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Chuck Robey wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: |
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> >> I have a machine which I hadn't used in about 3 months, so yesterday I |
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> >> began with an "emerge --sync" and then updated system. I got a message |
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> >> tellimg me I had to read an eselect message from "gentoo", but no |
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> matter |
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> >> how I play with it, I can't get eselect to accept anything at all |
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> regarding |
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> >> "gentoo". There isn't any such module, nor any news item at all |
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> available. |
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> >> If anyone recognizes the message from emerge about eselect, could |
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> you give |
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> >> me a command line that will report what it is that emerge is asking |
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> me to |
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> >> read? |
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> > elesect news |
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> |
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> well, I had already tried "eselect news", it only reports back that |
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> there are 0 |
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> items to read. Seeing as emerge is telling me I need to read the |
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> eselect news, |
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> it seems likely that I'm still doing something wrong, or maybe that my |
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> configuration is wrong. |
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> |
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> Maybe things will improve after I finish updating all the /etc/ files. |
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This is what you have to do - I struggled a bit with this too. |
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eselect news list |
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This will report back any news items. On my system, the following is |
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returned: |
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eselect news list |
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Unread news items: |
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(none found) |
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Read news items: |
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2009-04-06-x_server-1_5 Migration to X.org Server 1.5 |
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Then, on my system I do: |
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eselect news read 2009-04-06-x_server-1_5 |
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The following is returned: |
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penguinchick ~ # eselect news read 2009-04-06-x_server-1_5 |
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2009-04-06-x_server-1_5 |
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Title Migration to X.org Server 1.5 |
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Author Remi Cardona <remi@g.o> |
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Author Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> |
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Posted 2009-04-06 |
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Revision 1 |
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A lot of changes regarding device recognition and use by the X server |
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have been introduced in the 1.5 update. As that version is going |
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stable on all architectures, users should read the upgrade guide [0] |
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before actually updating the package. |
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[0] |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml |
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HTH |
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Colleen |
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