Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021, at 09:25, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 28 October 2021 13:34:49 BST Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > >> I got jekyll installed via portage by adding: >> >> dev-ruby/* ~amd64 >> www-apps/jekyll ~amd64 >> www-apps/jekyll-* ~amd

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

Hi Peter, On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, at 09:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 21 October 2021 17:11:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I wanted to try this package to create a small site for myself, but I'm >> falling at the second hurdle (the first was setting package.env etc to

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

On Mon, Aug 2, 2021, at 09:33, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > What I'm trying to solve is reading the > output from "emerge --depclean" one screen full at a time and at the end > being asked whether or not I really want to unmerge all packages listed. > And just running > >$ emerge --ask --depclean

Re: [gentoo-user] Strategies for testing an ebuild

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020, at 14:01, Anton wrote: > Hi there, > > I am taking on maintaining a package in gentoo-sci overlay. What are > good ways to test that my ebuild works before creating a pull request? > > I am thinking to install a Gentoo Prefix, snapshot its "vanilla" state, > and run `emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020, at 14:14, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 9:34 PM, Michael Orlitzky > wrote: > > > Dependency resolution is indeed a (formally) hard problem. Solving the > > traveling salesman problem is also hard. Solving the traveling salesman > > problem while

Re: [gentoo-user] can't paste password from clipboard into ssh login in urxvt

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020, at 13:51, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:20 PM, wrote: > > > I didn't tru that muself, but as far as I could remember, > > ssh catches the tty so no password will be shown (but processed). > > ya, i know that bit. > > > What happens if you past

Re: [gentoo-user] How to disable fuzzy-search in emerge?

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020, at 12:08, Grant Edwards wrote: > I really, really hate how emerge now returns bucketfulls of useless, > unrelated results when you do a search. WTF is the point of returning > a bunch of packages that don't contain the search string when there is > is a package name that matc

Re: [gentoo-user] simple image annotation software

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020, at 10:42, Grant Edwards wrote: > What application would people recommed to add some simple annotations > to image files? For example, I'd like to add a few arrows, some text, > and maybe a box or oval or two. I sometimes do stuff like that from > the command line using ImageM

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 09:06, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > OK. But it seems to offer limited functionality: > https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005666383-Show-a-Join-from-your-browser-Link > Right. I've only ever used the desktop application. > (And will it be safer that the applicatio

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 08:54, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:42 PM Michael wrote: > > Have you looked at using WebRTC with Zoom, rather than installing their code > > on your PC? > > The only thing in portage named after webrtc is > media-libs/webrtc-audio-processing. Is thi

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 08:04, Michael wrote: > I have not used Zoom, but the interwebs are screaming about the fly-by > malware > silent installations that come with it. I don't know if this applies to > Linux > too. My understanding is that it reports running processes and other info about

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 07:51, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Did someone try to install zoom? (relevant to many people during the > current crisis) > > https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204206269-Installing-Zoom-on-Linux > > I downloaded an archive (cannot find the URL again; the site is that >

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, at 15:03, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Hi, > > There seems to be a problem with loading MySQL. During the boot process > when it comes to the loading of MySQL it hangs. Is there a way to > bypass the loading of MySQL so the computer will complete booting and I > can make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] how to lbry desktop?

Hi, On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, at 13:24, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > thx but, some other error i noticed: says keytar something 127, when running > `yarn`. > This is not really gentoo-specific, but you're probably missing a dependency that's required to build keytar. Alec

Re: [gentoo-user] how to lbry desktop?

