Re: [gentoo-user] Numpad keys behaving strange after system-wide update
Mark David Dumlao wrote: Hi, I noticed my numpad keys stopped working after doing a system update. The thing is I can't pinpoint what exacly I changed since I did an emerge -uDnav world. I'm sure its some file somewhere... Pressing numpad keys in X doesnt seem to produce results or nothing at all. However, presisng numpad keys seems to work fine on the (non xterm) command line. Did anyone else's numpad appear to break? What do you think I should look up? This is the symptom I see when I try evdev driver and am using a MS Natural Pro keyboard. Briefly the keyboard is handled as two USB devices. The keys that work are on the first device, the ones that don't on the second device. Following gentoo-wiki howtos it looks like you have to hack the kernel. At that point I simply reverted to using the kbd driver. Maybe some year evdev will mature... Quick check, look in your xorg.conf ServerLayout section, identify which keyboard InputDevice, then check to see which driver it is using. HTH, Roy
Re: [gentoo-user] Python blockage problem.
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 18:24:32 -0400 David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 02 August 2008 05:54:35 pm Qian Qiao wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:14 PM, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: python-updater says it is blocked by an old version of python. Yet I have an up-to-date version of python installed. This is keeping me from upgrading. Any help appreciated. [snip] Please search the list for previous discussions of this. I found such a thread, and I've been done what they said, except for removing the old one. I tried this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/dcorbin]# emerge -C =dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 --- Couldn't find '=dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2' to unmerge. Your blocking version of python is probably not exactly 2.3.6-r2. Try: emerge -C =dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 Robert -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[gentoo-user] Sharing of wine drives between different users of same machine
After an (in?)convenient crash of a particular operating system which I have dual-booted with Gentoo for a while; I am going to reinstall it. My main issue though, for that particular operating system is that the shared c_drive of different wine users was shared there, and it annoys me that certain games now need some reinstalling (fortunately, the save files are in a safe place). Well since I'm going to go and do something a bit tedious anyway, I might as well do it right. I was wondering what strategies you guys use for sharing wine drives between different users. I have 3 kids using the same box for games; wine was one of the main features of using that box. I have previously done some of the following: (1) Everyone's .wine - c:\wine (ntfs drive) which makes some sense, but the bad thing is that usernames are preserved across users. (2) Everyone's c_drive - c:\wine (ntfs drive) Which also makes some sense, but I wonder if registry issues that are user specific point to the wrong places. (3) Everyone's program files - c:\wine (ntfs drive) Which does solve the issue of saving space; but the problem is that registry entries from installing programs don't get shared. What's the proper way to multi-seat wine to make it behave like a multi-user Windows environment?
Re: [gentoo-user] Numpad keys behaving strange after system-wide update
Roy Wright schrieb am 03.08.2008 08:10: Mark David Dumlao wrote: Hi, I noticed my numpad keys stopped working after doing a system update. The thing is I can't pinpoint what exacly I changed since I did an emerge -uDnav world. I'm sure its some file somewhere... Pressing numpad keys in X doesnt seem to produce results or nothing at all. However, presisng numpad keys seems to work fine on the (non xterm) command line. Did anyone else's numpad appear to break? What do you think I should look up? This is the symptom I see when I try evdev driver and am using a MS Natural Pro keyboard. Briefly the keyboard is handled as two USB devices. The keys that work are on the first device, the ones that don't on the second device. Following gentoo-wiki howtos it looks like you have to hack the kernel. At that point I simply reverted to using the kbd driver. Maybe some year evdev will mature... Quick check, look in your xorg.conf ServerLayout section, identify which keyboard InputDevice, then check to see which driver it is using. HTH, Roy The new hal version converts the InputDevice section for the keyboard from xorg.conf to a fdi rule file (/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi) for hal. Even if you use the kbd driver in xorg.conf it is converted to use evdev in the fdi file. Now when you use =xorg-server-1.4 and have the hal use-flag enabled it will use the evdev driver for the keyboard. However a bug in the hal-0.5.11 ebuild prevents the conversion to the fdi file. The ebuild states it has done the conversion but actually has done nothing, and recommends to remove the InputDevice section in xorg.conf. So there are chances that there is no rule file and no entry in xorg.conf. Maybe evdev then does some guessing and guesses wrong. Regards, Daniel
[gentoo-user] unable to compile cups while doing world update
Hi. I was doing a world update on my laptop and I was trying to
compile ghostscript, but in the middle of doing that -- it compiled
cups and the compile of cups is not working. Here is the error I get
while trying to emerge cups which I think will fix the problem with
ghostscript also:
Making all in scheduler...
