[gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo
So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're an actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be fancy, you can put community or something if that's all you want. All responses off list please. Thanks. -- Chris White Gentoo Developer A+ | MCSE Mobile: 999-999- Fax: 999-999- Skype: 999-999- Sattelite Phone: 999-999- Home Phone: 999-999- pgpxcu4QQhj4D.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] why does portage depend on the kernel?
On Friday 28 April 2006 07:40 am, Chris Bare wrote: Any idea why it wants to install the new kernel too? oberon # emerge -puD portage Translation: update and deep These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.13-r2 [1.3.13-r1] [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r3 [2.3.5-r3] [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 Deep means that it does reverse dependency mojo and updates the depends as well (in fact, you should actually be doing it that way). [ebuild U ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.11-r1 [0.1.10] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.54-r1 [2.0.54] to get just this: `emerge -u portage` is all you need. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Chris White Gentoo Developer aka: ChrisWhite cpw ChrisWhite|Work WhiteChocolate VanillaWhite Whitey WhiteLight WhiteCheese WhiteSugar WhiteButter WhiteWall WhiteLemon WhiteApple WhiteBlanket WhiteEnergy WhiteWhite -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Oracle DB question
On Friday 21 April 2006 12:29 am, pat wrote: Hi, I want to ask if there's possible to install Oracle DB (9 and higher) on Gentoo and if there's a tutorial/howto how to do it. Give me a free license for oracle and you'll get a really nice howto ;D -- Chris White Gentoo Developer aka: ChrisWhite cpw ChrisWhite|Work WhiteChocolate VanillaWhite Whitey WhiteLight WhiteCheese WhiteSugar WhiteButter WhiteWall WhiteLemon WhiteApple WhiteBlanket WhiteEnergy WhiteWhite pgp1LLfOV2Qx9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Another query.. this time about installprofile.xml
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 12:30 pm, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) wrote: Hi everyone :) In installprofile.xml, there's an option to list packages you want installed in a space-delimited format. Just wondering--can I specify *versions* there? Like: app-admin/logrotate-x.xx app-admin/sudo-y.yy app-admin/syslog-ng-z.zz app-admin/sysstat-q.qq and so forth (where x.xx/y.yy/z.zz/q.qq are actual version numbers)? Yes but that's not clean If not, what is the best way of going about to make sure that, say, 10 machines are all set up with the same version of various packages that are on other machines? (Development environment, so versioning is, as we say, imperative. :) ) Use the same portage tree, have only the package version(s) you want avaliable. The installer has the option to use nfs mounts, webrsync, standard rsync, or a URI to a snapshot (which can be both local or remote). Thank you all in advance! Best, --Glenn -- Glenn E. Sieb, MTS [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 732 949 5453 Chris White pgpiyhuNY20ZL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) - HP Officejet Pro K550
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 02:40 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Trying to get this printer setup using CUPS, but don't see the exact model/driver available in the CUPS web admin printer wizard interface. Should be the hplip driver. See the printing howto on how to set that up. Is anyone using this printer and know the correct model/driver to use? Thanks. Chris White pgp6wrGzY3bTm.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] mwcollect deprecation notice
Hi all, Just a quick announcement that as per the announcement recently: http://www.mwcollect.org/ mwcollect has merged code with nepenthes ( http://nepenthes.mwcollect.org/ ). That said, the upgrade path will be as follows: 1) Version 3.0.4 will be added to the tree, most likely tommorow evening PST 2) I'll file a bug with ppc to ensure the proper keywording transitions over. 3) When the nepenthes version comes out with the code merged, mwcollect will be removed from the tree, and the appropriate package move will be added so users are automatically converted over to nepenthes. Thanks all Chris White pgp49HAnqrlYu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine
On Thursday 26 January 2006 06:03, Michael A. Smith wrote: Correction. emerge --ask `cat /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst` Correction, Correction: `emerge --ask $( /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst)` or heck: `emerge --ask /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst` might even work ;-D Chris White pgpB1vYuDNXoO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: dev-lang/perl-5.8.7-r3 failed
On Monday 16 January 2006 04:29, El Nino wrote: Dear my user list friends, please help me to emerge system. i just run #emerge system . but it gave me a perl error. We have a bugzilla specifically for this purpose. Please refer to https://bugs.gentoo.org/ Chris White pgpEq6wKhKWfQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkpod wants a library.
