Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 30 Oktober 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> On 30 Oct, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have the same 'problem'. Which portage version are you using? >>> >> I'm using portage-2.2_rc12 on amd64 hardware. >> > > same her

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems you did not get the point. To attribute a floating point > number to an integer variable is perfectly valid, depending on the > specific program. The compiler normally does not even warn about > thi

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm coming into this thread kinda late, so feel free to ignore... > > ... but Jorge is right. This is easily picked up by a lint tool... and > good python programmers use them ;-). Some python-aware editors even > have

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

On Friday 31 October 2008 04:53:20 Iain Buchanan wrote: > Markos Chandras wrote: > > From my experience i would recommend to use alsa-in-kernel + alsa-libs + > > FYI that's alsa-lib not alsa-libs :) might confuse someone reading later. True. Sorry for the mistake :) > > > alsa-headers + alsa-util

[gentoo-user] OT: Python (was: package.keywords syntax?)

Hi Albert, on Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:11:04PM -0400, you wrote: > ... but Jorge is right. This is easily picked up by a lint tool... and > good python programmers use them ;-). Some python-aware editors even > have this functionality built in. Whow...I've been out of Python long enough to totall

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:38:55 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:39:10PM -0400, Eric Martin wrote: > > Why not go even easier and use bzcat,bzless,zcat,and zless > > Because bzgrep and many others haven't been written. Shhh, don't tell my computer that! [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008/10/31 Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Joshua Murphy wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Markos Chandras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> From my experience i would recommend to use alsa-in-kernel + alsa-libs + >>> alsa-headers + alsa-utils + alsa-tools >>> >>> This comb

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Python (was: package.keywords syntax?)

Am Friday 31 October 2008 10:54:23 schrieb Matthias Bethke: > Hi Albert, > > on Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:11:04PM -0400, you wrote: > > ... but Jorge is right. This is easily picked up by a lint tool... and > > good python programmers use them ;-). Some python-aware editors even > > have this funct

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

> But i read this after building alsa-lib: > * Please try in-kernel ALSA drivers instead of the alsa-drivers ebuild. > * If alsa-drivers works for you where a recent kernel does not, we want > * to know about this. Our e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * However, if you notice no sound output

[gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

Joshua Murphy wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Markos Chandras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From my experience i would recommend to use alsa-in-kernel + alsa-libs + alsa-headers + alsa-utils + alsa-tools This combination works perfect on my 3 gentoo machines All... *thinks a moment* 6 o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:05:47 +0100, Pupino wrote: > But i read this after building alsa-lib: > * Please try in-kernel ALSA drivers instead of the alsa-drivers ebuild. > * If alsa-drivers works for you where a recent kernel does not, we want > * to know about this. Our e-mail address is [EMAIL PROT

[gentoo-user] How to know when a package is due to go stable?

There are several packages that were thrown around on the list, or versions of packages, that I've come across that I figure I might want to take an active interest in. However, to avoid sending my boxes into a tailspin, I'm staying away from installing the still in development versions. What I'd l

[gentoo-user] Updating a system....catch-22...

I have a system that I'm just bringing back online after a few months down due to hardware issues and lack of resources to get new hardware. Some things are going okay - I got it past the e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-lib update fiasco (after hosing it and using GRML to get it back up). However, I'm now s

RE: [gentoo-user] Updating a system....catch-22...

-Original Message- From: BRM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 31, 2008 9:10 AM To: Users Gentoo Subject: [gentoo-user] Updating a systemcatch-22... I have a system that I'm just bringing back online after a few months down due to hardware issues and lack of resources to get

Re: [gentoo-user] How to know when a package is due to go stable?

James Homuth schrieb: > There are several packages that were thrown around on the list, or versions > of packages, that I've come across that I figure I might want to take an > active interest in. However, to avoid sending my boxes into a tailspin, I'm > staying away from installing the still in de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: void shameless_plug() { One of the reasons I love Gentoo is because it allowed me to recompile all apps without ALSA support and use OSS (version 4) instead which for me worked much, much better than ALSA. } g++ plug.cpp -o plug plug.cpp:

Re: [gentoo-user] How to know when a package is due to go stable?

James Homuth wrote: There are several packages that were thrown around on the list, or versions of packages, that I've come across that I figure I might want to take an active interest in. However, to avoid sending my boxes into a tailspin, I'm staying away from installing the still in developmen

[gentoo-user] did anyone just get 400+ emails from this list?

Hi, yes, I did... or at least I think. I'm using thunderbird (shredder) 3.0a2 (yes, aware of the risks, see the release name). all the emails are from before 10/09/2008 (that's september for you US folks). Funny thing is, the emails were deleted long ago, so I don't know how shredder woul

[gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

Iain Buchanan wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: void shameless_plug() { One of the reasons I love Gentoo is because it allowed me to recompile all apps without ALSA support and use OSS (version 4) instead which for me worked much, much better than ALSA. } g++ plug.cp

[gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

Justin wrote: James Homuth schrieb: There are several packages that were thrown around on the list, or versions of packages, that I've come across that I figure I might want to take an active interest in. However, to avoid sending my boxes into a tailspin, I'm staying away from installing the st

[gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel

I have a quastion related to vanilla-sources kernel. After upgrading vanilla-sources from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28_rc2 I am not able to boot anymore. I tried playing with menuconfig couple of times, but couldn't find what I have to change in order to make it work again. The error message while booting is

Re: [gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel

Marko Kocić wrote: I have a quastion related to vanilla-sources kernel. After upgrading vanilla-sources from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28_rc2 I am not able to boot anymore. I tried playing with menuconfig couple of times, but couldn't find what I have to change in order to make it work again. The error mes

[gentoo-user] Re: Error booting new kernel

Marko Kocić wrote: I have a quastion related to vanilla-sources kernel. After upgrading vanilla-sources from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28_rc2 I am not able to boot anymore. I tried playing with menuconfig couple of times, but couldn't find what I have to change in order to make it work again. The error mes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:37:58 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I wonder why emerge doesn't do something like this by default, > actually. Say a package has a serious exploit and an update was made. > If the package isn't in world, emerge will never grab the update. If it's not is world, or a depe

Re: [gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel

On Fri, October 31, 2008 10:41 am, Marko Kocić wrote: > I have a quastion related to vanilla-sources kernel. > > > After upgrading vanilla-sources from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28_rc2 I am not > able to boot anymore. I tried playing with menuconfig couple of times, but > couldn't find what I have to change i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008/10/31 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:05:47 +0100, Pupino wrote: > >> But i read this after building alsa-lib: >> * Please try in-kernel ALSA drivers instead of the alsa-drivers ebuild. >> * If alsa-drivers works for you where a recent kernel does not, we want >> *

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2008, 13:06, Stroller wrote: > > > Ok, that's OT, but it's not that difficult. They just moved the ftp > > > functionality from Internet explorer to Windows explorer > > [snip] > > > No, they just REMOVED any extended func

[gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:37:58 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I wonder why emerge doesn't do something like this by default, actually. Say a package has a serious exploit and an update was made. If the package isn't in world, emerge will never grab the update. If it's not

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: October 31, 2008 10:38 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable? Justin wrote: > James Homuth schrieb: >> There are several p

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:23:23AM +, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > Have you considered the use of webdav, or webdavs? I believe it works fine > with either MSIE and/or MSWE. Of course it works a treat with Konqueror. > The only challenge would be to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

James Homuth wrote: > > > That'll teach me to just read the Gentoo documentation. I figured emerge > --update --deep world covered system, too. > > > > As far as what I was told on -dev, it still does. If you use the @system or @world, then that is a different thing. I'm assuming what I was t

Re: [gentoo-user] How to know when a package is due to go stable?

James Homuth schrieb: > There are several packages that were thrown around on the list, or versions > of packages, that I've come across that I figure I might want to take an > active interest in. However, to avoid sending my boxes into a tailspin, I'm > staying away from installing the still in de

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put "resume=" into > my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... > > hibernate: Running /usr/sbin/s2disk ... > s2disk: Could not use the resume de

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:07 AM, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, > > I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry. > > After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I > got in a hurry, did not think and ran: > > emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err > sys-fs/e2fsprogs sys-lib

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo

On Friday 31 October 2008 19:53:28 Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:07 AM, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, > > > > I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry. > > > > After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I > > got in a hurry, did not think and ran: > > >

[gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel-2.5.0 emerge error

Hi everybody ! Is someone having a problem with xf86-driver-intel-2.5.0 compilation like this? ... In file included from /usr/include/xorg/vdif.h:24, from /usr/include/xorg/edid.h:15, from bios_reader.c:45: /usr/include/X11/Xmd.h:152: error: conflicting types for

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel-2.5.0 emerge error

On Friday 31 October 2008 21:56:56 Fernando Antunes wrote: > Hi everybody ! > > Is someone having a problem with xf86-driver-intel-2.5.0 compilation like > this? > > ... > In file included from /usr/include/xorg/vdif.h:24, > from /usr/include/xorg/edid.h:15, > from

Re: [gentoo-user] did anyone just get 400+ emails from this list?

