Mark Knecht wrote:
Thanks for joining in. I have mucho craziness in these directories!
/usr/share/locale has way too much stuff, but it doesn't have what I
want. It's missing en_US.utf8 and en_US.ISO8859-1. Also, all of what I
think are the font files are in a directory called charmaps, not
c
Mark Knecht wrote:
You may be correct about setting all of this in 02locale. I noticed
that the Gentoo formatting stuff for vi is treating LC_ALL and
LC_COLLATE differently than LINGUAS. The manual seems to say set
system wide stuff in 02locale and user stuff in your own account.
They are diff
Mick wrote:
Now I am getting confused - at least one box of mine does not
have /etc/env.d/02locale at all. Am I supposed to create it manually?
The file isn't automatically created by anything, since strictly
speaking you can get away without using it. However, if you are going
to add the
On 2/5/2009 7:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
no. He is an idiot if he does not read the docs. Simple. Like people who don't
read the manual to their car or vcr and then complaining if something does not
work. Idiots.
"They should read the manual" is *not* a valid design goal for a system.
On 4/3/2009 3:38 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
there is no installer anymore. And that is a good thing.
I will agree that an installer doesn't belong near the top of anyones
"show stopper" list of Gentoo defects. Gentoo doesn't *need* an
installer and all previous attempts at one have bee
Alan McKinnon wrote:
This mythical thing - a working installer - probably does not exist and likely
never will.
This may be true, and it certainly is the case right now.
But that's not a good reason to reject one out of hand
before you even see it.
There are just too many decisions the hum
Daniel da Veiga wrote:
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 17:11, Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 4/3/2009 3:38 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
there is no installer anymore. And that is a good thing.
I will agree that an installer doesn't belong near the top of anyones "show
stopper" list of
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Friday 03 April 2009, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 17:11, Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 4/3/2009 3:38 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
there is no installer anymore. And that is a good thing.
I will agree that an installer doesn't belong nea
On 4/8/2009 2:02 PM, Mick wrote:
Hi All,
With my new xorg almost there from a configuration perspective I can see these
warnings now in my log:
(WW) xf86OpenConsole: setpgid failed: Operation not permitted
(WW) xf86OpenConsole: setsid failed: Operation not permitted
These are common and shoul
On 4/8/2009 3:37 PM, Mick wrote:
Wikipedia is telling me that OTF are a Microsoft/Adobe creation - is Linux
following suit and therefore xorg includes them in its list of fonts?
OpenType (the catchy name for an OTF font) is basically the successor to
TrueType, but is in theory an open standar
On 4/9/2009 11:27 AM, Mick wrote:
2009/4/8 Mike Edenfield:
On 4/8/2009 3:37 PM, Mick wrote:
Wikipedia is telling me that OTF are a Microsoft/Adobe creation - is Linux
following suit and therefore xorg includes them in its list of fonts?
OpenType (the catchy name for an OTF font) is basically
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Remember that the GPL has always been about all the users NOT just the
developers/distributors -- "adapt it to your needs" is not allowed when it
restricts other users' freedoms.
Very few GPL proponents are willing to make this (rather obviously true)
statement;
»Q« wrote:
In <news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Remember that the GPL has always been about all the users NOT just
the developers/distributors -- "adapt it to your needs" is not
allowed when it restricts
Kenneth Prugh wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Montag, 23. Juli 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And then Os. That is a big nono.
Why's that?
Alexander Skwar
because several gcc have compiled crap with that flag in the past?
That was the
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Although I agree with your reasoning above, you are contradicting
yourself in the following two statements:
At least, it's no more broken under -Os than under -O2.
[...] benefits of using -Os over -O2 are minimal
compared against the possible problems it might cause
Grant wrote:
|> I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use pure
|> ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had recently
|> turned out to be a corrupt root filesystem.
|
| yeah, mixing isn't good. Pure systems are way more stable.
