Re: [gentoo-user] Software for LCD Data Center

2011-08-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 August 2011, at 10:40, czernitko wrote: > … > I've recently bought LCD television from Panasonic (TX-L32E30E Viera). It is > connected to my home LAN and it should be able to access data on local > computers using some Data Center feature. From what I've heard, it is > something little bi

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-20 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 20 August 2011 21:21, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On 08/21/2011 09:00 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >> Yes, df -i says /portage is out of inodes. I've never run into that >> before. I reran mke2fs to increase the inode count and that fixed >> things. > > Sorry for the drop in, but I never knew tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Do you block outbound ports?

2011-08-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
I can feel for 'just-do-whatever-the-damn-auditor-says-so-he-can-stfu' :) I don't really block incoming traffic; instead, I use the TARPIT target (xtables-addons) to make the lifes of portscanners suck ;) Rgds, On 2011-08-21, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sat 20 August 2011 10:38:43 Grant did opin

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-20 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 08/21/2011 09:00 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Yes, df -i says /portage is out of inodes. I've never run into that > before. I reran mke2fs to increase the inode count and that fixed > things. > Sorry for the drop in, but I never knew that mke2fs can increase the number of inodes! I think I'll n

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-20 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 20 August 2011 20:05, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Hilco Wijbenga > wrote: >> However, when I try to extract the Portage snapshot, I get "No space >> left on device" a long way into the untar process. According to df >> /portage (i.e. /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage) is only

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-20 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 20 August 2011 18:52, wrote: > Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> It's been quite a few years but I decided to try another Gentoo >> install (on a VirtualBox instance). I wanted to try out some new >> things... >> >> I created a ton of partitions including /usr (I want to see if I can >

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > However, when I try to extract the Portage snapshot, I get "No space > left on device" a long way into the untar process. According to df > /portage (i.e. /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage) is only 35% full. In fact, not > a single partition or mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-20 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Sunday 21 August 2011 02:08:51 Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> >> >>> Could I just export the entire laptop - everything from the root >>> directory and below - and chroot into that over the network? Then I >>> wouldn't even

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-20 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 21 August 2011 02:08:51 Paul Hartman wrote: Could I just export the entire laptop - everything from the root directory and below - and chroot into that over the network? Then I wouldn't even need to emerge -k... No, I tried that and got myself tied in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files

2011-08-20 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: 110820 Dale wrote: This is based on a quick read of your post. Thanks for trying to help, but perhaps a bit too quick (smile) ? I was actually on the puter to check the weather before leaving. I did want to try at least. From the other post, it appears I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Mercurial Server

2011-08-20 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 08/21/2011 03:43 AM, Matthew Finkel wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I managed to configure mercurial-server on my gentoo vps, and add my >> public key for the root user to it. >> >> I can ssh to hg@myvps. >> > I started to write some questio

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files : SOLVED

2011-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
110820 Philip Webb wrote: > I've run into a strange problem updating my netbook. > I merged glib-2.28.8 successfully as part of a Revdep-Rebuild job, > it being a dep for one of the pkgs in the R-R list. > However after that, merging gtk+-2.24.4 librsvg-2.34.0 libglade-2.6.4 > all failed with

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 21 August 2011 02:08:51 Paul Hartman wrote: > Could I just export the entire laptop - everything from the root > directory and below - and chroot into that over the network? Then I > wouldn't even need to emerge -k... No, I tried that and got myself tied in knots - well, actually it was

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-20 Thread covici
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Hi all, > > It's been quite a few years but I decided to try another Gentoo > install (on a VirtualBox instance). I wanted to try out some new > things... > > I created a ton of partitions including /usr (I want to see if I can > get that to work), /portage, and /distfi

[gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-20 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
Hi all, It's been quite a few years but I decided to try another Gentoo install (on a VirtualBox instance). I wanted to try out some new things... I created a ton of partitions including /usr (I want to see if I can get that to work), /portage, and /distfiles. The idea was to mount /portage on to

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-20 Thread victor romanchuk
> Both machines contain "distcc" in FEATURES. It's not using > -march=native. I've tried various -jN values with no real difference > in performance. only client (your laptop) machine should be distcc featured. for server (desktop) that feature is useless > On the desktop, /etc/conf.d/distcc con

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 20 August 2011 23:56:08 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I have a fast desktop computer and a slow laptop. Both are ~amd64 >> Gentoo. After some of the recent discussions about Gentoo on slow >> devices, I thought I'd dust off the laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 20 August 2011 23:56:08 Paul Hartman wrote: > I have a fast desktop computer and a slow laptop. Both are ~amd64 > Gentoo. After some of the recent discussions about Gentoo on slow > devices, I thought I'd dust off the laptop and try to bring it up to > date. > > I'd like to use distcc

