Re: [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker

2013-06-17 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote:
 Am 16.06.2013 23:14, schrieb Ciprian Dorin Craciun:
 Hello all!

 While struggling with managing various old backups --- just
 imagine 10 or so copies of almost the same content, some with `rsync`,
 some with `rdiff-backup`, yet some others on plain ISO's, all over a
 range of a few years --- I stumbled upon the following missing piece
 in the Linux tools ecosystem:  a file-system crawler that records
 **only** meta-data, like all the info available through `stat`, plus
 an assortment of hashes of the files (at least MD5 and SHA-1,2
 family), and optionally ACL's and extended attributes.  Thus I was
 wondering if someone knows a tool that fits this description.


 [...]

 Thus, are there any other alternatives?  (Just to be clear, I
 don't need a backup solution, just something to record file-system
 meta-data.  Maybe a meta-backup solution... :) )

 Ciprian.


 Do you mean something like `cp --attributes-only`?


Nop, wouldn't do the job, because `cp --attributes-only` requires
a target file system, however I need something which records those
attributes in a file that I can use afterwards to restore them (or
compare them with further versions, etc.).

Ciprian.



Re: [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker

2013-06-17 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Peter Humphrey
pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
 On Monday 17 Jun 2013 07:00:35 Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote:
 On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net
 wrote:
  Do you mean something like `cp --attributes-only`?

 Nop, wouldn't do the job, because `cp --attributes-only` requires
 a target file system, ...


 You could always cp to /dev/null.


Sorry I don't follow...  What does imply to cp to /dev/null, and
what would be the outcome of that?



Re: [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker

2013-06-17 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Peter Humphrey
pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
 On Monday 17 Jun 2013 08:25:08 Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote:
 On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Peter Humphrey

 pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
  On Monday 17 Jun 2013 07:00:35 Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote:
  On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Florian Philipp
  li...@binarywings.net
 
  wrote:
   Do you mean something like `cp --attributes-only`?
  
  Nop, wouldn't do the job, because `cp --attributes-only` requires
 
  a target file system, ...
 
  You could always cp to /dev/null.

 Sorry I don't follow...  What does imply to cp to /dev/null, and
 what would be the outcome of that?

 /dev/null would be the target file system you referred to. It's a bottomless
 empty pit, so no physically real copy would be made.


I would be curious to find out how one can use `/dev/null` as a
replacement for an **entire** file-system (i.e. not just a replacement
for a stream sink)?  And how would the `cp` command be used to obtain
such an outcome?



[gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker

2013-06-16 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
Hello all!

While struggling with managing various old backups --- just
imagine 10 or so copies of almost the same content, some with `rsync`,
some with `rdiff-backup`, yet some others on plain ISO's, all over a
range of a few years --- I stumbled upon the following missing piece
in the Linux tools ecosystem:  a file-system crawler that records
**only** meta-data, like all the info available through `stat`, plus
an assortment of hashes of the files (at least MD5 and SHA-1,2
family), and optionally ACL's and extended attributes.  Thus I was
wondering if someone knows a tool that fits this description.


I must say I've tried to do my homework, and below are a few tools
that come close, but not quite...

(A) `rdup` is probably the closest to what I'm searching.  However
there are a few issues:
* it's output format is not very parsable, especially in cases
like symlinks, and a few other special cases;
* it doesn't escape the file names --- and from some reason I have
files containing escape sequences in them...
* it records only SHA-1;
* it doesn't handle ACL's or extended attributes;

(B) `mtree` from FreeBSD.  I found two ports of it for Linux,
however my main concern is how parsable is the output...

(C) `md5deep` (or `sha*deep`), which only records the checksum not
other meta-data.


Thus, are there any other alternatives?  (Just to be clear, I
don't need a backup solution, just something to record file-system
meta-data.  Maybe a meta-backup solution... :) )

Ciprian.



Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-24 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Hilco Wijbenga
hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 [...] So when I needed to install a
 new machine, I looked around and settled on JFS. This box has been
 running for about half a year now (so that includes several power
 failures) without any problems. I certainly am very pleased with JFS
 so perhaps you might want to consider it.


I've also used (and still use) JFS on a lot of partitions (LVM
actually), from my laptops (both rotating and SSD), desktop, VM's,
etc. I've moved to it a few years ago after getting tired of all the
Ext3 fsck's.

Although JFS is quite efficient, and didn't create too much
trouble --- never lost an entire file-system, never corrupted data,
etc. --- it does have a few quirks:

* empty files after panics --- I think in this regard it's not
JFS's fault, but actually badly written software, because things go
like this: say you edit a file, save it, and immediately (a few
seconds) get either a panic or power failure, the result is an empty
file; the technical details are like this: some software first
truncate the file, write to it, and close it, but don't sync the data,
thus you end up with an empty file; as said I think JFS is correct
here, because you don't get a mix of old and new data, etc.; however
I've encountered this behavior in quite a few instances...

* no TRIM support --- obviously really useful on SSD and
virtualized disks; (although I remember there was some work done in
this respect;)
* not enough tooling --- you get only the `jfs-utils`, and that's
kind of it...
* small community --- if you have a question, you can use the
mailing list, it's quite responsive, but there aren't many
data-points so that you can easily find someone in a similar
situation, thus with a solution...

All in all, I've started gradually migrating my partitions on Ext4.


I stay away for Btrfs for now. And to be frank I don't quite like
Btrfs's, and ZFS's for that matter, approach of throwing together all
the layers, from the file-system, to the RAID, to the block
management, etc. I find the layered approach more appealing --- as in
if something goes wrong you can poke around --- of having completely
separated block device management (LVM), RAID (MD), and file-system.


A... and for backup file-systems, I use Ext2. Why? My take on this is:
* I don't need write or read performance; I don't mind long
fsck's; (thus any file-system could fit in here, however see below;)
* I do really need reliability and, most importantly, recovery in
case s**t...

Therefore Ext2 is a perfect match:
* it is so old, that I guess by now most bugs have been found and squashed;
* it is so old, that virtually any Linux (or Windows, FreeBSD, or
most other knows OS's) are able to at least read it;
* it is so old, that by now I bet there are countless recovery tools;
* it is so simple (compared with others), that someone could just
re-implement a reader for it, or recovery tools;

Any feedback about the Ext2 for backups? (Hope I'm not wrong on this one...)

Ciprian.



Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} open-source: chat, tasks, resources, code

2012-12-18 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
 When I need a new web-based software tool, I consider writing it myself and
 if that isn't feasible I try to use something open-source and self-hosted.
 I need something for chat, task management, resource management, and code
 management, all for groups.  I'm considering Campfire, Trello, Float, and
 GitHub respectively, but I thought I'd check with you guys to see if any of
 this is available in an open-source and self-hosted form, especially in
 portage.

 - Grant


You should take a look at Fosil:
  http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

I haven't used it myself, but if you don't have strict preferences
for the versioning system you could use that, as it's very self
contained and easy to use.

Ciprian.



Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files) ?

2011-11-12 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:24, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
 What is the *LIGHTEST* web server package you know for gentoo?

 I just want to serve the distfiles, so no CGI / PHP /
 whathaveyouscripting support is needed.

 Preferably, with logging so I can see which packages I missed, but not
 necessary.

 Rgds,


We use for such purpose http://linux.bytesex.org/misc/webfs.html .
It features both (reasonable) performance (threaded), security
(chroot, SSL) and simplicity (can be statically linked, can be
controlled solely from arguments).

For example (or add -d for debugging):

webfsd -F -p 80 -r .


Ciprian.