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, at 10:27, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > this: > https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop#running-from-source > > doesn't work. i did `yarn dev:web` (and without web) and i don't see anything > usable. with `:web` i get a browser opened, but it doesn't show anything. > without

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/ruby and dev-ruby/xmlrpc-0.3.0[ruby_targets_ruby25] error

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, at 06:13, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > [snip] > > root@fireball / # emerge -uvaDN world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy > ">=dev-ruby/xmlrpc-0.3.0[ruby_targets_ruby

Re: [gentoo-user] escape from i3lock

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:52:55PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:23:08 -0400, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > > Which init are you using, what display manager, and how are you > > launching it? I'm using systemd and sddm, and when I run `i3lock&#

Re: [gentoo-user] escape from i3lock

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:03:42AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Here is my next "low information" question, haha. > > I use i3lock which is like Xscreensaver but much much simpler; it plays > no movies or games, just blanks the screen with a configured color or > image. To unlock it you have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Not enough RAM for dev-qt/qtwebengine build

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, at 14:19, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 05:15:41PM +0300, Alexey Eschenko wrote > > Thank you. Didn't think about that. Don't know why though. My > > MAKEOPTS was "-j32". Looks like that was too many for package like > > qtwebengine. Solved the problem with crea

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD RX GPU in Gentoo

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, at 10:56, Emmanuel Vasilakis wrote: > Hi! > > So, assuming I would get an RX550/560 card, how well do the amdgpu > drivers (open source) work? Are they ok for steam games? Do they provide > KMS (switching to a Ctrl+Alt+F1 is always garbled now). ? Are they > completely tea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Coming up with a password that is very strong.

On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 04:42:42AM -0600, Dale wrote: > > It seems you just put yours on a stick as plain text.  If you trust your > safe, that should be fine.  Since I have mine on my system, I encrypt > it.  It may be easier to do it your way tho.  At least easier for > whoever comes after me. 

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with Flatpak?

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 01:02:39PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 12:48 PM Grant Edwards > wrote: > > > I'm shopping for an IMAP email client that does a decent job of > > handling HTML. After doing a bit of reading I decided the first one > > to try would be Geary.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:30:48AM -0600, Dale wrote: > > One last question for anyone who has done this recently.  When finished, > I'll have a FX-8350 CPU with 8 cores at 4.0/4.2GHz, 32GBs of memory all > on a Gigabyte 970 series mobo.  Would there be any point in upgrading to > a whole new rig

Re: [gentoo-user] how best to encrypt a file

On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 07:27:35AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 180703 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:47:22AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > >> I have a couple of small files which need to be encrypted : > >> one is simple text ( .txt ), the other a s

Re: [gentoo-user] how best to encrypt a file

On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:47:22AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > I have a couple of small files which need to be encrypted : > one is simple text ( .txt ), the other a spreadsheet ( .ods ). > > I haven't used encryption like this before : what do others use ? I have used `gpg' to do this before:

Re: [gentoo-user] Recent change in python - some packages are not happy

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 12:35:32PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Saturday, 23 June 2018 11:09:10 BST Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > > > How about `emerge --info | grep PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET'? The problem looks > > > > to be: > > > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="-pyth

Re: [gentoo-user] Recent change in python - some packages are not happy

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 10:38:35AM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Saturday, 23 June 2018 10:30:09 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On 23 June 2018 10:14:31 BST, Mick wrote: > > >I came up to this today following a portage sync: > > > > > ># emerge -uaNDv world > > > > > > > > >These are the packages that wou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dependencies and PYTHON_TARGETS

On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 06:44:03PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-04-22 15:08, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > > > * make sure dev-lang/python:3.6 stays in the world file, even if it > > > is not needed by me directly > > > > No, you shouldn't need

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies and PYTHON_TARGETS

On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 11:34:36AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > ... > > This is disappointing. It looks like I have to do 2 things manually: Nope, just one. > * set PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6" - where? In make.conf? Will > it override the profile setting? Yes, right in make.conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Gentoo in VirtualBox

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 12:40:43PM -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm using Gentoo as a server (so it runs 24/7) Apache, Asterisk, Hylafax > etc. > > What are my chances to run Gentoo as a VirtualBox? > > Installing Gentoo takes me 2-3 days (basic setup min., I don't do it > every month s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Calculating power consumption of a running program?

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 05:29:13PM -0500, R0b0t1 wrote: > As an example, I am interested in characterizing the power consumption > of rendering a PDF document. I would hopefully only need to run the > renderer once. I remember in college some interesting work in security-related stuff that was abo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby 22

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 07:57:39AM -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > > I deleted RUBYTARGETS from make.conf, ran eselect to make ruby22 the > > default, but when I ran emerge --depclean I still have packages > > pulling ruby21 as follows: > > > > Calculating dependencies .. . done! > > dev-l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby 22

On 08/21/2017 10:13 AM, allan gottlieb wrote: I issued emerge --pretend --verbose --depclean =ruby-2.1.9 and the response was dev-lang/ruby selected: 2.1.9 protected: none omitted: 2.2.6 Am I correct in believing it is now safe to issue emerge --depclean =ruby-2.1.9 than

Re: [gentoo-user] ruby 22

TL;DR: re-sync and you should be fine. On 08/20/2017 12:36 PM, allan gottlieb wrote: Not sure I understand. 1. I should have been more complete about the command I run MAKEOPTS="--jobs=8 --load-average=5" emerge --ask --deep --tree --jobs --load-average=5 \ --update --ch

Re: [gentoo-user] ruby 22

On 08/20/2017 08:19 AM, allan gottlieb wrote: I am currently running ruby21 (ruby-2.1.9). All such versions of ruby are masked so this is clearly a mistake on my part. I was alerted to this error by dev-ruby/rdoc-4.2.0 failing to build on today's emerge --update @world After I do eselect ru

Re: [gentoo-user] disaster recovery - planning

El 20/03/2017 a las 05:15 p. m., the...@sys-concept.com escribió: Besides standard "data" backup, if I was to plan for a disaster recovery; what to include in a backup system if I was to rebuild a new box? - /etc - /var/lib/portage/world - /usr/src/linux/.config These three should be pushed o

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm/qemu no-multilib

El 02/01/2017 a las 12:02 p. m., lee escribió: Hi, is it possible to install kvm/qemu (and virsh) on a no-multilib profile? Yes I'm hitting the disadvantages of containers too much and would like to migrate to VMs ... Which disadvantages? Just curious... Alec

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:17:55PM +0100, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: > On Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:49:48 +0100 > Nils Freydank wrote: > > > would need to migrate to an multilib profile - and I don’t know how awful > > this > > would become. > > I try and this make me more pain. I stopped. GCC, GLI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 10:32:25AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Rich Freeman writes: > > > Are you building in a tmpfs? That would perform better than an ssd > > and would be much less wear on your flash besides. Of course, some > > packages do take a while to build. I don't notice as much now

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about R support in gentoo

El 19/11/2016 a las 07:47 a. m., Zhu Sha Zang escribió: Hello everybody... A single doubt here: After an upgrade in package dev-libs/icu (from 57.1 to 58.1-r1) i tried a package upgrade inside R and got that: /> update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE, repos='http://cran.us.r-proje

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-creator (and others) too slow

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:40:18AM -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: > Thanks Alec. > > No unstable KDE nor Qt. > > From the output of "equery l kde-plasma/plasma*" > > [IP-] [ ] kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.5.5-r1:5 > [IP-] [ ] kde-plasma/plasma-mediacenter-5.5.5:5 > [IP-] [ ] kde-plasma/plasma-me

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-creator (and others) too slow

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 03:59:27PM -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: > Hi, all, > > Just upgraded to KDE 5, Qt 5 (as full as possible) and now QtCreator > frequently uses almost full CPU, a quad-core i5-4430. Any change on the > IDE, even just passing the mouse cursor over elements of an opened source

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound through headphones (still bad)

On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 01:43:29PM -0400, allan gottlieb wrote: > > E7450-wired linux # grep SND_HDA_INTEL .config > CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=y This is good, I guess? > E7450-wired linux # grep 'SND_INTEL*' .config > # CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0 is not set > # CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M is not set > E7450-wired

