Re: [gentoo-dev] automated bug filing (i.e. pybugz) failing because of missing token

2012-03-31 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 07:37:15PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:03 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 05:19:10PM +0200, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > >> On 3/26/12 7:20 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:08 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/31/2012 04:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:42:50AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote >> On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: >>> About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's the >>> one I use and I know, about other alternatives like using squashfs,

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:42:50AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote > On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's the > > one I use and I know, about other alternatives like using squashfs, loop > > mount... I cannot promise anything as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should ${T} be defined in pkg_prepare ?

2012-03-31 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/31/2012 01:56 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Tiziano Müller wrote: >> and since "pkg_pretend is run separately from the main phase >> function sequence, and does not participate in any kind of >> environment saving" it is not guaranteed to be set to the same $T >> later

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/31/2012 10:52 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:44:03 +0300 Alex Alexander > wrote: >> @preserved-libs works very well and is awesome. hack or not. IMO >> it should be in stable already. I've been using it on stable >> produc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should ${T} be defined in pkg_prepare ?

2012-03-31 Thread Francesco Riosa
2012/3/31 Tiziano Müller : > Am Samstag, den 31.03.2012, 14:44 +0200 schrieb Ulrich Mueller: >> > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Maciej Grela wrote: >> >> > I've read the PMS and I haven't found information whether this variable >> > is supposed to be set during pkg_prepare or not. >> >> There is no such

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should ${T} be defined in pkg_prepare ?

2012-03-31 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Tiziano Müller wrote: >> The spec seems to be clear that T is legal in all phases, including >> pkg_pretend. > Well, I'd say: there is no sane value you can assign to $T since you > are not allowed to write anything anyway: > "pkg_pretend must not write to the filesyst

Re: [gentoo-dev] ESCM_OFFLINE/ EVCS_OFFLINE env variable policy

2012-03-31 Thread Justin
On 31.03.2012 20:49, Alexander V Vershilov wrote: > Hello. > > It seems that in eclasses we have two differenct environment variables > with same meaning ESCM and EVCS OFFLINE. Some of eclasses use one and > some another: > > find . -type f | xargs grep -l EVCS_OFFLINE > ./git-2.eclass > ./bz

Re: [gentoo-dev] ESCM_OFFLINE/ EVCS_OFFLINE env variable policy

2012-03-31 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:49:07 +0400 Alexander V Vershilov wrote: > Hello. > > It seems that in eclasses we have two differenct environment variables > with same meaning ESCM and EVCS OFFLINE. Some of eclasses use one and > some another: > > find . -type f | xargs grep -l EVCS_OFFLINE > ./git-

[gentoo-dev] ESCM_OFFLINE/ EVCS_OFFLINE env variable policy

2012-03-31 Thread Alexander V Vershilov
Hello. It seems that in eclasses we have two differenct environment variables with same meaning ESCM and EVCS OFFLINE. Some of eclasses use one and some another: find . -type f | xargs grep -l EVCS_OFFLINE ./git-2.eclass ./bzr.eclass find . -type f | xargs grep -l ESCM_OFFLINE ./darcs.ecla

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's the > one I use and I know, about other alternatives like using squashfs, loop > mount... I cannot promise anything as I simply don't know how to set > them. Squashfs is really simple

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:59:00 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > I wouldn't care if it weren't the fact your gentoo dev posts > > generally consist of "xyz is stupid, as is the people behind it" > > whether it be portage, udev, council, etc, take your pick. > > No, what I actually say is *why* th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread David Leverton
On 30 March 2012 14:25, Samuli Suominen wrote: > Back to year 2009? > > http://www.gentoo.org/news/20091004-gentoo-10-years.xml That never stopped anyone before http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_X-2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/31/2012 04:49 AM, Duncan wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh posted on Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:52:53 +0100 as excerpted: > >> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:44:03 +0300 Alex Alexander >> wrote: >>> @preserved-libs works very well and is awesome. hack or not. IMO it >>> should be in stable already. I've been using

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:39:21 +0300 Alex Alexander wrote: > On Mar 31, 2012 5:57 PM, "Ciaran McCreesh" > wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:08:29 +0300 > > Alex Alexander wrote: > > > No. I didn't say I think it works, I said I have proof it works. > > > > Well that's interesting, because there ar

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 03/31/12 23:38, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:30:07 +0800 > Patrick Lauer wrote: >>> So you think Gentoo should advertise as "the chances of it working >>> are greater than 0%"? >> >> I said better ... not repetitive trolls. >> >> If you cared about making things better you'd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:30:07 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > > So you think Gentoo should advertise as "the chances of it working > > are greater than 0%"? > > I said better ... not repetitive trolls. > > If you cared about making things better you'd spend more time writing > patches and less time

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Alex Alexander
On Mar 31, 2012 5:57 PM, "Ciaran McCreesh" wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:08:29 +0300 > Alex Alexander wrote: > > No. I didn't say I think it works, I said I have proof it works. > > Well that's interesting, because there are plenty of examples where it > doesn't work, and all that it takes to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should ${T} be defined in pkg_prepare ?

2012-03-31 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Samstag, den 31.03.2012, 14:44 +0200 schrieb Ulrich Mueller: > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Maciej Grela wrote: > > > I've read the PMS and I haven't found information whether this variable > > is supposed to be set during pkg_prepare or not. > > There is no such stage. You mean pkg_pretend, I s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:07:04 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > > If you have a ten components, each of which 98% work, your overall > > system is 80% reliable. If you have twenty such components, it's > > down to 66% reliable. You're rapidly entering "when it breaks, > > reinstall" territory here. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 03/31/12 23:01, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:00:00 +0800 > Patrick Lauer wrote: >> Good enough is the worst enemy of perfect. >> >> While we have s 98% solution that doesn't handle all corner cases you >> have a theoretical construct in your brain that might in theory cover >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:00:00 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > Good enough is the worst enemy of perfect. > > While we have s 98% solution that doesn't handle all corner cases you > have a theoretical construct in your brain that might in theory cover > 100% of all cases, but it's in your brain where

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:06:36 -0700 Brian Harring wrote: > > The problem with preserved-libs (and emerge --jobs, for that > > matter) is that the design is "I can think of a few ways where it > > might break, so I'll hard-code in special cases to handle those, > > but in general I can't think of wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:08:29 +0300 Alex Alexander wrote: > No. I didn't say I think it works, I said I have proof it works. Well that's interesting, because there are plenty of examples where it doesn't work, and all that it takes to disprove a theory is a single counterexample. So I think you're

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 31-03-2012 a las 02:35 -0700, Brian Harring escribió: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 08:44:02AM +, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:06:18AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > Looks then that there are several alternatives for portage tree, then, > > > maybe the option would

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 31-03-2012 a las 08:44 +, Sven Vermeulen escribió: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:06:18AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Looks then that there are several alternatives for portage tree, then, > > maybe the option would be to add a note to Gentoo Handbook explaining > > the cons of having p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should ${T} be defined in pkg_prepare ?

2012-03-31 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Maciej Grela wrote: > I've read the PMS and I haven't found information whether this variable > is supposed to be set during pkg_prepare or not. There is no such stage. You mean pkg_pretend, I suppose? > Therefore I ask, what is the proper behaviour here ? Is there > d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > (or hand me powers to remove people from ML :-) > That sounds like a great idea. We could create a code of conduct, and then designate individuals to enforce it. Maybe we should call them proctors: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/c

[gentoo-dev] Should ${T} be defined in pkg_prepare ?

2012-03-31 Thread Maciej Grela
Hi, recently, I've tried to compile libreoffice using paludis and I've noticed the following problem: 8< - kraken ~ # cave resolve libreoffice Done: 3905 steps These are the actions I will take, in order: r app-office/libreoffice:0

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Alex Alexander
On Mar 31, 2012 12:57 PM, "Ciaran McCreesh" wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:44:03 +0300 > Alex Alexander wrote: > > @preserved-libs works very well and is awesome. hack or not. IMO it > > should be in stable already. I've been using it on stable production > > boxes for years without any issues

[gentoo-dev] Re: Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh posted on Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:52:53 +0100 as excerpted: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:44:03 +0300 Alex Alexander > wrote: >> @preserved-libs works very well and is awesome. hack or not. IMO it >> should be in stable already. I've been using it on stable production >> boxes for years wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/31/2012 01:06 PM, Brian Harring wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:52:53AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:44:03 +0300 Alex Alexander wrote: @preserved-libs works very well and is awesome. hack or not. IMO it should be in stable already. I've been using it on stable p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 03/31/12 17:52, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:44:03 +0300 > Alex Alexander wrote: >> @preserved-libs works very well and is awesome. hack or not. IMO it >> should be in stable already. I've been using it on stable production >> boxes for years without any issues :) > > ...and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:52:53AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:44:03 +0300 > Alex Alexander wrote: > > @preserved-libs works very well and is awesome. hack or not. IMO it > > should be in stable already. I've been using it on stable production > > boxes for years without

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:44:03 +0300 Alex Alexander wrote: > @preserved-libs works very well and is awesome. hack or not. IMO it > should be in stable already. I've been using it on stable production > boxes for years without any issues :) ...and here we see the problem. You think that "I haven't n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Alex Alexander
On Mar 31, 2012 11:00 AM, "Ciaran McCreesh" wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:55:27 -0400 > Richard Yao wrote: > > I think we should wait for Portage 2.2 to be stabilized before we > > declare Gentoo 2.0. @preserved-libs is enough of an advance that I > > think claiming 2.0 would be merited, if o

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-auth/tcb

2012-03-31 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
# Masked for removal, use sys-apps/hardened-shadow instead. # Needs too much special patching to work in Gentoo, # bugs: #371167, #408647. Removal in 60 days (31 May 2012). sys-auth/tcb signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 08:44:02AM +, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:06:18AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Looks then that there are several alternatives for portage tree, then, > > maybe the option would be to add a note to Gentoo Handbook explaining > > the cons of having

Re: [gentoo-dev] haskell-cabal.eclass suggestions

2012-03-31 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:59:10 +0200 ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" wrote: > > echo 'import Distribution.Simple; main = defaultMainWithHooks > > defaultUserHooks' \ > > > $setupdir/Setup.hs > > } > > I think there should be || die after echo, to catch out-of-disk-space > problems. Ok :] > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 08:56:22AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Do you really want to be advertising an awful hack that doesn't really > work, is conceptually unsound and that breaks all kinds of things in > subtle ways? Isn't that something all major distributions do? ;-) Sven

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-31 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:06:18AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Looks then that there are several alternatives for portage tree, then, > maybe the option would be to add a note to Gentoo Handbook explaining > the cons of having portage tree on a standard partition and, then, put a > link to a wiki p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:55:27 -0400 Richard Yao wrote: > I think we should wait for Portage 2.2 to be stabilized before we > declare Gentoo 2.0. @preserved-libs is enough of an advance that I > think claiming 2.0 would be merited, if only for the attention it > would draw at Phoronix. Do you reall

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree

2012-03-31 Thread Graham Murray
"Walter Dnes" writes: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:26:22PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote > >> Though of course, if anybody has custom stuff in say, /usr/portage/local/ >> which they make by hand, nuking /usr/portage will make you *Very* >> unpopular. > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/han

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: location of portage tree

2012-03-31 Thread Duncan
Walter Dnes posted on Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:08:08 -0400 as excerpted: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:26:22PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote > >> Though of course, if anybody has custom stuff in say, >> /usr/portage/local/ >> which they make by hand, nuking /usr/portage will make you *Very* >> unpopular. >