RE: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
not yet installed systemd anywhere but I am curious enough to try it on my laptop. So I will be that much more informed in the near future :) (*) As I understand it, systemd *can* run SysV-style init scripts, but Gentoo's startup scripts are too dependent on openrc-supplied logic to be reusable in any meaningful sense. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/27/2012 6:36 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I've been looking for simple method to create a simple initramfs to just mount the /usr partition. I've found http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Basic_initramfs_used_to_check_and_mount_/usr If this is all you need, I recommend you use dracut. The def

RE: [gentoo-user] After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
t process is, what you actually need running to boot, and how personally invested in a split /usr you happen to be :) --Mike

RE: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
is a prerequisite for a stable udev-182+. Hopefully with more people taking interest in using an initramfs it will stabilize quickly. It's working for me on all of the systems I'm tried it, so I'm going to try switching a couple of servers at work over to using it. But none of them have anything particularly complex (no net boots, for example) so I don't know how much of a test case they'll be :) --Mike

RE: [gentoo-user] After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
> From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de] > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:27 AM > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:02:02AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: > > > From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de] > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:37 AM > > > > M

RE: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
> From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com] > Mike Edenfield wrote: > > I'm pretty sure that a stable Dracut is a prerequisite for a stable > > udev-182+. Hopefully with more people taking interest in using an > > initramfs it will stabilize quickly. It's workin

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
, and that supporting a split /usr becomes "no big deal". In practice, I'm going to guess that it turns out to be a way bigger maintenance nightmare (and probably more fragile) than: root # emerge dracut root # dracut -H And probably won't be something that the developers or package maintainers are going to commit to supporting. --Mike

RE: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
ipt to do it but is there an existing mechanism to hook into for this? --Mike

RE: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
cern for you, why not leave /var on its own partition? Just merge / and /usr and leave it at that? --Mike

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
ually as successful at solving the problem, once someone put in the effort to actually make it work, make it repeatable, make it stable, and document/automate it for others to use. All of those steps have /already happened/ for an initramfs, so until someone comes up with a concrete reason why initramfs will not work, there is absolutely no motivation to waste time on anything else. --Mike

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-28 Thread Mike Edenfield
> From: Canek Peláez Valdés [mailto:can...@gmail.com] > I agree with most of what you say; however, I believe you are mistaken > about the static nature of the binaries in the initramfs created by dracut. I > use dracut with the whole bang (plymouth, systemd, udev, you name it), and > I don't hav

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-28 Thread Mike Edenfield
From: Pandu Poluan [mailto:pa...@poluan.info] > On Mar 28, 2012 11:27 AM, "Mike Edenfield" wrote: >> Well, for one, the initramfs solution is not generally considered "ugly" >> except by a select vocal few who object to it on vague, unarticulated >> gro

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-28 Thread Mike Edenfield
kernel-module support in dracut is just another module; you could omit that module and I believe dracut will carry on fine. Of course, if you have nothing compiled as a module then your initramfs just won't have any modules built into it either way. --Mike

RE: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-28 Thread Mike Edenfield
uot;true UNIX way" that Linux is following has long since been abandoned by UNIX :) --Mike

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-29 Thread Mike Edenfield
> From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de] > Hi, Mike. > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:24:14AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: > > > From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de] > > > > Hi, Alan. > > > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:48:19PM +0200, Alan McKi

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-29 Thread Mike Edenfield
normal virtual console as root, logged in to a normal virtual console as a normal user, and running Konsole as a standard user when logged in via KDM? --Mike

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-29 Thread Mike Edenfield
, broken, then I could possibly see where they might be expected (from a /community/ perspective, clearly they have no /formal/ obligations to any of us) to put in that effort. But the consensus seems largely weighted towards agreeing with them, or at least not caring either way. --Mike

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-29 Thread Mike Edenfield
ell a the start of the boot process, you have to wonder what it will be > good for. splashutils, which is the package dracut uses to generate a boot splash image, has a lot of dependencies but requires they all be built USE=static-libs. Plymouth, which does animated boot splash, is a bit worse; it installs a few dozen files, about half of that data. Then again, if you're putting an animated boot splash image on your initramfs, I don't think you're all that worried about space :) --Mike

RE: [gentoo-user] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Mike Edenfield
From: Jason Weisberger [mailto:jbdu...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 2:11 PM > It would figure that some in the Linux community would > consider a sub 1.0 release as the birthday of a project :). You were sub-1.0 when you were born, why not Gentoo? Besides, the 1999 "birthday" ref

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-04-03 Thread Mike Edenfield
up.sh' script in it, plus probably some other support files, if everything got installed correctly. --Mike

[gentoo-user] Problem with RAID1

2012-04-19 Thread Mike Diehl
ce21 klogd: ata1: EH complete Thanks in advance. -- Take care and have fun, Mike Diehl.