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs RAID at boot time

2010-04-19 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:42, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 18. 4. 2010 8:57, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:

     * there is an option for the kernel that must be enabled at
 compile time that enables automatic RAID detection and assembly by the
 kernel before mounting /, but it works only for MD metadata 0.96 (see
 [1]);
     * the default metadata for `mdadm` is 1.2 (see `man mdadm`, and
 search for `--metadata`), so when creating the RAID you must
 explicitly select the metadata you want;

 [1]
 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/md.txt;h=188f4768f1d58c013d962f993ae36483195fd288;hb=HEAD


 Which version of mdadm are you using? I have 3.0, and defalut metadata
 is 0.90:

  -e ,  --metadata=
        Declare the style of RAID metadata (superblock) to be used.  The
        default is 0.90 for --create, and to guess for other operations.
        The  default can be overridden by setting the metadata value for
        the CREATE keyword in mdadm.conf.

 BTW [1] says about kernel 2.6.9, things might have changed since then...

 Jarry


On my laptop on which I've made the experiments I have ArchLinux
(which always has the bleeding edge packages), I have 3.1.2. So maybe
between 3.0 and 3.1 there was this switch from 0.90 to 1.2 default
metadata.

About the autodetection stuff I'm absolutely positive that it only
handles 0.90 format as I've tried it and didn't work with the 1.x
version of superblock format.

Ciprian.



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs RAID at boot time

2010-04-19 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:16, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
 On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:57:38 +0300, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:

     Also a question for about /boot on RAID1... I didn't manage to
 make it work... Could you Neil please tell me exactly how you did
 this? I'm most interested in how you've convinced Grub to work...

 You just don't tell GRUB that it's working with one half of a RAID1
 array. Unlike all other RAID level, with 1 you can also access the
 individual disks.

 --
 Neil Bothwick


Well I've tried exactly that: I've aggregated two partitions in
RAID1, made the file system, then tried to install Grub on them (as in
run grub-setup or grub-install or grub and then from the shell the
setup)... And I didn't succeeded. I've tried the following:
* try to install Grub on the MD as it would have been a partition
-- failed (as expected as the MD device is not on a hard-drive);
* stopped the MD, and then tried to install grub on each partition
individually -- it worked to install, but from a reason I don't
remember right now it failed to boot;

So what intrigues me is how you've initialized the MBR, how you've
runned grub-setup?

(In the end I am more pleased with two boot partitions, as if I
miss-configure one, I'll have the other one to boot from. I've also
cross-referenced the grub menu to chain-load the other disk.)

Thanks,
Ciprian.



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initramfs RAID at boot time

2010-04-18 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
 On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:36:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:

 Empirically any way there doesn't seem to be a problem. I built the
 new kernel and it booted normally so I think I'm misinterpreting what
 was written in the Wiki or the Wiki is wrong.

 As long as /boot is not on RAID, or is on RAID1, you don't need an
 initrd. I've been booting this system for years with / on RAID1 and
 everything else on RAID5.


From my research on the topic (I also wanted to have both /boot
and / on RAID1) there are the following traps:
* there is an option for the kernel that must be enabled at
compile time that enables automatic RAID detection and assembly by the
kernel before mounting /, but it works only for MD metadata 0.96 (see
[1]);
* the default metadata for `mdadm` is 1.2 (see `man mdadm`, and
search for `--metadata`), so when creating the RAID you must
explicitly select the metadata you want;
* indeed the preferred may to do it is using an initramfs; (I've
posted below some shell snippets that create do exactly this: assemble
my RAID); (the code snippets are between {{{...}}}, it's from a
MoinMoin wiki page;)

Also a question for about /boot on RAID1... I didn't manage to
make it work... Could you Neil please tell me exactly how you did
this? I'm most interested in how you've convinced Grub to work...

Best,
Ciprian.

