Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Major update problem

2011-02-08 Thread Josh Sled
Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net writes: Jonathan Callen posted on Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:29:35 -0500 as excerpted: Portage 2.1 only has support for 3 sets: @world, @system, and @selected. All of the other support for sets has been disabled internally in the code but is otherwise present to allow

Re: [gentoo-amd64] make.conf diferent for one package?

2010-12-09 Thread Josh Sled
Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski mateuszmierzwin...@gmail.com writes: I wish to ask - is there any way to enable ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 for one package only - ex. in My case adobe-flash? I was trying to set it in new file - /etc/ make.conf.adobe-flash (I don't remember where I read about

Re: [gentoo-amd64] glibc-2.12.1-r1 failure

2010-09-27 Thread Josh Sled
Paul Stear gen...@appjaws.plus.com writes: |What would sensible LDFLAGS be for my amd64 system http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_LDFLAGS might be interesting to you. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: FAT tools, where ?

2009-12-03 Thread Josh Sled
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: I think the problem here is the increased hiccup frequency of GMane lately :P At the time we posted dosfstools most didn't even see that other people already replied with the same thing. It was not gmane. I saw the same delay being a

Re: [gentoo-amd64] FAT tools, where ?

2009-12-02 Thread Josh Sled
alain.didierj...@free.fr writes: I need vfat tools (mkfs.vfat, fsck.vfat...) and can't figure out the package to which they belong. Help welcome... js...@phoenix [~]$ eix -S vfat * sys-fs/dosfstools Available versions: 3.0.1!t ~3.0.2!t ~3.0.5!t Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Eselect Syntax Bug?

2009-08-03 Thread Josh Sled
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net writes: Running eselect, a bash script, always fails with the errors: `ec_do_list-options': not a valid identifier `ec_do_list-modules': not a valid identifier […] But why has not such an obvious mistake been observed before? Has anyone else executed

Re: [gentoo-amd64] make.conf for the install CD?

2009-08-02 Thread Josh Sled
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: 2) Poking around the running environment things seem to work and it's nicely up to date with a new kernel, etc. One thing I didn't find though was /etc/make.conf. I'm curious as to where I might get a copy of make.conf to see how gcc flags were set

Re: [gentoo-amd64] make.conf for the install CD?

2009-08-02 Thread Josh Sled
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: OK, so having booted the install CD again and looking at /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example it seems that no CFLAGS are set in the example file. Maybe this is the way that the install CD is built, but I suspect that they probably use the first

Re: [gentoo-amd64] FF 3.5

2009-06-30 Thread Josh Sled
Mark Haney mha...@ercbroadband.org writes: When will FF 3.5 be in portage? I've seen the ebuild, but haven't found it on the mirrors yet. I don't care if it's masked, I want to try it and help debug if necessary. Then install ff3.5_rc3 (and it's masked/keyworded deps) from the mozilla overlay

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-17 Thread Josh Sled
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: QUESTION: I've been somewhat unhappy over the last year with Gentoo package maintainers doing little updates to gnome files which seems to drive more and more little updates. What do you mean, exactly? I upgrade weekly, and haven't really noticed

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hyper-threading an AMD64 3800+

2009-06-10 Thread Josh Sled
Hung Dang hungp...@gmail.com writes: Greg wrote: Is this normal? I thought even under a uniprocessor machine the threads were to time-slice like on a multicore. It is depend on your application and how you write your code. For example we can have a good speed up for dense matrix

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread Josh Sled
Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net writes: It's not going to be of much help at the moment, but FWIW, upgrades do tend to go much smoother if you don't stay away from them so long. Personally, I try to do them twice a week so there's never too huge a list, and even when a kde upgrade comes out,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread Josh Sled
John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu writes: My weekly routine has been to do eix-sync emerge -D -uav system emerge -D -uav world When the responses have suggested doing revdep rebuild, I've done so. From now on I'll try to follow your good example of upgrading twice a week. Whether I should

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread Josh Sled
John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu writes: Doing revdep-rebuild -p elicited this response: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sci-libs/blas-atlas-3.8.0 [ebuild R ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-20080418 [ebuild R ] mail-client/evolution-2.24.5 [ebuild R ]

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: upgrade an old system

2009-05-06 Thread Josh Sled
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Mark Haney wrote: Duncan, you talk about tmpfs and I'm suddenly interested in trying this out. My question is, how much space do you allocate for the tmpfs? I know it'll fall back to swap if I'm out of space