[gentoo-dev] Re: avoiding urgent stabilizations

2011-02-07 Thread Duncan
Paweł Hajdan, Jr. posted on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:02:36 +0100 as excerpted: > On 2/7/11 9:50 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: >> My suggestion, as I said to fosdem, is to freeze, or take a >> snapshot if you like, of the current tree, stabilize what you need to >> stabilize, test the whole tree ( at least

[gentoo-dev] automated testing framework for Gentoo on Supercell at the OSL

2011-02-07 Thread Tim Harder
Hi all, Is anyone interested in getting some type of automated Gentoo testing framework setup on the new Supercell infrastructure [1] at the OSUOSL? In a nutshell, Supercell allows projects to spin up their own VMs on demand using Ganeti Web Manager [2]. For those who don't know, a lot of infrast

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Removing profiles/use.local.desc file from CVS on 2011-02-11

2011-02-07 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 16:09:30 +0100 Luca Longinotti wrote: > On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:47:55 +0100 > Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > > > Le dimanche 06 février 2011 à 23:52 -0600, Jeremy Olexa a écrit : > > > As for the "re-syncing all files thing" - I can't reproduce that, > > > though I've seen mul

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please review: updates for bzr.eclass

2011-02-07 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2011, James Cloos wrote: UM> 1) initial branch with "bzr branch --no-tree", UM> 2) subsequent updates with "bzr pull", UM> 3) export to ${WORKDIR} with "bzr export". > I applaud those changes, Thanks. :) > but please mv(1) old repos rather than rm(1)ing them; bandwidth is >

Re: [gentoo-dev] avoiding urgent stabilizations

2011-02-07 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 2/7/11 9:50 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > My suggestion, as I said to fosdem, is to freeze, or take a > snapshot if you like, of the current tree, stabilize what you need to > stabilize, test the whole tree ( at least compile wise ) for a couple of > weeks and then replace the existing stable tre

Re: [gentoo-dev] avoiding urgent stabilizations

2011-02-07 Thread Markos Chandras
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:45:10PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > We've been discussing this @FOSDEM too. My suggestion was that any bug that > visibly hurts stable users should always be considered at least MAJOR in > bugzilla. > > To expand on this a bit more > * a stable update that m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please review: updates for bzr.eclass

2011-02-07 Thread James Cloos
> "UM" == Ulrich Mueller writes: UM> 1) initial branch with "bzr branch --no-tree", UM> 2) subsequent updates with "bzr pull", UM> 3) export to ${WORKDIR} with "bzr export". I applaud those changes, but please mv(1) old repos rather than rm(1)ing them; bandwidth is often more of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag?

2011-02-07 Thread Petteri Räty
On 02/07/2011 08:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 02/07/2011 07:55 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: >> On 02/07/2011 03:15 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> +1 with exception that those using USE=sound for libcanberra should be >>> split into it's own USE flag called USE=libcanberra >>> and USE=so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag?

2011-02-07 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/07/2011 07:55 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: > On 02/07/2011 03:15 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > >> >> >> +1 with exception that those using USE=sound for libcanberra should be >> split into it's own USE flag called USE=libcanberra >> and USE=sound should be kept for the generic ones >> > > libcanb

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag?

2011-02-07 Thread Petteri Räty
On 02/07/2011 03:15 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > > +1 with exception that those using USE=sound for libcanberra should be > split into it's own USE flag called USE=libcanberra > and USE=sound should be kept for the generic ones > libcanberra describes the means and not the results so we shou

Re: [gentoo-dev] avoiding urgent stabilizations

2011-02-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
We've been discussing this @FOSDEM too. My suggestion was that any bug that visibly hurts stable users should always be considered at least MAJOR in bugzilla. To expand on this a bit more * a stable update that makes the computer nonfunctional is definitely BLOCKER (and should be reverted in

Re: [gentoo-dev] avoiding urgent stabilizations

2011-02-07 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 07-02-2011 a las 18:43 +0200, Samuli Suominen escribió: > On 02/07/2011 06:19 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > > From time to time there are stabilization bugs where the current stable > > is broken. For example, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353487 > > > > However, in theory tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] avoiding urgent stabilizations

2011-02-07 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/07/2011 06:19 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > From time to time there are stabilization bugs where the current stable > is broken. For example, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353487 > > However, in theory that should not happen, because presumably the > current stable has been test

[gentoo-dev] avoiding urgent stabilizations

2011-02-07 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
From time to time there are stabilization bugs where the current stable is broken. For example, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353487 However, in theory that should not happen, because presumably the current stable has been tested in the past and considered not broken. Of course that wou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Removing profiles/use.local.desc file from CVS on 2011-02-11

2011-02-07 Thread Luca Longinotti
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:47:55 +0100 Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > Le dimanche 06 février 2011 à 23:52 -0600, Jeremy Olexa a écrit : > > As for the "re-syncing all files thing" - I can't reproduce that, > > though I've seen multiple reports. Did it settle down now? (I > > assume so) > > > > -Jere

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag?

2011-02-07 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/07/2011 09:36 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > It's used by several packages as a local flag, and its meaning seems > to be similar enough. > > app-editors/emacs:sound - Enable sound > app-editors/emacs-vcs:sound - Enable sound > app-misc/anki:sound - Enable support for adding sound to cards >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Removing profiles/use.local.desc file from CVS on 2011-02-11

2011-02-07 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le dimanche 06 février 2011 à 23:52 -0600, Jeremy Olexa a écrit : > As for the "re-syncing all files thing" - I can't reproduce that, though > I've seen multiple reports. Did it settle down now? (I assume so) > > -Jeremy > synced my laptop this morning around 11AM UTC and was hit by this myster

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag?

2011-02-07 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le lundi 07 février 2011 à 08:36 +0100, Ulrich Mueller a écrit : > It's used by several packages as a local flag, and its meaning seems > to be similar enough. > > app-editors/emacs:sound - Enable sound > app-editors/emacs-vcs:sound - Enable sound > app-misc/anki:sound - Enable support for adding