[1] 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/md.txt;h=188f4768f1d58c013d962f993ae36483195fd288;hb=HEAD


 Init-ramfs preparation 

{{{
mkdir -p /usr/src/initramfs

cd /usr/src/initramfs

mkdir /usr/src/initramfs/bin
mkdir /usr/src/initramfs/dev
mkdir /usr/src/initramfs/proc
mkdir /usr/src/initramfs/rootfs
mkdir /usr/src/initramfs/sys

cp -a /bin/busybox /usr/src/initramfs/bin/busybox
cp -a /sbin/mdadm /usr/src/initramfs/bin/mdadm
cp -a /sbin/jfs_fsck /usr/src/initramfs/bin/jfs_fsck

cp -a /dev/console /usr/src/initramfs/dev/console
cp -a /dev/null /usr/src/initramfs/dev/null

cp -a /dev/sda2 /usr/src/initramfs/dev/sda2
cp -a /dev/sdc2 /usr/src/initramfs/dev/sdc2
cp -a /dev/md127 /usr/src/initramfs/dev/md127
}}}

{{{
cat /usr/src/initramfs/init 'EOS'
#!/bin/busybox ash

exec /dev/null /dev/null 2/dev/console
exec 12

/bin/busybox mount -n -t proc none /proc || exit 1
/bin/busybox mount -n -t sysfs none /sys || exit 1

/bin/mdadm -A /dev/md127 -R -a md /dev/sda2 /dev/sdc2 || exit 1

/bin/jfs_fsck -p /dev/md127 || true

/bin/busybox mount -n -t jfs /dev/md127 /rootfs -o
ro,exec,suid,dev,relatime,errors=remount-ro || exit 1

/bin/busybox umount -n /sys || exit 1
/bin/busybox umount -n /proc || exit 1

# /bin/busybox ash /dev/console /dev/console 2/dev/console || exit 1

exec /bin/busybox switch_root /rootfs /sbin/init || exit 1

exit 1

EOS

chmod +x /usr/src/initramfs/init
}}}

{{{
( cd /usr/src/initramfs ; find . | cpio --quiet -o -H newc | gzip -9 
/boot/initramfs )
}}}



Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM,  meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
 [ ... snip ... ]

 So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers, howtos, programm
 and source code docs...etc) on my disk.
 This one part.


I've seen that nobody mentioned JFS yet... :)

In some benchmarks the best FS for most tasks is either XFS and
JFS, but it seems that JFS has less CPU and memory usage. So for small
and medium files I would say it's best. (I think it was on Tom's
Hardware site?)

I'll also describe my history on the issue: initially I've only
used ReiserFS until something (not the hard drive) just snapped and
I've almost lost all my data. At that moment I've migrated to Ext3.

But Ext3 has the problem of needing constant (usually once a moth)
checking (I know this is optional or tunable but it seems it is
recommended) which for large file systems takes incredibly long (60GB
HDD takes about 2 or 3 minutes... So imagine what would to to 1TB...)

So I got angry again and moved to JFS... And I'm using JFS for
about two years without major incidents... (Only once I've lost the
contents of a configuration file due to a power interruption but this
is because of the editor.)

So as a conclusion for this task I would recommend JFS (I also
have 200GB of documentation which covers about 100 thousand files I
guess.)

Also see at the end for my notes on journaled file systems.


 Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my
 harddisk to cut out the advertising and to transcode the videos to
 somethings better than ts (transport streams),
 This is another part.


Although JFS could handle this, maybe a file system specially
designed for this would do best: Ext4 with it's extent feature. (But
be aware that by just using a file system is not enough... The
software also has to be specially crafted if you want high
performance. Just see the `fallocate` and `fadvise` system calls.)


