[gentoo-dev] Request that as many developers as possible test with FEATURES="collision-protect"

2005-10-14 Thread Petteri Räty
There have been quite a few collision-protect bugs http://tinyurl.com/9pw4o so I think it would be great if as many developers as possible added collision-protect to their FEATURES. That way we can react to errors caused by collision-protect in FEATURES before committing. Is there already a page ab

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Linux preinstalled

2005-10-14 Thread Preston Cody
The Gentoo Installer will be able to do mass installations very soon using a secure XMLRPC server and nice web interface and all that jazz.  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ you can grab experimental livecds with the installer on them from the mirrors. -CodemanOn 10/14/05, Alexander

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling compatible multi tools

2005-10-14 Thread Simon Stelling
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: How many people have both vim and nano installed? Or xine and mplayer? well, i wouldn't say nano is doing the same as vi. There's a pretty big difference. Also, those people who have both installed probably don't use both, they just installed vi and didn't car

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling compatible multi tools

2005-10-14 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Friday 14 October 2005 00:33, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > I already tried preparing a list, but right now, they are probably limited > to tar and mpg123/mpg321 ... sort of. Add sys-apps/star to your list. > * don't install the symlink in src_install > * in pkg_postinst, look at ${ROOT}/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling compatible multi tools

2005-10-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 14 October 2005 10:17, Simon Stelling wrote: > What would we gain with such a change? You have two tools installed that > are nearly equal, so why would one want to have two of them? Testing, for once. How many people have both vim and nano installed? Or xine and mplayer? I don't see muc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling compatible multi tools

2005-10-14 Thread Simon Stelling
What would we gain with such a change? You have two tools installed that are nearly equal, so why would one want to have two of them? *me scratching head* -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Linux preinstalled

2005-10-14 Thread Alexander Simonov
What about mass instalation Gentoo? Now it's how i know impossible, it's get more time. Any one know technology for mass instalation Gentoo? W/ NFS,HTTP or FTP instalation. W/ X server, KDE or Gnome ? W/ Office packages? How i know RH and SuSE have this. Thank you for ansver. On Fri, 14.10.2005

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Linux preinstalled

2005-10-14 Thread notopic . hppa
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:33:57 +0200 Stefan Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to preinstall Gentoo Linux on some devices for customers. Do > you have any tips for preinstallation, any scripts? What is the > correct prcedure of doing so? > Anyone knows of something like a "syspre

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Linux preinstalled

2005-10-14 Thread Duncan
Stefan Schweizer posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:33:57 +0200: > I want to preinstall Gentoo Linux on some devices for customers. Do > you have any tips for preinstallation, any scripts? What is the > correct prcedure of doing so? > Anyone knows of something lik