Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 24 March 2011 22:07:28 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:08:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:19:39 Dale wrote: > > > I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has > > > happened to many others, see if you say the sam

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:19:39 Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Thu, March 24, 2011 12:30 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > md raid devices can do barriers.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files?

2011-03-24 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:09:27 +0100, Jarry wrote: I know, there is "qfile" with "-o" option, but its syntax is not clear to me. I tried "qfile -o *" but that is apparently not the correct syntax, as all I got were a few top-level subdirectories and nothing more...

Re: [gentoo-user] Do not emerge firefox 4.0 if you do not want gconf

2011-03-24 Thread pk
On 2011-03-24 22:37, Sebastian Günther wrote: > just to warn everyone of you readers, who use ~ARCH: > firefox 4.0 arrived with a dep to gconf. > > A big show stopper for the all who do not want to have any gnome > dependencies, but want to have the new Firefox. > > You have been warned Mostly

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater

2011-03-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Dale wrote: > And if we should set python to 2.7, should we remove python-2.6?  I don't > think we want to break something, portage in particular.  ;-) I have no trace of python-2.6 on my system at this point and I'm getting along just fine with 2.7 as my active

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater

2011-03-24 Thread Amankwah
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 07:28:35PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > One of my machines just saw a python-2.7 update and the ebuild was > > good enough to remind me to run python-updater, but it didn't suggest > > that I run eselect python and set the active version to 2.7. > > > > Should

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater

2011-03-24 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: One of my machines just saw a python-2.7 update and the ebuild was good enough to remind me to run python-updater, but it didn't suggest that I run eselect python and set the active version to 2.7. Should this new version python be selected first as the active python 2 version

[gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater

2011-03-24 Thread Mark Knecht
One of my machines just saw a python-2.7 update and the ebuild was good enough to remind me to run python-updater, but it didn't suggest that I run eselect python and set the active version to 2.7. Should this new version python be selected first as the active python 2 version and then run python-

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files?

2011-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:09:27 +0100, Jarry wrote: > I know, there is "qfile" with "-o" option, but its syntax is > not clear to me. I tried "qfile -o *" but that is apparently > not the correct syntax, as all I got were a few top-level > subdirectories and nothing more... qfile operates on the fil

[gentoo-user] Do not emerge firefox 4.0 if you do not want gconf

2011-03-24 Thread Sebastian Günther
Hi, just to warn everyone of you readers, who use ~ARCH: firefox 4.0 arrived with a dep to gconf. A big show stopper for the all who do not want to have any gnome dependencies, but want to have the new Firefox. You have been warned Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " | _

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread Dale
Bill Longman wrote: On 03/24/2011 11:17 AM, Dale wrote: kashani wrote: On 3/24/2011 10:19 AM, Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your backups are good and they can rest

[gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files?

2011-03-24 Thread Jarry
Hi, is there any way to find completely all "orphaned" files on my system (recursivelly from /)? I mean all files (and directories) which do not belong to any ebuild installed... I know, there is "qfile" with "-o" option, but its syntax is not clear to me. I tried "qfile -o *" but that is appare

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:08:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:19:39 Dale wrote: > > I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has > > happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your > > backups are good and they can restore. > > W

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:19:39 -0500, Dale wrote: > I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has > happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your > backups are good and they can restore. I must be one of the luckiest people around. LVM messes up for ma

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 24 March 2011 15:38:02 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thu, March 24, 2011 12:30 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> > md raid devices can do barriers. Don't know about

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:19:39 Dale wrote: > I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has > happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your > backups are good and they can restore. What is this "mess up after an upgrade" of which you speak? I've us

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/24/2011 11:17 AM, Dale wrote: > kashani wrote: >> On 3/24/2011 10:19 AM, Dale wrote: >>> >>> I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has >>> happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your >>> backups are good and they can restore. >>> >>> Dale >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread Dale
kashani wrote: On 3/24/2011 10:19 AM, Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your backups are good and they can restore. Dale Meh, boot a liveCD and fix it which took all of 15 minutes

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread kashani
On 3/24/2011 10:19 AM, Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your backups are good and they can restore. Dale Meh, boot a liveCD and fix it which took all of 15 minutes. I don't see that

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 12:30 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: md raid devices can do barriers. Don't know about lvm. But lvm is such

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 12:30 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > md raid devices can do barriers. Don't know about lvm. But lvm is such >> a >> > can >> > of worms I am surprised

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 2:10 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 19:57, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 20

[gentoo-user] rsync include exclude of regex conundrum

2011-03-24 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, I want to rsync all the directories and files that contain the date "2011.03.03". Everything else should not be copied. I did a lot of experiments and read web pages, but can't solve this conundrum. kfir@goofy /tmp/rsync.test $ find . ./b ./a ./a/aaa ./a/aaa/2011.03.03 ./a/2011.03.04 ./a/2011.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 19:57, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> -- snip -- >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:57 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> -- snip -- >> Can't hurt to try, now that I've gotten a bootable kernel. Can always fallback to the previous one. >>> >>> Let me know how that goes. >>> >> >> Compiling all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > -- snip -- > Hmm... I don't use kernel-modules in my Xen domu's (All are

Re: [gentoo-user] hardened gentoo and distcc

2011-03-24 Thread attila boczko
Hello, Few month ago I played with that. My experience was that I need to use hardened gentoo for distcc to work correctrly. So I tried the virtualbox setup. HTH Best Regards. On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Coert Waagmeester < lgro...@waagmeester.co.za> wrote: > Hello all, > > > Only just

Re: [gentoo-user] hardened gentoo and distcc

2011-03-24 Thread klondike
El 24/03/11 11:13, Coert Waagmeester escribió: > Hello all, > > > Only just started playing with hardened gentoo. > > I have a few normal gentoo amd64 machines already running. > Can I add those to the distcc config for the hardened box? No > Or are there indeed special things with the compiler on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld wrote: -- snip -- >>> Hmm... I don't use kernel-modules in my Xen domu's (All are PV). I >>> wonder >>> if compiling them into the kernel migh

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:04:23 Mr. Jarry wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > >> > >> wrote: > >> > And if you don't care about barriers, j

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> Hmmm... currently I set xencons=hvc0 (also in /etc/inittab, >>> s/tty0/hvc0/) >>> >>> I'll see what happens if I return them to tty0. >> >> Good luck there :) > > No joy. Changing xencons

[gentoo-user] hardened gentoo and distcc

2011-03-24 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Only just started playing with hardened gentoo. I have a few normal gentoo amd64 machines already running. Can I add those to the distcc config for the hardened box? Or are there indeed special things with the compiler on hardened gentoo? Regards, Coert

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thu, March 24, 2011 9:20 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:47, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 201

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 9:20 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:47, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> >> >>> >>> More up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:47, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > >> >> More update on my odyssey. >> >> I went back to HVM and reboot using

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:04:23 Mr. Jarry wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> wrote: >> > And if you don't care about barriers, jfs might be a good choice. >> >> Knowing nothing about "barriers" I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > More update on my odyssey. > > I went back to HVM and reboot using the Install CD. I did a 'chroot' > followed by 'rc-update add ss