On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Håkon Alstadheim
wrote:
> On 03. mars 2016 12:26, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 3:15 AM, Håkon Alstadheim
>> wrote:
>>> Would "revdep-rebuild.sh -i -L "libssl\.so.*" -- -f" before emerging, be
>>&g
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 3:15 AM, Håkon Alstadheim
wrote:
> Would "revdep-rebuild.sh -i -L "libssl\.so.*" -- -f" before emerging, be
> sufficient ? I.e. that should obviate the need for compiling wget with
> gnutls ?
>
No, and no. The problem is the ABI is silently changing. Rebuilding
everything
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:11 PM, James wrote:
> Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes:
>
> Excuse me, but I did not criticize anyone.
I know. It was really meant to temper my remarks, since email is easy
to misconstrue. It wasn't really directed at you, and you did get at
your int
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> Not just the computing power, though: Gentoo support will be important over
> the life of the system. If the life of this current box is any guide, that
> could stretch to 10 years. Well, maybe.
>
So, I can't speak to computation in parti
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:06 AM, James wrote:
> Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes:
>
>> They changed ABI without changing SONAME, which is an absolutely
>> braid-dead thing for upstream to do, because it causes exactly this
>> kind of breakage.
>
> H. I'
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 02/03/2016 17:49, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7886940.html
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576128
>>
>> They changed ABI without changing SONAME, which is an absolut
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 02/03/16 16:41, walt wrote:
>>
>> Today's upgrade of openssl to 1.0.2g-r1 may cause some necessary
>> rebuilds to fail due to missing symbol errors.
>>
>> Example: libcurl was broken and caused the rebuilds of virtualbox and
>> git to
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:59:27 + (UTC), James wrote:
>
>> Is there a provision (mechanism) to have this autoset, if a package
>> dependency call for it? The system was fine for a quite a while until I
>> forced it to only install 64 bit lib
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
> Also, it has been a while since I read anything - what is the current
> state of BTRFS vs ZFS? Is it stable/mature enough to use for production?
> What can ZFS do that it cannot?
>
This is obviously a topic people will have various opinions on
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
> Yes, which is what I recommended. Don't block 4.1.x security/bugfix patches.
> Just block 4.2 and above.
>
++
4.1 is a longterm series, so if your goal is minimum disruption you
can stay on it until Sep 2017. I would still recommend
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2/26/2016 12:04 PM, James wrote:
>> Excellent point about the license. Did the license stop zfs folks
>> from enjoying zfs? I know the zfs license stops some commercial folks
>> from deploy/using zfs. And zfs is not a routine choice in the
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 Feb 2016 19:08:42 Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>> > Well my concern was more that SGX would provide leverage for even more
>> > eavesdropping, rather t
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:49 PM, James wrote:
> Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes:
>
>> If I were doing anything too
>> crazy with all this I'd probably use the python git module.
>
> dev-python/git-python ??? Any others or related docs/howtos/examples?
>
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>
> Well my concern was more that SGX would provide leverage for even more
> eavesdropping, rather than prohibit it.
>
Yeah, I'm one of those persons who tends to consider most fears of
TPMs and UEFI overblown, but these CPUs that almost
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> I agree with Ralf, a small VM with Windows or an Ubuntu/Mint/whatever
> appliance solely for use with skype is probably a better use of your
> time. It's a huge PITA to keep abi_x86_32 under control and not bloat,
> whereas a VM only needs
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 2:49 PM, James wrote:
>
> So using wget to fetch {package/files} from the gentoo attic was/is a reliable
> exercise to build things removed from the tree, into one's
> /usr/local/portage tree. It still works, but I'm guessing there is a now a
> "github_way" to do this.
cvs
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:55 AM, lee wrote:
> Rich Freeman writes:
>
>> develop. (Before somebody points out LUKS, be aware that Bitlocker
>> lets you do full-disk encyption that is secure without having to
>> actually type a decryption key at any point. Remove the hard
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:39 PM, wrote:
> I'm ordered a new system for use for experimentation. Right now, I'm
> looking at putting ReactOS and Minix3.3 on it. Problem... I don't think
> either one is capable of booting the other. I suppose I could do a
> basic install of linux, and use its
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 24 Jan 2016 11:40:04 Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Grant wrote:
>> > So the user is safe if I send all internet requests from her remote
>> > laptop through the Zerotier connecti
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Grant wrote:
>
> So the user is safe if I send all internet requests from her remote
> laptop through the Zerotier connection (instead of only sending
> requests to my server through Zerotier)?
