[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/realone, media-video/realvideo-codecs and old versions of realplayer

2005-11-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Some packages are going away, again :) realone and realvideo-codecs are known having security vulnerabilities, and are already p.masked (marked x86). The same goes for old versions of realplayer. If nobody has reasons to keep this unmaintained (by upstream) and vulnerable stuff around, next wee

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Meeting Summary (20051115)

2005-11-16 Thread Seemant Kulleen
Dear All, As you know, the Gentoo Council had its third monthly meeting on 20051115 at 2000 UTC. On the agenda were GLEP #41 and a summary of portage signing. In attendance were the following Council members: az (Martin Schlemmer) koon (Thierry Carrez) seemant (Seemant

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files?

2005-11-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 03:30 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:54:01 -0500 > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 20:26 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > > On Tuesday 15 November 2005 20:19, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > > From my POV those

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files?

2005-11-16 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:50:47 -0500 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 03:30 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:54:01 -0500 > > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 20:26 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files?

2005-11-16 Thread Gustavo Zacarias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marius Mauch wrote: > Was just about to finally commit the elog related config stuff into > make.conf just to notice (again) that there are 14 (in words: fourteen) > different make.conf files there, with almost all of them just differing > in CFLAGS a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why arch-specific make.conf files?

2005-11-16 Thread Duncan
Marius Mauch posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:04:34 +0100: > You have a list of (some of) these things? From a portage POV those > things are broken, the only thing you can safely assume about > make.conf is that it exists (and even that is debatable). Plus, I'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/realone, media-video/realvideo-codecs and old versions of realplayer

2005-11-16 Thread Julien Allanos (dju`)
Le Mercredi 16 Novembre 2005 12:41, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò a écrit : > Some packages are going away, again :) > > realone and realvideo-codecs are known having security vulnerabilities, and > are already p.masked (marked x86). > The same goes for old versions of realplayer. So, what are the sub

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/realone, media-video/realvideo-codecs and old versions of realplayer

2005-11-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 19:34, Julien Allanos (dju`) wrote: > So, what are the substitutes? win32codecs and realplayer-10.0.0.6 ? -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE pgpNTvkdwHomo.pgp Description:

[gentoo-dev] TESTREQUEST bugs.g.o upcoming upgrade

2005-11-16 Thread Jeffrey Forman
Users and Dev's Alike, With the past release of bugzilla 2.20, it is once again time to upgrade our bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org) to the latest release. I have been working on getting our test installation (http://bugstest.gentoo.org) up to standards of our current bugzilla, implementing patch

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/realone, media-video/realvideo-codecs and old versions of realplayer

2005-11-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 07:48:56PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten?? wrote: > On Wednesday 16 November 2005 19:34, Julien Allanos (dju`) wrote: > > So, what are the substitutes? > > win32codecs and realplayer-10.0.0.6 ? you asking or telling ? didnt you learn anything in elementary school ? -mike

Re: [gentoo-dev] TESTREQUEST bugs.g.o upcoming upgrade

2005-11-16 Thread Jeffrey Forman
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 14:09 -0500, Jeffrey Forman wrote: > Users and Dev's Alike, > > With the past release of bugzilla 2.20, it is once again time to upgrade > our bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org) to the latest release. I have been > working on getting our test installation (http://bugstest.gent

[gentoo-dev] Last rites intent for dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker

2005-11-16 Thread Michael Cummings
The current set of ebuilds for MakeMaker were originally added to address some major differences between how perl 5.6.X and 5.8.X built modules. Since we no longer support 5.6.X at all, these ebuilds do little more than complicate people's understandings of what they need on their box for a fun

[gentoo-dev] Need Help: Creating a new third party package

2005-11-16 Thread Zou, Yixiong
Hi, I am trying to create a gentoo package for some internal software. I followed several Howtos online and created the ebuild file for my package. But somehow ebuild always return me the same error over and over again: $ ebuild ./component-template-0.1.0.ebuild digest Invalid package name i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Need Help: Creating a new third party package

2005-11-16 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 16/11/2005-15:43:25(-0800): Zou, Yixiong types > I read it somewhere that the category name "mycat" has to be an entry > listed in /usr/portage/profiles/categories. I added "mycat" into the > categories, still the same result. Plus, this doesn't make sense > because the "emerge --sync" w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Need Help: Creating a new third party package

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Meltzer
On 11/16/05, Zou, Yixiong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to create a gentoo package for some internal software. I > followed > several Howtos online and created the ebuild file for my package. But > somehow > ebuild always return me the same error over and over again: > > $ ebui

RE: [gentoo-dev] Need Help: Creating a new third party package

2005-11-16 Thread Zou, Yixiong
You are correct. This is the error. I wish ebuild could give me a better clue though. Thank you. --- Yixiong Zou ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Open Source Technology Center Intel Corp. >-Original Message- >From: Dan Meltzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to post bug report/questions about webapp-config?

2005-11-16 Thread Kevin
Julien Allanos wrote: > Quoting Ed W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi, >> >> (I previously sent this message directly to Stuart and got no reply - is >> there a better mailing list to discuss this stuff?) >> >> Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround? Where is the correct >> place to discuss t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Need Help: Creating a new third party package

2005-11-16 Thread Marius Mauch
Georgi Georgiev wrote: maillog: 16/11/2005-15:43:25(-0800): Zou, Yixiong types I read it somewhere that the category name "mycat" has to be an entry listed in /usr/portage/profiles/categories. I added "mycat" into the categories, still the same result. Plus, this doesn't make sense because th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Need Help: Creating a new third party package

2005-11-16 Thread Marius Mauch
Dan Meltzer wrote: On 11/16/05, Zou, Yixiong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am trying to create a gentoo package for some internal software. I followed several Howtos online and created the ebuild file for my package. But somehow ebuild always return me the same error over and over again:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to post bug report/questions about webapp-config?

2005-11-16 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 16/11/2005-20:58:44(-0500): Kevin types ... > Has development stopped on webapp-config? Does it need a new maintainer? Development has far from stopped: http://svn.gnqs.org/projects/vhost-tools -- (* Georgi Georgiev (* When all else fails, read the (* *)[EMAIL PRO

[gentoo-dev] FEATURES=test and the internet

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Meltzer
I've been running my latest install with features=test, makes it simple to test packages requiring stablizization and all that... at least partially.. However, I've seen a few packages that fetch stuff during the test phase from the internet, which seems like a _really_ bad idea to me. For 1, wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES=test and the internet

2005-11-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:38:13 + Dan Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | libxml2 fetches a DTD, it fetched fine, but if I had not had | internet... it probably would have died, a simple possible fix to this | is to add the dtd to SRC_URI, but this an extra thing to handle for | people without FE

Re: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES=test and the internet

2005-11-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:38:13AM +, Dan Meltzer wrote: > However, I've seen a few packages that fetch stuff during the test > phase from the internet if you have any packages other than libxml2 that do this, you should file bug reports about each one -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing l