[gentoo-dev] Re: openrc portage news item

2011-04-30 Thread Duncan
Brian Harring posted on Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:59:45 -0700 as excerpted: > Checking the boot levels, udev included, same thing- if ROOT=/ and > baselayout is there already you likely *could* look at the running > system to see what's needed/in use, and kick rc-update as needed for > spots where it *i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild

2011-04-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> sources.gentoo.org is for that. ChangeLog is for users, and "old" is > not useful information to them > > So no, I won't start cluttering up ChangeLogs and I would prefer if > others would stop it as well This makes no sense. Either you document things, and then you have to keep the docume

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild

2011-04-30 Thread Duncan
Samuli Suominen posted on Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:15:55 +0300 as excerpted: > On 04/30/2011 07:45 AM, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Samuli Suominen >> wrote: >>> sources.gentoo.org is for that. ChangeLog is for users, and "old" is >>> not useful information to them >> >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild

2011-04-30 Thread Peter Volkov
В Сбт, 30/04/2011 в 07:39 +0300, Samuli Suominen пишет: > On 04/30/2011 07:10 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > sources.gentoo.org is for that. It's not convenient to use browser to read ChangeLog. > So no, I won't start cluttering up ChangeLogs and I would prefer if > others would stop it as well I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla - New Default Status Workflow

2011-04-30 Thread Peter Volkov
В Чтв, 28/04/2011 в 18:06 +0300, Panagiotis Christopoulos пишет: > On 16:07 Thu 28 Apr, Christian Ruppert wrote: > > So once again: > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/docs/en/html/lifecycle.html I'm all for new lifecycle. > > CLOSED gone. VERIFIED will be added. > What is the meaning of VERIFIED? (

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild

2011-04-30 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/30/2011 07:39 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > sources.gentoo.org is for that. ChangeLog is for users, and "old" is > not useful information to them > > So no, I won't start cluttering up ChangeLogs and I would prefer if > others would stop it as well > Individual developers (especially

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild

2011-04-30 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/30/2011 10:22 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > I'd suggest having repoman force a changelog entry on ebuild removal. > Opened yesterday: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365361 Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild

2011-04-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/30/2011 11:03 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: > On 04/30/2011 07:39 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > >> >> sources.gentoo.org is for that. ChangeLog is for users, and "old" is >> not useful information to them >> >> So no, I won't start cluttering up ChangeLogs and I would prefer if >> others would st

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild

2011-04-30 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/30/2011 11:12 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > It no where in the link you provided mentions ChangeLog is required for > removals. Removing an unused ebuild is not the same as making changes to > an ebuild. > > We have no policy for logging removals. And that's like it should be. > It doesn

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild

2011-04-30 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Petteri Räty wrote: > Individual developers (especially QA project members) should not be > ignoring policies when they feel like it. > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html While I'm all for adding a ChangeLog entry when removing a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla - New Default Status Workflow

2011-04-30 Thread Christian Ruppert
On 04/28/2011 04:07 PM, Christian Ruppert wrote: > So once again: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/docs/en/html/lifecycle.html > > *Every* new bug filed by a user without editbugs will have "UNCONFIRMED" > (old NEW) as fixed status. > *If* we don't enable the UNCONFIRMED status at all then it will > C

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild

2011-04-30 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/30/2011 11:35 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Petteri Räty wrote: > >> Individual developers (especially QA project members) should not be >> ignoring policies when they feel like it. > >> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html > >

[gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Petteri Räty
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html There doesn't seem to be a common opinion on what the policy for ChangeLog entries is. See: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f829da2375f1ceab766a800913cc4998.xml I propose a simple new text: "Every commit should

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/30/2011 11:46 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html > > There doesn't seem to be a common opinion on what the policy for > ChangeLog entries is. See: > > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f829da2375f1ceab766a800913cc4998

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc portage news item

2011-04-30 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
> I don't remember the details right now, but I remember speaking with > vapier when I first started working on openrc, and he stated that he > felt we should stay away from higher eapis for system packages. > > I don't really remember his reasoning for that right now, but I remember > that is wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Petteri Räty wrote: > I propose a simple new text: "Every commit should have an entry in > ChangeLog." This would throw the baby out with the bath water. I won't clutter ChangeLogs with useless entries for whitespace changes or spelling fixes in comments, for example.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 30-04-2011 a las 11:46 +0300, Petteri Räty escribió: > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html > > There doesn't seem to be a common opinion on what the policy for > ChangeLog entries is. See: > > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f829da2375f1cea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 11:07 Sat 30 Apr , Ulrich Mueller wrote: > ... > I won't clutter ChangeLogs with useless entries for whitespace changes > or spelling fixes in comments, for example. They already account for a > considerable (too large?) percentage of the portage tree [1], and we > shouldn't blow them up fu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: openrc portage news item

