[gentoo-user] Re: Following a well overdue world -u I have no network

2005-08-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:42:51 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > first thing to know - have you updated your config files with >> > etc-update or dispatch-conf? >> >> I used dispatch-conf, because of the archivin

[gentoo-user] Any exper or experienced rsnapshot users here, please read

2005-08-31 Thread Harry Putnam
My rsnapshot conf files consist of: /etc: rsnapshot_Mail.conf rsnapshot_Etc.conf rsnapshot_Home.conf rsnapshot_News.conf There run at all the normal intervals. hourly, daily, weekly, monthly Suddenly following a full update with world -u from a well out of date system, all these con

[gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Harry Putnam
I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in size. Is this about normal? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Harry Putnam
> On 9/28/05, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in >> size. Is this about normal? glumtail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can alway rm /usr/portage/distfiles/ > Those files can b

[gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 14:43, glumtail wrote: > >> You can alway rm /usr/portage/distfiles/ >> Those files can be downloaded again when emerge. > > Also, the block size of the file system in which /usr/portage lives can > make a big difference.

[gentoo-user] Re: Reiserfs speed

2005-09-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > >>I am using reiserfs but only on trial basis. I've noticed what >>appears to be quite a large increase in time needed for fs intensive >>things like du or rm -rf as compared to ext3 but I&#

[gentoo-user] Re: Reiserfs speed

2005-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Fernando Meira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you need speed? > What about space free? reiserfs is quite good! I experimented a ~1G > reduction from having the same data in a ext3 partition to a > reiserfs!! No, not anymore than the next guy I guess but have grown tired of the hefty waits when

[gentoo-user] man ksh appears not to be about the korn shell

2005-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Has anyone else noticed that man ksh displays a page that at least appears not to be about ksh93 or the newer korn shell? The first three items: NAME sh, rsh, pfsh - shell, the standard/restricted command and programming language SYNOPSIS sh [ +-abcefhikmnoprstuv

[gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds

2005-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
This is pretty dopey especially since I've used this dozens of times in the past. I can not remember how to make a script wait for a few seconds during execution. Its something really simple like. smcmd 3 Where smcmd is something like set, sit, bla etc. and the number is number of seconds to w

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds

2005-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
"Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > man sleep? > Haa.. yup that was the critter... Thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Installing an ebuild

2005-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Just stumbling around with half remembered things to get an ebuild to install. I wanted to install the most recent version of bogofilter, reported in portage as mail-filter/bogofilter/bogofilter-0.95.2.ebuild This package was masked on my system so I finally used: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -v

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing an ebuild

2005-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
"Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS only works on the command line you use it on. You need to > add this to /etc/portage/package.keywords to make it stick. > > mail-filter/bogofilter ~x86 > > should do it. If you want to get more specific as to versions check man >

[gentoo-user] Re: man ksh appears not to be about the korn shell

2005-10-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not here: > > $ man ksh > > KSH(1) KSH(1) > > > > NAME >ksh, rksh, pfksh - KornShell, a standard/restricted command and pro- >gramming language > Gack, what is the date

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing an ebuild

2005-10-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > don't you need to update esearch's database? eupdatedb? (sorry details > hazy, i use eix now) Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Did you run eupdatedb after installing the later version? easearch only > shows what was installed an

[gentoo-user] [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories

2005-10-04 Thread Harry Putnam
I seem to recall some trick stuff done with .htaccess or the like that would cause apache to be able to display any files appearing in a directory when someone hit www.myhost.org/somedir Anyone here know how that is done? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories

2005-10-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Option Indexes > > Harry Putnam wrote: > >>I seem to recall some trick stuff done with .htaccess or the like that >>would cause apache to be able to display any files appearing in a >>directory when someone hit

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories

2005-10-04 Thread Harry Putnam
"Michael Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Make sure that your httpd/apache user has permissions to > /hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography/ . [...] > Are you sure that it has execute permissions for everyone? It looks like this: reader > ls -ld /var/www/localhost/htdocs/hpweb/\ TrainingVi

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories

2005-10-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 04 October 2005 17:23, Michael Cox wrote: >> You don't have permission to access >> /hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography/ on this server. >> >> However that directory has the same permissions as all others. (my >> user) > > Put the All back

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories

2005-10-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > var > L www > L vhost1 -- userb/apache (751) > L vhost 2 -- usera/apache (751) > L cgi-bin -- usera/apache (751) > L htdocs -- usera/apache (751) > | L folder 1 -- usera

