Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to copy gzip data from bytestream?

2022-02-22 Thread Felix Kuperjans
On 2022-02-22, Grant Edwards wrote: That doesn't work. It shows the size of the drive as the "uncompressed" size and 0 as compressed: # gzip -clt foo $ ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 grante users 12923 Feb 22 07:51 foo $ gzip foo $ ls -l foo.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 grante users

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 12:57 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > But --changed-use slows things down a lot, so you also don't want to > use it *every* time. > Whoops, I mean --changed-deps.

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 16:42 +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > So for people like me, neither being a developer nor managing a local > server for binary packages (thanks Andreas for pointing out this special > case), "--changed-deps" really is an option not to be used. > > Case finally closed

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-22 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Thanks, Michael, On Tuesday, 2022-02-22 10:05:06 -0500, you wrote: > ... > It's really a (portage-only) workaround for developers who don't follow > the rules, thus ensuring that we'll never have another competing > package manager again. So for people like me, neither being a developer nor

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 14:26 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > It's not a relic, it's a fairly recent addition. It's a bit of a belt and > braces approach which basically says "rebuild everything that might just > possibly, maybe, in some circumstances have some sort of effect". > > It's really a

Re: [gentoo-user] problem installing confluent-kafka from guru

2022-02-22 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 10:02 +0300, Anatoly Oreshkin wrote: > The following package(s) were not found, and no possible matches were > found in the package db: dev-python/confluent-kafka. I've never used a gentoo system with salt stack, but I had a thought. Salt can be picky with package names

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 21 February 2022 10:20:42 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 20 February 2022 22:53:02 GMT Miles Malone wrote: > > The standard is #6-32 UNC for 3.5" harddrives, and most case-related > > stuff including motherboard standoffs. It's M3 standard for 2.5" > > harddrives, 5.25" optical

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:21:48 +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Apart from a reply by Dale which more or less confirmed (at least the > way I read it) that the section regarding the "--changed-deps" option in > "man emerge" does not contain much valuable information, there was no > response

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:09:30 +0100, Ramon Fischer wrote: > Is it a good practise to update @system first? > > I always update @world almost every seven days and I only get into > package conflicts, if I do not update for more than 60 days or so. Last > time was 99 days ago and I had to resolve

[gentoo-user] Re: How to copy gzip data from bytestream?

2022-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-02-22, Felix Kuperjans wrote: > you could use gzip to tell you the compressed size of the file and then > use another method to copy just those bytes (dd for example): > > gzip -clt > Should print the compressed size in bytes, although by reading through > the entire stream once.

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-22 Thread Andreas Fink
On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:21:48 +0100 Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > And none of the examples to overcome problems provided by others in this > thread ever contained "--changed-deps". Does this mean "--changed-deps" > is a NOOP, a relict from days long gone by, meanwhile without any funct- > ionality,

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-22 Thread Ramon Fischer
Is it a good practise to update @system first? I always update @world almost every seven days and I only get into package conflicts, if I do not update for more than 60 days or so. Last time was 99 days ago and I had to resolve circular package dependencies and so forth manually. I wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-22 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Er ... On Monday, 2022-02-21 11:13:16 +0100, I myself wrote: > ... > But what > about "--changed-deps"? Can nobody on this list explain what it really > is or isn't good for, or when to use or not to use it? Apart from a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to copy gzip data from bytestream?

2022-02-22 Thread Felix Kuperjans
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 8:29 PM Grant Edwards wrote: I've got a "raw" USB flash drive containing a large chunk of gzipped data. By "raw" I mean no partition table, now filesystem. Think of it as a tape (if you're old enough). gzip -tv is quite happy to validate the data and says it's OK,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 21 February 2022 18:14:09 GMT Steven Lembark wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 17:24:44 + > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I have a couple of vertically mounted easy-swap disk caddies in the > > back of my workstation, and I'm having trouble finding screws to > > mount the disk in the