[gentoo-dev] RFC: extending pkgmove (slotmove) actions to apply transitionally to ebuilds

2015-04-04 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, everyone. I'd like to suggest extending the pkgmove (slotmove) action code a little bit to reduce the amount of issues hit by users during the transition period following package moves. Please read on and let me know what you think. The problem --- Package moves (and slot moves)

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: extending pkgmove (slotmove) actions to apply transitionally to ebuilds

2015-04-04 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2015, Michał Górny wrote: > The problem > --- > Package moves (and slot moves) are currently a three part process: > 1. committing the package under the new name (slot), and removing >the old files, Actually, you shouldn't remove the old package at this point bec

[gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ?

2015-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
I read the recent thread re the new app-eselect. Doing my weekly system update, it strikes me that 'eselect' itself sb there too. Time to paint the bikesheds again ... (smile) -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb EL

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: extending pkgmove (slotmove) actions to apply transitionally to ebuilds

2015-04-04 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-04-04, o godz. 20:14:21 Ulrich Mueller napisał(a): > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015, Michał Górny wrote: > > > The problem > > --- > > > Package moves (and slot moves) are currently a three part process: > > > 1. committing the package under the new name (slot), and removing > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ?

2015-04-04 Thread Alex Brandt
On Saturday, April 04, 2015 14:41:37 Philip Webb wrote: > I read the recent thread re the new app-eselect. > Doing my weekly system update, > it strikes me that 'eselect' itself sb there too. > > Time to paint the bikesheds again ... (smile) I don't disagree but will simply point out that if this

Re: [gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ?

2015-04-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/04/2015 02:41 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > I read the recent thread re the new app-eselect. > Doing my weekly system update, > it strikes me that 'eselect' itself sb there too. > > Time to paint the bikesheds again ... (smile) > This is consistent with a lot of other stuff. For example, emacs

Re: [gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ?

2015-04-04 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-04-04, o godz. 13:47:47 Alex Brandt napisał(a): > On Saturday, April 04, 2015 14:41:37 Philip Webb wrote: > > I read the recent thread re the new app-eselect. > > Doing my weekly system update, > > it strikes me that 'eselect' itself sb there too. > > > > Time to paint the bikesheds ag

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: extending pkgmove (slotmove) actions to apply transitionally to ebuilds

2015-04-04 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2015, Michał Górny wrote: >> This is not true for slotmoves. The previous slot can be reused by >> versions not matching the dependency spec of the move. One can even >> move some versions to a new slot, while leaving others in the old >> one. >> >> For example, you could have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: extending pkgmove (slotmove) actions to apply transitionally to ebuilds

2015-04-04 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-04-04, o godz. 21:36:37 Ulrich Mueller napisał(a): > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015, Michał Górny wrote: > > >> This is not true for slotmoves. The previous slot can be reused by > >> versions not matching the dependency spec of the move. One can even > >> move some versions to a new slot, w

[gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for net-firewall/shorewall all-in-one package migration

2015-04-04 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, some of you maybe know or already have noticed that the net-firewall/shorewall* ebuilds were re-integrated into a new all-in-one ebuild for easier maintenance. The package is proxy-maintained. While preparing the new ebuild I discussed with the proxy-maint team and shorewall users if we shou

Re: [gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ?

2015-04-04 Thread Gordon Pettey
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2015-04-04, o godz. 13:47:47 > Alex Brandt napisał(a): > > I don't disagree but will simply point out that if this becomes true, we > > should also move dev-lang/python to dev-python, dev-lang/ruby to > dev-ruby, and > > dev-lang/perl to

Re: [gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ?

2015-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
150404 Alex Brandt wrote: > On Saturday, April 04, 2015 14:41:37 Philip Webb wrote: >> I read the recent thread re the new app-eselect. >> Doing my weekly system update, >> it strikes me that 'eselect' itself sb there too. >> Time to paint the bikesheds again ... (smile) > I don't disagree but will

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for net-firewall/shorewall all-in-one package migration

2015-04-04 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/04/2015 01:09 PM, Thomas D. wrote: > Hi, > > some of you maybe know or already have noticed that the > net-firewall/shorewall* ebuilds were re-integrated into a new > all-in-one ebuild for easier maintenance. > > The package is proxy-maintai

Re: [gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ?

2015-04-04 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2015, Philip Webb wrote: > 150404 Alex Brandt wrote: >> On Saturday, April 04, 2015 14:41:37 Philip Webb wrote: >>> I read the recent thread re the new app-eselect. >>> Doing my weekly system update, >>> it strikes me that 'eselect' itself sb there too. >>> Time to paint the bi

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News item for net-firewall/shorewall all-in-one package migration

2015-04-04 Thread Duncan
Thomas D. posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2015 22:09:36 +0200 as excerpted: > Title: New net-firewall/shorewall all-in-one package $ echo "New net-firewall/shorewall all-in-one package" | wc -c 46 The glep says the title must be 44 chars, max. You're over by a couple chars. Abbreviating "package" to "p

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-04 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:59:25AM +0200, Hanno Böck wrote: > Tricky thing here, because then you'd need to rename the libs. E.g. > libssl to liblibressl or something. > But then every program with a build environment to link to libssl would > first have to be patched to link to our specialized li

[gentoo-dev] New website: Where the .... is the ....ing documentation link?

2015-04-04 Thread Duncan
TL;DR: (1) Please consider either making Documentation a top-level-menu link (preferable), or at least change Support to Support and Documentation. (2) On the documentation lander page, add a "one big list" link to a browser-keyword-searchable list of docs, like the old docs project page had.

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-04 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:31:53PM +0200, hasufell wrote: > Not anymore. We will go for "libressl" USE flag for the same reason > there is a "libav" USE flag now (working subslots etc). Um, ok. That still only allows one or the other to be installed though, right? So if you want a package that on

Re: [gentoo-dev] New website: Where the .... is the ....ing documentation link?

2015-04-04 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 04/04/2015 09:42 PM, Duncan wrote: > TL;DR: (1) Please consider either making Documentation a top-level-menu > link (preferable), or at least change Support to Support and > Documentation. (2) On the documentation lander page, add a "one big > list" link to a browser-keyword-searchable list