Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Roy Marples
On Friday 13 June 2008 02:13:19 David Leverton wrote: > The pkgcore was (or should have been) highly obvious to anyone who had > so much glanced at the offending code. Good behaviour Hey - I found this bug in your code. Here's a patch! Bad behaviour Hey guys - stop using Foo as it has a highly ob

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> I _honestly_ do not understand why there is so much trouble in simple >> cooperation amongst adults. > > I agree entirely. Why the pkgcore people refuse to do basic automated > tests is completely beyond me. This

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:40:28 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * ordering for _pre is wrong. > > hm? foo-0.26-live would become foo-0.26_pre1, which would be < 0.26. This is clearly wrong. > > * How are you planning to handle reinstalls? Should installing world > > always reinsta

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:30:54 +0530 "Arun Raghavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And why do you have to be plain insulting about it? Nobody can > magically spot every single bug in any piece of code presented to > them. In fact it's why the "given enough eyes ..." adage is one of the > bases of open

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:39:13 +0200 Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only commit from rane that I see is [1], which removes "spb" as a > maintainer. As far as I can tell, this is not a vandalizing, but a > completely legitimate status update which was triggered by spb's > retirement.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:43 AM, David Leverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/13 Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> In this instance, it's the "pulling teeth" to get info on a claimed known >> bug from PMS folks on pkgcore, while at the same time, complaints about >> the non-clarity of PMS is met

Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:14:21PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > TeX isnt a format that integrates with Gentoo. should just convert it to > docbook and be done with this garbage. I've not looked, but is anyone aware of a simple way to integrate this doc into the gentoo web hierarchy? Pdf's ar

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:09:43AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 04:11 Wed 11 Jun , Brian Harring wrote: > > if the running of it satisfys the councils requirements of a *neutral* > > standard, if the proposed spec actually meets said standards, > > Anyone working on a package manager (a

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread George Prowse
Thomas Anderson wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:11:51PM +0100, George Prowse wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:34:56 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd honestly like to see an official PMS project page i.e. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pms/ There's http:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread David Leverton
2008/6/13 Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In this instance, it's the "pulling teeth" to get info on a claimed known > bug from PMS folks on pkgcore, while at the same time, complaints about > the non-clarity of PMS is met with remarks (by the same group of people) > of (paraphrased) "filed a patch ye

[gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Duncan
Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:42:34 +: > Umm... pardon me for speaking my mind a bit here, and nothing personal, > particularly since I have the utmost respect for the talent and skills > of the people involved, but after seeing a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Duncan
David Leverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:58:26 +0100: > On Thursday 12 June 2008 22:21:48 Wernfried Haas wrote: >> Agreed, if this is the way PMS is done, we should either get rid of it >> or do it differently. >> The current status as p

Re: [gentoo-dev] eapi1 bug/pkgcore sucks thread [was EAPI-2 - Let's get it started]

2008-06-12 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 07:02:52AM -0400, Thomas Anderson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:16:05PM -0700, Brian Harring wrote: > I'm not quite sure how you're trying to present this, but are you really > trying to say that EAPI 1 isn't documented? I myself found this in > pms.pdf in 2 minutes(it

Re: [gentoo-dev] eapi1 bug/pkgcore sucks thread [was EAPI-2 - Let's get it started]

2008-06-12 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:39:21AM +0200, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: > > On 12 Jun 2008, at 04:16, Brian Harring wrote: > > > >Why the exherbo/paludis/PMS folk decided to go this route to report, > >I'm not quite sure aside from assuming they're just griefers. > > s-exherbo/paludis/PMS-pkgcore-g a

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Thomas Anderson
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:11:51PM +0100, George Prowse wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:34:56 -0400 >> Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'd honestly like to see an official PMS project page i.e. >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pms/ >> There's http://www.gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Freedesktop utils in ebuild

2008-06-12 Thread René 'Necoro' Neumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Samuli Suominen schrieb: >>> - xdg-icon-resource install --> let it run? - or disable it (and >>> replace it by what)? > > unsure (as i've neved touched it) but i'd say if it respects DESTDIR and > doesn't have any file-collisions when installing, let

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Luca Barbato
Alec Warner wrote: I believe the biggest problem with this list is you have a long list of wants but seem to not want to do any of the work yourself. For the folks making the requests; are you working on doing any of them yourself? I will =) Otherwise your suggestions are mere recommendation

