[gentoo-user] Re: scripted iptables-restore

2013-10-13 Thread Martin Vaeth
Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 10/13/2013 06:08 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: 5. You can't script iptables-restore! Well, actually you can script iptables-restore. For those who are interested: net-firewall/firewall-mv from the mv overlay (available over layman) now provides

[gentoo-user] Re: scripted iptables-restore

2013-10-13 Thread Martin Vaeth
Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: [...] If you have a million rules and you need to wipe/reload them all frequently you're probably doing something wrong to begin with. I don't know how this is related with the discussion. The main advantage of using iptables-restore is avoidance

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to put advanced routing configuration?

2013-10-11 Thread Martin Vaeth
Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: And my counterarguments: 1. The iptables-restore syntax is uglier and harder to read. 2. You get better error reporting calling iptables repeatedly. 3. The published interface will never change; iptables-restore reads an input language whose

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd installation location

2013-09-30 Thread Martin Vaeth
pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Seriously, boot-critical would be something that the system cannot *boot without*, which belongs in /. Everything else should be in /usr, i.e. non-boot-critical. How hard is it to start *non-boot* (system) critical *after* boot (things like sshd)? I do that

[gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-11 Thread Martin Vaeth
Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: on 07/10/2013 09:38 AM Martin Vaeth wrote the following: This has nothing to do with the necessity to call eix-remote add after eix-sync With eix-0.29.0 which just entered the tree, eix-sync will by default do this for you, so you usually do not need

[gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-10 Thread Martin Vaeth
Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: So, if I understand correctly, I _don't_ need any settings, and I should remove both KEEP_VIRTUALS and REMOTE_DEFAULT, and just use the -R option You don't need KEEP_VIRTUALS. Whether you prefer REMOTE_DEFAULT or not is up to you. This has nothing to do

[gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-08 Thread Martin Vaeth
Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: So in /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc I have set KEEP_VIRTUALS=true REMOTE_DEFAULT=1 With the current default setting of separate databases for the local eix cache (normally /var/cache/eix/portage.eix) and for the remote eix cache (/var/cache/eix/remote.eix),

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc4.7.2-r1 to 4.7.3 upgrade - hosed system?

2013-05-16 Thread Vaeth
# gcc-config 2 * Switching native-compiler to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.7.3 ... /usr/bin/python2.7: error while loading shared libraries: libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This is a bug in gcc-config: It removes the old link too early so that the tools needed

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-11 Thread Vaeth
I also get 376 matches from Not installed but in /etc/portage/package.mask which are surely the packages in my overlays masked by */* but not installed. Do you know the name of this test so I can disable it in eixrc? REDUNDANT_IF_IN_MASK (or in /etc/portage/package.nowarn: in_mask) I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-09 Thread Vaeth
in package.mask: */*::init6 eix-test-obsolete find over 27,000 packages under this heading: Redundant in /etc/portage/package.mask: ... considered as REDUNDANT_IF_MASK_NO_CHANGE The reason for this is the following: Since the category and package is */*, your mask can match every package -

Re: [gentoo-user] Eix takes ridiculously long to update cache of overlays

2012-07-22 Thread Vaeth
I guess I'm missing some settings specific to this? I have 3 overlays installed via layman, and this eix takes ridiculously long to index through them, I don't know why. The portage tree is indexed quickly. There is usually not much you can do there. This typically happens with overlays that

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild (gawk) issues

2012-05-29 Thread Vaeth
On Tue, 29 May 2012, Rafa Griman wrote: gawk: cmd. line:3: error: Unmatched [ or [^: /[^[:space:]]/ Your gawk is broken. This happens if you emerged gawk with current gcc and aggressive FLAGS like -DNDEBUG or -flto. Not sure whether it is a bug of gawk or gcc.

[gentoo-user] Re: CORRECTION - Problem with eix-REMOTE update...

2012-04-16 Thread Vaeth
I haven't searched layman for packages in a long time (actually had to google how to do it), and am getting an error I can't seem to solve... Unfortunately, you have not written the actual error which should appear probably a few (probably one) lines before: problems arised with cachefile

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with eix-test-obsolete

2011-01-06 Thread Vaeth
Lately it seems that eix disregards the content of /etc/portage/package.keywords.nowarn From the ChangeLog: *eix-0.22.1 [...] - use /etc/portage/package.nowarn instead of /etc/portage/package.*.nowarn; the latter is now obsolete. If you want continue to use it, set

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating dev-libs/glib pulls a lot of packages...

2010-08-05 Thread Vaeth
[ebuild N] app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.4 [ebuild N] app-arch/unzip-6.0-r1 USE=bzip2 unicode [ebuild N] app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5 [ebuild N] dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.7 USE=nls -common-lisp [ebuild N] app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.75.2 [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] eix shows keyworded packages on home PC, but not on server

2010-07-31 Thread Vaeth
[I know that the headers are wrong; sorry for that] I try the same on a relatively young gentoo server I'm managing and * dev-python/snakeoil Available versions: yellow~0.3.6.4 ~0.3.6.5 ~0.3.7/yellow [...] It's unkeyworded, however Did you verify with portage that it is unkeyworded?

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and use-flags

2010-06-18 Thread Vaeth
I'm running grub 2 it seems No. You are running grub 0.97-r9 (which is a legacy grub): Don't be confused by the description in eix: eix knows only one description per package (not one per version), and it takes this description from the version with the highest version number (which is grub 2).