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files

2011-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
110820 Dale wrote: > This is based on a quick read of your post. Thanks for trying to help, but perhaps a bit too quick (smile) ? > If you are just now noticing that .la files are missing, > they have been removing .la files for quite some time now. As I said, the files were created by the same

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files

2011-08-20 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: I've run into a strange problem updating my netbook. I merged glib-2.28.8 successfully as part of a Revdep-Rebuild job, it being a dep for one of the pkgs in the R-R list. However after that, merging gtk+-2.24.4 librsvg-2.34.0 libglade-2.6.4 all failed with a libtool error

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files : PS

2011-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
Yes, I did run 'lafilefixer --justfixit', but it had no effect. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchass

[gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I have a fast desktop computer and a slow laptop. Both are ~amd64 Gentoo. After some of the recent discussions about Gentoo on slow devices, I thought I'd dust off the laptop and try to bring it up to date. I'd like to use distcc to make the desktop do all the compiling during emerges. I've n

Re: [gentoo-user] Do you block outbound ports?

2011-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Grant wrote: > I like the policy of blocking all ports in and out with a firewall and > only opening the ones you need.  Bittorrent makes that difficult since > it connects out to unpredictable ports.  Do you block outbound ports > with a firewall or only inbound?

Re: [gentoo-user] Mercurial Server

2011-08-20 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hi, > > I managed to configure mercurial-server on my gentoo vps, and add my > public key for the root user to it. > > I can ssh to hg@myvps. > > But this is what I get when I run hg clone ssh://hg@myvps/hgadmin: > > running ssh hg@myvp

[gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files

2011-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
I've run into a strange problem updating my netbook. I merged glib-2.28.8 successfully as part of a Revdep-Rebuild job, it being a dep for one of the pkgs in the R-R list. However after that, merging gtk+-2.24.4 librsvg-2.34.0 libglade-2.6.4 all failed with a libtool error : "libtool: link: /u

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-08-20 Thread Sebastian Beßler
As always when I want to do anything like this there comes something more important along and occupies all of my time. So migration to systemd is stoped for now. Hope I will come to it soon. Greets Sebastian Am 20.08.2011 22:22, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > looking fwd to your report. > greet

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-08-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.08.2011 00:54, schrieb Sebastian Beßler: >> I'd be happy to discuss these things with you gentoo-users. > > I will use that offer and will keep you, and everyone else here, up > to date and posted. looking fwd to your report. greets, Stefan

[gentoo-user] Re: Do you block outbound ports?

2011-08-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/20/2011 08:38 PM, Grant wrote: I like the policy of blocking all ports in and out with a firewall and only opening the ones you need. Bittorrent makes that difficult since it connects out to unpredictable ports. Do you block outbound ports with a firewall or only inbound? I block neithe

Re: [gentoo-user] Do you block outbound ports?

2011-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat 20 August 2011 10:38:43 Grant did opine thusly: > I like the policy of blocking all ports in and out with a firewall > and only opening the ones you need. Bittorrent makes that > difficult since it connects out to unpredictable ports. Do you > block outbound ports with a firewall or only i

[gentoo-user] Mercurial Server

2011-08-20 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Hi, I managed to configure mercurial-server on my gentoo vps, and add my public key for the root user to it. I can ssh to hg@myvps. But this is what I get when I run hg clone ssh://hg@myvps/hgadmin: running ssh hg@myvps "hg -R hgadmin serve --stdio" remote: Traceback (most recent call last): re

[gentoo-user] Do you block outbound ports?

2011-08-20 Thread Grant
I like the policy of blocking all ports in and out with a firewall and only opening the ones you need. Bittorrent makes that difficult since it connects out to unpredictable ports. Do you block outbound ports with a firewall or only inbound? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for LCD Data Center

2011-08-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 10:40:37 czernitko wrote: > Hello list! > I've recently bought LCD television from Panasonic (TX-L32E30E Viera). It > is connected to my home LAN and it should be able to access data on local > computers using some Data Center feature. From what I've heard, it is > something

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3.1 USE flags, okay to 'ignore' differences?

2011-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat 20 August 2011 22:13:07 Pandu Poluan did opine thusly: > I hope someone can shed me some light here. > > I keep finding myself doing time-consuming emerges for my Gentoo > (virtual) systems (e.g., gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13, emerge -e, and so > on). So, I found myself wanting to build a so-calle

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:58:53 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: > On 2011-08-20, Mick wrote: [snip] > > This is madness. Is there anything we can do to stop it? [top posting corrected] > Wel... > > ... the Gentoo project can always fork e2fsprogs .

