Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hi, as I've only recently "graduated to developer", I've got a question about this. Diego, your request makes perfect sense to me. But, so far I always thought "Python, portage, and gcc are the things that I really need to rely on, so whatever I do, I'll keep those stable." (My development ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:36:44 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > How big is the risk? Portage was broken several times but it's always easy to fix. If you're lazy, keep working .tbz2 nearby and unpack it to / whenever necessary. If you're not, you can always run portage from the unpacked sources

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-libs/libtelepathy

2010-09-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
# Pacho Ramos (30 Sep 2010) # Unmaintained since a lot of time by upstream, it's # replaced by net-libs/telepathy-glib (bug #338681) and # Masked with Tester's approval. # # Removal on 2010-10-30 net-libs/libtelepathy Also fix cohoba package.mask message:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 09:36, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > What is the general opinion on this? > Do you (developers) all use ~arch portage? > How big is the risk? As another dev who generally runs stable (except things that I hack on), another question: is it actually possible, as Diego seems to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 30-09-2010 a las 09:41 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman escribió: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 09:36, Andreas K. Huettel > wrote: > > What is the general opinion on this? > > Do you (developers) all use ~arch portage? > > How big is the risk? > > As another dev who generally runs stable (except thing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 30-09-2010 a las 10:09 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: > And I would also ask, Where a portage-2.1.9 version will be stabilized? > > Thanks a lot for the info :-) Where -> When signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Alex Alexander
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 09:36:44AM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Hi, > > as I've only recently "graduated to developer", I've got a question about > this. Diego, your request makes perfect sense to me. But, so far I always > thought "Python, portage, and gcc are the things that I really ne

[gentoo-dev] QA last rites for net-p2p/ed2k-gtk-gui

2010-09-30 Thread Diego E . Pettenò
# Diego E. Pettenò (30 Sep 2010) # on behalf of QA team # # Requires edonkey/overnet that are also masked; minor QA # annoyances (bug #295835; #333829) and doesn't properly # set depends. # # Removal on 2010-11-26 net-p2p/ed2k-gtk-gui

[gentoo-dev] Re: Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno gio, 30/09/2010 alle 09.36 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel ha scritto: > What is the general opinion on this? > Do you (developers) all use ~arch portage? > How big is the risk? Generally speaking, we used to say that "The developers are the Portage testbed, and should run ~arch." On a mor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/30/2010 01:09 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > And I would also ask, Where a portage-2.1.9 version will be stabilized? > > Thanks a lot for the info :-) If we don't find any really annoying regressions in portage-2.1.9.12 then that release will be stabilized about 30 days from now. We haven't been

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/30/2010 12:41 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > As another dev who generally runs stable (except things that I hack > on), another question: is it actually possible, as Diego seems to > suggest, to have two portages installed? You can run portage directly from a checkout if you export modified ve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 30-09-2010 a las 08:19 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: > If we don't find any really annoying regressions in portage-2.1.9.12 > then that release will be stabilized about 30 days from now. We > haven't been finding many regressions lately [1], so there's a > reasonable probability of this relea

[gentoo-dev] openssl and preserve_old_lib_notify pitfall

2010-09-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hi, Just by accident I noticed during emerge something that may lead to major confusion: the just stabilized openssl-1.0.0-r3 contains the following code: pkg_postinst() { ... has_version ${CATEGORY}/${PN}:0.9.8 && return 0 preserve_old_lib_notify /usr/$(get_libdir)/lib

Re: [gentoo-dev] openssl and preserve_old_lib_notify pitfall

2010-09-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/30/2010 07:31 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Hi, > > Just by accident I noticed during emerge something that may lead to major > confusion: the just stabilized openssl-1.0.0-r3 contains the following code: > > pkg_postinst() { > ... > has_version ${CATEGORY}/${PN}:0.9.

Re: [gentoo-dev] openssl and preserve_old_lib_notify pitfall

2010-09-30 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/30/2010 09:40 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > Get Portage 2.2_rcX (with preserved-libs) feature released into ~arch. ;-) We probably won't be able to stabilize portage-2.2 at the same time as openssl, so we should probably be thinking of more short-term solutions if this openssl thing is a real

Re: [gentoo-dev] openssl and preserve_old_lib_notify pitfall

2010-09-30 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/30/2010 09:31 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Hi, > > Just by accident I noticed during emerge something that may lead to major > confusion: the just stabilized openssl-1.0.0-r3 contains the following code: > > pkg_postinst() { > ... > has_version ${CATEGORY}/${PN}:0.9.

Re: [gentoo-dev] openssl and preserve_old_lib_notify pitfall

2010-09-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/30/2010 08:25 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 09/30/2010 09:40 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> Get Portage 2.2_rcX (with preserved-libs) feature released into ~arch. ;-) > > We probably won't be able to stabilize portage-2.2 at the same time > as openssl, so we should probably be thinking of more s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Petteri Räty
On 09/30/2010 06:25 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 09/30/2010 12:41 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >> As another dev who generally runs stable (except things that I hack >> on), another question: is it actually possible, as Diego seems to >> suggest, to have two portages installed? > > You can run portage

[gentoo-dev] Re: Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Duncan
Andreas K. Huettel posted on Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:36:44 +0200 as excerpted: > as I've only recently "graduated to developer", I've got a question > about this. Diego, your request makes perfect sense to me. But, so far I > always thought "Python, portage, and gcc are the things that I really > need

Re: [gentoo-dev] openssl and preserve_old_lib_notify pitfall

2010-09-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday, September 30, 2010 12:31:16 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Just by accident I noticed during emerge something that may lead to major > confusion: the just stabilized openssl-1.0.0-r3 contains the following > code: fix your e-mail client. its line wrapping is broken. > pkg_postinst() {

Re: [gentoo-dev] openssl and preserve_old_lib_notify pitfall

2010-09-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday, September 30, 2010 13:32:07 Zac Medico wrote: > The preserve_old_lib_notify message in postinst is invalid if the > package doesn't actually own the file. It would be safer to check > for the file in $D during preinst than to check in $ROOT in postinst > like that function does. that

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-tex/algorithms

2010-09-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
# Andreas K. Huettel (30 Sep 2010) # Masking for removal in 30 days # This package is obsolete, texlive contains a way newer version dev-tex/algorithms -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/