[gentoo-user] Re: MASKED Tilde with no `arch' what does it mean
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:19:03 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Ok, fine but first I want to find out what the unexplained tilde >> means. There are only a handfull of packagew with that notation in the >> masked file... where do look to find out its meaning? > > Try man 5 ebuild. > > "~ means match any revision of the base version specified." Thanks... now I can go ahead and trash my system... hehe. Seriously, Do you know why emacs-24 is masked like that? What little I know of Ulrich Mueller is that he is quite a stalwart fellow and not much would get by him. I guess its just that its the cvs version eh?
Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?
Jarry wrote: Hi, I noticed this error when I try to sync my portage tree: --- obelix ~ # emerge --sync >>> Starting rsync with rsync://134.68.220.73/gentoo-portage... >>> Checking server timestamp ... timed out rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(544) [receiver=3.0.6] >>> Retrying... >>> Starting retry 1 of 3 with rsync://134.68.220.74/gentoo-portage >>> Checking server timestamp ... timed out rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(544) [receiver=3.0.6] >>> Retrying... --- It started about month ago and it happens quite frequently, I'd say there is ~30% chance I get this message when I try "emerge --sync". What could be the reason for this, and how could I fix it? Jarry It's not rsync it's the servers. Are you using the EU pool? I am, and I have that problem frequently. In my opinion, the EU pool is of rather poor quality.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compiz effects vs kwin
Kacper Kopczyński wrote: > Dnia 2010-03-14, o godz. 05:34:04 > Nikos Chantziaras napisał(a): > > >> On 03/14/2010 04:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: >> >>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 03/14/2010 02:53 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > The effects in kwin (such as window wobble) are vastly less > smooth than that in compiz. I have noticed that compiz is faster > in both kde4 and in gnome (with slight preference to gnome in > speed) and wondering if this is normal, or something to do with > my kwin setup. Running on GM 965 > kwin got crappy animation speed in KDE 4.4. It was as smooth as compiz in 4.3. I asked about it in the KDE mailing list, but there was zero interest in this regression. So you either have to live with it, or switch to compiz. >>> Thanks for your reply. I am currently using kde 4.3 because I try >>> only to update to downstream-stable. Is there another explanation? >>> >> Too old drivers and X maybe. Since you're using downstream-stable, >> but the cool DRM/GL/KMS stuff is only in the latest upstream >> versions, this might be the problem. >> >> >> > > kwin is slower on intel cards. Kwin with gnome or xfce is much > faster... Intel video cards are very slow... > > From my experience every version of kde above 3.0 is slower than any > other window manager (gnome (sawfish, metacity, enlightenment), > xfce(xfwm), compiz, lxde,...), on every machine I've had. It needs more > memory, faster hard disks, stable filesystem (ext4::delalloc?), better > video card... and so on. Even Qt seems to be slower than GTK+ if you > launch application that does similar thing. > > ...or it's just my imagination :) > > If you want smooth kde get a nvidia or ati card, at least 256MB, 2GB > ram, 1.6GHz. > > You could also try nice/renice > > Thanks for your advice. It seems that this is the way of things: compiz is very efficient but slightly incompatible with kde 4.x and kwin is highly compatible and integrated but uses a lot of horse power. Thanks, Damien
[gentoo-user] Re: MASKED Tilde with no `arch' what does it mean
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:19:03 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > Ok, fine but first I want to find out what the unexplained tilde > means. There are only a handfull of packagew with that notation in the > masked file... where do look to find out its meaning? ~category/package-version denotes all revision ebuilds of that version, e.g. category/package-version-r2. I don't recall whether or where it's documented. -- »Q« Kleeneness is next to Gödelness.
