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

2012-04-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 04:28:15PM +0100, Steven J Long wrote > Walter Dnes wrote: > > I've also cobbled together my > > own "autodepclean" script that check for, and optionally unmerges > > unneeded stuff that was pulled in as a dependancy of a package that has > > since been removed. > > > What a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Arbitrary breakage: sys-fs/cryptsetup

2012-04-01 Thread schism
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:58:17AM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote: | With that bug fixed by now is there still need for a news entry? I don't think I make that call, but if the current plastering-over would generally keep existing setups from breaking, I'm happier.

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2012-04-01 23h59 UTC

2012-04-01 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2012-04-01 23h59 UTC. Removals: dev-db/pgaccess 2012-03-28 13:58:18 titanofold www-client/arora2012-03-28 17:03:20 pesa sys-fs/ntfsprogs

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

2012-04-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 22:47:23 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > > There's no guarantee, of course, that the amount of space in ${T} in > > pkg_pretend is anything like the amount of space that will be > > available for the build, but check-reqs is deliberately designed to > > be wildly inaccurate. > > Ye

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

2012-04-01 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 19:55:44 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:10:50 +0200 > 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. Therefore > > I ask, what is the proper behaviour h

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

2012-04-01 Thread Maciej Grela
On 01.04.2012 20:55, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:10:50 +0200 > 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. Therefore I >> ask, what is the proper behaviour here ? Is there doc

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

2012-04-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:10:50 +0200 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. Therefore I > ask, what is the proper behaviour here ? Is there documentation on > what special env variables are supp

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

2012-04-01 Thread Zac Medico
On 04/01/2012 01:29 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Zac Medico wrote: > >>> The problem is that apart from T (and maybe HOME), there seems to >>> be no other directory that check_reqs.eclass could use for its disk >>> space check in pkg_pretend. WORKDIR doesn't exist in pkg_*

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

2012-04-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:25:58 +0200 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > No, that's what you see from the inside. We, outside your head, the > others, see it precisely as Brian worded it. Some people apparently > tolerate or even appreciate your general (online) attitude towards > humans, but most do not. You'

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

2012-04-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:04:11 +0100 Steven J Long wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > No, what I actually say is *why* things don't work, and if it hasn't > > already been explained, I say how to fix it. > Oh? Where on Earth did you do that in this thread? All you've said so > far is that preserve-

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

2012-04-01 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:04:11 +0100 Steven J Long wrote: > Yes, it is hard to admit one has problems; how are things going with > your human interaction problems? (They don't seem to be going that > well, given your continued attitude.) I mean, you have admitted to > yourself that you do have issu

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

2012-04-01 Thread Steven J Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > No, what I actually say is *why* things don't work, and if it hasn't > already been explained, I say how to fix it. Oh? Where on Earth did you do that in this thread? All you've said so far is that preserve-libs is "an awful hack that doesn't really work, is conceptually

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

2012-04-01 Thread Steven J Long
Walter Dnes wrote: > I've also cobbled together my > own "autodepclean" script that check for, and optionally unmerges > unneeded stuff that was pulled in as a dependancy of a package that has > since been removed. > What advantage does it have over a standard --depclean? -- #friendly-coders --

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

2012-04-01 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Zac Medico wrote: >> The problem is that apart from T (and maybe HOME), there seems to >> be no other directory that check_reqs.eclass could use for its disk >> space check in pkg_pretend. WORKDIR doesn't exist in pkg_* phases. > How about PWD? No sure. Do all package

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

2012-04-01 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 31-03-2012 a las 19:25 -0400, Walter Dnes escribió: > 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