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Hello... The following is a list of complains/observations/nitpicks and |
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questions I have compiled after spending a couple of hours with rc5. |
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Please feel free to correct me and point me to the friendly manual if I |
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misunderstand something :) |
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1. If you are in one runlevel (such as 3) and telinit into another |
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runlevel |
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(such as 4) the network devices are always restarted. If this happens |
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(why |
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is another matter) you need to kill dhcpcd or else your dhcp using |
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interfaces will be down'd and won't be up'd again |
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2. Galeon premade package segfaults with Mozilla premade package |
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3. How do you set a locale? none is set by default. |
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4. The XMMS portage doesn't install xmms.xpm. |
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5. The gnome menus are empty (though I don't have much installed). |
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Mandrake |
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and other distributions have a menu generation system, does emerge, etc |
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have |
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such a feature that is being used by gnome and kde related packages? |
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6. Gtkhtml and evolution portage problems: |
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checking for Editor.idl in /opt/gnome/share/gtkhtml or |
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/opt/gnome/share/gtkhtml... not found |
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configure: error: Editor.idl is required to compile Evolution; it's |
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included |
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in GtkHTML. |
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You need GtkHTML built with html-editor-control |
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!!! ERROR: the ./configure command did not complete successfully. |
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!!! ("./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu |
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--enable-file-locking=no --enable-ldap=no") |
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!!! Since this is a critical task, ebuild will be stopped. |
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!!! emerge aborting on |
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/usr/portage/gnome-apps/evolution/evolution-0.10.ebuild . |
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7. The output of df on my box: |
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[root@kodiak evolution]$ df |
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Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on |
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/dev/hda3 6297280 875276 5422004 14% / |
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/dev 6297280 875276 5422004 14% /dev-state |
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/dev/hda4 23317628 6505336 16812292 28% /home |
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Erm... any way of hiding /dev-state? |
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8. The devfs/swap issue mentioned before |
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9. Where is lsof? It should be installed as part of the core :) |
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10. Is there a utility that lets you search for which package would |
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contain |
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a certain file? |
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11. I've seen mandrake and redhat add symlinks from /etc/init.d to |
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/etc/rc.d/init.d... isn't this required by the filesystem standard or LSB? |
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12. gdm was defaulting sessions to windowmaker which wasn't installed |
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13. gnome-terminal spits out a message about "locale not supported by C |
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library", then I see the window for a brief second, and then it dies |
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14. When doing "emerge rsync clean" it complains that clean doesn't exist |
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or |
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is an invalid command-line option (emerge help lists it as an option) |
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15. The gnome 1.4 virtual package didn't seem to install nautilus |
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16. If you install a virtual package such as gnome 1.4, why aren't all the |
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packages built as dependencies given their own entrys in the package |
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database? (or am I mistaken?) |
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17. With xinetd merged in, there were two entries in /etc/init.d for it, |
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xinetd and svc-xinetd... what is the point/difference? |
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18. Would it be possible to get a ebuild for xemacs-gnome-gtk? :) |
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Bruce A. Locke |
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blocke@××××××.org |
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