Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc plans

2006-10-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 06 October 2006 19:11, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > So we'll need to update the no-nptl profiles to be ~sys-libs/glibc-2.4 > instead of >=sys-libs/glibc-2.4, obviously, but will there be any other > changes necessary? i dont believe so ... glibc-2.4 does have linuxthreads, but via an untest

[gentoo-dev] LTSP native port

2006-10-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Hi all, I'm working on bringing a native LTSP port to Gentoo [1-6]. Do any of you want to help? Debian and Ubuntu developers have already put significant effort into making it semi-distribution-neutral and have mostly working native ports, so we're basing our work off theirs. To help, you must be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-06 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 10/7/06, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If anyone had still any doubt about this, he can easily try to tweak a release :P I've been doing releng-like work lately to build Gentoo/FreeBSD stages with catalyst and I have to say that releng is doing a heck of an hard job to p

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Alon Bar-Lev (alonbl)

2006-10-06 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiya Alon! Congratulations, your bug contributions so far have been supremely helpful, I'm really glad to see you made the leap to developer. Welcome aboard! 5:) Mike 5:) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-06 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 07 October 2006 01:26, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > I'll be honest, Release Engineering work is *very* stressful.  My > primary goal as the lead is to try to come up with ways to make working > on a release easier for the guys doing the work. If anyone had still any doubt about this, he ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 10:24 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > Before you can have useful reports, you need a plan to report against. > Like a target date for 2007.0 and its contents. Such a plan depends on > other projects delivering the contents in accordance with their own > plans. Like real life,

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc plans

2006-10-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 16:28 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > since upstream did not make a glibc-2.4 release of linuxthreads, i thought > they were killing it off with glibc-2.3.6 for good ... seems there is a > release for glibc-2.5 however > > so the plans are this: > - stabilize glibc-2.3.6-r5

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Jeffrey Gardner (je_fro)

2006-10-06 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:05:16 -0600 Jim Ramsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excellent, another member of the soon-to-be-famous Gentoo rock band! I > think Joshua Jackson (tsunam) has already volunteered to be the > singer :) What is it, three new musical devs so far in the last 2 > weeks? Ahh, I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Jeffrey Gardner (je_fro)

2006-10-06 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 07 October 2006 00:09, Joshua Jackson wrote: > Ack! we want people to come to gentoo not scare them off >_> What's better than a famous name, eh? Everybody loves you for your part in Dawson's Creek, after all ;) -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Jeffrey Gardner (je_fro)

2006-10-06 Thread Joshua Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Ramsay wrote: > Petteri Räty wrote: >> He has played bass guitar for 20 years or so. Considering that he has >> been doing it before I was born, one would think he is some kind of an >> expert but maybe he is just modest when he says that he could

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Jeffrey Gardner (je_fro)

2006-10-06 Thread Jim Ramsay
Petteri Räty wrote: > He has played bass guitar for 20 years or so. Considering that he has > been doing it before I was born, one would think he is some kind of an > expert but maybe he is just modest when he says that he could be a LOT > better. Excellent, another member of the soon-to-be-famous

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Alon Bar-Lev (alonbl)

2006-10-06 Thread Daniel Black
Welcome Alon, Pleasure to have you on board. -- Daniel Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Foundation -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] COMPLETED DOWNTIME: {cvs,svn}.gentoo.org - 2006-10-06 - 1900UTC - 2100UTC

2006-10-06 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 04:09:18PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:55:17PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:30:43PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > > We're estimating a worst case of 4 hours at this point, but if > > > everything goes smoo

[gentoo-dev] glibc plans

2006-10-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
since upstream did not make a glibc-2.4 release of linuxthreads, i thought they were killing it off with glibc-2.3.6 for good ... seems there is a release for glibc-2.5 however so the plans are this: - stabilize glibc-2.3.6-r5 / glibc-2.4-r4 and make no more 2.3.6/2.4 updates - move all of ~ar

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-06 Thread Stelian Ionescu
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:32:41PM -0500, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: [:snip:] >> Stop being stupid please, you're only making fun of yourself. I guess I >> don't have to explain you how useful a URL is to a _networkless_ >> installation, do I? >> >No... but didn't one download and burn that CD that

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Jeffrey Gardner (je_fro)

2006-10-06 Thread Petteri Räty
It's my pleasure to introduce to you Jeffrey "je_fro" Gardner, the latest addition joining to help out with the scientific packages. He hails from Houston, Texas. He is currently a 3rd year graduate student at the University of Houston and already has a BS in biochemistry Because of that he somet

[gentoo-dev] glibc-2.5 going into ~arch

2006-10-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
glibc-2.5 will be going into ~arch for amd64/x86/ppc/ppc64/ia64 this weekend sometime, so pipe up now before i unleash it :p -mike pgpfnVAVTJBiW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] cracklib, shadow, cracklib USE flag, cracklib in system

2006-10-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 06 October 2006 11:32, Daniel Drake wrote: > 4. Remove cracklib from base/packages this can be done now -mike pgpQ28vryK6wD.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] cracklib, shadow, cracklib USE flag, cracklib in system

2006-10-06 Thread Daniel Drake
cracklib is a library which makes judgements on passwords. It tells you passwords weak as they are too short, based on a dictionary word, and stuff like that. It's a nice thing to have, is fairly standard, but is not a true requirement. Any thoughts on these changes: 1. Promote cracklib USE f

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Alon Bar-Lev (alonbl)

2006-10-06 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 17:07 +0200, Christian Heim wrote: > Its my pleasure to introduce to you Alon "alonbl" Bar-Lev, the latest > addition > joining to help out with the crypto herd. Welcome Alon! > He hails from Israel (hrm, they don't have cities down there ?). So far it > looks like Alon i

[gentoo-dev] Replacing votify/countify

2006-10-06 Thread Grant Goodyear
Agriffis suggested to me that we should really consider replacing our current voting infrastructure with the code that Debian is using: http://www.debian.org/vote/ (general page) http://arch.debian.org/arch/private/srivasta/ (look for "devotee" code) Thoughts? Comments? Somebody willing to actu

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Alon Bar-Lev (alonbl)

2006-10-06 Thread Christian Heim
Its my pleasure to introduce to you Alon "alonbl" Bar-Lev, the latest addition joining to help out with the crypto herd. He hails from Israel (hrm, they don't have cities down there ?). So far it looks like Alon is completely constrained to his computer, he doesn't have any other hobbies nor l

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 09:39 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > > No... but didn't one download and burn that CD that is being used for > > the _networkless_ install? One could also download the stage needed, > > slap it on a usb key, and viola! Of course, the other option,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [DOWNTIME devmanual.gentoo.org]

2006-10-06 Thread Stuart Herbert
Hi Ciaran, On 10/6/06, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Meh, but since this has been brought out in public, here's the full text. Hopefully it'll help dispel some of the fud a few people are spreading: Anyone spreading FUD over this issue should be ashamed of themselves. The whole f/

Re: [gentoo-dev] [DOWNTIME devmanual.gentoo.org]

2006-10-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:12:53 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | While a flamewar will probably ensue; this is not the intent of this | mail or of the bug filing. Please keep your unproductive comments | off-list and off the bug. I will lock the bug if it becomes | necessary. This ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-06 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2006.10.04 15:27, Chris Gianelloni wrote: [snip] I'll give you Release Engineering's "status reports" for September, October, and November: September: taking a well-deserved break October: taking a well-deserved break November: taking a well-deserved break How about other projects that re

[gentoo-dev] o.g.o: planet upgraded

2006-10-06 Thread Stuart Herbert
Hi, Just a note to say that I've upgraded overlay.gentoo.org's copy of Planet to the latest nightly release. (We use Planet to generate o.g.o's front page). If you notice any problems, please let me know. Best regards, Stu -- Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTE

[gentoo-dev] Bugday reminder

2006-10-06 Thread Alexander H . Færøy
Honored users and developers, This is your monthly bugday reminder that the next bugday is held on Saturday the 7. October. Join #Gentoo-Bugs on irc.freenode.net and help out with bugfixing or just see how this day works ;) Regards, Alexander H. Færøy -- Alexander H. Færøy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-06 Thread Paul de Vrieze
Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > No... but didn't one download and burn that CD that is being used for > the _networkless_ install? One could also download the stage needed, > slap it on a usb key, and viola! Of course, the other option, is to use > that crazy installer option "Networkless" - I could