Re: [gentoo-dev] utf-8 fixes for metadata.xml

2005-08-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:46:13PM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > What does "set enc?" say? :set enc? encoding=latin1 > Anyway, setting enc=utf-8 when your terminal is using something else > makes the output look like shit. Furthermore, you wouldn't be able to > input any non-ascii characters any

Re: [gentoo-dev] utf-8 fixes for metadata.xml

2005-08-04 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 04/08/2005-19:35:01(-0700): Robin H. Johnson types > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > > > As a vim workaround, maybe force encoding=utf-8 in the gentoo filetype > > > stuff? > > But utf-8 is supposed to be autodetected, since the default > > fileencodings

Re: [gentoo-dev] digest + manifest = new file format

2005-08-04 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whoopse, should have gone to gentoo-portage-dev, my bad ;) Alec Warner wrote: > This is basically a resubmission of Genone's file format merger [1]. > > The code to handle digests and manifests is currently being designed and > rewritten. As such we

[gentoo-dev] digest + manifest = new file format

2005-08-04 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is basically a resubmission of Genone's file format merger [1]. The code to handle digests and manifests is currently being designed and rewritten. As such we need two things from the developer community. One is a decision of what the new format

Re: [gentoo-dev] utf-8 fixes for metadata.xml

2005-08-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > > As a vim workaround, maybe force encoding=utf-8 in the gentoo filetype > > stuff? > But utf-8 is supposed to be autodetected, since the default > fileencodings always contains utf-8, doesn't it? It is not > autodetected only if th

Re: [gentoo-dev] utf-8 fixes for metadata.xml

2005-08-04 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 04/08/2005-19:15:15(-0700): Robin H. Johnson types > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:13:31AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > I've just gone through and fixed all of the broken utf-8 in metadata.xml > > files. I think... There was rather a lot of it due to various editor > > bugs which I'm hop

Re: [gentoo-dev] utf-8 fixes for metadata.xml

2005-08-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:13:31AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > I've just gone through and fixed all of the broken utf-8 in metadata.xml > files. I think... There was rather a lot of it due to various editor > bugs which I'm hoping are no longer an issue. Requests: > > - Could anyone who can re

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Brian D. Harring
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 05:31:43PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > The only things I could see being needed out of portage itself is the > ability to control "emerge" commands remotely, such as forcing an update > of apache to $version to resolve a vulnerability. The requirements of portage, or w

Re: [gentoo-dev] python module

2005-08-04 Thread Colin Kingsley
Rene Zbinden wrote: Yes in the meantime I found that eclass. The problem was, that there was no setup.py file. I created my own and put it into the files directory. If that works for you then I can't really see any reason why you shouldn't do it, but I find it far easier and cleaner to simply

[gentoo-dev] utf-8 fixes for metadata.xml

2005-08-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
I've just gone through and fixed all of the broken utf-8 in metadata.xml files. I think... There was rather a lot of it due to various editor bugs which I'm hoping are no longer an issue. Requests: - Could anyone who can read whatever language 'vi' is please check a few of the category metadata.xm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Any outstanding dodgy finds?

2005-08-04 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 05 August 2005 07:21, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Is anyone aware of any outstanding problems with the stricter find > argument ordering required by findutils 4.2.20? xorg is no longer > holding up 4.2.20 going stable -- are there any others? > > For those not aware of the problem, find must

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugday announcement

2005-08-04 Thread Scott Shawcroft
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote: > Alright everybody, here we go again :-) > > This is my first announcement, so let?s hope I get everything > right. On next Saturday it will be bugday again, unfortunately the > new bugday website isn't done yet, but the

[gentoo-dev] Any outstanding dodgy finds?

2005-08-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Is anyone aware of any outstanding problems with the stricter find argument ordering required by findutils 4.2.20? xorg is no longer holding up 4.2.20 going stable -- are there any others? For those not aware of the problem, find must only be used in the following form: find paths program-opt

[gentoo-dev] Bugday announcement

2005-08-04 Thread Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alright everybody, here we go again :-) This is my first announcement, so let?s hope I get everything right. On next Saturday it will be bugday again, unfortunately the new bugday website isn't done yet, but the little dwarf sitting under my table do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:37 -0500, Brian D. Harring wrote: > Elaborate on what you explicitly want out of portage please- the > domain concept (aside from being useful design wise) *should* allow > groupping of boxes (groupping of domains really) behind it, so you can > effectively have a set of

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/DFBsee

2005-08-04 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
This is my first "last rites" post, yay :) Ok well I just seen this today and I looked for it: media-video/dfbsee is just a copy of media-video/DFBsee, that doesn't seems maintained anymore. ChrisWhite started moving it but the job is stuck at December 2004. If nobody has a good reason against

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Eric Brown
I think Brian is right, we should stick to being constructive. Let's start an enterprise project on Gentoo.org Goals: 1) provide documentation on existing tools and practices for business/enterprise users. 2) try to enhance the set of tools to build a comprehensive framewor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Brian D. Harring
Long one kiddies... responses inlined, bit more interested in discussion of what's required/desired then "your definition of enterprise sucks"... (throws on the flamesuit)... On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:35:08PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:48 -0400, Eric Brown wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Philip Webb
050804 Chris Gianelloni wrote: -- long interesting account of life in the enterprise snipped -- > I want to see Gentoo as an enterprise-capable distribution myself, > but I also understand that it is a long, hard road ahead of us > and there will still be things we cannot provide as a community dis

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:48 -0400, Eric Brown wrote: > Every business application of Gentoo I've done has been different. I don't > think I could generalize my needs into a single ebuild. Although generally I > have used rsyncd and apache, I never use them in the same way. What's so > hard ab

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Eric Brown
>On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:04 -0400, Eric Brown wrote: >> >> Interesting thread. I have used Gentoo in enterprise situations very >> successfully, and I think the whole QA/live-tree argument is moot. In >> an enterprise environment, you might have a backup/testing machine to >> run your update

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:04 -0400, Eric Brown wrote: > > Interesting thread. I have used Gentoo in enterprise situations very > successfully, and I think the whole QA/live-tree argument is moot. In > an enterprise environment, you might have a backup/testing machine to > run your updates on firs

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Eric Brown
Interesting thread. I have used Gentoo in enterprise situations very successfully, and I think the whole QA/live-tree argument is moot. In an enterprise environment, you might have a backup/testing machine to run your updates on first before they went live. You also wouldn't run new packages u

Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X plans

2005-08-04 Thread Bertrand Jacquin
that's great :) Thanks for doing that. That's exactly what I done with XCB ebuilds. Maybe some of you don't know xcb, it a remplacement for Xlib. Currently it only available on cvs. I think it couldn't have to be ignore it. Some ebuilds for : http://guybrush.ath.cx/svn/public/portage/x11-libs/ W

Re: [gentoo-dev] python module

2005-08-04 Thread Rene Zbinden
Yes in the meantime I found that eclass. The problem was, that there was no setup.py file. I created my own and put it into the files directory. Here is my ebuild: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101296 pyamazon is a Python wrapper for the Amazon web API. Homepage: http://www.josephson.o

Re: [gentoo-dev] python module

2005-08-04 Thread Alin Dobre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rene Zbinden wrote: > Hi > > I want to write an ebuild, that installs a python module. After unpacking the > zipfile there is only one module module.py. What is the best way to install > that package. Is there an eclass that I can use? > # The di