Re: [gentoo-amd64] [gentoo-amd64 Gentoo Linux Tuning Guide

2006-04-28 Thread Fernando Boaglio
Guys, After a kernel rebuild my machine was pretty fast! =D My new config: cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i cpu # CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU is not set CONFIG_X86_CPUID=y CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4 # CPU Frequency scaling CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEBUG is not set

[gentoo-amd64] 32bit userland

2006-04-28 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i was amazed to see, that there is a profile for 32bit userland on amd64 hosts. Is there some FAQ somewhere? I'm especially interested in answers for the following questions: - what is the goal for that? (well, my personal goal would be, to have a 32-bit system so that i can use all that pre

[gentoo-amd64] Re: looking for nistoldif

2006-04-28 Thread Duncan
Mark Haney posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:55:19 -0400: > Is there a package in gentoo that offers nistoldif? Or can someone tell > me where I might find the source for it? I don't have it here so I'm guessing... nis-t-old-if NIS TCP old interface, maybe?

[gentoo-amd64] looking for nistoldif

2006-04-28 Thread Mark Haney
Is there a package in gentoo that offers nistoldif? Or can someone tell me where I might find the source for it? -- Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] rox kept crashing

2006-04-28 Thread David Fellows
> > I succeeded in getting rox functioning by installing rox-2.4 from a > source tarball, so i guess that the inkompatibility between rox-2.2 and > gtk 2.8.12 was to blame. Thank you very much! > > Regards > /Anders rox-2.4.1 is marked ~{x86,amd64,ppc} in portage. Dave F -- gentoo-amd64@gen

Re: [gentoo-amd64] wanted: script to build ebuilds

2006-04-28 Thread Barry . SCHWARTZ
Steve Herber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Other times I will hear about a new software package and I want to try > it out. I would like a script that would take a URL for the home site > as an argument and then would operate like the script above. I suggest as an alternative that the script downl

[gentoo-amd64] Re: wanted: script to build ebuilds

2006-04-28 Thread Duncan
[GRR!! Insane quote ordering for proper contextual replies rearranged to conventional.] Dice R. Random posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:43:44 -0700: > > On 4/28/06, Steve Herber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Portage is great but... it depends upon a person to c

[gentoo-amd64] rox kept crashing

2006-04-28 Thread Anders Thøgersen
Hello, I am sorry for not replying in the same thread of my original post, but the relevant mails have mysteriosly disappeared from my maildir, although they were there yesterday,.. I do not know why,.. Could be my maildir is getting rather large,.. Oh well. I succeeded in getting rox functioni

Re: [gentoo-amd64] wanted: script to build ebuilds

2006-04-28 Thread Dice R. Random
I don't know about an automated process, there are a lot of variables that can factor into a version bump. However, for many simple packages, i.e. things that are not heavily patched or that do not have changing software requirements, it is usually sufficient to simply copy the old ebuild over to

[gentoo-amd64] wanted: script to build ebuilds

2006-04-28 Thread Steve Herber
Portage is great but... it depends upon a person to create a new ebuild when a new version is released. There are two times when I would like a script to create an ebuild automatically. I wonder if anyone has such a script or if someone is working on such a script. Often a new software release