>
It depends on what you mean by "safe." If you mean that there is n
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>
> a) EXT4 is a good extremely robust solution. Reliability is out of
> the questioning: on my old box with bad memory banks it kept my data
> safe for years, almost all losses were recoverable. And it has some
> SSD-oriented features like
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Mick wrote:
> I would have thought SSL certificates/keys would be protected in RAM, but if
> you have a Man-In-The-Browser attack I guess they wouldn't be.
>
As far as I'm aware linux doesn't do anything to protect process RAM
from other processes with the same U
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 Jan 2016 15:59:25 Grant wrote:
>
>> > If a user certificate is lost of feared compromised, you revoke it with
>> > your CA and upload the CRL to the server.
>> >
>> > However, this won't do away with XSS, or other similar attack vectors
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 5:00 PM, lee wrote:
> Hm, I must be misunderstanding snapshots entirely.
>
Well, in the case of zfs/btrfs you are. Different implementations
have different snapshotting features.
> What happens when you remove a snapshot after you modified the
> "original" /and/ the snap
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 4:35 PM, lee wrote:
> And I thought vnc sends a copy of what is displayed on the screen, so if
> you were running a program that renders something on the screen and
> uses/requires a graphics card for that, you should be able to see what
> it renders. If you can't see that
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Grant wrote:
>
> The answer to this may be an obvious "yes" but I've never done it so I'm not
> sure. Can I route requests from machine C through machine A only for my
> domain name, and not involve A for C's other internet requests? If so,
> where is that config
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Grant wrote:
> Despite Rich's best efforts (thank you Rich! :-) ) I'm still
> considering a Gentoo laptop for this along with a Chromebook.
No worries. Gentoo laptops are great. There's a reason that Google
decided to use them as the starting point for creating
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Grant wrote:
>
> Is an SSL key stored on a smartcard better than a TOTP password? They
> seem roughly equivalent to me. I don't think either would restrict
> access by device.
>
They'd be roughly equivalent, especially if the TOTP is backed by a smartcard.
--
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 5:08 PM, lee wrote:
>
> BTW, is it as easy to give a graphics card to a container as it is to
> give it a network card?
I've never tried it, but I'd think that the container could talk to a
graphics card.
> What if you have a container for each user who
> somehow logs in
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 5:22 PM, lee wrote:
> "J. Roeleveld" writes:
>
> How does that work? IIUC, when you created a snapshot, any changes you
> make to the snapshotted (or how that is called) file system are being
> referenced by the snapshot which you can either destroy or abandon.
> When you
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Mick wrote:
>
> You can use apache client authentication with SSL certificates only. Of
> course you will need to create a self-signed CA, which you will use to create
> the web server public/private key pair and also sign each client's certificate
> and upload it
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Grant wrote:
>
> I'm sorry, I meant can I lock down access to my web stuff so that a
> particular user can only come from a particular device (or from any
> device containing a key).
>
It looks like this hasn't been widely implemented, but it looks like
they do ha
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Grant wrote:
>
> If that's the case then it sounds like 2FA doesn't really provide any
> extra assurance. It's another layer but if the machine is hacked then
> it sounds like it becomes a very thin layer.
