[gentoo-user] cant send messages

2003-07-09 Thread Saurabh Nanda
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I cant seem to post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - although I am subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - and that is not accepting my messages. Nandz. - -- http://home.iitk.ac.in/student/nanda -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DB

[gentoo-user] Automatic update of packages related to the kernel

2003-07-03 Thread Saurabh Nanda
Is there any way I can inform the portage system of a kernel upgrade - so that it can automatically recompile packages which depend on the kernel (like, alsa-driver and the nvidia modules)? I upgraded my kernel from 2.4.19 to 2.4.21 (due to the ptrace-exploit). The emerge vanilla-sources just u

[gentoo-user] Automatic update of packages related to the kernel

2003-06-25 Thread Saurabh Nanda
Is there any way I can inform the portage system of a kernel upgrade - so that it can automatically recompile packages which depend on the kernel (like, alsa-driver and the nvidia modules)? I upgraded my kernel from 2.4.19 to 2.4.21 (due to the ptrace-exploit). The emerge vanilla-sources just u

Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.

2003-06-17 Thread Saurabh Nanda
I had thought of this too... And it's pretty workable though. Instead of ssh-ing into the central machine and then initiating the download - it would be better to download the file onto your machine. And if the download is successful, you upload it onto the Univ server. People could be given ou

Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.

2003-06-15 Thread Saurabh Nanda
> There's been a lot of talk about this kind of setup on both the forums and > on this mailing list. I'd check the archives. > > If you wrote a p2p wrapper for portage, there would be many thanking you - > there's not one I'm aware of. > > Check the archives and the forums (there's one recent HOWT

[gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.

2003-06-15 Thread Saurabh Nanda
Hi, We've been trying to come up with a solution for deploying a distfile mirror for our university intranet. There are a decent number of Gentoo users here, and it is a waste of bandwidth with people downloading the same packages off the internet. * So, we set up a central FTP server with cert