Re: [gentoo-user] shared portage tree

2007-09-24 Thread Neil Walker
Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, folks Is there any problem to share portage tree over nfs between different archs? In this particular case I want to use a machine with arc=amd64 as a nfs server and share its tree with several x86 machines. I do exactly that. The server is an AMD Opteron running 64

[gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'd like to know: Is it fully backward compatible to tar? Could I > safely unmerge tar and make a symlink from tar to star? star is fully Posix compliant. GNU tar is not. In theory, there could be problems with GNU tar tar archives if they are unp

[gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more > flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip. Uhm, what's bad about tar cf - | p7zip > If star were a fully qualified replacement for gnu tar, there would not > have been the need t

[gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Samstag, 22. September 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: >> star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more >> flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip. Its other features (better >> funcionality for acl, sparse files, recovery and backups

[gentoo-user] How to dhcp to a specific address, and thank you

2007-09-24 Thread Alan E. Davis
I hope I will be forgiven for wasting bandwidth; I want very much to express my gratitude to those developers, documentation writers, and others, that Gentoo is such an excellent distro. If three is anything I can figure to do---possible documentation or perhaps an ebuild or two---I want to do so.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to dhcp to a specific address, and thank you

2007-09-24 Thread Neil Walker
Alan E. Davis wrote: My QUESTION: I connect two machines at home to a wireless router, with my IP number a local one, assigned by the router. Is it reasonable to set this up so my main home machine has the same IP number always, so I can set up other machines to print over the local wireless n

Re: [gentoo-user] shared portage tree

2007-09-24 Thread Daniel Iliev
Thanks for the replies, guys. Yes. This setup works here also and I have no breakages, but since I've let the x86 machies use shared portage tree I have the feeling the performance of portage dropped down notably. I don't know what happens at the end of "emerge --sync", what the metadata consis

Re: [gentoo-user] shared portage tree

2007-09-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 24 September 2007 13:36:34 Daniel Iliev wrote: > Yes. This setup works here also and I have no breakages, but since I've > let the x86 machies use shared portage tree I have the feeling the > performance of portage dropped down notably. > > I don't know what happens at the end of "emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-24 Thread John Blinka
On 9/23/07, Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:37:36PM -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > -> ls -lA /var/lib/init.d/ > [snip] > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 13:16 softscripts.old > > That shouldn't be there. Normally, that directory is created and later > r

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:38:36 -0400, David Relson wrote: > I recall installing Gentoo as being a P.I.T.A, hence take no pleasure > in the idea of re-installing. I was hoping for something relatively > simple, like >changing CHOST and emerging world >unpacking amd64 stage3 tarball on top of

[gentoo-user] Ati 3d not working

2007-09-24 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Hey Anybody had any luck with enabling opengl in gnome with a ATI FireGL V3300 card. I have the proprietary driver loaded and working, but my log tells me I have no 3d support because of some DRI issues. (WW) fglrx(0): *** (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initial

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati 3d not working

2007-09-24 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
¿how are your kernel settings regarding acceleration? 2007/9/24, Johannes Skov Frandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hey > > Anybody had any luck with enabling opengl in gnome with a ATI FireGL > V3300 card. > > I have the proprietary driver loaded and working, but my log tells me I > have no 3d supp

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] shared portage tree

2007-09-24 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:47:23 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 24 September 2007 13:36:34 Daniel Iliev wrote: > > Yes. This setup works here also and I have no breakages, but since > > I've let the x86 machies use shared portage tree I have the feeling > > the perform

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Neil Bothwick schrieb: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:38:36 -0400, David Relson wrote: > >> I recall installing Gentoo as being a P.I.T.A, hence take no pleasure >> in the idea of re-installing. I was hoping for something relatively >> simple, like >>changing CHOST and emerging world >>unpackin

[gentoo-user] auto proxy config (Firefox, and more)

2007-09-24 Thread Benjamin Graf
Hi, I'm using my notebook in the school (via Wi-Fi + Cisco VPN) and at home. At school I need a proxy, but not at home. I tried this as a proxy automatic configuration file (*.pac), but it doesn't work : function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if (myIpAddress().substring(0,7) == "192.168")

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Alexander Skwar schrieb: > Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more >> flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip. > > Uhm, what's bad about > > tar cf - | p7zip It's a bit cumbersome to create a pipe each time I access

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Sep 2007, at 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: ... and if p7zip supports pipes, you don't need its support in tar. Just pipe from/to it. It does and that's the way it's supposed to be used on unix, according to its manpage. GNU tar features the -j, -z and -Z options. These are much more

RE: [gentoo-user] shared portage tree

2007-09-24 Thread Arttu V.
> In this particular case I want to use a machine with arc=amd64 > as a nfs server and share its tree with several x86 machines. I ran a similar NFS setup couple years back when breaking my teeth with Gentoo. Had intermittent problems with the NFS locks, and speed was slow too, so gave up. Though

[gentoo-user] How to get hotplug goign?