Re: [gentoo-user] MASKED Tilde with no `arch' what does it mean
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Trying to emerge emacs-24, testing with: > > emerge -vp =emacs-vcs-24.0. > > I'm told its masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask > > But when I look there, I see: > # Ulrich Mueller (10 Mar 2010) > # Emacs live ebuilds. Use at your own risk. > ~app-editors/emacs-vcs-23.1. > ~app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0. > ~virtual/emacs-24 > > With no explanation of what the Tilde means. > > Looking thru man emerge in the MASKED section there is only one mention of > tilde and its in relation to notating architecture like ~x86. > > All Ulrich M. says is `use at your own risk' > > Ok, fine but first I want to find out what the unexplained tilde > means. There are only a handfull of packagew with that notation in the > masked file... where do look to find out its meaning? > > PS- and by the way, there is no mention what so ever of `tilde' in > man portage. I think generally in portage tilde means "about". For example if you want to mask ~foo-1.00 it will also cover foo-1.00-r1 etc. rather than mask >=foo-1.0.0 and
Re: [gentoo-user] MASKED Tilde with no `arch' what does it mean
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:19:03 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Ok, fine but first I want to find out what the unexplained tilde > means. There are only a handfull of packagew with that notation in the > masked file... where do look to find out its meaning? Try man 5 ebuild. "~ means match any revision of the base version specified." -- Neil Bothwick It's the year 2000. Where are all the flying cars? I was promised flying cars! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] MASKED Tilde with no `arch' what does it mean
Trying to emerge emacs-24, testing with: emerge -vp =emacs-vcs-24.0. I'm told its masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask But when I look there, I see: # Ulrich Mueller (10 Mar 2010) # Emacs live ebuilds. Use at your own risk. ~app-editors/emacs-vcs-23.1. ~app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0. ~virtual/emacs-24 With no explanation of what the Tilde means. Looking thru man emerge in the MASKED section there is only one mention of tilde and its in relation to notating architecture like ~x86. All Ulrich M. says is `use at your own risk' Ok, fine but first I want to find out what the unexplained tilde means. There are only a handfull of packagew with that notation in the masked file... where do look to find out its meaning? PS- and by the way, there is no mention what so ever of `tilde' in man portage.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compiz effects vs kwin
Dnia 2010-03-14, o godz. 05:34:04 Nikos Chantziaras napisał(a): > On 03/14/2010 04:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 03/14/2010 02:53 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > >>> The effects in kwin (such as window wobble) are vastly less > >>> smooth than that in compiz. I have noticed that compiz is faster > >>> in both kde4 and in gnome (with slight preference to gnome in > >>> speed) and wondering if this is normal, or something to do with > >>> my kwin setup. Running on GM 965 > >> > >> kwin got crappy animation speed in KDE 4.4. It was as smooth as > >> compiz in 4.3. I asked about it in the KDE mailing list, but there > >> was zero interest in this regression. So you either have to live > >> with it, or switch to compiz. > >> > >> > > Thanks for your reply. I am currently using kde 4.3 because I try > > only to update to downstream-stable. Is there another explanation? > > Too old drivers and X maybe. Since you're using downstream-stable, > but the cool DRM/GL/KMS stuff is only in the latest upstream > versions, this might be the problem. > > kwin is slower on intel cards. Kwin with gnome or xfce is much faster... Intel video cards are very slow... From my experience every version of kde above 3.0 is slower than any other window manager (gnome (sawfish, metacity, enlightenment), xfce(xfwm), compiz, lxde,...), on every machine I've had. It needs more memory, faster hard disks, stable filesystem (ext4::delalloc?), better video card... and so on. Even Qt seems to be slower than GTK+ if you launch application that does similar thing. ...or it's just my imagination :) If you want smooth kde get a nvidia or ati card, at least 256MB, 2GB ram, 1.6GHz. You could also try nice/renice -- Kacper Kopczyński
Re: [gentoo-user] Starting up gpg-agent script
