While you are compiling packages and at the same time you are working with your box, probably you’ll notice the machine is less responsive than usual. Although this in principle …
If you want to use pure udevfs then don’t set boot devfs on boot time in kernel config.
CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set
(in .config)
To use udevfs linux device naming convention install udevfs …
From Gentoo’s web site:
The user relations project is pleased to announce the launch of Planet Gentoo, a resource intended to improve communication between the user and development communities, as well …
Several months ago my system is issuing the following error message everytime I try to emerge:
* Caching service dependencies…
* Service ‘vcron’ already provide ‘cron’!;
* Not adding service ‘vixie-cron’…
Until now this …
When you emerge a new package, etc-update will check if there are updates to the configuration files and will allow you to keep, merge or delete these files according to …
Nice colorful output.
Full Portage merge and unmerge history.
Display date, time and build time of every merge.
Display total and average build time of selected package[s].
Estimate upgrade time.
Watching current merge …
In gentoo linux quickpkg can be utilized to quickly create a package (tbz2 format) for portage by utilizing the files already on your filesystem. This package then can be emerged …
When you update packages in your Gentoo Linux system you should be careful to avoid the configuration files to be overriden by new ones during the emerge process. To protect …