Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu writes:
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:21:35AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
snip
Unpacking source...
Unpacking DBD-mysql-4.013.tar.gz to
/var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.3/work
Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.3/work
Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org writes:
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:52:30 -0600
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry
at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 223. object
version 1.609 does not match $::VERSION %_
at /usr/lib
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes:
In my most recent case what looked like a simple disk corruption
problem was really a prelude to the drive just plain going bad. Have
you tried smartctl to see what it says about the drive at this point?
Sorry to butt in here... is that tool,
I'm having trouble when revdep-rebuild tries to emerge
dev-perl/DBD-mysql
I can't really make much sense of the output but I see it involves
scripting from perl-5.8.8
I've included the tail of the emerge below, and below that the output
of emerge --info =dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.3 as suggested
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
On Monday 01 March 2010 06:16:09 Harry Putnam wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris:
standards compliant in that it caters for the lowest common
denominator
For quite a long time I've been using things like:
vga=0x31A
On the kernel line in grub.conf
Its a hexidecimal system drawn info in this (partial) chart I found
somewhere in the kernel documentation long ago.
## 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
## 256 0x301 0x303 0x305
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: standards
compliant in that it caters for the lowest common denominator that comprises
Unix. Which is to say, almost always useless for real work.
A little turn towards OT:
so what are
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
On Friday 26 February 2010 23:44:03 Harry Putnam wrote:
Where I'm weak is the part where the custom script checks if the
daemon is running, before the script itself starts. That part would
need to be something pretty fool proof... maybe just grep
I've run into something here on an OS that was installed from scratch
only a week or so ago.
emerge -vuDNp world shows only 8 pkgs (on a todays sync).
But none of them will install even with --skipfirst and --keep-going
All fail when aclocal is trotted out. I don't see recent threads here
ALERT [ This is a slightly rewritten repost from
`gmane.[...].perl.beginners', where it got no responses]
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My subject line is probably not really that
good at describing what I want advice on but here it is:
I've setup one
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
Then tap into the fifo with a perl script that is written to be able
to sort and write the syslog output according to various regex that
may be part of startup cmd or fed in later during the running script.
I don't know rsyslog at all (I use
On a non-x system, is there any advantage to having dbus and hal
installed?
I'm bring a formally X enabled system down to a hardcore console only
log server.
Don't now enough about either hal or dbus to know if they need to be
removed?
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes:
well, cfg-update keeps a backup. It detects manual edits and try to
resolve conflicts resulting from that automatically. Which works
surprisingly well. If
Volker gave me that same advice long ago, I've used cfg-update ever
since.
Its
How can I force a text only console when installing from live cd?
(This is the most recent livecd for x86 on www.gentoo.org)
There appears only gentoo or gentoo-nofb...as boot choices and either
of those ends in a gui.
I always find it takes me 10 minutes to find a terminal once the gui
comes
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes:
Unless it has changed, it is gentoo nox at the prompt. Whatever
option you want to use, you have to put the gentoo first. At least it
Yup, sorry for missing it in the options (F7). Iain B. nailed right off
the bat.
I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk
to a newly created one.
I know not to copy /proc but not sure about /dev. Looking at an
unbooted OS disk with an install on it... I see /dev/ is populated
(with no boot up), but I recall seeing things during boot like
Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au writes:
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and gallery
generating tools available on linux.
I have photos on smugmug.com and wondered if there is do it yourself
tools
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes:
On Thursday 18 February 2010 01:35:12 Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and
gallery generating tools available on linux.
I have photos on smugmug.com
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:05:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I
push JAlbum. You can create some pretty good looking albums and run
them from CD / HD / webserver (I especially like the
I'm trying to get a gentoo guest running in vmware app on windowsxp.
I just installed a prebuilt appliance (gentoo 2008) and am now
updating it.
I got the kernel rebuilt and updated to 2.6.32-r5 and rebooted into
that.
I now have all uppercase at the cmdline. The actual keyboard is not
in
is only done if the requested size doesn't exist yet, eg.
it will only do it once (unless you clear the derivatives folder ;) )
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:53:15 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
If you want to host it yourself, there's Gallery. It too has plenty
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
I'm trying to get a gentoo guest running in vmware app on windowsxp.