Now that's an interest
b.n. wrote:
I didn't know that showing a mail *you* received is illegal. Maybe I can
contact Bloch and ask him permission?
I think this thread has long since left the topic of Gentoo
in the dust. If you cannot just accept that Joerg is not
going to be cooperative on this issue and drop it,
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:16:33 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
If you repeat the "opinion" of other people, you make it _your_ opinion
and if your opinion may harm other people, you are not allowed to
publish it unless you are able t
Joerg Schilling wrote:
They claimed that the official build system was not legal but they replaced it
with a build system that definitely is not legal because it is not included in
the source.
You keep saying this, but I just don't see where it's coming from.
Firstly, the cdrkit source ships
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Sascha Hlusiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
They claimed that the official build system was not legal but they replaced
it with a build system that definitely is not legal because it is not
included in the source.
Of course the files needed to build cdrkit are in the source
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The reality, regardless of what Debian, or the FSF, or you,
or any lawyers say, is that the licensing issue has not been
tested in court yet. Unless and until that happens, the
whole debate is pure theory. Debian is c
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Well, now that you found this out, does this mean that you finally concur with
me that Bloch & Co. are license trolls?
Not being so emotionally attached to the isse as you are, I'm not going
to resort to name calling. I will say that the issue, in my opinion, is
nowhe
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Sascha Hlusiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Am Dienstag 08 Juli 2008 16:12:43 schrieb Joerg Schilling:
Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[lots of stuff I regret]
I apologize to everyone for making this mess go on any longer that it
had to.
--
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2008-08-10, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The last time I did a basic FreeBSD install, it included Gnu
user-land stuff (e.g. gcc).
Anything else besides GCC?
I can't think of anything else off the top of my head, but it's
been a couple years since I'v
Grant wrote:
My understanding of GPG is weak. Can someone point out my misconception(s)?
Speaking from a purely practical standpoint, keeping your private and
public keys completely separate is extremely inconvenient with (IMO) a
negligible security benefit.
However, there is arguably a m
Grant wrote:
Can I configure this so that I don't have the two keys on the same
system? I'd like encrypt with my remote system and decrypt with my
local system. Is that possible? It seems like importing my private
key also imports the public key.
I'm a bit confused as to what you're trying
Grant wrote:
Can I configure this so that I don't have the two keys on the same
system? I'd like encrypt with my remote system and decrypt with my
local system. Is that possible? It seems like importing my private
key also imports the public key.
I'm a bit confused as to what you're trying to
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2008-10-24, deface <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Please read the latest news @ www.gentoo-wiki.com
We can't. It's down.
Care to share the news?
The domain name is not down, it just doesn't point at the wiki. I'm
looking at it now.
But summary:
"everyone in this
b.n. wrote:
* Overlay eclass overrides eclass from PORTDIR:
Could anyone explain me what does it mean in practice?
The cause of this message is that one of the overlays you
have configured includes an eclass that already exists in
base portage. This happens when the overlay includes
eb
For the past several weeks I have been having a recurring problem with
portage's metadata cache after a sync. The problem is reproduceable
100% of the time now, so either I have something configured wrong or
there's actually a problem with the portage mirrors:
The problem is easily fixed by r
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Hello Dan Farrell,
Why this is the case, I don't think I'll ever understand. White
terminal backgrounds, aside from the invisible color problem, also are
hella ugly.
Many people find black on white far easier to read than white on black,
for the same fonts and sizes.
Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 22:04, Paul Varner wrote:
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 20:14 -0700, maxim wexler wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /
ls: cannot open directory /: Permission denied
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
What does 'ls -ld /' and 'ls -ld /etc' return?
