[gentoo-dev] Re: Broken ebuilds

2013-10-15 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:31:12 -0400 as excerpted: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 1:04 PM, P.C. > wrote: >> >> Is that "ebuild decay" intentional? How long I can expect ebuilds to >> stay useful? > > There really are no guarantees for anything not in the current tree. The > EAPIs/ec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding large files to the mirrors?

2013-10-15 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Mike Auty schrieb: > Hi there, > > I'm updating the app-crypt/ophcrack-tables package to include the new > tables available from their site. These are basically just additional > data packages that can be useful with the app-crypt/ophcrack package, > but they're very large. Including all of t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding large files to the mirrors?

2013-10-15 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/15/2013 07:29 PM, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote: > Can't the users download and install those tables manually from the > official ophcrack website/server? If so, maybe adding the instructions > in the pkg_postinst() phase of app-crypt/ophcrack ebui

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding large files to the mirrors?

2013-10-15 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 10/16/2013 07:20 AM, Mike Auty wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm updating the app-crypt/ophcrack-tables package to include the new > tables available from their site. These are basically just additional > data packages that can be useful with the app-crypt/ophcrack package, > but they're very large.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding large files to the mirrors?

2013-10-15 Thread Vicente Olivert Riera
Can't the users download and install those tables manually from the official ophcrack website/server? If so, maybe adding the instructions in the pkg_postinst() phase of app-crypt/ophcrack ebuild would be enough. In that case, it wouldn't make sense having app-crypt/ophcrack-tables in the portage t

[gentoo-dev] Adding large files to the mirrors?

2013-10-15 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I'm updating the app-crypt/ophcrack-tables package to include the new tables available from their site. These are basically just additional data packages that can be useful with the app-crypt/ophcrack package, but they're very large. Inclu

Re: [gentoo-dev] about inactive project members/leaders

2013-10-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello As you have just affirmed the undertaker's lead decision; this mail now rather serves as questions and argumentation for future reference. On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:16:43 +0200 hasufell wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 >

Re: [gentoo-dev] about inactive project members/leaders

2013-10-15 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/15/2013 11:00 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 10/15/2013 09:53 PM, hasufell wrote: >> On 10/15/2013 10:46 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: >>> On 10/15/2013 09:40 PM, hasufell wrote: On 10/15/2013 10:28 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 10/15/20

Re: [gentoo-dev] about inactive project members/leaders

2013-10-15 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/15/2013 09:53 PM, hasufell wrote: > On 10/15/2013 10:46 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: >> On 10/15/2013 09:40 PM, hasufell wrote: >>> On 10/15/2013 10:28 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: On 10/15/2013 09:16 PM, hasufell wrote: > I wonder if unde

Re: [gentoo-dev] about inactive project members/leaders

2013-10-15 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mar, 15-10-2013 a las 22:53 +0200, hasufell escribió: [...] > I have read that and that is why I propose that undertakers do also > check projects for their internal activity patterns. > > I don't really think that is a job for the council. I think it's a job for the other project members, the

Re: [gentoo-dev] about inactive project members/leaders

2013-10-15 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/15/2013 10:46 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 10/15/2013 09:40 PM, hasufell wrote: >> On 10/15/2013 10:28 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: >>> On 10/15/2013 09:16 PM, hasufell wrote: I wonder if undertakers should also check for inactive proj

Re: [gentoo-dev] about inactive project members/leaders

2013-10-15 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/15/2013 09:40 PM, hasufell wrote: > On 10/15/2013 10:28 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: >> On 10/15/2013 09:16 PM, hasufell wrote: >>> I wonder if undertakers should also check for inactive project >>> leaders/members and remove them from the proje

Re: [gentoo-dev] about inactive project members/leaders

2013-10-15 Thread hasufell
On 10/15/2013 10:28 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 10/15/2013 09:16 PM, hasufell wrote: >> I wonder if undertakers should also check for inactive project >> leaders/members and remove them from the projects in case there >> has not been any activity for a while, regardless of the internal >> proj

Re: [gentoo-dev] about inactive project members/leaders

2013-10-15 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/15/2013 09:16 PM, hasufell wrote: > I wonder if undertakers should also check for inactive project > leaders/members and remove them from the projects in case there > has not been any activity for a while, regardless of the internal > project

[gentoo-dev] about inactive project members/leaders

2013-10-15 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wonder if undertakers should also check for inactive project leaders/members and remove them from the projects in case there has not been any activity for a while, regardless of the internal project structure. Authority does not only come with knowl

Re: [gentoo-dev] media-video/stk11xx up for grabs

2013-10-15 Thread Peter Stuge
Michał Górny wrote: > My laptop is broken and I no longer have any hardware that would use > this. It fails to compile with the current kernel [1] and upstream is > not really active. I forward-ported the driver in 2011 but probably that's obsolete too. http://git.stuge.se/stk11-driver.git //Pe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Broken ebuilds

2013-10-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
Hello P.C. The distfiles mirroring system keeps distfiles around for as long as the ebuilds are in the Portage tree that refer to them; once all ebuilds referring to a distfile are removed, the distfile will be removed from the mirroring system in half a week or so. * Long story short, if you wan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Broken ebuilds

2013-10-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 1:04 PM, P.C. wrote: > > Is that "ebuild decay" intentional? How long I can expect ebuilds to > stay useful? There really are no guarantees for anything not in the current tree. The EAPIs/eclasses themselves are pretty well-designed and while breakage over a period of year

[gentoo-dev] Broken ebuilds

2013-10-15 Thread P.C.
Hi, I've been trying to set up a Gentoo system using an older version of the portage tree [1]. Most of it goes well, but some ebuilds stopped merging correctly. Namely, it's Python 2.7. While merging, it requests the following file: http://gentoo.ussg.indiana.edu/distfiles/python-gentoo-patches-2.

[gentoo-dev] media-video/stk11xx up for grabs

2013-10-15 Thread Michał Górny
media-video/stk11xx is looking for a new maintainer. My laptop is broken and I no longer have any hardware that would use this. It fails to compile with the current kernel [1] and upstream is not really active. I have reassigned the package to maintainer-needed. Feel free to take it anytime you w

Re: [gentoo-dev] media-sound/beets up for grabs

2013-10-15 Thread Stanislav Ochotnicky
Quoting Sergey Popov (2013-10-15 13:32:36) > 15.10.2013 02:38, Stanislav Ochotnicky пишет: > > Any takers? Feel free to add yourself to the top of metadata.xml and ping > > me on > > IRC. Unless I'll find some other primary maintainer I'll move to package to > > maintainer-wanted so that bugs don'

Re: [gentoo-dev] media-sound/beets up for grabs

2013-10-15 Thread Sergey Popov
15.10.2013 02:38, Stanislav Ochotnicky пишет: > Any takers? Feel free to add yourself to the top of metadata.xml and ping me > on > IRC. Unless I'll find some other primary maintainer I'll move to package to > maintainer-wanted so that bugs don't accidentally end up in black hole. Little clarific

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-10-15 Thread Sergey Popov
13.10.2013 11:46, Sven Eden пишет: > Am Samstag, 12. Oktober 2013, 08:45:15 schrieb Pacho Ramos: >> Due pebenito retirement: >> dev-libs/ustr > > I've never heard of that package before, but the description sounded > interesting. So I went to their site and read what it is about, and it looks >