[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo-sources - should we stable?

2015-01-03 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 03 Jan 2015 07:53:56 -0500 as excerpted: > In any case, whether you run btrfs or not the general principle is for > stable users to not run the very latest kernel branch the day it is > released. Longterm does that reasonably well, and it gets btrfs > backports just li

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emulation/wine-doors

2015-01-03 Thread Hanno Böck
# Hanno Boeck (03 Jan 2015) # dead upstream, masked for removal app-emulation/wine-doors If anyone wants to fix this: It requires downloads from upstream's webpage, so it's likely impossible to take over without replacing upstream entirely. Open bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5192

[gentoo-dev] last rites: dev-libs/libgeier

2015-01-03 Thread Hanno Böck
# Hanno Boeck (03 Jan 2015) # Was a dependency of taxbird which has been replaced by # geierlein. As this requires yearly changes it's unlikely # it has any use for anyone. Masked for removal. dev-libs/libgeier -- Hanno Böck http://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: BBB51E42

[gentoo-dev] last rites: dev-libs/libgeier

2015-01-03 Thread Hanno Böck
# Hanno Boeck (03 Jan 2015) # Was a dependency of taxbird which has been replaced by # geierlein. As this requires yearly changes it's unlikely # it has any use for anyone. Masked for removal. dev-libs/libgeier -- Hanno Böck http://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: BBB51E42

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-sources - should we stable?

2015-01-03 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 03-01-2015 a las 10:14 -0500, Mike Pagano escribió: [...] > Hi, Pacho, > > I think if you read further in the thread and find Ian's suggestion, it > should > cover your needs nicely. > > Mike > Yeah, that suggestion looks nice to me, thanks :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Multilib ABI identifiers for NEEDED.ELF.2 (GLEP 64) and binary package soname dependencies

2015-01-03 Thread Zac Medico
On 01/03/2015 01:50 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 03-01-2015 01:24:48 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: >> In order to solve this problem, I propose that we extend NEEDED.ELF.2 to >> include a new field containing a multilib ABI identifier. The extension >> will be backward-compatible, and NEEDED.ELF.2 wil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-sources - should we stable?

2015-01-03 Thread Mike Pagano
On Saturday, January 03, 2015 11:18:26 AM Pacho Ramos wrote: > El vie, 02-01-2015 a las 12:25 -0500, Mike Pagano escribió: > > Hello, Everyone, > > > > [2] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources > > In my case I still run only "stable" gentoo-sources in many machines to > p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo-sources - should we stable?

2015-01-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > As a gentoo/~arch btrfs user myself and reasonably active on the btrfs > list, I'd *never* recommend btrfs in anything like its current state to a > gentoo-stable user. Just tonite, before I switched to this list I was on > the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo-sources - should we stable?

2015-01-03 Thread Duncan
Mike Pagano posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2015 15:46:21 -0500 as excerpted: > We have had a lot of stable kernels with a not-so-stable btrfs. That's > a whole conversation in itself. There are pieces of the kernel that are > in a, shall we say, less stable state than others. On btrfs FWIW... As a gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-sources - should we stable?

2015-01-03 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 02-01-2015 a las 12:25 -0500, Mike Pagano escribió: > Hello, Everyone, > > Are there solid arguments for stabilizing any version of gentoo-sources? I > think the valid arguments for not stabilizing gentoo-sources can be garnered > from the thread about not stabilizing vanilla-sources[1]

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Multilib ABI identifiers for NEEDED.ELF.2 (GLEP 64) and binary package soname dependencies

2015-01-03 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 03-01-2015 01:24:48 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > In order to solve this problem, I propose that we extend NEEDED.ELF.2 to > include a new field containing a multilib ABI identifier. The extension > will be backward-compatible, and NEEDED.ELF.2 will only need to be > regenerated on systems with mul

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Multilib ABI identifiers for NEEDED.ELF.2 (GLEP 64) and binary package soname dependencies

2015-01-03 Thread Zac Medico
Hi, While research requirements for binary package soname dependencies [1], I found that the NEEDED.ELF.2 data that portage generates contains insufficient information to uniquely distinguish all of the multilib ABIs that may be present on a given system [2]. In order to correctly handle multilib