From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24, DMARC_MISSING,FREEMAIL_FROM,FROM_LOCAL_DIGITS,FROM_LOCAL_HEX, FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailout00.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.16]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14VEEC-0003AI-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 07:57:20 -0700 Received: from fwd04.sul.t-online.com by mailout00.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14VEFF-0007ls-08; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:58:25 +0100 Received: from helios.bagwan (320095285153-0001@[62.155.143.228]) by fwd04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14VEF8-0HJWvwC; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:58:18 +0100 Received: (qmail 29526 invoked by uid 0); 20 Feb 2001 17:39:36 -0000 Received: from sadchitananda2.bagwan (HELO gottinger.de) (achim@192.168.2.1) by helios.bagwan with SMTP; 20 Feb 2001 17:39:36 -0000 Message-ID: <3A927FD4.1E71AD2D@gottinger.de> From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New to Gentoo References: <000701c09b1a$edd443a0$3201a8c0@coral> <3A9234DE.31C9D42C@gottinger.de> <002001c09b4c$d20497b0$3201a8c0@coral> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 320095285153-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: achim@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Feb 20 07:58:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:31:49 +0100 X-Archives-Salt: 66a3eaf9-b448-485a-9e68-b5c7ff5361c1 X-Archives-Hash: 339411589bdeff8e06a2478b0c5838b5 "Bruce A. Locke" wrote: > From: "Achim Gottinger" <320095285153-0001@t-online.de> > > Did you upgrade portage or does this errors occure with the version > installed? > > After unmerging the newest version of portage, reinstalling the version that > came on the cd, and then remerging the latest version it appears to be > working again. I had to create my own virtual/glibc entry in the db for > some reason but things seem to work now. Yes thats true you might also create virtual/kernel and virtual/alsa > > > BTW, is pkgmerge for .tbz2 packages only or can it deal with .ebuild files? pkgmerge only handles tbz2 packages. If you want to compile and merge a package from sources you must use ebuild [package].ebuild merge > > If its for .tbz2 messages only perhaps it should generate a proper error > message informing the user instead of spitting out the python error: > > root@gentoo zlib > pkgmerge zlib-1.1.3-r2.ebuild > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/sbin/pkgmerge", line 68, in ? > mykey=mytbz2.getelements("CATEGORY")[0]+"/"+mypkg[:-5] > IndexError: list index out of range > > If pkgmerge is in fact for .tbz2 files only, is there anyway to get ebuild > to autobuild dependencies yet? Its rather tedious without it due to all the > dependies for things such as gnome... > > > > Third, I don't see any mention of DHCP in networking scripts. Is there > a > > > clean way to quickly implement DHCP client support in the existing > scripts > > > without rm'ing the template eth0 example? > > > > There is no dhcpclient script at the moment. But we will have reqorked > sysv > > scripts in rc4 that support dhcp. > > Actually after reading the dhcpcd manpage it would seem rather simple to do > DHCP on an interface... if I have any luck I'll send the mailing list my > modified .eth0 file for use as an example or whatever :) That would be a good thing. achim~ > > > Thanks for your time... > > -- Bruce A. Locke (blocke@shivan.org) > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev