Note: This no longer works, Gentoo and portage are noticeably smarter about this kind of thing now.

Yesterday, via the excellent Gentoo Bugzilla, I came across a reference to a tool for Gentoo I hadn't seen before, one that would have come in handy before. It came up because I …

Annoyingly, I recently found that several things depended on libselinux.so.1 on my Gentoo box despite my having "-selinux" in my global USE flags, and selinux disabled in the kernel. One of the packages that depends on that library is coreutils (which includes mv, cp, ln, and many other …

Recently, a friend contacted me about recovery of a Solaris box he had made a bit of a mistake on. The problem was, he had moved everything from / into a subdirectory of /, let's call it /cores for our purposes here. Commands wouldn't work. He had a running /sbin/sh shell …

One of the tools I build on new unix boxes after I get a toolchain of some kind (vendor or GNU) is invariably emacs.

I've been working on Solaris 10 more lately, and found that emacs wouldn't build, and I found that odd... clearly other people had got it to …

Just got back from Linux World in San Francisco (actually, show ended on Thursday but I hung out until the 19th to visit friends.) Good show, but 6 days is a recent record for me being away from home, and it's good to be back.

I focused on the HPC …

With a full make clobber that it has to do on the source tree before it can start to compile, the OpenSolaris nightly build takes a long time:

(5) mcclung@dogstar: time nightly ./opensolaris.sh
40724.25u 7185.90s 15:02:27.12 88.4%

This is 5.11 svn_38 …

Recently, I bought a Sunblade 150 off of Ebay to experiment with OpenSolaris. I considered getting another PC specifically for this project, but eventually my nostalgia for Sun SPARC gear won out and I got it... it wasn't even that expensive. I did end up replacing the RAM and adding …