[gentoo-user] emerge completly a package but dont install it?

2018-08-09 Thread tuxic
Hi, is it possible to go through process of installing a not-installed package from source to executable ... without actually install the package - so the system as such is not touched? Cheers Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge completly a package but dont install it?

2018-08-09 Thread Andreas Fink
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 19:12:37 +0200 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to go through process of installing a not-installed > package from source to executable ... without actually install the > package - so the system as such is not touched? > > Cheers > Meino > > > You can use eb

[gentoo-user] libmysqlclient.so segfault

2018-08-09 Thread Daniel Frey
Well, after updating a while ago I noticed a new package being pulled in by mariadb - dev-db/mysql-connector-c. Ever since this update where it was pulled in (August 1) the mythtv backup script written in perl fails (mythconverg_backup.pl). It is segfaulting, and I get an email indicating so. All

[gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Dale
Howdy, Long story short that leads up to my questions, I paid off some debt.  Finally I'm getting around to doing some things I been wanting to do.  One of them, backups.  I bought a hard drive enclosure that has a fan to keep things cool.  Figured I would get a decent one that hopefully will keep

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge completly a package but dont install it?

2018-08-09 Thread Mateusz Lenik
Turns out emerge has this nice flag (excerpt from emerge(1) manpage): --buildpkgonly, -B Creates binary packages for all ebuilds processed without actually merging the packages. This comes with the caveat that all build-time dependencies must already be emerged on the system. Best,

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 08/08/18 11:43, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Long story short that leads up to my questions, I paid off some debt.  > Hi Dale,     what you are talking about is not a real backup but a single copy of your data that may or may not be complete (the delete option you mention) at a single point in time

Re: [gentoo-user] libmysqlclient.so segfault

2018-08-09 Thread John Covici
On Wed, 08 Aug 2018 11:16:55 -0400, Daniel Frey wrote: > > Well, after updating a while ago I noticed a new package being pulled in > by mariadb - dev-db/mysql-connector-c. > > Ever since this update where it was pulled in (August 1) the mythtv > backup script written in perl fails (mythconverg_b

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 16:18:43 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Have a look at Dirvish or borgbackup (both in portage) for what they can > do.  Having a space efficient store at regular points of time is a > lifesaver at times. To restore from dirvish its a copy from the selected > tree.  With borg its

[gentoo-user] need files for older ebuild

2018-08-09 Thread John Covici
Hi. I need to compile gnome-control-center-3.24.3 as 24.4 will not compile (filed a bug, but no response). I have saved the old ebuild, but it needs something in the files subdirectory and I don't have it and it was deleted some time ago. I am using git and I wonder if its somehow obtainable fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread zless
În ziua de joi, 9 august 2018, la 11:37:38 EEST, Neil Bothwick a scris: > I agree with all of this and I would also add Duplicity as a possible > candidate, although not quite as simple to use as BorgBackup (I haven't > tried Dirvish) I usually end up putting a wrapper script around such tasks > an

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 60

2018-08-09 Thread Adam Carter
> > Anyone early tested Thunderbird-60? > Yes, the mozilla overlay has it. Works.

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 60

2018-08-09 Thread james
On 08/09/18 07:37, Adam Carter wrote: > Anyone early tested Thunderbird-60? > > > Yes, the mozilla overlay has it. Works. Is this the access you refer to? https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/mozilla.git

Re: [gentoo-user] libmysqlclient.so segfault

2018-08-09 Thread Daniel Frey
On 08/09/18 01:26, John Covici wrote: > > I had to re-emerge dev-perl/DBD-mysql and things now work again. I am > using mysql, so I hope this works for you. > Thanks, this fixed it. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 9 August 2018 09:18:43 BST Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 08/08/18 11:43, Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > Long story short that leads up to my questions, I paid off some debt. > > Hi Dale, > > what you are talking about is not a real backup but a single copy of > your data that may

[gentoo-user] The memory gremlin

2018-08-09 Thread Alan Grimes
[resend, list was down...] I've been meditating on the memory gremlin on my system... The ram is Corsair, 3000mhz. (never had any problem with their sticks in any system ever.) Motherboard is an early release mini-ATX B350 board from Asus... Chip is a R7 1800X The pattern is: all cells test go

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Wols Lists
On 08/08/18 04:43, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > > I just bought two external drive enclosures. One is sort of a spare but > I do plan to do some backups on it, mostly pictures from my camera. In > one of the enclosures I put a single 6TB drive that I found on ebay. It > has about 7,000 hours on i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge completly a package but dont install it?

