Re: [gentoo-user] error while updating my system

2008-07-23 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Suma Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > I get the following error when I run “emerge –auvDN world”, > > Is there an update for "sys-apps/portage" if you run `e

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging vte

2008-05-18 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Relson wrote: > When I run "emerge vte" I get an access violation, just like bug > #219211 "x11-libs/vte-0.16.13 ACCESS VIOLATION during compilation" > describes. > > The bug report recommends "run python-updater when updating to python > 2.5"

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse jerky when burning CD

2008-04-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant wrote: > The mouse cursor is very jerky and somewhat unresponsive when I'm > burning a CD on my laptop. Can I make a software change to fix that? > top shows over 50% of the CPU is idle. > > - Grant Maybe you need to enable CONFIG_PREEMPT in y

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean -p output looks weird

2008-04-05 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: > Calculating dependencies... done! > > These are the packages that would be unmerged: > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources >selected: 2.6.23-r8 > protected: none > omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.24-r4 > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources >

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge failure

2008-02-23 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Corbin wrote: > I'm getting this failure on numerous ebuilds during the umerge. I'm at a > loss to explain it. Any ideas? > > cut--- > /tmp/binpkgs/dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27/temp/environment: line 265: syntax error > near unexpected token

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --update --deep --newuse world" fails to update all packages

2008-02-23 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik wrote: > I did "emerge --update --deep --newuse world" and it says: > Calculating world dependencies... done! Auto-cleaning packages... > No outdated packages were found on your system. > > > But it seems like it is wrong about "No ou

Re: [gentoo-user] unlink ACCESS VIOLATIONs

2007-12-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Brown wrote: Source compiled. > --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY > --- > LOG FILE = > "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-gnome-base_-_gnome-desktop-2.20.1-27301.log" > > unlink:/usr/share/xml2po/docbook.

Re: [gentoo-user] Elibc & GNU userland...

2007-11-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pk wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I made an "emerge --sync" and was afterwards treated to this > (emerge -DupN): > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] sys-libs/timezone-d

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay? Re: eclipse 3.3

2007-11-01 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: > Is this the best(current) guide to follow? > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds > > > This guide tell you to copy of the files sub-dir: > cp /usr/portage/dev-util/eclipse-sdk/files > /usr/local/portage/dev-util/e

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse 3.3

2007-10-31 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know about any eclipse 3.3 ebuilds anywhere? It seems to be available in the java-experimental overlay: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/browser/java-experimental/dev-util/eclipse-sdk Zac -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stalls - what to do ?

2007-10-25 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-libs/libsexy-0.1.11 to / >>> and then just hangs there, doing nothing. >> That's right where it attempts to obtain a lock on the required >> files in ${DISTDIR}. If that's on nfs and nfs isn't be

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stalls - what to do ?

2007-10-25 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Greetings, gentoo-users, > > I see a problem with emerge on my notebook. > > Whenever I try to emerge something, it starts off like: > > # emerge -1 libsexy > Calculating dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild Mani

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync fails with CacheCorruption

2007-10-22 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant wrote: > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py", line 31, in mirror_cache > try:entry = src_cache[x] > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/metadata.py", line 32, in __getitem__ > return flat_hash.database.__getitem__(self, cpv

Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean and cross-foo/gcc

2007-10-19 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Barkalow wrote: > According to the man page, --prune will remove the old version that I want > to keep. I want to have 3.4.4-r1 and (currently) 4.2.2, but I don't care > about 4.1.2. When 4.2.3 comes out, I'll want that instead of 4.2.2. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean and cross-foo/gcc

2007-10-19 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Barkalow wrote: > I've been doing a lot of --depclean lately, and I've run into something > odd. "emerge --depclean cross-avr/gcc" wants to remove all 3 versions, but > it's in my world file. On the other hand, "emerge --depclean" doesn't want

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sync error

2007-10-15 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefán István wrote: > At least according to 'top' a 'sed' commands are running for 21minutes, and I > can hardly imagine what it is doing for such a long time. > > I also tried to upgrade python with the 'emerge --nodeps -1v python' command, > but

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean question

2007-07-21 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > Any idea why emerge --depclean wants to remove > app-shells/bash-completion-config? It it needed by some installed packages: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ --> equery depends app-shells/bash-completion-config > [ Search

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage curruptness problem

2007-07-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a problem with portage being unable to unmerge some old packages. No > idea what do do about this. I already remerged portage, tried > emerge --emtadata and emerge --regen. Maybe someone of you knows what

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build glib.

