a full reinstall for a good while, long enough that I
missed out on whateve was said about the change over from using
/etc/X11/xorg.conf to control the X display to whatever does it now.
So my first question is what does do it?.. I have a nice desktop but
no /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
Howe
pk writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> So, where would I make such a setting in the new arrangement?... I
>> suspect I could force a return to xorg.conf... but would sooner
>> understand how to utilize the new proceedure.
>
> xorg.conf still works fine with the lates
walt writes:
> On 01/16/2010 01:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I hadn't done a full reinstall for a good while, long enough that I
>> missed out on whateve was said about the change over from using
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf to control the X display to whatever does it now.
pk writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are
>> custom settings regarding the X session done?
>
> Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old
> xorg.conf since that will override what&#x
I wondered if anyone here knows of a linux tool that is similar to
webresearch:
http://www.macropool.de/en/products/webresearch/index.html
Its one of those clip and save from the internet (or whole pages) kind
of things that allows you to make a hierarchy of folders and has some
useful search c
Jon Hardcastle writes:
> Hi guys,
>
> I want to update my gentoo install to use the latest trunk version
> of the smartmontools drive database.
>
> Does anyone have any gentoo orientated guidance here? I have spoken
> to the chaps there and they say to run configure with
> '--enable-drivedb' and
Peter Humphrey writes:
> On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:03:57 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote:
>> > I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down
>> > here somewhere.
>>
>> That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a n
Jon Hardcastle writes:
> Thanks for your input! Wow that is alot more complicated that I had
> hoped!
>
> I am already using the masked version of Smartmontools but the 5.39
> version does not include 1 of the HDD I use and as I have got a
> whole load more of that exact model of drive on the way
Peter Humphrey writes:
> See? I don't have to remember any options, I just key up or down to the
> config I want. Easy.
Nice... thanks
After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils
broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another
revdep-rebuild and it finds the same thing.
Anyone seen something similar or have an idea what might be the problem?
Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Wednesday 03 February 2010 23:45:00 Harry Putnam wrote:
>> After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils
>> broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another
>> revdep-rebuild and it finds the same
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:13:20 +0800, Leon Feng wrote:
>
>> I have seen this for weeks, but since I upgrade to portage-2.2* at the
>> same time, do not know whether it is related. My revdep-rebuild out is
>> listed below, anyone has a solution?
>
> Are you also running the te
Mariusz Ceier writes:
>> But if I am reading revdep-rebuild output correctly, it means that
>> your binutils is compiled to be linked against that library. But the
>> library cannot be found by revdep-rebuild. Hence the error.
>>
>> W
> libiberty.a comes from binutils.
> Looking at Stefan revde
Leon Feng writes:
[...]
>> I'm running ~x86 on everything and latest version of gentoolkit (I
>> don't have gentoolkit-dev installed)
>>
>> I've emerged lafilefixer (thanks Steve) and ran
>>lafilefixer --justfixit
>>
>> Then ran revdep-rebuild again it still finds broken binutils so
>
I want to install emacs-w3m. I have already built an emacs install by
hand from cvs emacs tar ball. I always build emacs myself.
Running emerge -v -p emacs-w3m shows:
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N] app-editors/emacs-21.4 +
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
>
Where to look to learn about the required syntax?
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I want to install emacs-w3m. I have already built an emacs install by
>> hand from cvs emacs tar ball. I always build emacs myself.
> [snip]
>> Emerge wants to inst
Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While it would mean re-installing emacs, you could use the emacs-cvs
> ebuild which builds emacs from cvs head. To keep up-to-date you just
> have to re-emerge and you will build with the latest changes.
How can I get a look at what and how stuff gets i
Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While it would mean re-installing emacs, you could use the emacs-cvs
> ebuild which builds emacs from cvs head. To keep up-to-date you just
> have to re-emerge and you will build with the latest changes.
Sorry to hammer on this so much... I haven't been
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 31 May 2005 22:22:29 -0500
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> An
>> example might be that if emacs isn't installed at /usr/local its
>> already outside the standard emacs install.
>
> and you have moved outside t
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
And if no `profile' directory exists, is that something one creates or
is it put there by some package?
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Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>
> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
>
> Regards,
> Jason Stubbs
Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> man portage
>
> Specifically for the package.provided file it wants the package and
> version that you have installed outside o
Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
>> >
>>
>> Where to look to learn about the required syntax?
>>
>
> man portage
>
> Specifically for the package.provided file it wants the package and
> version that you have installed outside of portage. For ex
Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> man portage
>
> Specifically for the package.provided file it wants the package and
> version that you have installed outside of portage. For example: If you
> have downloaded and installed your own kernel from kernel.org, placing
>
> sys-kernel/vanilla-
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