Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-31 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi there folks... I'm new to the list, so thought I'd say hello. On 00:54 Wed 17 Jan , Fredrik Tolf wrote: > Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a > proprietary package is being pulled in through dependencies? I just > discovered that I have realplayer installed

[gentoo-user] Network start delay?

2007-02-07 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi all, I have a quick question about my init scripts. I start my wireless network with the script /etc/init.d/net.eth2 which is started by init in the "default" runlevel. I also have /etc/init.d/netmount to mount some samba shares, and which is also started my init in the "default" runleve

Re: [gentoo-user] Network start delay?

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:12, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:37 +0000, Peter Lewis wrote: > > I start my wireless network with the script > > > > /etc/init.d/net.eth2 > > > > which is started by init in the "default" runlev

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps building gcc

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 15 February 2007 17:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You have to fix some paths in the two mentioned files. I can't remember if > it's both files or just one of them. But at least in one of the files the > paths are wrong. Check bugs.gentoo.org to find more. Will do... Thanks! Pete. --

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps building gcc

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 15 February 2007 18:20, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > In the future please create a new thread by choosing new mail rather than > replying to another thread and changing the subject... Sorry... I didn't know there was a difference. > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728#c29 M

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps building gcc

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 15 February 2007 18:32, John Blinka wrote: > Following a suggestion on this list, here's what I did to correct this > problem: > > Use your favorite text editor to correct the "dependency_libs" line > in each of these files. Each line starts with something like > dependency_libs=' /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps building gcc

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 15 February 2007 19:30, Grant Edwards wrote: > When you hit reply the message will contains headers that > indicate what message it's a reply to. Real mail/news programs > use that header information to sort messages into threads. I've just turned threads on in my mail client and I se

Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?

2007-02-17 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi Alain, On Saturday 17 February 2007 18:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6. > When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding (hd0,0), > when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new in 2.6.19 that > causes this

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 00:48, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 19:46 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > Mikie wrote: > > > Anyone out there know where I could DL an iso file with a simple > > > > route > > > > > only linux? > > > > Is _really_ that hard to use Google? > > Maybe they

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 11:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:27:09 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > Hm. It sounded like he was lazy to do a research work. I have to > > confess it didn't even cross my head that OP just wanted a > > recommendation on available router distros. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Lewis
James, On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:46, James wrote: > Peter Lewis letterboxes.org> writes: > > No, I didn't mean it as a criticism anyway. I just find that it helps to > > assume the best on mailing lists. It all helps for a happy community. > > Dear Pompous Je

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:54, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 19:26:21 Peter Lewis wrote: > > > The arrogance of these responses is astounding. Does anyone believe > > > in civility any more? > > [SNIP] > > > Quite. I know very lit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 16:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:17:45 +0000, Peter Lewis wrote: > > I'm a big fan of the "there are no stupid questions, just stupid > > answers" way of thinking. > > A job providing technical support will soon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 16:36, I wrote: > Too true. I wouldn't want to encourage the asking of questions! D'oh! That was supposed to be "the asking of *stupid* questions"... sorry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:06, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > > From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 21 February 2007 17:53 > > It would be helpful for at least > > some people > > if we would let them know about our 5 pillars: "Plain-Text Only", "No > > Top-Po

[gentoo-user] Portage can't see ebuilds in PORTDIR_OVERLAY.

2007-02-22 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi people, I have been trying to add an ebuild to my /usr/local/portage tree, but am having problems. I dropped the ebuild into /usr/local/portage/kde-misc/foo-1.2.3-r4.ebuild and have also set PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage in /etc/make.conf. I have chown'd portage:portage everything unde

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage can't see ebuilds in PORTDIR_OVERLAY.

2007-02-22 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 22 February 2007 13:01, Peter Lewis wrote: > I have been trying to add an ebuild to my /usr/local/portage tree, but am > having problems. Ah... solved it. The thing needs to be in: /usr/local/portage/// I'd missed out . Sorry for the noise... :-) Pete. -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] Looking for advice on shared file system.

2007-02-26 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, I've been looking around for a while now for some sort of "shared file system" which might meet my needs a little better than that which I am currently using. I regularly use two different computers (desktop and laptop) for the same work and have always had a network (samba) drive mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for advice on shared file system.

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 26 February 2007 19:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:54:31PM +, Peter Lewis wrote: > > > I've been looking around for a while now for some s