From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Je795-0007DO-J8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:16:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9838E04D7; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:16:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC213E04D7 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:16:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Je78x-0004P8-J6 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:16:39 +0000 Received: from ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.12.179]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:16:39 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:16:39 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: CUPS now failing with "/usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed" Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <5bdc1c8b0803241625r126ee324k5e96820984d501d3@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0803241822v267dcacl64108b01cf53b3b4@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0803242145le54b0c9we8ba99a79c5c9f9@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 463a337d-b46c-47cd-878b-a466d0e662bb X-Archives-Hash: d1a6e4546641438f21ed27504bcc0efb Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> posted pan.2008.03.25.11.05.06@cox.net, excerpted below, on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:05:07 +0000: > You have multiple machines. Are you making use of binary packages? > Assuming you use portage, FEATURES=3Dbuildpkg on your first upgraded > machine, with all machines set to use the same PKGDIR and using emerge > --usepkgonly (-K) on everything but the first one (at least where USE > flags are the same, and assuming compatible machine and instruction > types) should be a real boon to you. This one's probably worth pointing out by itself. With multiple=20 machines, particularly all those myth client machines likely configured=20 virtually identically, you really /are/ wasting time if you are=20 rebuilding from source for each one. That's what Features=3Dbuildpkg, th= e=20 PKGDIR var, and --usepkgonly are for, after all. =3D8^) (I assume the=20 other-than-portage package managers have similar binary package features,= =20 but wouldn't know the settings or how to invoke them.) --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman --=20 gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list