RE: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-04-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
From: Michael Mol [mailto:mike...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:54 PM > I can no longer ssh into either inara or kaylee. Clearly they are busy fsck'ing /malcom and /simon

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-04 Thread Mike Edenfield
advertised conversion didn't work as it bombed out after an hour. ffmpeg runs on Windows, why not just use that? --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2012-06-25 1:05 AM, Dale wrote: >>> >>> Howdy, >>> >>> It appears that grub2 is coming soon. >> >> >> Has the Handbook/Install docs been updated to provide for installing Grub2 >> with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > It appears that grub2 is coming soon.  Thread on -dev said a couple > months or so till it hits the tree, keyworded and/or masked I'm sure.  I > guess it is about time to jump off the cliff and give this a try.  I > installed Kubuntu on a s

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit xulrunner version?

2011-02-10 Thread Mike Edenfield
in the multilib layman overlay; I think you just need to add multilib to the overlay and set the 'lib32' USE flag. Note, however, that you'll end up building all of xulrunner's dependencies as 32-bit, and their dependencies, etc. It could take a while. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium requires threads flag

2011-02-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:56 PM, James wrote: > But, this has made me think. Is setting nptl and > nptl globally (in make.conf) the best idea? > > Should the threads flag also be set globally, or just > on a per package basis? Maybe nptl and threads > and not set nptlonly? > I have threads set gl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade

2011-02-14 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 02/14/2011 04:03 PM, Fzinc wrote: > Hi. > > Im trying to upgrade the kernel from 2.6.35-gentoo-r12 to > linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5 just copied the .config from the old one and did a > make oldconfig as i usually do > but when i tried to compile it got this message: > >

[gentoo-user] New drive devices after install

2011-02-18 Thread Mike Diehl
.  /proc/mdstat tells me that md1, md2, and md3 are all active.  The df command tells me that /dev/md3 is mounted on /, but there are no such nodes. I'm thinking that they got "mounted over" by udev, but I don't know how to fix it. Can someone throw me a bone on this one? TI

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
* Listed in a file named 'packages' somewhere in your set of profile paths, and * Prefixed with a "*" within that file --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] non-root user switch gcc version ?

2011-02-24 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > many distributions have something like a 'switch' command such that an > ordinary user can switch the version of his/her default gcc compiler. > > Is there something similar in GenToo? > > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut. > > You

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Grant wrote: > I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: > > foo*.txt > > but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards.  I tried to figure out > how to do it with find but failed.  Can anyone point me in the right > direction? > > - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Amankwah wrote: > How about this? > > find -name foo*.txt ? Why would you scan the entire file system when you have an speedy index?

Re: [gentoo-user] XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS env variables with E17

2011-02-26 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Mick wrote: > Where are being these set? > > I currently have: > > $ echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS > /etc/xdg > > $ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS > /usr/local/share:/usr/share > See /etc/env.d/30xdg-data-local and /etc/env.d/90xdg-data-base.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-26 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Dale wrote: > I don't object to having X stuff installed, I just don't think it should be > pulled into the system set. The system set (@system) is comprised ONLY of the packages listed in the various "packages" files under /usr/portage/profiles. The dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Jacques Montier wrote: > My kernel configuration : > > # SCSI device support > CONFIG_SCSI_MOD=y > CONFIG_SCSI=y > CONFIG_SCSI_DMA=y > CONFIG_SCSI_TGT=y > CONFIG_SCSI_NETLINK=y > CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y > # SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM) > # CONFIG_SCSI_ENCLO

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

2011-02-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Mick wrote: > I guess that 'emerge -uaDv world' takes the current state of x11-base/xorg- > drivers (which in the past had been merged with INPUT_DEVICES containing both > keyboard and mouse) as a higher priority than the current state of my > INPUT_DEVICES in /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto

2011-02-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Mark Shields wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Dale wrote: >> >> Mick wrote: >>> >>> Not related to the OP's question, but couldn't stop myself from asking: >>> >>> Why is/was webmin dropped from portage? >>> >>> I saw bug 348432 for webmin-1.530, but othe

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to a hardened profile and back again

2011-03-16 Thread Mike Edenfield
hat way, if something misbehaves and you can't fix it you can enable soft mode and PAX will stop killing things on you. > BTW, are emerge -e world and emerge -e system both necessary? I > thought emerge -e world would rebuild everything. IIRC, @system is not in @world unless you put it there yourself. (This might depend on your portage version, though). --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 03/21/2011 10:19:07 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system. >> >> I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but ... >> >> For many packages, portage installs libra

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files?