I just installed a prebuilt appliance (gentoo 2008) and am now
updating it.
I got the kernel rebuilt and updated to 2.6.32-r5 and rebooted into
that.
I now have all uppercase
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
Remote logging and just leave it till the machine freezes again will
hopefully give you the useful logs you need to identify the
problem. To save disk space you can configure logrotate on the
remote logger to delete the previous days stuff - you
I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and gallery
generating tools available on linux.
I have photos on smugmug.com and wondered if there is do it yourself
tools that come anywhere close the sophisticated handling they do.
Hundreds, maybe thousands of lines like this (wrapped for mail):
Feb 16 09:38:47 reader kernel: [162289.090685] usb 4-2.1:1.1: uevent
Feb 16 09:38:48 reader kernel: [162289.467065] hdc: status error:
status=0x00 { }
Feb 16 09:38:48 reader kernel: [162289.467071] hdc: possibly failed
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 00:36:42 Harry Putnam wrote:
Hundreds, maybe thousands of lines like this (wrapped for mail):
Feb 16 09:38:47 reader kernel: [162289.090685] usb 4-2.1:1.1: uevent
Feb 16 09:38:48 reader kernel: [162289.467065
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes:
Possibly you installed something other than xfce4-meta?
firefly ~ # emerge -ep xfce4-meta | grep xfce | grep utils
[ebuild R ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.6.1
firefly ~ #
I'm just seconding fireflys' report. I suspect xfce4 expects you to
be starting
Leon Feng rainofch...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
I'm running ~x86 on everything and latest version of gentoolkit (I
don't have gentoolkit-dev installed)
I've emerged lafilefixer (thanks Steve) and ran
lafilefixer --justfixit
Then ran revdep-rebuild again it still finds broken
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:13:20 +0800, Leon Feng wrote:
I have seen this for weeks, but since I upgrade to portage-2.2* at the
same time, do not know whether it is related. My revdep-rebuild out is
listed below, anyone has a solution?
Are you also
Mariusz Ceier mce...@gmail.com writes:
But if I am reading revdep-rebuild output correctly, it means that
your binutils is compiled to be linked against that library. But the
library cannot be found by revdep-rebuild. Hence the error.
W
libiberty.a comes from binutils.
Looking at Stefan
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 23:45:00 Harry Putnam wrote:
After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils
broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another
revdep-rebuild and it finds the same thing
After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils
broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another
revdep-rebuild and it finds the same thing.
Anyone seen something similar or have an idea what might be the problem?
Jon Hardcastle jd_hardcas...@yahoo.com writes:
Hi guys,
I want to update my gentoo install to use the latest trunk version
of the smartmontools drive database.
Does anyone have any gentoo orientated guidance here? I have spoken
to the chaps there and they say to run configure with
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org writes:
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:03:57 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote:
I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down
here somewhere.
That turns off almost everything, whereas
Jon Hardcastle jd_hardcas...@yahoo.com writes:
Thanks for your input! Wow that is alot more complicated that I had
hoped!
I am already using the masked version of Smartmontools but the 5.39
version does not include 1 of the HDD I use and as I have got a
whole load more of that exact model
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org writes:
See? I don't have to remember any options, I just key up or down to the
config I want. Easy.
Nice... thanks
walt w41...@gmail.com writes:
On 01/16/2010 01:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I hadn't done a full reinstall for a good while, long enough that I
missed out on whateve was said about the change over from using
/etc/X11/xorg.conf to control the X display to whatever does it now.
So my first
pk pete...@coolmail.se writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are
custom settings regarding the X session done?
Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old
xorg.conf since that will override what's in ...xorg.conf.d
I wondered if anyone here knows of a linux tool that is similar to
webresearch:
http://www.macropool.de/en/products/webresearch/index.html
Its one of those clip and save from the internet (or whole pages) kind
of things that allows you to make a hierarchy of folders and has some
useful search
pk pete...@coolmail.se writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
So, where would I make such a setting in the new arrangement?... I
suspect I could force a return to xorg.conf... but would sooner
understand how to utilize the new proceedure.
xorg.conf still works fine with the latest incarnations
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes:
If you *really* want to know what encfs uses Boost for you could, of
course, examine the source :) But you really only need to know that
it's a big C++ library that's used by encfs.