Compiling auth.c...
Compiling banners.c...
auth.c: In function 'cupsdAuthorize':
auth.c:484: error: storage size of 'peercred' isn't known
auth.c:484: warning: unused variable 'peercred'
make[1]: *** [auth.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** [all] Error 1
*
* ERROR: net-print/cups-1.3.7-r1 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3017: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* emake || die emake failed
* The die message:
* emake failed
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at
'/var/log/portage/net-print:cups-1.3.7-r1:20080803-104657.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/net-print/cups-1.3.7-r1/temp/environment'.
I even tried to re emerge the old version of cups, but it is now
masked off.
Any assistance on this would be appreciated.
My emerge --info is below.
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.1,
glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.20-suspend2-r6 i686)
=
System uname: 2.6.20-suspend2-r6 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:06:01 +
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userfetch
FETCHCOMMAND=/usr/bin/wget -t 5 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O ${DISTDIR}/${FILE}
${URI}
GCC_SPECS=
GDK_USE_XFT=1
GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/
http://distfiles.gentoo.org;
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G_FILENAME_ENCODING=UTF-8
HOME=/root
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[gentoo-user] Re: unable to compile cups while doing world update
John covici wrote: Hi. I was doing a world update on my laptop and I was trying to compile ghostscript, but in the middle of doing that -- it compiled cups and the compile of cups is not working. Try cups-1.3.8. This should build fine with GCC 4.3.1 (at least it does here.)
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1 ebuild
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I did it already. I solved emerging first qt and when it finished with its depends (about 12 qt libraries) I tried to install kde again; it worked. After about 20 compiling hours, I can try now my new desktop! Thanks a lot, Luigi Am Samstag, 2. August 2008 11:43:57 schrieb Rev. Ferris: I tried this night to build the 4.1 trees using layman and this guide: http://gentoo-wiki.com/KDE4 but I can't start the emerge operation because I found 2 blocking packages: [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-core (is blocking x11-libs/qt-4.3.5) [blocks B ] =x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4 (is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.4.0, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.4.0, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.4.0, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.4.0, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.4.0, x11-libs/qt-svg-4.4.0, x11-libs/qt-test-4.4.0, x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.4.0, x11-libs/qt-core-4.4.0, x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.4.0) How can I solve this conflict? emerge -C =x11-libs/qt-4.3.5 Bye... Dirk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiVguMACgkQYoDKzgS2pLOiLACeK/IXfwsDxu4LDBXo8cFQWaMQ TjYAnR2+DeA5PbZheC1pwUFxgnxdSxgc =doOD -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[gentoo-user] Re: unable to compile cups while doing world update
on Sunday 08/03/2008 Nikos Chantziaras([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici wrote: Hi. I was doing a world update on my laptop and I was trying to compile ghostscript, but in the middle of doing that -- it compiled cups and the compile of cups is not working. Try cups-1.3.8. This should build fine with GCC 4.3.1 (at least it does here.) OK, thanks-- that did the trick. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory
Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and it's time to get hands dirty. I have more GB of collected files than I can fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several partitions to ~/ in an effort to organize this mass. 1. How could one reasonably link a subdir of a partition as a subdir or folder of one's ~/, for example, /dev/sdd3/VIDEO (partition on that partition called VIDEO) as a subdirectory, ~/VIDEO? I want ~/VIDEO to behave identically as it would if it were on the same partition as ~/ . At least to the greatest extent possible. I have seen some arcane arrangement somewhere, but to what extent is that necessary to do? I would rather avoid having to mount the entire parition as a subdir, and then have to access, for example, ~/ARCHIVE/VIDEO. 