>
> I'd most like to allow the remote employee to use thei
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:22 AM, wrote:
>
> I'm an absolute windows noop. I only use it for graphics work. I even
> didn't know that such a kind of file sharing is possible with it. :-)
>
No worries - I think that is a great place to be. However, it is
useful to understand what ideas are out t
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:33 PM, wrote:
>
> Sharing files can be done via SCP/SFTP. If a VPN connection is used,
> then even NFS or FTP are possibilities.
I have 100 computers. I want a user on those 100 computers to be able
to share a file on their computer with just me. On windows they just
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel
wrote:
>
> All Joost is saying is that most resources can be overcommitted, since
> all the users will not be using all their resources at the same time.
>
Don't want to sound like a broken record, but this is precisely why
containers are so attra
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 7:57 PM, lee wrote:
> Rich Freeman writes:
>> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 7:26 PM, lee wrote:
>>> Rich Freeman writes:
>>>
>>>> However, while an RDP-like solution protects you from some types of
>>>> attacks, it stil
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Grant wrote:
>
> I am 100% web-based. I don't want to administrate machines outside of
> my LAN so I can imagine a Chromebook would end up vulnerable
> eventually.
The whole point of chromebooks is that they auto-update in a timely
fashion, and have a guaranteed
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 1:44 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Monday, January 18, 2016 02:02:27 AM lee wrote:
>>
>> You would have a full VM for each user?
>
> Yes
>
>> That would be a huge waste of resources,
>
> Diskspace and CPU can easily be overcommitted.
>...
> The biggest reason why I don't use
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 7:26 PM, lee wrote:
> Rich Freeman writes:
>
>> However, while an RDP-like solution protects you from some types of
>> attacks, it still leaves you open to many client-side problems like
>> keylogging. I don't know any major corporation that
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 1:03 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> I would prefer a method that is independent of OS used. And provides server
> side limitations with regards to filesharing and clipboard access.
>
x2go is just X11, so it should be OS-independent as long as you have a
client/server for it.
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Mick wrote:
> I use the icaclient provided by Citrix to access my virtual desktop at work,
> but have never tried to set up something similar at home. What opensource
> software would I need for this? Is there a wiki somewhere to follow?
>
There might be someth
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 10:27 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> Actually, there are several large corporations that use RDP-like technologies.
> Although those are called "VDI" and usually use XenDesktop on the server side
> and "icaclient" on the client.
> Runs through HTTPS and apart from keyloggers a
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 6:38 AM, lee wrote:
> Suppose you use a VPN connection. How do does the client (employee)
> secure their own network and the machine they're using to work remotely
> then?
Poorly, most likely. Your data is probably not nearly as important to
them as their data is, and mo
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> As for the security levels of their personal machines, tell them what
> you require and from that point on you really have to trust your people
> so be security aware and with the program.
>
Most employers just issue laptops to their emplo
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 9:37 AM, wrote:
> I am using the nvidia-drivers since years and the switch back and
> forth from and to the text console does well for years too.
>
Ok, I can't be of too much help since the only device I have with
nvidia hardware doesn't have a keyboard so I don't switch
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:27 AM, wrote:
>
> But once touching the console, where X11 should still be
> running and which is now occupied by the deep dark unholy
> "nothing" ;) I got trapped -- no way out and a bindly
> keyed login followed by a reboot has nothing as result.
>
What is your kernel
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 23:16:48 +0100, lee wrote:
>
>> > I would run btrfs on bare partitions and use btrfs's raid1
>> > capabilities. You're almost certainly going to get better
>> > performance, and you get more data integrity features.
>>
>>
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:16 PM, lee wrote:
> Rich Freeman writes:
>
>>
>> I would run btrfs on bare partitions and use btrfs's raid1
>> capabilities. You're almost certainly going to get better
>> performance, and you get more data integrity featu
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 07:52:30 -0800, Grant wrote:
>
>> GLSA 201512-07 requires that I remove gstreamer-0.10 but I'm finding
>> it rather inextricable due to dependencies. Has anyone else run into
>> this problem?
>
> I think this is another ca
On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 5:42 AM, lee wrote:
> "Stefan G. Weichinger" writes:
>
>> btrfs offers RAID-like redundancy as well, no mdadm involved here.
>>
>> The general recommendation now is to stay at level-1 for now. That fits
>> your 2-disk-situation.
>
> Well, what shows better performance? No
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>
> Though I see little point in whole / encryption. What is the
> point to encrypt /usr, /lib, /bin, /sbin? Just do this
> to /home, /var and other sensitive pieces.
>
An obvious advantage is to prevent rootkits, at least while the system
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Hans wrote:
>
> Is it possible to fully encrypt a Gentoo system as can be done with Fedora,
> Suse, Arch Linux, Debian and Ubunto without using a unencrypted USB boot
> stick or unencrypted /boot partition?
>
I'm pretty sure grub can support LUKS. See for exampl
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 9:14 AM, lee wrote:
>
> They are connected to different vlans on the same switch, so they don't
> share the same broadcast domain. The switch shows the mac addresses of
> the phones only in the expected vlan.
>
Out of curiosity, have you tried actually sending a broadcast
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
>> grandstream.yagibdah.de (192.168.3.80) auf 00:0b:82:16:ed:9e [ether] auf
>> enp2s0
>> grandstream.yagibdah.de (192.168.3.80) auf 00:0b:82:16:ed:9e [ether] auf
>> enp1s0
>> spa.yagibdah.de (192.168.3.81) auf 88:75:56:07:44:c8 [ether] auf enp2s0
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 6:25 AM, wrote:
>
> When I did try it just that way, it failed completely. I created the
> structure, except that I put quotas on each of the subvolumes, and then
> I rsynced the files from my non-btrfs copies which I had to do offline
> using my grml cd, and when I reboo
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
> On 2015-12-19, Mick wrote:
>
>> http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-bypass.html
>
> If somebody can touch your computer while it's booting, the game's
> over anyway...
>
Actually, not necessarily, though there is still
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 2:56 AM, wrote:
>
> I was never able to get either zfs or btrfs to work correctly, zfs was
> very vulnerable -- I forgot to export a zfs on a usb drive and got an
> enless loop of processes untill I rebooted. Btrfs never did work for
> me, I created a pool, copied my roo
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Thomas Mueller
wrote:
>
> Now I am considering an external hard drive with eSATA, more suitable for OS
> installation (Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Haiku?) than USB 3.0. Only brand I
> find is Micronet Fantom (GForce), or use Seagate NAS hard drive in an
> enclosure
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Dale wrote:
>
> I also found this after the reply from Ian.
>
> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/
>
> No wonder they had it on sale. Heck, why didn't they just say it was a
> good door stop instead of a hard drive???
>
Yeah, the only reason I
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> Solution: obey best practice. Never run auth and cache on the same
> address. On the same machine is fine, they are different daemons.
>
Which one listens on port 53? Also, how do you point the caching
daemon at the authoritative daemon f
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Stroller wrote:
>
> That's like telling your grandma, "you don't know what DNS is? this is
> internet 101 - you use DNS all the time".
>
> I have not needed to add directories to CONFIG_PROTECT, or alter it in any
> way, in over 10 years of using Gentoo.
>
Fair e
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Stroller wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 7 December 2015, at 9:24 p.m., Rich Freeman wrote:
>>
>> It wasn't really targeted at anybody in particular. It just should be
>> clear in the documentation since config protection and merging co
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Stroller wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 6 December 2015, at 6:49 p.m., Rich Freeman wrote:
>>
>> If somebody has a link to the docs for this please post it, as it
>> seems like this has disappeared from the handbook. This used to be
>>
On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Stroller
wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:55 p.m., Rich Freeman
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Surely it should go in somewhere like /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/
>>> instead.