Go grab a coffee or do a load of laundry or something.
Good
In the course of a full reinstall I've run into several packages that
appear not to be findable... watching emerge race all over the glob
looking for certain packages...there seems to be some problem with
what portage is looking for and pushing those packages out to repos.
I've already forgotten
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
In the course of a full reinstall I've run into several packages that
appear not to be findable... watching emerge race all over the glob
looking for certain packages...there seems to be some problem with
what portage is looking for and pushing those
I hadn't done a full reinstall for a good while, long enough that I
missed out on whateve was said about the change over from using
/etc/X11/xorg.conf to control the X display to whatever does it now.
So my first question is what does do it?.. I have a nice desktop but
no /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes:
To exclude a software problem, try booting from a
SystemRescue-CD
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
It's Gentoo based and sports an X-Server.
Thanks for the recue disk tip.
That are the problems that makes one crazy!
Well put...
Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of
anything better.
I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall
So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when
I test what all gets installed with:
emerge -vp xfce4-meta
I notice that xorg-x11 is
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes:
Does the machine run well enough that you can reinstall both glibc
and udev again?
Not right now. After the boot complains that the super block isn't
right the disk is getting mounted read only. I cannot even edit a file
with vi.
Try
[Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have
made it to the mail/news server]
Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of
anything better.
I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall
So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
On Friday 15 January 2010 20:43:32 Harry Putnam wrote:
[Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have
made it to the mail/news server]
Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of
anything
I'm probably way behind the eightball asking something like this,
but I'm wondering what role `dev-libs/boost' plays with encfs.
The home page indicates its something of a helper application for
using cpp++ programming language and applications.
The reason I ask is that it appears to be up there
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:27:32 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
Then use rsync instead of tar, then you can mount the remote
filesystem using sshfs and encfs to read individual files. It's a
little slow as you are layering two FUSE filesystems, but quicker
I'm experiencing a problem where during an X session the machine
inexplicably freezes up... networking along with mouse keyboard etc.
No access is then possible via ssh or any other way other than a hard
reboot.
I've attempted to debug the problem by first searching the logs. But
not finding
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:09:03 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
Why not just tar up the underlying encfs partition? The data
is already encrypted, what's the point of decrypting it to encrypt it
again? That way you don't need to rely on any encryption
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:12:29 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
I have an encfs encrpted partition on my home machine.. However I want
a back up offsite.
The encrypted partition would be mounted, the contents tarred/gzipped,
mcrypt'ed on home machine
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:32:07 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I
don't have root. I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote.
Provided the kernel has ecrypt support and the userspace
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com writes:
rsync -vr --inplace --delete /path/to/music/ gr...@192.168.1.2:/path/to/music
what OSs' are the hosts?
I've had that happen a time or two when the source host was a windows
machine, having something to do with the way windows handles
permissions and dates.
I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I
don't have root. I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote.
This machine was my local lan httpd server, but then I switched that
functionality to an opensolaris machine... due to problems with a
recent osol build I switched back temporarily. Meantime I must have
allowed a new config to get setup ... maybe thru careless allowing of
new conf files.
Can anyone show me how to write a logrotate rule that will rotate on
either size or age?
I use some very simple scripting for yrs but don't really see how to
rotate on more than one condition.
I'd like to rotate a certain log weekly or over 7000k and keep no more
than 12 rotations for whatever
Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net writes:
On 11/30/2009 9:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Dan Cowsill danthe...@gmail.com writes:
As a matter of curiosity, why can't you open the case?
Aside from extreme laziness, I'd prefer to spend 2 seconds getting the
info than first pulling
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:37:49 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without
opening the case.
sys-apps/lshw
Good call Neil, I found that tool shortly after posting. It gives as
good as dmidecode
Dan Cowsill danthe...@gmail.com writes:
As a matter of curiosity, why can't you open the case?
Aside from extreme laziness, I'd prefer to spend 2 seconds getting the
info than first pulling the machine out of some piled up mess of
several machines, then getting my beat up old body into some
How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without
opening the case.
