Re: [gentoo-dev] Install report, bugs, questions & suggestions

[Sylvain OBEGI <katios@nolabel.net>]

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 21:36, Maciek Borowka wrote:
> Some answers....

Thanks a lot for answering!

> > XSANE
> > latest xsane is 0.84. latest in gentoo is 0.77, quite old. Is there a
> > particular reason for keeping an old version?
> 
> I don't think so. Upgrade the ebuild file and send it to bugs.gentoo.org if 
> you want it in gentoo

Attach it to a bug report or something?
Will try to read some build doc soon to be able to do something useful.
Anyway, renaming the current xsane ebuild file to the current version
and ebuild digest-ing it seems to be working. I guess it would be the
same with xchat (1.8.8 just released -- untested)
 
 
> > BASESYSTEM
> > basesystem wants me to install isapnptools, but i haven't used a isa
> > cards for year! i don't even have an isa slot! i think hotplug would be
> > a much better thing to have in core system than isapnptools.. how to
> > tell emerge i don't want it with update (without having to do it at each
> > emerge rsync) ?
> 
> Take a look at /usr/portage/profiles directory. There is a lot of interesting
> stuff there : package.mask for the packages that you don't want, or 
> default/packages for the list of default packages. 
> You can create your own profile too, and put there only the packages you want.

Theses files seem to be overwritten at rsync. I will search the docs
instead of making noise here :). Thanks anyway.


> > LANGUAGE
> > Is there any way to have non-english language in other apps than kde
> > itself?
> 
> Yes, use LANG environnement variable :
> maciek@dune maciek $ export LANG="fr_FR"
> maciek@dune maciek $ ls /rien
> ls: /rien: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
> maciek@dune maciek $ export LANG="en_EN"
> maciek@dune maciek $ ls /rien
> ls: /rien: No such file or directory

Oh, yes, thanks.. Btw, where is the better place to put it in conf
files?
Anyway, it doesn't seem to work for everything, at least not for
evolution. Maybe something missing elsewhere?
 
 
> > EBUILDS
> > How do we find the list (and description?) of packages that can be
> > installed? I'm talking of something equivalent to rpmdrake for example
> 
> All the packages are organised in /usr/portage tree. You can use find (or 
> locate) to browse them.

Yep, but sometimes some package names are not really explicit. I was
thinking of some graphical tool to browse thru some descriptions.

> > RPM
> > rpm is present so i guess it's supported.. but why using rpm 3.0.6 as
> > 4.0.3 is the latest version?
> 
> Gentoo is NOT a rpm distribution. The rpm ebuild is put in portage in order 
> to let you install some (almost always proprietary) software distributed only 
> in rpms files. Personnally, I don't know any of these that needs rpm 4.

Yes, you're probably right, I'm just of the "use latest version if
possible" school ;-)

> Anyway, I am sure that your ebuild will be welcome ;+)

I'll try to learn how to deal with it (i mean, better than only copying
them -- damn that thing is easy ;) to do something useful

Some other things : i receive all messages of this list twice, but i
subscribed only once.. A bit strange. need help here :)

Can someone point me to an _easy_ guide to configure sshd please? I'm
having some troubles with it (can't login, maybe key problems) and since
I was used to Mandrake "PnP" for this, i'm a bit lost ;)

Thanks again
 
> HTH,
> /Maciek

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