Re: [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-11 Thread Marc Joliet
://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_8_final.pdf > > I can't recall the ESP partition format last time I installed and > dual-booted Linux on a MacBookPro, c.2014, but I'd wager it was VFAT. I checked my 2007 Mac Mini and its ESP is vfat. Of course, newer Macs or other mod

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

2020-04-06 Thread Marc Joliet
ect experience, it can rearrange the > naming of the boot devices. > > I had to use PARTUUID in fstab/grub.cfg to get around this problem. > > Dan -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD strategies...

2020-04-06 Thread Marc Joliet
(Hmm, weird, this failed to send and was laying around in my outbox.) Am Samstag, 21. März 2020, 16:29:48 CET schrieb David Haller: > Hello, > > On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, Marc Joliet wrote: > >Am Mittwoch, 18. März 2020, 16:56:52 CET schrieb antlists: > [..] > > >> Can'

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you monitor your pc?

2020-04-06 Thread Marc Joliet
mean, I also use "dmesg -T" on occasion because it's quicker, I'm just curious.) Greetings -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-22 Thread Marc Joliet
nts after "SMART overall-health self-assessment test result:" when it thinks the drive is failing (it claims the drive is going to fail within the next 24 hours). Greetings -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we do

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD strategies...

2020-03-21 Thread Marc Joliet
nything goes wrong it's an easy roll-back. > > Likewise, do the same for the rotating rust, and use that to back up > /home - you can use some option to rsync that only over-writes what's > changed, so you do a "snapshot then back up" and have loads of backups > going back

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python: ebuilds vs. pip3 install --user

2020-03-11 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mittwoch, 11. März 2020, 21:27:11 CET schrieb Grant Edwards: > On 2020-03-11, Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 11. März 2020, 18:54:43 CET schrieb Grant Edwards: > >> [...] > >> Q: Under what conditions will having a second installation of a Python > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Python: ebuilds vs. pip3 install --user

2020-03-11 Thread Marc Joliet
s" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', '/home/marcec/.miniconda3/lib/python37.zip', '/home/marcec/.miniconda3/ lib/python3.7', '/home/marcec/.miniconda3/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload', '/home/ marcec/.miniconda3/lib/python3.7/site-pac

Re: [gentoo-user] Number of open Bugzilla bugs

2020-02-14 Thread Marc Joliet
bad experiences that manage to color my overall perception, or I'm just seeing things overly negative right now, because there are certainly also plenty of good people here, and I'm with you in that I prefer to ask technical questions (even not directly relating to Gentoo) in this community as well (alth

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem merging meson with setuptools. Requesting setuptools-45

2020-02-14 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Freitag, 14. Februar 2020, 15:15:06 CET schrieb Gerion Entrup: > Am Freitag, 14. Februar 2020, 11:53:58 CET schrieb Marc Joliet: > > Am Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2020, 11:04:54 CET schrieb Gerion Entrup: > > > Hi, > > > > Hi, > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem merging meson with setuptools. Requesting setuptools-45

2020-02-14 Thread Marc Joliet
2_7 python3_6 (-pypy3) (-python3_7) (-python3_8)" 0 KiB [ebuild R] dev-util/meson-0.52.1::gentoo USE="-test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_6 (-python3_7) (-python3_8)" 0 KiB Total: 2 packages (1 downgrade, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB > Best, > Gerion HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: octave won't run

2020-02-06 Thread Marc Joliet
lable LAPACK (lib64) candidates: [1] openblas * [2] reference % eselect blas list Available BLAS/CBLAS (lib) candidates: (none found) Available BLAS/CBLAS (lib64) candidates: [1] openblas * [2] reference HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those

Re: [gentoo-user] What ntp/sntp client do people use?

2019-12-11 Thread Marc Joliet
ine interface for chrony daemon chronyd (8) - chrony daemon HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] automake-1.9.6-r5 mask question

2019-12-07 Thread Marc Joliet
4 ("profiles/package.mask: extend automake mask to :1.9") extended the mask without updating the comment, and refers to https://bugs.gentoo.org/489450, which I haven't bothered checking. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/pam masked but required by all non-hardened profiles?

2019-10-15 Thread Marc Joliet
would not pick them up by itself :-/ .) Greetings -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/pam masked but required by all non-hardened profiles?