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > yes, I did... or at least I think. I'm using thunderbird (shredder) 3.0a2 > (yes, aware of the risks, see the release name). > > all the emails are from before 10/09/2008 (that's september for you US > folks). > >

[gentoo-user] FIXED: unmerge boo_boo

Markos Chandras gmail.com> writes: > > > Here I tried (re) emerge wget: > emerge e2fsprogs again after unemerging the older version. If wget doesnt > work > put the .tar.gz of sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.2 on your /usr/portage/distfiles and > emerge it :) Many things failed. I could not use scp,

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

> mkswap /dev/sda6 > swapon /dev/sda6 Thanks, that worked. Having been bitten before by "doing the obvious", I was wondering if something else was required. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:11:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > If it's not is world, or a dependency of a world package, it's not > > needed and --depclean will catch it. > > No, it will not :P Don't ask me why, because I don't know. I only > know from experience that --depclean does not ca

[gentoo-user] Burn-in test

I just bought a new laptop: http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=019626&cid=896.645 Which packages should I emerge (and run) as a burn-in test? Note: I will run the burn-in off either a stock or custom-mastered Gentoo LiveDVD. If the disc needs custm mastering, please outl

[gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?

Why the hell do these packages depend on corefonts?: app-emulation/wine-1.1.6 net-www/netscape-flash-10_rc20080915 x11-misc/slim-1.3.1 It somehow makes sense with wine, maybe even - remotely - with flash. But why, why should *slim* need Windows fonts to work? -- hackerkey://v4sw5RUYhw2ln3pr5ck0

Re: [gentoo-user] Burn-in test

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just bought a new laptop: > http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=019626&cid=896.645 > Which packages should I emerge (and run) as a burn-in test? > Note: I will run the burn-in off either a stock or

Re: [gentoo-user] Burn-in test

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Joshua Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Out of an old habit of abusing windows boxes with prime95 at work... > > emerge gimps > mprime -t -w/tmp/ Err... that *should* have been... emerge gimps /opt/gimps/mprime -t -w/tmp/ -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?

Erik Hahn wrote: Why the hell do these packages depend on corefonts?: app-emulation/wine-1.1.6 net-www/netscape-flash-10_rc20080915 x11-misc/slim-1.3.1 It somehow makes sense with wine, maybe even - remotely - with flash. But why, why should *slim* need Windows fonts to work? According to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?

> Why the hell do these packages depend on corefonts?: > > app-emulation/wine-1.1.6 > net-www/netscape-flash-10_rc20080915 > x11-misc/slim-1.3.1 > > It somehow makes sense with wine, maybe even - remotely - with flash. > But why, why should *slim* need Windows fonts to work? Not only that, but why

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:51:58PM -0400, Joshua Murphy wrote > Umm... if you're hibernating to the same swap partition you're using > when the system's live... I'm pretty sure you can't do that... even if > everything does manage to fit, having sort out what belongs back in > ram and what doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Burn-in test

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Joshua Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Joshua Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Out of an old habit of abusing windows boxes with prime95 at work... >> >> emerge gimps >> mprime -t -w/tmp/ > > Err... that *should* have been.

[gentoo-user] Input in Vmware console is delay

Hi folks, I have installed gentoo in Vmware, currently the problem is when I input some command it will delay 1 second shows on console screen. I have checked the system, there are no abnormal process, system load is OK. When try to use Windows Putty to connect gentoo box, no delay, erverything

Re: [gentoo-user] Input in Vmware console is delay

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Astomi Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have installed gentoo in Vmware, currently the problem is when I input > some command it will delay 1 second shows on console screen. > > I have checked the system, there are no abnormal process, system load i

Re: [gentoo-user] Input in Vmware console is delay

Astomi Chen wrote: Hi folks, I have installed gentoo in Vmware, currently the problem is when I input some command it will delay 1 second shows on console screen. I have checked the system, there are no abnormal process, system load is OK. When try to use Windows Putty to connect gentoo bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Input in Vmware console is delay

I agree with you. Now my console still in 800*600 mode, I have tried lots of ways, but failed. http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:35

Re: [gentoo-user] Input in Vmware console is delay

Not yet, I will give a try. On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:03 PM, deface <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Astomi Chen wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I have installed gentoo in Vmware, currently the problem is when I input >> some command it will delay 1 second shows on console screen. >> >> I have checked the

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

Joshua Murphy wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Walter Dnes<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put "resume=" into my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... [snip] What did I did? And how do I straighten it out?

Re: [gentoo-user] Input in Vmware console is delay

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Astomi Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not yet, I will give a try. > If this is a Gentoo VM emerge open-vm-tools...my Gentoo VMs work very well with it :). You might need to do echo app-emulation/open-vm-tools >> /etc/portage/package.keywords first. Also within

Re: [gentoo-user] Input in Vmware console is delay

After install the open-vm-tool, can't solve the input delay problem. -How can I check the vm-tool is working or not? I haven't install X11 server and xorg, so when install xf86-video-vmware meet a problem.It's normal. Can you share your .config and menu.lst, I think may be some setting not enabl