Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Dale
Daniel Frey wrote: > On 6/20/19 11:10 AM, Dale wrote: >> Kai Peter wrote: The bad thing about this, sometimes I have to use exclude gentoo-sources from things such as --depclean.  It's annoying but it's the only way I could come up with to do this. >>> You can do an

[gentoo-user] setup.py question: platform.system()

2019-06-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
I was just looking through gentoo/setup.py and find something that arouses my curiosity. I see if platform.system() == 'Linux': x_c_helpers.update({ 'portage.util.file_copy.reflink_linux': [ 'src/portage_util_file_copy_reflink_linux.c',

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile 17.1 fails at the analyse stage

2019-06-20 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 20/6/19 9:40 pm, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 9:21 AM Jack wrote: >> The --analyze phase bailed out before even starting. I filed an issue >> upstream (mgorny's github repository) and he made a change (I didn't >> look at the actual commit) so this situation should now be

Re: [gentoo-user] equery keywords and overlays

2019-06-20 Thread Marc Joliet
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 19. Juni 2019, 23:16:50 CEST schrieb Grant Taylor: > On 6/19/19 3:10 PM, Dale wrote: > > I'm not sure this will apply. I know this option works in some uses > > but not sure about yours. You may want to try it tho and see if it does > > what you want. > > > > -o,

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:18:22 +0200, Kai Peter wrote: > > The bad thing about this, sometimes I have to use exclude > > gentoo-sources > > from things such as --depclean.  It's annoying but it's the only way I > > could come up with to do this.  > > > You can do an 'emerge --noreplace' - one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inter-package dependencies.

2019-06-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/20/19 8:55 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2019-06-20 13:30, aleiphoenix . wrote: ewarn " I didn't know about vanilla-sources. Is there any advantage of using this package over just downloading tarballs or patchlevel updates from kernel.org? That's a good question. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/20/19 11:10 AM, Dale wrote: Kai Peter wrote: The bad thing about this, sometimes I have to use exclude gentoo-sources from things such as --depclean.  It's annoying but it's the only way I could come up with to do this. You can do an 'emerge --noreplace' - one time. I read the man

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Dale
Kai Peter wrote: > On 2019-06-20 20:10, Dale wrote: >> Kai Peter wrote: The bad thing about this, sometimes I have to use exclude gentoo-sources from things such as --depclean.  It's annoying but it's the only way I could come up with to do this.  >>> You can do an

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Kai Peter
On 2019-06-20 20:10, Dale wrote: Kai Peter wrote: The bad thing about this, sometimes I have to use exclude gentoo-sources from things such as --depclean.  It's annoying but it's the only way I could come up with to do this.  You can do an 'emerge --noreplace' - one time. I read the

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Dale
Kai Peter wrote: >> >> The bad thing about this, sometimes I have to use exclude gentoo-sources >> from things such as --depclean.  It's annoying but it's the only way I >> could come up with to do this.  >> > You can do an 'emerge --noreplace' - one time. > I read the man page for this option,

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Kai Peter
The bad thing about this, sometimes I have to use exclude gentoo-sources from things such as --depclean.  It's annoying but it's the only way I could come up with to do this.  You can do an 'emerge --noreplace' - one time. -- Sent with eQmail-1.10.1 beta - a fork of djb's famous qmail

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the "halt" user for?

2019-06-20 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/20/19 3:07 AM, Philip Webb wrote: Why don't you simply goto another raw terminal via Ctl-Alt-F2 (F3 etc), login as 'root' & issue 'shutdown -h now' ? Traditionally, computer operators / maintenance technicians, who would need to do a halt might not have root's password. Thus the need

[gentoo-user] Re: Inter-package dependencies.

2019-06-20 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-06-20 13:30, aleiphoenix . wrote: > ewarn "

[gentoo-user] Re: What is the "halt" user for?

2019-06-20 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-06-20 05:07, Philip Webb wrote: > 190619 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > I'd like to have a quick way to halt my system from the keyboard, > > without relying on obscure key combinations such as Alt-Up. > > Logging in as a special user (with a special password) would be ideal. > > Why don't you

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Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/20/19 12:47 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:16:21 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: I was thinking about this for a bit, and thought that maybe adding the slot to the package in /var/lib/portage/world would work. Every release has a separate slot, so this would never offer

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile 17.1 fails at the analyse stage

2019-06-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 9:21 AM Jack wrote: > > The --analyze phase bailed out before even starting. I filed an issue > upstream (mgorny's github repository) and he made a change (I didn't > look at the actual commit) so this situation should now be handled > correctly. I think he did want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile 17.1 fails at the analyse stage

2019-06-20 Thread Jack
On 6/20/19 3:47 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:02:35 BST Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 20/6/19 2:26 am, Jack wrote: Bill - you might try "rm /usr/lib" WITHOUT the trailing slash, to remove the symlink. Then "ln -s lib64 /usr/lib" will recreate it in the form unsymlink-lib

Re: [gentoo-user] Inter-package dependencies.

2019-06-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:34 AM aleiphoenix . wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:30 PM aleiphoenix . wrote: > > See some ebuilds like > > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-430.14.ebuild > > > > if use kernel_linux && kernel_is ge 5 2; then > > ewarn "Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xscreensaver is very slow

2019-06-20 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 20 June 2019 11:55:07 BST Philip Webb wrote: > 190619 Philip Webb wrote: > > Something seems to have changed in 5.42 : > > I haven't merged anything else which would affect it. > > I can restore 40 or 38 , but does anyone have further suggestions first ? > > I've reverted to 5.40 &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xscreensaver is very slow

2019-06-20 Thread Philip Webb
190619 Philip Webb wrote: > Something seems to have changed in 5.42 : > I haven't merged anything else which would affect it. > I can restore 40 or 38 , but does anyone have further suggestions first ? I've reverted to 5.40 & the speed is back to normal. Does anyone have a suggestion what might

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile 17.1 fails at the analyse stage

2019-06-20 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 20/6/19 3:47 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:02:35 BST Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> On 20/6/19 2:26 am, Jack wrote: >>> Bill - you might try "rm /usr/lib" WITHOUT the trailing slash, to >>> remove the symlink. Then "ln -s lib64 /usr/lib" will recreate it in >>> the form

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the "halt" user for?

2019-06-20 Thread Philip Webb
190619 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I'd like to have a quick way to halt my system from the keyboard, > without relying on obscure key combinations such as Alt-Up. > Logging in as a special user (with a special password) would be ideal. Why don't you simply goto another raw terminal via Ctl-Alt-F2 (F3

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile 17.1 fails at the analyse stage

2019-06-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:02:35 BST Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 20/6/19 2:26 am, Jack wrote: > > Bill - you might try "rm /usr/lib" WITHOUT the trailing slash, to > > remove the symlink. Then "ln -s lib64 /usr/lib" will recreate it in > > the form unsymlink-lib seems to require. > > Thanks,

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:16:21 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: > I was thinking about this for a bit, and thought that maybe adding the > slot to the package in /var/lib/portage/world would work. Every release has a separate slot, so this would never offer updates, no matter how minor. However, you may

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 22:51:15 -0500, Dale wrote: > > When I /am/ ready to upgrade to a newer Minor version, I will just > > update my /etc/portage/package.mask/gentoo-sources file. > I admit, it seems to be a cleaner way of doing it than what I'm doing.  > I may even give that a try but for me, I