Re: [gentoo-user] What to backup?

2006-01-02 Thread Tom Martin
etc/ > /var/lib/mysql/ (for some databases) > > Is there anything else I should be backing up? I suspect there are > some more things in /var that should be included. /var/lib/portage. You'll have your world file, in case you lose everything, so you'll be able to rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up crufty packages

2006-01-03 Thread Tom Martin
; > > > > > > # emerge -depclean --pretend will give you a list of orphaned > packages. USE WITH CARE It is not fool proof. Although I'd still recommend caution, emerge -uDN world beforehand will make things substantially more reliable. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.ge

Re: [gentoo-user] imapsync dependency not merged

2006-01-03 Thread Tom Martin
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/imapsync-ssl line 299. > Well spotted. Could you file a bug assigned to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please? Thanks, -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: printing lots of file.doc files

2006-01-04 Thread Tom Martin
well lacking > > ideas? app-text/wv might be usable -- it can convert docs to PDF or postscript. If the quality isn't that great (I've never tried it) or the documents are quite complex, I think you're going to have to find a way to do it from within OpenOffice. -- Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-05 Thread Tom Martin
could this be handled? Perhaps emerge > could somehow figure out the reason for such a conflict, and then > automatically unmerge the original package? Not really a question to the portage developers -- just unmerge openmotif (the blocker) and continue as normal. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.ge

Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?

2006-01-05 Thread Tom Martin
rogram, then X will crash. This is likely the cause of your problems. The difficulty is, for the moment, you have to sacrifice either GLX if you want to use Composite reliably. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-05 Thread Tom Martin
ocking errors appear. Then again, I don't really see any gaping problems with the current system; once someone has encountered their first pair of blocking packages, they then understand how to fix blockers in future. I doubt it's worth the effort. /shrug -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] eix, can I trust it at all?

2006-01-06 Thread Tom Martin
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:18:40 +0100 Petr Kocmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Please somebody explain to me the following event: > > (snip) You didn't update the eix database. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vi

Re: [gentoo-user] The Grand Remerge

2006-01-06 Thread Tom Martin
ngs. The one desktop and > eone server I run with Gentoo at work don't do anything like this. > My date is set correctly and it doesn't look like I had anything in > /usr/portage with wrong dates either, that's the only reason I could > think of so far. > Could you please

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo installer suggestions

2006-01-08 Thread Tom Martin
y a good idea to drop a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and post to their mailing list. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-13 Thread Tom Martin
few > of these programs. So far i have only been lucky with OpenSolaris and > FreeBSD. Every Linux distribution I can think of uses the same GNU coreutils, fileutils, etc. Hit www.gnu.org. That said, some distributions may apply a few patches, but this is still minor. They're all

Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge

2006-01-17 Thread Tom Martin
scribe all USE flags available for that package. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Pentium M and kernel module "processor.o"

2005-04-25 Thread Tom Martin
nels. > > Any suggestions? Well, you should be safe to change it to another setting that doesn't cause the problem. Intel SpeedStep, A.K.A Frequency Scaling should work regardless -- presuming you have that driver (it's under Power Management -> CPU Frequency Scaling IIRC).

Re: [gentoo-user] resolution from command line

2005-04-29 Thread Tom Martin
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:34:43PM +0300, Panos Laganakos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > i was looking for a command that can inform me of my current console > resolution. Try 'resize' with no arguments. Hope that helps, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.ge

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypt/decrypt a file(s)

2005-05-05 Thread Tom Martin
he > > folder ? > > emerge gnupg > RTFM gnupg > prepare scripts for tasks u like > bind scripts to mouse/keyboard events in gnome You may also want to try seahorse. It does this thing with a nautilus plugin, I think. Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD6

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-17 Thread Tom Martin
risk. Hope that helps, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpWmiOkdVzjA.pgp Description: PGP signature