Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/01/2010 03:38 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 12:49 PM, Dale wrote: Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them and what drive is what without act

[gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

Hi all, I'd like to install mcollective and developer provides its ebuild. so I've followed http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay for adding a local overlay. *I had a problem when adding "source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf" to my make.conf. That file does not exists and layman has no mak

Re: [gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

Arnau Bria writes: > I'd like to install mcollective and developer provides its ebuild. > so I've followed http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay for adding a > local overlay. > > *I had a problem when adding > "source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf" to my make.conf. That file > does not exi

Re: [gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

On 01/09/10 11:21, Arnau Bria wrote: Hi all, I'd like to install mcollective and developer provides its ebuild. so I've followed http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay for adding a local overlay. *I had a problem when adding "source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf" to my make.conf. That fil

Re: [gentoo-user] help with Persistent hard disk device names with udev

My udev rules use a combination of KERNEL, ATTRS(serial), and SYMLINK to create named entries in /dev for my 2 USB hard drives. With the following rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules: KERNEL=="sd*", ATTRS{serial}=="FD...7264507", SYMLINK+="WD1" KERNEL=="sd*", ATTRS{serial}=="FD...7285643"

Re: [gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

Hi, Le 01/09/2010 12:21, Arnau Bria a écrit : > so, anyone with more experience could help me? is there a real problem > with the ebuild? or the problem is mine? (most probable :-) ). An error was introduced in the latest version of the ebuild. replace DEPEND="server? || ( =dev-ruby/stomp-1.1 >=

Re: [gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:25:03 +0100 Ian Lee wrote: Hi Ian, > Try replacing the DEPEND= line with > > DEPEND="server? ( || ( =dev-ruby/stomp-1.1 >=dev-ruby/stomp-1.1.6 ) ) fails on manifest: # ebuild mcollective-0.4.8.ebuild manifest Error(s) in metadata for 'multi-tool/mcollective-0.4.8': DEP

Re: [gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:10:03 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: > Arnau Bria writes: Hi Alex, [...] > Lyman is a different thing. Nowadays its defaultlocation is > /var/lib/layman (I think), so to use it you need to source the > make.conf in this directory. But fr your own overlay, just set the > PORTDI

Re: [gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:17:11 +0200, Jil Larner wrote: > Btw, you should keep the portage categories in your overlay, so the > mcollective package would be under dev-ruby, not multi-tool. However, > there’s no obligation ;) As long as you don't mind portage complaining about it. If you want to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:23:03 +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: > I've never understood why distro's still bother with more, it's so > impractical. Lowest common denominator. Like vi, it may be crap but all Linux installs are expected to have it. -- Neil Bothwick Love is grand. Divorce is a few grand

Re: [gentoo-user] help with Persistent hard disk device names with udev

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:33:01 +0200, Pau Peris wrote: > Hi, thanks a lot for the answers. The name of the rules file is > 00_whatever.rules, as far as i know there's also an option which > prevents to modifye the setted rules. PARAM:=value The colon says don't let a subsequent rule change this.

Re: [gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:32:45 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:17:11 +0200, Jil Larner wrote: > > > Btw, you should keep the portage categories in your overlay, so the > > mcollective package would be under dev-ruby, not multi-tool. > > However, there’s no obligation ;) > > As l

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"

Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: On Monday 30 August 2010, econti wrote: Hi all is it possible to page the output of "emerge -NDpvu world" in a terminal? 'emerge -NDpvu world | more' does not work. emilio works with less... Not for me! :-( Bye emilio

[gentoo-user] Overlay server down

Can't reach overlays.gentoo.org alias pelican.gentoo.org. Is the server down? Alternatives? Al

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay server down

Al wrote: Can't reach overlays.gentoo.org alias pelican.gentoo.org. Is the server down? Alternatives? Al Someone on another list said they were down possibly from a power failure. I had trouble with the forums a bit ago. It was only a few minutes but not sure they are related. Dal

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders

Hi, I routinely use thunderbird to access mail on a cyrus IMAP server with very large folders (thousands of archived messages). IMAP support in the 3.1 series seems quite stable to me (whereas 2.x had frequent problems with folder indexes and 3.0.x tended to hang randomly while performing server

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: External sound card

Am 22.08.2010 13:59, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Hi list! > > I'm looking for an external sound card with USB, Firewire or ExpressCard > connector. It must not be professional equipment - just something with a > working SPDIF output (optical preferred). If the card can be hot-plugged > and unplugge

