Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:53:03PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:37:07AM +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: > > I know only one mirror network who could worth the hassle: cpan. > > Perl has a nice geographically distributed network of mirrors. Too bad > > portage can't automati

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:37:07AM +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: > I know only one mirror network who could worth the hassle: cpan. > Perl has a nice geographically distributed network of mirrors. Too bad > portage can't automatically select the closest cpan mirror. :( You can already put in specific m

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-05 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2005 03:48:49 -0500 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | > Ok, here's the main issue. Simply changing prefix isn't enough to > | > automatically make every package in the tree work. A heck of a lot > | > of t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Alin Nastac
Corey Shields wrote: >At one point in time someone suggested that we may as well utilize other >people's mirror networks that are already out there, rather than our own. >This then got implemented for stuff like sourceforge packages. > >Unfortunately this plays hell for lots of people. If you

[gentoo-dev] Re: emerge

2005-05-05 Thread Duncan
R Hill posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 05 May 2005 21:00:47 -0600: > Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: >> emerge gnome-2.8.3-r1.ebuild digest > > s/emerge/ebuild Well, as long as we're correcting things... s/ebuild/ebuild\// (The closing delimiter was missing.) =8^) -- Duncan -

[gentoo-dev] Re: emerge

2005-05-05 Thread R Hill
Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: emerge gnome-2.8.3-r1.ebuild digest s/emerge/ebuild ;) --de. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: emerge

2005-05-05 Thread Duncan
Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 06 May 2005 10:31:19 +0900: > I have Gnome installed Gentoo 2005.0, recently newer version of gnome > marked as stable, so available to update. I don't need epiphany and > gnome games, formerly I could just edit .ebuild fi

Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge

2005-05-05 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 10:31 +0900, Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar wrote: > I have Gnome installed Gentoo 2005.0, recently newer version of gnome > marked as stable, so available to update. I don't need epiphany and > gnome games, formerly I could just edit .ebuild file and remove lines, > but at this time i

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-05-05 Thread Duncan
Donnie Berkholz posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 05 May 2005 08:20:16 -0700: > We already know about it and are working on it, so there's no need to > file a bug from our perspective, unless you've got patches to post on it. OK, what I needed to know. Unfortunately, patches

[gentoo-dev] emerge

2005-05-05 Thread Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar
I have Gnome installed Gentoo 2005.0, recently newer version of gnome marked as stable, so available to update. I don't need epiphany and gnome games, formerly I could just edit .ebuild file and remove lines, but at this time it shows me: Calculating world dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 6)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Lance Albertson
Corey Shields wrote: > On Thursday 05 May 2005 03:06 pm, Lance Albertson wrote: > >>We could make a couple of bugs for each category and get those folks to >>fixing them. But then that would require a lot of work and I know we're all >>just a bunch of lazy bums anyways ;) > > > I smell a new dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Corey Shields
On Thursday 05 May 2005 03:06 pm, Lance Albertson wrote: > We could make a couple of bugs for each category and get those folks to > fixing them. But then that would require a lot of work and I know we're all > just a bunch of lazy bums anyways ;) I smell a new dev requirement.. "Fix 10 nomirror

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Lance Albertson
Mike Frysinger wrote: [snip] >>RESTRICT=[no]mirror >>--- >>- Files too large for the mirrors? (What is the size limit?) > > > yes ... We should probably have a hard definition for this or expectations to the rule too. Let me look through our current distfiles and see how big we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 05 May 2005 05:04 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > RESTRICT=[no]fetch > -- > Should be used if the license prohibits unattended/automated download > (eg click-through licenses), or the upstream author wants all downloads > to be manually done from their site (I know of at l

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Corey Shields
On Thursday 05 May 2005 02:04 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Unless there is something I've missed, why do we have ebuilds with > RESTRICT=nomirror, having a GPL-2 license, and distributed via > sourceforge? Wouldn't RESTRICT=primaryuri be much better? Most fetches > would go to SF first, and we'd s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 5 May 2005 14:04:20 -0700 "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I've tried to dig through our policy documents, to find the policy | regarding RESTRICT=mirror/fetch. I don't find anything in the htdocs | tree from CVS, beyond a few brief mentions in the handbook. Some of it's in

[gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-05 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi, I've tried to dig through our policy documents, to find the policy regarding RESTRICT=mirror/fetch. I don't find anything in the htdocs tree from CVS, beyond a few brief mentions in the handbook. RESTRICT=[no]fetch -- Should be used if the license prohibits unattended/automate

[gentoo-dev] Sparc development netra going away

2005-05-05 Thread Josh Grebe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, I am retiring the Netra that we have been using for development. I have a better box that we are now using. Most people who had access to the Netra were not actually using it. Thus, I am not going to just copy the users over. Any developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] module-rebuild

2005-05-05 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Wed, 04 May 2005 08:34:34 +0100 John Mylchreest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought about this, but not wanting to depend on gentoolkit > makes using equery for example a little awkward. > This, I'm sure isn't fully feature-rich yet - and something > like this will be the next addition to go

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-05-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: > Umm... does that mean file the (gcc4+amd64+xorg) bugs, and he'll work with > them, or don't file them, because it's already got known issues that need > fixed before bug reports on that particular combo will be anything but > additional

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo could become certified for IBM Server Hardware

2005-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 5 May 2005 03:28:06 +0200 Michiel de Bruijne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thursday 05 May 2005 01:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > For us to support LSB: | > | > * We'd have to use RPM instead of portage | | That's not correct, quote from LSB: | "The distribution itself may use a differen

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 5 May 2005 03:48:49 -0500 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Ok, here's the main issue. Simply changing prefix isn't enough to | > automatically make every package in the tree work. A heck of a lot | > of them will need manual modification, and there's no easy way to | > figure ou

Re: [gentoo-dev] gluelog ebuild?

2005-05-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 09:14 +, Casey Allen Shobe - SeattleServer Mailing Lists wrote: > But I would like to know if the ebuild could be maintained or how else a > multilog-based system could be created? Probably filing a bug with a new ebuild is the best route to get it updated. -- Chris Gi

[gentoo-dev] Bugday reminder

2005-05-05 Thread Bryan Oestergaard
Hi all. Just a quick reminder that saturday holds the monthly Bugday event. Interested people should join the #gentoo-bugs channel on irc.freenode.net and might also wish to take a peek at http://bugday.gentoo.org :) Regards, Bryan Ãstergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing l

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-05-05 Thread Duncan
Donnie Berkholz posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 04 May 2005 12:03:29 -0700: > mjc is working on gcc4+amd64+xorg. It seems to work fine on x86. Cool! =8^) Umm... does that mean file the (gcc4+amd64+xorg) bugs, and he'll work with them, or don't file them, because it's alread

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-server] gluelog ebuild?

2005-05-05 Thread Casey Allen Shobe - SeattleServer Mailing Lists
On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:14, Casey Allen Shobe - SeattleServer Mailing Lists wrote: > So, I typed in "emerge gluelog" and realized quickly that this package is > not maintained and should probably be masked, as it creates /etc/rc.d, and > puts init scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d, which does not exi

[gentoo-dev] gluelog ebuild?

2005-05-05 Thread Casey Allen Shobe - SeattleServer Mailing Lists
I was browsing about the web when I stumbed across this: http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:QHsFgaiiddIJ:www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3%3Fmsg_id%3D5589243+dcron+multilog&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 ...which seems to hint that in Gentoo's younger days, a supported logging configuration was supported using

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-05 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:48:49AM -0500, Brian Harring wrote: > default being use or use/local or whatever the hell Wow. no more posting at 3:50 am... meant usr for above, pardon. ~brian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-05 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:12:20PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 2 May 2005 19:02:29 -0500 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | State said problem for the general community. Guessing you're > | referencing the issue/request that being able to manage home, and > | 'global' ins