RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo killed my pc
To Test if the Powersupply is bad: 1) Remove PSU from the case all together. 2) Look at the ATX connector, there will be a Green wire. Short this wire to ground with a small wire or conductive material (paperclip, etc) 3) If you have a voltmeter handy, Voltages on the ATX supply should read as follows (around %5 tolerance) Orange +3.3v Yellow +12v Red +5v PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL 1 3.3V 11 3.3V 2 3.3V 12 -12V 3 GND 13 GND 4 5V 14 PS_ON 5 GND 15 GND 6 5V 16 GND 7 GND 17 GND 8 PW_OK 18 -5V 9 5V_SB 19 5V 10 12V 20 5V However, the powersupply could very well show correct voltages on the bench, but in the case and under load it will fail. Checking power while the computer is on and running wouldn't be the best thing for your componants either. Also, saying you're having problems isnt any more helpful than saying help X doesn't work. I had a drive that was clicking. Thought it was DOA so I returned it, the second one did the same. No its not Windows XP or Gentoo's fault. It was my faulty power supply. CPU overheating? If you have a decent heatsink (Even the OEM AMD heatsinks are good enough), did you use thermal grease? This makes a HUGE difference, much more than one would realize. Northbridge and RAM overheating is a heat issue in the case (needs more air flow). Ramdom Lockups in X (or Windows) not caused by overheating CPU are caused by overheating Video card or crappy video drivers. Check to see if the card is hot to the touch when it locks up. A faulty power supply can cause any/all of the above. A Note on choosing your power supply. Don't go blindly with the biggest 500w power supply you can find. Research a high quality supply and it will never fail you. Many power supply companies still use the old ATX power distribution standard of having like, 50amps on the +3.3 and 5v rails, and like, 10 amps on the +12v. The problem with this is although it worked fine for the 3.3 and 5v chips like the old Pentium II's and 3, for the new AMD XP and Pentium 4 chips, they rely on the +12v rail. An XP 2500 can draw up to 7 amps of current from your 12v rail!. Combine that with the current that other 12v devices such as fans and harddrives use up, you can quickly saturate and fry your 12v rail out of your powersupply. In general, find the ps that has the largest capacity +12v rail you can afford. Antec makes very nice powersupplys. The True430 is a definite winner. http://www.antec-inc.com/specs/true430_spe.html This is the one I have, http://www.directron.com/4fanpsu.html The blue one. Made by a company called TTGI , I've put this under serious stress. 6 harddrives (two 120 gig IDE, 4 80gig SATA :D ), CD-RW/ DVD 4 sticks of ram, geforce 4, Xp 3200. 8 .25amp fans, 3 case lights The last thing I swear !! http://firingsquad.gamers.com/guides/power_supply/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo CD-ROM
soulfly gentoo # du -sh distfiles/ 22Gdistfiles That's a lot of CD's If you get rid of dups you might be able to shave 5-6 gigs off there. You will also have to get a copy of the rsync tree that you will need to use and not update the tree. -Original Message- From: Pietro Leone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:07 AM To: ML-GentooUser Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo CD-ROM Hallo, a friend of mine (a crazy one ;-) want to download for me all the gentoo packages and put them into CD-ROMs. Is it possible? How can I use these CDs? Portage can manage CDs as sources of packages, as apt of Debian does? (Of course without copyng all packages into my HDD). What is the address to use in order to download packages? Thanks, Pietro. -- I will build myself a copper tower With four ways out and no way in But mine the glory, mine the power (So I chose Amiga and GNU/Linux) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo CD-ROM
Sorry forgot something, http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml Pick a mirror and go into the gentoo/distfiles and download -Original Message- From: Pietro Leone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:07 AM To: ML-GentooUser Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo CD-ROM Hallo, a friend of mine (a crazy one ;-) want to download for me all the gentoo packages and put them into CD-ROMs. Is it possible? How can I use these CDs? Portage can manage CDs as sources of packages, as apt of Debian does? (Of course without copyng all packages into my HDD). What is the address to use in order to download packages? Thanks, Pietro. -- I will build myself a copper tower With four ways out and no way in But mine the glory, mine the power (So I chose Amiga and GNU/Linux) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] RE: [gentoo-dev] Migrating to a commercial PHP-based forums package for forums.gentoo.org