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread George Prowse
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:34:56 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd honestly like to see an official PMS project page i.e. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pms/ There's http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/pms.xml . Unfortunately, rane decided to go and vandalise i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread George Prowse
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:32:35 +0100 George Prowse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the bickering is stopping development then maybe it should be given to a 3rd party to complete and have the last word. Considering third parties have at best contributed a few small patches, I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread David Leverton
On Thursday 12 June 2008 22:21:48 Wernfried Haas wrote: > Agreed, if this is the way PMS is done, we should either get rid of it > or do it differently. > The current status as presented here is inacceptable. Could someone please explain what's wrong with PMS, other than "needs moar XML" and "I h

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Alec Warner
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug Goldstein wrote: >> >> Doug Goldstein wrote: >>> >>> Brian Harring wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:06:17AM +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > This is your one-day friendly reminder ! The monthly

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Luca Barbato
Doug Goldstein wrote: Doug Goldstein wrote: Brian Harring wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:06:17AM +, Mike Frysinger wrote: This is your one-day friendly reminder ! The monthly Gentoo Council meeting is tomorrow in #gentoo-council on irc.freenode.net. See the channel topic for the exa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:36:18AM +0200, Markus Ullmann wrote: > After investing more than two hours to just read the Mails that popped up > yesterday regarding this stuff, I'd say we can't really take this serious. > The PMS maintainers were withholding information on compatibility issues > th

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Doug Goldstein
Doug Goldstein wrote: Brian Harring wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:06:17AM +, Mike Frysinger wrote: This is your one-day friendly reminder ! The monthly Gentoo Council meeting is tomorrow in #gentoo-council on irc.freenode.net. See the channel topic for the exact time (but it's proba

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Jan Kundrát
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:34:56 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd honestly like to see an official PMS project page i.e. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pms/ There's http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/pms.xml . Unfortunately, rane decided to go and vandalise i

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Doug Goldstein
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:34:56 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd honestly like to see an official PMS project page i.e. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pms/ There's http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/pms.xml . Unfortunately, rane decided to go and van

Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:14:00 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, I was told to remove kdebuild-1 from the version sent to the > > Council for approval. Doing so is just a case of toggling a switch > > in PMS. > > > > Also, until they were all mysteriously fired, Gentoo's KDE p

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:34:56 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd honestly like to see an official PMS project page i.e. > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pms/ There's http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/pms.xml . Unfortunately, rane decided to go and vandalise it for some reason and

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-12 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:05:01 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just for fun I took some of the ideas about alternative management of the issue and specified the features it makes it worth changing (better management and automated snapshot generation from the l

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Doug Goldstein
Brian Harring wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:06:17AM +, Mike Frysinger wrote: This is your one-day friendly reminder ! The monthly Gentoo Council meeting is tomorrow in #gentoo-council on irc.freenode.net. See the channel topic for the exact time (but it's probably 2000 UTC). If you

Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 19:03 Thu 12 Jun , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:14:21 -0400 > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 12 June 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > On 04:11 Wed 11 Jun , Brian Harring wrote: > > > > Reiterating the early request, I'd like the council to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Freedesktop utils in ebuild

2008-06-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:27:26 +0200 René 'Necoro' Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kirjoitti: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > René 'Necoro' Neumann schrieb: > > Hi list, > > > > I'm currently trying to update an ebuild (x11-misc/zim) to a new > > version. The old one uses a patch to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:32:35 +0100 George Prowse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the bickering is stopping development then maybe it should be > given to a 3rd party to complete and have the last word. Considering third parties have at best contributed a few small patches, I don't see that getting

Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:14:21 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > On 04:11 Wed 11 Jun , Brian Harring wrote: > > > Reiterating the early request, I'd like the council to please > > > discuss the current status of PMS, > > > > Peo

Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread David Leverton
On Thursday 12 June 2008 18:14:21 Mike Frysinger wrote: > he was told to remove kdebuild-1 from the repo and this has yet to happen I just checked the April meeting log, and while I admit I didn't read every word from start to finish, all I could see was that kdebuild couldn't be in the final, o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread George Prowse
Luca Barbato wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Package manager maintainers refusing to do basic testing before claiming support for a new EAPI has very messy consequences. If package manager maintainers aren't going to do the responsible thing, the whole point of EAPIs is lost. Thats a circular ar

Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> On 04:11 Wed 11 Jun , Brian Harring wrote: >> > Reiterating the early request, I'd like the council to please discuss >> > the current status of PMS, >> >> People act

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 17:11 Fri 06 Jun , Marius Mauch wrote: > It's not about "forcing" anyone to do something but giving people enough > information on how to implement it _if they choose to do so_. With the > current GLEP they'd have to make arbitrary decisions if e.g. a flag is > defined in both use.local.desc

Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 04:11 Wed 11 Jun , Brian Harring wrote: > > Reiterating the early request, I'd like the council to please discuss > > the current status of PMS, > > People actually working on the PMS would be better-placed to discuss its > current status, i

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 04:11 Wed 11 Jun , Brian Harring wrote: > Reiterating the early request, I'd like the council to please discuss > the current status of PMS, People actually working on the PMS would be better-placed to discuss its current status, if by that you mean progress toward an approved spec. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself)

2008-06-12 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: | On 14:52 Thu 05 Jun , Samuli Suominen wrote: |> # Samuli Suominen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (05 Jun 2008) |> # Masked for removal in ~30 days by treecleaners. |> # Replaced by USE libffi in sys-devel/gcc. Bug 163724. |> dev-libs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-12 Thread Doug Goldstein
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: "Łukasz Damentko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will be open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2008). I wish to nominate Halcy0n, Cardoe and leio. I'll accept my nomination. I

[gentoo-dev] Re: What to do for better support?

2008-06-12 Thread Tiziano Müller
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:20:47PM +0900, Takashi Yoshii wrote: >> I want sh to be supported more, and to be released officially in future. >> Currently, it doesn't have stable profile, and no 2008.0 release >> (not even as an experimental), though. > Seeing your employer

[gentoo-dev] Re: What to do for better support?

2008-06-12 Thread Duncan
Takashi Yoshii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:20:47 +0900: > I've got nothing to BTS so far, because my trial was so successful. So, > maybe I should... > - Test more packages of "sh" to find and report bugs? > - or Test "~sh"s to change the

Re: [gentoo-dev] What to do for better support?

2008-06-12 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:20:47PM +0900, Takashi Yoshii wrote: > I want sh to be supported more, and to be released officially in future. > Currently, it doesn't have stable profile, and no 2008.0 release > (not even as an experimental), though. Seeing your employer's domain, can you offer pointer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55

2008-06-12 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, at 15:33, Joe Peterson wrote: Luca Barbato wrote: Check if exists a line EAPI=*$, if does and the rest of the string matches an understood eapi, go on sourcing, otherwise ignore/mask it... And placing it out-of-band (like "# EAPI=...") avoids any so

[gentoo-dev] Re: What to do for better support?

2008-06-12 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Takashi Yoshii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've got nothing to BTS so far, because my trial was so successful. > So, maybe I should... > - Test more packages of "sh" to find and report bugs? Yes! Always. Maybe test stabilisation requests for packages. See the archtester programs of amd64 or x

Re: [gentoo-dev] eapi1 bug/pkgcore sucks thread [was EAPI-2 - Let's get it started]

2008-06-12 Thread Thomas Anderson
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:16:05PM -0700, Brian Harring wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:00:16PM +0100, David Leverton wrote: > > On Thursday 12 June 2008 02:46:03 Jim Ramsay wrote: > > > David Leverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Since at least one ebuild has already been modified specif

Re: [gentoo-dev] A unit-testing prototype

2008-06-12 Thread Rémi Cardona
Donnie Berkholz a écrit : I've heard two positive comments on IRC and nothing else, so I'm proceeding with this. I'll be adding these to the existing /usr/portage/eclass/tests/, adding shunit2 to the tree, and beginning some work looking into unit tests for portage's bash code. Could you let

Re: [gentoo-dev] eapi1 bug/pkgcore sucks thread [was EAPI-2 - Let's get it started]

2008-06-12 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On 12 Jun 2008, at 04:16, Brian Harring wrote: Why the exherbo/paludis/PMS folk decided to go this route to report, I'm not quite sure aside from assuming they're just griefers. s-exherbo/paludis/PMS-pkgcore-g and: http://fpereda.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/on-cooperating-and-paludis-vulnerabil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread David Leverton
On Thursday 12 June 2008 08:36:18 Markus Ullmann wrote: > After investing more than two hours to just read the Mails that popped > up yesterday regarding this stuff, I'd say we can't really take this > serious. The PMS maintainers were withholding information on > compatibility issues they've seen.

