Bug#516071: whohas: gentoo links should be to packages.gentoo.org

Package: whohas Version: 0.22-4 Severity: normal Please switch the gentoo links to packages.gentoo.org. If packages.gentoo.org doesn't have search, please strip the package name from the gentoo-portage.com URL and construct the URL for it at ...

Message posted on the February 19th, 2009 - 2:30 AM ET

Comparison of free picture/photo editing software

We can’t say it enough: it isn’t necessary to invest in commercial software to successfully edit your photos! In this article we will look at free programs and trial versions which respond to the basic needs of novice, and in some cases, even ...

Review published on the November 17th, 2009 - 9:19 AM ET

Print servers and how to share a printer

You should know that you don’t have to permanently leave your PC/MAC running to be able to share your printer with others on the network! With an independent print server, each network post will be free to access one or more printers on the ...

Review published on the April 22nd, 2008 - 6:56 PM ET

How to partition your disk for Linux

Partitioning your hard disk is the hardest and most crucial step in the installation of a Linux operating system. Linux is of course a lot easier to install now then it once was, but the creation of partitions is inevitable and requires some basic ...

Review published on the June 20th, 2005 - 6:00 PM ET

Getting Gentoo to work on a Asus P5Q Pro mobo with fake RAID

Hello Gentoo'ers, It's been a long time since I had some installation related problems but now I've got some new hardware and would like to use Gentoo on that too, yay! I knew there was a good article on the Gentoo wiki explaining kinda everything ...

Message posted on the July 26th, 2009 - 1:11 PM ET

Bug#540146: gentoo's patch and debdiff

boundary="Boundary-01=_IBTfKFDfR1m/UVy" Hi I'd suggest going with gentoo's approach of using a separate oversized.h file. Any objections? I've tried building this, but the debdiff between the -dev binary packages was quite huge, so I am ...

Message posted on the August 8th, 2009 - 4:10 AM ET

[gentoo-dev] Lastrites: net-proxy/paros, net-misc/ups-monitor, app-emulation/mol, net-wireless/fsam7400, net-wireless/acx, net-wireless/acx-firmware, net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-modules, net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-utils, net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-firmw

# Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> (24 Nov 2012) # Violates java packaging policy (#168867), no release since # 2006, it would require jdic in the tree but that needs huge # work to be done and someone wanting to do that. # Removal in a month. ...

Message posted on the November 24th, 2012 - 4:20 PM ET

Bug#552075: Gentoo has a fix

Gentoo has a fix, reported upstream. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid(97699&group_id3434&atid7733 Fixed version in my Ubuntu PPA: https://launchpad.net/~stefanor/+archive/ppa/+packages Stefano Rivera ...

Message posted on the December 8th, 2009 - 9:00 AM ET

gentoo java update broken ERROR: dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.15 failed

Gentoo will not complete java update. Problems preserving timestamp. Bug report has been filed but work-around is not obvious. Below is what I did: # vi /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk/sun-jdk-1.6.0.15.ebuild (edit line 72 according to bug report) ...

Message posted on the October 16th, 2009 - 11:11 AM ET

Bug#533177: lcdproc: Unused gentoo patch

Package: lcdproc Version: 0.5.2-3 Severity: normal User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu karmic The patch lcdproc-0.4.3-gentoo.diff is in the Debian source, but does not seem to be applied (there's not even a patch system). ...

Message posted on the June 15th, 2009 - 8:30 AM ET

Gentoo: How to stop emerge from overwriting gcc and gas wrappers

I am using Gentoo. I have created a couple of wrapper scripts to force parameters into the assembler and compiler as follows: /usr/bin/gcc: #!/bin/sh gcc.real -march=i386 -Wa,-march=i386 $@ I did a similar thing with /usr/bin/as The original ...

Message posted on the January 25th, 2009 - 10:08 AM ET

Gentoo: What exactly does the the CHOST variable do?

I am using Gentoo. What exactly does the CHOST variable do in /etc/make.conf? For example, how do the following different settings vary: CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" I ...

Message posted on the January 25th, 2009 - 6:08 AM ET

Gentoo: Waiting forever for uevents to be processed

I am running a Gentoo Linux based system. I have cloned the hard drive and tried to install this on several different machines. On most machines this works fine. However, I am having a problem with the bootup scripts failing on two AMD Athlon based ...

Message posted on the January 21st, 2009 - 1:08 AM ET

[gentoo-dev] gstreamer eclass review

Hi list, gstreamer-1 has been around for some time now and it is needed for gnome 3.6 to enter the tree. Since gstreamer devs have been a bit busy irl, a few guys from gnome herd decided to take a look at it and try to bump everything. I had an ...

Message posted on the November 18th, 2012 - 2:10 PM ET