Open Source/GPL , free meaning no $$ needed, or gotta-pay for it, it doesn't matter as long as the tool you're using is the right tool for the job. If you insist on using the wrong tools ONLY because you think it is un-ethical to use non-free software, you should reconsider your priorities. After all, if you had to rent a specific tool (i.e. ball-joint splitter) to work on your car, or use what common tools (i.e. a hammer) you have laying around your house, what would you do ? Another option is to migrate to an alternate forums package. Specifically, vBulletin, which has proven to be quite scalable and effective with larger sites. The main drawback to this is the fact that it is a commercial software package, which tends to raise the ire of some of the more zealous GNU folks out there. So, my question to you is, how would you feel if we were to do this? Horribly offended? Saddened because there isn't a GPL'd program to meet our needs, but pragmatic about the need to do *something*? Or C, none of the above? Basically, the choice comes down to one of two things: 1) Lose some older posts and stay on a GPL-compatible package 2) Move to a commercial solution and keep all the posts. Note that vBulletin *is* open source in that you have access to the source code and can modify it. It's just not Free. Finally, to keep this process somewhat manageably, I ask that you make your responses on the forums. I've also set up a poll there so we can vote on what should be done. I will likely limit my responses to that discussion. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=554174 --kurt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] mod_php issue
USE=apache2 emerge mod_php -Original Message- From: Greg Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] mod_php issue I emerged mod_php and apache2, but can't seem to get mod_php working. I found some posts on the Gentoo forums that say to uncomment APACHE_OPTS=-D PHP4 in /etc/conf.d/apache2 but I don't see it there to uncomment it. I tried just adding it but got errors on restart. Can someone send me a url for apache2 + mod_php ? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] mod_php issue
As said, its not documented in a normal sense, but if you use ufed (emerge ufed) to edit use flags, you will see apache2 as a use flag. If you use -v along with the -p (pretend) flag, you will see apache2 as a use flag, I've gotten into the habbit of ALWAYS doing, emerge -pv package That will show you what flags are avialable for that specific package Example, soulfly root # emerge -pv mod_php These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuildU ] dev-php/mod_php-4.3.2-r4 [4.3.2-r3] -apache2 -X +crypt -curl -firebird -flash -freetds +gd -gd-external -gdbm -imap -informix -ipv6 -java +jpeg +ldap -mcal -memlimit +mysql +nls -oci8 -odbc +pam +pdflib +png -postgres -qt +snmp +spell +ssl -tiff +truetype +xml2 USE=apache2 emerge mod_php Great, but where is this documented? I hate asking questions if I can read some docs first. I'm sure I must have just overlooked the docs for this. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] IDE bus speed
So, If I like to buy a new motherboard and a new HD, what should I buy? Assume that I would like to get the best a person might expect from a home computer. Another issue holding back IDE performance is that the IDE bus is sometimes tied into the PCI bus which is limited to 128mb/sec (give or take). Everything that's on that bus will fight for that limited bandwidth (i.e. USB, sound, NIC cards, whatever) Some of the newer motherboard have the IDE channels on their own bus path. Even though it isnt THAT linux friendly, the new nForce 2 chips use AMD's hypertransport technology to provide the IDE bus with FAR greater bandwidth that the PCI bus can obtain (~800mb/sec). Some benchmarks from my... AMD 2500XP, 2x512 PC3200 in Dual Channel mode, Asus A7N8X Deluxe, http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socketa/a7n8x-d/overview.htm Windows XP :) WD1200JB on IDE channel (the lower read speeds on the 512 and 1024mb where due to me accidently starting Quake3 ) http://underthemain.net/~sweede/bench/bench_1.jpg Dual WD800JBs on SATA, RAID-0 (small file) http://underthemain.net/~sweede/bench/bench3.JPG (large file) http://underthemain.net/~sweede/bench/bench2.JPG The Western Digital drives are amazing. Newer Intel motherboards have build in, native SATA channels (meaning you can boot a dos floppy and see the harddrive). I would look into those and other modern equipment. Research at www.firingsquad.com , they usually have great hardware reviews. Just keep a watch out for linux compat. :) A good site for nForce 2 on linux, http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=29 Don't know of one for the newer intel-based motherboards, sorry. bjorn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] 1.4 grp, emerge problems
