Re: [gentoo-user] Re: meson build woes

2020-08-24 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Tuesday, August 25, 2020 2:23:57 A.M. AEST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-08-24, Franz Fellner wrote: > > On Mo 24 Aug 2020 11:21:10 +0200, Hogren wrote: > >> Maybe try to : > >> > >> - Unmerge all python and python-setuptools versions > > > > No, don't do that!!! > > Unmerging all python

[gentoo-user] Re: meson build woes

2020-08-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-08-24, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> >> - Unmerge all python and python-setuptools versions > >> > No, don't do that!!! >> > Unmerging all python version will leave you with a non-working portage. > >> Indeed -- I've done that. It's not fun. You certainly won't do it a >> second

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: meson build woes

2020-08-24 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2020-08-24 17:24, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > How did you recover? You couldn't even use setup.py at that stage. > > Did you have to download the python distfile if you didn't have it > already, and build using configure and make directly? You can find someone you trust with the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage package removals due to python-2.7

2020-08-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 9:48 AM Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 24 August 2020 13:02:56 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > I may give virt-manager a spin, because the users will require a GUI manager > to launch VMs, but then if I start emerging packages at large I could emerge > VBox from source instead.

[gentoo-user] Re: meson build woes

2020-08-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
> >> - Unmerge all python and python-setuptools versions > > No, don't do that!!! > > Unmerging all python version will leave you with a non-working portage. > Indeed -- I've done that. It's not fun. You certainly won't do it a > second time. > Grant How did you recover? You

[gentoo-user] Re: meson build woes

2020-08-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-08-24, Franz Fellner wrote: > On Mo 24 Aug 2020 11:21:10 +0200, Hogren wrote: >> Maybe try to : >> >> - Unmerge all python and python-setuptools versions > > No, don't do that!!! > Unmerging all python version will leave you with a non-working portage. Indeed -- I've done that. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage package removals due to python-2.7

2020-08-24 Thread Michael
Thank you all for your responses. On Monday, 24 August 2020 13:02:56 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 6:57 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:50:42 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > I have a number of VBox VM systems, some with active software licenses > > > running

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage package removals due to python-2.7

2020-08-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 12:24:26 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > I have a number of VBox VM systems, some with active software > > > licenses running on them and the VBox-bin is a low-maintenance and > > > convenient way to run them. I'd prefer to avoid emerging a non-bin > > > VBox. Is there some way I

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-24 Thread Eray Aslan
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 09:17:56PM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 04:15:38AM +, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > just to double check i got you right. due to > > flushing the buffer to disk, this would mean that > > mail's throughput is limited by disk i/o? [...] > When

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage package removals due to python-2.7

2020-08-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 6:57 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:50:42 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > !!! The following installed packages are masked: > > - app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-5.2.40.137108::gentoo (masked by: > > package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: > > #

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage package removals due to python-2.7

2020-08-24 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Mon 24 Aug 2020 12:24:26 GMT, Michael wrote: > Thanks Neil, will this keep all requisite build and run time dependencies, or > will they have to be added to package.unmask too? You will have to do the same for all the packages you want to keep (no matter if it’s a dep or a manually emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage package removals due to python-2.7

2020-08-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 August 2020 11:57:02 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:50:42 +0100, Michael wrote: > > !!! The following installed packages are masked: > > - app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-5.2.40.137108::gentoo (masked by: > > package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: > > #

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage package removals due to python-2.7

2020-08-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:50:42 +0100, Michael wrote: > !!! The following installed packages are masked: > - app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-5.2.40.137108::gentoo (masked by: > package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: > # Michał Górny (2020-08-22) > # These packages (or package versions)

[gentoo-user] Portage package removals due to python-2.7

2020-08-24 Thread Michael
As python-2.7 was EOL'ed I find some packages are being retired and have/will fall off the tree; e.g. app-office/taskcoach. I keep a version of taskcoach running in a VM in the hope the devs/maintainer will come up with a version updated to run on later python releases. Then I see this:

Re: [gentoo-user] meson build woes

2020-08-24 Thread Hogren
Sorry sorry sorry… Franz is right... Do not uninstall all python versions ! Hogren On 24/08/2020 11:39, Franz Fellner wrote: On Mo 24 Aug 2020 11:21:10 +0200, Hogren wrote: Maybe try to : - Unmerge all python and python-setuptools versions No, don't do that!!! Unmerging all python

Re: [gentoo-user] meson build woes

2020-08-24 Thread Franz Fellner
On Mo 24 Aug 2020 11:21:10 +0200, Hogren wrote: > Maybe try to : > > - Unmerge all python and python-setuptools versions No, don't do that!!! Unmerging all python version will leave you with a non-working portage. portage is written in python. You can fix that but it requires some manual

Re: [gentoo-user] meson build woes

2020-08-24 Thread Hogren
Hi, In your logs, I saw that python 3.7 is executed. And you wrote that python 3.6 is selected. I had many problem with the python transition too. I have no simple solution. I uninstalled many things for reinstall after. Maybe try to : - Unmerge all python and python-setuptools versions -