2. As an aside, Nautllus (~/amd64 Gnome overlay, version 2.23.5.1) behavior differs from that in Ubuntu. I have resisted the use of a GUI file manager for a long time, except for a few tasks, and especially I have avoided nautilus as a tool for moving files around the system. The availability of bookmarks in the sidepane is highly useful, however, and I've gotten used to it. Can I remove the display of ~/media/* from the sidepanel? This has enabled me to organize my system much more effectively. Thunar is more to my taste in this way, but nautilus has other useful features, including it is integrated with gnome. Thank you for any advice. Also thanks to the list for past helpful advice. Alan -- Alan Davis It's never a matter of liking or disliking ... ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory
Alan E. Davis ha scritto: Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and it's time to get hands dirty. I have more GB of collected files than I can fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several partitions to ~/ in an effort to organize this mass. 1. How could one reasonably link a subdir of a partition as a subdir or folder of one's ~/, for example, /dev/sdd3/VIDEO (partition on that partition called VIDEO) as a subdirectory, ~/VIDEO? I want ~/VIDEO to behave identically as it would if it were on the same partition as ~/ . At least to the greatest extent possible. I have seen some arcane arrangement somewhere, but to what extent is that necessary to do? I would rather avoid having to mount the entire parition as a subdir, and then have to access, for example, ~/ARCHIVE/VIDEO. What's wrong with using symbolic links? m.
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory
On Sonntag, 3. August 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and it's time to get hands dirty. I have more GB of collected files than I can fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several partitions to ~/ in an effort to organize this mass. 1. How could one reasonably link a subdir of a partition as a subdir or folder of one's ~/, for example, /dev/sdd3/VIDEO (partition on that partition called VIDEO) as a subdirectory, ~/VIDEO? I want ~/VIDEO to behave identically as it would if it were on the same partition as ~/ . At least to the greatest extent possible. I have seen some arcane arrangement somewhere, but to what extent is that necessary to do? I would rather avoid having to mount the entire parition as a subdir, and then have to access, for example, ~/ARCHIVE/VIDEO. man mount, also google for 'bind' mounting. 2. As an aside, Nautllus (~/amd64 Gnome overlay, version 2.23.5.1) behavior differs from that in Ubuntu. because ubuntu patches A LOT. Ubuntu-gnome is not gnome.
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man mount, also google for 'bind' mounting. Thank you. That was it. IN answer to another query, as to why not symlink, I cannot point to a particular behavior, but I have found that symlinks do not behave in all situations like real hardlinks. What I want it something like a hardlink to a directory. I think this may be possible with bind mounting. One major problem with nautilus or any other GUI file manager---in fact many, many GUI programs that rely on mouse input primarily---has been the loss of subtler capabilities like hard link. I've been looking at using hardlinks to organize my literature collection. A single paper may belong equally in several categories. Or for photos, to go beyond, say, catalogs in gthumbs: catalogs are possibly lost in an upgrade or minor accident. I'd be interested in seeing particular examples of the use of bind mounts for the purposes I propose. Reiterating: - mounting a directory from another tree with a full status in all respects as a directory on the current tree. - mounting a directory in several places. (A subdirectory of microscopical images and another subdirectory of notes can be linked together in the same directory under the specific project or organism under study). Perhaps a more skilled approach to the use of symlinks would serve the same purpose more directly? Thank you again for the input. Alan -- Alan Davis It's never a matter of liking or disliking ... ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory
Alan E. Davis wrote: Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and it's time to get hands dirty. I have more GB of collected files than I can fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several partitions to ~/ in an effort to organize this mass. Personally I'd suggest using LVM for this, although migrating to LVM would require you to back up your current filesystems (such as creating a stage 4 as described on the gentoo-wiki), reformatting your filesystems to LVM, and then un-tarring back to the LVM system. I'm not sure if that's more work than you bargained for, but LVM has some fantastic features that prevent these sort of out of space issues: 1) You can leave some hard disk space in the Volume Group (VG) initially unallocated to Logical Volumes (LV's) and then add the unallocated space later to an LV (and its underlying filesystem) when it starts to become full. This ability to grow an LV and the underlying filesystem can happen while the filesystem is online and in-use. 2) You can shrink LV's as well, although they need to be unmounted first. 3) You can easily migrate between hard drives while the system is online by moving LV's from one Physical Volume (PV) (eg: a hard disk) to another. 4) You can add multiple hard drives to an LVM Volume Group (VG - essentially a collection of PV's) and use the storage space from both drives to allocate space to an LV. LVM is worth a look, at least to understand some of its benefits. I typically set my root partition at about 512 MB and then create LVM partitions for /home, /usr, /opt, and /var. (You could do the same for /tmp, but I use tmpfs for that.) It's possible to do LVM on the / partition, but that requires an initrd to work properly. -- Josh signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] tovid/todisc and USE variables
How do you find out what USE variables a build can have? I recently got a new disk and reinstalled everything. Now tovid doesn't seem to work and I think it's because I don't have all the USE variable that I use to have. The problem I'm having with tovid is it runs very slow and never finishes. It's doing something but I don't know what. When I run todisc it will display the menu correctly and after typing yes hangs on Checking filename.mpeg for compliance... The only thing I can see happening is the ./todisc-work/idvid.0/idvid.scratch file keeps getting bigger. I've let todisc run for almost 18 hours and still it seems like there's no end in sight. Anyone know what's happening and why this doesn't work? The mpeg I'm testing with is only 30 seconds long and this use to work on my old disk.
Re: [gentoo-user] tovid/todisc and USE variables
dhk wrote: How do you find out what USE variables a build can have? emerge -pv tovid will do that. eix should do that as well. The only USE variable I saw was tk. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Apache2 bandwidth limiting help needed
Hi all, I've been using MOD_BW, but for some reason it's stopped working. Don't know why, everything's configured properly. So I was going to try MOD_CBAND. When I have it installed, E.G. '-D CBAND' in the Apache2 options, trying to go to my website results in a 403 Forbidden error. This happens even if I give a bad URL on my website, something that would normally result in a 404 Not Found error. Here's the config file. I'm going pretty much by the example in the file. If I'm doing something obviously wrong, please let me know! Thanks. # This file only loads mod_cband and enables /cband-status page. # For examples please consult the vhosts.conf.example.gz, # vhosts2.conf.example.gz and vhosts3.conf.example.gz files installed in # /usr/share/doc/mod_cband-*/ IfDefine CBAND LoadModule cband_module modules/mod_cband.so Location /cband-status SetHandler cband-status /Location # Some defaults: CBandDefaultExceededURL http://www.google.com #CBandScoreFlushPeriod 100 # And in virtual host configuration to limit it's speed: VirtualHost *:80 DocumentRoot /var/www/localhost/htdocs ServerName www.bluegrasspals.com IfModule mod_cband.c CBandLimit 600M CBandExceededURL http://www.bluegrasspals.com/bandwidth.html CBandScoreboard /var/run/mod_cband.bluegrasspals.scoreboard CBandPeriod 600S CBandSpeed 40kb 10 5 CBandRemoteSpeed 40kb/s 10 5 /IfModule /VirtualHost #VirtualHost *:80 # DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/htdocs # ServerName www.example.com # IfModule mod_cband.c # CBandLimit 600M # CBandExceededURL http://www.example.com/ex1.html # CBandScoreboard /var/run/mod_cband.example.com.scoreboard # CBandPeriod 200S # # # 100kb/s, 10 request/s, max 5 connections # CBandSpeed 100kb 10 5 # # # 10kb/s, 3 request/s - speed limit for any remote client, max 5 connections # CBandRemoteSpeed 10kb/s 3 5 # /IfModule #/VirtualHost /IfDefine # vim: ts=4 filetype=apache
[gentoo-user] Why does emerge -auvND world wants to install old gentoo-soruces?
