[gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-18 Thread Daniel Frey
I've been updating all of my frontends recently (I only do this occasionally) and discovered a major flaw with media-video/mpv and figured I should warn others. As of version 0.9.0 mpv has removed all lirc support. Those of us stuck with older remotes (or in my case I use irexec to do other thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Distfiles cache setup

2015-09-18 Thread hydra
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been running several Gentoo machines here at my house, and am > currently up to 7 (or was it 8?) installs. > > I have been trying to reduce my resource consumption and set up an rsync > mirror long ago, so my [acting] server

[gentoo-user] Re: npm: ERR! cb() never called!

2015-09-18 Thread James
Michael Orlitzky gentoo.org> writes: > Heavy on bad words and light on solutions, but it made me feel better: > http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/motherfuckers_need_package_management.php You know, when I read this I got quite a chuckle. Then I started to 'marinate' on this a while and s

Re: [gentoo-user] Distfiles cache setup

2015-09-18 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/18/2015 01:15 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > How tight is space? eclean-dist only removes distfiles for packages that > are no longer in the tree. So you can run it on one system and keep > $DISTDIR reasonably trimmed. If you use the --package-names option, it > will do as you suggest and only ke

Re: [gentoo-user] BTRFS problem? [WAS Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10]

2015-09-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 Sep 2015 19:30:49 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Mick wrote: > > On Friday 18 Sep 2015 19:15:50 Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Mick wrote: > >> > On Friday 18 Sep 2015 17:16:54 Marc Joliet wrote: > >> >> On Friday 18 September 2015 1

Re: [gentoo-user] File-system mounting questions

2015-09-18 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Friday, September 18, 2015 5:14:15 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > A while ago, I mentioned that I had problems running cdda2wav as a > regular user. While rebuilding cdrtools recently, I noticed that the > build finished with the following warnings... > > >>> Installing (1 of 1) app-cdr/cdrtools-3.

[gentoo-user] File-system mounting questions

2015-09-18 Thread Walter Dnes
A while ago, I mentioned that I had problems running cdda2wav as a regular user. While rebuilding cdrtools recently, I noticed that the build finished with the following warnings... >>> Installing (1 of 1) app-cdr/cdrtools-3.01_alpha17::gentoo * >>> SetUID: [chmod go-r] /usr/sbin/rscsi ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Distfiles cache setup

2015-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 10:02:27 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: > 2. Export the distfiles directory. That's what I do. > This seems to be a bit better of a solution, other than not being able > to use it outside the LAN. ZeroTier can take care of that, or a VPN if you feel like doing the work yourself.

Re: [gentoo-user] BTRFS problem? [WAS Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10]

2015-09-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Mick wrote: > On Friday 18 Sep 2015 19:15:50 Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Mick wrote: >> > On Friday 18 Sep 2015 17:16:54 Marc Joliet wrote: >> >> On Friday 18 September 2015 10:31:01 Mick wrote: >> >> >A couple of months ago the akonadi

Re: [gentoo-user] BTRFS problem? [WAS Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10]

2015-09-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 Sep 2015 19:15:50 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Mick wrote: > > On Friday 18 Sep 2015 17:16:54 Marc Joliet wrote: > >> On Friday 18 September 2015 10:31:01 Mick wrote: > >> >A couple of months ago the akonadi DB went sideways and kmail played up > >> >as a res

Re: [gentoo-user] BTRFS problem? [WAS Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10]

2015-09-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Mick wrote: > On Friday 18 Sep 2015 17:16:54 Marc Joliet wrote: >> On Friday 18 September 2015 10:31:01 Mick wrote: >> >A couple of months ago the akonadi DB went sideways and kmail played up as >> >a result. Again I was suspicious of btrfs, but neither the logs n

Re: [gentoo-user] BTRFS problem? [WAS Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10]

2015-09-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 Sep 2015 17:16:54 Marc Joliet wrote: > On Friday 18 September 2015 10:31:01 Mick wrote: > >A couple of months ago the akonadi DB went sideways and kmail played up as > >a result. Again I was suspicious of btrfs, but neither the logs nor fsck > >showed up anything. > > I take it "btrf

Re: [gentoo-user] Distfiles cache setup

2015-09-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 18 September 2015 10:02:27 Daniel Frey wrote: > Ideally, it would be nice to have some sort of caching proxy that could > fetch the file as it was needed, but in searching for this I encountered > so much noise in the search results I gave up for the time being. > > Anyone have any sugg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage can not find local ebuild