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:23:40 +, Mick wrote: > I am trying this script in /etc/env.d/90gpg-agent: > > if test -f $HOME/.gpg-agent-info && kill -0 `cut -d: -f 2 > $HOME/.gpg-agent-info` 2>/dev/null; then > GPG_AGENT_INFO=`cat $HOME/.gpg-agent-info` > export GPG_AGENT_INFO > else > eval `/usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon` > echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO >$HOME/.gpg-agent-info > fi > > > But when I emerged kgpg I got this error: > > !!! 'ParseError: Invalid token 'test' (not '='): > /etc/env.d/90gpg-agent: line 1 in /etc/env.d/90gpg-agent' > > > Can you please help me correct the above script, I'm not sure > what's wrong with it. env-update doesn't evaluate scripts. It expects only variable assignments. You mention kgpg, are you using KDE? If so, it takes care of this automatically, you only need to uncomment the relevant lines in the agent startup and shutdown scripts in /etc/kde. Otherwise, put the script in a file in /etc/profile.d. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 17: Clearly misunderstood signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Starting up gpg-agent script
Hi All, I am trying this script in /etc/env.d/90gpg-agent: if test -f $HOME/.gpg-agent-info && kill -0 `cut -d: -f 2 $HOME/.gpg-agent-info` 2>/dev/null; then GPG_AGENT_INFO=`cat $HOME/.gpg-agent-info` export GPG_AGENT_INFO else eval `/usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon` echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO >$HOME/.gpg-agent-info fi But when I emerged kgpg I got this error: !!! 'ParseError: Invalid token 'test' (not '='): /etc/env.d/90gpg-agent: line 1 in /etc/env.d/90gpg-agent' Can you please help me correct the above script, I'm not sure what's wrong with it. -- Regards, Mick
[gentoo-user] Re: about sys-fs/zfs-fuse and qmerge
William Kenworthy writes: [...] > qmerge is an argument to ebuild: Neil Bothwick writes: [...] > Actually, you don't need all of this as ebuild will perform all > uncompleted previous stages, so you only need > > ebuild unpack > edit file > ebuild qmerge Nice... thanks... I got confused with the qmerge in portage utils.
Re: [gentoo-user] bluez
On 13 Mar 2010, at 21:15, dhk wrote: The Gentoo Linux Bluetooth Guide says to ... According to the last person who posted on this list on this subject, that guide is obsolete & incorrect. See: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg97261.html http://tinyurl.com/yfobgoo Stroller
Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?
Am 14.03.2010 00:42, schrieb pk: > On 2010-03-13 20:15, Jarry wrote: > >> obelix ~ # emerge --sync > Starting rsync with rsync://134.68.220.73/gentoo-portage... > Checking server timestamp ... >> timed out >> rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at >> rsync.c(544) [receiver=3.0.6] > Retrying... > > It's the server, not rsync that's at fault. rsync is merely telling you > that it cannot connect and is retrying to connect. Just choose another > mirror (emerge mirrorselect if you haven't already and then do > 'mirrorselect -i' - of course without the ''). > > Best regards > > Peter K > It can also happen if you are one a slow or lossy connection or have other network problems. I, for example, experienced similar problems when reverse DNS lookups did not work. In this case, you can try to set a longer timeout. For this, add PORTAGE_RSYNC_INITIAL_TIMEOUT=60 or something similar to /etc/make.conf Hope this helps, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] about sys-fs/zfs-fuse and qmerge
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:43:09 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > In the comments... (#3) someone has asked to make the emerge once a > specific file is edited to remove Werror calls. > > Someone replies with these few lines: > ebuild /path/to/ebuild unpack > edit the file > ebuild /path/to/ebuild compile then install then qmerge > > I did `ebuild unpack' > Found the file and made the necessary edits. > > Then ebuild install. > > But now looking a t man qmerge... its not at all clear how to install > this compiled package with qmerge > > qmerge It means ebuild compile, then ebuild install then ebuild qmerge. qmerge is an action for ebuild, although there is an unreleated qmerge commands in portage-utils. Actually, you don't need all of this as ebuild will perform all uncompleted previous stages, so you only need ebuild unpack edit file ebuild qmerge -- Neil Bothwick I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] about sys-fs/zfs-fuse and qmerge
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 00:43 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I need a little coaching on qmerge usage. > qmerge is an argument to ebuild: "ebuild file.ebuild compile install qmerge" documented in "man ebuild" BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!