2011-04-30 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 07:13:59AM +, Duncan wrote: > Brian Harring posted on Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:59:45 -0700 as excerpted: > > > Checking the boot levels, udev included, same thing- if ROOT=/ and > > baselayout is there already you likely *could* look at the running > > system to see what's n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: openrc portage news item

2011-04-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Brian Harring wrote: > A proper SA avoids upgrade pathways were possible that require > manual intervention.  This requires manual intervention. > > Said proper SA's also have a rather large hatred of anything that can > leave a system nonbootable (rant: including

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Peter Volkov
В Сбт, 30/04/2011 в 12:02 +0300, Samuli Suominen пишет: > On 04/30/2011 11:46 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: > > I propose a simple new text: "Every commit should have an entry in > > ChangeLog." Nonfunctional commits should not be recored in ChangeLog. Personally I quite frequently add URLs of upstream

[gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno sab, 30/04/2011 alle 11.07 +0200, Ulrich Mueller ha scritto: > > I won't clutter ChangeLogs with useless entries for whitespace changes > or spelling fixes in comments, for example. They already account for a > considerable (too large?) percentage of the portage tree [1], and we > should

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev installs now to /lib/udev (was: rfc: libexec directory inconsistency)

2011-04-30 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Sonntag, 24. April 2011, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > Getting that discussion back on top. > > On Samstag, 22. Januar 2011, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > > Il giorno sab, 22/01/2011 alle 11.02 -0600, William Hubbs ha scritto: > > > Is there a reason for this? If not, would it break things if we s

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc portage news item

2011-04-30 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2011.04.30 01:34, William Hubbs wrote: [snip] > > Also, this patch doesn't stop baselayout-2 from being installed, so I > do > not know what state it would leave a system in if you ran this and > happened to upgrade baselayout, then reboot without installing > openrc. > > William > > Willi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: openrc portage news item

2011-04-30 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 08:03:43AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: Frankly getting fairly annoyed people are immediately taking it to the rhel/ubuntu extremes- that is *not* what I asked and is frankly a strawman argument. Occasional pain on upgrades is a given in gentoo, although anyone claiming

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 14:28 Sat 30 Apr , Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > If you read the last paragraph in my suggestion was to cycle the logs... Maybe this would be better together with a mechanism (automatic?) to keep the complete ChangeLogs (as they are now) somewhere (but not in the main tree). Sometimes, full hi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: openrc portage news item

2011-04-30 Thread Jeremy Olexa
On 04/30/2011 07:58 AM, Brian Harring wrote: On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 08:03:43AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: Frankly getting fairly annoyed people are immediately taking it to the rhel/ubuntu extremes- that is *not* what I asked and is frankly a strawman argument. Occasional pain on upgrades is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: openrc portage news item

2011-04-30 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 08:06:37AM -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > This openrc upgrade is the *least* painful Gentoo upgrade I have > experienced. What a waste of time (IMO) to "script" some defaults. Basically answering my question- it wasn't considered since it ain't worth the time. Danke- consi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Markos Chandras
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:02:35PM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 04/30/2011 11:46 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html > > > > There doesn't seem to be a common opinion on what the policy for > > ChangeLog entries is. See: > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 4/30/11 3:05 PM, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > On 14:28 Sat 30 Apr , Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: >> If you read the last paragraph in my suggestion was to cycle the logs... > Maybe this would be better together with a mechanism (automatic?) to keep the > complete ChangeLogs (as they are no

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 9:44 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > I'm fine with shipping a trimmed down versions to users, but I think the > full version must be easy to access. If the changelogs were accessible via a predicable URL then a simple command-line tool or portage option might display them

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 02:42:08PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: > I am actually with Samuli on this. Unless there is a particular reason > for removing a package, I don't see any point of documenting this change > anywhere. > What difference would it make to you if you see an entry " -foo-1.0 > o

[gentoo-dev] Proposal: include dbus session handling in baselayout (or somewhere, in which case where?)

