Mitch,
On Sunday, 2023-04-16 07:16:09 -0400, you wrote:
> ...
> "grub-install" copies Grub from your Gentoo installation to your hard drive
> / SSD / etc. This has nothing to do with your kernel, it only involves
> Grub. Rerun this command when you emerge updates to Grub.
Is this really necessar
Greetings,
On Sunday, 2023-04-16 18:56:35 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 01:29:46AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> > When I installed Gentoo on my desktop PC, I could've sworn that I
> > selected...
> >
> > [15] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib (stable)
> >
> > ...as the
Mitch,
On Monday, 2023-04-17 08:15:51 -0400, you wrote:
> I just took a quick glance at the ebuild, and it looks like it should print
> a reminder ("Re-run grub-install to update installed boot code!") every
> time you upgrade from an older version to a newer one, but it also looks
> like the rem
Netfab,
On Monday, 2023-04-17 13:49:57 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> Is the following file readable ?
>
> > $ ls -l $(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo)/profiles/profiles.desc
Yes:
$ ls -l $(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo)/profiles/profiles.desc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20443 2023-03-24 15:05
Netfab,
On Tuesday, 2023-04-18 19:23:08 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> Please post your emerge --info.
$ emerge --info
Portage 3.0.44 (python 3.10.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop,
gcc-12, glibc-2.36-r7, 6.1.19-gentoo x86_64)
==
Dale,
On Thursday, 2023-04-20 17:36:23 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
> * Package: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-470.182.03:0/470
> * Repository: mine
Maybe I'm missing something, but as of today "x11-drivers/nvidia-dri-
vers" version 470.182.03 is still in the normal Gentoo tree. So why use
your
Netfab,
On Friday, 2023-04-21 14:43:32 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> I do not see anything particular in your emerge --info.
> What is your eselect version ?
> > $ eselect --version
$ eselect --version
eselect 1.4.20
Copyright (c) 2005-2020 Gentoo Authors.
Distributed under the terms of
Netfab,
On Friday, 2023-04-21 19:41:54 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> You should open a bug to explain that ARCH variable is already defined
> in your shell environment. As a consequence the results on the following
> commands are different :
Hm, I'm not at all sure this would qualify as a bug. A wh
Peter,
On Tuesday, 2023-05-02 15:04:54 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> Meanwhile, is it possible to set things up so that, say, qtwebengine is never
> compiled at the same time as anything else? I don't want to rely on my
> noticing and intervening, and besides, it isn't always possible just to
> --e
Greetings,
skimming through "man make.conf" looking for something else I stumbled
upon
split-log
Store build logs in category subdirectories of
PORTAGE_LOGDIR/build, instead of using PORTAGE_LOGDIR di‐
rectly.
and I decided to give it a try. After add
On Monday, 2023-05-15 15:39:57 +0200, I myself wrote:
> ...
>After adding "split-log" to variable
> "FEATURES" in file "make.conf" I updated a single small package, but the
> build log did not turn up anywhere, even though file "/var/log/emerge.
> log" contai
Dale,
On Monday, 2023-05-15 11:35:33 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
> If you got a minute, what is the reason for split-log? What exactly
> does it split? I'm guessing this is new since I don't recall reading
> about it.
Under Gentoo each package has a name consisting of two parts: "category/
name".
Dale,
On Monday, 2023-05-15 12:58:43 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
> Would this make using tab completion easier too? I ask because when I
> want to cat a error log file, tab completion gets difficult pretty
> quick.
At least the first part -- selecting the category directory -- should
become easi
Steven,
On Wednesday, 2023-05-24 16:25:05 -0400, you wrote:
> I've re-loaded stage3 adm64 tarballs for a few weeks, keep
> failing due to SIGILL running tar & bzip2.
Commands "bzip2" or "bunzip2" are not made to uncompress "*.xz" files.
According to
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD6
Grant,
On Monday, 5 June 2023 16:51:51 BST you wrote:
> ...
> This package claims to be able to generate console fonts (.psfu) from
> TrueType fonts (.ttf) such as DejaVu mono:
>
> https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/repos/ttf-console-fonts/about/
This URL mentions three requirements:
- bdf2ps
Matt,
On Tuesday, 2023-06-06 10:31:01 -0400, you wrote:
> ...
> dev-util/otf2bdf is available in the 4nykey repository.
Thanks for the pointer. And also thanks to Grant for providing another
pointer.
> media-gfx/psftools is in the gentoo repository as far as I can see.
You are perfectly righ
Thelma,
On Monday, 2023-06-19 23:29:52 -0600, you wrote:
> Trying to send email via Google SMTP and postfix but getting authentication
> failed.
