[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2006-12-31 23:59 UTC

2007-01-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2006-12-31 23h59 UTC. Removals: net-misc/cidr 2006-12-25 13:16:43 beu dev-util/mergetrees 2006-12-25 13:19:18 beu dev-java/kunststoff-bin 2006-12-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Call For Interest: Scale5x

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Dibb
Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 14:36 -0800, Chris White wrote: Scale5X announcement just hit my inbox, so away we go. Scale 5X will be taking place at: http://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1005 The Westin Los Angeles Airport from Feb.

[gentoo-dev] Re: metadatabase (was: Dependencies on system packages)

2007-01-03 Thread Ryan Hill
Steve Long wrote: > Robert Buchholz wrote: > I understand that it's hard to distinguish a pkg that hasn't been checked, > but might need the C-compiler, from a pkg that doesn't need the compiler > but just hasn't been checked. That's where I was going with the database > stuff. >> Since the tree

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:06:20 + Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > The problem... is that most people don't realise a) when they're | > triggering a subshell, b) how die works (read the source, it's about | > twenty lines) or c) how unix signals work. This is why it's | > dangerous to cla

Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:05:48 + Stephen Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:56:54 +0100 > "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > GPL-2: > > Note: this license states that the software is licensed under GNU > > General Public License version 2, and

[gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] transition system loggers to 'adm' user/group

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 12:46, Mike Doty wrote: >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > how do people feel about transitioning the Gentoo standard system >> > logger >> > from running as root/root to adm/adm ? the latest version of sysklogd >> > includes some patches so that it ca

[gentoo-dev] to be removed: net-misc/tulip-devel

2007-01-03 Thread Rajiv Aaron Manglani
was originally added in 2003 since the in-kernel version at the time did not work on ppc. long since fixed. # Rajiv Aaron Manglani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (03 Jan 2007) # mask pending removal feb 3 2007; bug 159703. net-misc/tulip-devel PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Then agriffis invented the original die, along with assert (which no-one > seems to use these days...). It avoided the quoting and environment > problems with try, and it was good. However, it doesn't work inside > subshells, which is only a mild annoyance so long as you kn

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:23 + Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > At the top level, we set an environment variable to the pid of the | > main ebuild process. Then we install a signal trap handler, which, | > thanks to how bash works, is allowed to exit the main p

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > At the top level, we set an environment variable to the pid of the main > ebuild process. Then we install a signal trap handler, which, thanks to > how bash works, is allowed to exit the main process. Then we make die > first try to signal that trap handler, via kill (hence

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:59:57 + Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ignoring the religious debate for a sec, can I just ask how this is | being done? I thought an exit from a subshell took out the parent | too, so I'm curious. At the top level, we set an environment variable to the pid of t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:07:54 + Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran you're right in that it was obvious you were joking. I'd like | to ask: did you implement this? History of the die function, probably containing inaccuracies: In the really early days, it was called 'try', and it wa

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:26:03 -0500 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | > On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:28:05 +0200 Petteri Räty > | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | Well I was under the impression from zmedico that it completely > | > |

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Ignoring the religious debate for a sec, can I just ask how this is being done? I thought an exit from a subshell took out the parent too, so I'm curious. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal of new global useflag: avahi

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Markus Ullmann wrote: > % cat /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc | grep -i ":avahi" > gnome-base/gnome-vfs:avahi - Support for avahi mdns daemon. > gnome-extra/gnome-games:avahi - Support for avahi mdns daemon. > kde-base/kdelibs:avahi - Support for avahi mdns daemon. > media-sound/mt-daapd:avahi

[gentoo-dev] Re: GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Paul de Vrieze wrote: > I know that I'm a bit late on this, but to me the "version 2 or later" is > a license by itself. Let's call it GPL-RENEW and let the file have > contents like: > "This package is licensed with the version x or later clause for the GPL." > > The LICENSE would then be: > LICE

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Robert Buchholz wrote: > Steve Long wrote: >> Robert Buchholz wrote: >>> The problem here is that one can not say when the whole tree is updated >>> to the new standard, because for the packages which were not touched, it >>> could mean that they needed no change or that they were not looked at >>>

Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] bugstest.gentoo.org - public beta for the new Gentoo BugZilla - please test!

2007-01-03 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jakub Moc wrote: > Lance Albertson napsal(a): > > I'd like to hold this back a few days. I want to double check all the >> machines to make sure we haven't missed anything. I've been working the >> past few days on it and am getting close. > > Well,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:26:03 -0500 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:28:05 +0200 Petteri Räty | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | Well I was under the impression from zmedico that it completely | > | works. | > | > zmedico has too much f

[gentoo-dev] mysql updates

2007-01-03 Thread Francesco Riosa
Since I'm retiring on 2006-01-08 I've spent some time trying to leave a more manageable situation for the other part of mysql-team. The user visible changes are mostly that test should always work and for crazy 5.1 users a "pbxt" that enable build of an external storage engine. Developer side st

Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2007-01-03 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 22 December 2006 22:53, Yuri Vasilevski wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:56:54 +0100 > > "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At the moment we represent the software we consider under GNU General > > Public License, version 2 of the license, but we cannot be s

[gentoo-dev] Removal schedule for net-misc/ltsp changed

2007-01-03 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, As a user wrote me a mail that his company uses ltsp a lot and is interested in helping to maintain it, it will not be removed. It stays masked until we have solved the security issues. Although I don't use it and have no idea about that piece of software, I will proxy maintain. V-Li signa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 01:26, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Can someone open a window and let out some of Ciaran's ego? then you'll let in the bees ;( -mike pgpv9jFvDLn0G.pgp Description: PGP signature