2011-03-25 Thread Mike Edenfield
ake them come back. If /usr/bin/gcc is missing you will get an error about your GCC_SPECS being wrong but that's because gcc-config tries to run `/usr/bin/gcc -v` to check for problems. But the error is harmless -- just re-run gcc-config again and you will see it finish with no problems. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-29 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/28/2011 6:20 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:55 -0400, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > >> Apparently not everyone who uses kmail has the problem. >> Maybe it's the people who use html mail? >> Neil Bothwick's posts often have the "==20", but usually just one or >> two. Some pos

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-30 Thread Mike Edenfield
less you have a compelling reason to use the pre-built stuff from the vmware-tools tarball I'd go with the open-vm-tools one. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-30 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/30/2011 2:57 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 3/30/2011 12:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Hello, list! >> >> I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, >> I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: >> >> * vmware-

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-31 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already, assuming you are using at least a 2.6.34 kernel. You'll still want to install open-vm-tools, which installs the other modules via open-vm-tools-kmod, like vsock and vmci, plus the us

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-04-01 Thread Mike Edenfield
It may be necessary to run the "Upgrade Hardware" process if the VM doesn't already have the v7 hardware. You can at least ask your cloud provider if they're willing to switch. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5

2011-04-04 Thread Mike Edenfield
even when it doesn't you will usually get a much more useful error. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5

2011-04-05 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/5/2011 3:03 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 19:34, Mike Edenfield wrote: >> On 4/4/2011 8:07 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >>> MAKEOPTS="-j3" >> >>> {standard input}: Assembler messages: >>> {standard input}:146362: Er

[gentoo-user] xorg crashes

2011-04-05 Thread Mike Bean
Not sure what's going on, hopefully it's a configuration mistake of some kind. Sometimes it crashes, sometimes it's intermittent. My xlog is at http://pastebin.com/9jsJE8mw Not really sure how to debug it, all advice is appreciated

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg crashes

2011-04-05 Thread Mike Bean
I thought it might be a driver issue - not sure what's going on. Trying to find a known good virtualbox .conf file so I can compare. Section "InputDevice" Indentifier "Mouse0" Driver "evdev" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device&q

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg crashes

2011-04-05 Thread Mike Bean
make/make install, and I want to be sure I'm not doing the wrong thing because of a misunderstanding On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 05 April 2011 09:58:39 Mike Bean wrote: > > Not sure what's going

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg crashes

2011-04-05 Thread Mike Bean
le ? and the output of " eselect profile list > " ? > > On Apr 5, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Mike Bean wrote: > > That, is an interesting question, because I HAVE been changing USE flags. > When the kernel was built it had a distinctly different use flag set. Now > it's

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-10 Thread Mike Edenfield
s of v7 it *does* support the other device types. If you edit the .vmx file in a text editor and change the device lines for the scsi and eth devices to 'pvscsi' and 'vmxnet3' and reboot they will appear correctly. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-10 Thread Mike Edenfield
s no option to choose which controller is presented to the guest. You get to choose when you create the VM. Only in ESX/vSphere, not for Workstation. At least not yet. Somewhat silly, IMO, since the hardware support is there under the hood if you know how to find it. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/11/2011 3:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:17:12 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: > >>>> Do you know which one workstation uses? AFAICT there's no option to >>>> choose which controller is presented to the guest. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive?

2011-04-15 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > /dev/sr0 it is!  I suppose that's mnemonic for Sata cdRom zero.  ;-(  The > symlinks are there, too. > Actually, that would be Scsi cdRom. Your SATA devices are treated like SCSI devices.

Re: [gentoo-user] SMB/CIFS or NFS?

2011-04-21 Thread Mike Edenfield
o not that much more complex than setting up NFS. If you're running Windows 2003 non-R2 and want NFS, you'll need the Services for UNIX component, at which point I would contend it's not worth the effort. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid!

