Thanks!

I would like to have emacs-like keybindings in the console and other apps that use readline.

That used to work, but something must have changed recently with the meta-key, because it doesn't work any more.

ESC-f and ESC-b do forward-word and backward-word without problem as before.

Holding down ...

Thanks for pointing that out. I installed ifc 7 as well, and now have g95, gfortran, and ifc 7. I guess the intel is likely to be the most reliable. Let's see then...

Yes, yes, yes... Just what I needed - thank you!
...
Pure genius.

gcc-4 also seems to depend on an unstable version of binutils. If I put all the appropriate packages/ keywords into package.keywords, emerge -pv \>gcc-4 seems to want to upgrade binutils (which I would rather not).

So how do I go about installing gcc-4 in a chroot? By hand, or is there now some ...

Hi,

I need to compile some Fortran 90 code, and was wondering what the best way to do that would be (preferably without borking my system).

Is it safe to install gcc 4 (which includes gfortran?) - it has a weird keyword, and seems to depend on unstable libraries. I would not want to use gcc 4 for ...

Your right. That works. Thanks.

I like to open new URLs in my running instance of firefox from the command line, but in new tabs.

This used to work:

firefox -remote 'openURL("www.google.com", new-tab)'

It doesn't any more

firefox -remote 'openURL("www.google.com")'

works, but it is not what I want.

Any hints as to how to ...

Ahhh....

Thanks.

Hi,

I thought it might be a good idea to have interactive python sessions inside Emacs, and thought that python-mode would do it. I installed python mode.

Now when I type M-x python, it says: "Using the CPython shell", but nothing happens. I thought this would start up the python interpreter ...

Thanks.

Hi,

Is there a client for Microsoft SQL server that I can use from Linux? Or driver for unixODBC or something?

Thanks,

_Max_

Hi,

I am not sure where the postgres user comes from (is this in the initial stage-X tarballs? postgres-8.0.3.ebuild?), but on my system it doesn't seem to have an /etc/shadow entry.

When I su to postgres (to create users on my postgres database), I get the following message:
# su postgres
su ...

Well, I read the fact that these two items are in a bulleted list as meaning that they are to be combined with an "and/or", not an "exclusive or". This would be the same commenting convention as in python, perl, bash, C/C++ etc. My interpretation is also the one indicated by app-vim/gentoo-syntax ...

I posted this here: Poor handling of /etc/portage/package.use errors since this seems to be an issue with input validation/ parsing. If the comment had produced an error message, the root of the problem would have been very easy to spot.

Especially since the manpage seems to suggest that the correct way to comment package.use is with hashes.

package.use
Per-package USE flags. Useful for tracking local USE
flags or for enabling USE flags for certain packages
only. Perhaps you develop GTK and thus you want documen-
tation for ...

That's because I thought it was a comment and hence irrelevant. How wrong I was... sorry about that. Thanks for your help.

After various experiments, I found that it was that comments did not work as I expected in package.use:

I had something like this
www-client/elinks -guile # removed guile 2004/12/15

Apparently, the second guile (without the minus) switches it back on. The bit after the # is not actually commented ...

For some reason portage does not seem to be picking up my per-package useflags from package.use


# cat /etc/portage/package.use
www-client/elinks -guile

# emerge -pv elinks

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild U ] www-client/elinks-0.10 ...

It's good to know that there is a way of getting rid of these settings. Although with KMail, this is a bit easier...

I am now using Kmail, because LDAP and Webdav just doesn't seem to be supported properly by Evolution. Maybe in the next version...

Ok, this is a bit of a late answer, but...

sda: unknown partition table

Did you enable Mac partition support in the kernel?
File systems -> Partition types -> Macintosh partition map support.

Note that there still might be problems with hfsplus support, though - I have had problems with ...

Yes... gawddamn doobie smoking hippie commie bastards... err, I mean, very nice people.

Thanks, curtis119, I will see whether I can muster a sufficient number of capitalist pigs to test the ebuild and report back in the bugzilla. And that list also looks very useful.

Hi,

I have been submitting slightly modified ebuilds for current versions of quantlib. The version in portage (quantlib-0.3.0) is now over 3 years old.

I first put the new ebuilds into bugzilla in January, and still haven't received a response from a developer. The changes that I made to the ...

Maybe portage was trying to modify the world file when you ran out of disk space.

I guess this is another argument for having PORTAGE_TMPDIR, /usr and /var on separate partitions.

In any case, I guess this answers your question as to why things are not updated with an emerge -u world...