Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due ian move to staffer

2011-12-14 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Due ian move to staffer the following packages need a new maintainer: > app-portage/autounmask Is this still needed now that emerge has --autounmask* options? > app-portage/demerge > > > Thanks for taking them > -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 14 December 2011 18:43:33 Alec Warner wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Leho Kraav wrote: >> > i'd be really happy if someone took care of >> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/150031 :> >> > >> > "include more info about binpk

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 14 December 2011 18:43:33 Alec Warner wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Leho Kraav wrote: > > i'd be really happy if someone took care of > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/150031 :> > > > > "include more info about binpkg in file name" > > That is great, but its not a 6 month proj

Re: [gentoo-dev] estack_{push,pop}: cool new helpers or over engineering?

2011-12-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
some people pointed out typos/bugs, so here's v2 -mike --- eutils.eclass 14 Dec 2011 17:36:18 - 1.372 +++ eutils.eclass 14 Dec 2011 23:46:37 - @@ -100,6 +100,54 @@ esvn_clean() { find "$@" -type d -name '.svn' -prune -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf } +# @FUNCTION: est

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Leho Kraav wrote: > i'd be really happy if someone took care of https://bugs.gentoo.org/150031 :> > > "include more info about binpkg in file name" > That is great, but its not a 6 month project... -A

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due ian move to staffer

2011-12-14 Thread Pacho Ramos
Due ian move to staffer the following packages need a new maintainer: app-portage/autounmask app-portage/demerge Thanks for taking them signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] estack_{push,pop}: cool new helpers or over engineering?

2011-12-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
i needed to temporarily modify the umask in some vcs eclasses. rather than open coding the umask saving/restoring, i decided to re-use the eshopts_{push,pop} logic so the umask can be pushed/popped easily. the resulting code was mostly copy & paste the same, and the stack maintenance ends up drow

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread Leho Kraav
i'd be really happy if someone took care of https://bugs.gentoo.org/150031 :> "include more info about binpkg in file name"

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of ChangeLog from eclass/ directory? (was: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: autotools.eclass)

2011-12-14 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 14-12-2011 a las 21:18 +0200, Samuli Suominen escribió: > I guess we can remove the ChangeLog from eclass/ directory since only > small portition of people seem to use it. > > (Note that this is not targetted specifically to the author of this > particular commit, more of an general obse

[gentoo-dev] Removal of ChangeLog from eclass/ directory? (was: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: autotools.eclass)

2011-12-14 Thread Samuli Suominen
I guess we can remove the ChangeLog from eclass/ directory since only small portition of people seem to use it. (Note that this is not targetted specifically to the author of this particular commit, more of an general observation) On 12/14/2011 09:15 PM, Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote: vapie

[gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass: dropping of M4DIR and explicit GNU m4 requirement

2011-12-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
first up, i can't find anyone using M4DIR anymore (has been deprecated for a while at this point), so i'm dropping it wrt AT_M4DIR. next, i'm explicitly noting GNU m4 as a requirement in the autotools.eclass. i believe this has always been de-facto case (we certainly use non-POSIX flags like -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Gaurav Saxena wrote: > Hello all, > I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on gentoo. I > would be having a duration of six months to work on the project. Could you > please suggest me some good project ideas that would be helpful to me as >

Re: [gentoo-dev] dropping of eutils.eclass check_license

2011-12-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 December 2011 16:20:51 Mike Frysinger wrote: > now that portage has ACCEPT_LICENSE support natively, we can go ahead and > drop the manual check_license logic from all ebuilds/eclasses dropped! check_license() now calls `die` with an informative message. not sure how long this wil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread C. Bergström
On 12/15/11 01:05 AM, Christian Ruppert wrote: On Wednesday 14 December 2011 16:36:42 Gaurav Saxena wrote: Hello all, I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on gentoo. I would be having a duration of six months to work on the project. Could you please suggest me some good

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread Christian Ruppert
On Wednesday 14 December 2011 16:36:42 Gaurav Saxena wrote: > Hello all, > I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on gentoo. I > would be having a duration of six months to work on the project. Could you > please suggest me some good project ideas that would be helpful to me

[gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread Gaurav Saxena
Hello all, I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on gentoo. I would be having a duration of six months to work on the project. Could you please suggest me some good project ideas that would be helpful to me as well as gentoo. I am interested in parallel computing, data stru