Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

Am Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:43:19 +0100 schrieb Michael : > Even if compression delivers some small space saving, given Dale's new > faster Internet link and local video storage tendencies, compression > will only kick the can down the road. If these are not private or rare > videos and remain

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

Am Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:50:37 +0200 schrieb Gerrit Kühn : > Being a happy restic user myself, I'd like to mention that compression is > available meanwhile > (https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/047_tuning_backup_parameters.html#compression). > However, the feature is rather new, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

Am Mon, 15 Aug 2022 03:02:19 -0400 schrieb John Covici : > I have been using restic for a while, and although it does not do > compression, there are a couple of nice things it does Being a happy restic user myself, I'd like to mention that compression is available meanwhile

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PCI SAS CARDS

Am Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:01:47 +0200 schrieb "J. Roeleveld" : > I would recommend upgrading to a more recent mainboard or just using > SATA. Yeah, sure, but the OP wrote: "I suspect it's a silly question but I'd like to find one." cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PCI SAS CARDS

Am Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:43:39 +0200 schrieb Gerrit Kühn : > > Are there any SAS drive controller cards that go in a PCI slot (Not PCI > > express).  I suspect it's a silly question but I'd like to find one. > I don't know any. Looking around, I just found two (old) PCI-X bas

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PCI SAS CARDS

Am Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:13:22 +0200 (CEST) schrieb mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com: > Are there any SAS drive controller cards that go in a PCI slot (Not PCI > express).  I suspect it's a silly question but I'd like to find one. I don't know any. But if you're /that/ desperate: there are

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating Blue-ray video discs

Am Fri, 29 May 2020 05:14:41 -0500 schrieb Dale : > I think you are correct.  To create a DVD with videos to watch on a TV > DVD player, I use Devede to create the image and then k3b to burn the > image.  It seems I need some sort of tool, like devede does for DVDs, to > create a image or

[gentoo-user] ebuild with cmake, swig and python

Hi, After searching the web without much success, maybe somebody in here can direct me into the right direction: I have a software that is providing swig bindings to (among other languages) python, and I'd like to have an ebuild for that and get binding for python2 and python3 at the same time.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:45:59 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit: > > This is not a good application for a regex. > Since that doesn't seem to be stopping anyone, here's my entry. Since the only alternative to a regexp

Re: [gentoo-user] OT expect script question

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 11:28:55 +1100 Adam Carter wrote about [gentoo-user] OT expect script question: > expect { > "string1" { } > "string2" { } > "*" { } > } From --- expect * Here the * matches

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat

On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 14:16:53 + (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote about [gentoo-user] Re: Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat: > That sounds expensive to me... I cannot remember what price we paid back then. Both the price and your available funds probably depend on if you're going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat

On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:25:18 + (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote about [gentoo-user] Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat: > I've been thinking about trying to automate this by installing the app > on an Ubuntu or RedHat system and then running a bash script that uses > ldd et alia to

Re: [gentoo-user] skip package

On Wed, 2 May 2018 18:40:08 +0800 Bill Kenworthy wrote about [gentoo-user] skip package: Ho, >     is it possible to filter out a package (chromium) from from emerge > world on the commandline?  Using files is a pain when I just want to > stop a package building until I am

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 12:30:21 +0200 gevisz wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs: > > Why mess around with another tmpfs? Just set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" in > > make.conf. Job done! > > It is an interesting idea. But why it is not done by default then? > > Can somebody

[gentoo-user] kernel 3.2 conflicts with gcc-6.4

Hello, I still have some systems around that need to run a vanilla kernel 3.2. This works without any issues as long as I am using gcc-4.9.4 or gcc-5.4 to compile the kernel. Using gcc-6.4 for compilation was not possible out-of-the-box as it is defaulting to --enable-default-pie. After reading

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC setup guide for dummies?

On Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:13:45 +0200 Helmut Jarausch wrote about [gentoo-user] VNC setup guide for dummies?: Ho, > Is there any configuration guide for dummies (like me). Well, the obvious starting point probably is Do you intend to

Re: [gentoo-user] cron tab

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 21:13:09 -0600 the...@sys-concept.com wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] cron tab: > https://crontab.guru/#5_18_3_*_1-5 > > ?At 18:05 on day-of-month 3 and on every day-of-week from Monday through > Friday.? > > So it shouldn't run today! But it should. It runs "at 18:05 on