2011-04-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
one you have listed: # gcc-config 1 You will get the error every time you run gcc-config until you set a valid profile; after that it should go away and builds should work again. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
ault. > I followed a guide when I did mine which is why I don't recall most of > it. On this rig, it wasn't to long ago. My old rig has even older > config files. That install is about 6 pr 7 years old if I recall > correctly. The guide you probably should be following is: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
EASUREMENT="POSIX" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" > LC_ALL= > root@fireball / # This means that your UTF-8 setup is clearly *not* working :) Your locale is not being set anywhere, it's using the glibc default of POSIX. POSIX is approximately equal to en_US as far as date/time, sorting, etc. but lacks most of the numeric formatting (no currency symbol, no thousands separator, etc). It's also using the default US-ASCII character set. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
m a POSIX draft that never got formalized.) Setting just LANG= and setting just LC_ALL= have the same ultimate result: every localization category uses the same locale. The difference is that setting LC_ALL means you can't turn around and redefine, say, just LC_TIME to use some other locale's format. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
the standards that govern the rest of the formats. Support for them is pretty sketchy and you can probably safely ignore them :) --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 5/11/2011 7:31 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 11 May 2011 22:14:55 Mike Edenfield wrote: The only problem with LC_ALL is that it overrides all of the other LC_* variables. - which is precisely what most ordinary desktop users want. In such a case it's a useful shor

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtual Packages

2011-05-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
ozen possible packages that provide "virtual/bootloader". It's also used to allow different architectures to have different "default" implementations of the same service (like virtual/libc). virtual/mysql, as of v5.1, can mean dev-db/mysql or dev-db/mariadb. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 5/12/2011 5:21 AM, Dale wrote: Mike Edenfield wrote: On 5/11/2011 6:51 PM, Dale wrote: Does this look more better? root@fireball / # locale LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF8" LC_ME

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
till a bad decision from a software development standpoint, and one that ideally should not be made again. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say "If the KDE4 team expects users to continue to use the software they spend so much of their time making, they shouldn't make that kind of decision again." --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Will the next auto-build stage tar ball include OpenRC update?

2011-05-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
locale should be able to see the characters just fine. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
e* to set a specific distfile or rsync mirror. Portage will use sensible defaults. Or, you could just as easily set up your selected mirror with a text editor :) --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Two portage questions

2011-05-14 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 5/14/2011 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Alan McKinnon /etc/make.profile is a symlink to something in $PORTDIR/profiles/ and that Odd. Not on my system, it's not. I bet it is: kutulu@basement ~ $ ls -l /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread Mike Edenfield
' or 'doc' globally. In those cases I'll turn it on when needed. Similarly, USE flags that only applies to one package (like "net-print/hplip snmp scanner hpcups new-hpcups hpijs") don't make sense globally, so they are best left to package.use. --Mike

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge php-5.3.6

2011-05-26 Thread Mike Diehl
fontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Any ideas? -- Take care and have fun, Mike Diehl.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge php-5.3.6

2011-05-26 Thread Mike Diehl
On Thursday 26 May 2011 11:25:55 am Todd Goodman wrote: > * Mike Diehl [110526 13:15]: > > I'm trying to do an emerge -u world and I'm down to php and one other > > package that needs it. > > > > I've done emerge --sync severa

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-01 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/1/2011 5:47 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 11:31 on Wednesday 01 June 2011, Indi did > opine thusly: > >> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:00:01AM +0200, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> Personally, I'd be livid if portage were to remove my carefully crafted >>> work from time

Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything

2011-06-02 Thread Mike Edenfield
s using the nspluginwrapper), while 10.2 was > 64-bit. So maybe that's part of the explanation in my case. According to Adobe, they have "closed the Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux program". Given that the only reason I bothered with Flash on Linux was the native 64-bit support, I've masked off adobe-flash-10.3* and have been quite happy with the last 10.2 so far. --Mike

[gentoo-user] Recovering RAID1 after disk failure

2011-06-16 Thread Mike Diehl
cheme and I will probably not have enough space on the new drive to build the RAID! What can I do? -- Take care and have fun, Mike Diehl.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering RAID1 after disk failure

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Diehl
Looks like I can take it from here! Thank you. I didn't know fdisk had an "expert" menu On Thursday 16 June 2011 11:14:30 pm Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Mike Diehl wrote: > > I've got a sw RAID1 that just had a failed drive replace

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering RAID1 after disk failure

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Diehl
eally need to use fdisk for this task you can start it in > compatibility mode (i.e. "fdisk -c=dos"). > > The recommended way of preparing the new drive, though, is to simply use > sfdisk to copy the partition table from the existing one: > > sfdisk -d | sfdisk -L > > andrea -- Take care and have fun, Mike Diehl.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
know you needed one until recently, it seems odd that you've installed packages that require f77 to build. Did you install R on purpose? If not, what pulled that in, and did you install *that* on purpose? Odds are one of your 1.5quadrillion USE flags is pulling in FORTRAN when you don't even need it. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/22/2011 11:35 AM, Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >> I suppose you got the idea by now ;-) Do you need dev-lang/R? If >> not, then "emerge -pv --depclean dev-lang/R". Do you need the >> package(s) that this brings up? If not, continue --depclean those >> until you reach something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
lease do one of below: > # emerge -va1 '='kde-base/cantor-4.6.4 with 'R' USE flag enabled > # emerge -vaDu sci-mathematics/maxima The odds of you ever needing to use cantor are practically nil. And if you did, you'd probably already have R installed and know what FORTRAN was. So, don't worry about it. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/23/2011 1:04 AM, Dale wrote: > Mike Edenfield wrote: >> On 6/22/2011 2:35 PM, Dale wrote: >>> You have decided to build cantor with no backend. >>> To have this application functional, please do one of below: >>> # emerge -va1 '='k