2018-08-09 Thread tuxic
On 08/09 09:48, Mateusz Lenik wrote: > Turns out emerge has this nice flag (excerpt from emerge(1) manpage): > > --buildpkgonly, -B > Creates binary packages for all ebuilds processed without > actually merging the packages. This comes with the caveat that all > build-time dependenc

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge completly a package but dont install it?

2018-08-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 1:28 PM wrote: > > On 08/09 09:48, Mateusz Lenik wrote: > > Turns out emerge has this nice flag (excerpt from emerge(1) manpage): > > > > --buildpkgonly, -B > > Creates binary packages for all ebuilds processed without > > actually merging the packages. This c

Re: [gentoo-user] The memory gremlin

2018-08-09 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:32:33 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > [resend, list was down...] > > I've been meditating on the memory gremlin on my system... > > The ram is Corsair, 3000mhz. (never had any problem with their sticks in > any system ever.) > > Motherboard is an early release mini-ATX B35

Re: [gentoo-user] The memory gremlin

2018-08-09 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 10/08/18 02:00, Mick wrote: > On Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:32:33 BST Alan Grimes wrote: >> [resend, list was down...] >> >> I've been meditating on the memory gremlin on my system... >> >> The ram is Corsair, 3000mhz. (never had any problem with their sticks in >> any system ever.) >> >> Mother

Re: [gentoo-user] need files for older ebuild

2018-08-09 Thread Jack
On 08/09/2018 04:57 AM, John Covici wrote: Hi. I need to compile gnome-control-center-3.24.3 as 24.4 will not compile (filed a bug, but no response). I have saved the old ebuild, but it needs something in the files subdirectory and I don't have it and it was deleted some time ago. I am using g

Re: [gentoo-user] need files for older ebuild

2018-08-09 Thread John Covici
On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 18:02:40 -0400, Jack wrote: > > On 08/09/2018 04:57 AM, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. I need to compile gnome-control-center-3.24.3 as 24.4 will not > > compile (filed a bug, but no response). I have saved the old ebuild, > > but it needs something in the files subdirectory and

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Dale
Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 08/08/18 11:43, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Long story short that leads up to my questions, I paid off some debt.  >> > Hi Dale, > >     what you are talking about is not a real backup but a single copy of > your data that may or may not be complete (the delete option you

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 08/08/18 04:43, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I just bought two external drive enclosures. One is sort of a spare but >> I do plan to do some backups on it, mostly pictures from my camera. In >> one of the enclosures I put a single 6TB drive that I found on ebay. It >> has a

[gentoo-user] --depclean and sys-devel/gcc

2018-08-09 Thread allan gottlieb
I run a stable system so am surprised to see that eix reports I have gcc version ~7.3.0-r3 installed. (gcc-config -l reports that stable x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-6.4.0 is the active compiler) More surprising is that emerge --depclean --pretend sys-devel/gcc wants to remove everything *except* the t

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 10/08/18 10:46, Dale wrote: > Wols Lists wrote: >> On 08/08/18 04:43, Dale wrote: >>> Howdy, >>> >>> I just bought two external drive enclosures. One is sort of a spare but >>> >>> It has power.  I'm not sure where I'd put a fridge, even a tiny one.  I >>> wish it was twice as big as it i

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and sys-devel/gcc

2018-08-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/09/2018 10:49 PM, allan gottlieb wrote: > I run a stable system so am surprised to see that eix reports > I have gcc version ~7.3.0-r3 installed. (gcc-config -l reports > that stable x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-6.4.0 is the active compiler) > > More surprising is that >emerge --depclean --prete