Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

2003-04-04 Thread Abhishek Amit
On 19:49 Thu 03 Apr , C. Brewer wrote: The only issue is that lft needs to be suid to work for non-root, and I've not yet dealt with that in the ebuild -JimC I know this is off the thread a bit,but you can chmod right in the ebuild.. chmod 2755 ${D}/usr/bin/lft and that'll

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-04 Thread Abhishek Amit
On 05:15 Sat 05 Apr , Vano D wrote: This is why it would be a superb idea for Gentoo to adopt something like Knoppix. What I would really love to see is a Knoppix Gentoo where the whole base is a Gentoo system with portage and all (probably not with the portage tree as this can be huge,

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo not running a shell as a login shell

2003-04-03 Thread Abhishek Amit
On 10:54 Mon 31 Mar , William Hubbs wrote: Hi all, is there a way to get sudo to run a shell with the -s option as a login shell? I ask because when I give the command sudo -s and enter a password, I become root, but not with root's environment, so /sbin, /usr/sbin, etc, are not in

Re: [gentoo-user] [Fwd: Newbie questions about winex]

2003-04-01 Thread Abhishek Amit
On 03:04 Wed 02 Apr , Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: To run Windows or Windows applications in Linux have a look at these links. http://www.codeweavers.com/ http://www.vmware.com/ http://www.netraverse.com/ Also google for Frank's Corner. Has a lot of guides on getting things working with

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo migration stragety?

2003-03-28 Thread Abhishek Amit
On 16:58 Fri 28 Mar , Alec Berryman wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 10:56 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Gentoo requires a /boot (100MB) for kernels to save corruptions and a main partition. I never understood that. Why 100MB? How many kernels do you have in /boot?? My /boot is

Re: [gentoo-user] Who uses sudo?

2003-03-28 Thread Abhishek Amit
PS: I am not using sudo. perhaps I should but there is only me at the pc doing administrative tasks and root needs the standard-environment-variables not the ones of a user... I still use sudo. You'r proble may be fixed by putting source /etc/profile in .bashrc, which is what I do. I find it

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation with gentoo-source kernel?

2003-03-24 Thread Abhishek Amit
On 20:57 Mon 24 Mar , Klaus-J. Wolf wrote: Hi, I guess my question is nothing more than a dupe, but I found no answer on the web yet. With all kernels except for the gentoo-sources kernel, I had the init parameters hdc=scsi hdd=scsi to enable SCSI emulation of my CD-R burners.

Re: [gentoo-user] CVS access

2003-03-18 Thread Abhishek Amit
Hmm, I think I'll file a bug on that when i get my brpswer back. You should manage your own ebuilds by uncommenting the line that says PROTAGE_OVERLAY_DIR in /etc/make.conf and place your ebuilds there. On 15:30 Tue 18 Mar , Nick Katsamas wrote: Well then the FAQ

Re: [gentoo-user] CVS access

2003-03-18 Thread Abhishek Amit
Sorry, I did not see this message. On 18:40 Tue 18 Mar , Kurt Lieber wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 03:30:10PM +0200 or thereabouts, Nick Katsamas wrote: Well then the FAQ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml; must change at : How can I manage my own ebuilds without destroying them by

Re: [gentoo-user] ide-scsi issues

2003-03-15 Thread Abhishek Amit
On 21:10 Sat 15 Mar , Aaron Matteson wrote: I am having a problem, maybe someone can shed some light on this for me. Here is the situation. I am trying to get ide-scsi emulation going, i have done this on numerous occasions. Here is what i have kernel-wise: 1. v2.4.20-gaming-r1 kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Cache problem, again?

2003-03-11 Thread Abhishek Amit
On 20:58 Tue 11 Mar , Sundance wrote: Howdy, gentle penguins and penguinettes, Okay, so I've been having emerge -up issues for a few days now. Here's the matter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % emerge -up world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world