2007-09-24 Thread Grant Edwards
Can somebody point me to some documentation on how to get hotplug working under Gentoo? I'm trying to use a ti USB/serial dongle which needs a hotplug script run. I've put the script in /etc/hotplug/usb/, but it doesn't get called. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I w

[gentoo-user] Trouble fetching all required files for network-less machine

2007-09-24 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
I'm trying to fetch all possible files including those that might satisfy dependencies and USE flags for every package on my system. The reason I'm doing this is because I have a network-less machine that I wish to transfer these files to so that I may have the same environment on both machines. Bu

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get hotplug goign?

2007-09-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-09-24, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody point me to some documentation on how to get > hotplug working under Gentoo? I'm trying to use a ti > USB/serial dongle which needs a hotplug script run. I've put > the script in /etc/hotplug/usb/, but it doesn't > get called

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble fetching all required files for network-less machine

2007-09-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 24 September 2007, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: > I'm trying to fetch all possible files including those that might > satisfy dependencies and USE flags for every package on my system. > The reason I'm doing this is because I have a network-less machine > that I wish to transfer thes

Re: [gentoo-user] How to dhcp to a specific address, and thank you

2007-09-24 Thread Mick
On Monday 24 September 2007, Neil Walker wrote: > Alan E. Davis wrote: > > My QUESTION: I connect two machines at home to a wireless router, with > > my IP number a local one, assigned by the router. Is it reasonable to > > set this up so my main home machine has the same IP number always, so > >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Opinions on Host's Decision Please

2007-09-24 Thread Grant
> > > As I have previously posted about, my host sent me an email a few days > > > ago stating that support tickets for 5,000-6,000 of their clients had > > > been broken into. I checked my records and found that my root > > > password had previously been submitted in a support ticket. I then > >

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get hotplug goign?

2007-09-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-09-24, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody point me to some documentation on how to get > hotplug working under Gentoo? I'm trying to use a ti > USB/serial dongle which needs a hotplug script run. I've put > the script in /etc/hotplug/usb/, but it doesn't > get called

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to get hotplug goign?

2007-09-24 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant Edwards wrote: > And the most recent version of sys-apps/hotplug is over three > years old? I could be wrong, but if I remember correctly udev is supposed to replace cold/hotplug. Perhaps you should try to find a way to do what you are doing using udev? -- Randy Barlow http://electronswea

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get hotplug goign?

2007-09-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-09-24, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> And the most recent version of sys-apps/hotplug is over three >> years old? > > I could be wrong, but if I remember correctly udev is supposed to > replace cold/hotplug. Perhaps you should try to find a way to do what

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Opinions on Host's Decision Please

2007-09-24 Thread Grant
> > > > As I have previously posted about, my host sent me an email a few days > > > > ago stating that support tickets for 5,000-6,000 of their clients had > > > > been broken into. I checked my records and found that my root > > > > password had previously been submitted in a support ticket. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-24 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:17:53 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: > Neil Bothwick schrieb: ...[snip]... > > Unpacking a stage 3 tarball on top of a working system is a good > > way of converting it to a non-working system. It will also > > overwrite many of your settings in /etc. > > > > If you are going

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-24 Thread Bogo Mipps
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, John Blinka wrote: > I think it happens when booting, but I see this message in the system log: > > Sep 23 21:12:01 tobey rc-scripts: ERROR: cannot start nfs as > rpc.statdcould not start John, I've hesitated to join this thread because I haven't felt I've been able to throw

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-24 Thread Doug Whitesell
On Sep 24, 2007, at 5:03 PM, David Relson wrote: Just a thought: Is it possible to compile a 64bit kernel and use him on the current system? That way you could set up your new native 64bit system in a chroot before overwriting the old one and thus minimize downtime to less than 15 minutes. F

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Opinions on Host's Decision Please

2007-09-24 Thread Doug Whitesell
On Sep 24, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Grant wrote: So much for that. "I understand sir. Unfortunately I'm about out of rope in this situation. The only thing I can really provide to you at this point, is the oppertunity to flag this for the management team, and allow them to speak with you directly. I'

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Opinions on Host's Decision Please

2007-09-24 Thread Grant
> > So much for that. > > > > "I understand sir. Unfortunately I'm about out of rope in this > > situation. The only > > thing I can really provide to you at this point, is the oppertunity to > > flag this for > > the management team, and allow them to speak with you directly. > > > > I'll move for

[gentoo-user] Is this drive toast?

2007-09-24 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Just noticed this in dmesg: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCR

[gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-24 Thread maxim wexler
Forgot to add: this all started when I made hda into hdb and vice versa by changing the jumpers on the two IDE drives in this particular PC and telling the BIOS to boot from the 2nd drive. And updating grub and fstab, of course. mw ___

[gentoo-user] PHP emerging error

2007-09-24 Thread Suranga Kasturiarachchi
Dear Friends, while emerge the php with imap USE flage, it will give error message, emerge log generating as bellow, " * Determining SAPI(s) to build * Enabled SAPI: cli * Enabled SAPI: cgi * Enabled SAPI: apache2 * * If this package fails with a fatal error about Apache2 not havin

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 24 Sep 2007, at 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> ... >>> and if p7zip supports pipes, you don't need its support in tar. >>> Just pipe >>> from/to it. >> >> It does and that's the way it's supposed to be used on unix, according >> to its manpage. > > GN

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Skwar schrieb: >> Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more >>> flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip. >> >> Uhm, what's bad about >> >> tar cf - | p7zip > >