Various hardware reporting tools such as uhinv and syscriptor do not
give that information (far as I can tell).
In fact syscriptor cannot even report pci info and gives the message
`cannot open /proc/pci'
I keep having a problem where the OS becomes inaccessable after
running in X for a while. I haven't noticed a time pattern yet but it
doesn't take long sometimes.
Today I started from an OFF machine, booted up, started X did a few
things A few minutes later I attempted to login via ssh from a
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes:
configuring is easy.
enable the hardware you have.
disable the hardware you don't have.
read the help to all options that are default on - do you really need it?
Really?
read the help to all options that are off but might be usefull
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes:
Any time I spend messing with obscure kernel config options is time I
could be spending reading a good book, instead [1].
Sorry, spending time configuring my kernel loses, as does this thread.
I'm with you Stroller.
Although I do have to admit
daid kahl daid...@gmail.com writes:
2009/11/4 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com:
I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always
been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in
10+ yrs..
Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me
come-on and the
price is like that all over.
Is there anyone here who is willing to correspond with me privately
about this project? Maybe someone who can vouch for some of the more
recent equipment out there.
Since gmane obfuscates the email address on From line here it is:
Harry Putnam rea
walt w41...@gmail.com writes:
One caution there -- newer computer hardware demands a great deal of
power, and older power supplies may not be up to the task. Don't try
to squeak by with a wimpy power supply.
I thought maybe a mobo bundle would be a good starting place...
I've been
John H. Moe john...@optusnet.com.au writes:
I stopped using that option in my systems, as there is now a AHCI SATA
option to use instead. It appears CONFIG_ATA_SFF (which CONFIG_ATA_PIIX
requires) is deprecated. From the help on it:
Do you notice some kind of difference from switching?
I've been fiddling with a new kernel, and have had several occasions
to reboot lately.
If I mounted /boot to cp the new kernel etc over, I have a problem on
reboot for sure.
Somehow the date of last fsck on /boot is seen as `in the future' so
fsck fails on /dev/had1 (/boot).
Which means nearly
I didn't want to derail the ongoing thread about hal/xorg with this
question there.
Far as I remember I haven't done anything special concerning hal but
at some point hal disappeared. And is not on my system anymore.
I've always used and /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for starting X.
What I'm
Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org writes:
The 'make' man page wouldn't know anything about the kernel's
makefile. You want the README file that's included in the top of the
kernel source folder. That file says, among other things:
make oldconfig Default all questions based on the contents
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes:
Strange. Is hal still in your USE flags?
It is not really neded, but I think it's nice to have - maybe not for
x.org, but for other things like automounting devices. Here's the list of
my packages that need HAL:
I didn't tell quite all of it. Hal
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes:
If it still won't work, you can also post your kernel config and the output
of
lspci -vv here and somebody will find out what's wrong/missing.
Good input thanks. I did get it working. It was an IDE selection I
missed.
From the lspci -vv
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes:
On 4 Nov 2009, at 15:45, Harry Putnam wrote:
...
Somehow the date of last fsck on /boot is seen as `in the future' so
fsck fails on /dev/had1 (/boot).
The first thing I would want to check is the motherboard battery. Is
the time correct
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes:
your drivers for the ide disks have to be built INTO THE KERNEL! NOT MODULES.
Is that really a hard rule? I've done it both ways successfully in the
past.
And in fact, I didn't record my first builds on this kernel but I'm
pretty sure my
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:03:24 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the
things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have
messed up mouse and keyboard in X.
Did you follow
I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always
been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in
10+ yrs..
Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me.
So I'm back in the soup.
[I hope what I try to layout below is not overly confusing]
Nice... good advice all around. Thanks posters.
Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the
things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have
messed up mouse and keyboard in X.
But even that, is a lesser problem than my kernel build ends up in a
kernel
walt w41...@gmail.com writes:
There's no reason to use menuconfig after running oldconfig, If your
old kernel was using all of the hardware, then the new kernel should,
too, just with oldconfig.