2007-06-18 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Diehl wrote: > make[1]: Entering directory > `/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5/work/glib-1.2.10' > Making all in . > make[2]: Entering directory > `/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5/work/glib-1.2.10' > /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=com

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2007-05-08 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Iliev wrote: > Following the official docs [1] I did > "echo x11-wm/aquamarine-0.2.1 >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided" > but it doesn't seem to help. The way that emerge currently behaves, that won't help if aquamarine is listed in /va

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -uDN world" minus one package

2007-05-01 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesse Adelman wrote: > Hi, all. I want to do an "emerge -uDN world", mostly to update Xorg to the > newest > stable version. However, I have one package that I don't want to update, that > being media-tv/mythtv. Now, the version of mythtv (and associa

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge-webrsync errors

2007-04-01 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian wrote: > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 47, in _pull > raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e) > cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption: net-analyzer/etherape-0.9.6-r1 is > corrupt: dictionary update sequence element #

Re: [gentoo-user] File not listed in Manifest

2007-03-29 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > Anyway, resyncing did not fix it. > > Any more ideas? It's fixed in cvs now. The fix will trickle down to all the mirrors pretty soon. Zac -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGDB12/ejvha5XGaMRApsPA

Re: [gentoo-user] aRTs is driving me nuts!

2007-03-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > I have rebuilt noatune and krec with "-arts" set in make.conf. Does this > change the dependencies they have on arts? Or is it "unconditional" in the > sense that noatune *always* depends on kde-base/arts no matter what I set > in /e

Re: [gentoo-user] aRTs is driving me nuts!

2007-03-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > On Monday 26 March 2007 21:34, Mick wrote: > The thing is that neither of them have arts in their USE flags. I am not I > understand what is happening here. kde-base/noatun-3.5.5 currently has an unconditional runtime dependency on kde

Re: [gentoo-user] aRTs is driving me nuts!

2007-03-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > Thanks Zac, but that's what revdep-rebuild threw back at me. I am now > running > revdep-rebuild -p -v -t and remerging one at a time any packages that > show -arts*. I thought that emerge -uaDNv world would have caught them all? Th

Re: [gentoo-user] aRTs is driving me nuts!

2007-03-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Just as I thought that all was fine following my removal of arts, a recent > revdep-rebuild revealed this horror: > === > emerge --oneshot -p -v -t =kde-base/juk-3.5.5 =kde-base/kabood

Re: [gentoo-user] all digest files missing for portage update after rsync with local server

2007-03-25 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > Now that my rsync local server has been upgraded to portage 2.1.2.2, > should I still keep > > PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times > --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-afte

Re: [gentoo-user] all digest files missing for portage update after rsync with local server

2007-03-25 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > !!! A file listed in the Manifest could not be found: > /usr/portage/net-fs/nfs-utils/files/nfs.confd.old http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172231 > Now on my other boxes I proceeded with an emerge --sync to sync t

Re: [gentoo-user] all digest files missing for portage update after rsync with local server

2007-03-24 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > My local rsync server has been upgraded to the 2006.1 profile > (gcc-4.2.2). All my other boxes that sync against the local server have > problems with missing digest files. The problem is that portage-2.1.2.2 will autom

Re: [gentoo-user] gvim emerge problems

2007-02-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stuart Howard wrote: > My issue is more though why is portage trying and failing to install > two versions of vim at all as so far as I am aware I have never made > such a request of it. > Just the latest ~* version will be fine for me. You have both

Re: [gentoo-user] gvim emerge problems

2007-02-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stuart Howard wrote: > !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been > !!! pulled into the dependency graph: > > ('ebuild', '/', 'app-editors/vim-core-7.0.201', 'merge') pulled in by > ('ebuild', '/', 'app-editors/gvim-7.0.201', 'merge

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation annoyances

2007-02-22 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Dnes wrote: > Guess what happens to the bookmarks next time there's a minor version > bump to any of those programs (e.g. when I update world)? I suppose I > should try to slap together a script that's run after emerge. It would > run the "f

Re: [gentoo-user] imaginary nvidia-glx blocking qt

2006-11-30 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Rout wrote: > on emerge -uDpv world I get: > > === > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -uDpv world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies - > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "

Re: [gentoo-user] new openssl ebuild causes openssh to segfault

2006-09-16 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Köhler wrote: > Hi, > > i already has openssl 0.9.8c installed. OpenSSH worked fine. Then, there > was a new ebuild with had an sse2 useflag. So i installed it, but i > didn't recompile openssh. Now, ssh and sshd do segfault! Do you have the > sa

Re: [gentoo-user] Are these packages safe to unmerge?