I've got gentoo-sources 2.6.25-r7 installed, and that's the only verions of the kernel sources that I have installed. Suddenly (starting today) emerge -auvtND world wants to install an older version of gentoo-sources (2.6.25-r6), and I can't figure out why: # emerge --search gentoo-sources Searching... [ Results for search key : gentoo-sources ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Latest version available: 2.6.25-r7 Latest version installed: 2.6.25-r7 Size of files: 47,585 kB Homepage: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches Description: Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the 2.6 kernel tree License: GPL-2 # emerge -auvtND world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies / ... done! [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r6 USE=-build -symlink 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 0 kB What clue am I missing? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I always have fun at because I'm out of my visi.commind!!!
[gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file
Hi, I was wondering if their is a easy way to clean out the cruft in my world file? Is their a script? I tried saving a cope then running regenworld but that didn't do much. Maybe it is old and out of date? The reason why I want to do this? Well, sometimes I forget to use the -1 option when working on getting a dependency to install. It adds up after a while. Ideas? Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] what qt package?
I'm doing a clean up of my system, getting rid of stuff I never use. Some time ago, for reasons I can't remember, I installed a qt development package which provided Qt linguist, Qt designer and Qt assistant. I want to unmerge them but I can't remember, or figure out which package they're from. I've tried variations on the names, I've looked at the gentoo-portage web page and 'searched' the database, I've been to the trolltech pages. But I can't work it out! I think they all came in one package together. Does anyone know what it's called. It will be obvious when you tell me :-) Cheers Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file
Dale schrieb am 04.08.2008 00:18: Hi, I was wondering if their is a easy way to clean out the cruft in my world file? Is their a script? I tried saving a cope then running regenworld but that didn't do much. Maybe it is old and out of date? The reason why I want to do this? Well, sometimes I forget to use the -1 option when working on getting a dependency to install. It adds up after a while. Ideas? Dale :-) :-) emerge udept dep -w This will find unneeded entries in the world file.
Re: [gentoo-user] what qt package?
Matthew R. Lee schrieb am 04.08.2008 00:28: I'm doing a clean up of my system, getting rid of stuff I never use. Some time ago, for reasons I can't remember, I installed a qt development package which provided Qt linguist, Qt designer and Qt assistant. I want to unmerge them but I can't remember, or figure out which package they're from. I've tried variations on the names, I've looked at the gentoo-portage web page and 'searched' the database, I've been to the trolltech pages. But I can't work it out! I think they all came in one package together. Does anyone know what it's called. It will be obvious when you tell me :-) Cheers Matt Linguist, Designer and Assistant are part of x11-libs/qt and I don't think you can get rid of them by use flag. You have to unmerge qt but this is surely not what you want or can. Only if no package from your system depends on qt anymore.
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file
On Montag, 4. August 2008, Dale wrote: Hi, I was wondering if their is a easy way to clean out the cruft in my world file? Is their a script? I tried saving a cope then running regenworld but that didn't do much. Maybe it is old and out of date? The reason why I want to do this? Well, sometimes I forget to use the -1 option when working on getting a dependency to install. It adds up after a while. Ideas? nano -w /var/lib/portage/world ctrl-k on the lines you think are superfluos. Done.
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb am 04.08.2008 00:18: Hi, I was wondering if their is a easy way to clean out the cruft in my world file? Is their a script? I tried saving a cope then running regenworld but that didn't do much. Maybe it is old and out of date? The reason why I want to do this? Well, sometimes I forget to use the -1 option when working on getting a dependency to install. It adds up after a while. Ideas? Dale :-) :-) emerge udept dep -w This will find unneeded entries in the world file. There are three versions, all masked. Could you share which version you use? I ask since it works for you, then it may work for me too. ;-) - app-portage/udept-0.5.99.0.2.95-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - app-portage/udept-0.5.99.0.2.95 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - app-portage/udept-0.5.96.2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 4. August 2008, Dale wrote: Hi, I was wondering if their is a easy way to clean out the cruft in my world file? Is their a script? I tried saving a cope then running regenworld but that didn't do much. Maybe it is old and out of date? The reason why I want to do this? Well, sometimes I forget to use the -1 option when working on getting a dependency to install. It adds up after a while. Ideas? nano -w /var/lib/portage/world ctrl-k on the lines you think are superfluos. Done. Thing is, I have no clue which ones are superfluos tho. That is the problem. I used Kwrite by the way. LOL I also liked that they appear to be in alphabetical order tho. Not sure if that was a feature or what. o_O Thanks Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] what qt package?
