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

2020-08-03 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 8:24 AM Dale wrote: >> In the past, I've never seen the drive on the larger files be that slow even >> toward the end. Generally, it stays pretty close to 180MBs/sec or so which >> is what I usually get with PMR drives. > Yeah, just hard to be

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

2020-08-03 Thread Dale
Andrey F. wrote: > Can you reproduce by manually curling it?  > I had to look up curl to see if I even have it installed.  I've seen it mentioned but no idea what it is but it is installed here.  I'm not worried about the server that was slow since I removed it.  I think it was easylist or

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange portage behaviour

2020-08-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 3 August 2020 20:15:45 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 3:01 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 3 August 2020 14:18:22 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > > > Sounds like you want --usepkgonly y --binpkg-respect-use y (the first > > > is the same as -K). At least, I think

[gentoo-user] AMD RX 5700XT (Navi 10) Driver Issue

2020-08-03 Thread Sid Spry
Anybody know more? Found a Qubes bug, https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5416. Reproduced below is the output from an attempted modprobe amdgpu. [ 338.377745] fb0: switching to amdgpudrmfb from EFI VGA [ 338.377842] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25 [ 338.377853]

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange portage behaviour

2020-08-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 3:01 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 3 August 2020 14:18:22 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > > > Sounds like you want --usepkgonly y --binpkg-respect-use y (the first > > is the same as -K). At least, I think that is what you're getting at > > - I could be

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange portage behaviour

2020-08-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 3 August 2020 14:18:22 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > Sounds like you want --usepkgonly y --binpkg-respect-use y (the first > is the same as -K). At least, I think that is what you're getting at > - I could be misunderstanding your goal. Not exactly. I'm finding that emerge -K installs

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

2020-08-03 Thread Andrey F.
Can you reproduce by manually curling it? On Sun, Aug 2, 2020, 18:41 Dale wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange portage behaviour

2020-08-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 7:45 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Now, when I chroot into the rescue system and 'emerge -uaDvNk @core @base', > portage reports that it can't use the postfix package because of different USE > flags, but it does the update I've asked for. Postfix is in @apps in the main >

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

2020-08-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 8:24 AM Dale wrote: > > In the past, I've never seen the drive on the larger files be that slow even > toward the end. Generally, it stays pretty close to 180MBs/sec or so which > is what I usually get with PMR drives. Yeah, just hard to be certain without ditching the

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

2020-08-03 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 1:30 AM Dale wrote: >> 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

[gentoo-user] Strange portage behaviour

2020-08-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
Afternoon all, On one box here, I use the same packages and distfiles directories on both the main system and a second, small rescue system (the latter is an alternative boot). The rescue system has the same profile and most of the same USE flags as its bigger brother, so the packages should

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

2020-08-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 1:30 AM Dale wrote: > > 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

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

2020-08-03 Thread Alexey Mishustin
пн, 3 авг. 2020 г. в 11:05, Neil Bothwick : > > On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 02:44:43 +0300, Alexey Mishustin wrote: > > > This should check if 3.9 is installed: > > if has_version '=dev-lang/python-3.9'; then > > Shouldn't that be has_version 'dev-lang/python:3.9' to check for any > version of 3.9? Sure!

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

2020-08-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 02:44:43 +0300, Alexey Mishustin wrote: > > 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 > >

[gentoo-user] Logrotate ignores standard log files

2020-08-03 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, I detected that since mid-May my main log files /var/log/{messages,auth.log,daemon.log,...} don't get rotated any more. I tried to solve this by making an entry in /etc/logrotate.conf, but that doesn't work. "maxsize" works, but not "weekly" nor "daily". What happened in May and what do I