Have you mounted / copied the contents of /packages/All to /usr/portage/packages/All ?? -Original Message- From: D.J. Bolderman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 6:05 PM To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] 1.4 grp, emerge problems I've just downloaded the first 1.4 live-cd to install on my laptop. I don't have an internet connection on this computer yet, so I have unpacked the portage snapshot which was on the cdrom. I followed the install guide, and now I'm at the point to install the kernel. When I enter emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources, it wants to grab linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2 off the net. This also happens with genkernel package. The ebuild is in my portage dir, but still gentoo wants to download it. Did I miss something ? Thanks, Dick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Oops forgot subject - SSLeay doesnt see OpenSSL
I filed a bug for this this morning. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25319 I worked around it by, ebuild /usr/portage/dev-perl/Net-SSLeay/Net-SSLeay-1.22.ebuild unpack cd /var/tmp/portage/Net-SSLeay-1.22/work/Net_SSLeay.pm-1.22/ ./Makefile.PL -t Touch ../.compiled ebuild /usr/portage/dev-perl/Net-SSLeay/Net-SSLeay-1.22.ebuild merge -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 4:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Oops forgot subject - SSLeay doesnt see OpenSSL Whenever I try to emerge SSLeay I get this error: Checking for OpenSSL-0.9.6g or newer... I could not find your OpenSSL in `INSTALLDIRS=vendor' Please provide OpenSSL-0.9.6g installation directory (get from http://www.openssl.org/ if you don't have it; please note that SSLeay is no longer supported, see README) (C-c to abort): I have OpenSSL 0.9.6j installed and have tried to set it to look in /usr/bin where the openssl executable is but no dice. Can anyone help? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Why does PHP has dependency with QT ????
I don't have the original post anymore, but the statement below is incorrect, PHP uses a vararity of libraries which include gd, jpeg, libpng, ming, imlib and imagemagik PHP has many functions used manipulate images, if your wanting to use Gallery for example, it used qt amongst other libs to upload, resize and alter your pics. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.qtdom.php The qtdom extension requires QT 2.2.0 , but is very experimental and isnt even documented in the php source. I would see no reason why we cant just get rid of its dependency all together (comment it out even). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Build own distfiles mirror
The distfiles directory is around 15 gigs, you can save a LOT of space if you exclude many of the larger files like UT2k3, OpenOffice (there are several versions), the KDE i18n stuff and all of the Linux kernels (the ebuilds download the kernel packages from kernel.org anyways). Check the rsync manual for how to exclude files. Although what you plan on doing seems like a good idea. Emerge will just skip any packages that havent been upgraded anyways. -Original Message- From: Spida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 8:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Build own distfiles mirror Hi, I want to setup a Gentoo Mirror for an install at my local Linux-User-Group (They have only ISDN/64kbit Inet). I did read that docs on this, and whereas the docs for setting up the rsync part of the mirror are ok, information on the distfiles-part isn't that complete. In the docs is mentioned that the distfiles mirror will be around 30-40GB, but in the Forums I read something about 3-4GB. Is there a method to choose just a specific subset of packages? Like only the highest stable version, if there is no stable, the highest unstable version? Or should I do something like: for i in /usr/portage do for j in /usr/portage/$i do emerge -f $j; done done As for the download, it doesn't matter if its 1Gb or 40GB, as I have an agreement with to get local lan access to one of the mirrors. Spida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy
They've moved apache 2.0 and MySQL 4.0 from ~x86 to stable, so any update will update both of these. MySQL 4.0 isnt a big deal, much has changed but most everything in the databases still works properly, you will need to re-emerge PHP and any thing else that relies on MySQL Apache though, I think that was a HUGE mistake moving that to stable and having it replace the Apache 1.3.27 series If you don't want apache 2.0, (neither do i) I think porotage looks for an /etc/portage/package_mask (? Search the forums/mailing lists for the exact filename) file, add =apache-2.0.10 to it -Original Message- From: Svein Harald Soleim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge go crazy -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 right now I took a emerge -DUp world and found something disturbing. [ebuildU ] dev-db/mysql-4.0.13-r3 [3.23.57] [ebuildU ] net-www/apache-2.0.47 [1.3.27-r3] why the hell would I upgrade my apache 1.3x to 2.0x? and mysql 3x to 4x. Not until I decide anyway. Can anyone please tell me why this is suddenly happening? - -- gnuPG key: ID 915B0745 at http://pgp.mit.edu/ http://www.fribyte.uib.no/~svein/PublicKey.asc Key fingerprint = 0123 B179 0994 F5C7 12D3 F253 E0AA 6A67 915B 0745 Registered Linux User #319622 'The maths is easy,' said Chaos. AH? WELL, MATHS, said Death, dismissively. GENERALLY I NEVER GET MUCH FURTHER THAN SUBTRACTION. Svein Harald Soleim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/EGda4KpqZ5FbB0URAg6RAKCsXBbPmEOlsilIIAXie0yI5rJtCQCggYd2 ll1te9XqKWu/wOSbhK7NoMo= =FCEH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for improvement
1) emerge gentoolkit qpkg does that Note, that in debian, apt-* doesn't show what packages are installed, you need to query dpkg. Also, apt-* are front-ends to dpkg and its many tools. emerge info in gentoo currently reports Portage configuration information. 2) Gentoo network installation (PXE) HOWTO http://www.menteb.org/docs.php?doc=pxe I don't have enough extra boxes laying around to try out the network install, but I have faith in the author of that how to that it works :) -Original Message- From: Dan Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 4:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for improvement Some suggestions: 1. emerge is missing one key function -- I say key, because we can't consider deploying Gentoo as the OS of choice for x86 servers unless it has this feature: the ability to see what ebuilds were installed on the system and what version they are. Package management is extremely important to us in the server arena because it represents the bulk of our long-term maintenance for both by hand and with our extensive automated tools which figures out what stuff to install based on what currently is installed. Currently, the argument is to use Debian instead of Gentoo because of missing bits related to package management such as this. I suck at coding or I'd contribute something, but I could take a shot at it. Perhaps consider a command such as 'emerge info' to list one-liners listing all installed ebuilds and their versions? And 'emerge info specific ebuild' to view info for a specific ebuild. And some sort of wildcard support such as 'emerge info foo*' to return info about all installed ebuilds matching the wildcard pattern. For the most part, I think you've already got code in emerge to figure out what ebuilds are installed and at what version... could adapt it to also be used for an 'emerge info' function. 2. The only other thing we're missing with Gentoo is a network boot/install server -- we already have AIX's NIM, Solaris's Jumpstart, RedHat's KickStart. Even Windows and MacOS has something. :) With the number of sites and servers we run, this is a crucial bit of functionality. Since that functionality is generally generic -- support tftp, etc. ...it sounds theoretically simple to support this one way or another. I wonder if RedHat's KickStart stuff could be ported to Gentoo? I hesitate to suggest this, but I'm also hesitant to suggest something that would chew up developers' time by doing something from scratch. Gentoo's got a firm hold on the desktop... and getting there with the hardened project for the high security stuff... but could get a bigger chunk of the servers. -Dan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for improvement
Cool! I'll give it a try. Thanks for the update/corrections :) Hey, Us gentoo users, we rock like that :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo Newbie] Silraid and kernel versions
Use the gs-sources or ac-sources Gentoo-sources (which is based off of 2.4.20) doesn't have the Sii raid controller driver yet -Original Message- From: Derek Clarkson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 10:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo Newbie] Silraid and kernel versions Hi guys, I'm trying to load 1.4rc4. The iso image I boot from appears to be a 2.4.21 kernel and has the necessary silraid driver I need for the sil3112 SATA controller on my mobo. However when I download the stage 1 files, they appear to be a 2.4.20 kernel without the silraid driver. Have I got this right and how do I get the later code ? -- Derek Clarkson Analyst Programmer Waterwerks Pty Ltd Melbourne Australia Reality is not what you think! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Distfiles getting to large ?