On Sunday 15 January 2006 12:09, Ian wrote: Hey everyone, To get videos onto my iPod, I was trying gtkpod and it said that it needed me to compile its source code with libmpg4v2. How can I go about doing this? aac? ( || ( media-libs/faad2 media-video/mpeg4ip ) ) here's what you want. You can go ahead and do that by: `echo app-pda/gtkpod aac /etc/portage/package.use ; emerge gtkpod` as root. Chris White pgpf8QIz7Ah52.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia
On Sunday 01 January 2006 23:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How slow is too slow for Gentoo? I'm using Gentoo on a 233MHz laptop. It's not fast, but it's perfectly adequate. Install did take over a week, I'll admit. I'm curious because I seem to do a lot of squeezing the most out of underpowered computers, and Gentoo has been my friend in these projects. I would like to know what conditions are not well suited to Gentoo. Michael TBH that's a question of, it can be done in any situation, it's simply how willing you are to adjust to those situations. One of the main factor people consider is time. They want the stuff now and they don't want to wait around for things to compile. However, with that inherent approach comes the lack of flexibility in choosing what you don't need, and what you do. Think of postgres/mysql/sqlite for example. All of these provide database functionality, but chances are you're only going to pick one. If you don't use postgresql support, then why add it into various applications, causing both more space and more memory to load. While that example alone might not seem like a lot, consider the different functionalities portage offers the ability to customize through USE flags. After awhile people start to realize that stuff is loaded faster, not because of suped up CFLAGS, but because the parts they stripped out creates faster load time. Now, binary support for portage exists, but it's not as advertised as the true install method. That's because most senior developers consider Gentoo to have always been a source based distro. Anything to make it binary would consider it to be more like debian or some such. Then ANOTHER argument comes into play by people that have mass server deployments. People that have a cluster of 100 systems with the same specs don't want to sit around and compile for each one. Instead they could have a build server that builds the binary packages for the systems, then the systems do the install. That's basically what it comes down to. Time is the main factor that draws people away. However I personally consider this a side effect, and have no problem letting emerge -u world do its thing overnight. Chris White pgpPQjBaCxDYF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Key Binding
On Monday 02 January 2006 12:23, safaci wrote: This isn't a big deal..but it is a real nuissance. In firefox I can use Ctrl+Tab to cycle through all the tabes I have open in a particular window... Control Panel: - Regional Accessibility - [Keyboard Shortcuts] [ Shortcut Schemes ] [Global Shortcuts] System Navigation Walk Through Desktop List --- here Samir Chris White pgptYt4F0pvDO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia
On Saturday 31 December 2005 22:35, C. Beamer wrote: Fedora: 3.45 *Gentoo: 3.75* Mandriva: 3.70 Suse: 3.40 Ubuntu: 3.90 Word of advice, things like this are generally flawed. The best distro for your needs is the one that best suits what you expect your system to do. Chris White pgpunEHHKYOzF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kitchensync, Ksync, Multisynk
On Friday 23 December 2005 00:46, Benjamin Fritzsche wrote: Hi There! Basically, OpenSync will replace all of the above, so that shouldn't be of much worry :P. What is needed is Kitchensync and syncekonnector (I was the one who put that in the tree, then fixed its broken-ness). syncekonnector basically will sit between libsynce and kde addressbook, or whatever, and sync the data. That's about all I can explain it as. Anything else requires me to spew bountiful ammounts of technical blah foo here that most people will go say wha at. Chris White pgpdWr928Wp14.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kitchensync, Ksync, Multisynk
On Friday 23 December 2005 10:58, Robin wrote: The question is that when is OpenSync going to be stable... And part of portage ? To answer that, the KitchenSync part of KDE will utilize OpenSync as a means of communicating with different devices. However, it's currently being developed in KDE4, which doesn't have a specific roadmap. So far from what I can tell, syncekonnector provides the current system for getting connected from KitchenSync/Kontact to a PocketPC device. I've tested this with my IPAQ on a stable chroot, and it works nicely in syncing contacts. However, calendars seem to be an issue as far as syncronization goes. One can technically use MultiSync with libsynce to syncronize a PDA as well, but MultiSync is not KDE specific, and requires some gnome libararies. For Palm users, KPilot is what I use. It does a spectacular job of syncing my Palm contacts, and I use it all the time when doing my business endeavours (read that as, who to pester ;). So that's basically what it comes down to. Chris White pgp8JKCCcqOCl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] PayPal® UPDATE TEAM
