irclog2html for #utah on 20041028

00:01.46*** join/#utah drewbono (~andrew@c-24-2-90-52.client.comcast.net)
00:05.38sjansen~lart cvs import for its stupid design
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00:09.32leviMust be a hella massive shoe.
00:09.35leviBetter?
00:09.44fozzbig friggin?
00:09.46fozzTry that.
00:10.45levifozz: I don't think shoes can do that.
00:11.01fozzcvs import PROJET WHOAREYOU WHY
00:11.10fozzlevi: I dunno. Pretty fancy shoes out these days.
00:11.15sjansenmkdir $CVSROOT/newproject
00:11.38fozzYeah- if you have shell access to the CVS repository.
00:11.56sjansenWhat are you doing creating projects if you don't?
00:12.14fozzUhm... you just do that cuz someone told you to?
00:12.30fozzheh heh.
00:12.40fozzcvs mkdir foo
00:12.44fozzthere. Patch the code.
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00:13.03sjansenMy point exactly. So many tutorial online say to use import. But once you understand what it's doing, you discover it's the wrong way.
00:13.04fozzcvs newproject foo
00:13.28fozzWhat does CVS do with the vendor-tag and the release-tags?
00:13.59sjansenCreates a branch. For the get go, you're doing all development on a branch instead of trunk.
00:14.22sjansenAnd import makes it harder to handle binary files correctly.
00:14.50fozzI want a recursive 'cvs add'
00:14.58sjansenNope. I've made up my mind. I'm just going to say something like "most online tutorial say to create new projects using cvs import. They're wrong."
00:15.26fozzLike 'cvs add -R dir1 dir2 dir3'
00:15.27sjansenfind . -type f -name '*.txt' | xargs cvs add -m 'initial import'
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00:15.37sjansenor
00:15.47sjansenfind . -type f ! -name '*.bin' | xargs cvs add -m 'initial import'
00:16.02sjansenfozz: You don't want a recurse add, it'd be just as stupid as import.
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00:16.34sjansenAs long as CVS defaults to hashing binary files, you want be careful about adding files.
00:16.36fozzMark's having issues.
00:16.52fozzMarc. sorry.
00:16.55Mecworks8^)
00:17.02*** part/#utah Mecworks_ (~marc@208.186.182.174)
00:17.18Mecworksissues...issues...
00:17.46sjanseneverywhere and not a developer to blame
00:18.18Mecworks8^)  Ha!
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00:27.43vontrapphow do you unmask an emerge package?
00:27.59sjansenDon't you mean a portage package?
00:28.34fozzHow to port an emergence of packages?
00:28.40sjansenFor you need to understand why it's masked.
00:28.56sjansenMost likely, because of KEYWORDS.
00:29.01vontrappi think so
00:29.13sjansenSo you should be able to:
00:29.18vontrappit's the ndiswrapper package
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00:29.36sjansenKEYWORDS="~x86_64" emerge package
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00:29.48Mecworkshm...
00:30.01sjansenAlthough there's usually a good reason it's masked. In the case of ndiswrapper, I'm betting it doesn't work with a 64 kernel.
00:30.17vontrapphmm
00:30.46sjansenOh the joys of Gentoo.
00:31.33vontrappwow, emerged gcc in less than half an hour
00:31.58vontrappgranted, there were probably parts that didn't half to recompile
00:32.18sjansenHow does software half?
00:32.52sjansenAnd what the the implications of a compiling the halfing?
00:33.22sjansenWow. That last one was impressive. Betcha fozz enjoyed it.
00:34.01sjansenI didn't even have to learn Japanese to speak Engrish.
00:35.18vontrappblast, if only i could remember these things
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00:35.32sjansen~blast vontrapp
00:35.33vontrapphow do you check what flags you can use for a package?
00:36.36sjansenWell... you're going to have to ask a real gentoo user to get an answer to that one. I just read the ebuild.
00:36.54sjansen(Which works, but seems like the hard way.)
00:37.30fozzDid you see today's engrish? Pretty good.
00:40.22byroncvontrapp: emerge -vp <package>
00:42.20fozzNETWORK OUTAGE!
00:42.24fozzWhew. That was close.
00:43.50fozzBryan had to reboot the mastah switch.
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01:01.20TeneSweet, I just found a pile of pretty nice motherboards
01:01.28Tene5, 4 of them have procs.
01:09.03SpecialKhook me up
01:11.25*** join/#utah torriem (~torriem@c-67-164-203-109.client.comcast.net)
01:11.50torriemsjansen: aren't so excited to learn that we can now use C++ in kernel developing thanks to that new patch?  :)
01:12.12torriem(should have been "aren't you so excited". )
01:12.21sjansenIIUC, Linus hasn't accepted the patch yet.
01:12.27torriemand he never will
01:12.32torriembut it's still fun to contemplate
01:12.36sjansenAs I was about to say.
01:12.46sjansenHis Torvaldship has too much good taste.
01:12.50torriemhaha
01:13.09torriemI think c++ is fine in the kernel.  you couldn't do the things that make c++ bad anyway, in the kernel
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01:16.00sjansenspr: Did you get the laptop dropped off?
01:18.50torriemhmm.  I'd never have thought to use my dremel tool with the rotary cutting bit to carve a pumpkin.  What a good idea!
01:19.03sjansenseems like cheating to me
01:19.07torriemtrue
01:19.12torriemoh well.  that's what I am.