2006-09-09 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Just ran depclean and the following candicates are shown: [snip] > Is it safe to remove them? Historically, depclean behavior has been far from ideal in many cases. However, portage-2.1.1 (final version released yesterday) h

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.1.1_rc1-r4: OSError: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy

2006-09-08 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hi! > > All of a sudden, I get the following error when I run emerge: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc $ Gestoppt sudo emerge -C media-gfx/feh > > > Performing Global Updates: /Gentoo/Portage/tree/profiles/updates/2Q-2006 > (Could ta

Re: [gentoo-user] odd emerge problem

2006-08-21 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian wrote: > root $ emerge --ask -v world > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > Calculating world dependencies > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3440, in ? > if not mydepgraph.xcreate(my

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird dependencies

2006-07-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gentuxx wrote: > Calculating dependencies | > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=dev-java/kaffe-1.4". > (dependency required by "dev-java/gjdoc-0.7.7-r1" [ebuild]) java-check-environment is supposed to help you correct for this: check_virtua

Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world

2006-07-25 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: > That was for future reference. If in the future you are seeing it copy > the install over and power fails, then you may need to re-emerge it and > be ready for "issues". I'm not really sure what those would be though. > It may work jus

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird dependencies

2006-07-25 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gentuxx wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to run a routine `emerge -DuatvN world' and am getting some > funky dependency errors. Here's the error I get: > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=dev-java/kaffe-1.4". > (dependency required by "net

Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world

2006-07-24 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: > What is my best course of action at this point? The machine booted > fine so I could start over. I also saved an old email from Zac Medico > that suggested a command > > FEATURES=keepwork emerge --resume >

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-07 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lord Sauron wrote: > On 7/7/06, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah. Portage works, however, I think it's really in need of a large > overhaul. If what you're saying is true, and it's really just a load >

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-07 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Friday 07 July 2006 21:22, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > >> Second thing that I'd improve is a security one. I know that "emerge" >> is a very cared package, but it is a script. Suppose that someone >> commits

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-07 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lord Sauron wrote: > My personal gripe is how slow emerge is on just plain old emerge-ish > things. That we have to use things like eix to search is pathetic. > This NEVER happened in Debian. emerge/portage has lots of room for improvement. Lots of

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage on RHEL4?

2006-07-07 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randy Barlow wrote: > exist!) Could someone guide me in the right direction? Anyone know > what the e commands are and how to get them? Anyone know of a guide > that I haven't found that talks about how to install portage on a > general linux system

Re: [gentoo-user] get unversioned list of installed packages without eix or esearch

2006-06-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > But I have found it impossible to make a regular expression that does break > for at least one of those: > > media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.0 > media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.0 > media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1-1.

Re: [gentoo-user] "Calculating world dependencies" taking forever first time

2006-06-22 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: > I'm also seeing this from time to time - "emerge -Duvat world" > just seems to take forever at the "Calculating world dependencies" > after I ran "eix-sync" which includes "emerge --sync". And I haven't > updated portage. Any i

Re: [gentoo-user] sudden portage error "list index out of range"

2006-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan wrote: > Wanted to do some installs today and suddenly my portage is puking out > with > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 10, in ? > import portage > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7187, i

Re: [gentoo-user] portage question

2006-04-21 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan LaMotte wrote: > anyone know if you can compile something locally into your home > directory using portage without being root? > > basically what I want to accomplish is like... > > ROOT=/home/lamotte/compile emerge openssh > > or > > ebuild /p

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2006-03-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Gysel wrote: > hi > i have following problem emerging packages: > > gorilla ~ # emerge portage > Calculating dependencies... done! > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3263, in ? > if "resume" in portage.mti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: package.provided syntax

2006-03-07 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: >> The example for package.provided syntax in `man portage` shows categories >> like this: >> >> app-backup/rsnapshot-1.2.2 >> app-backup/bacula-1.48.5 >> app-editors/emacs-cvs-24 > > Ok, I'm a little gun shy to post this now but

