Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Fabian Groffen
use the binpkg stuff, I didn't see it as something that would > probably get acted upon anyway. I'm not complaining about that > either, just merely stating a fact. I think binpkgs store more information than you think. It's just that Portage doesn't fully use it (yet). -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Testing to see if services have crashed on hardened

2008-03-21 Thread Fabian Groffen
ne? Is there a way to just have some fallback method which is less functional, but just uses some pid file with a lock or something? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Testing to see if services have crashed on hardened

2008-03-25 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 21-03-2008 12:07:24 +, Roy Marples wrote: > On Friday 21 March 2008 10:37:11 Fabian Groffen wrote: > > Assuming you would use libkvm, on Darwin this means as unprivileged user > > (not using suid) you can't see any processes at all. > > That's differe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Fabian Groffen
gt; packages only to allow them to bitrot can be booted. On other projects I sometimes see a remark such as: "Maintainer time-out, committing the fix as in bug #bla" Maybe that is a bit less intrusive as dropping the maintainer entirely. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a dif

Re: [gentoo-dev] New profiles

2008-04-09 Thread Fabian Groffen
d like to reorganise my prefix profiles in the same way. I see some big benefits in doing so, but before I do I'd like to make sure I understand the new structure correctly. Thanks! -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 27

2008-04-11 Thread Fabian Groffen
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53269 -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] escaping variables in sed expressions

2008-04-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
pt (and do require) arguments that are like "-mg:2512s". > AFAIK, the only corner case which would make this fail would be > Windows paths (C:/gentoo-prefix). C:\ iirc, but Cygwin seems to map this as /cygdrive/C, Interix as /dev/fs/C, command prompt I have no clue how por

Re: [gentoo-dev] DevRel policy update

2008-04-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
bly was a better way to put attention to this remarkable policy. I assume it is just a better, more explicit wording of already existing policy, considering the original version. The policy appears worrysome to me, but in my opinion seems not to be introduced by this commit. -- Fabian Gro

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer : Markus Duft (mduft)

2008-04-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
s Gentoo on Win32. > Please everybody, give a very warm welcome to mduft. Yay, at last someone in our team that has the right to "feel blue" :) Welcome and enjoy! -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer : Markus Duft (mduft)

2008-04-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
hy do you want it to run on Cygwin? (Honest question...) -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer : Markus Duft (mduft)

2008-04-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
ou need extra help from "prefix-launcher". > [1] http://www.interix.com/products_services.htm [2] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463204.aspx?wt.svl=2007resources -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer : Markus Duft (mduft)

2008-04-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 30-04-2008 21:21:06 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 4/30/08, Fabian Groffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think in that sense Cygwin is more Open Source, because how you get > > the primary shell/environment is available too. However, for me that > > doesn&#x

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] New developer: Jeremy Olexa (darkside)

2008-05-06 Thread Fabian Groffen
his head at some > point. LOL. Welcome to the team! -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage

2008-05-07 Thread Fabian Groffen
just cause you can. See above why it might not just be "'cause you can". > coreutils and linux-headers come to my mind out of system packages right > now. I'm sure more dragons await me. m4, that one gave me some headaches, because lzma-utils required some eautoreconf,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage

2008-05-08 Thread Fabian Groffen
gt; reason) Chill, relax and cool down. Instead, just ask those who decided to follow upstream why and if they have even thought about the issues you brought up. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage

2008-05-10 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 10-05-2008 03:32:08 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > m4, that one gave me some headaches, because lzma-utils required some > > eautoreconf, which introduced a nice cycle. > > must have been a prefix-only bug as the version

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Should preserve-libs be enabled by default?

2008-05-29 Thread Fabian Groffen
t, > then enabling it by default is a very sane and sound idea. It does so after every merge IIRC, and you can also find them in a file somewhere. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 05-06-2008 02:35:16 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote: > Now that nominations are officially open, I nominate the current council > members (again): I nominate: dertobi123 fmccor -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself)

2008-06-05 Thread Fabian Groffen
#x27;s in our tree right now (3.4.3) is pretty old, matching GCC-3.4.3. It originally was used for GNUstep, but that package can also work with GCC's libffi, and ffcall these days. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-09 Thread Fabian Groffen
e EBNF when describing a syntax. >> >> Is there any indication that this is any clearer? EBNF gets messy when >> it comes to describing the whitespace rules, for example. > > It is less ambiguous than natural language. That solves the issue "The > syntax is under

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started

2008-06-11 Thread Fabian Groffen
lready been modified specifically to > > > > work around the bug, I'd say it's pretty real. > > > > > > For those of us trying to play along at home, which one is this? > > > > http://tinyurl.com/4w4t69 > > Why the need for EAPI=1? > A cursory gla

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Re-Defining team and herd

2008-06-17 Thread Fabian Groffen
out rule) that allows the ``experts'' to do full maintenance of their packages if they are active Your GLEP as it is now doesn't have any added value to me, as it seems only to change things into other terminology, more files, and cause an avalanche of other GLEPs without a clear rationale. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-python/setuptools as RDEPEND

2008-06-24 Thread Fabian Groffen
, if it is a false positive in many cases? > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/developersguide.xml -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggested default LDFLAGS+="-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common"

2008-06-24 Thread Fabian Groffen
hese options don't conflict with --as-needed, so --as-needed can be still > added to default LDFLAGS, but this thread isn't about --as-needed.) as long as it doesn't go in /base, but in the linux/freebsd profiles instead, it's fine with me. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggested default LDFLAGS+="-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common"

2008-06-29 Thread Fabian Groffen
1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common". > > > > > > -O1 enables some basic optimizations. > > > > At least adding -O1 should not be problematic. I think vapier was > > already suggesting this quite a while ago. > > imo -Wl,-O1 should go into base I prefer not. Pleas

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggested default LDFLAGS+="-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common"

2008-06-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 29-06-2008 20:28:39 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 23:15 Sun 29 Jun , Fabian Groffen wrote: > > On 29-06-2008 07:29:57 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Saturday 28 June 2008, Petteri Räty wrote: > > > > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis kirjoi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggested default LDFLAGS+="-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common"

2008-06-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 30-06-2008 17:35:08 +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > > How can you easily revert it in a profile? > > You can set LDFLAGS="" in a subprofiles's make.defaults. How elegant... but I guess I'll have no choice. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on

[gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] ecd function

2008-07-08 Thread Fabian Groffen
# we can't handle spaces in the paths here anyway cd ${p[*]} fi } And probably this can be done even better with respect to the glob... -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] wget abuse of sources.g.o must stop

2008-07-11 Thread Fabian Groffen
uld cause the problems on sources.g.o. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: auto-detection of unpack dependencies

2008-07-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
nual emerging of packages (often ignoring deps) because those deps cannot be compiled or emerged yet. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] LDFLAGS=-Wl,--hash-style=gnu

2008-07-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
do we really need to go any further? Why not make additional pointers to possible values for LDFLAGS like we do for C(XX)FLAGS in the installation manual? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jeeves IRC replacement now alive - Willikins

2008-08-06 Thread Fabian Groffen
at they are the contact for any problems/troubles. #gentoo-alt -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted

2008-08-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
That is, I use the CVS Header to determine if a change has occurred, retrieve that diff, and apply the patch on my Prefix version of the same file (ebuild, ChangeLog, patch, eclass, ...). For that reason I'd pretty much prefer to keep the CVS Header in place, unless there is a very good reason to remove it. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted

2008-08-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 27-08-2008 10:28:57 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 06:35:57PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > For that reason I'd pretty much prefer to keep the CVS Header in place, > > unless there is a very good reason to remove it. > As I wrote in the othe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted

2008-08-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
titution..how is that > repoman's fault? It's not. But I don't see the problem (apart from a "race condition" with rsync generation) with the two commits either. Incidently the $Header: $ "feature" just helps me a lot at the moment to keep the Prefix tree up-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted

2008-08-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
lems to ignore that point. But to repeat: - no I'm not against removing the $Header: $ stuff - yes I'd even like to use another VCS which can make my life easer - but, as long as we're on CVS, I'd prefer it when you'd keep my life sort of bearable - so, keep the $Header:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
set by users, so they shouldn't get a hint they can set it either. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request for feedback on GNU Patch change

2008-09-17 Thread Fabian Groffen
does. You want all eclasses, ebuilds and portage itself to work with the Solaris userland tools. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request for feedback on GNU Patch change

2008-09-17 Thread Fabian Groffen
directory with symlinks to the g-versions, e.g. patch -> /usr/sfw/bin/gpatch such that Portage/eclass/ebuilds don't have to bother about this at all. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request for feedback on GNU Patch change

2008-09-17 Thread Fabian Groffen
that is the case, Portage/eclass/ebuild relies on that brokenness. I'm not saying you should have the same PATH as Portage. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-21 Thread Fabian Groffen
ng them looks so ugly and pointless to me. Apart from that I don't think calling einstall when emake install fails makes sense. Ideally einstall should never be used IMO. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding features to Portage that work on top of any EAPI

2008-10-09 Thread Fabian Groffen
hack) in KEYWORDS, or a newly to be added variable. Please discuss. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms

2008-10-09 Thread Fabian Groffen
just the difference of "-linux" appended, however this is not the clearest distinction between the two. Perhaps using KEYWORDS for Prefix keywords is not the best thing to do, and should we use something like PREFIX_KEYWORDS? [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0053.html --

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding features to Portage that work on top of any EAPI

2008-10-09 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 09-10-2008 19:15:26 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:46:55 +0200 > Fabian Groffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Currently in Prefix we implemented EAPI as being a set of tokens that > > are orthogonal to each other. In other words, while 0

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms

2008-10-10 Thread Fabian Groffen
ia64/Itanium doesn't have any other alias names AFAIK. We simply found that: - amd64 is misleading - em64t would be more to the point for some? - x64 is what the vendors (Apple, Sun) advertise themselves - amd64 doesn't make any sense for a Mac - x64 is more like x86, whereas the complement of amd64 would more be i386 or ia32, but we wanted to avoid x86_64, x8664, so x64 - we were changing keywords anyway -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms

2008-10-10 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 10-10-2008 14:40:13 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Fabian Groffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - x64 is what the vendors (Apple, Sun) advertise themselves > > Err I'm sure I haven't seen any x64 in the documentation or > advert

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms

2008-10-13 Thread Fabian Groffen
, is whether this is worth it. Personally, I prefer the shorthands, as they give a lot of readability. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] bison/flex extra runtime packages

2008-10-16 Thread Fabian Groffen
overlay for winnt. It's too evasive, IMO. We can just create a new overlay either in gentoo-alt or a new top-level one on overlays.g.o. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms

2008-10-21 Thread Fabian Groffen
i-line keywords, but might complicate matters which do not justify the cosmetic advantage? Having prefix as tag in a keyword isn't such a bad idea, perhaps, since one should really see them as separate from non-prefixed in certain cases. So far we just solved problems via the profiles or newly

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jeeves IRC replacement now alive - Willikins

2008-10-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
. channel is dead for a long time, so no benefit of joining it. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass

2008-11-09 Thread Fabian Groffen
eend 0 > + else > + debug-print "scanelf not found, this appears to be a non-ELF > system." > + debug-print "non-ELF systems are likely to need .la files." > + debug-print ".la files not removed from ${TARGET}" rationale? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass

2008-11-09 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 09-11-2008 18:34:31 +0200, Peter Alfredsen wrote: > On Sunday 09 November 2008, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > On 09-11-2008 18:04:05 +0200, Peter Alfredsen wrote: > > > + # If this is a non-ELF system, chances are good that the .la > > > files will be needed. + if t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass

2008-11-09 Thread Fabian Groffen
-type l -o -type f ')' -exec > rm -f '{}' '+' > + eend 0 > + else > + debug-print "This appears to be a non-ELF system." > + debug-print "non-ELF systems are likely to need .la files." > + debug-print ".la files not removed from ${TARGET}" > + fi > +} -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bash version in ebuilds/eclasses...non-compliance and what to do?