 Then I plan to have two roots this time: One to experiment with and
 one good and stable-version which is used/updated/... strictly as
 recommended. Filesizes and usage do vary here...take a look at your
 own roots ;)))


:) This sounds like my setup: 160GB HDD from my laptop has the
following layout:
* GPT partition table (not MBR) -- this gives me more partitions
without needing the extended partition feature of MBR;
* 2 boot partitions of 512MB (maybe 1GB would have been better) --
one for current usage (Grub 0.97 with GPT patches) and one for
experimentation; these are Ext2 for safety and compatibility;
* 3 root partitions of 4GB (I should have made them 8GB) -- one
for the current operating system, and two for future upgrades /
experimentation; currently JFS and maybe also so in the future;
* 1 swap of 8GB (encrypted with random password with the help of dm-crypt);
* rest of the HDD as one big partition with LVM; (large extents 256MB);
* from the LVM I have partitions for personal data (/home) and
other things -- everything is JFS;


 Then I want something encrypted, either as a partition or as a files
 (carrying a encrypted fs), which I can copy to dvd and will be able
 to mount this dvd and use it without to have to copy the whole dvd
 first to harddisk before using it...
 Currently I am using encfs...(outdated?). What can I do use instead?
 This is for personal things like letters, photos, texts ... etc.
 Files vary from some kb up to about 2GByte (guessed). Most of them
 smaller than 200MByte


As someone noted maybe EncryptFS (in kernel one) would be
better... (It's an install option in Ubuntu so I would say it's mature
enough.)

But for this encrypted purpose I would use dm-crypt with
`aes-xts-essiv:sha256` encryption. (In the past I've used LoopAES but
I had some minor issues with kernel building as it's not in the
vanilla kernel...)


 Last thing: I have a lot iof copies of code from svn repositories because
 I like to have the bleeding edge of some projects (do you know the
 new Blender 2.50??? :O)


I also have a lot of repositories on JFS and everything works nice.


 This implies a lot of compile work. This will be the only case where
 files are created as often as read.


For temporary folders while compiling I would recommend to
instruct your build scripts to build inside /tmp where you have tmpfs
mounted... It's blazingly fast...


And some notes about journaled file systems: they journal
meta-data (that is file creation, deletion, rename, etc), not data
(that is the contents)... (Of course there are a few (Ext3 maybe?)
file systems that have the option to also journal data...)

What does this mean: well when you edit a file and save it and
then cut the power, the file still exists (the meta-data), but the
contents could (and usually is) wrong: either no content (like I've
encountered once with JFS), either mixed content (old and new)...

So the fineprint here is: no journaled file system is safe... They
are all safe if you 

[gentoo-user] Who sets the USER environment variable?

2007-11-22 Thread Dorin Scutarasu

Hi all,

I wonder if querying the USER env variable is a reliable way to get the login
name of the user who started an application, on all authentication methods -
passwd, NIS or LDAP based authentication.

So who sets this variable? is it PAM? is it some login script?

Best Regards,
Dorin Scutarasu

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-14 Thread Dorin Scutarasu
On Friday 13 April 2007 14:07:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 What is the average age of the gentoo user here?
 Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone

I'll be 22 next month, and I've been a happy Gentoo user since 2005.1.

-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Uninstalling KDE packages

2007-01-29 Thread Dorin Scutarasu
On Monday 29 January 2007 22:46:56 Vlad Dogaru wrote:
 I would like to know if unmerging KWallet (also the eduitainment suite
 and possibly even Kopette and Konqueror) is safe. How can I tell for
 other packages? Is emerge --unmerge enough or do other measures have 
 to be taken?

If you have installed monolithic KDE than you can't unmerge only KWallet. You 
would have to unmerge kdeutils which also contains programs you might need.


If you're using the KDE split ebuilds you can use 'equery d package-name' 
(app-portage/gentoolkit) to see what installed packages depend on 
package-name. For example, Konqueror is needed by Kdesktop  and Amarok 
among other things, so you probably don't want to unmerge it if you need 
either of them.

Simply unmerging a package that is needed by some other package is not 
sufficient as it would be pulled back in when you next run 'emerge -D world'.

KWallet only depends on kdeutils-meta. If you want to get rid of it unmerge 
kdeutils-meta and add the packages pulled in by kdeutils-meta to the world 
file (/var/lib/portage/world). You can find the names of these packages in the 
kdeutils-meta ebuild:

RDEPEND=
$(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/ark) 

$(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kcalc)
$(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kcharselect) 

lirc? ( $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdelirc) )
 [...]

So you would add lines such as these:
kde-base/ark
kde-base/kcalc
... in the world file for each package you need and unmerge the ones you don't 
need. Be carefull with those useflag conditioned dependencies as in the case 
of kde-base/kdelirc which only gets installed if lirc useflag is activated.


  Also, in the case of a fresh install, how can I choose
 what KDE installs? Do I have to run emerge kde, or would kdelibs,
 kdebase, etc (along with their dependencies of course) suffice?

Take a look at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml#doc_chap2_sect3 .

-- 
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who
think.(Horace Walpole)
*
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Re: [gentoo-user] package update quirck

2007-01-22 Thread Dorin
On Monday 22 January 2007 03:04, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
 This suggests that dbus isn't in world or a dep on anything in world. Hence
 it should show up on `emerge --depclean -p`.
Actually k3b is in my world file and dbus doesn't show up 
on 'emerge --depclean -p'.

 The actual dependency looks like this:

 # grep -A 2 hal? $(portageq portdir)/app-cdr/k3b/k3b-0.12.17.ebuild
 hal? ( || ( dev-libs/dbus-qt3-old
 ( sys-apps/dbus-0.90 =sys-apps/dbus-0.30
 ) ) sys-apps/hal )

 So k3b doesn't depend on dbus if the hal USE flag is disabled or if
 dbus-qt3-old is installed.
That would explain it, but I checked and dbus-qt3-old isn't installed and 
an 'equery u k3b' shows k3b actually  has the hal USE flag enabled.

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Re: [gentoo-user] package update quirck

2007-01-22 Thread Dorin Scutarasu
Hi,

On Monday 22 January 2007 10:15, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
 Hmm.. Actually this is the exact reason `emerge -avuDN world` don't try to
 upgrade dbus. When you type `emerge -pv dbus` emerge does not check whether
 any packages in world or in your system requires a lower version or blocks
 dbus. It only checks whether there is an upgrade for dbus and upgrades it
 if there is.

 If you do that on your next `emerge -avuDN world` you will probably see
 portage pull in dev-libs/dbus-qt3-old because ( sys-apps/dbus-0.90

 =sys-apps/dbus-0.30 ) is no longer satisfied and dev-libs/dbus-qt3-old is

 listed first and hence preferred.

 :)

You're right Bo, that's exactly what happend after upgrading.  I had looked in 
that k3b ebuild but not knowing the syntax I didn't realise it needs either 
dev-libs/dbus-qt3-old or sys-apps/dbus-0.90.

Thanks a lot! :)

-- 
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who
think.(Horace Walpole)
*
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[gentoo-user] package update quirck

2007-01-21 Thread Dorin Scutarasu
Hi,

I just noticed that when I do 'emerge -avuDN world' not all packages get 
updated to the last stable version:

 $ emerge -pvuDN world

 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

 Calculating world dependencies... done!

 Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB

...but than...

 $ emerge -pv dbus

 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

 Calculating dependencies ... done!
 [ebuild U ] sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2 [0.62-r2] USE=X -debug -doc (-selinux)
 (-gtk%*) (-mono%) (-python%*) (-qt3%*) (-qt4%*) 1,368 kB

 Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 1,368 kB

... so I can update to sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2. Also, I see that there are 
packages that need sys-apps/dbus-0.90:
 $ equery d dbus
 [ Searching for packages depending on dbus... ]
 app-cdr/k3b-0.12.17 (hal? sys-apps/dbus-0.90)
 (hal ? =sys-apps/dbus-0.30)
 (hal ? =sys-apps/dbus-0.30)
 [...]