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories

2005-10-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Option Indexes >> >> Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>>I seem to recall some trick stuff done with .htaccess or the like that >>>would cause apache to b

[gentoo-user] Re: man ksh appears not to be about the korn shell

2005-10-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > which korn shell do you have installed. I can count thre of them in > portage: > > ksh > mksh > pdksh * app-shells/ksh Latest version available: 93.20040229 Latest version installed: 93.20040229 Size of downloaded files: 3,209 kB Ho

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories

2005-10-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also I noticed that just including the parent dir is enough. > That is, just `[...]/hpweb' not hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography Slight correction here... The only reason above worked was because I had edited -All to +All in main

[gentoo-user] mount umount and xterm freeze

2005-10-21 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been noticing the phenomena described below for a while now and having a little trouble getting a good idea how to debug. If I have mounted shares via smbfs or cifs and something happens to make those mounts unusable, like the machine the shares are on is powered down or whatever, then I have

[gentoo-user] Re: mount umount and xterm freeze

2005-10-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:02:07 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> So far I've used the old MS refrain `reboot, reboot, and reboot' to >> clear up the mounts but I'm sure there is some better way or maybe a >> way

[gentoo-user] Re: mount umount and xterm freeze

2005-10-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Still I can't get to those shares without a reboot of gentoo it seems. > That reboot must clear something that probably can be cleared manually > without a reboot Even the above referenced reboot was frozen at the point o

[gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work with but the reference to mkisofs lead me to man mkisofs where I find out how to make a video dvd but still not clear what cmdline is required for data dvd. Anyo

[gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to >> create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work >> with... > > Maybe you should take a look at

[gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2 simple follow-up questions (I'm thinking of getting a DVD drive): > (1) which package is 'growisofs' in ? Its in /usr/portage/app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael Kjorling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > There is nothing special about a DVD ISO. Just make an ISO > 9660-compatible image with whatever data you want (in fact, neither a > DVD nor CD needs to contain a ISO 9660 file system at all). I usually > do something very similar to: Well tha

[gentoo-user] Which package contains NAME uninstalled tool

2005-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm sure this has come up several times but finding the correct search string is proving to be a problem. How can a user tell which package an uninstalled tool is in? For example. I want to make an xfs file system. It turn out I have no mkfs.xfs. I find these in my portage tree: sys-fs/xfsdum

[gentoo-user] How to get debug info when umount fails

2005-10-31 Thread Harry Putnam
I notice whenever mounted shares or external drives etc. (Etc here only includes cifs mounted shares of msOS origin). And something unforseen happens before they are umounted properly, like powered down disconnected reboot etc) Those mount points will fail a umount. And even when share becomes a

[gentoo-user] viewing quicktime online

2005-11-06 Thread Harry Putnam
What do I need to do to be able to view a quicktime video online? I see a couple of quicktime library packages but neithers website mention plugin tools for Mozilla. I'm guessing there are viewers available that employ these libs. But need to know what combination of things I need. -- gentoo-us

[gentoo-user] Re: viewing quicktime online

2005-11-06 Thread Harry Putnam
[...] snipped lots of good info Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > net-www/mplayerplug-in Thanks for a very complete answer Holly. Soon as Cineralla(sp?) finished compiling and pulling in deps I'll get that one done too. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Hopefully somehere can direct me to where this should be posted or answer it directly. I'm looking to my Gentoo box to solve the problem described below: First: My home lan looks like: INTERNET | DSLMODEM | -

[gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The netgear will do it. you can give it ip addresses to block. > look at the schedule setups. set them up only to be able to access > the internet for, say a second on sunday at 3 am, and not for the > rest of the time Do you mean to bock every addre

[gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 12 November 2005 18:56, Harry Putnam wrote: >> John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > The netgear will do it. you can give it ip addresses to block. >> > look at the schedule setups. set the

[gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Apparently you didn't RTFM. (Of course, since you didn't read my > comment either. I said: "Click on BLOCK SERVICES" and you clicked on > "Schedule", well no shit Sherlock, of course what I told you won't be > there.) Here: I found it for you: > > ftp://do

[gentoo-user] Re: Detecting local host firewall

2005-11-13 Thread Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to detect programmatically whether the local host has a firewall enabled? nmap can return enough informatin to surmize that. It may even be able to tell you straight out. I'm not that familiar with all its switches. Running nmap -v -P0 host will giv