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound through headphones (still bad)

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 04:17:04PM -0400, allan gottlieb wrote: > > To answer Alec's questions this is a 3.5mm jack. Nothing new in dmesg. > sudo lspci | grep -i audio shows > 00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller (rev 09) > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corpora

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound through headphones (still bad)

Hi, On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 11:24:20AM -0400, allan gottlieb wrote: > Hardware: Dell Latitude E7450 laptop > > Gentoo essentially all stable > Gnome / Systemd This is basically my setup, but I don't run gnome. > When I play a movie using totem it sounds fine if no headphones are > plugged it. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 02:05:11PM -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > Has Alan ever posted his "jackhammer" script for some experts to look at? Yes. You can probably find it on gmane. It basically consists of running emerge with --keep-going and --ignore-failures multiple times, running some depclea

Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql 9.5.2 versus Gentoo wiki install instructions?

On 2016-05-21 07:32, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Saturday, May 21, 2016 06:51:46 AM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: `equery use gnumeric' gives the `libgda' flag, which should pull in database support. I've never used it, so I don't know whether or not it works/how well it wo

Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql 9.5.2 versus Gentoo wiki install instructions?

Joost knows far more about databases than I do, so I mostly commented on the workflow part. On 2016-05-20 22:36, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Yes, I did RTFM at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PostgreSQL/QuickStart and that's part of my problem. I figured it would be a simple search and repla

Re: [gentoo-user] Surviving perl-5.24.0

On 2016-05-20 19:33, walt wrote: I spent most of today updating from perl-5.22 to perl-5.24 because so many packages failed to install. I ran perl-cleaner about a hundred times and tried emerge -ac in between, which always failed because it falsely accused me of not doing emerge -auND. Finally

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting ki18n to compile

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 01:21:20AM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > Doing the usual "emerge -NuD world" and I get hit with: > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy ">=kde-frameworks/ki18n-5.18.0:5" has > unmet requirements

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 08:25:14PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > > So, I uninstalled gcc 4.9 and all older versions except 4.6. > > I then removed 4.6 from the world file (but left it installed). > > emerge is now happy and willing to upgrade gcc from 4.6 to 4.9 -- but > it can't: now the build

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is CONFIG_MICROCODE gone in kernel 4.4.6-gentoo?

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 09:29:08AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:07:29 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > I seem to have mislaid my microcode somewhere, in the latest stable > > gentoo kernel: > > > > # grep -i MICROCODE .config > > # > > Grepping .config is unreliable, and always h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why emerge sucks nuts:

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 09:08:41AM -0500, »Q« wrote: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 00:13:27 -0400 > Alan Grimes wrote: > > > Emerge errors out with this: > > > > "fuck you user, C 1.0 won't work B 2.0" > > I've got the 'offensive' flag set globally, and emerge never talks to > me that way. How to fix?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 09:55:48PM -0500, Dale wrote: > > If anyone is brave enough to file a bug, I can say that it doesn't focus > on the password here either. It selects the user but that's it. Since > it works on some themes and not others, makes one wonder if the theme > has something to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Confessional: how I generally use emerge.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 08:18:13PM -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > I use two scripts for all emerge use, the goal is to run one command and > then walk away: > > Standard general update script: > ### > tortoise ~ # cat sysupdate > > #they must have moved or removed the logs, might

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Confessional: how I generally use emerge.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 01:43:53PM -0500, »Q« wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 20:37:04 -0400 > Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > > > emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y system --keep-going > > > > Add "--oneshot", same reasoning as above. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET & libreoffice

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 09:40:06PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I don't know much about PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET and PYTHON_TARGET, it all > seemed to just work so I never looked further. Until now. Of all > packages, libreoffice seems to want only python3: I don't know much about them either. > !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Modern Docker?

