[gentoo-user] Building, daq, failed

2014-09-14 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, The command emerge "=daq-daq-2.0.2" failed with: >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/net-libs/daq-2.0.2/work/daq-2.0.2 ... * econf: updating daq-2.0.2/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating daq-2.0.2/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./conf

[gentoo-user] unix2dos blocks dos2unix

2014-09-14 Thread Gevisz
I have just installed unix2dos utility (never had a need to use it before) and just after that tried to install dos2unix but the installation of dos2unix failed complaining on the fact that "app-text/unix2dos" is blocking app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5 I find it very strange as I think that if someone n

Re: [gentoo-user] unix2dos blocks dos2unix

2014-09-14 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 10:24 +0300, Gevisz wrote: > I have just installed unix2dos utility > (never had a need to use it before) and > just after that tried to install dos2unix > but the installation of dos2unix failed > complaining on the fact that > > "app-text/unix2dos" is blocking app-text/dos2

Re: [gentoo-user] unix2dos blocks dos2unix

2014-09-14 Thread meino . cramer
Gevisz [14-09-14 09:28]: > I have just installed unix2dos utility > (never had a need to use it before) and > just after that tried to install dos2unix > but the installation of dos2unix failed > complaining on the fact that > > "app-text/unix2dos" is blocking app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5 > > I find

Re: [gentoo-user] unix2dos blocks dos2unix

2014-09-14 Thread Gevisz
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:57:37 +0530 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 10:24 +0300, Gevisz wrote: > > I have just installed unix2dos utility > > (never had a need to use it before) and > > just after that tried to install dos2unix > > but the installation of dos2unix failed > > comp

Re: [gentoo-user] unix2dos blocks dos2unix

2014-09-14 Thread Gevisz
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:32:40 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Gevisz [14-09-14 09:28]: > > I have just installed unix2dos utility > > (never had a need to use it before) and > > just after that tried to install dos2unix > > but the installation of dos2unix failed > > complaining on the fact tha

Re: [gentoo-user] unix2dos blocks dos2unix

2014-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/09/2014 09:47, Gevisz wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:57:37 +0530 > Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > >> On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 10:24 +0300, Gevisz wrote: >>> I have just installed unix2dos utility >>> (never had a need to use it before) and >>> just after that tried to install dos2unix >>> but th

Re: [gentoo-user] Building, daq, failed

2014-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/09/2014 09:10, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > The command emerge "=daq-daq-2.0.2" failed with: Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/net-libs/daq-2.0.2/work/daq-2.0.2 ... > * econf: updating daq-2.0.2/config.guess with > /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess > * econf: updat

Re: [gentoo-user] unix2dos blocks dos2unix

2014-09-14 Thread gevisz
2014-09-14 10:59 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon : > On 14/09/2014 09:47, Gevisz wrote: >> On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:57:37 +0530 >> Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 10:24 +0300, Gevisz wrote: I have just installed unix2dos utility (never had a need to use it before) and j

Re: [gentoo-user] Building, daq, failed

2014-09-14 Thread meino . cramer
Alan McKinnon [14-09-14 10:12]: > On 14/09/2014 09:10, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >8 snip >8- > > | int > > | main () > > | { > > | > > | ; > > | return 0; > > | } > > configure:3444: error: in > > `/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/daq-2.0.2/work/daq-2.0.2': >

Re: [gentoo-user] Building, daq, failed

2014-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/09/2014 10:29, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Alan McKinnon [14-09-14 10:12]: >> On 14/09/2014 09:10, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > >8 snip >8- > >>> | int >>> | main () >>> | { >>> | >>> | ; >>> | return 0; >>> | } >>> configure:3444: error: in >>>

[gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

2014-09-14 Thread Joseph
I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver" checking for bc... no configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a standard part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your vendor has grown a clue. What is "bc"? -- Joseph

[gentoo-user] Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Henrique Lengler
Hi, There is a package on portage that have a bug, the package is officially hosted on github, so the software author fixed the bug and committed to git without mark as a new version of the software. How can I make gentoo include this software with this bugfix? -- Henrique Lengler https://git

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

2014-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/09/2014 17:46, Joseph wrote: > I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver" > > checking for bc... no > > configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a standard > part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your vendor > h

Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email

2014-09-14 Thread Mick
On Saturday 13 Sep 2014 22:19:17 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Saturday 13 September 2014 9:54:34 AM J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 13 September 2014 09:49:19 CEST, Mick wrote: > > >On Saturday 13 Sep 2014 07:56:50 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> I have not been able to find a sett