2008-12-20 Thread Fabian Groffen
bootstrap with a portage pre SVN revision 10460, which does not require >=3.2.17. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229677#c11 on why PMS should require 3.2.17 over plain 3.2 if you decide to push the requirement update. We can work around it by using a self-made pre-patched tarball,

Re: [gentoo-dev] devs on IRC (was :Regen2 ( was QA Overlay Layout support ))

2009-03-10 Thread Fabian Groffen
IRC - on which i am close > to never. > > the presumption seems to be, that as a dev one has to be available via > IRC. it has long been my feeling that Gentoo as a project could realize > more of its potential by better integrating people who dont do IRC. +1 -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] [amd64-fbsd] remove charset.alias

2009-03-11 Thread Fabian Groffen
plains why this recently started popping up for me and my too many weird platforms. I guess this means all Prefix profiles should have this rm code in place... :( -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-23 Thread Fabian Groffen
these and make people > vote on which very bad one. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 3 PMS Draft

2009-03-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
t, and set to ${D}${EPREFIX}. - The variable EROOT, available in pkg_*[1], set to ${ROOT}${EPREFIX}. [1] this is copied from PMS, Table 11.1, in general, EROOT needs to be available where currently ROOT is. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: portability.eclass

2009-03-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 27-03-2009 01:34:36 +0100, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > + # - Linux needs -ldl > > + if [[ ${CHOST} == *-linux-gnu ]]; then > > echo "-ldl" > > How about uclibc? Good catch, thanks for pointing out. And thanks drizzt for fixing it before I co

[gentoo-dev] Please review: prefix.eclass

2009-03-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
tep closer to gentoo-x86 ebuilds. Please review. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Id: prefix.eclass 40407 2009-03-27 11:51:37Z grobian $ # @ECLASS: prefix.eclass # @

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please review: prefix.eclass

2009-03-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 27-03-2009 13:08:46 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > Please review. > > >r=$? > >eend ${r} > >[[ ${r} != 0 ]] && die "failed to eprefixify ${x}

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2009-04-02 Thread Fabian Groffen
, because the value of D might not be known. EROOT and ED are convenience variables. Making them available already now, even though initialised as ROOT and D respectively, allows Prefix enabled ebuilds to be shared between gentoo-x86 and Prefix trees without modifications. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: best way to introduce USE=prefix

2009-04-04 Thread Fabian Groffen
e USE_EXPAND doesn't help us. Adding "prefix" to use.mask (and use.force in Prefix profiles) allows us to get the desired behaviour. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: best way to introduce USE=prefix

2009-04-04 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 04-04-2009 14:54:20 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > Fabian Groffen wrote: > > On 04-04-2009 14:31:20 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > >> If prefix is in USERLAND then you have a userland_prefix use flag to use > >> that can be hidden. > > > > It is not. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: best way to introduce USE=prefix

2009-04-04 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 04-04-2009 14:31:20 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > If prefix is in USERLAND then you have a userland_prefix use flag to use > that can be hidden. It is not. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: best way to introduce USE=prefix

2009-04-04 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 04-04-2009 15:21:23 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > You can set USERLAND="GNU PREFIX" Prefix is not a userland, please understand that. It's like pizza not being an elibc, or beer not being a kernel. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: best way to introduce USE=prefix

2009-04-04 Thread Fabian Groffen
t ARCH or KERNEL to some other value yourself, and that if you emerge -e or something you can upgrade Linux to FreeBSD or x86 to ppc. While this would be great, it doesn't work. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: best way to introduce USE=prefix

2009-04-04 Thread Fabian Groffen
propriate to set IUSE_IMPLICIT="prefix". This sounds like a good thing to make it explicit prefix is an implicit USE-flag. However, I would still prefer to see prefix being masked in base, and then unmasked and forced in the prefix profiles. Does that make any sense? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: best way to introduce USE=prefix

2009-04-04 Thread Fabian Groffen
o add it now in use.mask, and then EAPI 3 is done, define it in whatever special variable it needs to be added to according to the specs then. IUSE_IMPLICIT -- assuming it can be defined in the profiles -- seems like a good way to prepare for that, since it makes explicit it is implicit, IMO. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: flag-o-matic.eclass

2009-04-05 Thread Fabian Groffen
ipe" export ALLOWED_FLAGS="${ALLOWED_FLAGS} -O -O0 -O1 -O2 -mcpu -march" Weird enough, it /did/ enable compilations to succeed in the past, but it just can't in the current eclass, so it's bogus, and I will remove it again. Thanks for the check, much appreciated! -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: toolchain-funcs.eclass

2009-04-05 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 04-04-2009 23:53:29 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2009 13:17:56 Fabian Groffen (grobian) wrote: > > grobian 09/04/04 17:17:56 > > > > Modified: toolchain-funcs.eclass > > Log: > > Add support for all Prefix arches, in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2009-04-06 Thread Fabian Groffen
Ciaran, On 02-04-2009 15:47:05 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:53:47 +0200 > Fabian Groffen wrote: >> While the first variable (EPREFIX) can be set using an eclass, the >> latter two need to be set by the package manager. In particular ED, >> beca

[gentoo-dev] An Introduction to Gentoo Prefix

2009-05-05 Thread Fabian Groffen
reens.org/keywords-packages.png [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/usecases.xml [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-solaris.xml [4] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/browser/trunk/prefix-overlay [5] http://stats.prefix.freens.org/rsync-usage.png -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-cdr/cdrdao: ChangeLog cdrdao-1.2.2-r3.ebuild

2009-05-11 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 11-05-2009 11:26:46 +0200, Thilo Bangert wrote: > FEATURE-misuse.txt was generated by > $ find -name '*.ebuild' | xargs grep -nH FEATURES > FEATURES-misuse.txt > and sifting through the false positives. Have you checked if eclasses use it as well? -- Fabian Groffen

Re: [gentoo-dev] An Introduction to Gentoo Prefix

2009-05-12 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 12-05-2009 08:28:15 +0200, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > Fabian Groffen wrote: > > Therefore, we plan to focus on merging back the many patches and > > extensions from our Prefix overlay into the Gentoo mainline tree. For > > us, this roadmap looks as follows: > > [snip]

Re: [gentoo-dev] New app-eselect category?

2009-05-26 Thread Fabian Groffen
ally* necessary? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] [amd64-fbsd] remove charset.alias

2009-05-28 Thread Fabian Groffen
sources all profile.bashrc files it finds in the chain to the active profile. That makes them sort of stackable, hence I added this snippet in the prefix top-level profile and it works for all sub-profiles as far as I can see. Thanks. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Overlays and Metadata Cache

2009-06-20 Thread Fabian Groffen
at the Prefix rsync tree is generated sort of like you described, doing some extra voodoo of inserting news and glsas. An update takes about 2 minutes, most time spent in running cvs update and svn update. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-26 Thread Fabian Groffen
read them if I don't recall the details any more... just my 2 cents why I am avoiding adding news messages these days -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Elections Results for term 2009/2010

2009-07-02 Thread Fabian Groffen
(dertobi123) > Ulrich Müller (ulm) > Mart Raudsepp (leio) > Luca Barbato (lu_zero) A big surprise! (is it a birthday present?) Congratulations to all of you! -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Exim and Sendmail need a maintainer

2009-07-02 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 24-06-2009 13:51:37 +, Torsten Veller wrote: > | mail-mta/exim. I'm looking for users that want to help maintaining Exim. Especially if you feel like becoming a Gentoo developer at some time, contact me directly. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Exim and Sendmail need a maintainer

2009-07-03 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 02-07-2009 22:06:33 +0100, AllenJB wrote: > Fabian Groffen wrote: > > On 24-06-2009 13:51:37 +, Torsten Veller wrote: > >> | mail-mta/exim. > > > > I'm looking for users that want to help maintaining Exim. Especially if > > you feel like becoming

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass for Python

2012-02-29 Thread Fabian Groffen
t Prefix aware at all? I guess someone from us should test your work. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2012-03-02 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 01-03-2012 22:17:12 +, Markos Chandras wrote: > app-text/antiword I took this Mutt essential. Thanks, -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Fabian Groffen
hold back further changes until I can sort this out with Zac? Thanks -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 12-03-2012 11:35:43 +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 3/12/12 11:27 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > My rsync0 now spits out this message: > > > > Virtual package in package.provided: virtual/shadow-0 > > See portage(5) for correct package.provided

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree

2012-03-29 Thread Fabian Groffen
d idea in that set up. As they all run ~arch, they all build packages > so I can downgrade quickly. I always use packages/CHOST for that reason. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] suspicious code in gnustep eclasses

2012-03-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
a blocker on disrupt developers because there is no such version in the tree anyway, > and we have up-to-date systems I think the version is because GNUstep is written in Objective-C. That said, I think your blocker approach would be fine. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012

2012-04-22 Thread Fabian Groffen
uesday). -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: libtool.eclass

2012-05-06 Thread Fabian Groffen
ctory # Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/ChangeLog,v 1.241 2012/05/06 10:41:48 grobian Exp $ 06 May 2012; Fabian Groffen +ELT-patches/sol2-conf/2.4.2, libtool.eclass: Add ELT patch for Solaris x64 libtool problem wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: libtool.eclass

2012-05-06 Thread Fabian Groffen
> > > :o( > > Well, in this case I intentionally was referring only to eclass/ as > maybe it can be implemented for it even handling normal packages as > currently The implementation has never been the problem. It's that people want to be able to edit (correct) t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?

2012-05-16 Thread Fabian Groffen
ew default or the new setting does not break my setup. That is a > big assumption. I'd think so, yes > Even if we go with enabling it by default, please have a news item so > that one can turn it off if necessary. Even then, new installs will > have to remember to turn it off. +1 -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?

2012-05-16 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 16-05-2012 11:48:20 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mié, 16-05-2012 a las 11:42 +0200, Fabian Groffen escribió: > > On 16-05-2012 12:36:03 +0300, Eray Aslan wrote: > > > On 2012-05-16 12:13 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > >>> make.conf(5) man page: > &

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enewuser should force updates to shell and home

2012-06-13 Thread Fabian Groffen
ving to modify them in pkg_postinst/pkg_setup directly. What if some admin purposely changed home or shell for a system account? Would be quite annoying if every update would reset that, wouldn't it? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: esethome

2012-06-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
; if [ -n "$(echo $bubba)" ]; then echo OK; fi > OK > > Example -- this fails: > > $ bubba="test thing" ; if [ -n $(echo $bubba) ]; then echo OK; fi > bash: [: test: binary operator expected Yes, but this works: $ bubba="test thing" ; if [[ -n $(echo $bubba) ]]; then echo OK; fi OK (and he's using [[, not [) -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: esethome

2012-06-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
; > > > Ever? Yes, but only if what is being returned can contain spaces > > Sorry, I should have mentioned that I had the case of the empty > string in mind. Here for the same reason, the difference between [[ and [ is essential. Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC]flag-o-matic.eclass strip-flags change to support prefix

2012-06-17 Thread Fabian Groffen
prefix-related flags. I have attached a patch, please > review it. It works for me, but I'm unsure how it will work with > spaces in ${EPREFIX} https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414641 -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

2012-07-12 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 12-07-2012 14:50:18 -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > Shouldn't CVS have prevented my changes to profile.mask from being > overwritten by the next committer? How could CVS have done that (or git, hg, whatever VCS)? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread Fabian Groffen
ayouts. Seems to me we're in a different thread here :) -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: openrc init scripts taking command line arguments

2012-07-18 Thread Fabian Groffen
akes it explicit, inspired by gdb /etc/init.d/foo stop --args aggressive-kill=yes (and when using --args, I'd probably disallow using multiple commands to keep it clear what's going on) Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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