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

2005-02-02 Thread Matthew Marlowe
comments: 1) Although the bylaws provide for the ability of members to physically inspect the foundation financial records if they go to the HQ and swear to intent, I would think that's only a last resort kind-of-thing. It would be nice if there was just a simple statement in the bylaws somewher

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Ideas

2005-02-02 Thread Stefan Schweizer
The guitoo etcetera tool would have been really usefull if he would have it completed .. Could you please have a look at http://www.nongnu.org/guitoo/ and see if you can do something like the etcetera tool? It basically makes the etc-update in a GUI which is imo far better than on the command-lin

Re: [gentoo-dev] new Dev Shigehiro Idani (idani)

2005-02-02 Thread Chris White
2005-02-02 (æ) ã 20:06 +0100 ã Jochen Maes ãããæ: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > $insert_appropriate_greeting_here, > > > *dingeldongeldong* > New Dev > Shigehiro Idani > Japanese translation monkey. ãGentooã :). signature.asc Description: =?UTF-8?Q?=E3=81=93=E3

Re: [gentoo-dev] *-doc vs USE="doc"

2005-02-02 Thread Meder Bakirov
Hello, Isn't there already (or planned) "nodoc" and "noman" (and, maybe, "noinfo") options, which can be set in FEATURES? On Saturday 12 July 2003 17:53, Mamoru KOMACHI wrote: > Hi, > > At 12 Jul 2003 09:42:39 +0100, > > Alastair Tse wrote: > > Also, it seems to me that the "doc" USE flag is too

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Ideas

2005-02-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grant Kelly wrote: My name is Grant Kelly and I am a computer science student at the University of Nevada, Reno. I am enrolled in a course called Senior Projects. The purpose of this course is to go through a software engineering process and actually develop an idea into software. I would like t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Prozilla needs a new daddy / herd (or an undertaker)

2005-02-02 Thread Nicholas Jones
> Prozilla (www-client/prozilla) is masked in Portage since 2004-11-22 > because it suffered from a serious (and exploited) vulnerability[1] and > lack of upstream love. Also because no one really likes it. It's a connection spamming tool that really would do better to support multiple hosts as op

Re: [gentoo-dev] Repoman overlay scanning

2005-02-02 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:23:40AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > We can't afford to test new portage commit features on the live tree. > There's far too much that can get broken that way. Frankly, you're being an ass and doing a bit of fud here. Maybe inadverent, since you don't seem to unders

[gentoo-dev] Project Ideas

2005-02-02 Thread Grant Kelly
Hello list, My name is Grant Kelly and I am a computer science student at the University of Nevada, Reno. I am enrolled in a course called Senior Projects. The purpose of this course is to go through a software engineering process and actually develop an idea into software. I would like to take

Re: [gentoo-dev] Repoman overlay scanning

2005-02-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:37:10 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Don't suppose you portage people have a fake tree and a set of | > regression tests for repoman? | | No, there aren't yet. Nor will there be for some time. Until there is, | I was hoping that the team would help to te

Re: [gentoo-dev] Repoman overlay scanning

2005-02-02 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 03 February 2005 01:21, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: (B> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:58:13 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (B> | On Wednesday 02 February 2005 21:44, petre rodan wrote: (B> | > Michael Cummings wrote: (B> | > > To be frank, your initial email scared me away from up

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for "documentation"

2005-02-02 Thread Peter Gordon
James Dio wrote: Hi, After reading a tad about Monolithic and Micro-kernels (very basic) I was wondering if there were any longer documents that are very in depth about such a thing where I can get a much much better idea so I don't get the wrong idea about anything. Wikipedia (http://www.w

[gentoo-dev] Looking for "documentation"

2005-02-02 Thread James Dio
Hi, After reading a tad about Monolithic and Micro-kernels (very basic) I was wondering if there were any longer documents that are very in depth about such a thing where I can get a much much better idea so I don't get the wrong idea about anything. Anything is appreciated, I'm currently

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

2005-02-02 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 02/02/2005-11:31:25(-0800): Donnie Berkholz types > Daniel Ostrow wrote: > && rm -rf /usr/X11R6 > > Just so you know, some (broken, IMO) programs install things here so you > were killing whatever they put there too. "equery b /usr/X11R6" first then. -- *> Georgi Georgiev *> Don't r

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

2005-02-02 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:19:01 -0800 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try this patch. > Here it worked as expected. No more /usr/include/GL/GL or /usr/include/X11/X11 symlinks, and the headers in /usr/include/GL are installed just fine. -- TGL. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing li

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

2005-02-02 Thread Andres Järv
After the emerge the Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox browser stopped working for me. Complaining something about no x-session or similar. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-02-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Ostrow wrote: | && rm -rf /usr/X11R6 && emerge xorg-x11. Durring the merge phase I ran | into 2 directories in /usr/include (GL and X11) that ended up being | symlinked to themselves (../X11R6/include/GL and ../X11R6/include/X11) | which I could

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

2005-02-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ferris McCormick wrote: | 1. (Previously noted) A couple font directories (cyrillic, ukr) were |never made into symbolic links before, and right now they must be |removed by hand; | 2. (Previously noted) A couple orphan symbolic links: |a. /

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

2005-02-02 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:11:37 + (UTC) Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. (Previously noted) A couple orphan symbolic links: > a. /usr/include/X11/X11 --> ../X11R6/include/X11 > b. /usr/include/GL/GL --> ../X11R6/include/GL I can see this two ones too (on a ~x86 system, u

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

2005-02-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Ostrow wrote: && rm -rf /usr/X11R6 Just so you know, some (broken, IMO) programs install things here so you were killing whatever they put there too. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunde

Re: [gentoo-dev] *-doc vs USE="doc"

2005-02-02 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 28 January 2005 16:00, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Mamoru KOMACHI wrote: > >Hi, > > > >At 12 Jul 2003 09:42:39 +0100, > > > >Alastair Tse wrote: > >>Also, it seems to me that the "doc" USE flag is too encompassing. It is > >>used for both installing user documentation (user guides, ap

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-java/j2sdk deprecation

2005-02-02 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 16:57, Stefan Jones wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 23:37 +0100, Thomas Matthijs wrote: > > The problem the way that i see is that the sources are for the inital > > 1.4.2 release from sun, since then they are at 1.4.2.06 with many fixes > > At least 3 security bugs i ca

[gentoo-dev] new Dev Shigehiro Idani (idani)

2005-02-02 Thread Jochen Maes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 $insert_appropriate_greeting_here, *dingeldongeldong* New Dev Shigehiro Idani Japanese translation monkey. Can program: C, C++, perl, Java (YES!), Ruby Home Shimae *dingeldongeldon* anyway he's really into Gentoo and things the documentation is excelle

[gentoo-dev] Follow-up on include/GL/glu.h change from xorg-x11-6.8.1.902 --> 903

2005-02-02 Thread Ferris McCormick
For completeness: Examination of what 'emerge -buv' built for xorg-6.8.1.902 compared with 903. Here are the results of a complete scan of the package files built for xorg-x11-6.8.1.902 vs. 6.8.1.903, looking for the GL includes: lace

[gentoo-dev] Prozilla needs a new daddy / herd (or an undertaker)

2005-02-02 Thread Thierry Carrez
Folks, Prozilla (www-client/prozilla) is masked in Portage since 2004-11-22 because it suffered from a serious (and exploited) vulnerability[1] and lack of upstream love. It appears upstream is back online and a new version (ProZilla 1.3.7.3) was released January 24, 2005. An helpful user provide

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

2005-02-02 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Donnie Berkholz wrote: --[PinePGP]--[begin]-- Donnie Berkholz wrote: I just committed it with KEYWORDS="-*" because I need some brave testers. I already tested every possibility of whic

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

2005-02-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Andres Järv wrote: * //usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic 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/cyrillic exists. Remove it and try again. !!! If you need support, post the top

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

2005-02-02 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > It should be fine to downgrade to -r4. The first thing to do for your > problem is check your X log for errors, then search bugs.g.o. It may > well be a regression of nvidia's drivers. Nevermind, it was not a bug or regression after all. After disabling the Option "F

Re: [gentoo-dev] Repoman overlay scanning

2005-02-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:58:13 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Wednesday 02 February 2005 21:44, petre rodan wrote: | > Michael Cummings wrote: | > > To be frank, your initial email scared me away from upgrading to | > > -r15. Overlay's are how I keep my world sane (ok, that's a | >

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

2005-02-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Sebastian Bergmann wrote: 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

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

2005-02-02 Thread Roman Gaufman
Well, apart from that reported problem, compiles and works just fine so far (I removed fle manually though, not tested your patch). Will report if there's any further problems. Thanks! Roman On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:20:57 -0800, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MES

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

2005-02-02 Thread Andres Järv
I get this error: * Preparing any installed configuration files for font move... removed `//usr/share/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir' removed `//usr/share/fonts/encodings/large/encodings.dir' removed `//usr/share/fonts/local/encodings.dir' removed `//usr/share/fonts/misc/encodings.dir' removed `//

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

2005-02-02 Thread Duncan
Mike Frysinger posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 02 Feb 2005 09:03:36 -0500: > On Wednesday 02 February 2005 05:41 am, Duncan wrote: >> I don't believe /every/ version is required, nor do I think /every/ >> version was previously installed. > > you can think what you want, but

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

2005-02-02 Thread Markus Rothe
Daniel Ostrow wrote: > I plan to test it on ppc64 tonight. It works like a charm on ppc64 (radeon)! :-) Best regards, Markus pgpgHyTQ1OpFf.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2005-02-02 Thread Daniel Ostrow
Donnie, All looks good from the ppc standpoint, only ran into 1 issue which was albeit minor in my upgrade from ppc stable (6.7.0-r3) on all 3 machines I tried it on. My normal upgrade path for xorg is to emerge -C xorg-x11 && rm -rf /usr/X11R6 && emerge xorg-x11. Durring the merge phase I ran int

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

2005-02-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 05:41 am, Duncan wrote: > I don't believe /every/ version is required, nor do I think /every/ > version was previously installed. you can think what you want, but the truth is every version was previously installed if you dont believe me you can read the old ebuils

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

2005-02-02 Thread Peter
Hello. Thank you for you work. Just installed. The best way to test opengl is to play quake3(?). Thus After kde starts and then 10 minuts of playing I can tell you that this release works for me. If you see this message pan is also working (based on gtk+2.0). Here are USE flags I compiled with:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Repoman overlay scanning

2005-02-02 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: | Hi all, | | I believe many developers like to create and scan ebuilds that live in their | overlays before moving into their CVS checkout and committing. Up until | portage-2.0.51-r15 this was possible, but there was also a problem

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

2005-02-02 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 02/02/2005-03:41:33(-0700): Duncan types > (Being a bit familiar with the idea of having multiple versions around > from my time on Mandrake, however, and why it worked that way, having so > many didn't alarm me here. I just noted with curiosity that it was > merging a couple versions mar

Re: [gentoo-dev] Repoman overlay scanning

2005-02-02 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 21:44, petre rodan wrote: (B> Michael Cummings wrote: (B> > To be frank, your initial email scared me away from upgrading to -r15. (B> > Overlay's are how I keep my world sane (ok, that's a stretch, but as far (B> > as Gentoo is concerned its valid). (B> (B> my t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Repoman overlay scanning

2005-02-02 Thread petre rodan
Michael Cummings wrote: To be frank, your initial email scared me away from upgrading to -r15. Overlay's are how I keep my world sane (ok, that's a stretch, but as far as Gentoo is concerned its valid). my thoughts exactly. On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 20:56 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Monday 31 January

Re: [gentoo-dev] Repoman overlay scanning

2005-02-02 Thread Michael Cummings
To be frank, your initial email scared me away from upgrading to -r15. Overlay's are how I keep my world sane (ok, that's a stretch, but as far as Gentoo is concerned its valid). On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 20:56 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Monday 31 January 2005 00:41, Jason Stubbs wrote: > >http:/

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

2005-02-02 Thread Duncan
Georgi Georgiev posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:17:56 +0900: > maillog: 02/02/2005-09:05:59(+0100): foser types >> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 09:34 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > >> > it seems our new SLOT-ed ebuilds of autoconf / automake / libtool have >> > us

Re: [gentoo-dev] raid initscript

2005-02-02 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 02/02/2005-00:30:16(-0800): Brian Beattie types > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 01:30 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > 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.

Re: [gentoo-dev] raid initscript

2005-02-02 Thread Brian Beattie
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 01:30 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > 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 ch

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

2005-02-02 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 02/02/2005-09:05:59(+0100): foser types > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 09:34 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > [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

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

2005-02-02 Thread foser
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 09:34 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > [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 h