I would suggest installing net-dns/openresolv or, if using systemd, enabling the resolvconf USE on sys-apps/systemd.

dhcpcd will look for and use resolvconf if present.

Then, your OpenVPN scripts can use the resolvconf command to update /etc/resolv.conf without conflict like in this article ...

What does the clobbered /etc/resolv.conf look like?

Typically dhcpcd's job should be long done by the time that you connect to the VPN, so I'm hoping for some evidence from the clobbered file.

- John

Before connecting: # Generated by dhcpcd from wlan0.dhcp, wlan0.dhcp6, wlan0.ra
# /etc/resolv ...

I've been having lots of "fun" setting up remote access for my brother's shiny new NAS. Though it is possible to set up a VPN server in a Docker container on the NAS, it would make me nervous to set up such a busy internet-exposed endpoint on the same machine that hosts his files. The only other ...

I'm fairly certain this is not an IP or DNS problem. I'm connecting to the gatech server just fine. It's the server that's rejecting me. See my initial post.
It seems that both are true. I tested rsync with both the rsync3.us.gentoo.org and www.gtlib.gatech.edu domains and with various rsync paths ...

Anyways, when I plug in the rsync://rsync3.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage uri into my repos.conf, I still get the same failure.
See https://bugs.gentoo.org/946124 for more info on this error.

Yes, I can see where you would get the wrong address--but I also see in your bug report that it appears ...

You had me worried for a bit: I use Geogia Tech's mirror as my primary mirror. Just now I tried an emerge --sync with it just now and it worked fine.

Your report made me suspect that Gentoo's mirror configuration (at https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/mirrors/ ) for that mirror changed, but I see ...

Proposing a solution used to be more straightforward, but nowadays there are preliminary questions to answer:
What init system are you using? Typically the answers on Gentoo are either OpenRC or systemd.
What is your choice of display server? The choices here are Xorg or Wayland. (Unlike the ...

Ah--my mistake was not scrolling down when I read the pinned announcement. If I had done that, I'd see that I should have seen that spam reports should be listed as replies to that message. Sorry about that.

I switched from scan_ssid=1 to ap_scan=1 at the global level and that did not seem to work. This morning, my machine did have an ip address, so scan_ssid at the ssid level did appear to work.
It seems to be a question of what hardware you have and what its driver will do. You've hit on what works ...

User Danigeade seems to be a spammer. There are two messages so far from this user in Russian linking to a site about car rental.

It's taken a pretty good dive into the wpa_supplicant source code, but now I've got an answer.

Yes, you want ap_scan=1 . This setting instructs wpa_supplicant to do the scanning; the other legal values, 0 and 2 , leave the scanning to the driver. Many drivers (including evidently yours) do not have ...

Try the easy things first. Is wpa_supplicant configured to scan for networks? Be sure this line is near the top of /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf: I can tell you I don't get an automatic connection unless I specify that directive.

I suppose you followed the man pages for wpa_supplicant and wpa_supplicant.conf--this is to say that you have Read The (ahem) Friendly Manual. I'm sad to report that in this case it's more like Reference The Forgetful Manual. It seems to be not quite up to date.

I refer to the network block of your ...

...Regarding 1, you can also set exactly one of condition, but I don't know where/if there is documentation for that, but certainly there are ebuilds which terminate if more than one of a set of use flags is set or if one requires another, which is not set. Documentation for all of the dependency ...

I have two questions about ebuilds that I don't see in the documentation. I could try some ad-hoc approaches, but I'd like to hear about what what would be the best approach.

1. Configuring a package where a --with/--without option which depends on more than one USE flag. Specifically, in src ...

I had a surprise when updating a system after a few months and so dev-lang/rust was multiple versions behind: emerge took a good bit of time in doing dependency resolution in order to stage updates to each of the slotted versions in turn. Yikes!!

It was then I saw to my great relief that chromium ...

The Firefox extension works well enough, so I can use it to verify that the written document doesn't contain any syntax errors. Eventually, I think, I can live without any preview... since, like it's name suggests, it should be human readable in raw and rendered form.
Funny, just in the last few ...

But yes, you can browse and watch videos on the frambuffer console. Only browsing will be a bit strange. I used to use links and even lynx back in the days.
I bet you didn't know about www-client/netsurf with the fbcon USE flag. I was surprised lately when using a minimal Linux distribution ...

I took a look at various packages that are adjacent to automagic boot setup: grub, genkernel, dracut, and plymouth (I had never emerged any of the last three of these). Guess what? None of these install anything into /boot!

One attribute of the boot directory/partition is the wide diversity of ...

There's already a topic about your exact scenario and an Intel CPU. There are other threads in general about the changes to installkernel. I saw a news item about installkernel. I hadn't been aware of it and since I never run make install for the kernel, I've never used installkernel unknowingly. I ...

While getting set up for building a kernel, I noticed a Strange Thing. I suppose that some people in this section of the forums might have a use for it, but it sure has me scratching my head.

I did a quick ls of my /boot directory to see if I had the boot partition mounted and was surprised by what ...

- PKGDIR isn't really supposed to be meddled with manually, so there might be other stuff missing or incorrect (e.g. the Packages index file, don't know if this is actually required these days. Check `emaint binhost` for that).
- make sure you didn't explicitly use --binpkg-respect-use=y when ...

I couldn't sleep, so I have written your script. Completely untested. For starters, the mapping from the chosen compression method to archive extension only works with XZ.

Thank you very much, bstaletic, for your hints as to how to approach the problem and your sample script. I about never have ...

I had a nice game plan for moving to profile 23.0 with minimal pain: start a fresh build root on my build host with a profile 23.0 stage tarball, edit the parent file of my custom profile to point to the needed 23.0 profile, emerge my world set, and have an easy transition on my client machines ...

In /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/releases/23.0/profile.bashrc the detection whether the profile is with a split or merged usr is based on the simple test of a split-usr substring within the directory path of the profile.
This is simply imposing a supplementary assertion on custom profiles which ...