[gentoo-dev] debug.eclass is dead now

2007-01-04 Thread Alec Warner
Hi, Don't use debug.eclass. A team of crackpot developers gangbanged the tree (hi beu!) and remove all the nasty inherit lines, and then Diego added a deprecation message in the eclass. People with overlays utilizing debug.eclass will get many annoying messages prompting them to stop inheriting

Re: [gentoo-dev] PORTAGE_BINHOST Madness

2007-01-04 Thread Alec Warner
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 04 January 2007 20:33, Gustavo Felisberto wrote: >> Ok, so what is diference? > > probably the samething as between -k and -K > -mike A more verbose answer: -k says "use binary packages if possible, otherwise use ebuilds" -K says "use only binary packages, fai

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites for app-portage/abeni

2007-01-04 Thread Paul Varner
>From Bug #159329 "abeni was pmasked by pythonhead in April 2005, waiting on a version that supported wxpython-2.6. no release was ever made, and upstream (pythonhead) is MIA. we're starting to phase out wxpython-2.4 support now, so these ebuilds should be removed (too bad, looks like a cool proje

Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql updates

2007-01-04 Thread Francesco Riosa
Going into maintenance mode until 2007.1.8, only bugs introduced by latest changes will be fixed. Pondering a general revision bump of dev/db/mysql* tomorrow to fix/show breakage. cheers -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] PORTAGE_BINHOST Madness

2007-01-04 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 04 January 2007 20:33, Gustavo Felisberto wrote: > Ok, so what is diference? probably the samething as between -k and -K -mike pgp1GupdWafBk.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] PORTAGE_BINHOST Madness

2007-01-04 Thread Gustavo Felisberto
According to man portage: --getbinpkg (-g) Using the server and location defined in PORTAGE_BINHOST (see make.conf(5)), portage will download the information from each binary package found and it will use that information to help build the dependency

[gentoo-dev] Re: metadatabase

2007-01-04 Thread Ryan Hill
Robert Buchholz wrote: > I don't want to sound negative and I like the idea a lot, but two things > are on my mind about this: > > It should also sync with changes in the tree, like package removals, > additions and package moves. For sure. > When you're talking about it on ebuild base: When a

[gentoo-dev] bugs.gentoo.org migration - finally! - tentatively scheduled for 6th Jan 2007, 02h00 - 05h00 UTC

2007-01-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The day has finally come, and we're ready to do the final migration of Bugzilla to the new hardware. This is tentatively scheduled to start at 02h00 UTC on 6th January 2007. I am estimating 3 hours for all of it, but I hope to have it done is less than that. Keep an eye on the #gentoo-dev topic f

[gentoo-dev] SCALE To Host Women in Open Source Mini Conference

2007-01-04 Thread Gareth J. Greenaway
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Los Angeles, CA January 2, 2007 The Southern California Linux Expo announces plans to a 'Women In Open Source' Mini-conference. The goals of the conference are to encourage women to use technology and open source and free software, and to explore the obstacles that women f

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

2007-01-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:00:51 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Except that a GPL-RENEW tag would be transparent over newer GPL | releases too. But it won't be transparent for end users, who will have to accept weird non-licences in ACCEPT_LICENCES. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail

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

2007-01-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:00:51 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:42, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:18:51 +0100 > > > > Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I know that I'm a bit late on this, but to me the "version 2 or > > >

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

2007-01-04 Thread Robert Buchholz
Steve Long schrieb: >>> In terms of maintaining the metadata, am I right in thinking it's all >>> just kept within the text files in the tree? >> Since the tree itself is the best database of the packages available, >> anything else would be a lot more overhead. >> > I really don't agree, altho I c

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

2007-01-04 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:42, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:18:51 +0100 > > Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 content

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: metadatabase

2007-01-04 Thread Robert Buchholz
Ryan Hill wrote: > Steve Long wrote: >> Robert Buchholz wrote: >>> Since the tree itself is the best database of the packages available, >>> anything else would be a lot more overhead. > >> I really don't agree, altho I could well be missing something. Surely there >> should be a maintenance/QA da

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

2007-01-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:18:51 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 clau

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

2007-01-04 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 22:54, Steve Long wrote: > 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 l