2019-10-14 Thread Marc Joliet
he only provider of the virtual and is replacing it in *DEPENDS. That makes the virtual redundant, so the last step is to remove it. Apparently not everything has been moved over yet, or maybe some stabilizations are still not finished, in any case I wouldn't worry about it, it might be resolved by the nex

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual eselect - how to

2019-06-27 Thread Marc Joliet
y thanks for a hint, > Helmut BTW, the thread Dale mentioned is part of an effort to get the BLAS/LAPACK alternatives handling done properly (or at least more robustly). The way it's handled in the ::science overlay currently will likely not be merged into the main portage tree. HTH -- Marc

Re: [gentoo-user] equery keywords and overlays

2019-06-20 Thread Marc Joliet
specific, with "check", "has", > "hasuse", and "list" supporting it.) > > Unfortunately, it does not look like "keywords" supports the "-o" > (overlay) option. It has an -O option, though. From the output of "equery key

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to unshare: EINVAL

2019-03-27 Thread Marc Joliet
n GENTOO_LINUX_PORTAGE ("Gentoo Linux" -> "Gentoo Linux Support" -> "Select options required by Portage features") will automatically select them. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] eix doesn't ignore disabled overlays

2019-03-11 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Montag, 11. März 2019, 23:35:35 CET schrieb Marc Joliet: > Am Montag, 11. März 2019, 10:48:38 CET schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > > Hi, > > > > eix-sync and eix-diff reports (newer) packages from disabled overlays > > (via layman -D ...). > > How can I tell eix to

Re: [gentoo-user] eix doesn't ignore disabled overlays

2019-03-11 Thread Marc Joliet
r a hint, > Helmut Did you already run eix-update? If so, I suspect you found a bug. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium-72.0.3626.96 and Java

2019-02-14 Thread Marc Joliet
" # snip other deps closure-compile? ( virtual/jre ) virtual/pkgconfig " [0] I was going to refer to ebuild(5), but it's currently not documented there (see bug #674932), however you can find a definition in the PMS at [1]. [1] https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/7/pms.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why was ekiga removed?

2019-01-14 Thread Marc Joliet
] is getting some commits (though mostly translation updates for the past two years), but there hasn't been a release since 2013, let alone a port to Gnome 3. Use at your own peril! [0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/ekiga/commits/master -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything r

Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed

2018-12-18 Thread Marc Joliet
t actually worked and I was able to copy all data from it. Only one (unimportant) directory had been corrupted. I mean, I still use USB drives, as they're quite practical for some things, but I'm more aware of the potential issues with them now. -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know

Re: [gentoo-user] ...I not allowed to make pdfs from images??????

2018-12-09 Thread Marc Joliet
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Re: [gentoo-user] ...I not allowed to make pdfs from images??????

2018-12-09 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 16:46:39 CET schrieb Philip Webb: > 181209 Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 11:35:16 CET schrieb Philip Webb: > >> What exactly are the "security reasons" ? > >> Do they apply to a single-user system ? -- if not

Re: [gentoo-user] ...I not allowed to make pdfs from images??????

2018-12-09 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 11:35:16 CET schrieb Philip Webb: > 181208 Marc Joliet wrote: > > This is mentioned in the emerge output when installing imagemagick. > > > > From the 7.0.8.14 ebuild : > > elog "For security reasons, a policy.xml file was insta

Re: [gentoo-user] ...I not allowed to make pdfs from images??????

2018-12-08 Thread Marc Joliet
uot; - PS2" elog " - PS3" elog " - EPS" elog " - PDF" elog " - XPS" Did it not show for you? -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] march cflag for Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160 SLA8Z Malay processor

2018-09-28 Thread Marc Joliet
ope the formatting doesn't get messed up, the point is that my /proc/cpuinfo *does* show mmxext.) -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] disable Intel Mgr Engine

2018-09-14 Thread Marc Joliet
//github.com/corna/me_cleaner. I don't remember the details (and have no experience with it), but AFAIK it does remove a good chunk of the ME. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Desc

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-17 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Freitag, 17. August 2018, 07:55:57 CEST schrieb Dale: > Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Freitag, 10. August 2018, 04:46:17 CEST schrieb Dale: [...] > >> I did think about btrfs. I've read a lot of threads on here about > >> people using it and it seems to have com

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-16 Thread Marc Joliet
seriousness, I also ended up at btrbk for driving a btrfs snapshot based backup system (btrbk is basically a fancy UI on top of the btrfs send/ receive machinery). I've been using it for, wow, for almost 3 years now (first merged on 7th September 2015). Greetings -- Marc Joliet -- "People who

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-16 Thread Marc Joliet
ith the backup drive, since you can exploit most of the features there (well, snapshots and compression, at least). Personally, I've had mostly good experience with btrfs and enjoy its send/receive feature for full-system incremental backups. > I suspect /boot would still have to be ext2

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update public keys?

