Re: [gentoo-dev] What are eblits?

2016-05-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote: > > Whether the idea is useful in the present day and age, eh, who knows. For the > mips-sources ebuilds, eblits let me centralize the per-machine notes and > unpacking logic, which reduced each ebuild's size from ~18KB a few years ago > down

Re: [gentoo-dev] please remove me off your mailing list

2016-05-28 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 05/23/2016 17:37, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 24 May 2016 at 09:22, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >> give a man a fish and he has food for a day, teach a man to fish and he >> has food for a lifetime > > > But if you feed a man while you teach him, he's better equipped to learn. :p > > Hence, th

Re: [gentoo-dev] What are eblits?

2016-05-28 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 05/26/2016 21:28, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 27 May 2016 at 10:28, rindeal wrote: >> >> 1) what are they? >> 2) why are they used? > > > My best explanation is its a way to re-use very large amounts of code > between 2 ebuilds, without resorting to: > > a) Copying the whole ebuild and hoping y

Re: [gentoo-dev] What are eblits?

2016-05-28 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 05/26/2016 18:28, rindeal wrote: > I've noticed that ebuilds for at least dev-lang/perl and > sys-libs/glibc are using some concept of "eblits", which seems like > parts of ebuilds scattered across $FILESDIR with ebuilds containing > some logic (involving eval) which includes and runs them. > >

[gentoo-dev] Re: What are eblits?

2016-05-28 Thread Duncan
Kent Fredric posted on Sat, 28 May 2016 17:07:56 +1200 as excerpted: > Which is a rather bad combination of pressures. > > Hence, eblits as they currently exist are experts-only and a big > danger ground for QA violations *to occur within*, even under the > presumption that they're not inherentl

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] rebar.eclass: Run unit tests

2016-05-28 Thread aidecoe
From: Amadeusz Żołnowski --- eclass/rebar.eclass | 11 ++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/eclass/rebar.eclass b/eclass/rebar.eclass index ca86e88..9f3d9e2 100644 --- a/eclass/rebar.eclass +++ b/eclass/rebar.eclass @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ case "${EAPI:-0}" in

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] rebar.eclass: Optionally provide alternate rebar config to alter

2016-05-28 Thread aidecoe
From: Amadeusz Żołnowski Some packages have separate configs for build and tests. Build config is always named 'rebar.config' and there seem to be no standard name for tests config. --- eclass/rebar.eclass| 14 +++--- eclass/tests/rebar_fix_include_path.sh | 23 ++

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs

2016-05-28 Thread Daniel Campbell (zlg)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On May 28, 2016 5:41:40 AM PDT, rindeal wrote: >On 28 May 2016 at 11:14, Pacho Ramos wrote: >> Markos is not having much time to handle his packages and, then, he >> would like to get other people involved in them. The idea is to keep >> him in met

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs

2016-05-28 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 28-05-2016 a las 14:41 +0200, rindeal escribió: > On 28 May 2016 at 11:14, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > > Markos is not having much time to handle his packages and, then, he > > would like to get other people involved in them. The idea is to > > keep > > him in metadata as co-maintainer but,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs

2016-05-28 Thread rindeal
On 28 May 2016 at 11:14, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Markos is not having much time to handle his packages and, then, he > would like to get other people involved in them. The idea is to keep > him in metadata as co-maintainer but, please, don't hesitate to add > yourself if wanted: > app-admin/verynice

[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs

2016-05-28 Thread Pacho Ramos
Because of the current maintainer not having time to take care of them, the following packages are now up for grabs: app-admin/pydf app-arch/lrzip app-arch/xar games-board/stockfish sys-kernel/ck-sources

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs

2016-05-28 Thread Lars Wendler
On Sat, 28 May 2016 11:30:44 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: >Because of maintainer retiring the following packages are up for grabs: >app-admin/hwreport >app-admin/tmpwatch >app-misc/gramps >app-portage/g-ctan >net-misc/icaclient >virtual/pager > > I can take net-misc/icaclient as I need it for work.

[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs

2016-05-28 Thread Pacho Ramos
Because of maintainer retiring the following packages are up for grabs: app-admin/hwreport app-admin/tmpwatch app-misc/gramps app-portage/g-ctan net-misc/icaclient virtual/pager

[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs

2016-05-28 Thread Pacho Ramos
Markos is not having much time to handle his packages and, then, he would like to get other people involved in them. The idea is to keep him in metadata as co-maintainer but, please, don't hesitate to add yourself if wanted: app-admin/verynice app-crypt/zuluCrypt dev-cpp/luabind dev-libs/angelscrip

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2016-05-28 Thread Pacho Ramos
As talked with current maintainer, this packages are now up for grabs: dev-libs/libxr