Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 22/02/2013 08:37, Kent Fredric wrote: > I'd make sure to add some sort of easy support to switch to > snapshotted tar.gz installs instead of live git checkouts, ie: > > GH_SNAPSHOT=deadbeef # use commit id 'deadbeef' by fetching a tar.gz > from github instead of a git clone This is not going

Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Kent Fredric
On 22 February 2013 19:53, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: > Hi there! > > Since we have tons of ebuild (including -) for software, that uses > GitHub for sourcecode hosting — I've got an idea to write something > like GitHub eclass, which will ease creating of such ebuilds (by > providing "

[gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
Hi there! Since we have tons of ebuild (including -) for software, that uses GitHub for sourcecode hosting — I've got an idea to write something like GitHub eclass, which will ease creating of such ebuilds (by providing "sugar" functions) and, (main goal for me) by adding possibility to switc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware

2013-02-21 Thread David Abbott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> This should be a cross-distro issue/solution, so I suggest working with >> the Linux Foundation on this. Anyone object to me doing that? > > Go for it (speaking only for myself, but I can't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building against /usr/src/linux and linux-info.eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > there is the kernel source tree > (/usr/src/linux if it exists and is configured) The kernel can also be split (KV_DIR + KV_OUT_DIR), with relevant headers located in both directories. E.g., [1]. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building against /usr/src/linux and linux-info.eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 02/21/2013 06:12 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: Hi everyone, This issue has come up in a few bugs so I want to bounce it off the community. When building packages that need a configured kernel source tree, many ebuilds inherit linux-inf

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware

2013-02-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Greg KH wrote: > This should be a cross-distro issue/solution, so I suggest working with > the Linux Foundation on this. Anyone object to me doing that? Go for it (speaking only for myself, but I can't imagine the other Trustees would be opposed)! Rich

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building against /usr/src/linux and linux-info.eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This issue has come up in a few bugs so I want to bounce it off the > community. When building packages that need a configured kernel source > tree, many ebuilds inherit linux-info to find configuration info about the >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware

2013-02-21 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:44:12PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Greg KH wrote: > > > Has anyone asked the upstream linux-firmware developers about these > > files? > > I don't know. I haven't, for my part. But maybe we should first try > to produce a more complete lis

[gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware

2013-02-21 Thread Duncan
Greg KH posted on Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:55:34 -0800 as excerpted: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 07:33:48PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> > On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Greg KH wrote: >> >> >> Ulrich Mueller (ulm) wrote this on the 16th: >> >> >> >> > Look into the WHENCE file and be horrified. Taking ju

[gentoo-dev] Re: Building against /usr/src/linux and linux-info.eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Duncan
Markos Chandras posted on Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:25:30 + as excerpted: >>> Eg. bug #458014. >>> >>> Any ideas about how to deal cleanly with situations like that? >>> >>> >> I'm no expert, but I always thought that modules are supposed to >> consume headers from the kernel source directory, not f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building against /usr/src/linux and linux-info.eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Markos Chandras
On 21 February 2013 18:49, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Anthony G. Basile > wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> This issue has come up in a few bugs so I want to bounce it off the >> community. When building packages that need a configured kernel source >> tree, many ebuilds i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware

2013-02-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Greg KH wrote: >> I think this is something that the Board needs to decide, after >> discussing it with our lawyers, it's not something that non-legal >> people (like myself) should be saying is the definitive answe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware

2013-02-21 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Greg KH wrote: > Has anyone asked the upstream linux-firmware developers about these > files? I don't know. I haven't, for my part. But maybe we should first try to produce a more complete list, instead of reporting each file separately? Given that most of the files are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware

2013-02-21 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 07:33:48PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Greg KH wrote: > > >> Ulrich Mueller (ulm) wrote this on the 16th: > >> > >> > Look into the WHENCE file and be horrified. Taking just the first ten > >> > items (of a total 114): > >> > > >> >Unknow

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building against /usr/src/linux and linux-info.eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This issue has come up in a few bugs so I want to bounce it off the > community. When building packages that need a configured kernel source > tree, many ebuilds inherit linux-info to find configuration info about the >

[gentoo-dev] Building against /usr/src/linux and linux-info.eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone, This issue has come up in a few bugs so I want to bounce it off the community. When building packages that need a configured kernel source tree, many ebuilds inherit linux-info to find configuration info about the kernel. However, there is the running kernel with its configurati

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware

2013-02-21 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Greg KH wrote: >> Ulrich Mueller (ulm) wrote this on the 16th: >> >> > Look into the WHENCE file and be horrified. Taking just the first ten >> > items (of a total 114): >> > >> >Unknown license (3 times) > Which ones specifically? Driver: snd-korg1212 -- Korg 12

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware

2013-02-21 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/02/13 12:26 PM, Greg KH wrote: > "Permission is hereby granted for the distribution [...] as > part of a Linux or other Open Source operating system > kernel" > What is wrong with that? We happen to be distributing a Linux > opera

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware

2013-02-21 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:51:15PM +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 20/02/2013 19:43, Greg KH wrote: > > Really? What firmware files are that way, I just did a quick scan > > through the upstream linux-firmware.git tree and didn't see anything > > that would prevent Gentoo from doing this. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH multilib-build] Tee the build logs to ABI-specific files.

2013-02-21 Thread Zac Medico
On 02/21/2013 09:03 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:55:45 -0800 > Zac Medico wrote: >> Maybe use EBUILD_DEATH_HOOKS to display the locations of the logs? > > Is this documented somewhere? No, it doesn't seem to be documented in PMS, though some eclasses have been using it for a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH multilib-build] Tee the build logs to ABI-specific files.

2013-02-21 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:55:45 -0800 Zac Medico wrote: > On 02/21/2013 03:27 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > This makes reading them a bit easier, especially with phases run > > in parallel. > > --- > > gx86/eclass/multilib-build.eclass | 7 --- > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH multilib-build] Tee the build logs to ABI-specific files.

2013-02-21 Thread Zac Medico
On 02/21/2013 03:27 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > This makes reading them a bit easier, especially with phases run > in parallel. > --- > gx86/eclass/multilib-build.eclass | 7 --- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/gx86/eclass/multilib-build.eclass > b/gx86/eclas

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH multilib-build] Tee the build logs to ABI-specific files.

2013-02-21 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > This makes reading them a bit easier, especially with phases run > in parallel. > --- > gx86/eclass/multilib-build.eclass | 7 --- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/gx86/eclass/multilib-build.eclass > b/g

Re: [gentoo-dev] g-elisp repository helper

2013-02-21 Thread Jauhien Piatlicki
21.02.13 16:18, Ulrich Mueller написав(ла): > It looks promising. I only wonder why you need to define your own > fetch function instead of assigning SRC_URI? This will cause the > ebuilds to be live ebuilds and there will be no possibility for the > user to verify the integrity of the downloaded p

Re: [gentoo-dev] g-elisp repository helper

2013-02-21 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > No problem with posting it to the gentoo-dev list. I'm answering in > semi-private (Gentoo Emacs team in CC) because the topic is Emacs > specific. I fail.

Re: [gentoo-dev] g-elisp repository helper

2013-02-21 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Jauhien Piatlicki wrote: > I do not know whether this list is an appropriate place, so sorry if it > is not ) Hi, No problem with posting it to the gentoo-dev list. I'm answering in semi-private (Gentoo Emacs team in CC) because the topic is Emacs specific. > Recently

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH multilib-build] Tee the build logs to ABI-specific files.

2013-02-21 Thread Michał Górny
This makes reading them a bit easier, especially with phases run in parallel. --- gx86/eclass/multilib-build.eclass | 7 --- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/gx86/eclass/multilib-build.eclass b/gx86/eclass/multilib-build.eclass index feac748..93c4335 100644 --- a/

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-21 Thread Markos Chandras
On 21 February 2013 09:09, Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:27:46 + > "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > >> Recommendations: >> >> 3. Dedicated Gentoo signing subkey of EITHER: >> 3.1. DSA 2048 bits >> 3.2. RSA 4096 bits > > As a note for those who didn't know this; to m

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-21 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:27:46 + "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > Recommendations: > > 3. Dedicated Gentoo signing subkey of EITHER: > 3.1. DSA 2048 bits > 3.2. RSA 4096 bits As a note for those who didn't know this; to make gpg use the dedicated subkey, you need to append an excla