Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-06 Thread antlists
On 06/08/2021 19:41, n952162 wrote: It might not hurt if that error message included the suggestion to run "emerge -u portage" to update it. It does say that the solution is to update portage - it just doesn't explicitly tell you how to do so. The way out of my dilema would be first to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 2:41 PM n952162 wrote: > > On 8/6/21 8:22 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 8:37 AM n952162 wrote: > >> I was complaining, mostly, that isodate had to be the thing that was > >> incompatible with my configuration. Maybe there is a unavoidable reason > >> t

[gentoo-user] Recommend C source browser/editor?

2021-08-06 Thread Grant Edwards
Would anybody care to recommend a tool for browsing around (and editing) a tree of somebody-else's C code? I prefer emacs for day-to-day editing of my code (when I know what's where), but I'm looking for something to browse around a tree of unfamiliar source code and make minor changes. I briefly

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-06 Thread n952162
On 8/6/21 8:22 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 8:37 AM n952162 wrote: I was complaining, mostly, that isodate had to be the thing that was incompatible with my configuration. Maybe there is a unavoidable reason that that package had to move to the newest EAPI, or maybe it was

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 8:37 AM n952162 wrote: > > I was complaining, mostly, that isodate had to be the thing that was > incompatible with my configuration. Maybe there is a unavoidable reason > that that package had to move to the newest EAPI, or maybe it was just a > sense that it's cool to be

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-06 Thread n952162
On 8/6/21 5:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 6 August 2021 12:58:59 BST n952162 wrote: (sorry, Peter, for the direct email, apparently a mis-click) It's easily forgiven. For who among us has never misclicked? :) :-)))

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 6 August 2021 12:58:59 BST n952162 wrote: > (sorry, Peter, for the direct email, apparently a mis-click) It's easily forgiven. For who among us has never misclicked? :) -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-06 Thread n952162
On 8/6/21 2:37 PM, n952162 wrote: On 8/6/21 2:16 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 2:03 AM n952162 wrote: Well, what you say is likely true, but does "old software" really need to be kept working?  Couldn't problems necessarily  only be dealt with in the newest versions? I think

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-06 Thread n952162
On 8/6/21 2:16 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 2:03 AM n952162 wrote: Well, what you say is likely true, but does "old software" really need to be kept working? Couldn't problems necessarily only be dealt with in the newest versions? I think you are misunderstanding what actu

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 2:03 AM n952162 wrote: > > Well, what you say is likely true, but does "old software" really need > to be kept working? Couldn't problems necessarily only be dealt with > in the newest versions? > I think you are misunderstanding what actually went wrong in your situation

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-06 Thread n952162
On 8/3/21 5:54 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday, 3 August 2021 15:51:15 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 15:58, Neil Bothwick wrote: I don't see them when syncing from a cron script, when all output is captured and emailed, but do when running sync on a shell. It seems you onl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-08-06 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Neil, On Friday, 2021-08-06 08:33:33 +0100, you wrote: > ... > ># emerge --depclean --pretend | $PAGER > ># emerge --depclean -- ask --quiet > > How about emerge -ca | tee >depclean.txt > > Then if the list is short you can read it in the console and just hit y > or n. Otherwise, hit n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-08-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 10:10:27 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > Why not write the output to a file ? -- eg > > 'emerge --ask --depclean > '. > > Then you can look at the output at leisure, even on another machine. > > Depending on the number of packages you've installed and depending on > th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-08-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 6/8/21 4:40 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 10:18:06AM +0200 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > >>> You could delete and rebuild the cache each time (or I think there is a >>> way to do without it). >> If the cache can be easily rebuilt, then there’d be no need to store it a