[gentoo-dev] Redux: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-31 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi folks, Just a heads up - I have done the digest removal now, and regenerated every Manifest file. The manifest1_obsolete file is in place accordingly. I did NOT however implement the digest-* block, specifically so that I can try and find what developers have subtree checkouts, and query them

[gentoo-dev] Re: Redux: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-31 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > P.S. I think I killed CIA.vc, because it was working before I touched > 37k files in the tree, and it broke soon after I started. They need to > scale better! Yes, they break several times a day. > P.P.S. For disk saving, jokey's numbers are roughl

[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: distutils.eclass

2008-01-31 Thread Ali Polatel
Donnie Berkholz yazmış: > On 22:19 Wed 23 Jan , Ali Polatel (hawking) wrote: > > hawking 08/01/23 22:19:05 > > > > Modified: distutils.eclass > > Log: > > Fixed ROOT usage for distutils_pkg_postinst failing when ROOT ends with > > slash > > > @@ -99,11 +99,14 @@ > > di

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to get more involved?

2008-01-31 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 01:38 +0100, Torsten Rehn wrote: > On Thursday 31 January 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: > > What should I do to make ebuilds and upload it to main portage mirror? > > Take a look at the Gentoo docs on writing[1] and contributing[2] ebuilds. If > you've got any further qu

Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-01-31 Thread Natanael Copa
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 12:35 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > 080128 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > now that the mktemp binary has been moved out of debianutils > > and integrated straight into coreutils, > > perhaps it's time to ask how important this package is to everyone. > > current debianutils is part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-plugins/gkrellm-bfm

2008-01-31 Thread Jim Ramsay
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Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code

2008-01-31 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 29-01-2008 12:24:56 -0800, Alec Warner wrote: > > To give a short answer, its a combination of projects suggested by > > developer and projects submitted by the students. They get reviewed by > > the User Rel/SOC Staff and put into an order of projects to submit to > > Google. They then decide w

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code

2008-01-31 Thread Alec Warner
On 1/31/08, Fabian Groffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29-01-2008 12:24:56 -0800, Alec Warner wrote: > > > To give a short answer, its a combination of projects suggested by > > > developer and projects submitted by the students. They get reviewed by > > > the User Rel/SOC Staff and put into an

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code

2008-01-31 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 31-01-2008 12:40:33 -0800, Alec Warner wrote: > > Is there a place were devs can just throw in 'ideas'? I have a couple > > in mind, so it would be great if there was a place where interested > > "students" can go to see all ideas and pick one they like. > > I would prefer students come up wit

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-31 Thread Davide Cendron
Il Thursday 31 January 2008 02:00:36 Robin H. Johnson ha scritto: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 04:14:48PM -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > It really is best done in the tree first, so everything is correct for > > the snapshot. We didn't have much issue last time because we push > > "manifest1_obso

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-31 Thread Jan Kundrát
Davide Cendron wrote: >> Ok, so we're just blocking on the docs guys. Well, to the best of my knowledge, nobody asked us to fix stuff. Preferred way would be filing a bug to the docs-team that says "hey, we're gonna deprecate all digests, could you please fix your crap so that it doesn't recommend

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-31 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:57:01PM +0100, Jan Kundr?t wrote: > Davide Cendron wrote: > >> Ok, so we're just blocking on the docs guys. > Well, to the best of my knowledge, nobody asked us to fix stuff. ... > Also note that docs team is responsible for files that are under > http://www.gentoo.org/do

Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 31 January 2008, Natanael Copa wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 12:35 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > > 080128 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > now that the mktemp binary has been moved out of debianutils > > > and integrated straight into coreutils, > > > perhaps it's time to ask how important th

Re: [gentoo-dev] looking for a mentor

2008-01-31 Thread Petteri Räty
Iain Buchanan kirjoitti: jsin is a bit busy (and not at 6 months yet) so he can't mentor me, although he still offers help as time permits. I would therefore like to see if anyone wants to volunteer their mentoring prowess to get me to developer status :) I presume no-one has yet contacted I

Re: [gentoo-dev] looking for a mentor

2008-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 03:33 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > Iain Buchanan kirjoitti: > > > > jsin is a bit busy (and not at 6 months yet) so he can't mentor me, > > although he still offers help as time permits. I would therefore like > > to see if anyone wants to volunteer their mentoring prowess

Re: [gentoo-dev] looking for a mentor

2008-01-31 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Friday, 01. February 2008 02:58:48 Iain Buchanan wrote: > actually I had philantrop offer (many thanks, will get back to you > ASAP) and 2 or 3 comments on IRC (thanks also :) I got your mail and I'll catch you on IRC this weekend. :-) > I was going to reply when I'd said OK to philantrop, and