... so shouldn't portage prevent me from updating to dbus-1.0.2 since there 
are ebuilds that depend on sys-apps/dbus-0.90?


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Re: [gentoo-user] ymessenger is going??

2006-11-17 Thread Dorin
On Friday 17 November 2006 12:23, Dale wrote:
 It sure did.  Now for another question.  I can't figure out how to make
 it save a copy of my IMs.  Where is that?  It is in my package.use file
 and I reemerged it as well, also logged out of KDE and back in.  Still

 can't find it.  Here is my USE info for kopete:
  [ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kopete-3.5.5-r2  USE=arts connectionstatus
  crypt groupwise history jingle sametime ssl yahoo -addbookmarks -alias
  -autoreplace -contactnotes -debug -gadu -highlight -irc
  -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -latex -netmeeting -nowlistening
  -slp -sms -statistics -texteffect -translator -webpresence -winpopup
  -xinerama -xscreensaver

 Thanks for the help.

 Dale

 :-)  :-)  :-)

Just enable the history plugin in kopete: Settings | Configure Plugins...

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Re: [gentoo-user] freenet6 used by somebody?

2006-11-17 Thread Dorin
On Thursday 16 November 2006 23:45, Hans de Hartog wrote:
 I'm trying to get freenet6-1.0.0 up and running.
 It's supposed to be stable (since august 2006?).
 But, if you have to do basic things like
 export CC=/usr/bin/cc
 before it compiles, I wouldn't call that stable.
 Also, the distributed tspc.conf contains things
 that (by default) won't work (like sit1 in stead
 of sh^Hit0).
 And, the default location of tspc.conf has to
 be added to /etc/init.d/tspc
 Also, it (of course) needs ipv6 support in your
 kernel, but emerge freenet6 does not check this.
 Again, I wouldn't call this stable.
 Anybody ever used this???

I've been using freenet6 for a while, but I don't remember having to modify 
the CC variable. 
It seems to have the other problems you mentioned though.

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Re: [gentoo-user] ymessenger is going??

2006-11-17 Thread Dorin
On Friday 17 November 2006 23:21, Dale wrote:
 OK.  I found that but maybe this is not what I am looking for.  Let's
 say I chat with someone and later on I want to go read it again.  I
 would like it to save a copy of the chat automatically without me having
 to do it manually.  Yahoo does this.  Is this what I am looking for or
 is it called something else?

 Thanks for the help.  Just trying to get this to do what Yahoo does so I
 can remove Yahoo.

 Dale

 :-)  :-)  :-)

I haven't used Yahoo Messenger and don't know how it logs conversations. But 
with kopete, once you enable the history plug-in, you can select a contact 
from the list, then select from the menu Edit | View History and browse 
through a list of past conversations. 
You can do pretty much the same thing by using the (browser like) navigation 
buttons in a chat window. You might want to customize your toolbar if you 
don't see these buttons.

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[gentoo-user] documentation for the xorg-server modules?

2006-11-07 Thread Dorin
I can't seem to find any documentation about the xorg modules (dri, vbe,ddc, 
dbe,...) . I want to know what each one is for so I can enable/disable them 
based on what I need. So where should I look for the docs?
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Re: [gentoo-user] documentation for the xorg-server modules?

2006-11-07 Thread Dorin
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, I found some bits and pieces of information there, but only about some 
server modules and extensions. No mention about xtrap, record, Damage, XFixes 
which i found in my xorg.conf.
 I guess I'll try scanning through the source code, sometime.

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:39, Ryan Crisman wrote:
 http://www.x.org/

 On 11/7/06, Dorin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I can't seem to find any documentation about the xorg modules (dri,
  vbe,ddc,
  dbe,...) . I want to know what each one is for so I can enable/disable
  them
  based on what I need. So where should I look for the docs?
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  think.(Horace Walpole)
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  www.info.UAIC.ro

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