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided syntax

2006-03-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm currently trying to get thru an emerge -vuD world but having > various things crop up. Some I thought were handled long ago like > this overlooking what is in package.provided: > > rsnapshot-1.2.2 > bacula-1.48.5 > cvs

Re: [gentoo-user] env-update problem

2006-03-04 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Franta wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install ORACLE on my box following the HOWTO on > gentoo-wiki. > > After creating this /etc/env.d/99oracle: > > ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle > ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.1.0.3 > ORACLE_SID=''MyDB'' It's cho

Re: [gentoo-user] portage cache question

2006-02-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gogiel wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > >>>> You can delete the whole cache with `rm -rf /var/cache/edb/*`. >>>> > > Actually, that's wrong, please don't do that. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] portage cache question

2006-02-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zac Medico wrote: > You can delete the whole cache with `rm -rf /var/cache/edb/*`. Actually, that's wrong, please don't do that. It's `rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep/*`. Sorry. :) Zac -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-user] portage cache question

2006-02-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Covington, Chris wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently built a new gentoo box and I noticed that the emerge > --sync is lightning fast compared to an emerge --sync on the older > boxes, even though both the new and older boxes are up to date and have > a

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for python module

2006-02-10 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mikhail Yarmish wrote: > Guys, >How to make right ebuild for a python module part which needs to be > installed in kde/lib? >If I use PYTHON_MODNAME="" I'll get Access Violation. The "Access Violation" means that the ebuild tried to modify som

Re: [gentoo-user] portage error?

2006-02-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > emerge -uvDa world suddenly yeilds this: > Calculating world dependencies -Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3254, in ? > if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction): > File "/usr/bin/emerge"

Re: [gentoo-user] A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv

2006-02-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: > I have an account on a gentoo machine but no root privs. Is there > some allowance using emerge to install software in ~/ Though I have no experience with it, there's a "Prefixed Portage" that you may be able use: http://www.ge

Re: [gentoo-user] update-eix has memory problems

2006-02-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Hi, > update-eix won't work anymore: If I try to start it, it prints "Reading > Portage settings .." and starts gobbling up memory at an amazing rate. > At a memory usage of about 770MB (according to top) the process stops >

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Persson wrote: > Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When > the > script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it > doesn't seem to return anything. > > For instance "test -f /us

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --buildpkgonly world" won't go: kde metapackage problem?

2006-01-22 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Persson wrote: > The reason I want to avoid installing straight away is because I'm doing a > kde > upgrade this time (3.4.3 to 3.5) and want to avoid a broken desktop Generally, this isn't a problem because kde slots allow multiple versions

Re: [gentoo-user] Java SDK 1.5

2006-01-20 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > I was already reading the faq when i received your anser :) > > It seems this can be done, but not without certain risks. It's pretty safe if you keep blackdown-jdk-1.4 as the system vm (for building packages) and use jav

Re: [gentoo-user] Java SDK 1.5

2006-01-20 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/20/06, Rafael Barrera Oro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does anyone know if Java SDK 1.5 (blackdown, sun, anyone) will be >> available soon through portage? > > It is available now, but you have to unmask it. If you do, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Sandbox access violation

2006-01-19 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mikhail Yarmish wrote: > Hello guys, >I'm trying to write an ebuild for xmms plug-in, but always get an > error during of emerging it. Here it is: > --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY > --- > LOG FILE = "/v

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild makin problem

2006-01-18 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Yarmish wrote: > Guys! What reasons of a message ".ebuild does not exist" could be > when I'm trying to emerge a custom created ebuild with emerging by path? > Sry for silly question but I'm new to the world of ebuild making. > Thank you in advanc

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhay Kedia wrote: | Got the kernel and modules. Systems boots fine, just that I don't have X. This | probably is expected as there might not be the necessary modules installed? | | Will be starting a 64bit install anytime now. Thanks for the tip of

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-12 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhay Kedia wrote: | On Thursday 12 January 2006 13:04, Zac Medico wrote: |> Well, you can't convert the 32 bit userland directly to 64 bit. However, |> you can run the 32 bit userland with a 64 bit kernel. For example, you can |> bor