> ...
> The user and password are correct.
Starting at 2022-06-01 Google requires either an application password or
OAuth2 for logging in. Check the
Dale,
On Saturday, 2023-07-08 03:33:30 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
> I was wondering. Is there a way to highlight certain packages that are
> about to be upgraded? Example, I like to know when some larger packages
> like Firefox, LOo, that excessively long qt package and a couple others
> are going
Michael,
On Tuesday, 2023-11-28 10:13:56 +, you wrote:
> ...
> I suggested enabling the SPI modules because they are used by the CPU to
> communicate with various sensors, adjust clock frequency between components
> and thereafter to receive signals a/synchronously to control temperatures.
Michael,
On Wednesday, 2023-11-29 17:56:37 +, you wrote:
> ...
> It depends on the hardware, this is what I have enabled on an AMD MoBo:
>
> ~ $ grep SPI /usr/src/linux/.config
> ...
> CONFIG_SCSI_SPI_ATTRS=y
> CONFIG_SPI=y
> CONFIG_SPI_MASTER=y
> ...
> CONFIG_SPI_AMD=m
> ...
> CONFIG_SPI_DY
Greetings,
since a few month or so off and on my laptop fails to resume from hiber-
nation due to the "dirty bit" being set on the ext4 "/home" partition.
At least up to now this never happened when resuming from suspension.
Is my laptop just aging or did I miss some new "mount" option or kern
Greetings,
during my last routine upgrade package "media-video/vlc" installed new
dependency "media-libs/libmpg123". However, after installation "eix"
did not list the new package, while "eix-installed" did:
# eix-update --quiet
# env -i eix | grep -E 'app-portage/eix|media-libs/libmp
Arve,
On Sunday, 2024-01-07 19:43:31 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> running eix
> on its own by default only outputs 50 packages, so there's that.
Not here:
# env -i eix | grep -v : | grep -c /
24900
#
Where do you take this limit f
Michael,
On Sunday, 2024-01-07 14:21:20 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
> I do have to follow up on this, the package was renamed,
Bingo! That's it. Soon after my last routine upgrade which installed
"media-video/vlc" version 3.0.20-r2 and its new dependency "media-libs/
libmpg123" I inadvertently
Philip,
On Wednesday, 2024-01-17 22:28:27 -0500, you wrote:
> I want to be able to download photos from my new cellphone to Gentoo.
If all else fails, you could use "adb" from package "dev-util/android-
tools". However, "adb" requires "USB Debugging" to be enabled on the
cell phone. This
Greetings,
the upgrade on my old laptop with two 2.7GHz Dual-Core Skylake proces-
sors took slightly more than 2 hours for the manual upgrading of "bin-
utils", "gcc" and "glibc", and slightly more than 21.5 hours for the fi-
nal upgrade of "@world", which had to process a total of 1061 packa
Wol,
On Tuesday, 2024-04-09 18:36:53 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> Btw, where are all the messages for packages stored? I ought to go
> through them and make sure there aren't any messages of interest...
My script for package installations or upgrades sets
begin=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z')
Greetings,
On Friday, 2024-01-05 18:46:09 +0100, I myself wrote:
> ...
> since a few month or so off and on my laptop fails to resume from hiber-
> nation due to the "dirty bit" being set on the ext4 "/home" partition.
I was reading this flickering by on the screen, and it wasn't quite cor-
re
Michael,
On Monday, 2024-04-15 12:48:34 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> Why have you set your /boot to be mounted at boot?
Well, I think, I then just followed the Gentoo Handbook. But I see your
point of saving time which could be better used to successfully unmount
the "/home/" partition. I'll ch
Michael,
On Tuesday, 2024-04-16 11:15:07 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> > But this brings up two related questions:
> >
> > 1. Why does Gentoo not somehow mark LTS kernels either in the version
> >number or in the slot name? This would make it easier to prevent the
> >installation of too
Arve,
On Tuesday, 2024-04-16 15:53:48 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> Only LTS kernels get stabilised, so this information is readily available.
I'm sure I don't understand this: According to "https://www.kernel.org/";
kernel 6.6.27 is "longterm", but according to "eix" the most recent
6.6.* kern
Grant,
On Tuesday, 2024-04-16 19:26:25 -, you wrote:
> ...
> That means that all gentoo-sources stable kernels are "longterm"
> kernel versions on kernel.org. It does not mean that all "longterm"
> kernel versions from kernel.org are available as "stable" in
> gentoo-sources.
