Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix config and update

2022-11-27 Thread Mike Civil
On 27/11/2022 14:50, Wol wrote: Postfix afaik just has one humungous config file, so when your distro updates the config, all your local changes are trashed :-( I don't want to faff about with special copies, backups, origs etc. Everything should "just work (tm)". Except that portage doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch.

2022-12-12 Thread Mike Civil
Many thanks for this. I can confirm that it patches, compiles and works on 6.1 :)

Re: [gentoo-user] net-mail/metamail - removal

2022-12-13 Thread Mike Civil
On 13/12/2022 21:01, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I just noticed that "net-mail/metamail" is masked and scheduled for removal 12/23/2022 I'm using "mailto" which is part of metamail. Is there any alternative package that contain this function "mailto" Frankly metamail has been dead for decade

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-15 Thread Mike Civil
Not sure what your problem is but it looks like Glib is complaining, not mc. Having unicode in your flags would seem to infer UTF-8 support but I'm no expert. There's an assumption that you've already run an emerge --sync, emerge --update @world and a depclean and that you don't have any unusu

Re: [gentoo-user] Discontinued Package: Copy to local overlay, just leave installed, or install manually?

2023-02-19 Thread Mike Civil
On 19/02/2023 09:24, Matthias Hanft wrote: according to https://bugs.gentoo.org/718972 (and a posting in the dev list), gsutil (and all needed libs) will be removed from the tree because "it's broken" (which is not true - works like a charm). The original bug report only has two comments. The f

Re: [gentoo-user] Discontinued Package: Copy to local overlay, just leave installed, or install manually?

2023-02-19 Thread Mike Civil
On 19/02/2023 11:57, Matthias Hanft wrote: Ehm... maybe a misunderstanding? The posting I mentioned was: --- cut here --- Subject: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/oauth2client and revdeps (app-misc/gcalcli, app-misc/goobook, net-misc/gsutil) # Michał Górny (2023-02-03) # The package has

Re: [gentoo-user] Manifest verification failed

2023-04-22 Thread Mike Civil
I had the same problem this morning and performed a manual key update as per https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Updating_Expired_Gentoo_Keys This seems to have fixed things for me. On 22/04/2023 07:10, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 4/21/23 23:09, the...@sys-concept.com wr

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-18 Thread Mike Civil
On 18/04/2024 13:26, Dale wrote: The biggest reason I like a separate video card, I can upgrade if needed.  Built in video means a new mobo. Having a motherboard that supports an apu doesn't preclude adding a separate graphics card later if required (viz a lot of laptops that come so provis

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulty with updating /etc/basb/bashrc

2024-06-14 Thread Mike Civil
On 14/06/2024 17:00, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Right now, I have a problem. Is there any convenient way I can get the older standard file contents back again, so as to be able to do this 3-way diff? Does etc-update or dispatch-conf not give you the option to selectively update and/or to diff the