I was thinking about this a while ago, and currently the /distfiles/
repository has around 10,000 files. Wouldn't it be a good idea to start
thinking about re-organizing it? Right now the apache generated HTML = file
is over 2 megs!=20
One thing I was thinking would be to place packages in their portage
catagories.
For instance, all of the kernel packages (linux-2.x.y.tar.bz2's) will go
into=20 /sys-kernel/
All of the files that the kde ebuilds call for would go in=20 /kde-base/
=20
Any patches for programs could go into either
/patches/sys-kernel (I think this is a prefered method)
Or=20
/sys-kernel/patches=20
A couple of obvious problems would be the re-organizing files, but that
could be scripted seemingly easily. The problem would be propogating it = to
the rest of the distfiles servers. I wouldn't think the ebuilds = themselves
would be a problem. You would just need to change
SRC_URI=3Dmirror://gentoo/${P}.tbz2 to
SRC_URI=3Dmirror://gentoo/${CATEGORY}/${P}.tbz2
In any ebuilds that download packages from a distfiles mirror (I've =
noticed items like the kernel sources don't)
Anyone else have any pros/cons to such a task?
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RE: [gentoo-user] Distfiles getting to large ?
Perhaps I should of posted this on the dev list...
I wasn't refering to /usr/portage/distfiles, but
http://foo.com/gentoo/distfiles
Creating a directory index on that server for people who just happen to
browse to /distfiles/ must be rough.
It might also help in cleaning up old or un-needed files in /distfiles/ on
the mirrors.
-Original Message-
From: Rod Smart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 7:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Distfiles getting to large ?
I saw a option someplace that stated how much HD space
(max) would
be consumed, and that was set to 2G, so yes there could be
many files in
there, seeing as the Kernel is 30megs...
Bjorn Sodergren wrote:
I was thinking about this a while ago, and currently the /distfiles/
repository has around 10,000 files. Wouldn't it be a good
idea to start
thinking about re-organizing it? Right now the apache
generated HTML =
file is over 2 megs!=20
One thing I was thinking would be to place packages in their portage
catagories.
For instance, all of the kernel packages
(linux-2.x.y.tar.bz2's) will
go into=20 /sys-kernel/
All of the files that the kde ebuilds call for would go
in=20 /kde-base/
=20
Any patches for programs could go into either
/patches/sys-kernel (I think this is a prefered method)
Or=20
/sys-kernel/patches=20
A couple of obvious problems would be the re-organizing
files, but that
could be scripted seemingly easily. The problem would be
propogating it
= to the rest of the distfiles servers. I wouldn't think the
ebuilds =
themselves would be a problem. You would just need to change
SRC_URI=3Dmirror://gentoo/${P}.tbz2 to
SRC_URI=3Dmirror://gentoo/${CATEGORY}/${P}.tbz2
In any ebuilds that download packages from a distfiles
mirror (I've =
noticed items like the kernel sources don't)
Anyone else have any pros/cons to such a task?
