Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-27 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/27/12 10:41 AM, Thomas Kahle wrote: > On 15:23 Wed 18 Jan 2012, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > [...] > >> 5) If is a library, obviously, we can try to rebuild stable RDEPENDS in tree >> and an easy way to check the list of rdepend is asking our bot: >> !rdep ${package} >> Unfortunately it print

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-27 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 15:23 Wed 18 Jan 2012, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: [...] > 5) If is a library, obviously, we can try to rebuild stable RDEPENDS in tree > and an easy way to check the list of rdepend is asking our bot: > !rdep ${package} > Unfortunately it prints a complete list of RDEPEND(stable+testing), and i

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 22:41:26 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > - you're confusing the literal @system with implicit system deps > > I don't quite follow here. By "implicit system deps", are you > referring to the "common sense" set of essen

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 19 January 2012 09:04:08 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > if it's part of the implicit system dep, they absolutely need to defend > > their actions. you want to change the policy, then start a thread on > > it. > > What policy? I don'

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-19 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/12 10:41 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Mike Frysinger > wrote: >> - you're confusing the literal @system with implicit system deps > > I don't quite follow here. > literal @system = the exact packages listed

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > if it's part of the implicit system dep, they absolutely need to defend their > actions.  you want to change the policy, then start a thread on it. What policy? I don't see any written policy stating that you aren't allowed to include sys

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >  - you're confusing the literal @system with implicit system deps I don't quite follow here. By "implicit system deps", are you referring to the "common sense" set of essential packages that you have floating around in that brain of yours?

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 15:45:04 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > it is a problem. not all profiles use "coreutils" ... they provide > > replacement packages. busybox is just one example. the bsd/prefix guys > > go in even weirder directions.

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Agostino Sarubbo
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 11:55:30 Alexis Ballier wrote: > > 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you > > declare it, please, as you said, exclude gcc/glibc and all package > > from @system > > imho this has nothing to do with stabilization There is a misunderstading

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > it is a problem.  not all profiles use "coreutils" ... they provide > replacement > packages.  busybox is just one example.  the bsd/prefix guys go in even > weirder > directions. Yup - hence my point about coreutils not being a good one

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 14:02:01 Markos Chandras wrote: > On 01/18/2012 05:32 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > > On 1/18/12 4:48 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > >> On 10:05 Wed 18 Jan , Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:23:00 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > 3) Check y

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 13:42:12 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > it isn't just circular deps. it's also about breaking alternatives and > > useless bloat. adding "coreutils" to their depend because they execute > > `mv`, or "sed" because they

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/18/2012 05:32 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 1/18/12 4:48 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> On 10:05 Wed 18 Jan , Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:23:00 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: 3) Check your rdepend, where is

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > it isn't just circular deps.  it's also about breaking alternatives and > useless bloat.  adding "coreutils" to their depend because they execute `mv`, > or "sed" because they execute `sed`, etc... is absolutely pointless.  same > goes for

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/18/12 7:10 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2012 12:32:08 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: >> Same here. How about adding some warning to portage (maybe just in the >> developer profile) when files in NEEDED are provided by packages not in >> RDEPEND? > > atm, we'll get a lot of fa

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 12:32:08 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > On 1/18/12 4:48 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > On 10:05 Wed 18 Jan , Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:23:00 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > >>> 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/18/12 4:48 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 10:05 Wed 18 Jan , Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:23:00 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: >>> 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you >>> declare it, please, as you said, exclude gcc/glibc and all packa

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 10:44:44 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:23 +0100 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > >> 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you > >> declare it, please, as you said, exclude gcc/g

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 10:05 Wed 18 Jan , Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:23:00 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > > 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you > > declare it, please, as you said, exclude gcc/glibc and all package > > from @system > > portage generates a

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:23 +0100 > Agostino Sarubbo wrote: >> 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you >> declare it, please, as you said, exclude gcc/glibc and all package >> from @system > > imho this has nothing

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:23:00 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > So, everytime, I must suggest the same things and I can say that at some > point it gets boring. so put it into a Gentoo guide and refer people to that > 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you declare > i

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Alexis Ballier
Hi, On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:23 +0100 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > 2) _Before_ filing a request, please run repoman full, to be sure > that there is nothing to fix, then take a look at the ebuild and make > sure your ebuild have a minimum of QA; all external binary called in > the ebuild(sed, mv, cp,

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > 4) Nobody knows how work all packages in tree, so there are > obvious packages like a browsers, IM, audio player,that is easy > decide if is ok or not, but there are also packages that an > Arch tester has never seen, so is a lack of time everyti

[gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Agostino Sarubbo
This mail is come from my long time experience about testing. So, everytime, I must suggest the same things and I can say that at some point it gets boring. I appreciate the work of all, but I must say that some people pay little attention to stablereq bugs, so this mail wants to be a short rem