2015-09-18 Thread thelma
On 09/18/2015 01:38 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] > > Remove the PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry from make.conf. Then, create a new file > in /etc/portage/repos.conf/, for example "local.conf", with these contents: > > [Local] > priority = > location = /usr/local/portage > auto-sync = no >

[gentoo-user] Distfiles cache setup

2015-09-18 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi all, I have been running several Gentoo machines here at my house, and am currently up to 7 (or was it 8?) installs. I have been trying to reduce my resource consumption and set up an rsync mirror long ago, so my [acting] server only syncs to the internet and all other devices point to it. Tha

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I'll test without "xinerama" in the near future and let you know. > (requires a rebuild of a lot of stuff...) Don't bother on my account -- it's just idle curiosity, and I could do the test myself... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday 18 September 2015 14:34:26 Grant Edwards wrote: >> I like having separate screens because the window manager I use >> (xfwm4) supports multiple virtual workspaces for each screen (4 per >> screen by default). I find it very useful to be able to flip

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 18 September 2015 14:44:20 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> There's a few reasons you might want more than one screen. Primary one > >> is two heads and two video cards with different resolutions and dpi. > >> Xinerama and big desktop et al will use the lowe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 18 September 2015 14:34:26 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> echo $DISPLAY returns the same on both desktops. > >> > >> That is a single X11 screen spread across two physical monitors. It > >> will not exhibit the gtk-3 selection bug. > >> > >> Are you su

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10

2015-09-18 Thread Marc Joliet
On Friday 18 September 2015 10:31:01 Mick wrote: >A couple of months ago the akonadi DB went sideways and kmail played up as a >result. Again I was suspicious of btrfs, but neither the logs nor fsck >showed up anything. I take it "btrfs scrub" didn't turn up anything, or is that what you meant b

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> There's a few reasons you might want more than one screen. Primary one >> is two heads and two video cards with different resolutions and dpi. >> Xinerama and big desktop et al will use the lower setting for both. > > Actually, this desktop has xinerama enab

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> echo $DISPLAY returns the same on both desktops. >> >> That is a single X11 screen spread across two physical monitors. It >> will not exhibit the gtk-3 selection bug. >> >> Are you sure you have two desktops and it's not just a single desktop >> that is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 18 September 2015 16:22:00 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 18/09/2015 16:11, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Friday 18 September 2015 13:23:49 Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> On Thu, September 17, 2015 16:33, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-09-17, Grant Edward

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/09/2015 16:11, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday 18 September 2015 13:23:49 Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> On Thu, September 17, 2015 16:33, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2015-09-17, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-09-17, J. Roeleveld wrote: I use 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 18 September 2015 13:23:49 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Thu, September 17, 2015 16:33, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2015-09-17, Grant Edwards wrote: > >>> On 2015-09-17, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> I use 2 screens extensively and never experienced a

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thu, September 17, 2015 16:33, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2015-09-17, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2015-09-17, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> >> I use 2 screens extensively and never experienced any issues like you >> describe. > > And you can sele

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10

2015-09-18 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 Sep 2015 23:33:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 18/09/2015 00:26, Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 17 Sep 2015 20:25:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 17/09/2015 19:36, Mick wrote: > >>> OK, I managed to get 10 minutes access to the offending box and I > >>> remerged hplip. Guess what? The 93

Re: [gentoo-user] npm: ERR! cb() never called!

2015-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 08:57:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Heavy on bad words and light on solutions, but it made me feel better: > > > > http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/motherfuckers_need_package_management.php > > > > I read it, and now I also feel much better :-) +1 It's a shame t

[gentoo-user] Re: portage can not find local ebuild

2015-09-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/09/15 06:15, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I'm trying to emerge one of my local ebuild and portage can not find it. What am I missing? emerge -avq nxclient emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "nxclient". My settings: make.conf. ... PORTDRI_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" cat /etc/port

Re: [gentoo-user] npm: ERR! cb() never called!

2015-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/09/2015 05:34, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >>> This sucks, but it seems to be the way a lot of web stuff is deployed >>> > > these days. > All these dynamic languages suffer from the fun problem that developers > that don't write enough tests have essentially no guarantee that their > code actual