[gentoo-user] When emerge can't find a package

2005-11-13 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm trying to install squid but when I run emerge -v squid it eventually fails after trying what looks like about a dozen sites. -- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 13:11:20 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download squid-2.5.STABLE10-patches-20050519.tar.gz. A

[gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong wrote: Poorly written, but understandable. Of course, that is for firmware version 1.4, which has been out since January 2004, hopefully I am not making an undue assumption that your router has the most up-to-date firmware. You've got an earlier firmware. The latest is 2.4 also fr

[gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong wrote: =) Willie is fine. "Mr. Wong" doesn't become me. Willie it is then... There is a problem with it I'll explain in a minute but first let me ask if you are actually using your router to do something similar to what I described? [snip] reasoning about blocking only services

[gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Two ways exist (AFAIK) of using squid: > 1) Run it as a proxy server. In the Internet Options for your > web browser, you point the proxy toward the proxy server. You submit > a request, it gets relayed to the internet, the response comes back, > s

[gentoo-user] squid quick start

2005-11-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Where can I get a current quick start guide for squid? The one installed with 2.5.11 apparently isn't accurate against that versions squid.conf. It has this promising line: Uncomment and edit the following lines in /usr/local/squid/etc/squid.conf: But then many of the lines are not present i

[gentoo-user] Re: squid quick start

2005-11-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By default it runs on port 3128, but you could always check with a 'netstat > -nplt'. > > Quick enough? :) Haha... Makes me think of rodeo's where the guy is supposed to rope and hog tie a yearling calf. He has a special light rope for the tying calle

[gentoo-user] Kernel build no update grub

2005-11-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Updating the kernel today, I referenced that piece of the documentation and borrowed this command from it: genkernel --bootloader=grub all However, not only did it not update grub.conf but grub.conf disappeared entirely following the successful build. I did find this in /var/log/genkernel.log:

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel build no update grub

2005-11-16 Thread Harry Putnam
> Updating the kernel today, I referenced that piece of the > documentation and borrowed this command from it: > I'm pretty sure I need some new kind of grub.conf but what should it > look like.. > > I've just appended what I think might be adequate to the original > lines yeah I saved a back

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel build no update grub

2005-11-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 16:25 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Updating the kernel today, I referenced that piece of the >> documentation and borrowed this command from it: >> >> genkernel --bootloader=grub all > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel build no update grub

2005-11-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Updating the kernel today, I referenced that piece of the > documentation and borrowed this command from it: > > genkernel --bootloader=grub all > > However, not only did it not update grub.conf but grub.conf > disappe

[gentoo-user] error source? on update of world

2005-11-16 Thread Harry Putnam
The messages below show up at the login prompt when I boot my updated world system. I've searched this group on all of those in caps at gmane and got some hits but not that I could put together into a plan of action. First, where do they come from... dmesg is inlined at the end. configuration

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel build no update grub

2005-11-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But first lets see if the basic stuff works... > > ok Well, I booted successfully but let me clean up something about grub.conf. First, I had forgotten I switched to lilo last time around. Kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r1. So quite a while ago. Back then I

[gentoo-user] Re: error source? on update of world

2005-11-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 22:33 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: >> The messages below show up at the login prompt when I boot my updated >> world system. > > Did you update all the config files before you rebooted? Yes, and check

[gentoo-user] Re: error source? on update of world

2005-11-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > These are all settings from /etc/login.defs. Although I have this file on > my system, no package appears to own it, so I suspect it is part of pam > (I removed pam many months ago). Did you update pam or shadow? Yes, pam and I think Iain has guessed th

[gentoo-user] Re: error source? on update of world

2005-11-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> These are all settings from /etc/login.defs. Although I have this file on >> my system, no package appears to own it, so I suspect it is part of pam > > /etc/login.defs is owned by sys-apps/pam-login. You can check the > version with `emerge -p pam-log

[gentoo-user] Re: error source? on update of world

2005-11-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> /etc/login.defs is owned by sys-apps/pam-login. You can check the >> version with `emerge -p pam-login`. Try re-emerging it and see if you >> missed updating /etc/login.defs by accident. > > Yup looks like I went the

[gentoo-user] Scroll back buffer on boot screen

2005-11-17 Thread Harry Putnam
What tools do I need to be looking at to set the scrollback buffer of the boot screen. I don't use framebuffer splash type stuff, just the basic terminal. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-20 Thread Harry Putnam
"A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But preventing updates (espec. if they're Windoze boxes) seems like a bad > idea to me. It can be done by running IE thru a proxy on my linux box. Then it only sees local address. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
I noticed while emerging mysql that the ./configure flags used during compile contained one that says: --without-docs Not a good plan for someone knowing zip about mysql. How can I change that to --with-docs from cmdline? Another thing I noticed is this: [...] --with-big-tables --without-docs

