Re: Why lastrite when it works? (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement)

2017-01-17 Thread Sam Jorna
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 04:45:39AM -0800, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 01/06/2017 12:46 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > On Friday, January 6, 2017 9:14:54 AM EST Alec Warner wrote: > >> > >> The nice thing about ::graveyard or similar is that its a clear demarcation > >> between maintained (in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Common rsync-gen errors, why they happen, and what you can do about it

2017-01-17 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Doug Freed wrote: > At some point, the repoman manifest-check, or some variation of it, > will probably get added to a post-receive hook, which will then abort > your push if you try to push something that would break the conversion > process. That said, you shoul

[gentoo-dev] Re: Common rsync-gen errors, why they happen, and what you can do about it

2017-01-17 Thread Doug Freed
Oh, I missed some things. First off, a general timeline of rsync-gen events (all times occur every hour at roughly specified minute after the hour): :00 / :30 - current state of git tree is checked out on git server and then rsynced to private master rsync server - this is your cutoff time for ge

[gentoo-dev] Common rsync-gen errors, why they happen, and what you can do about it

2017-01-17 Thread Doug Freed
The two most common errors that occur in the rsync-gen process are missing DIST entries in the Manifest committed to git, and metadata.xml that fails to validate against the DTD. Two much less common errors that have occurred in the last 24 hours which prompted this email are FILESDIR items that a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rites: www-plugins/pipelight

2017-01-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 04:51:35AM -0800, Daniel Campbell wrote > On 01/10/2017 11:29 AM, NP-Hardass wrote: > > # NP-Hardass (19 Jan 2017) > > # Upstream has discontinued Pipelight and Firefox is in the process > > # of removing NPAPI support (which Pipelight relies upon), making > > # this obsole

Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages

2017-01-17 Thread james
On 01/17/2017 12:26 PM, Michał Górny wrote: [sent off list to reduce amount of spam] Please cease this off-topic. It has nothing to do with the subject debated. If you want to talk over a beer, then please go to a pub. If you want to compare your pe^w^w^w embedded systems, then please find an ap

Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages

2017-01-17 Thread james
On 01/17/2017 01:05 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 01/13/2017 08:06 AM, james wrote: On 01/13/2017 02:45 AM, Sven Eden wrote: Btw.: Even "embedded experts" wholeheartedly agree that they disagree what "embedded" actually is. But I do think SoCs actually *do* qualify, at least to some degree...

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rites: www-plugins/pipelight

2017-01-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 01/10/2017 11:29 AM, NP-Hardass wrote: > # NP-Hardass (19 Jan 2017) > # Upstream has discontinued Pipelight and Firefox is in the process > # of removing NPAPI support (which Pipelight relies upon), making > # this obsolete. > # Masked for removal in 30 days. > www-plugins/pipelight > > Would

Re: Why lastrite when it works? (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement)

2017-01-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 01/06/2017 12:46 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Friday, January 6, 2017 9:14:54 AM EST Alec Warner wrote: >> >> The nice thing about ::graveyard or similar is that its a clear demarcation >> between maintained (in tree) and unmaintained (graveyard.) It also means >> that people doing act

Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages

2017-01-17 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 16-01-2017 22:13:39 -0800, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 01/10/2017 05:16 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > On 09-01-2017 09:08:22 +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > >> The particular problem I am having is that http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ , > >> my manpage formatter of choice, does deliberately not support bzip > >