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:05:01 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just for fun I took some of the ideas about alternative management of > the issue and specified the features it makes it worth changing > (better management and automated snapshot generation from the live > ebuild). > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The idea behind posting to the list in advance is twofold -- holding > council members accountable for: > > 1) Knowing the relevant information, and > > 2) Participating in the source discussion if they have anything ne

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-12 Thread Luca Barbato
Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: Hello, looks like every nominee wants the council to be more technical so I have a few technical questions for you: 1. GLEP54 Just for fun I took some of the ideas about alternative management of the issue and specified the features it makes it worth changing (better

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:40:06 -0700 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you seriously suggesting that the portage and pkgcore developers > > think that they should be able to release a package manager that > > claims to support an EAPI when it in fact doesn't? > > When paludis hit the

Re: [gentoo-dev] A unit-testing prototype

2008-06-12 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:48:01 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02:47 Mon 26 May , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > A while back, vapier added some tests for the toolchain-funcs > > eclass to /usr/portage/eclass/tests/. I really like the idea, and I > > recently discovered an xUni

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:16:51AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:12:47 +0200 > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > Package manager maintainers refusing to do basic testing before > > > claiming support for a new EAPI has very messy conse

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:24:14 +0200 "Denis Dupeyron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Ciaran McCreesh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you seriously suggesting that the portage and pkgcore developers > > think that they should be able to release a package manager th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you seriously suggesting that the portage and pkgcore developers > think that they should be able to release a package manager that claims > to support an EAPI when it in fact doesn't? Please stop your incessant and

[gentoo-dev] What to do for better support?

2008-06-12 Thread Takashi Yoshii
Hi, I have been trying Gentoo Linux on sh(SuperH) target board. I starting at stage3-sh4-2007.0 binary, and synced to newer portage snapshot. Then successfully built stage1,2 and 3 using catalyst. I'm impressed with the system running just like as PC (but speed). I want sh to be supported more, a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:12:47 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Package manager maintainers refusing to do basic testing before > > claiming support for a new EAPI has very messy consequences. If > > package manager maintainers aren't going to do the responsi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Package manager maintainers refusing to do basic testing before claiming support for a new EAPI has very messy consequences. If package manager maintainers aren't going to do the responsible thing, the whole point of EAPIs is lost. Thats a circular argument since portage

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:52:13 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You should instead be asking the pkgcore guys why they should be > > allowed to continue keeping a package in the tree when they're > > blatantly ignoring the EAPI process. > > The eapi process is something not defined

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: No, we were trying to get the pkgcore people to write some frickin' test cases for their code rather than continuing to screw up the process by incorrectly claiming support for an EAPI. That isn't what has been perceived. Whoever will take the portage specification will

Re: [gentoo-dev] A unit-testing prototype

2008-06-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 02:47 Mon 26 May , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > A while back, vapier added some tests for the toolchain-funcs eclass to > /usr/portage/eclass/tests/. I really like the idea, and I recently > discovered an xUnit-style unit-testing framework for shell scripts > called ShUnit2. I played with it

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 - The Long Thread

2008-06-12 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a lot to be said about being stuck in the "grand design mindset". I > know many Gentoo, Portage, Exherbo, and Paludis developers are clearly > coming to that point in their programming careers based on the comment

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:36:18 +0200 Markus Ullmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After investing more than two hours to just read the Mails that > popped up yesterday regarding this stuff, I'd say we can't really > take this serious. The PMS maintainers were withholding information > on compatibility

[gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Markus Ullmann
Donnie Berkholz schrieb: >Status of PMS >- >ferringb said: > I'd like the council to please discuss the current status of PMS, if > the running of it satisfys the councils requirements of a *neutral* > standard, if the proposed spec actually meets said standards, and if > said spe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 14:58 Wed 11 Jun , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Carefully note the Preparation sections. If they aren't completed, we > will postpone the topic to the -council mailing list or the next meeting > instead of waste time during the meeting doing things that should've > happened in advance. > > P