Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with GitHub Pull Requests the easy way

2016-10-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > > Under this interpretation, developers using this header to add other > peoples work to tree is making our use of DCO pointless. > > Because DCO has to be the person who *authored* the commit, not the > person who merely added it to tree. Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are "Copyright 1999-20xx Gentoo Foundation" headers bogus?

2016-10-25 Thread Kent Fredric
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:25:52 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > And I guess that even most ebuilds for new > packages aren't written from scratch, but will be based on an existing > ebuild or on some template like skel.ebuild. You could probably argue that subsequently, every ebuild is essentially a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with GitHub Pull Requests the easy way

2016-10-25 Thread Kent Fredric
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 07:45:56 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > I don't think we need a git header for the purpose of saying that > something looks good to somebody else. If you commit something and it > doesn't work, we'll ask you to stop doing it. If you keep doing it > we'll take away your commit a

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread M. J. Everitt
On 25/10/16 18:27, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 06:07:51PM +0100, James Le Cuirot wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:01:06 -0500 >> William Hubbs wrote: >> >>> this item is about an important fstab update. In short, people need to >>> move away from /dev/disk-by/* in their fstab vf

Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set

2016-10-25 Thread Benda Xu
Nick Vinson writes: > arguably gcc should also excluded, under that definition, so the wiki > might not be 100% correct This is not true regarding libgcc* runtime libraries. Benda signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] LLVM News item

2016-10-25 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 16:07 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 25/10/16 04:02 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 15:41 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > > > > > On 25/10/16 03:32 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 25/10/16 03:08 PM, Joakim Tjernlund

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread Matthias Maier
> please make also clear that UUID=... syntax will still work, one for all I > don't like labels and will gladly continu to use this format: > UUID=debd07a3-fbbc-4433-89db-29e6f91d25e4 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 +1 Slightly revising the example given later on by simply showing one example fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 25/10/16 05:12 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:01:06 -0500 > William Hubbs wrote: > >> Title: Inportant fstab update >> Author: William Hubbs >> Content-Type: text/plain >> Posted: 2016-10-28 >> Revision: 1 >> News-Item-Format: 1.0 >> >> If you are not using /dev/disk/by-* pa

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:01:06 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > Title: Inportant fstab update > Author: William Hubbs > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2016-10-28 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 1.0 > > If you are not using /dev/disk/by-* paths in fstab, you do not need to > take any action for

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread Francesco Riosa
2016-10-25 19:15 GMT+02:00 William Hubbs : > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 01:10:06PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, William Hubbs > wrote: > > > If you are not using /dev/disk/by-* paths in fstab, you do not need to > > take any action for this news item. > > > > > > I

Re: [gentoo-dev] LLVM News item

2016-10-25 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:02:26 + Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 15:41 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > On 25/10/16 03:32 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > > > > > On 25/10/16 03:08 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 20:11 +0200, Michał Górny

Re: [gentoo-dev] LLVM News item

2016-10-25 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 25/10/16 04:02 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 15:41 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> On 25/10/16 03:32 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >>> >>> On 25/10/16 03:08 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 20:11 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Tue, 25 O

Re: [gentoo-dev] LLVM News item

2016-10-25 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 15:41 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 25/10/16 03:32 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > > > On 25/10/16 03:08 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 20:11 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:32:22 + > > > > Joakim Tj

Re: [gentoo-dev] LLVM News item

2016-10-25 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 25/10/16 03:32 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 25/10/16 03:08 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: >> On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 20:11 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: >>> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:32:22 + >>> Joakim Tjernlund wrote: >>> Noticed todays 2016-10-25-llvm_3_9_with_llvm_targets news item an

Re: [gentoo-dev] LLVM News item

2016-10-25 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 25/10/16 03:08 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 20:11 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:32:22 + >> Joakim Tjernlund wrote: >> >>> >>> Noticed todays 2016-10-25-llvm_3_9_with_llvm_targets news item and read: >>> .. >>> In order to enable all targets, add

Re: [gentoo-dev] LLVM News item

2016-10-25 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 20:11 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:32:22 + > Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > > > Noticed todays 2016-10-25-llvm_3_9_with_llvm_targets news item and read: > > .. > > In order to enable all targets, add the following to your > > /etc/portage/package.u

