[gentoo-dev] RFC: new feature to disable merging into stray locations

2012-04-29 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, Since lately Gentoo devs force you to replace collision-protect with protect-owned [1] and sometimes packages just spit out files randomly on the filesystem due to random errors, I thought it may be a good idea to provide a new feature limiting the locations where packages can install. In

Re: [gentoo-dev] busybox[sep-usr] support for mounting /usr w/out hassle

2012-04-29 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, Mike Frysinger wrote: > i've added a new USE=sep-usr flag to busybox. when enabled, this > will install a static busybox at /ginit (and have the other busybox > paths symlink to that so there's no overhead). this new applet has a > hand written set of commands to automat

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 30 April 2012 02:16, Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:08:34 -0400 > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: >> > On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it >> > > r

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:08:34 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: > > On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it > > > runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-co

Re: [gentoo-dev] busybox[sep-usr] support for mounting /usr w/out hassle

2012-04-29 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:48:55AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > it leaves your system in a hard to recover state because you happened to > forget to check a filesystem option (which ironically isn't under Filesystems > in the kernel). it's piss-poor user facing behavior. Here's the situation.

Re: [gentoo-dev] busybox[sep-usr] support for mounting /usr w/out hassle

2012-04-29 Thread Luca Barbato
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/04/12 21:48, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> The recent udev-mount script goes with >=udev-182 which *requires* >> devtmpfs, so I don't see why you think the the udev-mount script is >> braindead. > > it leaves your system in a hard to recover state be

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Luca Barbato
On 29/04/12 21:17, Jeff Horelick wrote: > On 30 April 2012 00:08, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: >>> On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when buil

Re: [gentoo-dev] busybox[sep-usr] support for mounting /usr w/out hassle

2012-04-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 30 April 2012 00:31:52 William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:00:26PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > finally, since the recent udev-mount init.d script is completely brain > > dead and refuses to execute unless devtmpfs is enabled, this code will > > also automatically mount+

Re: [gentoo-dev] busybox[sep-usr] support for mounting /usr w/out hassle

2012-04-29 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:00:26PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > finally, since the recent udev-mount init.d script is completely brain dead > and > refuses to execute unless devtmpfs is enabled, this code will also > automatically mount+seed /dev (via mdev) if need be. The recent udev-mount s

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 30 April 2012 00:08, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: >> On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs >> > pkg- config when building.  glib-2 requires pkg-config.  whee. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: > On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs > > pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. > > > > for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal

[gentoo-dev] busybox[sep-usr] support for mounting /usr w/out hassle

2012-04-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
i've added a new USE=sep-usr flag to busybox. when enabled, this will install a static busybox at /ginit (and have the other busybox paths symlink to that so there's no overhead). this new applet has a hand written set of commands to automatically mount /dev /proc /sys /usr and seed /dev, and

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2012-04-29 23h59 UTC

2012-04-29 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2012-04-29 23h59 UTC. Removals: gnome-extra/hardware-monitor2012-04-23 18:01:43 pacho media-sound/canorus 2012-04-23 18:02:29 pacho dev-libs/libtomcrypt

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Richard Yao
On 04/29/12 19:29, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 29/04/12 15:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- >> config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. > >> for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012

2012-04-29 Thread Luca Barbato
On 29/04/12 15:40, Zac Medico wrote: > Maybe it's reasonable for the initramfs to utilize a config file from > /etc of the future root filesystem, but having in depend on files from > the future /usr seems like a strange idea. Wouldn't it make more sense > to bundle all dependencies into the initra

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Luca Barbato
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/04/12 15:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- > config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. > > for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to ena

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Changing default serial-console definition in inittab

2012-04-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 27 April 2012 13:29:54 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Since I've been configuring a couple of systems lately for remote > access, which include configuring the serial console, I'm wondering if > it would be a good idea to change our inittab so that the default > (commented out) definition of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012

2012-04-29 Thread Zac Medico
On 04/29/2012 12:04 AM, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 28/04/12 23:44, Michał Górny wrote: >> I have already opened bugs for many of them. But the list will increase >> in time, and we'll either move a lot of libraries to /lib* or decide to >> go the other way. > > repeat after me EARLY BOOT, as in init

