[gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto?
Hi, I'd like to transfer a GenToo installation from old hardware to a new machine (adm64). I've a running Gentoo system which has exactly the same hardware as these new machines but this system has much fewer packages installed. Is it possible to clone this running Gentoo system, essentially overwrite /var/lib/portage/world with the larger version of the old hardware except some 64bit related packages and then run emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep @system @world on the new machine. Or are the any snags? Many thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto?
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:54:19 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: Is it possible to clone this running Gentoo system, essentially overwrite /var/lib/portage/world with the larger version of the old hardware except some 64bit related packages and then run emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep @system @world on the new machine. Or are the any snags? Only one, portage will barf when you have a world file containing uninstalled packages. Copy the world file from the other machine somewhere other than /var/lib/portage and run emerge -n $(cat /path/to/otherworld) -- Neil Bothwick Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] File merge tool
kdiff3 is my favorite graphical merge tool (hey, even have it running on my macbook). On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Summary: Any suggestions for a file merge tool? Details: I'd like to try just actually manually merging bookmarks.html files from different computers. Diff and Patch seem kind of hard or maybe impossible to use for this. If you have identical parts in different places they will just keep adding up... no way to weed out duplication. If there anything that can do that or at least help me do it. I'm not talking about bookmark merge/storage things like Xmarks or foxmarks. My files are not so large that I couldn't do it by hand but would need some smart helper tool.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] File merge tool
Roy Wright schrieb: kdiff3 is my favorite graphical merge tool (hey, even have it running on my macbook). On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Summary: Any suggestions for a file merge tool? Details: I'd like to try just actually manually merging bookmarks.html files from different computers. Diff and Patch seem kind of hard or maybe impossible to use for this. If you have identical parts in different places they will just keep adding up... no way to weed out duplication. If there anything that can do that or at least help me do it. I'm not talking about bookmark merge/storage things like Xmarks or foxmarks. My files are not so large that I couldn't do it by hand but would need some smart helper tool. Along time I used tkdiff and it worked really fine, since yesterday I swapped to the new package diffuse, which is actually the same in gtk. justin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto?
Neil Bothwick wrote: uninstalled packages. Copy the world file from the other machine somewhere other than /var/lib/portage and run emerge -n $(cat /path/to/otherworld) Only one, portage will barf when you have a world file containing I've never seen that, and yes, I've been known to add a package atom to the end of the world file when I wanted to update world, and add a package at the same time (xfce4 was the last time I think, a month or so ago), and didn't want to do it in two commands. In that cases I was adding a whole DE, so was also changing lots of USE flags, so wanted an emerge -uDavN world to just update all the use flags at once echo xfce-base/xfce4 /var/lib/portage/world followed by emerge -uDavN world worked a treat. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto?
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:35:37 +0100, Nevynxxx wrote: Only one, portage will barf when you have a world file containing I've never seen that, and yes, I've been known to add a package atom to the end of the world file when I wanted to update world, and add a package at the same time (xfce4 was the last time I think, a month or so ago), and didn't want to do it in two commands. OK, that's changed then. The last time I transferred an installation, Portage really didn't like having non-installed packages in world. In that cases I was adding a whole DE, so was also changing lots of USE flags, so wanted an emerge -uDavN world to just update all the use flags at once echo xfce-base/xfce4 /var/lib/portage/world followed by emerge -uDavN world worked a treat. That's still two commands :) You can do it in one with emerge -uavDN @world xfce4 -- Neil Bothwick -- random quotes signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.98, no copy paste in Konsole
Hi, Yesterday I upgraded to KDE 4.2.98 (4.3 RC3) and everything seems normal except the clipboard does not work at all in Konsole. I highlight text, right click, choose copy, and nothing. Click the clipboard icon to see the clipboard history, and that text is nowhere to be found... My copy paste in every other program seems to work normally. Weird. Is anyone else using this version and does your copy paste work in Konsole?
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-Firefox 3.5.1 blank preferences pane
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:44:35 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: I just upgraded to mozilla-firefox-3.5.1 (from portage, ~amd64), having previously used 3.0x, and it seems to work except for one big problem: when I open the preferences pane, it is blank. Just an empty window with a grey background. Has anyone else got this problem? Works here, as did 3.5.0. That sounds like a GTK problem, have you tried revdep-rebuild? Yeah, but it didn't find anything that needed rebuilding. I did just install a new gtk+ yesterday, though. Maybe I'll try reverting back to the previous version and see what happens. Thanks. I downgraded from gtk+-2.16.5 back to gtk+-2.16.1 and now it works normally. I will try to upgrade gtk+ again and if problem reoccurs I'll file a bug. Thanks.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.98, no copy paste in Konsole
On Thursday 23 July 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, Yesterday I upgraded to KDE 4.2.98 (4.3 RC3) and everything seems normal except the clipboard does not work at all in Konsole. I highlight text, right click, choose copy, and nothing. Click the clipboard icon to see the clipboard history, and that text is nowhere to be found... My copy paste in every other program seems to work normally. Weird. Is anyone else using this version and does your copy paste work in Konsole? As discussed in various other places, copy to the clipboard is broken in Qt 4.5. However, it is now fixed in git, see; https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199333 HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.98, no copy paste in Konsole
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Robin Atwoodrobin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: On Thursday 23 July 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, Yesterday I upgraded to KDE 4.2.98 (4.3 RC3) and everything seems normal except the clipboard does not work at all in Konsole. I highlight text, right click, choose copy, and nothing. Click the clipboard icon to see the clipboard history, and that text is nowhere to be found... My copy paste in every other program seems to work normally. Weird. Is anyone else using this version and does your copy paste work in Konsole? As discussed in various other places, copy to the clipboard is broken in Qt 4.5. However, it is now fixed in git, see; https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199333 Thanks for the tip! I hadn't run into it before.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo server profile
On Monday 20 July 2009 18:33:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 20 July 2009 17:49:00 Dirk Uys wrote: Hi everyone I'm busy installing Gentoo on a local server. I'm using default/linux/amd64/2008.0/server as the profile. I noticed that I get a nice little warning every time I emerge a package saying that the profile is untested. My main concern for using the current server profile is to get a minimal install, not security. Should I be using a different profile (like hardened) or is the one I'm using fine? Regards Dirk Uys Set I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING to anything other than yes in root's profile and the error will go away. I don't believe the warnings are in any way dangerous, to get a minimal install it will have removed USE flags and not installed any services (as opposed to adding stuff the make things minimal). Issues can be fixed by enabling the USE flags you do want. Keep in mind that the server profile will try to pull in some USE that you probably don't want in a minimal installation (such as mysql, apache, etc.) --- TopperH signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: openoffice fails on qt_plugins_3.3rc
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: There is also another possibility: root and you are just different users, and the problem may lie in your ~/.oo3/ directory. To test this idea just rename ~/.oo3 to something else and let OO make a new one. If that test fails then you start looking at permissions. Nope same exact error, so it not related to my '.ooo3' dir Try as another user, to make sure it is not some other setting of yours that is causing the problem. Well I have tried as another user. Exact same error: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException' I have sync and now run a newer version of office OO-3.1.0-r1 So I think we can assume it's not anything in the user files. thoughts? James