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:25:56PM +, Daniel Quinn wrote: > I tried to run a docker-compose.yaml file and it exploded with a version > error. When I asked around about what I did wrong, it turns out that it > requires docker-compose version 1.6.x and Gentoo doesn't have anything > newer than 1

Re: [gentoo-user] java.awt.AWTError

On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 12:44:19PM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > when emerging sci-geosciences/josm- I get a Java error : > > > java.awt.AWTError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0' as the value > of the DISPLAY variable. > > > This is on a local machine using DISPLAY

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libxcb fails

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 09:52:29PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Karl Hammar: > > Alec Ten Harmsel: > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:05:49PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > > > Alec: Ten Harmsel: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 201

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:56:21PM +0100, lee wrote: > Alec Ten Harmsel writes: > > > > Depends on how the load is. Right now I have a 500GB HDD at work. I use > > VirtualBox and vagrant for testing various software. Every VM in > > VirtualBox gets a 50GB hard disk, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Why we no Heroku?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:44:44PM +, Daniel Quinn wrote: > I wanted to start fiddling with Heroku , so > naturally the first thing I tried was > > |$ eix heroku | > > …but alas there was nothing. So I poked around their site to see how one > might install their client ma

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libxcb fails

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:05:49PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Alec: Ten Harmsel: > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 08:01:19PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > > I'm getting > > > > > > Makefile:1318: recipe for target 'xinput.c' failed >

Re: [gentoo-user] sound stopped working [media-sound/pulseaudio-7.1]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 09:57:18PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel > wrote: > > > I use pulseaudio without ALSA, for what it's worth. I also don't use VLC > > or mplayer. > > > > That's interest

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libxcb fails

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 08:01:19PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > I'm getting > > Makefile:1318: recipe for target 'xinput.c' failed > > when emerging x11-libs/libxcb-1.11.1, logs etc.: > > http://turkos.aspodata.se/tmp/gentoo/ I can't read build.log - 403 permission denied. > I get simila

Re: [gentoo-user] sound stopped working [media-sound/pulseaudio-7.1]

I use pulseaudio without ALSA, for what it's worth. I also don't use VLC or mplayer. On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 06:33:41PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > Recently, sound has stopped working on one of my Gentoo systems. I have > checked the kernel, package and pulseaudio set-ups across all of my sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: *dev-less gentoo

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 05:51:11PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > James: > > aspodata.se> writes: > > > > > I found a workaround in the sys-fs/static-dev package. > > > > Interesting read :: bgo #107875 > > I'm new to gentoo, is there some special semantic to the "bgo #" ? bgo == https://bug

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 01:46:45AM +0100, lee wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" writes: > > > On Monday, January 18, 2016 02:02:27 AM lee wrote: > >> "J. Roeleveld" writes: > >> > On 17 January 2016 18:35:20 CET, Mick wrote: > >> > > >> > [...] > >> > > >> >>I use the icaclient provided by Citrix to ac

Re: [gentoo-user] Python3.4 to python3.5 in ebuilds

Hi, On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 04:07:03PM +0200, Stanislav Ch. Nikolov wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > It seems like 3.4 and 3.5 are 100% compatible, and most ebuilds > involving python in some way tolerate them both: > (any-of ( python_targets_python3_3 python_tar

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 06:40:58PM +, Mick wrote: > > Thank you very much Joost for holding my hand on this. Last question for the > day: It seems that postgresql wants to install xemacs as a dependency ... o_O > > > # emerge -uaDv emerge dev-db/pos

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 01:55:30PM +0200, gevisz wrote: > > So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already > edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file will not be overwritten > during the next system update. Thabk you. > Use a configuration management tool like puppet or ansible. It w

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally

On 2015-12-03 17:20, lee wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: Secondly, nothing else on your network can know your auth server is authoritative without first being informed so by the delegating server. The name server itself knows this from its configuration, and it's the only thing that needs to kn