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs pkg- > config when building.  glib-2 requires pkg-config.  whee. > > for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal.  but we'd like to enable a > lighter alternative for embedded/a

[gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable a lighter alternative for embedded/alternative systems. as such, i'd like to introduce a

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-embedded/tigcc needs an urgent bump

2012-04-29 Thread Chris Reffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/29/12 07:48, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El lun, 23-04-2012 a las 20:35 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: >> Our stable versions are broken for a long time, they even don't compile, >> but we cannot stable latest testing version because of a buffer overflow

Re: [gentoo-dev] Xfce 4.10 in Portage (and a bit of warning about me being partly "devaway")

2012-04-29 Thread James Broadhead
On 29 April 2012 12:00, Samuli Suominen wrote: > I've just included Xfce 4.10 final in Portage. > > Sorry for delay, but I was literally mugged at the middle of day. I was > having backpains before due to my scoliosis and this guy kicked me to spot > where it hurts. I'm in process of recovering. D

Re: [gentoo-dev] About validate_desktop_entries in eutils.eclass

2012-04-29 Thread Petteri Räty
On 15.04.2012 17:12, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El dom, 15-04-2012 a las 16:02 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: >> On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:59:50 +0200 >> Pacho Ramos wrote: >> >>> I am unsure about validate_desktop_entries() utility. It's currently >>> provided by eutils.eclass and only called by net-firewa

Re: [gentoo-dev] new vdr-plugin-2.eclass needs review

2012-04-29 Thread Joerg Bornkessel
Guten Tag Joerg Bornkessel, am Mittwoch, 25. April 2012 um 22:35 schrieben Sie: > Hallo Gentoo-dev ML, > some major changes in media-video/vdr-1.7.27:overlay vdr-devel > needs some rewrite in the vdr-plugin.eclass > Please review after 5 days, no reply found a small typo in a test; fixed

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-embedded/tigcc needs an urgent bump

2012-04-29 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 23-04-2012 a las 20:35 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: > Our stable versions are broken for a long time, they even don't compile, > but we cannot stable latest testing version because of a buffer overflow > problem. A bump could help, but looks like embedded team doesn't have > enough time for

[gentoo-dev] media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware needs some love

2012-04-29 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware has quite a few open bugs[1] because some of the firmwares listed in that ebuild don't exist anymore. Anyone willing to step up and bring this package up2date? [1]https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=lin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite app-text/chmsee. Semi-lastrite libopensync-plugin-google-calendar.

2012-04-29 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 29-04-2012 a las 13:54 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió: > On 04/28/2012 01:17 PM, Michael Weber wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > According to upstreams homepage [1], > > the current tagged v1.99.09 does support xulrunner 11.0. > > There is no such thin

[gentoo-dev] Xfce 4.10 in Portage (and a bit of warning about me being partly "devaway")

2012-04-29 Thread Samuli Suominen
I've just included Xfce 4.10 final in Portage. Sorry for delay, but I was literally mugged at the middle of day. I was having backpains before due to my scoliosis and this guy kicked me to spot where it hurts. I'm in process of recovering. Don't worry, I'll get over this but I need a week or t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite app-text/chmsee. Semi-lastrite libopensync-plugin-google-calendar.

2012-04-29 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/28/2012 01:17 PM, Michael Weber wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 According to upstreams homepage [1], the current tagged v1.99.09 does support xulrunner 11.0. There is no such thing as "separate" Xulrunner 11.0. There is Firefox 11.0 but upstream stopped splitting

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Changing default serial-console definition in inittab

2012-04-29 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > The current definition sets the console at 9600 baud, using vt100 > emulation; I think most of us who configure it, do so at 115200 baud, > and some prefer vt-utf8 over vt100 (the two are partially compatible as > far as I can tell). Also note

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012

2012-04-29 Thread Luca Barbato
On 28/04/12 23:44, Michał Górny wrote: > I have already opened bugs for many of them. But the list will increase > in time, and we'll either move a lot of libraries to /lib* or decide to > go the other way. repeat after me EARLY BOOT, as in initramfs. In initramfs you don't have /usr with everythi