>>>
>>> Making
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Stroller wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:10 p.m., Peter Humphrey
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 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
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 5:57 AM, lee wrote:
> Mark David Dumlao writes:
>> wrt symlinks, some legacy tools, and regular unix tools have a completely
>> different behavior when traversing symlinks as opposed to regular
>> directories, which bindmounts emulate. although in practice i imagine it
>>
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Jc García wrote:
> 2015-11-25 16:10 GMT-06:00 :
>
>> /dev/sda7. Here's the relevant portion of /etc/fstab...
> ...
>
>> /home/bindmounts/opt/optauto bind 0 0
>
> Why not use regular partiontions instand of bindmounts, you are just
>
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Marc Joliet wrote:
>
> Don't forget that in Gentoo all commits are also GPG signed.
>
Sure, but to be fair those signatures are only bound to the content of
the commit by an sha1 hash.
--
Rich
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> A major upgrade to OpenSSH is being stabilized:
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18
>
> The default of PermitRootLogin for sshd in the new version is
> "prohibit-password". If you typically log in to the root account over
>
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 11/03/2015 09:53 AM, Stanislav Nikolov wrote:
>> Is there a way to make portage work only in $HOME, like setting
>> root=/home/asd? I can't find any way to force portage NOT to read
>> /etc/portage/make.conf or NOT to write to it's defa
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Jeremi Piotrowski
wrote:
>
> This is one of the problems with copy-on-write filesystems - they make
> disk space accounting more complicated especially with snapshots.
Indeed, it is one of the problems with copy-on-write anything. Shared
memory is a similar situ
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 1:51 PM, James wrote:
>
> Anyone tested/ deployed bcachefs on gentoo yet?
>
> @rich added to your btrfs howtos?
>
> It looks very, very cool!
My sense is that it could be a while before this becomes usable.
>From the list post it doesn't yet support snapshots, or multipl
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:34 PM, wrote:
> Rich Freeman wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 7:13 PM, wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks much -- 4.2.1 wqas what I just got using gentoo-sources, I will
>> > sync and try again, maybe go to 4.1 and see what happens.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 7:13 PM, wrote:
>
> Thanks much -- 4.2.1 wqas what I just got using gentoo-sources, I will
> sync and try again, maybe go to 4.1 and see what happens. I heard 3.19
> was the first version where btrfs actually worked, and I have 3.18 here,
> this is why I was trying the new
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:13 PM, wrote:
> Hi. I am getting some kind of kernel panick in 4.2.1 -- it boots up OK,
> ...
> how
> do I get any information about what happened -- serial console or other
> means? Can I do a console over the network without additional hardware?
That is pretty simple
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 13:31:54 +0300, Ran Shalit wrote:
>
>> >=virtual/libudev-215-r1 abi_x86_32
>> Would you like to add these changes to your config files? [Yes/No] Y
>> Autounmask changes successfully written.
>> * IMPORTANT: 8 config files in
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 2015-10-06 um 09:45 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
>> On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 09:35:40 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>>
How about btrfs send/receive? I've never used them but used
the equivalent with ZFS and it was simple to do.
>>
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
>
> I have lost hard drives before and learned my lesson. My data is in
> three different places, one being offline.
>
++
All drives fail, and sooner or later all fingers fumble. They may or
may not provide warning before it happens.
Don't ba
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Mick wrote:
>
> Thank you all for your replies. I've enabled the system-* flags and firefox
> built in the same time give or take a few seconds. I can't see a difference
> yet, although it feels faster - clear psychological advantage! ;-)
>
The same tarball is u
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:30 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 02/10/2015 05:31, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I'm getting disillusioned with the direction KDE is taking, with
>> respect to forcing users to use things they don't want to. The semantic
>> desktop, or whatever they are now callin
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> I'd say the method is the same as with any other laptop: pick one
> specific model, look into its hardware (this[1] and a liveCD may be
> handy), search for drivers, search "gento" + ,
> follow the handbook.
> You have the slight assurance th
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:45:10 +0200, lee wrote:
>
>> Go ahead and show me where I have demanded something.