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

2014-09-14 Thread Ivan Viso Altamirano
Google/Duckduckgo/bing Is your friend ;) justo emerge bc . (Sended from phone) El 14/09/2014 17:36, "Joseph" escribió: > I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver" > > checking for bc... no > > configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a standard >

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

2014-09-14 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 14/09/14 18:46, Joseph wrote: > I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver" > > checking for bc... no > > configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a > standard > part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your > vendor >

Re: [gentoo-user] Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/09/2014 17:47, Henrique Lengler wrote: > Hi, > > There is a package on portage that have a bug, the package is officially > hosted on github, so the software author fixed the bug and committed to > git without mark as a new version of the software. > > How can I make gentoo include this so

Re: [gentoo-user] Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Henrique Lengler
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 05:56:48PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Ask the ebuild maintainer. > > If it's on github, it will need to be a live ebuild with version -. > > What is the package? It's glyr, There is the link: https://github.com/sahib/glyr.git See that he did a commit 2 hours ag

Re: [gentoo-user] Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Henrique Lengler
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 05:56:48PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Ask the ebuild maintainer. How can I find a maintainer of an ebuild? -- Henrique Lengler https://gitorious.org/~henriqueleng Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Wanna talk with me? Ask me for my TOX I

Re: [gentoo-user] Building, daq, failed

2014-09-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 10:29:44 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Bug tracker: > I tried this before (another kind of > "something-not-working-as-expected"). The bug tracker does not like > me... I tried to log in...no. > I reset my password...tried to log in...no. > Cookies were "on" on my side.

Re: [gentoo-user] Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Jeff Smelser
Looks like they have a couple people taking care of it: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/media-libs/glyr/ChangeLog?view=markup On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Henrique Lengler < henriquel...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 05:56:48PM +0200, Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

2014-09-14 Thread Joseph
On 09/14/14 18:57, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 14/09/14 18:46, Joseph wrote: I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver" checking for bc... no configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a standard part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

2014-09-14 Thread Mick
On Sunday 14 Sep 2014 16:56:57 Ivan Viso Altamirano wrote: > Google/Duckduckgo/bing Is your friend ;) justo emerge bc . (Sended from > phone) Since bc is a dependency, the ebuild would pull it in and install it as part of installing xscreensaver - as Samuli has already pointed out. Therefore th

[gentoo-user] Re: Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread James
Henrique Lengler openmailbox.org> writes: > > Hi, > > There is a package on portage that have a bug, the package is officially > hosted on github, so the software author fixed the bug and committed to > git without mark as a new version of the software. > > How can I make gentoo include this

Re: [gentoo-user] Building, daq, failed

2014-09-14 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick [14-09-14 18:16]: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 10:29:44 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Bug tracker: > > I tried this before (another kind of > > "something-not-working-as-expected"). The bug tracker does not like > > me... I tried to log in...no. > > I reset my password...tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

2014-09-14 Thread Ivan Viso Altamirano
I was wrong and right at the same time . Nice El 14/09/2014 18:17, "Mick" escribió: > On Sunday 14 Sep 2014 16:56:57 Ivan Viso Altamirano wrote: > > Google/Duckduckgo/bing Is your friend ;) justo emerge bc . (Sended from > > phone) > > Since bc is a dependency, the ebuild would pull it in and ins

[gentoo-user] Re: Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > "ChangeLog file for that code. less /usr/portage/media-libs/glyr/ChangeLog > To start your journey. > On a version bump it's not hard to copy and edit the ebuild > and file that modified ebuid with your version bump request cp /usr/portage/media-libs/glyr/gl

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

2014-09-14 Thread Mick
On Sunday 14 Sep 2014 17:16:09 Joseph wrote: > On 09/14/14 18:57, Samuli Suominen wrote: > >On 14/09/14 18:46, Joseph wrote: > >> I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver" > >> > >> checking for bc... no > >> > >> configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a >

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

2014-09-14 Thread Joseph
On 09/14/14 18:43, Mick wrote: On Sunday 14 Sep 2014 17:16:09 Joseph wrote: On 09/14/14 18:57, Samuli Suominen wrote: >On 14/09/14 18:46, Joseph wrote: >> I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver" >> >> checking for bc... no >> >> configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc",

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Henrique Lengler
I getting confused about what can be done. As I see the portage download the source of a released version, and then install it. But the patch isn't in a version. I think that make portage download the latest code also isn't a good idea so i don't know what changes in the ebuild can be done to mak

Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email

2014-09-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, September 13, 2014 05:19:17 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Saturday 13 September 2014 9:54:34 AM J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 13 September 2014 09:49:19 CEST, Mick wrote: > > >On Saturday 13 Sep 2014 07:56:50 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> I have not been able to