On Sunday 18 December 2005 07:39, Michael Sullivan wrote: Wow! A cross-posted spam-thing! I found this one somewhat difficult to take seriously before, but when it's cross-posted I find it downright hilarious! While this is amusing shouldn't robin.gentoo.org have some kind of spam filter that can filter out mail with the string Paypal in the Subject line? No, because the same system that filters list email filters dev email. While I don't use paypal, other devs might to handle shipping of hardware or whatever. That said, they probably don't want PayPal stripped from the subject line. As with most large scale email systems, there tends to be a you're on your own, you handle it aspect to filtering. This prevents false positives from hitting the filter and someone missing an important email. Chris White pgprcWIFlLdUo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mone on the KEYWORD USE front
On Friday 16 December 2005 09:54, Richard Fish wrote:
echo x11-libs/qt /etc/portage/package.keywords ;
cd /usr/portage/kde-base ; for packages in * ; do echo
kde-base/${packages}
/etc/portage/package.keywords; done
Chris White
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Re: [gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups
On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:18, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, I notice emerge ogg-vorbis insists on taking cups along with it. emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ogg-vorbis. eh? emerge info reveals cups flag _is_ being used. But why use it then? What does printing have to do with playing ogg files. Why not go through the flags and install everything they point to? That would make as much sense as installing printer drivers when audio tools were called for. I've run emerge lots of times on the present OS and cups was never requested until now. Oh, and another thing: I don't have cups in my make.conf. Doesn't make.conf override the defaults? No, it simply means that it won't be provided by make.conf. There's other methods of obtaining USE flags, such as autouse, etc. Try putting -cups in your make.conf file and then see what happens. -mw -mw __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com pgpTFSbYFDhQQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5
On Thursday 15 December 2005 12:45, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I have a shiny new usb media drive (with internal hd, lcd, AV out) that plays photos, music and video. I have a few choices for video[1]. I want one I have lots of different types of video files - from short funny ads, to 1/2 hr tv episodes, to full movies, in all sorts of formats - wmv, avi, mpeg, etc. I want to find a program (hopefully only 1!) that will help convert them to a format playable by the device. I'm happy if thats a command line only program. I will probably copy them 1 by 1 as I want to watch them. mencoder / transcode Space it not too much of an issue (I'll eventually have about 60Gb on the device) - I'd rather not lessen the quality any more than it is already. So, here are my questions: 1. whats the best format to use out of the ones listed, given a) Good quality (not much less than, or the same as original) b) Size reasonable - large files ok, but compression is always a bonus) DivX 2. what program will convert 'anything' to said format. See above Many thanks for your suggestions. DivX-5.x Resolution : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bit Rate : 4Mbps Audio : MPEG-1 Layer III, AAC, ADPCM Format :.AVI , Remark:DivX-3.x/4.x unsupported Pick this -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Even historians fail to learn from history -- they repeat the same mistakes. -- John Gill, Patterns of Force, stardate 2534.7 Chris White pgpX1SOXbDBtz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kview missing 50% of its menus - what to install?
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 03:19, Richard Fish wrote: Finally, looking through the KDE CVS repository, I see that the removed files area for kview contains files filter.cpp, filter.h, filtlist.cpp, and filtlist.h, along with some other filter related things. It looks like these existed for KDE 2.x, but were removed in KDE 3. It seems that this functionality was removed quite some time ago. I don't know why you still have obsolete documentation (maybe it was just recently fixed?). Neither do I, I'm asking upstream now. My only guess is that it was removed from KView because Krita is what KDE is promoting as the better image editor. Note that Krita does have Guassian Blur, etc. etc. in it. We install the same as upstream does, so if the docs say that, it's upstream. -Richard Chris White -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kview missing 50% of its menus - what to install?