2018-07-05 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2018, 23:37:53 CEST schrieb Marc Joliet: > Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2018, 21:22:15 CEST schrieb Grant Edwards: > [SNIP] > > For those still having this problem, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/659914#c9. > > In my case I just ran my usual "emerge -uDUva

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update public keys?

2018-07-05 Thread Marc Joliet
e the sync failure (a problem that Rich described several times over the last few days); after all, what's one more unverified sync after this long? Afterwards I synced again to verify that the problem was actually gone. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really an

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge and binary packages

2018-07-01 Thread Marc Joliet
> Dan I don't know much about NFS, but... what about autofs? That would mount the FS on first access, and AFAIK can unmount it after a period of inactivity. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hostile takeover of our github mirror. Don't use ebuild from there until new warning!

2018-06-30 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Freitag, 29. Juni 2018, 17:11:36 CEST schrieb Dale: > git thingy Heh, a true Dale-ism if I ever saw one ;-) . -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a dig

Re: [gentoo-user] python 3.6

2018-06-28 Thread Marc Joliet
nder why this would be happening? > > Just found that by re-emergeing 3.6.5 it stops trying to remove it - I > can remove 3.4 but not 3.5.5 as its "still in use as the primary python > vrsion" despite 3.6 being [1] in eselect. > > > BillK That sounds to me like you

Re: [gentoo-user] warning (different signature type) when doing ssh

2018-06-25 Thread Marc Joliet
cts. > > Need I take any action? > > thanks in advance, > allan I saw the same, but it was temporary. I use gpg-agent instead of ssh-agent, so I assumed it had to do with that, and then the warning disappeared after upgrading gnupg, but perhaps that was just a coincidence? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recent change in python - some packages are not happy

2018-06-24 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sonntag, 24. Juni 2018, 16:14:42 CEST schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 24/06/18 12:35, Marc Joliet wrote: > > See bug #656406. If you don't care for going back (like me), you can do > > the following (make.conf isn't enough because apparently that overrides, > > e.g.,

Re: [gentoo-user] Recent change in python - some packages are not happy

2018-06-24 Thread Marc Joliet
% cat /etc/portage/profile/make.defaults PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python3_5 python3_6" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="-python3_5 python3_6" HTH --

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloader hangs without a keyboard

2018-04-10 Thread Marc Joliet
> successfully. It's already set to continue, thanks anyway. (But wouldn't that setting only influence whether I got past the BIOS or not?) -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloader hangs without a keyboard

2018-04-08 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sonntag, 8. April 2018, 16:49:55 CEST schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Sun, 08 Apr 2018 15:18:21 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: > > > Yeah, I did hear about those while researching the problem (forgot to > > > mention, sorry), but thanks for pointing out how cheap they are. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloader hangs without a keyboard

2018-04-08 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sonntag, 8. April 2018, 14:11:57 CEST schrieb Marc Joliet: > Yeah, I did hear about those while researching the problem (forgot to > mention, sorry), but thanks for pointing out how cheap they are. Ugh, I misread, yeah, of course those exist and are cheap (sadly I only have USB->PS/2

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloader hangs without a keyboard

2018-04-08 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sonntag, 8. April 2018, 13:35:02 CEST schrieb Wols Lists: > On 08/04/2018 00:18, Marc Joliet wrote: > > Hi list > > > > I have a bit of a weird issue. I recently acquired a used server (Fujitsu > > Primergy TX140 S1) via a friend of mine. I have Gentoo installed on

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloader hangs without a keyboard

2018-04-08 Thread Marc Joliet
route if I find no other solution, though I've also considered just using it as a desktop, since it's more powerful than my current one, but was also looking forward to a home server with more disk space :-/ . -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of

[gentoo-user] Bootloader hangs without a keyboard

2018-04-07 Thread Marc Joliet
-be-loaded-without-keyboard-because-of-grub-805350/ [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44923 [4] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3735 Greetings -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup sig