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
don't need to build gcc with fortran. Dale's just playing it safe, I guess, after the admittedly scary "I'm all broken and stuff!" warning message cantor throws at you. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
havior was "portage would tell me why it's not going to do anything", vs. the new behavior of "portage will tell me why it's not going to do anything, plus offer to fix it for me." Unless I'm missing something about the pre-auto-unmask behavior? (Which is entirely likely..) --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-24 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/23/2011 8:31 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:54:14 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: It's one package (cantor) that has one dependency (R) that is optional (USE=-R) that falls squarely into the "if you aren't sure if you need it then you probably don't&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-24 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/24/2011 8:03 AM, Todd Goodman wrote: * Mike Edenfield [110623 18:34]: It's one package (cantor) that has one dependency (R) that is optional (USE=-R) that falls squarely into the "if you aren't sure if you need it then you probably don't" category. So for most

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-25 Thread Mike Edenfield
ich means you most likely had a non-working cantor and no fortran compiler before and just didn't notice :) --Mike

[gentoo-user] KDE4 & NetworkManager applet?

2011-06-26 Thread Mike Edenfield
tification area. I use NetworkManager for VPN connections so I'd rather not have to switch ti wicd if possible. Is there a KDE equivalent applet or plasmoid or whatever? --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-26 Thread Mike Edenfield
l probably have both R and blas in that list as well. If so, you will need to continue to enable gcc[fortran] to build those. (The fact that gcc has a fortran USE flag is only relevant because it's the default compiler; you could also potentially have ifc installed to satisfy virtual/fortran, rendering gcc's USE flag irrelevant.) --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-10 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 7/10/2011 5:20 AM, john wrote: Had a pesky invasion of little insects behind my screen. Of which a lot have seemed to stop moving. Think I'll a get sealed tft next time. I'll try sucking them out with a hoover. Damn things, tft was 350 pounds, you think it should have anti critters device.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused

2011-07-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 7/22/2011 9:53 PM, CJoeB wrote: Because this will be a new computer and I may essentially void the warranty if I alter the pre-configuration, I seriously thought about leaving the status quo and putting up with Windows 7. However, I would lose practically as much as losing my first born! I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused

2011-07-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 7/23/2011 7:47 AM, Mick wrote: On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 07:25:42 Mike Edenfield wrote: I seem to recall a case where a user wiped their drive clean and installed Ubuntu or some such. The laptop went faulty and the person asked for it to be repaired/replaced under warranty, only to be told

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused

2011-07-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 7/23/2011 12:49 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:55:11 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: I'm actually speaking from experience here: the first thing I did on my Inspiron was wipe the HD and install Gentoo, only to learn that the wireless card was faulty. And since I could no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IRC active time?

2011-07-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 PM, walt wrote: > On 07/26/2011 06:07 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Anyone here knows at what time the Gentoo IRC channels are usually active? >> >> In UTC, if possible :) >> >> (Still can't wrap my head around USA time zone codes) > > I'd like to commission a survey of,

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
ld think that a Gentoo patchset to revert the paths back to /lib would be a feasible workaround to this mess. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition?

2011-09-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
o use an initramfs that mounts your separate /usr (and /var) very early in the boot process. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
on your own". Possibly with a subtle, hidden hint of "that's what you get for not running Fedora", but I could be imagining that. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-13 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/12/2011 1:17 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Well, I'm a hacker. udev is free source, therefore fair game. I don't intend to put up with this nonsense without a fight. As far as I can make out, this is just one guy, Kay Sievers, who's on a power trip. Are there any indications at all that he

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-13 Thread Mike Edenfield
if the changes progress as they are being proposed. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-13 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/13/2011 8:45 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:38:30 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: Well, I'm a hacker. udev is free source, therefore fair game. I don't intend to put up with this nonsense without a fight. As far as I can make out, this is just one guy, Kay Siev

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
27;s really a huge, overwhelming outcry against these changes. --Mike

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