[gentoo-user] stage3.1 USE flags, okay to 'ignore' differences?

2011-08-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
I hope someone can shed me some light here. I keep finding myself doing time-consuming emerges for my Gentoo (virtual) systems (e.g., gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13, emerge -e, and so on). So, I found myself wanting to build a so-called 'stage3.1' tarball (i.e., a stage3 tarball *plus* the things I did all

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat 20 August 2011 14:29:15 Mick did opine thusly: > On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 13:59:42 David W Noon wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:48:18 -0500, Dale wrote about "Re: > > [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot": > > > > [snip] > > > > >I wish you could convince the devs of that. I already h

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
Wel... ... the Gentoo project can always fork e2fsprogs ... ... but who will maintain it, then? Rgds, On 2011-08-20, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 13:59:42 David W Noon wrote: >> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:48:18 -0500, Dale wrote about "Re: >> [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot":

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 13:59:42 David W Noon wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:48:18 -0500, Dale wrote about "Re: > [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot": > > [snip] > > >I wish you could convince the devs of that. I already have /var on > >its own and was planning to put /usr on its own. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread David W Noon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:48:18 -0500, Dale wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot": [snip] >I wish you could convince the devs of that. I already have /var on >its own and was planning to put /usr on its own. I'm not now tho. >Looks

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 09:57:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sat 20 August 2011 03:48:18 Dale did opine thusly: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Sat 20 August 2011 02:17:06 Dale did opine thusly: > > >> It was discussed on -dev so far. This is the subject line: > > >> > > >> "Warn users not to do

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Dale wrote: > I wish you could convince the devs of that. I already have /var on its own > and was planning to put /usr on its own. I'm not now tho. Looks like /, > /boot, /home and that's it for the OS part. It downright sucks. > > You planning to explain th

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 20 August 2011 09:07:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Add a variable at the top to define the bin directory to use. Then > users can change it to whatever suits them. > > /tmp is a good default, except when it's mounted noexec. > Same for ~ > > Almost every reasonable choice will have times

[gentoo-user] Software for LCD Data Center

2011-08-20 Thread czernitko
Hello list! I've recently bought LCD television from Panasonic (TX-L32E30E Viera). It is connected to my home LAN and it should be able to access data on local computers using some Data Center feature. From what I've heard, it is something little bit different than common NFS/Samba sharing. It shou

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat 20 August 2011 03:48:18 Dale did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sat 20 August 2011 02:17:06 Dale did opine thusly: > >> It was discussed on -dev so far. This is the subject line: > >> > >> "Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper > >> initramfs in the hand

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat 20 August 2011 02:17:06 Dale did opine thusly: It was discussed on -dev so far. This is the subject line: "Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?" I think it will apply to /var to at some point. I think it sucks

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail blocks maildrop requiered by qmail-scanner.

2011-08-20 Thread Eray Aslan
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 08:47:08PM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > Someone told me to set -tools for maildrop in package.use. I looked > up what that does but forget now, so presumably it's not terribly > important on my system. Still puzzling. maildrop, netqmail, courier-imap all install the

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat 20 August 2011 02:17:06 Dale did opine thusly: > >> Update with new info. With udev needing some things in /usr, > >> and /var, you will need a init* if /usr and /var is not on / > >> in the near future. Yea, real neat. Some need it already > >> just depends on what is installed from what

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri 19 August 2011 12:58:10 Grant did opine thusly: > >> Is the purpose of the Host block in .ssh/config to store the > >> hostname of the backup server so it doesn't need to be used > >> directly in the rdiff-backup command? > > > > It forces key-based authentication when connecting to the bac

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat 20 August 2011 00:02:15 Walter Dnes did opine thusly: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:34:33AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > > > Interesting - thanks! It found an unused library file (qdbm) > > here that nothing else had. > > > > One suggestion: I'd create cleanscript in /tmp rather than > > w

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Friday 19 Aug 2011 23:08:06 Dale wrote: Gregory Woodbury wrote: The initramfs is a container for modules and stuff need to bring up the system before the mounts of / and /boot.If all the drivers are built-in to the kernel (or at least the minimum required drivers ar

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Mick
On Friday 19 Aug 2011 23:08:06 Dale wrote: > Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > The initramfs is a container for modules and stuff need to bring up > > the system before the mounts of > > / and /boot.If all the drivers are built-in to the kernel (or at > > least the minimum required drivers are built-