[gentoo-dev] Re: Stability of /sys api

2012-05-16 Thread Steven J Long
William Hubbs wrote: > I'm wondering the same thing since once busybox 1.20.0 hits stable you > will be able to have a separate /usr without an initramfs quite easily > if that's what you want to do. > > When you emerge this version of busybox with the "sep-usr" use flag, you > get a binary in / c

[gentoo-dev] Re: Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-05-16 Thread Steven J Long
Alec Warner wrote: > Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> I think expressing my own opinion about Lennart-made software is my >> right, after all. >> Firstly, it's almost impossible nowadays to avoid including avahi, >> systemd and pulseaudio into a desktop distro so, there is no real >> choice. This issue

[gentoo-dev] Re: Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-05-16 Thread Steven J Long
Greg KH wrote: > Steven J Long wrote: >> And that is what we were discussing: possible future coupling between the >> two, which is much easier to do when the sources are part of the >> same package. .. >> OFC you could just assure us that udev will never rely on systemd as a >> design decision.

[gentoo-dev] last rites: games-arcade/ssc

2012-05-16 Thread Michael Sterrett
# Michael Sterrett (16 May 2012) # doesn't work with latest ode and last release in 2003. # Masked for removal on 20120615 games-arcade/ssc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Add new remote-id types in metadata.dtd

2012-05-16 Thread Kent Fredric
On 13 May 2012 07:43, Torsten Veller wrote: > * Corentin Chary : >> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 03:33:18PM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: >> >                                     { "term": { "status":"latest"} }, >> >                                     { "term": { >> > "module.authorized":"true"}} > > W

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Add new remote-id types in metadata.dtd

2012-05-16 Thread Kent Fredric
On 13 May 2012 07:43, Torsten Veller wrote: > * Corentin Chary : >> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 03:33:18PM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: >> >                                     { "term": { "status":"latest"} }, >> >                                     { "term": { >> > "module.authorized":"true"}} > > W

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: 4suite, amara and testoob (mostly for security)

2012-05-16 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/16/2012 10:31 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 05/16/2012 10:40 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: # Samuli Suominen (16 May 2012) # Internal copy of vulnerable dev-libs/expat wrt #250930, # CVE-2009-{3720,3560} and CVE-2012-{0876,1147,1148}. # # Fails to compile wrt bug #368089 # Bad migration aw

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: 4suite, amara and testoob (mostly for security)

2012-05-16 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 05/16/2012 10:40 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > # Samuli Suominen (16 May 2012) > # Internal copy of vulnerable dev-libs/expat wrt #250930, > # CVE-2009-{3720,3560} and CVE-2012-{0876,1147,1148}. > # > # Fails to compile wrt bug #368089 > # Bad migration away from dev-python/pyxml wrt #367745 > #

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?

2012-05-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > I implemented this feature in Entropy long time ago (2009 iirc) and > enabled it by default as well. > We never had a single issue. Users seem quite happy about it. > This is also the default behavior with the cfg-update alternative to dis

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?

2012-05-16 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 16-05-2012 11:48:20 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mié, 16-05-2012 a las 11:42 +0200, Fabian Groffen escribió: > > On 16-05-2012 12:36:03 +0300, Eray Aslan wrote: > > > On 2012-05-16 12:13 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > >>> make.conf(5) man page: > > > >>> This causes the CONFIG_PROTECT b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?

2012-05-16 Thread Eray Aslan
On 2012-05-16 12:56 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > Generally, several PMS (I think apt does it as well) make this assumption: > if config file C owned by package P has never been modified, meaning > that md5 or whatever is the same, the old C of P was fine, so is the > new C. Yep, and I always thoug

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?

2012-05-16 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Eray Aslan wrote: > On 2012-05-16 12:13 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: make.conf(5) man page:   This causes the CONFIG_PROTECT behavior to be skipped for files that   have not been modified since they were installed. >> >> +1 very good idea > > Hmm,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?

2012-05-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 16-05-2012 a las 11:42 +0200, Fabian Groffen escribió: > On 16-05-2012 12:36:03 +0300, Eray Aslan wrote: > > On 2012-05-16 12:13 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > >>> make.conf(5) man page: > > >>> This causes the CONFIG_PROTECT behavior to be skipped for files that > > >>> have not bee

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?

2012-05-16 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 16-05-2012 12:36:03 +0300, Eray Aslan wrote: > On 2012-05-16 12:13 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > >>> make.conf(5) man page: > >>> This causes the CONFIG_PROTECT behavior to be skipped for files that > >>> have not been modified since they were installed. > > > > +1 very good idea > > Hmm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?

2012-05-16 Thread Eray Aslan
On 2012-05-16 12:13 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >>> make.conf(5) man page: >>> This causes the CONFIG_PROTECT behavior to be skipped for files that >>> have not been modified since they were installed. > > +1 very good idea Hmm, does that mean that when a default changes in (or some new set

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?

2012-05-16 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Zac Medico wrote: >  This causes the CONFIG_PROTECT behavior to be skipped for files that >  have not been modified since they were installed. Yes, please! Cheers, Dirkjan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?

2012-05-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> > make.conf(5) man page: > > This causes the CONFIG_PROTECT behavior to be skipped for files that > > have not been modified since they were installed. +1 very good idea > The best thing about it is not having to worry about missing an important > change in a file I DO change, due to all th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?

2012-05-16 Thread Fabio Erculiani
I implemented this feature in Entropy long time ago (2009 iirc) and enabled it by default as well. We never had a single issue. Users seem quite happy about it. So yeah, go for it! -- Fabio Erculiani

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: 4suite, amara and testoob (mostly for security)

2012-05-16 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen (16 May 2012) # Internal copy of vulnerable dev-libs/expat wrt #250930, # CVE-2009-{3720,3560} and CVE-2012-{0876,1147,1148}. # # Fails to compile wrt bug #368089 # Bad migration away from dev-python/pyxml wrt #367745 # # Removal in 30 days. dev-python/4suite dev-python/amara de