Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-08-02 Thread Dale
Howdy all, Little update here.  Rich, I think you mentioned it would slow down when it ran out of PMR space while trying to redo the shingled part.  Up until now, I hadn't ran into that issue.  It seems the PMR section for this drive is somewhere around 40 or 50GBs, maybe 60GBs.  I hadn't had

[gentoo-user] emerge-fetch.log not always updating

2020-08-02 Thread Dale
Howdy, I was in the middle of a update and noticed the server I was connected to was really slow.  I edited make.conf and removed that server.  I then restarted emerge so it would try the next server and hopefully be a better speed.  When I used tail to monitor emerge-fetch.log, it wasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild : how to check for python version

2020-08-02 Thread Alexey Mishustin
вс, 2 авг. 2020 г. в 17:48, Helmut Jarausch : > > Hi, > in an ebuild I have to apply a patch only if this package is installed > for python3.9. > The ebuild should work for PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8,9} ) > > How can I check for Pythons version in src_prepare or similar functions. Hi, This

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey

2020-08-02 Thread james
On 8/2/20 6:22 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 11:08:47PM -0400, james wrote On 8/1/20 12:10 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: So a "palemoon-bin" ebuild is possible. But is it necessary? If you pull down and extract the precompiled tarball to your home dir, it can be set to check

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild : how to check for python version

2020-08-02 Thread james
On 8/2/20 1:34 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 08/02/2020 06:15:12 PM, Ramon Fischer wrote: Hi Helmut, maybe "python_is_python3"[1] will help? I am still new to creating ebuilds. :) -Ramon Thanks Ramon for this hint. I need to know which version of Python3 ( Python3.8 or Python3.9) and I

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild : how to check for python version

2020-08-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/02/2020 06:15:12 PM, Ramon Fischer wrote: Hi Helmut, maybe "python_is_python3"[1] will help? I am still new to creating ebuilds. :) -Ramon Thanks Ramon for this hint. I need to know which version of Python3 ( Python3.8 or Python3.9) and I could see how python_is_python3 helps here.

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild : how to check for python version

2020-08-02 Thread Ramon Fischer
Hi Helmut, maybe "python_is_python3"[1] will help? I am still new to creating ebuilds. :) -Ramon [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/python-utils-r1.eclass/index.html On 02/08/2020 16:47, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, in an ebuild I have to apply a patch only if this package

[gentoo-user] ebuild : how to check for python version

2020-08-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, in an ebuild I have to apply a patch only if this package is installed for python3.9. The ebuild should work for PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8,9} ) How can I check for Pythons version in src_prepare or similar functions. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

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

2020-08-02 Thread Ramon Fischer
I decided to use "EGIT_COMMIT" to let the ebuild pulling a certain commit. Using the archive tarball is indeed interesting! Thank you for your help! -Ramon On 28/07/2020 15:32, Ramon Fischer wrote: Oh yeah, as Neil was pointing that out. I will give it a try and report soon. -Ramon On

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey

2020-08-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 11:08:47PM -0400, james wrote > On 8/1/20 12:10 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > >So a "palemoon-bin" ebuild is possible. But is it necessary? If > > you pull down and extract the precompiled tarball to your home dir, it > > can be set to check for, and do, updates (as

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey

2020-08-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 01 Aug 2020, james wrote: >On 8/1/20 7:04 PM, David Haller wrote: >> On Sat, 01 Aug 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: >> [..] >> > So a "palemoon-bin" ebuild is possible. >> >> There's already one in the palemoon overlay. > >This is what you are referring to? > >www-client/palemoon-bin