Vendetta Solutions Notebook

emerge [package] || until emerge --resume --skipfirst; do emerge --resume --skipfirst; done
after all packages are emerged that can be (that didn’t error out)
run
emerge -pv [package]
to see the failed packages.

*note: replace [package] with the package you want to emerge (open-office for example)

Step 1: Set bash-completion USE flag

grep -q 'USE\([:space:]\)*=.*bash-completion' /etc/make.conf || sed --in-place -e 's/USE\([:space:]\)*="/USE="bash-completion /g' /etc/make.conf


Step 2a: updating world
If you had to add the use flag, you will now want to update world to ensure all necessary packages are using it.
emerge -uN world

Step 2b: emerging needed ebuilds
emerge -av bash-completion gentoo-bashcomp
This will emerge the packages you need bash-completion (programmable completion for BASH) and gentoo-bashcomp (gentoo-based BASH CLI completions)

Step 3: editing the bashrc
since most portage tools are primarily for root we’ll add the bash completion line (bash-completion recommends adding this to ~/.bashrc normally) on a more global scale by placing it in /etc/bash/bashrc
echo "[[ -f /etc/profile.d/bash-completion ]] && source /etc/profile.d/bash-completion" >>/etc/bash/bashrc
source /etc/bash/bashrc


All Done!

basic usage would look like so:
emerge ne
emerge net-
etc…

While reading up on kernel configs I stumbled upon this site:
http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/

I recently ran into an issue where my ide controller was dieing and caused me to lose my 100gig hdd (and my gentoo install) on my desktop. I took this opportunity to purchase another terabyte sata drive. My windows XP install sits on a 20gig ide hdd which is showing signs of decay due to the failing controller. My goal was to move my XP install from one drive to another while maintaining file integrity. After a little trial and error as well as a lot of researching, I found 2 ways of doing this. One of the methods is as follows:

Recently, I purchased a new box to use as a (multipurpose)storage server. I have gentoo running on it headless and everything is done via ssh. To make use of this I decided I would use it as a local rsync server for my desktop and laptop to sync to, creating less bandwidth use both for my connection and the rsync mirrors…