Re: [gentoo-user] Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, August 06, 2014 04:50:22 PM James wrote: snipped Hopefully, we can all share ideas and brainstorm about how Gentoo users can lead the pack of linux distros into this brave_new world. [Overlays?] A good place to start would also be:

Re: [gentoo-user] Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-07 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
I'm a Hadoop and related software sysadmin at the University of Michigan. I'm a student still, so it's only a part-time position. I have some documentation at http://caen.github.io/hadoop - if something is not clear, I will gladly take feedback and make appropriate changes. In a recent thread

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, pam_mount, keyrings ...

2014-08-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.08.2014 um 15:18 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:30:44 +0100, Mick wrote: In any case 'cryptsetup -y luksAddKey /dev/sdaX' allows you to add a passphrase in another slot - can't recall how many passphrase slots are there without looking into it. 8. You can see which

[gentoo-user] Re: Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-07 Thread James
Alec Ten Harmsel alec at alectenharmsel.com writes: I'm a Hadoop and related software sysadmin at the University of Michigan. I'm a student still, so it's only a part-time position. I have some documentation at http://caen.github.io/hadoop - if something is not clear, I will gladly take

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-07 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
Which operating systems does you Hadoop systems run on top of? We use RedHat, although we make a fair amount of custom RPMs. It's just too much having to deal with Gentoo while maintaining high performance filesystems and schedulers, which are apparently a real pain. Whilst research, I ran

[gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-07 Thread gottlieb
I was away for two weeks and now one of my systems cannot be updated due to conflicts. The entire (long) emerge output is at the end of this msg. -- The first conflict is --- !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-07 Thread Gevisz
On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 23:33:34 -0400 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I was away for two weeks and now one of my systems cannot be updated due to conflicts. The entire (long) emerge output is at the end of this msg. -- The first conflict is --- !!! Multiple