Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Handbook missing portage unpacking

2014-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:12 PM, James wrote: > > thx to all that responded. It had been a while since I followed a handbook > install. I wonder when btrfs will replace ext..(just kidding...) > Nothing prevents you from installing Gentoo on btrfs. It really isn't anything different from ins

[gentoo-user] Re: Handbook missing portage unpacking

2014-10-12 Thread James
Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes: > Correct. This is much more efficient than rsync when you're starting > from an empty tree, which was one of the reasons the old procedure > used to recommend using a portage tarball. emerge-webrsync works well I'll have to try this"websync" sometime. I alway

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing to tty01 (serial port) in simple straight forward way...?!?

2014-10-12 Thread Francisco Ares
2014-10-12 19:22 GMT-03:00 Paul Colquhoun : > On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 16:42:22 Kerin Millar wrote: > > > On 12/10/2014 13:08, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I want to send commands to ttyO1 (serial port on an embedded system). > > > > The commands are one line each and termina

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing to tty01 (serial port) in simple straight forward way...?!?

2014-10-12 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 16:42:22 Kerin Millar wrote: > On 12/10/2014 13:08, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to send commands to ttyO1 (serial port on an embedded system). > > The commands are one line each and terminated with CRL/LF (aka "DOS"). > > > > Since this will be done fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-12 Thread Stefano Crocco
Excerpts from Michael Palimaka's message of 2014-10-12 17:20:20 +0200: > > > > I'd love to try KDE 5. So far I've been able to install Frameworks from the > > KDE > > overlay. I then tried to install the workspace, but it seems that it can't > > coexist with kde 4 (I get blockers from several kde

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook missing portage unpacking

2014-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Kerin Millar wrote: > On 11/10/2014 21:13, James wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I was just following the handbook for an amd64 install; I have >> not looked at the handbook in a while. I downloaded the stage3 >> tarball and the portage-latest tarball at the same time,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.4.1

2014-10-12 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 07:37:42PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> 141011 James wrote: >> > Philip Webb ca.inter.net> writes: >> >> I've just installed python-3.4.1 alongside 2.7.7 3.2.5-r6 3.3.5-r1 . >> >> I've changed the lines in

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook missing portage unpacking

2014-10-12 Thread Kerin Millar
On 11/10/2014 21:13, James wrote: Hello, I was just following the handbook for an amd64 install; I have not looked at the handbook in a while. I downloaded the stage3 tarball and the portage-latest tarball at the same time, like I always have done. The handbook give instructions for untaring the

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing to tty01 (serial port) in simple straight forward way...?!?

2014-10-12 Thread Kerin Millar
On 12/10/2014 13:08, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to send commands to ttyO1 (serial port on an embedded system). The commands are one line each and terminated with CRL/LF (aka "DOS"). Since this will be done from a batch script, it should be possible via commandline tools and non-inter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.4.1

2014-10-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 07:37:42PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 141011 James wrote: > > Philip Webb ca.inter.net> writes: > >> I've just installed python-3.4.1 alongside 2.7.7 3.2.5-r6 3.3.5-r1 . > >> I've changed the lines in make.conf to > >> USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.4" > >> PYTHON_TARGETS="p

[gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-12 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 10/12/2014 11:11 PM, Stefano Crocco wrote: > Excerpts from Michael Palimaka's message of 2014-10-04 19:37:04 +0200: >> On 10/04/2014 11:26 PM, behrouz khosravi wrote: >>> Hello everyone. >>> I was wondering if anyone has tried KDE5? >>> Do you know when it's going to be placed in the main tree?

[gentoo-user] Wrong timestamps over fish in midnight commander

2014-10-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello fellows Could someone please confirm an issue I’m having? When I connect to a remote ssh host in mc, it always shows the seconds of files’ mtime to be 0. That way, I can’t use mc to properly compare directories, because even if a file has the same timestamp on both sides, one side appears yo

[gentoo-user] Writing to tty01 (serial port) in simple straight forward way...?!?

2014-10-12 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I want to send commands to ttyO1 (serial port on an embedded system). The commands are one line each and terminated with CRL/LF (aka "DOS"). Since this will be done from a batch script, it should be possible via commandline tools and non-interactively. The serial port is already setup up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-12 Thread Stefano Crocco
Excerpts from Michael Palimaka's message of 2014-10-04 19:37:04 +0200: > On 10/04/2014 11:26 PM, behrouz khosravi wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > I was wondering if anyone has tried KDE5? > > Do you know when it's going to be placed in the main tree? > > > > thanks > > Hi, > > The KDE release str

Re: [gentoo-user] "Headless question": Harvesting the results...software needed.

2014-10-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:24:46 +0100, Stroller wrote: > > And I have to prevent, that a sector/block/organisation unit > > of the flash is written more than once to prevent ware out of the > > flash. > > Wear-levelling should be handled by the flash memory controller, and > you shouldn't need to

[gentoo-user] F2FS with older kernel

2014-10-12 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, for my embedded system I am currently still using Linux kernel 3.8.13. due to some missing features (platform related) of newer kernels. I want to give F2FS a try since the embedded system runs from a SDcard. The only thing I dont know is the """maturity level""" of the implementation of F2F

Re: [gentoo-user] "Headless question": Harvesting the results...software needed.

2014-10-12 Thread meino . cramer
Stroller [14-10-12 09:28]: > > On Sat, 11 October 2014, at 3:10 pm, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > ... > > Two things need still to be investigated: How can I store GPSdata onto the > > flash in a way, that no additional data is stored if no movement is > > there. > > This should be pretty easy,

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook missing portage unpacking

2014-10-12 Thread Stroller
On Sat, 11 October 2014, at 10:25 pm, Daniel Frey wrote: > … > From memory (a very sketchy memory, I might add, so check before doing > it) the command was: > > $ tar xvjf portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /usr/portage I'd have thought you'd download and unpack the portage-latest tarball using the em

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/man-db depends to app-text/po4a

2014-10-12 Thread hogren
Le Sat, 11 Oct 2014 07:37:14 +0100, Stroller a écrit : > > On Sat, 11 October 2014, at 7:17 am, hogren wrote: > > > … > > Emerge try to compile sys-apps/man-db-2.6.6 and fails. > > When I watched the build log, I saw that in the compilation period, > > po4a is not found. > > > > I make an #e

Re: [gentoo-user] "Headless question": Harvesting the results...software needed.

2014-10-12 Thread Stroller
On Sat, 11 October 2014, at 3:10 pm, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > ... > Two things need still to be investigated: How can I store GPSdata onto the > flash in a way, that no additional data is stored if no movement is > there. This should be pretty easy, but if you want help with it, you're going