[gentoo-user] Ebuild: How to deal with external repositories properly (best practise)?

2020-07-27 Thread Ramon Fischer
Hello list, I have set up my first ebuild repository[1] with one package "x11-misc/drm_master_util" to run "X" without root privileges. I am still making it to work[2]. The ebuild file accesses an external git repository[3]. The thing I am concerned about, is, that I am pulling something

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-27 Thread Adam Carter
> > Compare realtime it to measured CPU time. If one realtime second is > shorter than a > CPU second then you know the host is pausing your VM. There are other ways > to > check, but this should always work if you can contact an asynchronous time > standard. > You may need to average the time

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail server

2020-07-27 Thread james
On 7/25/20 8:09 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday, 19 July 2020 15:18:32 BST I wrote: I think I'm nearly there, but still one config problem eludes me. The setup is fetchmail > postfix > dovecot. Postfix is trying to deliver some mail (not all) to me@this-workstation instead of to its own

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-27 Thread Sid Spry
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, at 11:21 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:35 PM Ashley Dixon wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 01:23:46PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > > > Having performance issues on a linux vmware guest that doesnt run vmtools > > > because its an 'appliance', but it

Re: [gentoo-user] problem getting wifi card to route to internet

2020-07-27 Thread John Covici
I wil have to check, I ran into some other problems with wlan0 and will get back when I have straightened that out. Thanks. On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 23:17:24 -0400, Adam Carter wrote: > > [1 ] > > > Have you set the default route and enabled ip forwarding? > > > > > > Also you don’t need to add a