Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2010/11/2 Gary Golden : > Hi, list. > I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include > /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. > > Can I safely do: > > mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage > ln -s /etc/portage /var/lib/portage/world > > Will portage update handle it prope

Re: [gentoo-user] HP C4795 All-in-One

2010-11-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2010/11/2 CJoeB : >  Hi, > > Before someone asks "Haven't you posted this before?", I'll respond, > "Sort of, but not really!" > > Anyway, I've reread all the previous posts.  Mostly, they were related > to the printer portion of the device.  The printer works fine. > > The current problem is relat

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2010-11-02 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Possible noob question. I have installed a 64 bit gentoo on my intel Pentium D machine. Now I am reading through /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example My CFLAGS on that machine is the default currently: CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" But according to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-am

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2010-11-02 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 02.11.2010 09:43, schrieb Coert Waagmeester: Hello all, Hello! Possible noob question. We all was noobs once, maybe I am still ;-) If I do change, how do I recompile everything? (like --newuse for USE changes?) To recompile all use emerge -e world The switch -e lets portage think tha

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 10:43 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Coert Waagmeester did opine thusly: > Hello all, > > Possible noob question. > > I have installed a 64 bit gentoo on my intel Pentium D machine. > Now I am reading through /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example > > My CFLA

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Gary Golden
On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2010/11/2 Gary Golden : >> Hi, list. >> I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include >> /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. >> >> Can I safely do: >> >> mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage >> ln -s /etc/portage /var

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2010-11-02 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Tuesday 02 November 2010 2:13:41 pm Coert Waagmeester wrote: > I have installed a 64 bit gentoo on my intel Pentium D machine. also as far as i know, core2 is for core 2 duo quad etc cpus ... not for pentium D. > -O2 -march=core2 -pipe use native as Alan suggested. or refer to http://www.g

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:54 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden did opine thusly: > On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > 2010/11/2 Gary Golden : > >> Hi, list. > >> I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include > >> /var/lib/portage/world file into t

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Gary Golden wrote: On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/11/2 Gary Golden : Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I safely do: mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage ln -s /etc/portage /var/

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2010-11-02 Thread Chris Reffett
I feel like the Pentium D is "march=prescott" though, again, native should work fine as well. Chris Reffett On 11/02/2010 06:40 AM, Yohan Pereira wrote: > On Tuesday 02 November 2010 2:13:41 pm Coert Waagmeester wrote: >> I have installed a 64 bit gentoo on my intel Pentium D machine. > also as far

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git

2010-11-02 Thread BRM
The cvs2svn project also has a cvs2git tool. http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/ HTH, Ben - Original Message > From: "fe...@crowfix.com" > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 12:02:58 AM > Subject: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git > > I have a small RCS re

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Gary Golden
On 11/02/2010 03:53 PM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Gary Golden wrote: >> On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >>> 2010/11/2 Gary Golden : Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git

2010-11-02 Thread felix
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:41:27AM -0700, BRM wrote: > The cvs2svn project also has a cvs2git tool. > > http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/ Interesting ... downloaded and tried it, but no time for a full reading of the docs ... got an empty git repository so I will have to explore it further later :-) Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git

2010-11-02 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: "fe...@crowfix.com" > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:41:27AM -0700, BRM wrote: > > The cvs2svn project also has a cvs2git tool. > > > > http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/ > > Interesting ... downloaded and tried it, but no time for a full > reading of the docs ... got

[gentoo-user] Search for a file that is not installed in the system?

2010-11-02 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not currently installed in the system? For example: $ equery belongs zzdir [ Searching for file(s) zzdir in *... ] dev-libs/zziplib-0.13.59-r1 (/usr/bin/zzdir) $ eix -I zziplib [I] dev-libs/zziplib Available versions: 0.13.58

Re: [gentoo-user] Search for a file that is not installed in the system?

2010-11-02 Thread Dale
Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not currently installed in the system? For example: $ equery belongs zzdir [ Searching for file(s) zzdir in *... ] dev-libs/zziplib-0.13.59-r1 (/usr/bin/zzdir) $ eix -I zziplib [I] dev-libs/zziplib Availab

Re: [gentoo-user] Search for a file that is not installed in the system?

2010-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Kfir Lavi writes: > Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not > currently installed in the system? Have a look here: http://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php/Special:PFLQuery2 This is not 100% reliable, as sometimes the files that get installed depend on USE flags and s

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Stroller
On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote: > ... > hard links will only work if /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage are on the > same > filesystem. Frequently, they are not. For small values of frequently. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Stroller wrote: > On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > ... > > hard links will only work if /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage are on the > > same filesystem. Frequently, they are not. > > For small values of frequently. > > Stroller. for every sane syst

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Gary Golden
> /var is a candidate for surprisingly filling up / to 100% so it is a smart > and > sane choice to put it on its own partition where damage will be reduced to > some log files or an aborted emerge. > > It is safe for everyday laptop with 500Gb to have solid / ;) -- Gary Golden

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: > > /var is a candidate for surprisingly filling up / to 100% so it is a > > smart and sane choice to put it on its own partition where damage will > > be reduced to some log files or an aborted emerge. > > It is safe for everyday laptop with 500Gb t

Re: [gentoo-user] Search for a file that is not installed in the system?

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:25 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Kfir Lavi did opine thusly: > Hi, > Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not > currently installed in the system? > For example: > $ equery belongs zzdir > [ Searching for file(s) zzdir in *... ] > dev-li

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:19 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: > On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Stroller wrote: > > On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > ... > > > hard links will only work if /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage are on > > > t

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:19 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Volker > > Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: > > On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Stroller wrote: > > > On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > ... > > > > hard links wil

[gentoo-user] Re: Search for a file that is not installed in the system?

2010-11-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-02, Kfir Lavi wrote: > Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not > currently installed in the system? With a meta-distribution, that's not quite possible to do in a definitive way. With a binarydistribution like Fedora or Ubuntu, you know what files are going

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:21 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: > On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:19 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Volker > > > > Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: > > > On Tuesday 02

[gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: > Hi, list. > I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include > /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. > > Can I safely do: > > mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage > ln -s /etc/portage /var/lib/portage/world > > Will por

[gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread walt
On 11/02/2010 03:05 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Right now I sit with 60+ SLES 9 machines that cannot be taken offline for any > reason, and EVERY SINGLE ONE has one giant filesystem... > How did this happen? The man in charge three managers ago thought this was a > cool way to configure critical

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 02 November 2010 22:05:21 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Relief! :-) -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:21 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Francesco Talamona did opine thusly: > On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: > > Hi, list. > > I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include > > /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:49 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, walt did opine thusly: > On 11/02/2010 03:05 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Right now I sit with 60+ SLES 9 machines that cannot be taken offline for > > any reason, and EVERY SINGLE ONE has one giant filesystem... > > > > How di

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:21 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Francesco Talamona did opine thusly: On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the

Re: [gentoo-user] HP C4795 All-in-One Att'n Neil Bothwick

2010-11-02 Thread CJoeB
On 11/02/10 07:27, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2010/11/2 CJoeB : >> Hi, >> >> >> The current problem is related to the scanner. My previous post was >> about not being able to use xsane as a normal user, it would only work >> as root. Since posting that, I've done upgrades to my system and for >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Francesco Talamona < francesco.talam...@know.eu> wrote: > On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: > > Hi, list. > > I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include > > /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. > > > > Can I safely do: >