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail message components

2018-04-03 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2018, 00:11:11 CEST schrieb Elijah Mark Anderson: > On Tuesday, April 3, 2018 4:28:40 PM CDT Marc Joliet wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean. I use KMail 5.7.3, too, and still have a > > "view > > source" menu entry under "Message&

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail message components

2018-04-03 Thread Marc Joliet
o found a similar feature at https://userbase.kde.org/Kmail/Using_Kmail_General (search for "HTML"). HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail message components

2018-04-03 Thread Marc Joliet
an it's "Nachricht" -> "Nachrichtencode ansehen"). HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-03 Thread Marc Joliet
is basically why I started following this convention in the first place). Emacs behaves this way by default, but you can override it by setting 'sentence-end-double-space' to nil, according to the Emacs manual. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-03 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2018, 18:34:11 CET schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > On 02/03/2018 04:11:33 PM, Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2018, 10:50:53 CET schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > > > On 02/03/2018 06:54:06 AM, Dale wrote: > > > > While on this topic, I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-03 Thread Marc Joliet
uot;-u, --updateskip files that are newer on the receiver". > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-gazette masked: The total pollution of the output :)

2018-01-07 Thread Marc Joliet
rk. I would copy everything the linux-gazette ebuilds install somewhere else and then uninstall them. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

2018-01-07 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2017, 18:13:21 CET schrieb Jörg Schaible: > Am Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:00:47 +0100 schrieb Marc Joliet: > > Am Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2017, 10:45:41 CET schrieb Jörg Schaible: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Am Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:07:08 -0500 sch

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

2018-01-07 Thread Marc Joliet
I was off to the slow races! > Its been about a week with the bugs I had to research and the ebuilds > I had to patch, etc. but its going now and there is only 1-200 > packages to go out of 1500 or so. Fair enough, I suppose I've simply been overly irritable lately. Greetings -- Marc Joliet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Owncloud got completely broken after update

2018-01-07 Thread Marc Joliet
too, and decided to compare the file with the version in nextcloud's git repository. Since the difference turned out to be trivial, I decided to ignore the error message and chalked it up to the wrong hash being recorded. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really ann

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

2017-12-21 Thread Marc Joliet
f the --keep-going option. It's there for a reason. And don't tell me anybody actually *likes* having to manually continue the emerge process, because that's just so, so tedious. > Cheers, > Jörg Greetings -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of a GIT repository

2017-12-20 Thread Marc Joliet
so provided a special set. Cool! I'll just add to your second point that while you can operate within a bare repository (and some commands work directly, e.g., "git gc"), they are usually what you push to and fetch from (meaning that you don't need a special server to host a git repo

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge --sync

2017-12-15 Thread Marc Joliet
time something changed in > > layout.conf since you added the "masters" line, thus why git never > > complained. > > --->8 > > > Since git is a version control system, it won't blindly overwrite local > > changes, so it's best not to make any :) (so don't

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: NVMe drive and grub

2017-12-15 Thread Marc Joliet
er thing I found out afterwards is that Debian apparently has mixed-mode live media starting with the Jessie release.) HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-14 Thread Marc Joliet
, I promise. > > > > Ah, but will you succeed?:) > > List, in my weakness, I felt compelled to make the 77th post, as seven > is a holy number indeed. > > Cheers, > R0b0t1 Hah, and *right* before I sent my own monster mail, too! So it seems I'm poor number 78...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-14 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2017, 16:52:59 CET schrieb Ian Zimmerman: > On 2017-12-14 11:57, Marc Joliet wrote: > > I could list specific features of systemd that I like and make use of > > (such as socket activation, autofs integration, user units, nspawn, or > > the journal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-14 Thread Marc Joliet
I never again have to deal with the state of a service being misreported by OpenRC because a daemons PID file has the wrong PID in it, or with stopping a service not actually stopping it, both of which I had experienced multiple times. ] [0] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-amd64/message/ 58c67218a203b84

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-13 Thread Marc Joliet
OpenRC is one reason I stayed with Gentoo, because it seemed better to me than the way other distros did things (well, better than Suse, at least, which was the other distro I tried way back then). However, now I default to systemd, because for me it's even better than OpenRC. Plus, I don't have s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-13 Thread Marc Joliet
n, and definitely do *not* regret it. I can't speak for all distros, but all of the ones I know of switched willingly, because for them (as for me), systemd was the better choice. You're not against choice, are you ;-) ? > > Cheers, > > Wol Greetings -- Marc Joliet -- "Pe