>
> It is a st
Michael,
On Wednesday, 2024-04-17 10:10:56 +0100, you wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:26:25 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2024-04-16, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> > ...
> > > But, to get back to the beginning of this discussion: if there is a
> > > risk th
Grant,
On Wednesday, 2024-04-17 14:11:21 -, you wrote:
> ...
> If what you want is access to all upstream longeterm kernel versions,
> then you should be using sys-kernel/vanilla-sources.
I was not aware of this package. Excatly what could come in handy, if
everything else fails. Thank y
Walter,
On Wednesday, 2024-05-15 17:28:46 -0400, you wrote:
> What I *CAN* do... upload/download/create/delete *FILES* on SD card
>
> What I *CANNOT* do... create new *DIRECTORIES* on SD card
>
> [x8940][waltdnes][~/tablet/sdcard1] mkdir data
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘data’: Input/o
Michael,
On Thursday, 2024-05-16 09:26:39 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> > > I liked lilo. And then it disappeared :-(
> > ...
> > Still available and still working on non-uefi setups:
> > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-boot/lilo
> >
> > ...
>
> There's also 'sys-boot/elilo' for EFI syste
Michael,
On Thursday, 2024-05-16 17:46:04 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> > The homepage returned by
> >
> >$ eix --verbose sys-boot/elilo
> >* sys-boot/elilo
> > Available versions: ~3.16-r5
> > ...
> >$
> >
> > hints that this package is no longer maintained ... :-(
> > ...
>
Dale,
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 04:36:41 -0500 you wrote:
> ...
> I read the thread linked to by the OP. I just wonder if waiting a
> little longer would have helped.
Did nobody of ye all ever read news item 48, dated 2024-05-09? It laid
out a three-step approach which surely caused at least some p
Grant,
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 17:00:29 - (UTC) you wrote:
> ...
> I don't see how (even in theory) steps 2 and 3 can work when you have
> packages installed that won't build with 3.12.
That depends on your definition of "work". It occurs even when doing
normal updates that you run into a USE
Greetings,
after several days of manpage reading, head scratching, and testing the
reactions of "eix" to various input I'm giving up and ask the combined
wisdom of the Gentoo list.
Here's the version of "eix" I'm using, my test script, and its output:
$ eix --version
0.33.9
$ cat tes
Martin,
On Monday, 2020-04-20 18:21:00 -, you wrote:
> ...
> >app-crypt/tpm2-tss 2.3.3 0 1
> ...
> The second value depends on your ARCH;
> Since {isunstable} fails, I suppose that your ARCH is not amd64.
$ eix --dump | grep DEFAULT_ARCH
DEFAULT_ARCH="amd64"
Martin,
On Tuesday, 2020-04-21 18:02:37 -, you wrote:
> ...
> DEFAULT_ARCH is normally not used, because it should be set in
> the profile. Does
> eix --print ARCH
> also show amd64?
BINGO! No, it doesn't:
$ eix --print ARCH
x86_64
$
And that rings a bell: for historical reason
Martin,
On Wednesday, 2020-04-22 19:48:47 -, you wrote:
> ...
> I exported ARCH="x86_64" and did eix-update, but still:
>
> % F=':\n' eix --format '' -e tpm2-tss
> 2.2.3-r2:
> 2.3.3:
Did you check with "eix --print ARCH"? I start suspecting that it's not
the value of environment variable
Martin,
On Friday, 2020-04-24 17:32:09 -, you wrote:
> ...
> Maybe you run an unstable system, that is ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~amd64'?
No.
> Or do you have a corresponding entry in package.{accept_,}keywords?
Yes. To satisfy the requirements of package "sys-apps/fwupd" I long ago
added the line
Greetings,
On Thursday, 2020-04-30 07:31:51 -0500, Dale wrote:
> ...
> [ebuild R ] app-doc/gimp-help-2.8.2:2::gentoo 0 KiB
Thanks for pointing me to a package I hadn't yet installed, even though
I have installed "media-gfx/gimp" (but use it rarely). But installation
took surprisingly lon
Martin,
On Thursday, 2020-04-30 17:20:08 -, you wrote:
> ...
> >>=app-crypt/tpm2-tss-2.2.3-r1 ~amd64
>
> Ah! That explains it.
>
> > But this only means that I accept an unstable package here, not that
> > these versions are regarded stable.
>
> It is stabe according to the local
Michael,
On Thursday, 2020-04-30 16:43:06 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide#L10N
>
> Meanwhile, I think the equivalent to debian's localepurge corresponds to a
> dual step process in Gentoo. First update your locale as per above page,
> then
> run 'env
Martin,
On Sunday, 2020-05-03 15:55:59 -, you wrote:
> ...
