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On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 21:36, Maciek Borowka wrote: |
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> Some answers.... |
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Thanks a lot for answering! |
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> > XSANE |
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> > latest xsane is 0.84. latest in gentoo is 0.77, quite old. Is there a |
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> > particular reason for keeping an old version? |
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> I don't think so. Upgrade the ebuild file and send it to bugs.gentoo.org if |
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> you want it in gentoo |
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Attach it to a bug report or something? |
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Will try to read some build doc soon to be able to do something useful. |
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Anyway, renaming the current xsane ebuild file to the current version |
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and ebuild digest-ing it seems to be working. I guess it would be the |
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same with xchat (1.8.8 just released -- untested) |
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> > BASESYSTEM |
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> > basesystem wants me to install isapnptools, but i haven't used a isa |
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> > cards for year! i don't even have an isa slot! i think hotplug would be |
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> > a much better thing to have in core system than isapnptools.. how to |
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> > tell emerge i don't want it with update (without having to do it at each |
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> > emerge rsync) ? |
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> Take a look at /usr/portage/profiles directory. There is a lot of interesting |
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> stuff there : package.mask for the packages that you don't want, or |
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> default/packages for the list of default packages. |
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> You can create your own profile too, and put there only the packages you want. |
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Theses files seem to be overwritten at rsync. I will search the docs |
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instead of making noise here :). Thanks anyway. |
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> > LANGUAGE |
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> > Is there any way to have non-english language in other apps than kde |
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> > itself? |
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> Yes, use LANG environnement variable : |
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> maciek@dune maciek $ export LANG="fr_FR" |
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> maciek@dune maciek $ ls /rien |
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> ls: /rien: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type |
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> maciek@dune maciek $ export LANG="en_EN" |
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> maciek@dune maciek $ ls /rien |
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> ls: /rien: No such file or directory |
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Oh, yes, thanks.. Btw, where is the better place to put it in conf |
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files? |
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Anyway, it doesn't seem to work for everything, at least not for |
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evolution. Maybe something missing elsewhere? |
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> > EBUILDS |
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> > How do we find the list (and description?) of packages that can be |
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> > installed? I'm talking of something equivalent to rpmdrake for example |
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> All the packages are organised in /usr/portage tree. You can use find (or |
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> locate) to browse them. |
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Yep, but sometimes some package names are not really explicit. I was |
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thinking of some graphical tool to browse thru some descriptions. |
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> > RPM |
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> > rpm is present so i guess it's supported.. but why using rpm 3.0.6 as |
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> > 4.0.3 is the latest version? |
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> Gentoo is NOT a rpm distribution. The rpm ebuild is put in portage in order |
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> to let you install some (almost always proprietary) software distributed only |
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> in rpms files. Personnally, I don't know any of these that needs rpm 4. |
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Yes, you're probably right, I'm just of the "use latest version if |
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possible" school ;-) |
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> Anyway, I am sure that your ebuild will be welcome ;+) |
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I'll try to learn how to deal with it (i mean, better than only copying |
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them -- damn that thing is easy ;) to do something useful |
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Some other things : i receive all messages of this list twice, but i |
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subscribed only once.. A bit strange. need help here :) |
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Can someone point me to an _easy_ guide to configure sshd please? I'm |
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having some troubles with it (can't login, maybe key problems) and since |
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I was used to Mandrake "PnP" for this, i'm a bit lost ;) |
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Thanks again |
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> HTH, |
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> /Maciek |
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Sylvain OBEGI |
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Email : katios@×××××××.net |
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