[gentoo-dev] Re: glibc: pt_chown setuid going away by default

2013-04-17 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:36:59 -0400 as excerpted: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Mike Frysinger > wrote: >> it's at times like this i wish we had a git repo. `git log -p -C -M` >> is great at tracking this sort of stuff down. > > I don't want to hijack this thread, but I

Re: [gentoo-dev] autoconf now supports multislots

2013-04-17 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Michael Mol schrieb: >> But it's massively illegal and doesn't work correctly in Portage. >> > > For the benefit of those of us (well, me) not sufficiently versed in PMS > et al to be able to immediately deduce why it's illegal and why it > wouldn't work correctly in Portage, could you please eluc

Re: [gentoo-dev] autoconf now supports multislots

2013-04-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:58:20 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > On 4/17/2013 2:48 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:33:29 -0400 > > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> but i'm super lazy, so even this manual step is annoying. as such, > >> i've added USE=multislot support to autoconf (just li

Re: [gentoo-dev] autoconf now supports multislots

2013-04-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 17 April 2013 14:48:13 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:33:29 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > but i'm super lazy, so even this manual step is annoying. as such, > > i've added USE=multislot support to autoconf (just like it is with > > binutils & gcc). > > But it's mas

Re: [gentoo-dev] autoconf now supports multislots

2013-04-17 Thread Michael Mol
On 4/17/2013 2:48 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:33:29 -0400 > Mike Frysinger wrote: >> but i'm super lazy, so even this manual step is annoying. as such, >> i've added USE=multislot support to autoconf (just like it is with >> binutils & gcc). > > But it's massively illegal

Re: [gentoo-dev] autoconf now supports multislots

2013-04-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:33:29 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > but i'm super lazy, so even this manual step is annoying. as such, > i've added USE=multislot support to autoconf (just like it is with > binutils & gcc). But it's massively illegal and doesn't work correctly in Portage. -- Ciaran McCr

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc: pt_chown setuid going away by default

2013-04-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > it's at times like this i wish we had a git repo. `git log -p -C -M` is great > at tracking this sort of stuff down. I don't want to hijack this thread, but I don't believe we have a tracker for the migration of docs / website / etc to git

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc: pt_chown setuid going away by default

2013-04-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 13 April 2013 13:06:04 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:08:10 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > that you remember. i think it's more likely you copy & pasted some > > line a long time ago than baselayout modified it for you. > > Exactly, but where did that come from? prob

[gentoo-dev] autoconf now supports multislots

2013-04-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
for people who work with projects that require specific versions of autoconf and nothing else (like ==2.64), i've long left older versions in the tree so people could downgrade on the fly. this isn't so bad as you can do: emerge -bk ~autoconf-2.64 emerge -bk autoconf bu

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH eutils] Support recursive operation in edos2unix.

2013-04-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 13 April 2013 10:44:20 Michał Górny wrote: > The edos2unix is quite useful when handling DOS-sourced packages. > But since it's a bash function, you can't reasonably use it from within > find invocation. And often you hit packages which are all flooded with > CRLFs that you need to conv

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH eutils] Support recursive operation in edos2unix.

2013-04-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 14 April 2013 07:26:26 Peter Stuge wrote: > Michał Górny wrote: > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > > > If doing this at all I think it should take an -r option to enable > > > the new recursion, for symmetry with the do* functions and for > > > backwards compatibility. > > > > Backwards comp

Re: [gentoo-dev] About how many spaces a tab represents

2013-04-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 14 April 2013 17:22:04 Pacho Ramos wrote: > I noticed this problem now that joe was modified to comply with this > rule set in devmanual: > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#indenting > -and-whitespace > > It stated a tab represents 4 spaces. Where does th