On Sunday 03 August 2008 18:51:43 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Matthew R. Lee schrieb am 04.08.2008 00:28: I'm doing a clean up of my system, getting rid of stuff I never use. Some time ago, for reasons I can't remember, I installed a qt development package which provided Qt linguist, Qt designer and Qt assistant. I want to unmerge them but I can't remember, or figure out which package they're from. I've tried variations on the names, I've looked at the gentoo-portage web page and 'searched' the database, I've been to the trolltech pages. But I can't work it out! I think they all came in one package together. Does anyone know what it's called. It will be obvious when you tell me :-) Cheers Matt Linguist, Designer and Assistant are part of x11-libs/qt and I don't think you can get rid of them by use flag. You have to unmerge qt but this is surely not what you want or can. Only if no package from your system depends on qt anymore. Is that true? I could of sworn I didn't always have them, and I've always used kde. But then again it might explain why I can't find specific packages for them. Thanks Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file
Dale wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb am 04.08.2008 00:18: Hi, I was wondering if their is a easy way to clean out the cruft in my world file? Is their a script? I tried saving a cope then running regenworld but that didn't do much. Maybe it is old and out of date? The reason why I want to do this? Well, sometimes I forget to use the -1 option when working on getting a dependency to install. It adds up after a while. Ideas? Dale :-) :-) emerge udept dep -w This will find unneeded entries in the world file. There are three versions, all masked. Could you share which version you use? I ask since it works for you, then it may work for me too. ;-) - app-portage/udept-0.5.99.0.2.95-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - app-portage/udept-0.5.99.0.2.95 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - app-portage/udept-0.5.96.2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) Thanks. Dale :-) :-) Hi, I used app-portage/udept-0.5.99.0.2.95-r1 and it worked fine. I had 68 times that I forgot to use the -1 option. I'm getting old I guess. :/ Here's to a clean world file. cheers Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory
Quoting Josh Cepek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Personally I'd suggest using LVM for this ++ 1) ++ 2) ++ 3) You can easily migrate between hard drives while the system is online by moving LV's from one Physical Volume (PV) (eg: a hard disk) to another. --!! Have you ever tried that? I've almost killed both hard drives doing an on-line migration to a bigger HD. I wouldn't recommend it. 4) ++ LVM is worth a look, ++!!! /tmp, but I use tmpfs for that.) It's possible to do LVM on the / partition, but that requires an initrd to work properly. Josh You can use genkernel for that. Just configure your kernel as always, adding initrd features and then: genkernel --lvm [your-options] Easy. Regards, Norberto This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory
Norberto and Josh: Thank you for the suggestion. It's on the back burner. I have the space to experiment with it now. I have balked for the time being on basis of, partly, my need to be able to swap drives in and out, and have it clear in mind which partitions belong to what. Also my main drive is a 1 RPM faster drive, and I'd like to keep the partitions or directories that are mainly for storage separated. I really do notice a difference in the performance of the drive. this is somewhat of a conundrum: how to keep the current projects focused on the faster drive. Interestingly (to me) while I carefully planned for swap on the faster drive, since I moved to 2GB of RAM, I think I've only touched swap two or three times, and then only passingly! I definitely wouldn't want to put / into LVM. If I do LVM it will be the easy way, the most clearcut way. Alan On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Josh Cepek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Personally I'd suggest using LVM for this -- Alan Davis It's never a matter of liking or disliking ... ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man