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 11:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 14 December 2005 03:19, Richard Fish wrote: Finally, looking through the KDE CVS repository, I see that the removed files area for kview contains files filter.cpp, filter.h, filtlist.cpp, and filtlist.h, along with some other filter related things. It looks like these existed for KDE 2.x, but were removed in KDE 3. It seems that this functionality was removed quite some time ago. I don't know why you still have obsolete documentation (maybe it was just recently fixed?). Thanks for deep digging on that and also a good lesson for me as to how its done. Neither do I, I'm asking upstream now. My only guess is that it was removed from KView because Krita is what KDE is promoting as the better image editor. Note that Krita does have Guassian Blur, etc. etc. in it. We install the same as upstream does, so if the docs say that, it's upstream. Thanks to you too Chris. Should I have `Krita' installed with kde-base/kdebase-3.4.1 (was stable until just very recent. I noticed after sync that 3.4.3 is now stable) Or is Krita only in 3.5. Krita is part of koffice, as well as part of a seperate ebuild. I have it currently in 3.4.3. PS, all will be somewhat mute after this evenings update world which will install 3.5. Taking a chance here on cadging some related info: As posted in another thread earlier today. emerge -v -Dup world shows a mixture of 3.4.3 and 3.5 being required (given my package.keywords) Note below that both 3.4.3 and 3.5 versions will be installed for several packages. How can I prevent that? Or should I even worry about it. It seems kind of space hogish. KDE is slotted. That means that different minor versions will be installed side by side. This is to prevent incompatible KDE programs from trying to use older KDE libraries. Chris White pgpiJacfkQ4Jx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kview missing 50% of its menus - what to install?
On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [lots of ranting] This email would prove more usefull to us if it was less rant and more specifics. How you want us to figure out what version of kde you're using, what guide you're talking about, or what browser functionality you're referring to is beyond me. Give us more details and until you do this remains nothing BUT a rant. As for as your blocker complaint, our official documentation here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml clearly explains what's going on. Chris White pgpvbqq0p19fs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] coldplug replaces /etc/modules.autoload.d ?
On Tuesday 13 December 2005 13:04, Grant wrote: I'm still trying to figure out what exactly coldplug does. Is it a replacement for /etc/modules.autoload.d ? Yes and no. Basically what coldplug does is that it works with other services in order to automatically load modules given certain events. To come up with a better explanation. If my visor/ipaq modules are not loaded for my PDA, and I plug my palm or ipaq into my USB port, the modules will automatically be loaded for the devices. - Grant Chris White pgpB0sQrWPZ4l.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] cms
On Sunday 11 December 2005 22:39, Qv6 wrote: Folks: I am looking for a really good Content Management System that is feature-rich and easy to install. Webgui seems good, but the install is tedious. Yah, I wrote a review on that on my site: http://www.securesystem.info/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=6 I didn't care for it all that much :P A good, enterprise-class cms is what I'm looking for. A lot of people will buzzword Mambo at you most likely. It's been claiming to be the best of the best. I like tikiwiki myself, and I know we have a devwiki that uses it (as does my site). It just felt a tad more customizable at easier to get at right away than Mambo. YMMV however. Any suggestioons? TIA Chris White -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good very small http server?
On Monday 12 December 2005 16:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions welcome. If you want to tell me why you like it or don't like it even better. Should depend on as few other packages as possible. Should occupy as little memory as possible (both RAM and disk space). I'm running out of Compact Flash, if that makes any difference. There's lighthttp or some such.. haven't tried it myself though. Thanks, Michael Chris White pgphLrfkc6FcG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?
On Saturday 10 December 2005 10:47, Harry Putnam wrote: First off, this is an install from scratch. While your comment sounds smart, this really only puts off doing it later. ^^ huh? And the mindnumbing confusion of what parts of kde do what. I'm not compiling kde-meta either, but I've got bit more than once with missing stuff I later needed. When did I say meta... I just don't find it all that embracing flopping around in the many many ways one can screw up with USE var, KEYWORDS and the dozens of combinations of there use.. I'm not sure quite how you're messing with your USE flags... Especially when I want and need to be doing something else. sleep? I appreciate that gentoo is a source distro and even some of the advantages of that, but I agree with the few other posters here that say kde is a first rate candidate for a binary distribution. Good luck if you don't want arts or gstreamer too.. I heard that's included, which pulls in gtk libs and goodies, and then at the end of the day your binary distro has pulled in more -devel/other depend packages because it can't realistically decide what the user needs on their system. I've heard the Oh it takes time argument before, but personally I'd rather take the time and have the features I want, then find out Oh this deb/rpm/whatever doesn't have feature [a] and spend loads more time trying to find a package that days, or compile my own (which brings us back to point A...). Chris White pgpNgv7ke3DA3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?
