Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with /etc/portage/package.use
Use a MAILTO= in your crontab and notifications will go to any address you want, leave MAILTO blank and it won't mail at all. On 9/27/09, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:55:42AM +0100, Mick wrote To complete the diagnosis we may need the version of your portage? ;-) Sorry about that. Here are the details... [d530][root][~] emerge -pv portage These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 USE=-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) LINGUAS=-pl 0 kB Since it only shows up with mutt so far, maybe it's actually mutt... d530 mutt # emerge -pv mutt These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-client/mutt-1.5.20-r4 USE=pop smime smtp -berkdb -crypt -debug -doc -gdbm -gnutls -gpg -idn -imap -mbox -nls -nntp -qdbm -sasl -sidebar -ssl -vanilla 0 kB It is remotely possible that I did make the package.use entries manually, but very unlikely. Speaking of mutt, is there a way to turn off its insistence on creating symlinks called sendmail? My most embarressing moment as a linux user came several years ago when I first created an hourly cronjob. I wasn't aware of the need for ending it with 21. The garbage output went to root via sendmail, which was actually a symlink to mutt. mutt is a deliberately dumb mailer that simply pushes email out the door to my ISP's MTA. So the hourly garbage went to root at my ISP. They sent me a polite email asking me to kindly stop. G I took a couple of steps then. Besides adding 21 to my cronjobs, I set root=myaccount in /etc/ssmtp/ssmpt.conf, so that any stuff getting through would go to my account at my ISP, not to root at my ISP. I also went around stomping on the symlinks. So far, I've discovered /usr/bin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail. In each case, I deleted the symlink, created a directory by that name, and did a touch .keep inside the directory. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org -- Sent from my mobile device Kyle
Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with /etc/portage/package.use
On Sunday 27 September 2009, Walter Dnes wrote: After an update, I was going through /var/log/portage/elog and came across a WARN: setup message that the gpgme flag had been renamed to gpg. Looking at /etc/portage/package.use I saw, amongst other things mail-client/mutt buffysize mail-client/mutt gpgme mail-client/mutt pop mail-client/mutt smime mail-client/mutt smtp *THAT IS NOT MY EDITING STYLE*. I put the options on one line, like so media-video/mplayer alsa i8x0 mmxext real ssse3 Unless someone has been sneaking into my place and editing /etc/portage/package.use, I can only assume that this has been done by portage. Am I paranoid? To complete the diagnosis we may need the version of your portage? ;-) I'm on sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.1 and the syntax is on one line. I don't know what happens with the [M]~ versions. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with /etc/portage/package.use
Mick wrote: On Sunday 27 September 2009, Walter Dnes wrote: After an update, I was going through /var/log/portage/elog and came across a WARN: setup message that the gpgme flag had been renamed to gpg. Looking at /etc/portage/package.use I saw, amongst other things mail-client/mutt buffysize mail-client/mutt gpgme mail-client/mutt pop mail-client/mutt smime mail-client/mutt smtp *THAT IS NOT MY EDITING STYLE*. I put the options on one line, like so media-video/mplayer alsa i8x0 mmxext real ssse3 Unless someone has been sneaking into my place and editing /etc/portage/package.use, I can only assume that this has been done by portage. Am I paranoid? To complete the diagnosis we may need the version of your portage? ;-) I'm on sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.1 and the syntax is on one line. I don't know what happens with the [M]~ versions. If it helps any, I'm on Portage 2.2_rc42 and my package.use file is normal. That is one line with multiple USE flags on the one line. Portage did upgrade tonight tho. I think it was rc40 before that. Also, I still have the file, not a directory for package.*. I still haven't switched yet. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with /etc/portage/package.use
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:55:42AM +0100, Mick wrote To complete the diagnosis we may need the version of your portage? ;-) Sorry about that. Here are the details... [d530][root][~] emerge -pv portage These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 USE=-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) LINGUAS=-pl 0 kB Since it only shows up with mutt so far, maybe it's actually mutt... d530 mutt # emerge -pv mutt These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-client/mutt-1.5.20-r4 USE=pop smime smtp -berkdb -crypt -debug -doc -gdbm -gnutls -gpg -idn -imap -mbox -nls -nntp -qdbm -sasl -sidebar -ssl -vanilla 0 kB It is remotely possible that I did make the package.use entries manually, but very unlikely. Speaking of mutt, is there a way to turn off its insistence on creating symlinks called sendmail? My most embarressing moment as a linux user came several years ago when I first created an hourly cronjob. I wasn't aware of the need for ending it with 21. The garbage output went to root via sendmail, which was actually a symlink to mutt. mutt is a deliberately dumb mailer that simply pushes email out the door to my ISP's MTA. So the hourly garbage went to root at my ISP. They sent me a polite email asking me to kindly stop. G I took a couple of steps then. Besides adding 21 to my cronjobs, I set root=myaccount in /etc/ssmtp/ssmpt.conf, so that any stuff getting through would go to my account at my ISP, not to root at my ISP. I also went around stomping on the symlinks. So far, I've discovered /usr/bin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail. In each case, I deleted the symlink, created a directory by that name, and did a touch .keep inside the directory. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
[gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with /etc/portage/package.use
After an update, I was going through /var/log/portage/elog and came across a WARN: setup message that the gpgme flag had been renamed to gpg. Looking at /etc/portage/package.use I saw, amongst other things mail-client/mutt buffysize mail-client/mutt gpgme mail-client/mutt pop mail-client/mutt smime mail-client/mutt smtp *THAT IS NOT MY EDITING STYLE*. I put the options on one line, like so media-video/mplayer alsa i8x0 mmxext real ssse3 Unless someone has been sneaking into my place and editing /etc/portage/package.use, I can only assume that this has been done by portage. Am I paranoid? -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
