Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 10:59:48PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Brian Harring wrote: > > Said single inheritance protection was added 06/05/06 (rev 3544), > > stabled for x86 roughly 06/22/06. > > > > Hasn't even yet made it to a release media- meaning folk installing > > from the most current rel

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Harring wrote: > Said single inheritance protection was added 06/05/06 (rev 3544), > stabled for x86 roughly 06/22/06. > > Hasn't even yet made it to a release media- meaning folk installing > from the most current release media still can get

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Kumba
Andrew Gaffney wrote: This is pretty much exactly what Kumba was talking about. I didn't like the idea simply because it allowed the user to shoot themselves in the foot way too easily. It will also cause QA problems, since the profiles wouldn't be strictly controlled by the arch teams and re

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 01:24:49PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but > it's easy to enable multiple inheritance. In order to do this, we > only need to unconstrain the number of parents allowed in the parent > file (o

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Curtis Napier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Alec Warner wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:54:41 -0500 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> | It will also cause QA problems, since the profiles wouldn't be >> | strictly controlled by the arch teams and releng anym

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Alec Warner
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:54:41 -0500 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | It will also cause QA problems, since the profiles wouldn't be | strictly controlled by the arch teams and releng anymore. Uh, that's easily solved. Demand that anyone changing non-arch profile

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:54:41 -0500 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | It will also cause QA problems, since the profiles wouldn't be | strictly controlled by the arch teams and releng anymore. Uh, that's easily solved. Demand that anyone changing non-arch profile things gets prior approva

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Alec Warner wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: You can get the best of both worlds using straight MI, if the profile tree is structured properly. Use the existing hierarchy for the 'main' profile and mixins (nodes with no parent) as extras. The only problem with this is Portage's current reliance upo

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Alec Warner
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:11:25 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:24:49 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > wrote: | > | Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but | > | it's easy to en

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:11:25 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:24:49 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > wrote: | > | Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but | > | it's easy to enable multiple inheritance

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Alec Warner
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:24:49 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but | it's easy to enable multiple inheritance. In order to do this, we | only need to unconstrain the number of parents allowed in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:24:49 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but > | it's easy to enable multiple inheritance. In order to do this, we > | only n

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:24:49 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but | it's easy to enable multiple inheritance. In order to do this, we | only need to unconstrain the number of parents allowed in the parent | file (only 1 is

[gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Currently, portage only allows single inheritance in profiles, but it's easy to enable multiple inheritance. In order to do this, we only need to unconstrain the number of parents allowed in the parent file (only 1 is currently allowed

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-12 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:42:32PM +, Francesco Riosa wrote: > [...] > >> > >> $ cd gentoo-x86/*/foo > > > > This works better: > > > > $ cd gentoo-x86/*/foo/ > > > > This avoids the case where a file by the same name exists (for > > example, in licenses/). > > may be > $ cd gentoo-x86/*-*/

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments to [STABLE] bugs

2006-08-12 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:08:50 +0200 Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Being an amd64 dev, I want to basically add a 'me too!' here. I think > it's not necessary to add the --info output when all worked well, > though, if instead the output of -pv $PN was given. Except when there > was a f

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-12 Thread Francesco Riosa
[...] >> >> $ cd gentoo-x86/*/foo > > This works better: > > $ cd gentoo-x86/*/foo/ > > This avoids the case where a file by the same name exists (for > example, in licenses/). may be $ cd gentoo-x86/*-*/foo/ ? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-12 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:13:48 +0200 Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > On a minor note, I'd also like to see bug reporters use canonical > > package names in bug descriptions, including the category (and > > preferably the specific version, not some >=foo-3*!!!one

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-12 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 01:13:48PM +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > On a minor note, I'd also like to see bug reporters use canonical > > package names in bug descriptions, including the category (and > > preferably the specific version, not some >=foo-3*!!!one, not to > > m

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-12 Thread Simon Stelling
Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On a minor note, I'd also like to see bug reporters use canonical > package names in bug descriptions, including the category (and > preferably the specific version, not some >=foo-3*!!!one, not to > mention specifying no version at all). Including the category means > arch

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments to [STABLE] bugs

2006-08-12 Thread Simon Stelling
Being an amd64 dev, I want to basically add a 'me too!' here. I think it's not necessary to add the --info output when all worked well, though, if instead the output of -pv $PN was given. Except when there was a failure reported before, because then we need it to compare the two. Regarding the inl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-12 Thread Jakub Moc
> it does say make it an attachment if it's too long, but how long > is too long? 8K characters (and bugzilla will actually send you to places where the sun doesn't shine if you try to post something that exceeds this limit). -- Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why can't I re-open this bug??

2006-08-12 Thread Jakub Moc
Richard Fish wrote: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67179 is marked > RESOLVED/WORKSFORME, which according to the descriptions means that I > should be able to re-open the bug. But there is no option to do so. > Why? > > -Richard Only the person who reported the bug can reopen it (or so

[gentoo-dev] Why can't I re-open this bug??

2006-08-12 Thread Richard Fish
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67179 is marked RESOLVED/WORKSFORME, which according to the descriptions means that I should be able to re-open the bug. But there is no option to do so. Why? -Richard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list