Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: sys-pam category

2005-06-05 Thread Jonas Geiregat
Nathan L. Adams wrote: > >>Then why is their a browsable "Categories" link on the packages site? >> >>http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/ >> >> Very good question , .. >>I don't agree with Ned. Organizing the packages logically makes things >>less confusing for the end-user and developers

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: sys-pam category

2005-06-05 Thread Jonas Geiregat
Ned Ludd wrote: >On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 16:22 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > >>Currently pam stuff (implementations, modules) are organized in the worst way >>I ever seen. >>Most of them are in sys-libs, some of them in app-admin, other in app-crypt, >>pam_smb in net-misc and so on

Re: [gentoo-dev] looking for mentor

2005-06-05 Thread Jonas Geiregat
>I may not have interpreted your message correctly. If I inferred something >from it that you didn't intend to convey, please clarify. > >Developing the Portage software itself is an entirely different process than >creating an ebuild: unless you're planning to contribute enhancement code to >Gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] looking for mentor

2005-06-04 Thread Jonas Geiregat
Mike Frysinger wrote >you can join #gentoo-dev and we dont mind giving voice to people who are >interested in joining development ... > > > I'm there most of the time my nick is eniac. >the first step to becoming a dev really is to figure out *what* you want to >work on ... after that it's pr

[gentoo-dev] looking for mentor

2005-06-04 Thread Jonas Geiregat
Hello guys, I've been using gentoo for 2 years now and I'm really found of this distrobution , never touched an other distro since then. Lately I've been creating some small probably meaningless ebuilds for several packages like tinyscheme and adding some bug reports etc .. I'm also looking into g

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Kevin Quinn (kevquinn)

2005-05-30 Thread Jonas Geiregat
Aaron Walker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonas Geiregat wrote: What about Gentoo/NetBSD ? No such thing at this time. I often no very often use NetBSD, so I would be interested to see Gentoo/(free)BSD in form of NetBSD, .. But then again it would be quite

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Kevin Quinn (kevquinn)

2005-05-30 Thread Jonas Geiregat
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Hi Kevin! If you want to try new, exciting adventures in hardening... you can always join the bsd herd and try to add hardened support on Gentoo/FreeBSD... :) What about Gentoo/NetBSD ? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers

2005-05-26 Thread Jonas Geiregat
Mike Frysinger wrote: >On Thursday 26 May 2005 07:45 am, Jonas Geiregat wrote: > > >>I get a message * /sbin/rc cannot start until runlevel boot has completed >>this is an a ppc platform... >> >> > >search bugzilla, this has come up ... i think it'

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers

2005-05-26 Thread Jonas Geiregat
Mike Frysinger wrote: >yes, it's finally that time ... after months of hearing us say 'we want to get >new baselayout stable asap', we're serious > >so can people please try out baselayout-1.11.12-r2+ and see if they notice any >regressions ? the 'best' tests are simply rebooting and seeing if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bashrc mini HOWTO

2005-05-25 Thread Jonas Geiregat
Alec Warner wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Jonas Geiregat wrote: > > > >>I gave this a quick look, and aren't you talking about bash scripts in >>general rather then .bashrc files using /etc/portage/bashrc as reference >>fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bashrc mini HOWTO

2005-05-25 Thread Jonas Geiregat
Chris White wrote: >Hi guys, > > Well, I was working on my bashrc one day and thought, "gee, would be > nice for other people to know what the heck is going on too!". Well, I > decided to go ahead and do that :P. So, here we go, a mini bashrc HOWTO > (note this only works on the latest

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintaining an ebuild

2005-05-24 Thread Jonas Geiregat
Fredrik Tolf wrote: >Hi List! > >This is probably a FAQ, but I really couldn't find the answer. I've >STFW'd, RTFM'd and RTFDeveloper's Handbook, but I still have no answer. > >The thing is, I've got a li'l program of mine that I'd like to have in >portage. I've written an ebuild and all (which wo

[gentoo-dev] problem with first ebuild

2005-05-24 Thread Jonas Geiregat
Hi, I've presented this problem already to 2 developers, both of them where unable to help me. I hope I can find a solution on this list. I've created my first ebuild, I've included the ebuild script the patch and the output of the emerge tinyscheme command. The problem is with the install -g r