> > I STRONGLY beg to disagree! The "~amd64" notation is used to ACCEPT a
> > package even though it is (still) classified as UNSTABLE.
>
> This is package-manager terminology which has much less states since
> a package manager
Volker, Raphael, and All,
On Sunday, 2020-05-17 20:33:22 +0200, Volker Schneider wrote:
> ...
> I have a good manual for kernel config.
> I saved the website of 'Firas Khalil Khana' called 'dotslashlinux'
You can still read all 18 parts of that documentation online at
http://web.archive.org
Peter, sorry for the late reply :-(
On Monday, 2020-05-04 16:30:49 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> What do you have in your kernel config, under File Systems / Native Language
> Support? I only have a few selected: the ones I might use. (This may be a red
> herring.)
Only these:
(utf8) Default NLS
Dale,
On Wednesday, 2020-05-20 07:10:14 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
> I did notice that my sddm problem is worse now. It's worse now than it
> was when it first started.
Ever tried "x11-misc/lightdm"? Runs like a charm here ...
Sincerely,
Rainer
Meino,
On Tuesday, 2020-05-26 15:28:56 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
>
> I want to include "de" (german) to the USE flags for
> app-text/tesseract and all I tried has not worked.
That's what I have in "package.use":
app-text/tessdata_best l10n_de l10n_en osd
app-text/tesseract mathos
Meino,
On Tuesday, 2020-05-26 15:53:20 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> Why is tessdata are not pulled?
On my installation "app-text/tessdata_best-4.0.0" is a direct dependency
of "app-text/tesseract-4.1.1".
Sincerely,
Rainer
David,
On Wednesday, 2020-06-17 17:27:30 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> $ man -l -Tps -P-pa4 $(man -w smartctl ) | ps2pdf - smartctl.pdf
Why not simply
$ man -Tps -P-pa4 smartctl | ps2pdf - smartctl.pdf
Sincerely,
Rainer
Neil,
On Thursday, 2020-06-18 09:32:35 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> Am I getting old or do others also wish they could just get a text howto
> instead of watching a video every time they want to do something new?
Don't know anything about your age ... but you should know you're not
alone ... :-)
Greetings,
is there any difference between running "emerge --jobs=1 ..." and runn-
ing "MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge ..."?
Sincerely,
Rainer
Greetings,
sometimes my touchpad doesn't seem to react instantly to clicks or move-
ments. And after booting I find lines like the following in my kernel
log:
Jun 24 17:50:38 tux kernel: [2.545000] psmouse serio2: synaptics:
queried max coordinates: x [..5674], y [..4758]
Jun 24 17:
Greetings,
after a routine upgrade from Fvwm version 2.6.5-r3 to version 2.6.9 I'm
missing file "/usr/share/man/man1/fvwm1.bz2". Several other Fvwm manual
pages are there, but I can't tell whether or not "fvwm1.bz2" is the only
one missing. Does anybody know what's happened to "fvwm1.bz2"?
Sin
Edward and Nuno,
On Sunday, 2020-11-22 11:35:16 +, Nuno Silva wrote:
> ...
> I think with MTP there can be issues owing to implementation details -
> some phones will have trouble with some MTP tools.
>
> If you can, please try sys-fs/jmtpfs.
Hmm, according to
https://packages.gentoo.or
Greetings,
looking for a small, fast utility (preferably written in C) accepting a
Unix time (seconds since 1970-01-01) as argument and printing the corr-
esponding local time to standard output.
Any pointers?
Sincerely,
Rainer
Matt and also Mathew,
On Monday, 2020-11-23 11:46:56 -0600, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
> ...
> Is the basic `date` from coreutils sufficient? If so, no need to
> reinvent the wheel, unless I'm misunderstanding your need.
>
> Example:
>
> $ date --date='@21'
> 2037-12-14T17:00:44 CST
Greetings,
since my old 64 GB Verbatim USB sticks became too small, I bought two
new 128 GB Philips sticks. Because I need to read and write them on
both, a stand-alone Windows laptop (not connected to the internet) runn-
ing Windows Vista and Cygwin and my Gentoo laptop, I encrypted them
Michael,
On Thursday, 2020-11-26 00:10:00 +, you wrote:
> ...
> Check dmesg to see if initialisation of the USB 3.0 drive throws up any
> errors.
No errors.
> Then check 'lsusb -t' to make sure it has been recognised as a USB
> 3.0.
"lsusb -tv" showed the stick to be USB 3.0.
>
Michael,
On Friday, 2020-11-27 19:07:17 +, you wrote:
> ...