[gentoo-user] livedvd-amd64-multilib-20140826.iso

2014-09-14 Thread James
livedvd-amd64-multilib-20140826.iso Anyone given it a whirl yet, running on btrfs? The download is currently crawling, but that could easily be my local ISP.. Any other cools things, besides lxqt anyone wants to mention would be cool James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:18:58 -0300, Henrique Lengler wrote: > As I see the portage download the source of a released version, and then > install it. But the patch isn't in a version. So you want to apply a patch to the version already on portage? > I think that make portage download the latest c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-09-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, September 13, 2014 09:45:28 PM Hans wrote: > On 28/08/14 21:45, Joseph wrote: > > I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation > > (reliability) of the brand. > > My current WD 320GB fail after 5-years. > > Go Samsung actually made by Samsung in Korea or if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Henrique Lengler
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:02:36PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > You have two options. If the ebuild supports it, put the patch file > in /etc/portage/vat/pkg-version/ and re-emerge it. Many ebuild will pick > up user patches like this. > > Alternatively, run "ebuild prepare /path/to/ebuild" to un

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/09/2014 18:20, James wrote: > dir for experimentation, quick install etc etc. Others on this > group can advise you on this path to peack, jouy and harmony, > as you watch Gentoo converge on the things most important to you. > If I can hack ebuilds, *ANYONE* can hack ebuilds. Just ask > my fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Building, daq, failed

2014-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/09/2014 18:31, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Neil Bothwick [14-09-14 18:16]: >> On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 10:29:44 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> >>> Bug tracker: >>> I tried this before (another kind of >>> "something-not-working-as-expected"). The bug tracker does not like >>> me... I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/09/2014 22:27, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Saturday, September 13, 2014 09:45:28 PM Hans wrote: >> On 28/08/14 21:45, Joseph wrote: >>> I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation >>> (reliability) of the brand. >>> My current WD 320GB fail after 5-years. >> >> Go S

Re: [gentoo-user] Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/09/2014 17:59, Henrique Lengler wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 05:56:48PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> Ask the ebuild maintainer. >> >> If it's on github, it will need to be a live ebuild with version -. >> >> What is the package? > > It's glyr, > > There is the link: https://git

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 18:00:04 -0300, Henrique Lengler wrote: > > You have two options. If the ebuild supports it, put the patch file > > in /etc/portage/vat/pkg-version/ and re-emerge it. Many ebuild will > > pick up user patches like this. > > Ok but this patch should be available to others users

Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email

2014-09-14 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
It remembers the setting but even when it is turned on it only sends HTML if you use Rich Text formatting on the email, so you enable it by actually using rich text. At least that's how it works for me and I keep it on all the time. Maybe you're doing something that uses rich text without notic

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Henrique Lengler
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:15:29PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > In that case, it should be included with the ebuild, you need to file a > request to add the patch on bugs.gentoo.org. Thanks everyone. I did it. -- Henrique Lengler https://gitorious.org/~henriqueleng Skype: No way! That's nonfr

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Jc García
2014-09-14 15:30 GMT-06:00 Henrique Lengler : > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:15:29PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> In that case, it should be included with the ebuild, you need to file a >> request to add the patch on bugs.gentoo.org. > > Thanks everyone. I did it. > I would suggest looking at the c

[gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-14 Thread James
> Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > You are a C man. > Working with bash must be excruciatingly painful Ah yes, State machine design; not much fittering around with escaping silly little symbols. sh/csh/bash/scripting is not bad. I just 'lift' the tough stuff from others mostly. Wi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/09/2014 00:21, James wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > >> You are a C man. >> Working with bash must be excruciatingly painful > > Ah yes, State machine design; not much fittering around with > escaping silly little symbols. python fixes all of that (see below) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email

2014-09-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
Please do NOT top-post. On Sunday, September 14, 2014 05:27:22 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > It remembers the setting but even when it is turned on it only sends HTML if > you use Rich Text formatting on the email, so you enable it by actually > using rich text. > At least that's how it works for

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, September 15, 2014 07:21:18 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 15/09/2014 00:21, James wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> You are a C man. > >> Working with bash must be excruciatingly painful > > > > Ah yes, State machine design; not much fittering around with > >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/09/2014 08:17, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> Ah yes, State machine design; not much fittering around with >>> > > escaping silly little symbols. >> > >> > python fixes all of that (see below) > I like state machines. > Oops, I wasn't 100% clear; It's silly escaping rules that python fixes,