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

2017-12-13 Thread Marc Joliet
" model *to* the virtual system we use today. (This was more than a decade ago, before I started using Gentoo. I remember this because I vaguely recall seeing repoman and/or portage warnings about deprecated use of PROVIDES or some such in overlay ebuilds.) -- Marc Joliet -- "People who

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to profile 17.0 complete, completely painless

2017-12-08 Thread Marc Joliet
but because the possibility was mentioned in another thread -- that I can't say I'm noticing any performance hits, even on my 11 year old Athlon64 X2. (IIUC, per the GCC manual, PIC and PIE only affect startup time, not runtime, so this result should be expected.) -- Marc Joliet -- "Peop

Re: [gentoo-user] Again, emerge -e @world related questions...

2017-12-04 Thread Marc Joliet
is a useful tool for keeping /etc/ portage/ clean, for which I would also recommend portpeek (specifically "portpeek -s"). Also, don't forget to run "emerge --depclean" regularly. Also, while you're doing these cleanups, I would further recommend looking at your world file and cleaning out stuff you know you don't want and/or need. That might save you some time. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Again, emerge -e @world related questions...

2017-12-04 Thread Marc Joliet
k properly, etc. And win32codecs? That's been obsolete for many years by now. Do you *really* have media files that ffmpeg/libav etc. can't handle? -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I in trouble now?

2017-12-04 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sonntag, 3. Dezember 2017, 21:22:23 CET schrieb Marc Joliet: > Of course, that doesn't mean that things are correct on your end, though. > On one of my computers, checksec does say "PIE enabled". Maybe you should > try compiling something else and verifying it. After al

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I in trouble now?

2017-12-03 Thread Marc Joliet
es say "PIE enabled". Maybe you should try compiling something else and verifying it. After all, there's probably a reason why the "emerge -e @world" bit doesn't exclude any of the packages previously rebuilt. I'll try to verify that on my desktop, though, which is the one ou

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging new stable python

2017-11-29 Thread Marc Joliet
stemd-cron installed? Or maybe I'm forgetting or missing something... HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-25 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Samstag, 25. November 2017, 10:04:44 CET schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:43:04 +0100, Marc Joliet wrote: > > > Funnily enough, I switched to Claws because I found KMail > > > horrible... > > > > I switched from Claws to KMail in part because I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-25 Thread Marc Joliet
e because Claws decided to check for emails in the background again became more and more infuriating over time... (Also, I find that Claws feels... out of place under Plasma.) That said, I like both, for different reasons (other than the apparent global lock, Claws *is* blazingly fast). Greetin

Re: [gentoo-user] Instrumenting the GPU

2017-11-14 Thread Marc Joliet
> Is there any way I can monitor what is using the GPU, to find out? There's also https://github.com/clbr/radeontop, which happens to have an ebuild. -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signatu

Re: [gentoo-user] memset_s

2017-11-10 Thread Marc Joliet
ge Almeida It seems as though it is simply not implemented, I found a variety of links that all support this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40162721 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38322363/when-will-the-safe-string-functions-of-c11-be-part-of-glibc https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/C11Status (which states that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI: Daily / weekly / monthly cron jobs run twice on DST - non-DST transition

2017-11-01 Thread Marc Joliet
ed fcron for several years before migrating to systemd timers specifically because of its support for running missed jobs.) -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] cura or (better!) cura ?

2017-10-19 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Donnerstag, 19. Oktober 2017, 13:28:57 CEST schrieb Zhu Sha Zang: > lol This is why you don't use tabs, people ;) . (I didn't bother to comment on it because I thought the text description was enough, but yes, it does look ridiculous. It looked fine in the draft, though.) -- Marc Jol

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling uranium-2.6.0: Wrong python version, but...

2017-10-19 Thread Marc Joliet
nks a lot for any help in advance! > Cheers > Meino Hi Meino, what do $PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET and $PYTHON_TARGETS look like on your system (check, e.g., the output of "emerge --info")? Those determine what version of python the package actually uses. In any case, I would file a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] cura or (better!) cura ?

