Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-13 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> * scripts in FILESDIR: In some packages i found scripts which >> doesn't get used by the ebuild, but is probably used for generating >> patches/tarballs. Should i file a bugs about them as i though the >> FILESDIR should be only used for patche

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-13 Thread Kent Fredric
On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:49:22 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Patches: > > * Wildcard patching: Usually i use my "patchtest" script for finding > > obsolete patches and while it still finds lots of false > > positives i also saw a rather odd patching style: Patching via > > wildcards

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/13/2016 02:57 PM, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > > * Redirection: There are quite a few pages which aren't exactly offline, > but only forward the request to the current homepage. (like most > of the gentoo project pages). I haven't touch them yet, but i > would like to k

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-13 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/13/2016 11:57 AM, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > Hello Gentoo-Team, > > For some time now I'm trying to help improve the gentoo tree. I've > started with fixing some HOMEPAGE variables in ebuilds and now removing > obsolete patches from packages. > Usually (especially with obsolete patches

Re: [gentoo-dev] nftables

2016-09-13 Thread Ian Bloss
luckily I have the opportunity to start a table set from scratch, and I don't have anything too wild going on. This is more of a learning experience, the big thing is to have ipsec with strongswan setup. On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:13 PM Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: > I tried to migrate my ru

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-13 Thread M. J. Everitt
On 13/09/16 19:57, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > Hello Gentoo-Team, > > For some time now I'm trying to help improve the gentoo tree. I've > started with fixing some HOMEPAGE variables in ebuilds and now removing > obsolete patches from packages. > Usually (especially with obsolete patches) it's

[gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-13 Thread Michael Mair-Keimberger
Hello Gentoo-Team, For some time now I'm trying to help improve the gentoo tree. I've started with fixing some HOMEPAGE variables in ebuilds and now removing obsolete patches from packages. Usually (especially with obsolete patches) it's quite simple to fix things, however every now and then i fin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/subsurface

2016-09-13 Thread Raymond Jennings
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 1:11 AM, Marek Szuba wrote: > On 2016-09-11 14:19, Martin Gysel wrote: > > >> +1. Any package whose upstream says "don't build this yourself" is > >> hostile to open source principles. > > just to make it clear, upstream never said such thing nor are they in > > any way h

[gentoo-dev] Working Group meeting 18th of September

2016-09-13 Thread k...@gentoo.org
Dear Working Group, The discussions and preliminary drafting of the report is progressing, but so far with a lack of participation from several devs that signed up to be members of the WG process. To involve a broader group in the discussions, we will hold the first WG meeting in #gentoo-wg-sta