Re: [gentoo-user] What about this eix output?

2008-01-17 Thread Justin
That not all the official gentoo download mirrors are used, but only the one which is in the ebuild under SRC_URI! Shaochun Wang schrieb: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:50:27PM -0600, forgottenwizard wrote: > >> On 19:50 Thu 17 Jan , Kevin wrote: >> according to the man page, there is a mirro

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-17 Thread Thufir
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:00:51 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> Let's turn this around: if Gentoo were to attract a larger user base I >> posit that this would attract more developers. > > How do you draw that conclusion? How would attracting users who are > unwilling to read documentation and get th

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-17 Thread Thufir
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:10:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Let's turn this around: if Gentoo were to attract a larger user base I >> posit that this would attract more developers. > > Who says Gentoo does not already have a large user base consisting of > exactly the kind of users that are idea

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-17 Thread Thufir
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:44:12 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote: > Uhm, why? Sabayon is a distribution of itself. Sure, it's based on > Gentoo, but it certainly has its own "vision" and thus also its own > userbase. The userbase of Gentoo and Sabayon don't have to be identical. > What works for them,

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] OT: awk problem

2008-01-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: > maybe one of you can sched some light on this. I want to match a sequence > of two digits with awk, but the following doesn't work > > gawk '/([[:digit:]]){2}/' test_file Seems I need the --posix option for this to work. Sorry for botheri

[gentoo-user] OT: awk problem

2008-01-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, maybe one of you can sched some light on this. I want to match a sequence of two digits with awk, but the following doesn't work gawk '/([[:digit:]]){2}/' test_file while it works as expected when using egrep, like egrep ([[:digit:]]){2} test_file Leaving out the interval also works, like

[gentoo-user] Where can I find the ebuild for new beagle version 0.3.2?

2008-01-17 Thread Shaochun Wang
As the title. -- Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What about this eix output?

2008-01-17 Thread Shaochun Wang
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 07:50:11PM -0600, Kevin wrote: > Could it be a bug with eix? What does emerge -pv netscape-flash > return? > $ sudo emerge -pv netscape-flash Password: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] net-www/netsc

Re: [gentoo-user] Autofs or ivman?

2008-01-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 17 January 2008 10:08:22 pm Stroller wrote: > Sorry for taking so long to reply to this - I've been kinda busy with > work the last few days. > > On 6 Jan 2008, at 17:25, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 06 January 2008, Stroller wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I was on #gentoo yester

Re: [gentoo-user] What about this eix output?

2008-01-17 Thread Shaochun Wang
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:50:27PM -0600, forgottenwizard wrote: > On 19:50 Thu 17 Jan , Kevin wrote: > according to the man page, there is a mirror restriction on it. What is "mirror restriction" ? -- Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.

[gentoo-user] "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-17 Thread Stroller
Hi there, Before installing on a new laptop which came with Vista pre-installed I took an image of the hard-drive using dd. (ie: `dd if=/dev/sda of=/ mnt/sdb1/disk.img`, where /mnt/sdb1 was a portable USB hard-drive). Obviously the intention was that if I b0rked things up I could just `dd`

Re: [gentoo-user] Autofs or ivman?

2008-01-17 Thread Stroller
Sorry for taking so long to reply to this - I've been kinda busy with work the last few days. On 6 Jan 2008, at 17:25, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 January 2008, Stroller wrote: Hi there, I was on #gentoo yesterday asking about autofs & someone recommended ivman instead. Which does gen

Re: [gentoo-user] What about this eix output?

2008-01-17 Thread forgottenwizard
On 19:50 Thu 17 Jan , Kevin wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008 7:36 PM, Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > $ eix -e netscape-flash > > * net-www/netscape-flash > > Available versions: [M]7.0.68 [M]9.0.48.0!m > > 9.0.48.0-r1!m[M]~9.0.60.0_beta082207!m ~9.0.60.0_beta100107!m > > 9.0.115.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo on the Sales block?

2008-01-17 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
James skrev: > I only ask because Sun just paid > a billion dollars for MySQL > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/16/sun-mysql_1.html > > How is it that Open Source is for sale? > > GPL? > > > Is gentoo next? > > > James > > > FLOSS != Gratis. There is no problem in buying eit

Re: [gentoo-user] What about this eix output?

2008-01-17 Thread Kevin
On Jan 17, 2008 7:36 PM, Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ eix -e netscape-flash > * net-www/netscape-flash > Available versions: [M]7.0.68 [M]9.0.48.0!m > 9.0.48.0-r1!m[M]~9.0.60.0_beta082207!m ~9.0.60.0_beta100107!m > 9.0.115.0!m {debug} > Homepage:http://www.ado

[gentoo-user] What about this eix output?