Re: [gentoo-user] Again a small embedded arch problem with Gentoo

On 2015-11-29 06:57, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, two "identical" (better read: expected to be identical... ;) Just a quick suggestion - you should use ansible or puppet to keep them in sync. Arietta G25 tiny embedded systems have a Gentoo installed each. Both are updated always at the

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-logind problem

On 2015-11-24 13:17, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am running systemd-226-r1 There's your problem ;) I'm really kidding. and am having some strange problems with systemd-logind. It gets into some state where it can take 20 seconds to login to the box via ssh, if I restart systemd-logind o

Re: [gentoo-user] AC WiFi Card

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 09:05:02AM +0100, Ralf wrote: > On 11/12/2015 01:08 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > I do not run any APs, but I manage plenty of laptops with 5GHz Intel > > chipsets, and never had a problem. Is there any reason you are not > > using a dedicated AP

Re: [gentoo-user] AC WiFi Card

On 2015-11-11 11:53, Ralf wrote: So I was looking for some PCI-E Wifi Card, that supports AC standard. I was thinking about sth. like this [1]. A friend of mine told me, that I should take care when buying AC hardware, as there is rare kernel support. Intel, in general, has great Linux support.

Re: [gentoo-user] Better CPU for compiling with gcc

On 2015-11-10 14:07, Stanislav Nikolov wrote: On 11/10/2015 08:55 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/11/2015 20:37, Stanislav Nikolov wrote: On 11/10/2015 08:17 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 Nov 2015 17:47:08 Stanislav Nikolov wrote: Dear Gentoo users, I'm building a new PC. I have a budget of

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

On 2015-10-20 12:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo. Every time I shut down my gentoo system with "shutdown -h now", it beeps at me. This is becoming steadily more irritating as the months go by. Just what is this beep supposed to be telling me? I _know_ I'm shutting the machine down.

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 05:46:00PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > I want to be able to suspend my machine to RAM overnight or when I'm out. Just curious, you don't need to answer: why? Why not just power it off or lock it? > The pkg to use seems to be Pm-utils, which I've installed. > 'pm-suspend' d

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panick in 4.2.1 from gentoo-sources

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 10:12:28PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > Gentoo-sources keywording tends to lag a bit, though I thought they > > were going to change that. I tend to just keep my own git clone of > > the kernel tree and checkout from tags. > > Do you bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using kernel 4.1.8 in a virtualbox guest machine?

On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 05:47:37PM -0700, walt wrote: > (I'm asking this question only because I'm curious about the problem I'm > about to describe. I've already worked around it.) > > I updated the kernel in my gentoo virtualbox guest machine to 4.1.8 and > got a kernel panic after rebooting th

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg cpu flags

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 12:38:15AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 04/10/2015 22:49, James Cloos wrote: > > > > And is there really any value from micromanaging things like that in an > > ebuild? > > For ffmpeg? Yes. Actually, I think modern versions of ffmpeg probably do not benefit as much an

Re: [gentoo-user] FF increasingly being bundled up

On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 10:57:47AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > Have you found that using local system flags causes rebuilds of FF more > often? > I seem to build or rebuild FF every couple of weeks, but I would not want to > have to rebuild it more often. > I have been using all the system-* flag

Re: [gentoo-user] FF increasingly being bundled up

On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 10:15:08AM +0100, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I happened to notice that Firefox is having more and more USE flags for using > system-side rather than bundled in libraries: > > ... > > However, such libraries are not enabled by default and FF will be downloading > 177,578 K

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:52:41AM +0200, lee wrote: > > Alan McKinnon writes: > > > On 27/09/2015 21:17, lee wrote: > > > > Fellow, I'm done with you, really. > > > > You hold onto your issues with portage like they were some treasured > > memory of a long-since departed loved one, while all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Why ghc-bin is pulled in by portage update?