01:19.33sjansennext thing you know, you'll be buying pre-cleaned pumpkins
01:20.15torriemhey now there's an idea
01:20.41vontrappdarnit, i can't get ndiswrapper to work in 64 bit
01:21.50torriemI'm not surprised
01:21.57torriemI don't even think wine itself works yet
01:21.57sjansenvontrapp: no surprise there
01:22.21sjansenIt'd be pretty complex handling the processor mode switches.
01:22.45torriemI'm waiting for someone to graft qemu with ndiswrapper to allow windows drivers to run on non-x86 platforms.  Be frankensteinish but just might work
01:22.50sjansentorriem: Wine should work fine as long as it's 32bit.
01:22.53torriemtrue
01:22.59torriemkernel is another story, though
01:23.08sjansenqemu?
01:24.02torriemhttp://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ -- fastest emulator on the planet.  they are working on a true virtualization mode for x86 on x86.  in the meantime it's a very fast x86 on ppc (or sparc) emulator
01:24.09torriemdynamic recompilation, jit, etc
01:24.33torriemthey are working on ppc on x86 or arm on x86 emulation too.
01:24.56torriemit's a very dynamic emulator that can support multiple backends and multiple emulation targets
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01:26.47sjansenfunky
01:27.13torriemgoogle for darwine and see what some crazy people are trying to do with it
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01:28.59torriemby the way, that Damn Small linux on a usb keyfob announced the other day runs linux within qemu so you can launch the whole thing from windows without rebooting and without any special privileges
01:30.11sjansenwow
01:30.38torriemOther interesting projects I keep my eye on include softpear which is an attempt to load and run OS X binaries on x86 linux (a la wine).  They borrow code from pearpc  I think, although pearpc is a full virtual machine that really does boot panther inside my linux box (I've actually done it).
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01:39.08sjansenDon't buy laptops from CompUSA. Their idea of service is taking it away for two weeks.
01:43.02sprsjansen: yeah, amcnabb and Lisa took it over a little while ago
01:49.31sjansenSo who else thinks the Sox winning on the night of a lunar eclipse must be a sign of the second coming?
01:52.56sprsjansen: the Sox winning is a sign of the second coming
02:01.31Newsomespr, just a sign of the last days.
02:01.39NewsomeIf it were the Cubs...
02:04.51sprThat'll be next year at this rate :)
02:06.46torriemSox winning simply means that I can watch the simpsons again.
02:06.46sjansen~lart cosette
02:07.04torriemor whoever
02:07.07torriemjust get it over with
02:08.23torriemsjansen: The bookstore has my sister's ibook and they claim the part is on backorder and won't be here until at least 15th of November.  And they want to charge her $90 dollars (deposit) to take the laptop in the meantime (still runs on ac), to make sure she brings it back.  Stupid people
02:09.06sjansenheh
02:09.14sjansenApple still can't get power right.
02:09.51torriemon the ibook anyway
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02:24.36sjansenSomething's wrong when sllug has more traffic than plug or the uug.
02:25.40torriemnah.  We're all just tired of arguing over php, perl, posting, etc
02:25.50torriemWe'll be back after a short break
02:26.10fishyfireI have a question, if anyone can give me some advice...
02:26.16fishyfireI have two hard drives in my computer
02:26.28fishyfireI have mandrake installed on one of them
02:26.37sjansenfirst, explain why anyone would want a fishy fire?
02:26.49sjansenand what is a fishy fire?
02:26.57fishyfiresomeone who likes to fish and likes fire
02:27.07fishyfireand wait and i may get to the os you like
02:27.35fishyfireso i have windows on the other one
02:27.41sjansennope, you didn't
02:28.08fishyfirei unplugged the hard drive with mandrake in order to keep it safe... while i installed debian and fedora on the same hard drive as windows
02:28.09torriem:)
02:28.27torriemthere goes your mandrake boot loader
02:28.29fishyfirei was successful at getting fedora and debian installed
02:28.42fishyfireno it is still intact and working
02:28.48torriemok
02:28.58fishyfireso i plugged the other hard drive back in
02:29.10fishyfirei was using boot up disks to get into fedora and debian
02:29.28fishyfirenope, desktop
02:29.59fishyfireso when i plugged both hard drives in, the boot up disks no longer worked because they were pointing to hda instead of hdb
02:30.24fishyfireso i was able to get them working
02:30.41fishyfireand then i got lilo fixed so i don't need the floppy's anymore
02:30.54fishyfirebut i am getting an error trying to start debian
02:31.08fishyfiresomething with fsck.ext2
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02:31.40fishyfirei think it is pointing or referencing hda and needs to be changed to hdb
02:32.01fishyfireany ideas on how i could do that?
02:32.13sjansenhmmm.... I don't think debian uses initrd
02:32.14fishyfirei opened up the file... but couldn't find anything to change..
02:32.22sjansenmaybe the root= is bad
02:32.35fishyfire( i am kinda a newbie and not sure how to fix it.....)
02:32.36torriemmake sure /etc/fstab is correct
02:32.52sjansenah, yes, that one's bitten me too
02:33.10sjansenthat's why fedora uses labels instead of devices when it can
02:33.23torriemsounds like what's happening is that lilo is telling the kernel to boot with the right partition mounted as root, but then /etc/fstab says differently and then fsck is messed up
02:34.13torriemmake sure the entry for "/" in /etc/fstab points to the same partition that you put as the root in lilo.conf
02:34.46torriemlabels can bite you too, though.  And sometimes the problem is harder to track down.
02:35.34fishyfireokay
02:35.38fishyfirethat makes sense
02:35.53fishyfirei am going to restart and go try that.. and be back
02:35.56fishyfirethanks for the ideas
02:36.04torriemnp