2008-01-17 Thread Shaochun Wang
$ eix -e netscape-flash * net-www/netscape-flash Available versions: [M]7.0.68 [M]9.0.48.0!m 9.0.48.0-r1!m [M]~9.0.60.0_beta082207!m ~9.0.60.0_beta100107!m 9.0.115.0!m {debug} Homepage:http://www.adobe.com/ Description: Adobe Flash Player I don't understand wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Once again baffled by portage

2008-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:17:18 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > Would it be possible to modify the kde-meta eclass so that a split vs > > monolithic block gave a more informative error message. Even a generic > > message pointing to that URI would be a great help. > > Since we only have the R

Re: [gentoo-user] Once again baffled by portage

2008-01-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 18 January 2008 01:08:51 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Actually it was decided to keep monolithics in KDE 4.0.0. Splits are > > now the default which means they are listed first in any-of dependency > > blocks such as e.g. || ( kde-base/kompare:kde-4 kde-base/kdesdk:kde-4 ) > > in KDE 4. But m

Re: [gentoo-user] Once again baffled by portage

2008-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:41:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > Actually it was decided to keep monolithics in KDE 4.0.0. Splits are > now the default which means they are listed first in any-of dependency > blocks such as e.g. || ( kde-base/kompare:kde-4 kde-base/kdesdk:kde-4 ) > in KDE 4. But mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Once again baffled by portage

2008-01-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 17 January 2008 17:06:28 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Roll on KDE4 when this monolithic nonsense will go away and there will > only be -meta ebuilds. Actually it was decided to keep monolithics in KDE 4.0.0. Splits are now the default which means they are listed first in any-of dependency b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage

2008-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 17 January 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-01-17, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Essentially you are trying to install one of the individual > > packages from a -meta package at the same time as a corresponding > > monolithic package,and portage is correctly refusing

Re: [gentoo-user] Once again baffled by portage

2008-01-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 17 January 2008 16:28:24 Grant Edwards wrote: > How does one figure out where these "blocks" are coming from? > There are no other versions of kompare installed. > kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7 _is_ installed. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml -- Bo Andresen signature.asc

[gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage

2008-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-01-17, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Why won't portage let me install kompare? >> >># emerge --pretend kompare >> >>These are the packages that would be merged, in order: >> >>Calculating dependencies... done! >>

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2008-01-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 17 January 2008 17:10:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Itanium2. > > You don't want to go there. Trust me. > > It's a bastard evolution of one of Intel's worst ideas ever I thought that would be Pentium 4 EE. :P -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Network Stream from Pipe

2008-01-17 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 20:43 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:29:35 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > #!/bin/bash > > mencoder [...] -o - | tee video.mkv | stream-app > > > > So far it should work and vlc would be the natural choice for the > > streaming app. However, vlc se

Re: [gentoo-user] DNAT not working

2008-01-17 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Etaoin Shrdlu) writes: >On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> nat needs the following config at least: >> >> Networking -> Networking Options -> Network packet filtering framework >> (Netfilter) -> IP: Netfilter Configuration -> Full NAT >

Re: [gentoo-user] DNAT not working

2008-01-17 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan McKinnon) writes: >On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: >> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan McKinnon) writes: >> >Most likely he doesn't have the correct module loaded int he kernel >> >> As I said, the fact that

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2008-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 17 January 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:42:37 Tomas Papan wrote: > > in case that you want use 64bit system chose amd64 and > > -march=nocona > > OK, thanks. What then is IA64 for? Itanium2. You don't want to go there. Trust me. It's a bastard evoluti

Re: [gentoo-user] Once again baffled by portage

2008-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 17 January 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: > Why won't portage let me install kompare? > ># emerge --pretend kompare > >These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > >Calculating dependencies... done! >[ebuild N] kde-base/kompare-3.5.7 USE="arts -debug > -kde

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2008-01-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 17 January 2008 15:36:51 Kenneth Prugh wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:38:47 + > Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, thanks. What then is IA64 for? > > Intel Itanium processors. (Your T7100 is a Core2) Of course. Thanks again; also to Etaoin. -- Rgds Peter -- gento

[gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage

2008-01-17 Thread Guilherme Amadio
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:28:24PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > Why won't portage let me install kompare? >* kde-base/kdesdk > Description: KDE SDK: Cervisia, KBabel, KCachegrind, Kompare, > Umbrello,... > By what I understand, kdesdk already includes kompare, that is why it

[gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage

2008-01-17 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why won't portage let me install kompare? Because you already have it. ># emerge --pretend kompare > >These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > >Calculating dependencies... done! >[ebuild N] kde-base/kompare-3.5.7

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2008-01-17 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags > Intel Core 2 Duo/Quad / Xeon 51xx/53xx > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 15 > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU @ XXXGHz > > *32 bit profile (x86)* > > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-p

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2008-01-17 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:38:47 + Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:42:37 Tomas Papan wrote: > > > in case that you want use 64bit system chose amd64 and -march=nocona > > OK, thanks. What then is IA64 for? > Intel Itanium processors. (Your T7100 is a

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2008-01-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:42:37 Tomas Papan wrote: > in case that you want use 64bit system chose amd64 and -march=nocona OK, thanks. What then is IA64 for? -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Once again baffled by portage

2008-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
Why won't portage let me install kompare? # emerge --pretend kompare These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] kde-base/kompare-3.5.7 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama" [blocks B

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2008-01-17 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 17 January 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Just a tiny hijack :-) > > My new laptop will have a T7100 CPU. I'd like to know what CFLAGS to > use, but even before that should I use an AMD64 or IA64 installation > medium? Maybe this wiki page could help: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflag

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2008-01-17 Thread Tomas Papan
hello, in case that you want use 64bit system chose amd64 and -march=nocona BR tomas Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008 19:54:42 Kenneth Prugh wrote: > >> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:48:21 +0100 >> >> Cahn Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'll have soon a

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2008-01-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 19:54:42 Kenneth Prugh wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:48:21 +0100 > > Cahn Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'll have soon a new PC with Processor > > Intel Core2 Duo E6850 > > Which cflags do I need for it? > > Thank you very much. > > Roger > > CFLAG

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo on the Sales block?

2008-01-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 17 January 2008 05:08:56 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-01-17, Brian Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gentoo no longer exists legally, so I wouldn't worry. ;) > > It exists illegally? > > On my computers? > > I'm an outlaw! > > This is more exciting that I thought... No, Brian s

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending IMs from a script

2008-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:51:29 -0600, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > > I would have thought this was easy, but I've looked around and can't > > find a program that will send IMs from a script. I need to be able to > > send alerts to people from a monitoring program. > An alternate way to send alerts is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:19:48 + (UTC), Thufir wrote: > Let's turn this around: if Gentoo were to attract a larger user base I > posit that this would attract more developers. How do you draw that conclusion? How would attracting users who are unwilling to read documentation and get their hand

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:27:03 + (UTC), Thufir wrote: > > http://marc.info > > I prefer: > > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/topics What's wrong with http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ ? -- Neil Bothwick Scientists decode the first confirmed alien transmission from

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo on the Sales block?

2008-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:49:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Yeah, what does this mean? MySQL's software is distributed under the > terms of the GPL as an open source product. They have a more > restrictive license for their super-duper products that isn't GPL. The also sell MySQL under another

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2008, Thufir wrote: > >> On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:33:32 +, Qian Qiao wrote: >> >>> What extra do you archieve if you install your Gentoo from a Gentoo >>> LiveCD instead of a Knoppix CD? None! >>> >>> Stop binding you mind to the concept that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-17 Thread Dale
Thufir wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:17:11 +, Qian Qiao wrote: > > > >> I'm sorry this goes OT Dale, but unfortunately, my mail client cannot >> render html messages properly, and I trust a lot of people on the list >> have the same problem. If would be nice if you can post in plain text,

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-17 Thread Michael Schmarck
Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:58:15 -0200, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >> I completely agree with Alan, Gentoo is a metadistro, and it provides >> (by Handbook) a LOT of ways to install, > > Ok, but I would like to see all those sabayon users taken into the fold. Uhm,

Re: [gentoo-user] Touchpad in "absolute" mode

2008-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 17 January 2008, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > Am Mittwoch 16 Januar 2008 18:13:22 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > Hi all, > > > > I haven't seen this one before. My touchpad mouse works normally, > > until I lift my finger and place it somewhere else. Normally, the > > pointer would stay where it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 17 January 2008, Thufir wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:33:32 +, Qian Qiao wrote: > > What extra do you archieve if you install your Gentoo from a Gentoo > > LiveCD instead of a Knoppix CD? None! > > > > Stop binding you mind to the concept that "I have to install a > > Gentoo from

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo on the Sales block?

2008-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 17 January 2008, James wrote: > I only ask because Sun just paid > a billion dollars for MySQL > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/16/sun-mysql_1.html > > How is it that Open Source is for sale? It's not. MySQL (the company) is for sale and Sun buys the customer base. > GP