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 02:27:43PM +0300, gevisz wrote: > I have dev-lang/ghc in my world file. > > Today, while updating the system, the portage > wanted to update it. Ok. But why it pulles in > ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2? Like all good language authors, the ghc authors wrote a lot of the language

Re: [gentoo-user] npm: ERR! cb() never called!

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:13:10PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/09/2015 22:53, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > Unfortunately, the right way with nodejs/ruby web stuff is to use the > > tooling specific to the language. If this[1] is what you're trying to > > depl

Re: [gentoo-user] npm: ERR! cb() never called!

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 09:24:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/09/2015 20:50, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 09/17/2015 10:03 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Anyone here familiar with driving nodejs and npm? > >> > >> I'm trying to write an ebuild for a musicbrainz mirror server and "npm > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : case + power

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 03:36:18PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I have yet to see a computer that draws 350W sustained :-) > Spikes of brief duration yes, sustained no.[1] Normal desktops and web servers, sure. We have some GPU boxes at work that have 8 GPUs apiece[1] in addition to 12-20 cores.

Re: [gentoo-user] app-office/libreoffice-5.0.1.2 - fails

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:25:52PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > can't emerge that new unstable libreoffice > > updated everything(?) possibly needed, used stable gcc ... no way. Hmm... I don't keep up with LibreOffice development, but I have been running into problems with gcc 4.8 (on

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity-2.0.5 failed to compile

On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 04:27:26PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 03/09/2015 15:56, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > dev-libs/check > > dev-libs/libnl > > dev-libs/openssl > > remove everything in dev-libs Not necessarily - dev-libs/check is for unit testing. It's not a direct dependency of an

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity-2.0.5 failed to compile

On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:25:47PM -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I've tried to post a "log" file to the http://pastebin.com/ you > suggested but I can only paste the limited size file (not upload it). > Since the txt file is 7.4Mb in size, I can not paste it. > Though, I have compress the

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity-2.0.5 failed to compile

On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 08:52:22PM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On Wednesday 02 September 2015 03:22:44 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > > > This kind of language does not belong here. If you can not refrain > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity-2.0.5 failed to compile

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 05:05:09PM -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 09/01/2015 04:55 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > Since you're too stupid to follow advice, you need to rebuild *EVERYTHING* > > that linked against libjpeg (in this case x11-libs/wxGTK). > > This kind of language does

Re: [gentoo-user] texlive-core - poppler / xpdf missing library

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 07:47:56AM -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm emerging texlive-core and it complains on missing libraries: > > > > emerge -1q luatex texlive-core > [ebuild N] dev-tex/luatex-0.70.1-r2 > [ebuild U ] app-text/texlive-core-2014-r4 [2012-r1] > [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:36:02AM -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > While compiling/updating the system I get a few packages with messages: > > LOG: install > Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings -me > /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-4.3.28.100309/image//opt/VirtualBox/VBoxManage.

Re: [gentoo-user] a few blockers I can't figure out

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 02:40:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 31/08/2015 13:49, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > >> A clue is in the ebuilds for systemd: > >> > > >> > sysv-utils? ( > >> > !sys-apps/systemd-sysv-utils > >> > !sys-apps/sysvinit ) > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 12:04:43AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > How long do desktop users typically leave their systems between reboots ? > How long between power off/on's ? I generally power off whenever I won't be using my desktop for more than 7-8 hours, since it has a big CPU, lots of RAM, dece

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --oneshot portage - conflict

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 02:02:29PM -0600, neu pat wrote: > I emerge python3.4 set as active: > > eselect python list > Available Python interpreters: > [1] python2.7 > [2] python3.3 > [3] python3.4 * What is the value of PYTHON_TARGETS? Can you post the output of `emerge --info'? > b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 06:45:47PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > There are all sorts of stupidities in it - like `push' and `pull' not > being opposites That's fair. > `clone' not producing a clone, but a new repository > radically different from the original. That is not true. It is a clone, j

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