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > You influence it, by setting USE flags. I'd guess, that "doc" > would be the USE flag you're looking for. So, put something > like > > dev-db/mysql doc > > to /etc/portage/package.use: > > echo dev-db/mysql doc >> /etc/portage/package.use Just

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Mattias Merilai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > seems that it does not look for a doc USE flag. You will have to > manually change the ebuild to --with-docs. Gentoo's ebuild howto will > explain you how to do that. And this can be foundwhere? I've been jerking around on gentoo.org for over 1/2

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Me too. Seems that the system didn't get that change. > Please send output of: > > grep dev-db/mysql /etc/portage/package.use dev-db/mysql mysql mysqli dev-db/mysql doc dev-db/mysql ndb-doc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /usr/portage/profiles/use*.desc Those are a HOWTO about creating ebuilds? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Assuming you really need a specific version of mysql, and do not want > to merge a version that already has the doc USE flag, the general idea > is that you will want to: I don't need a specific version I simply want the docs to be built. Adding a use f

[gentoo-user] update world building older kernel

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
I've synced portage and run emerge -v -u World First thing I see happening is its building a older kernel than what I'm running: 2.6.14 but emerge is building: linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2 Why is that? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
"Francesco R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Snipped good info here ... Thanks > also the "configure" option you see at compile time may _not_ be the > same the ebuild used, _but_ what the ebuild set always override the > MySQL default. So we cannot really tell what is passed to the com

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mattias Merilai wrote: > >> I do not know much about mysql, but looking at the latest ebuild it >> seems that it does not look for a doc USE flag. > > I disagree. Check the output of "emerge -pv dev-db/mysql". The original output I posted: Calculati

[gentoo-user] Is this a bug in equery

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm trying to learn equery since qpkg is being laid to rest. However I'm finding the hints that appear when you syntax is wrong very confusing. Her is an example: equery files --type vim Gives the expected results but if you add a version number things get very confusing equery files

[gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in equery

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > yes its not a biug as such, but a result of the shell you are using, > which interprets > as a redirection tool. Perhaps the equery docos > should/examples should say so. If you want it fixed, files bug, > mentioning it here will NOT get it fixed. Point tak

[gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in equery

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 20:02 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm trying to learn equery since qpkg is being laid to rest. However >> I'm finding the hints that appear when you syntax is wrong very >> confusing. >

[gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in equery

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> !!! Invalid syntax: missing operator >> !!! If you want only specific versions please use one of >> !!! the following operators as prefix for the package name: >> !!!> >= = <= < >> !!! Example

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard Fish schrieb: >> On 11/23/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I disagree. Check the output of "emerge -pv dev-db/mysql". >> >> No, look at the ebuilds in portage: >> >> The mysql builds currently available are: > [...] >> mysql

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] good info > Of course, you might want to upgrade to -r2, since clearly some things > didn't work in -r1 (in ebuild terms) > > You might also want to stick with stable until things settle down a bit. > > Just my 2 Eurocents, as you see, I'm not a My

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anyone here who has perused mysql.com will know it is a difficult task > to find basic information there. This was something of a boneheaded undertaking at mysql.com. Somewhere I got that address as the source of docs etc. For any o

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > There was a note at the end of the emerge: > > * You might want to run: > * "emerge --config =dev-db/mysql-5.0.16-r2" > * if this is a new install. > > did you do this? (First I've backed of 5.16 since I couldn't even start it from: /etc/in

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, in various formats from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/. Thanks... have you noticed under the most promising heading: Post-Installation Setup and Testing there are only directions for windows or specific `unix' users? And that the linux directions rev

[gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in equery

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Changed to: > > $ ./equery files --type vim-6.4 > [ Searching for packages matching vim-6.4... ] > !!! Invalid syntax: missing operator > !!! If you want only specific versions please use one of > !!! the following operators as prefix for the package name:

[gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in equery

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is the intended behaviour. 'equery uses' only greps the use flags > for installed packages. If you want non-installed packages, you need > to use the '-a' flag egad! silently sneaks away -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Someone once advised me to run this command after sync and update world. revdep-rebuild Running it now shows quite a lot of stuff it wants to rebuild: == Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild Checking reverse