>
> Your insistence that it should be changed amounts to a demand. Your
> assertion that it can be done easily only demeans the efforts o
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Mick wrote:
> I saw this last night:
>
> /usr/bin/eclean-dist
> * Building file list for distfiles cleaning...
> * Missing digest for '/usr/portage/dev-lang/swi-prolog/swi-
> prolog-7.3.7.ebuild'
>
> Does it need reporting or will it be OK on the next resync?
htt
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote:
> Rich Freeman wrote:
>>
>> Sure, but the portage team can really only dictate the upstream
>> defaults of portage, not tree policy.
>
> As I understand, they intend to remove non-dynamic deps
> (if they agreed to
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Martin Vaeth wrote:
> Rich Freeman wrote:
>> There really wasn't much loud objection when the proposal came up
>> again last week
>
> This does not mean that everybody agreed.
> However, all arguments had been exchanged before,
> s
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 09/27/2015 03:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>> Now it all makes sense, as a bonus I now see why why so many senior devs
>> are so pedantic about revbumps (they have reason).
>>
>> Now that I know what the symptom will be, are bug repor
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 10:08 AM, James wrote:
> Florian Gamböck floga.de> writes:
>> Now, before I try some crazy stunts like bind-mounting $D and $ED on
>> "preinst"
>> and cleaning up in "postinst", I wanted to know if some of you guys did
>> similar experiments and/or have some advice that y
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 9:51 AM, lee wrote:
> |
> | (dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> pulled in by
> | (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot)
> |
> | (dev-libs/boost-1.55.0-r2:0/1.55.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 7:11 AM, hw wrote:
> grub2-install /dev/xvda
> Installing for i386-pc platform.
> grub2-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding.
> grub2-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be
> installed in this setup by using blocklists. How
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:50 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> Sounds like pvgrub. I never looked into setting that up, afaiui, it mounts the
> guest filesystem, grabs the grub.cfg, grabs the kernel listed there, umounts,
> then boots the guest.
>
Indeed, that is exactly the behavior Amazon has, and I'
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:22 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> For PV, grub is actually more work to get working. There is a config option
> for the commandline.
> I will send one of mine later today.
I can believe that. My only experience is with Amazon, which doesn't
give you any control over the h
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 6:05 AM, hw wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm installing Gentoo as a xen PV guest. Do I need to install a bootloader
> like grub, or should I rather just specify the kernel to boot in the
> definition file of the guest? If I do the latter, what about the kernel
> command line?
>
> I
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 1:24 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Sunday 20 September 2015 16:25:34 lee wrote:
>> So I decided I'd better ask what to do. It's hard to believe that we
>> are seriously expected to remove lots of software which we might not be
>> able to install again just to do an update.
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 11:28 AM, lee wrote:
>
> Should I make feature requests?
>
First, don't believe every post you read in gentoo-user. Just as you
can post anything you want here, so can anybody else. People offer
advice they think is helpful. That doesn't mean it is necessarily
correct,
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 20:37:53 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>
>> My impression is that using Portage has become more complicated
>> & its warning/error messages have not been given the necessary
>> attention. Complaints or pleas for help like the
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 19/09/2015 21:36, lee wrote:
>>
>> dev-libs/boost:0
>>
>> (dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>> pulled in by
>> (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot)
>>
>> (dev-libs
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Friday 18 Sep 2015 19:15:50 Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Mick wrote:
>> > On Friday 18 Sep 2015 17:16:54 Marc Joliet wrote:
>> >> On Friday 18 September 2015 10:31:01 Mick wrote:
>
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Friday 18 Sep 2015 17:16:54 Marc Joliet wrote:
>> On Friday 18 September 2015 10:31:01 Mick wrote:
>> >A couple of months ago the akonadi DB went sideways and kmail played up as
>> >a result. Again I was suspicious of btrfs, but neither the logs n
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> PSUs are not expensive and there's lots of other things one can save
> cash on. I firmly believe cutting corners with PSUs is like saving money
> by not replacing oil filters - you save some cash now, and cause
> yourself enormous expense l
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