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FF3 is stable, re-mask it (including dependencies)

FF3 was unmasked in package.keywords, but it’s stable now, so no longer needed. The unmasked gtk+ was starting to cause problems.

Remove from package.keywords:

#www-client/mozilla-firefox
#dev-libs/nspr
#dev-libs/nss
#net-libs/xulrunner
#www-client/epiphany
#dev-util/intltool
#gnome-extra/yelp
#dev-libs/glib
#x11-libs/gtk+
#media-libs/libcanberra
#gnome-base/gail

Add:

# for rubyripper
dev-ruby/rcairo                                 
# for boost
app-admin/eselect-boost

And…

emerge --unmerge texlive

Also note that xorg server 1.5 is stable now! Whoop!

Comments | Wednesday, May 13, 2009

kelogviewer not worth dependencies

I was trying to find a better alternative to elogviewer, because it doesn’t come up sorted by reverse date. [kelogviewer] was the candidate, so I unmasked it, but the deps are creeping. Kill it…

Comments | Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Subversion [dso] causes git-svn crash

…so remove it! 😛

Comments | Wednesday, December 3, 2008

WordPress bump overwrote wp-config.php

For some reason, the emerge of wordpress overwrote my wp-config.php. Fixed in two seconds since I keep all my config files under version control. Silly cvs diff command (makes you grateful for git’s use of the carat):

cvs log myfile
cvs diff -r 1.4 myfile

Comments | Tuesday, December 2, 2008

If you want to forward X packets, you need [xauth]

Here’s the path I want to send X packets across:

[nightly] - corporatefirewall - internets - [server] - [desktop]

The server only has what it needs to serve, which means no X server. I assumed that my X packets would just get merrily passed through when using [ssh -Y]. But the server didn’t have the [xauth] package installed – without it, you don’t get X authentication – in fact, all you do get is the extremely unhelpful error message “can’t open display”.

emerge -Davu xauth
(18 package installations, yikes!)

Next I had to make sure that ssh allowed X packets, and allowed them over TCP. Edit [/etc/ssh/sshd_config]:

Match User m
    X11Forwarding yes
    AllowTcpForwarding yes

Of course, I’m a bad person for doing this kind of insecure stuff. Silly me giving up security for usefulness. Oh well.