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-11 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhay Kedia wrote: | Thanks for the reply Neil but I don't have a fast connection. Just a 64kbps | connection. If I follow GRP way then first I'll have to download a live CD, | then the GRP Packages and then undergo the whole process of downloading

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-05 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: | On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:10:38 +, Tom Martin wrote: | |>> To the portage developers, how could this be handled? Perhaps emerge |>> could somehow figure out the reason for such a conflict, and then |>> automatically unmerge t

Re: [gentoo-user] portage overlay question

2006-01-04 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paweł Madej wrote: | Zac Medico wrote: |>> You should have done `ls -ld /usr/portage/distfiles/.locks`. |>> |>> I'm able to reproduce that problem here. It seems that portage |>> automatically changes the group id on

Re: [gentoo-user] portage overlay question

2006-01-04 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paweł Madej wrote: | | !!! No write access to write to /usr/portage/distfiles. Aborting. | | Is the only resolution of this problem giving /usr/portage/distfiles dir | write permissions for all? | | I'll add that user from i try making ebuild di

Re: [gentoo-user] portage overlay question

2006-01-03 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paweł Madej wrote: ~ > I have tried line as below but then portage losed distfiles dir at all | | #DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles /usr/local/portage/distfiles" | Unfortunately, the multiple DISTDIR feature is not currently available (though it i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync timeouts

2006-01-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Closson wrote: | Hello, | | When I have not sync'd in over a month or so and when I ran: | | emerge --sync | It basically shows the motd of the remote rsync server and then times out. | I have let it run for a bit and try multiple servers a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2006-01-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter wrote: | On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 19:00:17 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: |> Actually, portage-2.1 has seen an improvement in this area. In addition, |> I have written a patch that obsoletes the metadata transfer. That's |> right, no met

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2006-01-01 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter wrote: | On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:53:18 -0500, Peter wrote: |> For right now, I have reiser handling /mnt/src, and I'll leave this |> alone for a while. Don't know if performance will improve. It _might_ |> since the act of syncing will force a re

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-27 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Sanders wrote: > Don't think so. And don't run - emaint -f world. It'll remove it and > any updates won't occur. Here's my list of what it want to take > out of the world file - > > 'app-emulation/crossover-office-bin' has no ebuilds available

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread Zac Medico
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? The installer initramfs is created by genkernel. I use it myself to generate an initr

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with time stamp while unpacking portage

2005-12-10 Thread Zac Medico
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Hi all, I'm new to gentoo, and right now i'm installing it for the first time. I have a problem, my timezone is gmt+3, and when i try to unpack the last portage file, i get this message: tar: portage/games-rpg: time stamp 2005-12-11 01:36:10 is 4154 s in the future tar: po

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Ethernet on installation

2005-12-09 Thread Zac Medico
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: I'm not installing on the slack box, 'cause i want to overwrite it. i'm booting from the CD. Okay, if I understand correctly, you want to overwrite your slackware installation? In that case, if there's some free space on your root partition, then you can in install a mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Ethernet on installation

2005-12-08 Thread Zac Medico
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Hi all, I'm a Slackware user, but i decided to give Gentoo a try! :-) Gentoo instalation uses kernel 2.6.12, and it doesn't have my ethernet card module. It is the sis190, that have been added on 2.6.14, do i have to put another card while installing or is there another s

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD customizations

2005-12-08 Thread Zac Medico
Tom Smith wrote: I need to make some slight customization to the Live CDs for installations at remote offices--things like configuring a root password, enabling SSH by default, and so on. I looked at the Gentoo docs at the web site but wasn't able to locate anything specific. Can anyone off

Re: [gentoo-user] World file problems (more)

2005-12-08 Thread Zac Medico
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: OK since there are world file experts out there.. A while back I was playing around with cvs and svn versions of kde, long story short they are there anymore, and as far as I can tell the files are gone, but portage thinks they are still there which really screws up

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I make an installable copy

2005-12-07 Thread Zac Medico
Mike Kenny wrote: Zac Medico wrote: Use tar or some other archive utility (possibly mksquashfs) to make a complete backup of the root filesystem (use "mount" with no arguments to see mount points that should be excluded). The easiest way to make a customized bootable cd/dvd is t

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I make an installable copy

2005-12-06 Thread Zac Medico
Mike Kenny wrote: I now have my stage 3 installed an working. Am in the process of downloading all the requirements for openXchange (Man! I love emerge) But, many (most) users will not want to go to the trouble that I have. In fact, in South Africa most won't have access to the bandwidth to do

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge?

2005-12-05 Thread Zac Medico
Daevid Vincent wrote: I was in the middle of emerging KDE 3.5 and it's 8 million dependencies, and read the post about needing to unmerge superkaramba. So, in another shell I did just that. Life was fine. I needed to reboot my notebook for another reason, and when I started the emerge again, it c

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 packages

2005-12-02 Thread Zac Medico
Cláudio Henrique wrote: Hi, Darren, I've already tried this command before sending the other message. And I've noticed that packages like qt and kde-libs are also included in this "emerge -ep system". So I concluded this is not what I am looking for. What I really want is a list of packages

Re: [gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-26 Thread Zac Medico
Holly Bostick wrote: This sounds great, but what about the kernel I'm booted into, against which the module will *not* be compiled, if I have to reboot before actually configuring/compiling/installing the new kernel? You can get pretty close to your desired behavior (merge kernel last) if you

Re: [gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-26 Thread Zac Medico
Holly Bostick wrote: OK, I take it back. I said that the situation of upgrading a kernel with the 'symlink' USE flag active occurring at the same time as a (particular) program needing to compile against a configured kernel was not likely to occur all that often, but I was wrong. It's happened a

Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread Zac Medico
Zhang Weiwu wrote: after a few test it looks obvious OO on gentoo suffer from the samiliar problem as oo on Windows (sorry to mension Windows again). On my gentoo there is only one printer installed on cups that is a LaserJet. Later I discovered all PS files I provided are grayscale, and there i

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-16 Thread Zac Medico
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:20:36 -0500 Derek Tracy wrote: Part way through the online handbook I noticed that they standardized the Stage3 install. I figured that since the developers thought it was best to use a Stage3 install then why not give it a shot. I read your message a

Re: [gentoo-user] what diz mean?

2005-10-17 Thread Zac Medico
Gentoo Shadow wrote: tcp0 0 10.1.0.64:33612 strategiy.com:http ESTABLISHED tcp0 0 10.1.0.64:33621 strategiy.com:http ESTABLISHED That looks like an outgoing connection from a web browser (no

Re: [gentoo-user] automounter

2005-10-16 Thread Zac Medico
Matthew R. Lee wrote: libhal.c 644 : Error connecting to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused Are you sure that the dbus service is running? You should add dbus and hald to the default runlevel. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing li

Re: [gentoo-user] What's wrong with eix?

2005-10-13 Thread Zac Medico
Holly Bostick wrote: I've updated eix's cache a number of times, and even run eix-sync, but the above is the result after having done so. I can of course use emerge --search or equery or whatever, but I don't much like having unattibutable problems like this. You might add PORTDIR_CACHE_ME

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge improvements... again

2005-10-09 Thread Zac Medico
Jerry McBride wrote: > 2- We have "emerge world" that covers everything already installed and > "emerge > sys" that covers all the system related stuff How about "emerge apps" > that would ONLY cover things NOT in "emerge sys"? Face it, it'd be nice > Right now, I have to resort to ext

Re: [gentoo-user] Why would portage not update a package?

2005-10-02 Thread Zac Medico
Dave Nebinger wrote: > Okay, I finished an "emerge --update --deep world" this morning. Everything > was cool. > > This afternoon, however, I decide I want to install eclipse to migrate a > windows java development effort to my gentoo box. > > Did an "emerge --pretend dev-util/eclipse-sdk" to

Re: [gentoo-user] error while loading shared libraries: libdc1394_control.so.9

2005-10-01 Thread Zac Medico
Richard Watson wrote: > I'm trying to run a script to convert avi files to vob. I'm getting an > error I can't track down. I know the script works as I have another > Gentoo box that runs it fine. The error is: > > "ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libdc1394_control.so.9: > cannot ope

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-09-29 Thread Zac Medico
Wes Gray wrote: [snip] > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-python/pyorbit-1.99.6". [snip] > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-python/gnome-python-1.99.16". With revdep-rebuild it tries to remerge the same version that you have installed. If your version is no longer in th

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync problem

2005-09-26 Thread Zac Medico
Matthew R. Lee wrote: > I haven't been able to emerge --sync for the last few days and I can't > figure > out why. When I try I get the following output: [snip] > receiving file list ... > 0 files to consider > client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the > --recur

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