Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-09 Thread Lars Wendler
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 08:48:56 +0300 Eray Aslan wrote: >On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 10:20:56PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> * Posting to the list will only be possible to Gentoo developers and >> whitelisted additional participants. > >This is so contrary to what I and I thought Gentoo stands

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-09 Thread Eray Aslan
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 10:20:56PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > * Posting to the list will only be possible to Gentoo developers and > whitelisted additional participants. This is so contrary to what I and I thought Gentoo stands for: openness, transparency, inclusiveness even when these r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/09/2018 07:37 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > > I'm very sorry that Council approved this proposal > & hope that it will soon see sense & rescind it. In an effort to reduce noise on the gentoo-dev mailing list, Gentoo will now require every user to send an email to the gentoo-dev mailing list aski

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: ideas for fixing OpenRC checkpath issue

2018-01-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/09/2018 07:07 PM, William Hubbs wrote > > However, I'm not sure how to deal with the hard link issue in a way that > will not break service scripts. > Systemd mitigates this by enabling the fs.protected_hardlinks sysctl by default, but they have the liberty of requiring a relatively new Li

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-09 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > During the last Gentoo council meeting, the decision was made to implement > changes to the gentoo-dev mailing list [1]. > > These changes affect only the gentoo-dev mailing list, and will come into > effect on 23 January 2018. > > * Subs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-09 Thread Philip Webb
180109 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > During the last Gentoo council meeting, the decision was made > to implement changes to the gentoo-dev mailing list [1]. > These changes affect only the gentoo-dev mailing list > and will come into effect on 23 January 2018. > > * Subscribing to the list and rece

[gentoo-dev] rfc: ideas for fixing OpenRC checkpath issue

2018-01-09 Thread William Hubbs
All, please take a look at the following issue. https://github.com/openrc/openrc/issues/195 The first part of the fix is committed to master as shown on the issue; checkpath should *never* follow symbolic links when changing ownership, so I have moved to the lchown call instead of chown. Howeve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-09 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Francesco Riosa wrote: > > 2018-01-09 22:20 GMT+01:00 Andreas K. Huettel : > >> [...] > > > >> * Whitelisting requires that one developer vouches for you. We intend this >> to be as unbureaucratic as possible. >> > > May I ask to some random developer to vouche f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-09 Thread Francesco Riosa
2018-01-09 22:20 GMT+01:00 Andreas K. Huettel : > [...] > * Whitelisting requires that one developer vouches for you. We intend this > to be as unbureaucratic as possible. > May I ask to some random developer to vouche for me (Francesco Riosa a.k.a. vivo)? I'd like to be able to seldom post

[gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-09 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
During the last Gentoo council meeting, the decision was made to implement changes to the gentoo-dev mailing list [1]. These changes affect only the gentoo-dev mailing list, and will come into effect on 23 January 2018. * Subscribing to the list and receiving list mail remains as it is now. * P

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] [RFC/announcement] ARM64 project / architecture team

2018-01-09 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 08:29 -0500, Aaron Bauman wrote: > > On January 8, 2018 4:32:29 AM EST, Mart Raudsepp > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have created a new ARM64 project[1] as an architecture team > > project, > > as I don't find it appropriate to handle this under the ARM project > > and > > a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last-rites: media-video/2mandvd

2018-01-09 Thread Duncan
Andreas Sturmlechner posted on Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:49:27 +0100 as excerpted: > # Andreas Sturmlechner (09 Jan 2018) > # Dead upstream, depends on dead Qt4. > # Bug #643976. Masked for removal in 30 days. > media-video/2mandvd Is there a timetable for the "dead" qt4 removal yet? Where will it go

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles.desc: Explicitly indicate maintainers for each profile

2018-01-09 Thread Michał Górny
W dniu wto, 09.01.2018 o godzinie 11∶15 -0500, użytkownik Alec Warner napisał: > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Alec Warner wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 9:43 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > > Add @MAINTAINER comments before each profile set indicating > > > the effective maintaine

[gentoo-dev] eselect-1.4.11: updated profile module

2018-01-09 Thread Ulrich Mueller
eselect-1.4.11 contains two changes in the profile module: - "eselect profile list" now shows the status of each profile (stable/dev/exp) in addition [1]. - "eselect profile set" will refuse to select an experimental profile. If you know what you're doing, you can override this limitation wit

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles.desc: Explicitly indicate maintainers for each profile

2018-01-09 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Alec Warner wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 9:43 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > >> Add @MAINTAINER comments before each profile set indicating >> the effective maintainer for the following set of profiles. While most >> of those entries may seem obvious at first, I

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles.desc: Explicitly indicate maintainers for each profile

2018-01-09 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 9:43 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Add @MAINTAINER comments before each profile set indicating > the effective maintainer for the following set of profiles. While most > of those entries may seem obvious at first, I expect that some > of the sub-profiles will eventually 'change

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles.desc: Explicitly indicate maintainers for each profile

2018-01-09 Thread Michał Górny
Add @MAINTAINER comments before each profile set indicating the effective maintainer for the following set of profiles. While most of those entries may seem obvious at first, I expect that some of the sub-profiles will eventually 'change hands', e.g. the /hardened sub-profiles would be maintained b

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] [RFC/announcement] ARM64 project / architecture team

2018-01-09 Thread Aaron Bauman
On January 8, 2018 4:32:29 AM EST, Mart Raudsepp wrote: >Hello, > >I have created a new ARM64 project[1] as an architecture team project, >as I don't find it appropriate to handle this under the ARM project and >all its legacy (including confusing stabilization rules, etc). It is >also clearer t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] introduce Prefix 17.0 profiles.

2018-01-09 Thread Aaron Bauman
On January 8, 2018 9:39:47 PM EST, Benda Xu wrote: >Hi kuzetsa, > >kuzetsa writes: > >> The term "beyond" feels wrong & confusing. >> (Not sure what to replace it with though) > >How about this? > > default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/prefix/kernel-3.2+ > default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH 1/2] preserve-libs.eclass: Split off preserve_old_lib from eutils.

2018-01-09 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Ulrich Müller wrote: > Split off functions preserve_old_lib and preserve_old_lib_notify > from eutils.eclass into a dedicated preserve-libs.eclass. [...] > For backwards compatibility, eutils inherits the new eclass in > existing EAPIs. Pushed. Maintainers, please upda