Re: [gentoo-dev] VDB access

2008-02-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:21:34 -0800 > Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If the package manager exposes a slightly lower level interface to >> the USE flags then build_with_use can use that instead, and the >> package mana

Re: [gentoo-dev] new portage categories

2008-02-06 Thread Alec Warner
On 2/4/08, Jonas Bernoulli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/4/08, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 20:11 Mon 04 Feb , Jonas Bernoulli wrote: > > > Thinking about it again I would say tags and categories just fulfill > > > different purposes. Tags can not replace categories but

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: depend.apache.eclass

2008-02-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 21:20 Wed 06 Feb , Benedikt Boehm (hollow) wrote: > Revision ChangesPath > 1.42 eclass/depend.apache.eclass > > file : > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/eclass/depend.apache.eclass?rev=1.42&view=markup > plain: > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to get more involved?

2008-02-06 Thread Josh Nichols
Denis Dupeyron wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 11:49 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 08:54 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/getting-involved.xml Maybe could we get it moved on

Re: [gentoo-dev] retiring + looking maintainers for sendmail, tenshi, scapy, ftester

2008-02-06 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry to see you leave, I can maintain scapy if no one else wants to? Mike 5:) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHqglzu7rWomwgFXoRAismAJ4+4D50v0k6VSRfEfRV4mMiBP9QHACeLHJB 1IYpKEqzWFsdiFYXG7IJyhc=

Re: [gentoo-dev] VDB access

2008-02-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:24:28 +0100 Michael Haubenwallner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 for general metadata query interface. > > In prefix (specifically on AIX) we have some nasty requirement to > merge object files inside archive files, because shared-objects > should be members of a static lib

Re: [gentoo-dev] VDB access

2008-02-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:21:34 -0800 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Allow package managers that implement native_built_with_use to > > sandbox off vdb completely, and ban all ebuild access to vdb. > > The problem that I see with native_built_with_use is that the > package manager will t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: VDB access

2008-02-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:43:20 +0200 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > > Incidentally, if anyone is still thinking that built_with_use is > > fine... It doesn't handle IUSE defaults, which means package > > managers have to store a hacked version of IUSE in VDB fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to get more involved?

2008-02-06 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Feb 5, 2008 11:49 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 08:54 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: > > William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/getting-involved.xml > > > > > Maybe could we get it moved on the top level? > > Sure, the

Re: [gentoo-dev] VDB access

2008-02-06 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 07:30 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > or we would want to use the general metadata query also for other > purposes. > Anyway, restricting ebuilds from vdb access sounds like a good idea to me. +1 for general metadata query interface. In prefix (specific

[gentoo-dev] retiring + looking maintainers for sendmail, tenshi, scapy, ftester

2008-02-06 Thread Andrea Barisani
Hi folks, I'm retiring. I was maintaining the following packages: app-admin/tenshi (note: I'm upstream as well) mail-mta/sendmail net-analyzer/scapy net-analyzer/ftester (note: I'm upstream as well) So those needs new maintainership. Cheers -- Andrea Barisani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-util/lockrun: metadata.xml ChangeLog lockrun-2.ebuild Manifest

2008-02-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 18:22 Tue 05 Feb , Caleb Tennis (caleb) wrote: > 1.1 dev-util/lockrun/lockrun-2.ebuild > > file : > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-util/lockrun/lockrun-2.ebuild?rev=1.1&view=markup > plain: > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-util/lo