2011-04-30 Thread Leho Kraav
Hi all This is something like net-misc/keychain is for key management. My main use case so far is to do with gnome-keyring-daemon for Subversion. If you want to have a password-locked keyring, you will have to unlock it every time you have a new dbus instance, which can pretty much happen ev

[gentoo-dev] No more old-style virtuals

2011-04-30 Thread Ulrich Mueller
With the conversion of linux-sources to a new-style virtual today, all old-style virtuals are gone from the portage tree. See GLEP 37 and bug 350792 for details. Thanks to everyone who has helped with conversion or cleanup. I hope that I didn't step on too many toes for the conversions I did mysel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 02:42:08PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:02:35PM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > On 04/30/2011 11:46 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: > > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html > > > > > > There doesn't seem to be

[gentoo-dev] Use of use.mask

2011-04-30 Thread Ole Markus With
Hi all, I was thinking of adding SVN snapshot ebuilds of PHP to the tree. Ebuilds for PHP extensions use USE_EXPAND to decide which slots (and thus, which ABIs) of PHP the extension should be built for, much like ruby does. A new USE_EXPAND USE flag should therefore be added for the SVN snapshot s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Use of use.mask

2011-04-30 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 04/30/2011 02:47 PM, Ole Markus With wrote: > Hi all, > > I was thinking of adding SVN snapshot ebuilds of PHP to the tree. > Ebuilds for PHP extensions use USE_EXPAND to decide which slots (and > thus, which ABIs) of PHP the extension should be built for, much like > ruby does. A new USE_EXPAN

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 12:02 Sat 30 Apr , Samuli Suominen wrote: > > "Every new file, and modification to existing file should have an entry > in ChangeLog." to skip the proper ChangeLog-less removals. There is something I can't undestand reading all the previous discussions. You disagree with logging removals o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Review for initial systemd.eclass

2011-04-30 Thread Michał Górny
Here's the second version. Changes: - switched to /lib (like upstream and udev now does), - polished docs and added an example of use, - added systemd_to_myeconfargs() to allow clean argument appending with preservation of whitespace. -- Best regards, Michał Górny systemd.eclass Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] python-namespaces.eclass

2011-04-30 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-04-04 13:48:43 Brian Harring napisał(a): > > # @ECLASS: python-namespaces.eclass > > # @MAINTAINER: > > # Gentoo Python Project > > # @BLURB: Eclass for packages installing Python namespaces > > # @DESCRIPTION: > > # The python-namespaces eclass defines phase functions for packages > > insta

Re: [gentoo-dev] python-namespaces.eclass

2011-04-30 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:27:47PM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > 2011-04-04 13:48:43 Brian Harring napisał(a): > > > # @ECLASS: python-namespaces.eclass > > > # @MAINTAINER: > > > # Gentoo Python Project > > > # @BLURB: Eclass for packages installing Python namespaces > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] python-namespaces.eclass

2011-04-30 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-05-01 00:32:13 Brian Harring napisał(a): > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:27:47PM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis > wrote: > > 2011-04-04 13:48:43 Brian Harring napisał(a): > > > > # @ECLASS: python-namespaces.eclass > > > > # @MAINTAINER: > > > > # Gentoo Python Project > > > > # @BL

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild

2011-04-30 Thread Dale
Duncan wrote: I'm a user, and despite the fact that I tend to run ~arch or even pre-tree testing overlays, I find ebuild removal information in the changelog WAY more useful than, say, when some obscure arch keyworded a version. Ergo, the argument that users don't find that info useful is dispro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild

2011-04-30 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: I'm a user, tho a lowly one, and even I look in the changelogs from time to time. I don't even see why this should be discussed. If you *change* something, but it in the *change* log. If not, maybe the changelog should be called something else. Using the logic that something be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla - New Default Status Workflow

2011-04-30 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Thursday 28 of April 2011 16:07:24 Christian Ruppert wrote: > So once again: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/docs/en/html/lifecycle.html > > *Every* new bug filed by a user without editbugs will have "UNCONFIRMED" > (old NEW) as fixed status. > *If* we don't enable the UNCONFIRMED status at all th

[gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] Rendering the official Gentoo logo / Blender 2.04, Python 2.2

2011-04-30 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Michał Górny wrote: >> Among the options I see is the following: >> >> A) Find out how to render g-metal.blend with recent Blender >> (2.57b at best) to give pixel-identical results to Blender 2.04. >> Needs an advanced Blender user ideally. >> >> B) Port Ble

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] Rendering the official Gentoo logo / Blender 2.04, Python 2.2

2011-04-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 1 May 2011 06:10:02 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > Maybe it's time to make the SVG variant the official logo, and leave > > the blender file as a historical variant. > > The Blender variant looks better though, especially at high > resolutions. Isn't it possible to create a better SVG