2017-10-18 Thread Marc Joliet
is the application. I suspect that installing cura will pull in curaengine as a dependency (addendum: looking at the ebuild verified this). > Cheers > Meino HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

2017-10-10 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2017, 12:27:25 CEST schrieb Marc Joliet: > (Note that it does *not* search the description by default, and doesn't > claim to, either!) Ha, I tried to find a way to search only the description, but came up empty (you *can* search the description by searching throu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

2017-10-10 Thread Marc Joliet
ugs. For example, as in my above example, bugs with their status set to "RESOLVED" or "VERIFIED" are not searched by default (searching only for VERIFIED found 120 additional bugs). Or, more likely, your search strings simply aren't part of the summary. Of course, it's not like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

2017-10-10 Thread Marc Joliet
d another in the process. So, yeah, so much hiding going on here! [0] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/ [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/?qt=grep=firefox -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those

Re: [gentoo-user] New Firefox 56.0 ... window size problem

2017-10-02 Thread Marc Joliet
size when closing FF is the next size when > openening FF - now it seems to be a somehow hardcoded value. > > Is it known, where I can change that value? > > Cheers > Meino Have you checked your window manager settings, e.g., kwin or whatever you use? HTH -- Marc Joliet --

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

2017-09-16 Thread Marc Joliet
e usual variables in /etc/ locale.conf. > $ env | grep LANG > LANG=en_GB.UTF8 For completeness, I've got: % env | grep LANG LANG=de_DE.utf8 LANGUAGE=de:en_GB HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjar

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Marc Joliet
out for sure. If it is udisks:0, then AFAICT you can get rid of it with appropriate USE flag settings ("equery depends" is your friend here). HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:43:15 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 23:38:21 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:15:05 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > > > Yes, but do I want it to go away? What is it, what does it do? >

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Marc Joliet
n't need to care about it. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox: no x-server after kernel upgrade to 4.12.12-gentoo

2017-09-15 Thread Marc Joliet
really need it in the first place; at least, I can't remember the last time I needed to use it. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [offtopic] Copy-On-Write ?

2017-09-08 Thread Marc Joliet
other FSs that support it, too (bcachefs?), but I don't know about that. Maybe at some point ext4 will add support for it, but since I mainly use btrfs I don't care that much. [0] http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2017/01/10/xfs-reflinks-and-deduplication/ > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to load driver: Nouveau

2017-09-06 Thread Marc Joliet
--help Show this help HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE application icons

2017-08-19 Thread Marc Joliet
(/usr/share/icons/breeze/apps/48/kmail.svg) kde-frameworks/breeze-icons (/usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/apps/48/kmail.svg) HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everyt

Re: [gentoo-user] efibootmgr "Could not prepare Boot variable: Read-only file system"

2017-08-17 Thread Marc Joliet
y default and only whitelisted variables get to be mutable, see https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ ed8b0de5a33d) Is there really that much value in additionally mounting efivars RO? (Honestly curious! Was the change maybe not backported to older kernels? Or can some other damage be d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Small and dirty 32 bit environment just to flash my Bus Pirate

2017-07-19 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2017, 22:39:42 CEST schrieb Marc Joliet: > Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2017, 20:25:57 CEST schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > > execve("./pirate-loader_lnx", ["./pirate-loader_lnx"], 0x7fff1840a250 /* > > 18 > > vars */) = -1 ENOENT (No such fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Small and dirty 32 bit environment just to flash my Bus Pirate

2017-07-19 Thread Marc Joliet
chance? (In another email you call it pirate_loader_lnx, with an underscore instead of a dash.) -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge --sync

2017-07-15 Thread Marc Joliet
rwrite local changes, so it's best not to make any :) (so don't add that change back in, since it's pointless anyway). Always use your own overlay if you want to make changes. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wayland - too early to try?

2017-07-14 Thread Marc Joliet
ayland support good enough for *testing*. AFAIK, it's not recommended for daily usage yet. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this an alsa th'ang?

2017-07-11 Thread Marc Joliet
__ macros. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hall of FAIL.

2017-07-10 Thread Marc Joliet
ffmpeg. You could also > attach the output of 'emerge --info media-video/ffmpeg' as a separate file > for those who may be inclined to delve into the depths of this problem to > help you. > > If you share more relevant information to the problem you are encountering, > more people may

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