Re: [gentoo-user] ignore update of one package in world

2005-01-22 Thread Bill Davidson
On 10:04 Sat 22 Jan , Antoine wrote: > Hi, > There is currently a bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79046) > that is stopping me from emerging world, is there any way to specify > when emerging world not to update one of the packages, so the rest will > attempt to pass? If not, wha

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4-4.2 and xfce-base-4.0.6

2005-01-23 Thread Bill Davidson
On 16:39 Sun 23 Jan , Collins Richey wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:16:19 + (UTC), heide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > unable to solve a problem with emerging xfce4, please forgive me for > > consulting > > this kind list. > > Last week an emerge -uvDa --newuse world upg

Re: [gentoo-user] slowdown copy operation ? how ?

2005-01-24 Thread Bill Davidson
On 17:26 Mon 24 Jan , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > > Is there a way to slow down specific I/O operation, f.e. a copy of file from > one disk to another or > from one partition to another. > I dont bother if it takes a little bit longer, but dont want it to take alot > of i/o bantdwith o

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4-4.2 and xfce-base-4.0.6

2005-01-25 Thread Bill Davidson
On 21:22 Mon 24 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I filed a bug because I did what they said. Removed the base, installed > 4.2. Next day and emerge -uD world -p wants to downgrade a bunch of stuff > to 4.06! I guess I could do an emerge -C on all stuff it wants to > downgrade but I'd like

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is broken

2005-02-07 Thread Bill Davidson
On 13:25 Mon 07 Feb , Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > mplayer is also broken on my machine after update but my error is different: > > gmplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdv.so.2: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory I got this also. Re-merging mplayer fixed it.

[gentoo-user] Archives?

2003-04-04 Thread Bill Davidson
New gentoo user here. This list is archived isn't it? I can't seem to find them. Could someone post a link? TIA Bill -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Archives?

2003-04-04 Thread Bill Davidson
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:07:10 +0200 Christian Herzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Davidson wrote: > > >New gentoo user here. This list is archived isn't it? I can't seem to > >find them. Could someone post a link? > > > >TIA >

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable NUMLOCK on Boot

2005-02-20 Thread Bill Davidson
On 19:08 Sat 19 Feb , Captain FantastiK wrote: > HI > > I wonder what's the way to enable NUMLOCK Keyboard on X startup > > Any Idea Please This is covered in the FAQ: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#numlock Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidson
On 19:03 Wed 23 Feb , Holly Bostick wrote: > Andrea Barisani wrote: > > >and probably leaving the old setup is the best choice since I have no time > >to > >discuss this and tell people how to configure their MUA. > > > > Anybody have the time and knowledge to write something for the docs pa

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-25 Thread Bill Davidson
On 12:59 Thu 24 Feb , maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a fat32 partition on another drive /dev/hda5 > which is listed in /etc/fstab like this: > > /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o > > But as user I have no access, only as root. > > cat /proc/mounts reveals: >

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-26 Thread Bill Davidson
On 15:15 Fri 25 Feb , maxim wexler wrote: > > ls -l /home/blissfix/fat tell you. > > the usual; but only if I'm root What is the usual? I wanted you to post the output of the command. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-26 Thread Bill Davidson
On 19:28 Fri 25 Feb , Willie Wong wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:15:35PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > > > ls -l /home/blissfix/fat tell you. > > > > the usual; but only if I'm root > > > > And what is "the usual"? > > And if I interpret what the original poster meant correctly, you > s

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-27 Thread Bill Davidson
On 21:53 Sun 27 Feb , Hamie wrote: > > OK. Frustrated debian user here... Maybe I should go back... Anyway... > > What am I doing wrong? I THOUGHT that one of the things that portage > would do for me is to make sure dependencies are taken care of... Yet > this seems to be worse than the rp

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to su anymore

2005-02-27 Thread Bill Davidson
On 18:58 Sun 27 Feb , A. Khattri wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > Somewhere you have to enable which users may do a su. > > You dont say. > > > But please don't ask me where I've set it ages ago ;-) . > > So why bother posting? Was that really necessary? I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidson
On 20:24 Mon 28 Feb , Hamie wrote: [snip] > A completely different list from the emerge above... Lots of updates... > > damned ~ # emerge -pvuD dvdrip > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] sys-apps/sysvinit (from pk

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidson
On 15:23 Mon 28 Feb , Hamie wrote: > Well... Something is definately screwy on my system... An 'emerge -pv > dvdrip' lists a whole lot of updates & wanrs me to update portage first > at risk of killing something if I don't, but when I do an 'emerge -u > portage' it says there's nothing to ud

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with X.org

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidson
On 23:50 Mon 28 Feb , pat wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup my Xorg, but all time I have met this error: > Duplicate symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx in > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a:bitmapmod.o > Also defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a Are you running a hardened

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Distros, One Drive

2005-03-01 Thread Bill Davidson
On 21:32 Mon 28 Feb , Bo Grimes wrote: > First, thanks for all the feedback on video cards. > > I am about to attempt my first Gentoo install, and I plan on taking it > very slowly since the whole reason I want to go Gentoo is to find my > last distro, optimize it for my system and learn as

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Distros, One Drive

2005-03-01 Thread Bill Davidson
On 10:22 Tue 01 Mar , Bo Grimes wrote: > Bill Davidson wrote: > > >Yes, you can do this. In fact, if you follow the alternate install guide > >in the gentoo handbook, you can install gentoo from your other distro. > > Regarding the above, I have been reading t

Re: [gentoo-user] help finding files

2005-03-05 Thread Bill Davidson
On 09:21 Sat 05 Mar , maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everyone, > > emerge -av requires the following: > > net-libs/wvstreams-3.70-r2 178 kb > net-dialup/wvdial-1.53-r1 66 kb > media-sound/mpg123-0.59s-r6 245 kb Those are dependencies to whatever it is you're trying to install. Portage will hand

Re: [gentoo-user] etcat & equery

2005-03-25 Thread Bill Davidson
On 08:05 Thu 24 Mar , Russ Brown wrote: > From what I can gather etcat is being phased out in favour of equery. > All fine and dandy, except that etcat has functionality that equery does > not that I find useful: [snip description of features] Why don't you open a bug requesting this functi

Re: [gentoo-user] Root shell doesn't source bashrc

2005-03-27 Thread Bill Davidson
On 16:11 Fri 25 Mar , Harry Putnam wrote: > On a root login and although root's shell is bash, the .bashrc file I > created is not sourced. > > Is this a local config problem or a default system setting somewhere. > > Far as I know, when using bash it is supposed to look for > .bash_profile/p