Both of them should look like:
drw
I recently enabled the "test" feature on Portage and notice that a
couple of packages routinely fail their test phases. Is this expected
behavior? More specifically, should I file bug reports if I see such
failures? These are unstable packages (so far) and if this will help
get them out of ~
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:48 PM
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:08:04 -0500
> Michael Mol wrote:
>
> > I'm seriously unconvinced that concatenating words significantly
> > increases the difficulty of the problem. Just as a mentalist will
> From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:31 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd
>
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:09:40 -0500
> "Mike Edenfield" wrote:
>
On 1/17/2012 1:55 AM, Chris Walters wrote:
Hi,
I have a question about cross compiling in Gentoo - specifically cross
compiling for W32/W64. I tried their preferred method and didn't like it, so I
downloaded the appropriate Mingw64 build files, set up a cross compile account,
with the appropria
On 1/17/2012 6:41 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Chris Walters wrote:
I have a question about cross compiling in Gentoo - specifically cross
compiling for W32/W64. I tried their preferred method and didn't like it, so I
downloaded the appropriate Mingw64 build files, set up a cross compile accoun
> From: Chris Walters [mailto:cjw20...@comcast.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 9:27 AM
>
> On 1/17/2012 08:39 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> > On 1/17/2012 1:55 AM, Chris Walters wrote:
> >> that have make files for MS Visual Studio. I have no interest in
&g
> From: Frank Steinmetzger [mailto:war...@gmx.de]
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:05 AM
> This backs me up in using noscript and flashblock. Sometimes I doubt
myself
> when I get asked once more why I would use NoScript in times when most of
> the web relies on JS. I then say that privacy an
On 1/29/2012 1:14 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
2) On PC clones, floppies never had auto-insert detection. (Though
maybe you'd get something like that if you used a superfloppy or
LS-120 drive to read them)
Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to
make it actually work:
http://bl
> From: Michael Hampicke [mailto:gentoo-u...@hadt.biz]
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:10 AM
>
> > Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it
> > actually work:
> >
> > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/04/02/9528175.aspx
>
>
> Quote
> > And you certainl
> From: James Broadhead [mailto:jamesbroadh...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:15 AM
> On 30 January 2012 13:09, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> >> Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it
> >> actually work:
> >>
> >> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive
> From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 6:39 PM
>
> Howdy,
>
> I got a neighbour that has a computer issue. First, the hard drive went
> out. We ordered a new one and installed it. Then he realized he didn't
> have the restore discs. We ordered those fr
> From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 8:06 PM
> Your reply made me think of something. I had a XP reinstall once that
> required a number from MS because of the new mobo and hard drive. They
> said it recognized the change in the serial numbers. When I
> From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 9:43 PM
>
> Mike Edenfield wrote:
> >> From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 6:39 PM
> >>
> >> Howdy,
> >>
> >
On 2/18/2012 5:26 AM, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I ran across this and though it was a joke. Did a news search and sure
enough, it is reported in lots of places. Random linky:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102856/Will-FBI-shut-Internet-March-8-virus-concerns.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Is ther
From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 7:23 PM
> I like that quote. I may not be dev material but I know this /usr mess
> is not right. The only reason it is happening is because of one or two
> distros that push it to make it easier for themselves.
If that's ho
> From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:14 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.
>
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:54:58 +0700
> Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
> > > The idea of trying to
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:04 PM
> Huh? What's that to do with udev? You're talking at far too high a level
of
> abstraction. The new hardware will "just work" if there are the correct
> drivers built in. That's as true of udev as it is of mdev
From: Pandu Poluan [mailto:pa...@poluan.info]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:13 PM
> BUT, in the same message, it is stated that Xorg *can* be compiled to *not*
> try to communicate with udev.
> I suspect a similar situation with Gnome.
IIRC, GNOME only needs udev for auto-mount support. gv
> From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:21 AM
> As I've said a few times in the current threads, the only thing preventing
me
> from moving fully onto mdev is not having a working keyboard and mouse
> (evdev??) under X.
