On 20/07/18 21:31, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> On 20/07/18 21:26, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I'm having all sorts of trouble getting a new computer to boot. I have
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>> VFS: Mounted root (jfs filesystem) readonly on device 8:19.
>>
>
> Forgot to add, in the new nvme
Hi all,
Yonks ago, literally four years ago, 14/7/14, I posted something here
about the whole emerge process being able to make a noise when the
emerge process either succeeded or failed. Success, play some decent
music, fail, play some crap music. I got some good relies and then
promptly
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 08:53:44AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 6:57 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
> Yeah, there is nothing wrong with nullmailer. It is a minimalist MTA
> for systems where you just want to relay mail to another host without
> running a full MTA.
The
On 22/07/18 00:03, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
But what's the proper method to tell my gentoo system that I don't want
crud like nullmailer installed? How can I guard myself against such
presumptiousness on the part of the Gentoo devs in the future?
By reading the output of "emerge --ask <...>"
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 6:57 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> The package was gnupg, which surely doesn't need to send email.
See bug 658164. It's not quite that straightforward. ;)
https://bugs.gentoo.org/658164
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 6:57 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 18:10:58 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>
> Apologies to the maintainers and users of nullmailer.
Yeah, there is nothing wrong with nullmailer. It is a minimalist MTA
for systems where you just want to relay mail to
Hello, Ralph.
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 00:20:02 +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> On 21.07.2018 23:03, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Install an MTA using emerge, or let Gentoo know that you have installed
> qmail manually. When you work around portage, you are responsible to
> keep Gentoo happy in terms
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 18:10:58 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hello, Gentoo.
> > Right at the moment, I feel a lot of sympathy with Alan Grimes, and need
> > a lot of restraint in avoiding the use of swear words in describing some
> >
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 07:46:47 +0200, François-Xavier CARTON wrote:
> I was also surprised to see the installation of a mta in an emerge
> update, so I masked virtual/mta to see why this dependency was pulled.
> It turns out that app-crypt/gnupg depends on virtual/mta since version
> 2.2.6.
On 22.07.2018 09:27, Kai Peter wrote:
> A bit more easier is to create an 'empty' virtual ebuild which at
> least does nothing but tells portage the dependency is fulfilled.
Not a good choice, IMO. Portage has its own mechanism for that:
On Sunday, 22 July 2018 09:56:12 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 July 2018 10:36:32 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > Since upgrading sys-kernel/gentoo-sources from 4.9.95 to 4.14.52, I now
> > get
> > an error when trying to attach my trusty old Kyocera-Mita FS1020-D.
On Sunday, 15 July 2018 10:36:32 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Since upgrading sys-kernel/gentoo-sources from 4.9.95 to 4.14.52, I now get
> an error when trying to attach my trusty old Kyocera-Mita FS1020-D. Dmesg
> finds it, lsusb lists it, but when I use the KDE printer applet to
On 2018-07-22 04:11, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
On 2018-07-21 23:04, Grant Edwards wrote:
Manually installing things in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin will often cause
problems because Portage assumes that it controls those directories.
So don't do that: you should manually install things in /usr/local.
180721 Mick wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 July 2018 19:47:25 BST Jack wrote:
>> Are you sure this wasn't fallout from the recent grub problems
>> in the Mint ISO : https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3620 ?
>> I can't find the relevant message, so I'm not sure where I saw it.
>> However, it seems like the
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