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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:36:00 -0700
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start
From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Keith Dart<keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:03:20 +0100
>>> Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> The elog message from the xorg-server emerge also warns about updating
>>>> drivers.
>>>>
>>> Users should probably make sure there is at least the following
>>> in /etc/make.conf:
>>>
>>> PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=3D"echo save_summary"
>>>
>>> So you get a permanent record and a change to view them at the end of a
>>> ebuild set.
>>>
>>
>> I've been running with this for years:
>>
>> PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=3D"info, warn, error, log"
>> PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=3D"save mail"
>> FEATURES=3D"buildpkg parallel-fetch"
>>
>> And I had been thinking that the "buildpkg" was going to make
>> reversion a lot easier, except that I've never actually installed one
>> of these puppies. =A0Mind, I only tried once. =A0I've got about 4 GB of
>> packages at the moment. =A0:o)
>>
>> ++ kevin
>>
>>
>
> You do know about eclean right? =A0At least that can clean out some old c=
ruft.
I assumed there was some such thing, but I don't want it. I
miscounted anyway, and included only the partition set aside for old
cruft, where I copy the oldest packages there every year or so -- it
seems I like having them even if I don't know why. Counting the new
cruft, it's more like 7 GB. With drive prices being what they are,
it's no big deal.
Since about a year ago, I've been able to afford mirrored 500GB SATA
drives on this machine, with a separage eSATA for backups, and I have
an eSATA at work for offsite backup too. The external ones fit in my
backpack nicely for the "sneakernet" part of my backup plan. Having
suffered and paid for hard drive crashes in the past, I really really
love this.
--=20
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD