[gentoo-dev] Re: xorg-x11 6.8.2 RC2 available

2005-02-01 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Give it a try and see how things go. I have been using the xorg-x11 6.8.2 RCs since they came into portage and had no problems with my primary configuration [1]. Today I noticed that my secondary configuration [2] no longer works. The last time I used this configurati

Re: [gentoo-dev] raid initscript

2005-02-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 12:18 am, Brian Beattie wrote: > I don't if anybody is interested in an initscript to start software raid > services, but I have written one. I'd be interested in feedback. there is already code in checkfs to run mdadm/raidstart -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailin

Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.1.903 -- /usr/X11R6 -> /usr

2005-02-01 Thread Peter Gordon
I'm compiling it now (full ~x86 system). I'll let you know how it goes in about two hours. Then again, I may be asleep by then, so let's hope this world upgrade (including the 20050131 GCC 4.0.0 alpha snapshot just for kicks) doesn't damage my system too much while I'm asleep. =) -- gentoo-dev@

[gentoo-dev] raid initscript

2005-02-01 Thread Brian Beattie
I don't if anybody is interested in an initscript to start software raid services, but I have written one. I'd be interested in feedback. the initscript uses raidtab to id the raid devices, it assumes that fstab has an entry for any devives and if the module for the hostadapter needs to be loaded

Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.1.903 -- /usr/X11R6 -> /usr

2005-02-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Gregorio Guidi wrote: (seriously, though, there was even a bit of discussion in the freedesktop mailing lists about the possibility to have multiple X installed, but I guess that FHS compliance kills this possibility, or at least an easy implementation of it.) You're free to install multiple X v

Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.1.903 -- /usr/X11R6 -> /usr

2005-02-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Roman Gaufman wrote: * //usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1 not a symlink, moving to /usr/share/fonts !!! ERROR: x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.1.903 failed. !!! Function remove_font_dirs, Line 1666, Exitcode 1 !!! /usr/share/fonts/fonts.cache-1 exists. Remove it and try again. !!! If you need support,

Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.1.903 -- /usr/X11R6 -> /usr

2005-02-01 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 01/02/2005-14:20:57(-0800): Donnie Berkholz types > I just committed it with KEYWORDS="-*" because I need some brave > testers. I already tested every possibility of which I could think of > version changes resulting in an upgrade to 6.8.1.903 and things seem to > be working fine now. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.1.903 -- /usr/X11R6 -> /usr

2005-02-01 Thread Roman Gaufman
Hmm, any ideas about the following? removed `//usr/share/fonts/Type1/encodings.dir' removed `//usr/share/fonts/75dpi/encodings.dir' removed `//usr/share/fonts/100dpi/encodings.dir' * Removing //usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi symlink removed `//usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi' * Removing //usr/X11

Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.1.903 -- /usr/X11R6 -> /usr

2005-02-01 Thread Caleb Tennis
Mike Frysinger wrote: three cheers for donnie i say ! now if only KDE/QT would take the hint ... ;) -mike I'm please to report that the Qt4 ebuild is FHS compliant. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.1.903 -- /usr/X11R6 -> /usr

2005-02-01 Thread Gregorio Guidi
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 00:08, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 01 February 2005 06:05 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > We're eliminating a historical FHS exception for /usr/X11R6. > > three cheers for donnie i say ! > > now if only KDE/QT would take the hint ... ;) > -mike ...if only the FH

Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.1.903 -- /usr/X11R6 -> /usr

2005-02-01 Thread Roman Gaufman
Great work. Emerging now. On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:05:52 -0800, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > | I just committed it with KEYWORDS="-*" because I need some brave > | testers. I already tested every possibilit

Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.1.903 -- /usr/X11R6 -> /usr

2005-02-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 06:05 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > We're eliminating a historical FHS exception for /usr/X11R6. three cheers for donnie i say ! now if only KDE/QT would take the hint ... ;) -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.1.903 -- /usr/X11R6 -> /usr

2005-02-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: | I just committed it with KEYWORDS="-*" because I need some brave | testers. I already tested every possibility of which I could think of | version changes resulting in an upgrade to 6.8.1.903 and things seem to | be working fine

[gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.1.903 -- /usr/X11R6 -> /usr

2005-02-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just committed it with KEYWORDS="-*" because I need some brave testers. I already tested every possibility of which I could think of version changes resulting in an upgrade to 6.8.1.903 and things seem to be working fine now. The most significant chan

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Foundation proposed bylaws

2005-02-01 Thread Nicholas Jones
>> Moreover, would it ever make sense to have a member of >> the Foundation who is not also a Gentoo developer? > Finally, I definitely can see it making sense to have > Foundation members who are not a dev. The class of > individuals that comes most readily to mind [...] is lawyers My thinking

[gentoo-dev] New Dev so (Stefano Rossi)

2005-02-01 Thread Jochen Maes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 $insert_greeting_for_your_timezone, Today I added Stefano Rossi to our devlist, he'll be helping out with the italian documentation. He's a Roman Economy student and loves soccer (AS ROMA). I've been doing my reseach and he popped up on all wanted ho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unicode guide

2005-02-01 Thread Maurice van der Pot
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:25:22AM +, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > In my UK CS department we spell it: > > * program for a computer program > * programme for a TV show or a programme of lectures Ah, thanks for clearing that up for me. -- Maurice van der Pot Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Time with Ramereth: autoconf / automake / libtool bunnies

2005-02-01 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 23:34, Mike Frysinger wrote: > [some dev please forward this to gentoo-user] Sent. Regards, Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Time with Ramereth: autoconf / automake / libtool bunnies

2005-02-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
[some dev please forward this to gentoo-user] it seems our new SLOT-ed ebuilds of autoconf / automake / libtool have users confused. 'why does emerge want to install so many !?' you ask yourself outloud. the truth is, nothing has changed on your system, you just *think* something is different

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unicode guide

2005-02-01 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:48:33PM +0200, Alexander Simonov wrote: > I am writing for GDP unicode guide in recruiting period. > It available on http://nk.ukrpack.net/~alexx/unicode-guide.html and XML on > http://nk.ukrpack.net/~alexx/unicode-guide.xml . > If any body have any another issues or tro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Repoman overlay scanning

2005-02-01 Thread Christian Heim
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 12:56, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Monday 31 January 2005 00:41, Jason Stubbs wrote: > >http://dev.gentoo.org/~jstubbs/patches/2.0.51-r15/repoman-overlay-scanning > >.patch > > No positive or negative feedback on this? > Well works fine here ;) But since I'm not an offical

Re: [gentoo-dev] Repoman overlay scanning

2005-02-01 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 31 January 2005 00:41, Jason Stubbs wrote: >http://dev.gentoo.org/~jstubbs/patches/2.0.51-r15/repoman-overlay-scanning.patch No positive or negative feedback on this? Regards, Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list