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

2008-09-17 Thread Vaeth
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Matthias Bethke wrote: [...] that in any halfway sane router these NAT problems are not an issue. And with many routers running Linux today so you can even get a shell and check iptables... :) We are obviously talking about a different price category of routers. Most

Re: [gentoo-user] I am a f*****g retard. Can you help me?

2008-09-17 Thread Vaeth
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Stroller wrote: The risk is that you want to install X that depends upon Y. The ebuild for X states that version 1.2.3 of Y must be used because there's a bug in 1.2.2. The new version of Y fails to compile, so when X is compiled it only has the old version of Y to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

2008-09-17 Thread Vaeth
Matthias Bethke wrote: I'd say the vast majority of chroot jails are there for nothing else but security. Alan Cox: chroot is not and never has been a security tool, see e.g. http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Abusing_chroot No disrespect to Mr. Cox but a silly argument stays a silly

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

2008-09-17 Thread Vaeth
Could you please use a mail client which insert correctly the fields In-Reply-To ans Reference ? Thanks for the hint, I was not aware of this. But unfortunately, it appears that it is not just a question of the mail client: I am subsribed to the list as post-only (for several reasons which I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

2008-09-16 Thread Vaeth
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:49:36 +0200 (CEST), Vaeth wrote: It is always better to have a port not open than to rely on a router to close it apparently. If you are using NAT on the router, you have to explicitly forward that port somewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

2008-09-16 Thread Vaeth
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:29:16 +0200 (CEST), Vaeth wrote: If you are using NAT on the router, you have to explicitly forward that port somewhere for it to work. [...] Except that this is not completely true [...] So the router maintains a database of current

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

2008-09-16 Thread Vaeth
Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Vaeth, [...] Also a chroot jail is not a security feature: There are several ways known how to break out. [...] But there's only one reason I can see why you'd use a chroot environment *except* for security and that's to have more than one set of system

Re: [gentoo-user] I am a f*****g retard. Can you help me?

2008-09-16 Thread Vaeth
Alan McKinnon wrote: You asked me to do something. It didn't work But it is an annoyance if you leave your computer on during the three days you are on the road to compile a load of new packages like e.g. a new kde version, and when you return, compiling has not even started because your first

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about eix-test-obsolete output

2008-04-13 Thread Vaeth
Is this not in portage, not in the world file or what? Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked): The database is what is produced by update-eix, i.e. usually the portage tree and your overlays (and perhaps virtual overlays). So, as a rule, it means that you have at

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about eix-test-obsolete output

2008-04-13 Thread Vaeth
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:02:38 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Redundant is where the package is still available but the /etc/portage.* entry is no longer needed. e.g. you have dev-lib/foobar-1.1 ~x86 in package.keyworkd but it is now stable. Sounds reasonable,

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about eix-test-obsolete output

2008-04-13 Thread Vaeth
Dale wrote: Vaeth wrote: Is this not in portage, not in the world file or what? Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked): Also, emerge -uvDNp comes out clean. Nothing to upgrade or downgrade. Revdep-rebuild comes out clean as well. The installed packages

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-test-obsolete problem

2008-03-07 Thread Vaeth
Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked): [I] app-misc/beagle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/27/08) ^ This is your problem: eix is not able to detect from which repository this version was installed. The reason is that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Vaeth
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Second, no journalled filesystem in the whole wide world can prevent occurences of inconsisteny in case of a power cut. None, try as they might. This is correct. If the journal change still resides in the harddrive cache while your power cut occurs,

Re: [gentoo-user] /bin/sh - dash?

2007-11-19 Thread Vaeth
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Sean wrote: I'd really like to replace the /bin/sh link to point to a smaller shell, such as ash or dash instead of the bash default, but that apparently makes functions.sh _very_ unhappy. Use baselayout-2. I use /bin/sh - dash with baselayout-2 and have no problems with

Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Vaeth
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, James wrote: In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: CLOCK=local TIMEZONE=America/New_York CLOCK_SYSTOHC=yes it's a dual boot (XP gentoo) workstation. I had to set the time manually to adjust for the 1 hour shift. I guess you mean that in this

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't compile eix

2007-07-29 Thread Vaeth
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: On 7/28/07, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a much abused gentoo system on which I was trying to update eix. I get quite a few errors [...] for a start it looks like the wrong GCC, last i read eix doesnt compile with gcc-3.4 It seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating eix bombs

2007-06-06 Thread Vaeth
mask.cc:(.text+0x1663): undefined reference to [...] This is a known issue with eix-0.9.8 and gcc-3.* with an easy fix. I resynced this morning, but nothing has changed. Resync once more. The patch was included in the tree today without a revbump. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] eix way too verbose

2007-05-04 Thread Vaeth
nazgul ~ # eix gimp-print [I] media-gfx/gimp-print Available versions: 4.2.7 (~)5.1.0 {cups foomaticdb gimp gtk nls ppds readline} Installed versions: 5.1.0(20:50:45 05/02/07)(cups foomaticdb gimp gtk -nls ppds readline) Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] eix double naming with colon?

2006-12-09 Thread Vaeth
The testign version is better, but sort of strange. For gentoo-sources it gave a nice readable list. However for rt-sources it didn't. rt-sources is from some overlay, and probably you are using OVERLAY_CACHE_METHOD=none which cannot read SLOT-data calculated in eclasses. You might

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