On Saturday 10 December 2005 06:55, Harry Putnam wrote: I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB ram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean aside from using a lighter, faster compiling, X setup. sure, why are you emerge-ing the full kde? 1) `emerge kdebase` 2) ??? 3) Profit! I'm on a 1.6ghz, and being a dev I compile more packages than most users ever will, have patience my son :P. Chris White pgpjIqenCye97.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Unmasking KDE-3.5
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 17:35, Dale wrote:
Hi guys and gals,
I want to at least start downloading the new KDE. I messed with the
package.* settings but it still don't let me do it. Would someone email
me their package.* files or post them here if they are not to big? I
get migraines trying to figure out what to put in those package.* files
to make something work. Everytime i figure it out, they change
something. Reminds me of that qpkg or whatever it was they took away.
I plan to use the kde-meta thing, like I have now. I tried a command
earlier that was supposed to generate it but it created a blank file for
me. :/
KDE 3.5 is already out of package.mask from looking at 5 days ago's emerge
--sync. Shouldn't need to. If it's keywords masked, you can always do like
so:
cd /usr/portage/kde-base ; for files in *; do echo $(basename
$(pwd))/${files} /etc/portage/package.keywords; done
and that will setup for kde 3.5 as ~arch.
Thanks guys and gals.
Dale
Yes, I can now get emails. My ISP sort of filled up their hard drive. LOL
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is a wiki what I'm after?
On Saturday 12 November 2005 18:17, Jimmy Rosen wrote: However, I haven't found a good OCR program yet. That is the major hurdle. Searchability is the really important thing. The space saving and portability is nice enough though, for the moment. I heard that Adobe has a windoze only software that can do this reasonably well, but I haven't researched it further. Not sure about Linux OCR. I know that you can get ScanSoft or Paper Port for windows. Paper Port is what I hear most people recommend. Jimmy Chris White pgpxQaSERVr1T.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Bug Wrangling Event?
Hi all, Now that my job situation has settled down, I have some free time floating around, and a bit of finances to cover it. That said, I'd like to see if there would be interest in a bug wrangling event of some sort taking place in the SF area. If I get enough interest, I'll go ahead and call places and get the event setup. Here's what my plan was: 1) Bug Wrangling 2) Helping people with writing ebuilds 3) Installation 4) General questions about Gentoo I'd like to have other developers besides myself there, and I don't know if it will be a one or two day event, but that I won't know unless I get interest ;). Let me know what you all think and I'll go from there. PLEASE REPLY OFF LIST Thanks :) Chris White pgpjw4NrrJeUC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is a wiki what I'm after?
On Saturday 12 November 2005 16:33, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, The wife has finally put her foot down and said I have to clean up the mess that inhabits my office which occupies our second bedroom. I probably would tell you the same thing sadly ;P A wiki is one of the first things to come to mind. I'm contemplating setting a wiki up on my trusty little firewall/email/squid/dns server, scanning the clipping, creating an entry in the wiki, placing, say, the first para of the clipping in the wiki page, maybe via OCR software, and then attaching the scanned image to the page. This way I can search the wiki looking for stuff, the first paragraph of the article will probably tell me if its the page I'm after and if so, look at the scanned image for the full article. Yes, I'd recommend tikiwiki for that, as I know they have a file gallery, which pretty much does what you've suggested. I also noticed that tikiwiki is generally really easy to setup. Does this sound like a suitable use for a wiki or am I wasting my time and there are more application specific packages out there that would suit my needs better? Anyone done anything like this before? Any thoughts greatly appreciated, Andrew My 2 Cents Chris White pgpzqLXIS5b2t.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC upgrade / downgrade infinite loop
On Monday 19 September 2005 07:57, Yann Garnier wrote: Greetings everyone, Can anybody tell me why portage constantly upgrade and then downgrade GCC (versions 3.3.5 3.3.6) each time I emerge -pvuD world ??? A little trick I do when this kind of stuff happens. In portage, there's a file called /etc/portage/package.mask. You can use it to mask packages that aren't in /usr/portage/profile/package.mask. It is however, useful in finding out why packages are downgrading. So, here's what you can do: echo =sys-devel/gcc-3.3.5 /etc/portage/package.mask This will mask gcc 3.3.5. Now, when the package that wants gcc 3.3.5 is about to be emerged, portage will notice that gcc 3.3.5 is masked and complain. This complaining will do the nice favor of showing you what package needs it, and find out why it does. After this you'll want to remove the package.mask entry to avoid any sort of chaos. Hope this helps. In advance thank you Yann Garnier Chris White pgp8t9uDCWrXF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard/CPU upgrade