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My guess is 'emerge -u --oneshot mjpegtools' will fix the problem. No, it didn't change a thing. But there was some output at the end that might mean something: [...] * Please upgrade your package (mjpegtools-1.6.2-r3) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass >

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Interesting. All 3 builds currently in portage (1.6.2-r4, 1.8.0, and > 1.8.0-r1) use toolchain-funcs already. > > What is the result of First let me add that (mjpegtools-1.6.2-r3) isn't even installed: root # qpkg -v -I |grep mjpegtools media-vide

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Also, do you have anything for mjpegtools in > /etc/portage/package.mask? ls /etc/portage/ package.keywords package.use profile/ sets/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (Including Richard in reply as well) Nagatoro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >>Assigning files to ebuilds... using existing >>/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds. >> Evaluating package order... using existing Nagatoro replied: > ^^^using

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam schreef: > >> First let me add that (mjpegtools-1.6.2-r3) isn't even installed: >> root # qpkg -v -I |grep mjpegtools media-video/mjpegtools-1.8.0-r1 * [...] Holly says: > But probably you're just usi

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > (Including Richard in reply as well) > Nagatoro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> [...] >>>Assigning files to ebuilds... using existing >>>/

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> Harry responds: >> >> Ack, yes of course and it even warns you about that >> >> However having removed them I still get a huge list of stuff listed >> as BROKEN > > Yes, well, that's what revdep-rebuild does-- finds broken stuff. It's > doing

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh crap.. overzealous snippage caused me to leave out the main stuff: I seem to have taken a moron pill this morning please see full output of revdep-rebuild in a few minutes at: http://www.jtan.com/~reader/vu_txt/display.shtml (in 5

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > ... and second of all, which package failed to emerge and why? > > Meaning, what was the error in whichever package failed to emerge? Do I need to get the output of something else to determine that. Looking at the full ouput of revdep on a clean

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > I may have lost it or something but I made a cut and paste error on > the above and have since posted a better output. I do have the entire > output and should perhaps post it online. > http://www.jtan.com/~reader

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, now we are going to need to see the output of emerge --info, > because for some reason your toolchain thinks it is cross-compiling: There appears to be some confusion in that output as to what USE flags are in force. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" I

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Posting emerge info is a good starting point to troubleshoot this > (unless you already happen to know why this is occurring, that's also > possible). I don't have a clue other than Illinformed bungling... maybe being the problem. The requested

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" >> This is because a few -u worls back (2 I think) I foolishly ran >> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerges -v -u -D world > > Well, the only way ~x86 could have been added to make.conf was if it > was edited directly. Running with

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer > -L/usr/X11R6/lib -ltiff -L/usr/lib) is a cross-compiler... yes Still thinks its a cross-compiler... what does that mean anyway? -- gentoo-user@gentoo

[gentoo-user] A suggestion for bacula

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
I've installed bacula from portage ( bacula-1.36.3-r2.ebuild) and found virtually no documentation with it other than one thin README and some release notes. Its not as if the documentaion is not available. There is quite a large manual for it. But worse is that the gentoo install has removed thi

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > #line 1880 "configure" > #include "confdefs.h" > > main(){return(0);} > > It then compiles this program. If the program compiles, configure > decides that gcc works. If the program doesn't run, it decides that > you are cross compiling. So, let's try t

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > conftest && echo "works" root # ./conftest && echo "works" works Seems to have worked as expected. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> conftest && echo "works" > > root # ./conftest && echo "works" > works > Seems to have worked as expected. Looking at qpkg -v -I|

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /var/tmp/portage/mod_php-4.4.0/work/php-4.4.0/config.log Some stuff after 200 lines looks like it might be pertinent so posting 250 lines. I hope you see something: This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid de

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is it normal to have 2 versions installed? > > Yes. Gcc is slotted, so it is normal to have more than one version installed. > Do I need two versions?. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Run "equery belongs /usr/lib/libxmlparse.so", and rebuild (with > emerge --oneshot ) whatever package that is a part of. I got that one cleaned up but revdep still doesn't come up clean. I've uninstalled 2 items from the broken list that I don

[gentoo-user] Succinct compilation of system info...

2005-11-28 Thread Harry Putnam
What is the standard or common way to compile a detailed yet succinct listing of system info. Are there tools that do this? Or maybe one of those 16 inch cmdlines with 2 dozen pipes... :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Succinct compilation of system info...

2005-11-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Stoddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> What is the standard or common way to compile a detailed yet succinct >> listing of system info. Are there tools that do this? Or maybe one >> of those 16 inch cmdlines >> with 2 dozen pi

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