> A 4k block size is recommended for ntfs-3g which is the default sector
> created
> by fdisk and friends on Linux these days. This will align your partition
> optimally. In addition, mkfs.ntfs will use 4096 bytes as the default
Greetings,
running the command
eselect news read new
always returns "No news is good news" regarless of whether I run it from
my own account or from "root". And running
eselect news list
currently lists 17 news items, none of which is flagged "N" even though
I cannot remember having r
Greetings,
On Tuesday, 2020-12-08 14:48:40 +0100, netfab wrote:
> ...
> > Where does it store what's already read?
>
> /var/lib/gentoo/news/
Thank you for the quick response.
Sincerely,
Rainer
Joost,
On Thursday, 2020-12-10 10:28:05 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> My old printer/scanner can scan directly to PDF using the sheetfeeder.
> For double-sided, I always ended up with 1 PDF with odd-pages and 1 with even.
>
> There used to be tools available (python-old) that could shuffle these
>
Greetings,
after having decided to globally set the "threads" USE flag I get the
following:
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
!!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "sci-libs/hdf5[mpi]" has unmet requirements.
- sci-libs/hdf5-1.10.5-r1::gent
Netfab,
On Thursday, 2020-12-31 18:28:07 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> > Anybody having an educated guess what the risk would be? Is it save
> > to set a USE flag even if its name is "unsupported"?
>
> Full story here :
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/710986
Hmmm, not very enlighting either.
Greetings,
immediately after a reboot I can clearly hear the white noise created by
executing
$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little
Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
$
and the "lsmod" command lists quite a few loaded s
Michael,
On Sunday, 2021-01-03 16:13:35 +, you wrote:
> ...
> It used to be the case modules were probed/reloaded by 'alsactl init' when
> initialising the audio card. If built in the kernel binary the command
> couldn't do this.
Thanks for this background information :-)
Am I correct in
Michael,
On Sunday, 2021-01-03 18:43:34 +, you wrote:
> ...
> > /usr/share/alsa/init/default:102: value write error: Input/output error
>
> The above on my system refers to headphone control:
>
> CTL{name}="Headphone Playback Switch",CTL{do_search}=="1", \
> CTL{values}="on"
>
> > /usr/s
Greetings,
after having installed "syslog-ng" I configured it to add the current
date to each logfile name and thus to start every day with a new log-
file. That way logfile cleaning is just a matter of deleting old files
rather than perpetually renaming them and thus collecting zillion
Michael,
On Saturday, 2021-01-30 10:48:20 +, you wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 January 2021 09:37:57 GMT Alan Grimes wrote:
> > ...
> > I mean I always update my portage first thing after sync, because that's
> > what you do, RIGHT
>
> Not RIGHT.
>
> I let portage decide when it need
Arve,
On Saturday, 2021-01-30 16:20:42 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> No, it is not a build dependency, but it is a part of the @system set,
> so it will always be included in any @system or @world updates you do.
> I would not bother updating it especially.
Ok. But what if I just do, say
emerge
Alexey,
On Saturday, 2021-01-30 18:28:26 +0300, you wrote:
> ...
> "The recommendation to update portage on its own is in the process of
> being removed" -
> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8520875.html#8520875
Hm, but the original author of this quote (dating 2020-10-27) did neith-
er pro
Peter,
On Monday, 2021-02-15 12:15:43 +, you wrote:
> ...
> No, it should be arch-neutral. Agnosticism is about religion and has nothing
> to do with it.
First sentence: arch-independent?
Second sentence: yep :-)
Sincerely,
Rainer
Greetings,
since my last routine Gentoo upgrade on 2021-02-01 "fwupd" is no longer
started in the "default" run level. Reason is that "fwupd" erroneously
thinks its prerequisite "elogind" is not yet running, starts it again,
interprets the error message "already started" and the non-zero
Dale,
On Wednesday, 2021-02-17 23:08:12 -0600, you wrote:
> ...
> Still, they are closed source. If
> their code was open source then it could be that the hack would not have
> happened since someone would have spotted the hole the hackers used.
I don't th
Alan,
On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:08:56 + you wrote:
> ...
> For example, emerge
> --depclean on my system wants to unmerge openrc. Not a deliberate move
> by the developers, just some accident. But it's the reason I don't do
> emerge --depclean, ever
Greetings,
after a recent KDE upgrade among other new packages "emerge" also in-
stalled "dev-qt/qtwebengine" as a new dependency. Since on my five year
old laptop this package requires about 6 hours 20 minutes to build, I
decided to slightly redesign my package managing script and to use b
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