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RE: [gentoo-user] kernel: built-in vs. module
Just my opinion, unless you change hardware a lot, I don't think there is an advantage. Some things though, like I2c support, you want as modules because you might not be sure which one your hardware supports and you can auto-detect it. I've been using linux full time for about 6 months now, but I haven't found anything on the pros and cons of compiling the kernel with features built-in vs built as modules? What are the advantages of either case? curious, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Laptop with usb cdrom and no floppy
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57754 Do you have another system to do this with?? Or maybe you can get the topic creator to link you to his. -Original Message- From: The Doctor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Fox Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Laptop with usb cdrom and no floppy I've got gentoo running since January on my old HP Omnibook, but I just for a Dell D400 at work (light and small) and want to kill off WinXP. However, I need to be able to boot up something on the new machine which has no ide or scsi cdrom... just a usb cdrom. I can't seem to get my gentoo disk to boot properly as the mounting doesn't want to use a usb cdrom on the LiveCD. I get: mount: Mounting /newroot/dev/cdroms/* on /newroot/mnt/cdrom failed: No such file or directory. -- CD Not found and I have a busybox prompt. But no modules that seem to give scsi simulation and thus can't mount the cdrom. Unless somebody has a better suggestion on how to get a working filesystem, I'm going to try a debian install and bootstrap from there. -- Jon/mycr0ft -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] emerge runs amok
Emerge is only trying to remove old packages that where installed via stage2 process that where upgraded by emerge --update world|system . -Original Message- From: Larry Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 2:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge runs amok I had some porblems with my system, and some files got deleted. I fixed this by untarring the stage2 tarball and running 'emerge system'. Now unfortunately, emerge wants to remove vital things from my system. This is what happens after I do an emerge portage: Recalculating the counter... Counter updated successfully. Clearing invalid entries in dependancy cache... ...done! ccache Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r1 merged. sys-apps/portage selected: none protected: 2.0.48-r1 omitted: none clean: No packages selected for removal. Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... Auto-cleaning packages ... sys-apps/baselayout selected: 1.8.5.8 protected: 1.8.5.9 omitted: none sys-devel/gcc-config selected: 1.3.1-r1 protected: 1.3.3-r1 omitted: none sys-apps/sed selected: 4.0.6 protected: 4.0.7 omitted: none Packages in red are slated for removal. Packages in green will not be removed. Waiting 5 seconds before starting... (Control-C to abort)... Unmerging in: 5 4 Killed How do I make it stop doing this? It does this every time I emerge a package. Thanks, Larry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] php 4.3.2 virtual/mta
I think the php eclass should have information to detect what mta is actually in use and where the proper sendmail compatible binary is and during postinstall, modify the php.ini. Or simply not have the check for /usr/sbin/sendmail. It makes sense on doing the check for /usr/sbin/sendmail as it would resolve some 'I cant send mail via php' issues. However actually trying to emerge php seems to have caused a new problem that doesn't need to be. Well, for the record... ln -s /usr/bin/nbsmtp /usr/sbin/sendmail did the job. Are we saying that the ebuild should be modified to provide this linkage automatically? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] php 4.3.2 virtual/mta
Php does not require sendmail, you can use Qmail, postfix, exim or any other sendmail compatible mailer. You would then need to change the php.ini to reflect the location of the sendmail compatible binary (Qmail automaticly (or should) symlinks /var/qmail/bin/sendmail to /usr/lib/sendmail). You can also configure PHP to use SMTP as its mailer. Even though the php.ini file says that is a win32 setting, it does work in Linux. That said, a look in eclass/php.eclass we find [ -x /usr/sbin/sendmail ] || die You need a virtual/mta that provides /usr/sbin/sendmail! Perhaps the issues are not php related but a problem with the MTA ebuild we are using. Creating a the correct symlink should fix the problem -Original Message- From: Paul de Vrieze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] php 4.3.2 virtual/mta On Saturday 07 June 2003 15:24, Mike Arrison wrote: Gentooers, Anybody else see this recently? !!! ERROR: dev-php/php-4.3.2 failed. !!! Function php_src_compile, Line 211, Exitcode 1 !!! You need a virtual/mta that provides /usr/sbin/sendmail My /var/cache/edb/virtuals contains an mta line as follows: virtual/mta net-mail/nbsmtp net-mail/ssmtp Don't tell me that php _needs_ sendmail in particular. For the mail functionality of php (and many other applications) sendmail is needed indeed. If you don't care about mail capability in php you could use --nodeps to have php build anyway. Paul ps. Not that dev-php/php is the standalone php interpreter, NOT the apache module -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
