Re: [gentoo-dev] man pages: build or copy?

2016-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
//bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588324 > > If they are quite static (i.e. don't have important content that > depends on USE flags etc.), generate them, put in a tarball somewhere > (you can ask a proxy committer to host it for you), then fetch them via > SRC_URI. Thanks for

Re: [gentoo-dev] man pages: build or copy?

2016-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
sg, I've hidden building the docs behind the "doc" > USE flag. nanomsg builds it docs with AsciiDoc, which also pulls in > ruby and a bunch of stuff. use.desc says doc is for extra documentation. These are basic man pages that are more or less needed to use the software. -- N

Re: [gentoo-dev] man pages: build or copy?

2016-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 10:13:13 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 07/09/2016 09:54 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I've created an ebuild for net-misc/zerotier [1]. This has a BDEP on > > app-text/ronn, the build system uses it to create the man pages. The > > trouble is t

[gentoo-dev] man pages: build or copy?

2016-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
built man pages in ${FILESDIR}/${PV} and copy them with doman. Is this considered the correct or acceptable way to deal with this? 1) https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588324 -- Neil Bothwick pgp0hWLNMY6sU.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: the graveyard overlay

2016-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
letely > broken in terms of both QA and security. That's no different from ebuilds in the CVS attic. They were no longer maintained and may even have been removed for security reasons, or even failure to build, but they were still made available through the attic. -- Neil Bothwick pgpJTkrjYpYPE.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
eeded > > in anger. > > Maybe the ebuild should try to autodetect broken systems and prevent > merge then. I use an initramfs, it does not mount /usr. The initramfs is embedded in the kernel file. How would the ebuild evaluate that? -- Neil Bothwick "We demand rigidly

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
tup working and tested before it is needed in anger. -- Neil Bothwick Deja Foobar: A feeling of having made the same mistake before. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Linux 2.6.21 plans

2007-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
o 5.5. However, there is a fix on the VMware forums and apparently the next WS6 RC won't have this problem. -- Neil Bothwick A pessimist complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: My turn to wear the cursed medalion of retirement

2007-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
d having mainly disciplinary functions"[1], which sums up the post pretty accurately. [1] Oxford English Dictionary -- Neil Bothwick X-Modem- A device on the losing end of an encounter with lightning. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Big change ideea

2006-12-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
to make their Linux > system the way they want it and like and understand it and not the way > others do or did. Did it ever occur to you that there are good reasons why so many others do it the way they do? -- Neil Bothwick Ask a silly person, get a silly answer signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev coldplugging and /etc/init.d/modules

2006-12-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
which modules are loaded. -- Neil Bothwick "There are no stupid questions, just too many inquisitive idiots." signature.asc Description: PGP signature