I don't know about that. I found a whole lot of stuff different when
I ran menuconfig and
hamilton hamil...@pobox.com writes:
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:18 -0800, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always
been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in
10
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
failing that, look in /etc/portage/package.mask*
Sure enough... I masked it.. but like Dick Cheney, I don't recall it.
Ahh the joys of senility
Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de writes:
Wait, but those are small 'm's. That means they must have been masked
manually. As Alan McKinnon mentioned in your other thread (When masked pkg
not
in [...]profiles/package.mask, where is it), you might have an entry
in /etc/portage/package.mask.
My
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
You read the message, run @preserved-rebuild and x now links to the new y
library. When everything in @preserved-rebuild has been rebuilt, portage
knows
that now nothing links to the old y library, and removes it.
Alan, I haven't followed the
I noticed I've been masking gcc beyond version 4.3.2-r3, and have
forgotten why I had it masked.
I'm updating world right now, and wondered if I were to move up to
most recent gcc (4.4.2), which would be a 5 version jump, what I could
expect in the way of problems.
Would I need to re-emerge just
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes:
Harry asked:
Would I need to re-emerge just about everything?
Volker answered:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gentoo+gcc+upgrade+guidel=1
Quoted from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml
,
| To be completely safe that your
walt w41...@gmail.com writes:
On 10/31/2009 07:05 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
...
/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26/temp/autoconf.out
* autoconf *
* PWD: /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26/work/libxslt-1.1.26
* autoconf
configure.in:120: error: possibly
When a package comes up as masked in an eix search, they are usually
found in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, but if a particular
masked package is not listed there... where else would it be.
I see libtool is masked above version 1.5.26-r1, but is not in
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask...
My windowsXP video editing machine where I use various adobe tools to
capture and edit video, has lost use of the ohci ports, and seemingly
the usb ports as well. I've been seeing problems with those inputs
for a while and today, finally the machine simply is not `seeing' the
video cam attached
Looking at the kernel upgrade pages at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml
Its a bit confusing about the symlink creation. I've wondered about
it a few times.
At the top, you're told how to get the sources and then a discussion
of the symlink follows.
It appears you are
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes:
The link is created only if you have the symlink USE flag enabled.
Also, Gentoo requires that the [...] symbolic link points to the
sources of the kernel you are running is not entirely correct. It is
required only when you want to build something
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
Nikos is being kind to the document writers :-)
Thanks for saving me from the Dunce cap...hehe.
But I might yet acquire full rights to it..
So, is the symlink not really necessary? Doe something look at
/usr/src/linux for files?
For example, if
When I noticed the thread here about `hal' that started a while back
it caused me enough curiousity that i ran eix -Ic ^hal$ but found I
have no `hal' installed.
I have keep up with updates somewhat better than usual the last few
months but don't remember when hal went away... I do remember
Can anyone tell from the tail of emerge -vuD system
what the trouble is with aclocal/autoconf and libxslt.
First it failed on aclocal... I re-emerged
emerge -v sys-devel/aclocal-wrapper
Tried again and it failed on autoconf
emerge -v sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper
But that didn't help it ...
walt w41...@gmail.com writes:
On 10/31/2009 06:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Can anyone tell from the tail of emerge -vuD system
what the trouble is with aclocal/autoconf and libxslt.
...
* Failed Running autoconf !
*
* Include in your bugreport the contents of:
* /var/tmp/portage/dev
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
So I need a relay somewhere along with ssmtp to get a message to an
email address?
Yes, and I know of at least one that will work for you.
If you have a newsguy mail account, newsguy's smtp servers will allow
you to connect regardless of your
Jonathan Callen a...@gentoo.org writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
In fact what does `developer' buy you?
Among other things, it enables I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING, which tells you
the expected audience :). Seriously, the developer profiles are mainly
for Gentoo Devs, people who are going to be doing
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
Alan, what does it get you? In fact what does `developer' buy you?
x86/10.0 gives you a baseline for that release
x86/10.0/desktop|developer|server give you a profile more suited (tweaked)
for
that kind of usage.
[...]
Nice.. thanks
I see I
My profile has been
../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0
starting an update system today I'm told my profile is depricated and
to update to default/linux/x86/10.0
I've forgotten about how this is done. Is it just a matter of
ln -sf
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