Re: [gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

On 01/09/10 13:57, Arnau Bria wrote: On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:25:03 +0100 Ian Lee wrote: Hi Ian, Try replacing the DEPEND= line with DEPEND="server? ( || ( =dev-ruby/stomp-1.1>=dev-ruby/stomp-1.1.6 ) ) fails on manifest: # ebuild mcollective-0.4.8.ebuild manifest Error(s) in metadata for 'mu

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

On Tuesday 31 August 2010 20:30:55 Mick wrote: > > But this is apparently not the proper way, because after > > restarting the server, apache does not show my web-page > > reporting there is no such a database. I checked it with > > phpmyadmin, and really, there is absolutely no database > > in mys

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

2010/9/1 Aniruddha : > On Tuesday 31 August 2010 20:30:55 Mick wrote: >> > But this is apparently not the proper way, because after >> > restarting the server, apache does not show my web-page >> > reporting there is no such a database. I checked it with >> > phpmyadmin, and really, there is absolu

[gentoo-user] Re: Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"

On 09/01/2010 06:38 AM, econti wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: On Monday 30 August 2010, econti wrote: Hi all is it possible to page the output of "emerge -NDpvu world" in a terminal? 'emerge -NDpvu world | more' does not work. emilio works with less... Not for me! :-( Hm. Work

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

Mick wrote: 2010/9/1 Aniruddha: On Tuesday 31 August 2010 20:30:55 Mick wrote: But this is apparently not the proper way, because after restarting the server, apache does not show my web-page reporting there is no such a database. I checked it with phpmyadmin, and really, there is abs

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

Apparently, though unproven, at 22:15 on Wednesday 01 September 2010, Mick did opine thusly: > 2010/9/1 Aniruddha : > > On Tuesday 31 August 2010 20:30:55 Mick wrote: > >> > But this is apparently not the proper way, because after > >> > restarting the server, apache does not show my web-page > >

[gentoo-user] Re: "hotplugging" usb devices no longer working

On 08/30/2010 01:49 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have a sansa MP3 player and a Flip Video. Each plugs in as a usb device and presents as a fat file system. Both used to work, but don't today (it is has been a while--few months--since I last plugged them in. Do the devices show up in dmesg like

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

Dale writes: > I'm no expert on this package so take this with a grain of salt. Mine > just updated and portage said to run "emerge @preserved-rebuild" which > I did. Thing is, one of the packages failed to emerge so here I sit. > The error says something is missing which is the same reason the

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

On 2010-09-01 5:18 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > I think it's not an urgent problem when this happens. With portage > 2.2 and the preserve-libs FEATURE, You are assuming everyone runs unstable portage??

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

On Wednesday 01 September 2010 22:25:39 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2010-09-01 5:18 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I think it's not an urgent problem when this happens. With portage > > 2.2 and the preserve-libs FEATURE, > > You are assuming everyone runs unstable portage?? I'm running vanilla here, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:18 AM, econti wrote: > Hi all > is it possible to page the output of "emerge -NDpvu world" in a terminal? > 'emerge -NDpvu world | more' does not work. > > emilio > > You can run it under "script" and it recrods everything to a file, and look at the file however you like

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:18 AM, econti wrote: > > Hi all > > is it possible to page the output of "emerge -NDpvu world" in a terminal? > > 'emerge -NDpvu world | more' does not work. > > If you use screen you can then use the scrollback

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"

Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:18 AM, econti mailto:contiemi...@alice.it>> wrote: > Hi all > is it possible to page the output of "emerge -NDpvu world" in a terminal?

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

Tanstaafl writes: > On 2010-09-01 5:18 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I think it's not an urgent problem when this happens. With portage > > 2.2 and the preserve-libs FEATURE, > > You are assuming everyone runs unstable portage?? No, but I replied to Dale, and he apparently does. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

Alex Schuster wrote: Tanstaafl writes: On 2010-09-01 5:18 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I think it's not an urgent problem when this happens. With portage 2.2 and the preserve-libs FEATURE, You are assuming everyone runs unstable portage?? No, but I replied to Dale, and h

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"

On Wednesday 01 September 2010 23:39:25 Dale wrote: > Hmmm, whatever you set it to, you will be a few lines short. The > error will always be just above what you can scroll back to. lol So you've noticed that too, eh? -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

[gentoo-user] Contest: Gentoo Prefix on Cygwin

Do you understand the idea of Java -- having a common runtime layer to run your program on any OS? But the Java is limited to Java. Cygwin on the other hand brings the whole Posix environmet to windows. But then the Cygwin administration tool is limited to windows. The answer from Gentoo Prefix:

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

On 9/1/2010 1:00 PM, Aniruddha wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2010 20:30:55 Mick wrote: But this is apparently not the proper way, because after restarting the server, apache does not show my web-page reporting there is no such a database. I checked it with phpmyadmin, and really, there is absolute