Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Old changelogs / eclass dir

2011-10-31 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/31/2011 05:45 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:46:30 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" > wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> two small suggestions regarding ChangeLogs: >> >> 1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? In my >> pers

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Old changelogs / eclass dir

2011-10-31 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > There is always the problem with abandoned (but working) packages > which may have no commits in > 2 years. We'll end up with empty > ChangeLogs. > This is a simple technical problem, the solution of which is to take the "last 6 months" or

[gentoo-dev] Re: Shutdown of berlios

2011-10-31 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno sab, 29/10/2011 alle 11.39 +0200, Tomáš Chvátal ha scritto: > app-text/unpaper/unpaper-0.3.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz" Removed unpaper-0.3 (I mirror a copy of the sources on my website, but I expect 0.4 to make muuuch more sense, since I've taken it over). > app-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Shutdown of berlios

2011-10-31 Thread Alec Warner
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Il giorno sab, 29/10/2011 alle 11.39 +0200, Tomáš Chvátal ha scritto: >> app-text/unpaper/unpaper-0.3.ebuild:SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz" > > Removed unpaper-0.3 (I mirror a copy of the sources on my website, but I > expe

[gentoo-dev] Re: portability.eclass: dead egethome, egetshell, is-login-disabled funcs ?

2011-10-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 26 October 2011 19:40:24 Mike Frysinger wrote: > i can't see any ebuild/eclass using egethome, egetshell, > is-login-disabled from portability.eclass. anyone have a reason for > keeping these before i punt them ? http://sources.gentoo.org/eclass/user.eclass?r1=1.3&r2=1.4 http://sourc

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Shutdown of berlios

2011-10-31 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno lun, 31/10/2011 alle 09.43 -0700, Alec Warner ha scritto: > We can't force people who write Gentoo specific software to host w/us > (that would be silly.) If upstream is dead then take a tarball and > clone it into a git repo; nothing is stopping you. It's more that hosting with Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Shutdown of berlios

2011-10-31 Thread Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
El 31/10/11 17:43, Alec Warner escribió: > We can't force people who write Gentoo specific software to host w/us > (that would be silly.) If upstream is dead then take a tarball and > clone it into a git repo; nothing is stopping you. We can, all you need is enough field agents to "convince" people

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Shutdown of berlios

2011-10-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > We can't force people who write Gentoo specific software to host w/us > (that would be silly.) If upstream is dead then take a tarball and > clone it into a git repo; nothing is stopping you. While that should certainly happen if you want to

[gentoo-dev] Re: Shutdown of berlios

2011-10-31 Thread Duncan
Tomáš Chvátal posted on Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:39:15 +0200 as excerpted: > as you probably know berlios is going to be shut down at the end of the > year so we should probably find/create alternative download locations > for the packages in the main tree. FWIW, the latest development is that BerliOS

[gentoo-dev] Re: Old changelogs / eclass dir

2011-10-31 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:39:39 + Markos Chandras wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 10/31/2011 05:45 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:46:30 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" > > wrote: > > > >> Dear all, > >> > >> two small suggestions regarding Change

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Shutdown of berlios

2011-10-31 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno lun, 31/10/2011 alle 14.01 -0400, Rich Freeman ha scritto: > > That is, assuming the current fashion is to host stuff like this in > dev web space. It seems like that comes and goes, but in the absence > of anything better it probably will do and beats having the files just > vanish som

[gentoo-dev] Information: USE="v4l2" has been removed from gentoo-x86

2011-10-31 Thread Samuli Suominen
Versioned USE="v4l2" has been removed from Portage. linux-headers-2.6.38 dropped support for video4linux 1.x and we have linux-headers-2.6.39 stable now. USE="v4l" is now used for video4linux 2.x and/or libv4l userspace libraries. So anything using USE="v4l" for video4linux 1.x is a bug. There i