Re: [gentoo-dev] LLVM News item

2016-10-25 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:32:22 + Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > Noticed todays 2016-10-25-llvm_3_9_with_llvm_targets news item and read: > .. > In order to enable all targets, add the following to your > /etc/portage/package.use or equivalent file: > >   sys-devel/llvm LLVM_TARGETS: * >   sys-devel

[gentoo-dev] LLVM News item

2016-10-25 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
Noticed todays 2016-10-25-llvm_3_9_with_llvm_targets news item and read: .. In order to enable all targets, add the following to your /etc/portage/package.use or equivalent file:   sys-devel/llvm LLVM_TARGETS: *   sys-devel/clang LLVM_TARGETS: * ... I would like to control such variables(LLVM_TAR

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 06:07:51PM +0100, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:01:06 -0500 > William Hubbs wrote: > > > this item is about an important fstab update. In short, people need to > > move away from /dev/disk-by/* in their fstab vfiles. > > "Inportant" typo in the title. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:15 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 01:10:06PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> > If you are not using /dev/disk/by-* paths in fstab, you do not need to >> take any action for this news item. >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 01:10:06PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > If you are not using /dev/disk/by-* paths in fstab, you do not need to > take any action for this news item. > > > > If you are, it is very critical that you update fstab AS SO

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 25/10/16 01:10 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > If this is about the udev-settle issue for OpenRC, I would urge you to > reconsider that. > +1 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > I do have a question about the newsitem -- how do I make it display only > for Linux users? Once >=sys-apps/portage-2.3.2 is stable, you could use the new Display-If-Profile wildcard syntax to display it only for default/linux/*.

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 25/10/16 01:07 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:01:06 -0500 > William Hubbs wrote: > >> this item is about an important fstab update. In short, people need to >> move away from /dev/disk-by/* in their fstab vfiles. > > "Inportant" typo in the title. > > Even before you pos

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > If you are not using /dev/disk/by-* paths in fstab, you do not need to take any action for this news item. > > If you are, it is very critical that you update fstab AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Your system will become unbootable in the future if you

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:01:06 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > this item is about an important fstab update. In short, people need to > move away from /dev/disk-by/* in their fstab vfiles. "Inportant" typo in the title. Even before you posted this, I was wondering why this is a problem now? -- Jam

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > this item is about an important fstab update. In short, people need to > move away from /dev/disk-by/* in their fstab vfiles. > > I do have a question about the newsitem -- how do I make it display only > for Linux users? > Presumably you'

[gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread William Hubbs
All, this item is about an important fstab update. In short, people need to move away from /dev/disk-by/* in their fstab vfiles. I do have a question about the newsitem -- how do I make it display only for Linux users? Thanks, William Title: Inportant fstab update Author: William Hubbs Conten

Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set

2016-10-25 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:47:05 -0400 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Nick Vinson wrote: > > That definition definitely excludes automake and autoconf (arguably gcc > > should also excluded, under that definition, so the wiki might not be > > 100% correct). > > gcc provid

Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions

2016-10-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Rich Freeman wrote: > >>> Also, calling eclass functions could be considered linking. It is not >>> entirely clear to me if e.g. a binpkg built with a CDDL licensed >>> ebuild calling GPL licensed eclasses would be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set

2016-10-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Nick Vinson wrote: > > However, I don't think this is the criterion used to determine what > should be in @system. The wiki defines the system set as the set that > "contains the software packages required for a standard Gentoo Linux > installation to run properl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions

2016-10-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > If I write a QT gui that forks/exec x264 cli and want to sell it as the > best H264 encoder on the market, then I have to comply with x264 > license since it won't do what I claim once x264 is removed. The QT gui could be distributed und

Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions

2016-10-25 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Rich Freeman wrote: >> Also, calling eclass functions could be considered linking. It is not >> entirely clear to me if e.g. a binpkg built with a CDDL licensed >> ebuild calling GPL licensed eclasses would be distributable at all. > Honestly, I think the GPL linking ar

Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set

2016-10-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Nick Vinson wrote: > That definition definitely excludes automake and autoconf (arguably gcc > should also excluded, under that definition, so the wiki might not be > 100% correct). gcc provides libstdc++.so.6, which is a necessary runtime component on most syste

Re: [gentoo-dev] need for autotools

2016-10-25 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 10/25/2016 05:35 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > I forgot to mention that autotools.eclass brings in these dependencies > as-needed, though, so I agree that they definitely are not required in > the @system set. Also keep in mind, they are already not part of @system, the question is whether to r