>
> Has anybody else tried this, an
From: Pandu Poluan [mailto:pa...@poluan.info]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:28 PM
> This email [1] (and the correction email right afterwards) should give some
> much-needed perspective on
> why we're driving full-speed toward an overturned manure truck (which some of
> us, e.g., Walter a
> From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
> This has been one of my points too. I could go out and buy me a bluetooth
> mouse/keyboard but I don't because it to complicates matters.
I had a long reply to Walt that I (probably wisely) decided not to send, but
the basic point of it is also releva
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> The instructions for replacing udev with mdev are now up at
> http://www.waltdnes.org/mdev/ validator.w3.org complains about a couple
> of extensions I used, but it appears to work OK in both Firefox and
> Midori. Any comments from users of other browsers? The page will be
> From: Walter Dnes [mailto:waltd...@waltdnes.org]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:14 PM
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 09:35:55PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote
>
> > What we're talking about with systemd vs openrc, and things like ssh'd
> > first-time initialization is all within the realm of responsib
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
> From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:37 AM
> My question: what, technically, prevents me from copying the booting
> software instead to /sbin and booting the system that way?
Nothing; in fact, this was the general solution to the problem of "something
else
> > If this is all you need, I recommend you use dracut. The default
> > installation (no use-flags or optional modules) will product an
> > initramfs that loads whatever you current rootfs and /usr partitions are.
> >
> > I've been working on updating the wiki with more detailed
> > instructions;
> 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
> 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
> From: c...@chrekh.se [mailto:c...@chrekh.se]
>
> Neil Bothwick writes:
>
> > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:26:46 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> >
> >> > As you move more and more software off of /usr into / you start to
> >> > realize that the idea of "tiny partition that contains just what I
> >> >
> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk]
> Yes it is, I now I used to waste my time like that. Now I have a config
file that
> lists what needs to go into the initramfs and the kernel build
automatically
> pulls everything in for me. The only other thing I need is the init
script. So I
>
> From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
> Thing is, I can't get dracut to boot a system as I use it. See my other post.
> Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either switch to another
> distro, hope someone figures out why dracut isn't working or just move
> everything to / an
> From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
>
> Hi, Alan.
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:48:19PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:24:22 +
> > Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
> > > That is precisely what the question was NOT about. The idea was to
> > > copy (not move) booting
> 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
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
> From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
> Incidentally, dracut says it won't work on a kernel without modules. I
don't
> know if it's true or not.
dracut wants you to have loadable module /support/ in your kernel so it can
scan for modules needed by the rootfs. The kernel-module support in d
> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk]
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:50:04 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
> > So throw out my plans and just do it their way? In that case, I may
> > as well use Fedora since it sort of started there. Maybe that is what
> > they wanted and planned.
>
> According to
> 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
From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
> I had to reboot so I made a new init thingy with the -H switch. It works in
> Console but nothing root works in KDE. I get the same error.
> Heck, Konsole won't even try to come up much less ask for my password.
> Krusader asks for password and says th
> From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com]
> OK, semantics. Let me re-phrase:
>
> Why is a third party script, running in the context of the udev universe,
> indiscriminately allowed to launch daemons at early boot time?
>
> I don't think I agree with Neil in that this is a udev desi
> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:04 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting
> software to /sbin rather than initramfs?
>
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:35:36 -0400, Michael Mol
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
On 4/2/2012 11:12 PM, Dale wrote:
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
Actually, the initramfs finished without a single error: between
[1.962007] dracut: + source_conf /etc/conf.d
and
[2.395576] dracut: Switching root
there is not a single error. The initramfs did what it needed to do;
the u
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
On 5/1/2012 6:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Sort of painful to start maintaining a 32-bit chroot just to handle
this sort of thing. I suspect there's some freeware for the Windows
world that might allow me to do the conversion in a VM. I'll start
looking for that. The web site that advertised conver
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 18:32 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to install a 32bit version of xulrunner?
>
> An application I am using on top of eclipse apparently needs a 32bit
> version. Don't know exactly why... Currently I have:
xulrunner is in the multilib layman ove
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:
>
>
On 2/23/2011 10:57 AM, Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> This isn't much help, you need the parts where the KDE/QT packages are
>> shown as ebuild, not nomerge. That will show you what is requiring them.
>>
>> emerge -ept | grep -B 4 kdelibs should find that for you, or
>>
>> emerge -ept | most
On 3/15/2011 2:05 PM, Grant wrote:
> A dev is asking me to switch to a hardened profile in order to test a
> fix. I'm happy to go through the process, but is there a chance my
> laptop could be unusable after the switch? If that happens I'll be in
> real trouble. Will I be able to switch back to
On 3/25/2011 5:33 AM, Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:33:38 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Naturally this returned a lot so we have to use common sense before
>>> deleting something. That said, what about these:
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/cc
>>> /usr/bin/c++
>>> /usr/bin/c89
>>
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
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-tools
>
> * open-vm-tools
>
> * open-vm-tools-kmod
>
> What are the differences? And which one shoul
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-
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
On 4/1/2011 2:09 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Hmmm... I've compiled VMXNET into the kernel, but can't get VMXNET to
> perform; booting complained of inexistent network.
>
> Adding e1000 into the kernel works though.
>
> Could it be because the Cloud Provider has preconfigured my VMware
> vSphere wi
On 4/4/2011 8:07 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:146362: Error: open CFI at the end of file; missing
.cfi_endproc directive
xgcc: Internal error: Killed (program cc1)
This kind of error is often caused by the parallel make not
q
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
On 4/9/2011 3:02 AM, Adam Carter wrote:
I had a working .config. Unfortunately, I left it at office.
The main 'trap' usually would be the SCSI Driver.
If you're using PVSCSI, go into SCSI & RAID, then SCSI
Low Level
Driver, then select VMware PVSCSI as built-in, not module.
On 4/9/2011 4:57 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 17:02:14 +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
If you're using PVSCSI, go into SCSI& RAID, then SCSI Low Level
Driver, then select VMware PVSCSI as built-in, not module.
Do you know which one workstation uses? AFAICT there's no option to
choo
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.
>>>
On 4/20/2011 9:21 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Okay, I'm combining the portage distfiles dir into a storage server.
>
> Problem: the storage server is Windows 2003.
>
> Question: should I mount the distfile dir using SMB/CIFS or NFS? Is
> there any performance and/or complexity issues?
My own anecd
On 4/27/2011 8:16 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Gentoo.
>
> I got the error message
>
> gcc-config: error: could not run/locate 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc'
>
> whilst trying to emerge something. Running gcc-config myself
> # gcc-config -l, I get back this error message:
>
> * gcc-conf
On 5/11/2011 9:40 AM, Dale wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 05/11/2011 03:33 PM, Dale wrote:
>>> root@fireball / # cat /etc/make.conf | grep utf
>>> LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
>>> root@fireball / #
Putting your LC_* values in make.conf means they're only going to apply
when you are building thing
On 5/11/2011 12:54 PM, Dale wrote:
> root@fireball / # locale -a
> C
> POSIX
> en_US
> en_US.iso88591
> en_US.utf8
So you have three locales installed (C and POSIX are internal and always
present) that are the same language and region with different character
sets. You probably don't need to do t
On 5/11/2011 12:02 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 05/11/2011 06:53 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 05/11/2011 06:42 PM, Dale wrote:
>>> That was quick:
>>>
>>> root@fireball / # grep LC_ALL /etc/env.d/*
>>> root@fireball / #
>>>
>>> Guess that is not in env.d anywhere. :/
>>
>> Then I guess y
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_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF8"
LC_PAPER, is that like paper in my printer? What the
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
On 5/11/2011 5:43 PM, John wrote:
Have noticed that some packages require virtual packages to installed
as well. For example when installing dev-db/mysql, virtual/mysql is
installed as well.
What are the purposes of these "virtual" packages??
They allow other packages to depend on the presenc
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
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