On Saturday 17 September 2005 16:32, Dan Johansson wrote: Hi, A few days ago I had to replace my Motherboard and CPU. Now I want to make use of the new CPUs features. Old CPU: Intel Pentium 4 New CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott) ok, remember though, new Motherboard is usually = new IDE controller, new PCI stuff, etc. Don't forget your kernel too! flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm pni monitor ds_cpl est cid cx16 xtpr bogomips: 6340.60 cpu flags here So I'm planning to do something along these lines: 1)Change CFLAGS in make.conf Old: CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe New: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=prescott -mmmx -msse -msse2 --pipe -fomit-frame-pointer Bad, -march=prescott by itself implies this when passed to gcc: options passed: -v -march=prescott -auxbase options enabled: -feliminate-unused-debug-types -fpeephole -ffunction-cse -fkeep-static-consts -fpcc-struct-return -fgcse-lm -fgcse-sm -fgcse-las -fsched-interblock -fsched-spec -fsched-stalled-insns -fsched-stalled-insns-dep -fbranch-count-reg -fcommon -fargument-alias -fzero-initialized-in-bss -fident -fmath-errno -ftrapping-math -m80387 -mhard-float -mno-soft-float -mieee-fp -mfp-ret-in-387 -maccumulate-outgoing-args -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mno-red-zone -mtls-direct-seg-refs -mtune=prescott -march=prescott main New: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer is enough. 2)emerge --emptytree system 3)emerge --emptytree world system is part of world. When you do `emerge system` at the beginning, all system packages are added to world. I'd say: `emerge -ev world` to see what will go down and then `emerge -e world` to actually emerge the stuff. Would that be the right CFLAGS for this CPU? And would it be the right procedure to get my system up to date with my new CPU? Pretty much. Chris White pgpNEyIgxBLpH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Where does portage keep resume infrmation
On Saturday 17 September 2005 18:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: Since emerge --resume works after a reboot, portage must keep the list of remaining emerges on disk somewhere, but where? /var/cache/edb/mtimedb this file is a serialized python object. This basically means that a python object was dumped into a text file for later use. However, it's python specific serialization so you're going to need python to unpack the data (and don't even ask me how :P) Chris White pgpiHIaF6dsGX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up group for ppp and dial up
On Sunday 18 September 2005 09:38, Mick wrote: Hi All, I eventually decided to set up my winmodem (hcfpci) to be able to send/receive faxes and as a backup for when adsl goes down. I noticed that a group called dialout was created: === dialout:x:20:root === yah, this looks like it sets permissions for the actual dialup scripts. That said you'll need to be a member of the dialout group. The Dial up Gentoo Wiki says that for security purposes one should create a new ppp group and add those users who will be allowed to dial up. It also suggests to alter the original access rights of /usr/sbin/pppd: === -r-s--x--x 1 root root 238244 Sep 17 08:29 /usr/sbin/pppd === to 4550: === -r-sr-x--- 1 root ppp 238244 Sep 17 08:29 /usr/sbin/pppd === Yup, helps for security. Any idea what the dialout group is there for? See above. Also, when I want to dial up which is the 'right' sequence to bring up: 1) /etc/init.d/hcfpci start 2) /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start If hcfpci needs net.ppp0, it will start it for you, visa-versa too. Chris White pgpPmi65m20Io.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] MySQL doc [updated]
I've updated the MySQL doc here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html It contains the fixes that have been suggested to me, as well as a note on the SELECT field FROM table form of the SELECT statement. Thanks for the input recieved! Chris White pgpG6PeaPIM26.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] New MySQL doc (update 3)
Added a bazillion spell fixes, also a list of places to find GUI frontends for MySQL: Thanks goes to my mom, my dad, my family for all their support I'd also like to thank the academy for their hard effort Philip Webb for tolerating my odd grammar/spelling/logic Bruce Wolk for the same And most importantly, I'd like to thank the fine folks at Speedy's dinner! http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html Chris White pgpwz2Dz4NjgQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
