[gentoo-user] odd sudo problem
I recently installed Gentoo on 4 servers. On one of them, I get the following error when I run sudo: # sudo su - sudo: can't stat /var/tmp/portage/sudo-1.6.7_p5/image//etc/sudoers: No such file or directory sendmail: Cannot open mail:25 The same error occurs when I try to run visudo. Now, sendmail is one problem; I haven't configured postfix yet on the box. But the rest is mystifying. I've recompiled sudo several times, both with pam in my USE and without pam. Still the same thing. The sudo version is 1.6.7_p5. Anyone come across this? Jacob Smullyan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox
I've recently gotten errors of this kind (sandbox violations) when emerging with sudo rather than as root, but I don't know exactly where the bug is. Jacob Smullyan On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:04:01PM +1000, Dennis Robertson wrote: So far I am 1 week into the gentoo install process. Emerging fluxbox concludes with: Fatal error: can't create or write to /root/.fluxbox/menu. I can't find any help in bugzilla. Can anyone assist, please? TIA. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street Noosaville QLD 4566 Australia Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] question re creating meta-ebuild for application distribution
A question about using Gentoo's meta-distribution aspect: I'm about to use a local meta-ebuild to deploy a set of applications across a group of servers. I'd rather not add this ebuild to an existing package directory -- I'd rather use app-$mycompanyname -- but when I do so, I see that portage doesn't know about the new package directory when I do an emerge -s $myappname. This isn't a big deal in and of itself, since the ebuild seems to merge and unmerge without problems, but is there a way I can locally add a new package directory so that portage fully knows about it? Can I do so in such a way that an emerge rsync won't lose that information? And if not, I am going to run into other problems by using an unsupported pkg location? Thanks, Jacob Smullyan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] question re creating meta-ebuild for application distribution
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 11:20, Sigurd Stordal wrote: directory so that portage fully knows about it? Can I do so in such a way that an emerge rsync won't lose that information? And if not, I PORTDIR_OVERLAY. You set it in the make.conf file, and make every new app dir there, will not be updated by emerge sync. I am using PORTDIR_OVERLAY. But simply creating a new package directory within it doesn't solve the problem. To see this, try creating a new subdirectory $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/app-whatever, create an application directory within it, and a valid ebuild within it. Do an ebuild digest, then emerge app-whatever/whatever/whatever-1.0.ebuild. It should install fine. Then do an emerge -s whatever. It won't find your ebuild. So package directories must be registered somehow with portage, but I don't know the mechanism. js -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: question re creating meta-ebuild for application distribution
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:11:42PM +0200, sf wrote:
Jacob Smullyan wrote:
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I am using PORTDIR_OVERLAY. But simply creating a new package directory
within it doesn't solve the problem.
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You can add categories in file /etc/portage/categories (system
categories are in ${PORTDIR}/profiles/categories).
Thanks, that seems to do the trick! Unfortunately I can't find
documentation for it anywhere :(.
js
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[gentoo-user] emacs error and gpm ebuild
When I try to emerge gpm, the ebuild fails as so: make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.1/work/gpm-1.20.1/contrib' /usr/bin/emacs -batch -l /var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.1/work/gpm-1.20.1/contrib/emacs/exec.el -exec '(byte-compile-file emacs/t-mouse.el)' Loading /usr/lib/emacs/21.3/i686-pc-linux-gnu/fns-21.3.1.el (source)... Loading dictionary-init (source)... Emacs version 21.3.1 doesn't support in-line images. Upgrade to Emacs 21.1 or newer make[1]: *** [emacs/t-mouse.elc] Error 255 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gpm-1.20.1/work/gpm-1.20.1/contrib' make: *** [do-all] Error 1 !!! ERROR: sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 55, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) The problem seems to be that emacs, when started without a window, produces this error message. Yet I have several gentoo installations, and this only happens on one box. I don't see this in bugzilla and I'm wondering, before I post a bug, whether anyone else has come across this. Jacob Smullyan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