Re: [gentoo-dev] need for autotools

2016-10-25 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 25/10/16 11:34 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 25/10/16 11:05 AM, Nick Vinson wrote: >> On 10/25/2016 07:11 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote: >>> Don't you need autoconf and automake to build a lot of packages? >> >> Theoretically no. When autotools is used correctly, the release tarball >> has no d

[gentoo-dev] need for autotools (was: Commented packages in the @system set)

2016-10-25 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 25/10/16 11:05 AM, Nick Vinson wrote: > On 10/25/2016 07:11 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote: >> Don't you need autoconf and automake to build a lot of packages? > > Theoretically no. When autotools is used correctly, the release tarball > has no dependency on either. That said, many people don't g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions

2016-10-25 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:15:09 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Alexis Ballier > wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:17:08 -0400 > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > Also, calling eclass functions

Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set

2016-10-25 Thread Nick Vinson
Theoretically no. When autotools is used correctly, the release tarball has no dependency on either. That said, many people don't generate / distribute a release tarball. However, I don't think this is the criterion used to determine what should be in @system. The wiki defines the system set as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set

2016-10-25 Thread Raymond Jennings
Don't you need autoconf and automake to build a lot of packages? On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 10/25/2016 04:01 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:43:44 -0400 > > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > >> Looking at profiles/base/packages, I see a b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set

2016-10-25 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 07:11:48 -0700 Raymond Jennings wrote: > Don't you need autoconf and automake to build a lot of packages? A lot. Once they're built, you dont need these anymore.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions

2016-10-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:17:08 -0400 > Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller >> wrote: >> > >> > Also, calling eclass functions could be considered linking. It is >> > not entirely clear to me if e.g. a bin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set

2016-10-25 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 10/25/2016 04:01 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:43:44 -0400 > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> Looking at profiles/base/packages, I see a bunch of lines that are >> commented out. For example, >> >> *sys-apps/which >> #*sys-devel/autoconf >> #*sys-devel/automake >> *sys

Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set

2016-10-25 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:43:44 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Looking at profiles/base/packages, I see a bunch of lines that are > commented out. For example, > > *sys-apps/which > #*sys-devel/autoconf > #*sys-devel/automake > *sys-devel/binutils > #*sys-devel/bison > #*sys-devel/flex

Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions

2016-10-25 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:17:08 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller > wrote: > > > > Also, calling eclass functions could be considered linking. It is > > not entirely clear to me if e.g. a binpkg built with a CDDL licensed > > ebuild calling GPL licensed ecl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions

2016-10-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > Also, calling eclass functions could be considered linking. It is not > entirely clear to me if e.g. a binpkg built with a CDDL licensed > ebuild calling GPL licensed eclasses would be distributable at all. Honestly, I think the GPL linki

Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions

2016-10-25 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Rich Freeman wrote: > If they were under a non-compatible license like the CDDL then it > would depend on whether the authors have the right to dual-license > it under the GPL, or whether Gentoo is willing to accept > CDDL-licensed ebuilds into the repository. Part of th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions

2016-10-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > On 25/10/2016 01:03, Rich Freeman wrote: >> As long as you have their permission to change the copyright notice. >> You cannot currently commit anything with a different copyright notice >> to gentoo.git, and you cannot legally change it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions

2016-10-25 Thread Paweł Hajdan , Jr .
On 25/10/2016 01:03, Rich Freeman wrote: > As long as you have their permission to change the copyright notice. > You cannot currently commit anything with a different copyright notice > to gentoo.git, and you cannot legally change it without permission. How should that permission be documented?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions

2016-10-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > This made me think of another scenario; let's say I have my own fork of > Gentoo, maintained in an overlay complete with docs, etc, under an MIT > or BSD license, but as a Gentoo developer, I must copyright under GPL. > Could I do such dua

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are "Copyright 1999-20xx Gentoo Foundation" headers bogus?

2016-10-25 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 10/25/2016 01:28 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:25 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. > wrote: >> On Monday, October 24, 2016 7:07:41 PM EDT Rich Freeman wrote: >>> >>> I think you could make an argument that voluntarily placing that header on >>> your work is an assignment of copy

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are "Copyright 1999-20xx Gentoo Foundation" headers bogus?

2016-10-25 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Rich Freeman wrote: > The end date (which is the one that matters the most) is only > updated when the file is changed. Legally somebody could use an > earlier version of the file when its copyright expired, but they > could only use the latest version when its later cop