…is the name of the Sabayon Linux box on my desk. It’s for light computational modelling and hacking on same. It needs tools.

I’m currently trying to install the dependencies for the Enthought tool suite on it and getting the rest of it up to date. An emerge –update world gave a listing of over two hundred packages.

And no-valid-ebuilds-unmasked messages on raidtools and systray4j. raidtools is obsolete according to the system package.mask, so I’ve uninstalled it and updated mdadm to compensate. Also, mplayer wants linux-headers–2.6.19.2-r2, and openvpn and raidutils want linux-headers-2.6.20-r2. For mplayer, that’s traceable back to the ivtv USE flag, so I’ve unemerged the ivtv package (drivers for Hauppage TV PCI cards, apparently) and removed ivtv from the system USE. Now I’m emerge –update’ing mplayer to see how well this works. Fourteen packages, starting from libsdl…

…that worked. The next issue in the emerge –update dependency graph is xorg-server; vnc wants xorg-server-1.2.0, most everything else that cares wants the current xorg-server-1.3.0. This is traceable to vnc being built with +server in its USE flags. So I’ve taken that out of /etc/portage/package.use and rebuilt vnc. It means I’ll not be able to run outbound VNC from kelpie, but I cannot envisage wanting to.

I’ve updated gcc now that there’s +fortran in the global USE flag, and now that there’s a gfortran, built lapack-reference, blas-reference, and scipy. The default support for the QT toolkit in VTK made the build break, prototype mismatches during compiling of some C++, but putting -qt -qt3 -qt4 into the package USE cleared that up.

After putting the local proxy details into ~/.subversion/servers, I’ve checked out the latest Enthought tool suite from subversion and built it in place. Screensful of random non-fatal warnings notwithstanding, that was suspiciously easy. One last emerge –update world, I think. This time it indicates the current slib is unacceptable to gnucash. Since I won’t be doing cost accounting on this machine, gnucash goes.

Update: As my colleague Nicole would say, crap. Successful global update, used the box all day. Just rebooted. No X. ati-drivers refuses to grok the new x.org numbering system; since it’s all in modules now and the core went from 7.1.x back down to 1.3.0.0, the binary drivers for ATI chipsets released by Nvidia…freak. It’s most succinctly expressed in Gentoo bug 177503 and
Debian bug 420306.