Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools.eclass: eclassdoc, cosmetic changes, drop old EAPIs

2021-03-28 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Sam James wrote: > -if [[ -z ${_AUTOTOOLS_ECLASS} ]]; then > +if [[ -z ${_AUTOTOOLS_ECLASS} ]] ; then This just adds unnecessary noise to the git history. We don't have any policy on whitespace before punctuation marks, but the examples in the Bash manual don't have wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-28 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:40:52 -0400 Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 3/27/2021 18:16, James Le Cuirot wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 17:43:34 -0400 > > Joshua Kinard wrote: > > > >> I kinda wish the Linux kernel had an ability to partially boot, init the > >> networking subsystem, then fetch an initr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools.eclass: eclassdoc, cosmetic changes, drop old EAPIs

2021-03-28 Thread David Seifert
On Sun, 2021-03-28 at 10:13 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Sam James wrote: >   > > -if [[ -z ${_AUTOTOOLS_ECLASS} ]]; then > > +if [[ -z ${_AUTOTOOLS_ECLASS} ]] ; then > > This just adds unnecessary noise to the git history. We don't have any > policy on whitespace

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools.eclass: eclassdoc, cosmetic changes, drop old EAPIs

2021-03-28 Thread David Seifert
On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 22:21 +, Sam James wrote: > (Relatively) significant changes: > * inherit eutils for < EAPI 7 for eqawarn > * mark WANT_AUTO*, AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND as @PRE_INHERIT > * convert phase test to EBUILD_PHASE_FUNC > * drop support for < EAPI 5 LGTM

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools.eclass: eclassdoc, cosmetic changes, drop old EAPIs

2021-03-28 Thread Michał Górny
Hi, Thank you for doing this. LGTM modulo a few nits below. On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 22:21 +, Sam James wrote: > - if [[ ${EBUILD_PHASE} != "unpack" && ${EBUILD_PHASE} != "prepare" ]]; > then > - ewarn "QA Warning: running $1 in ${EBUILD_PHASE} phase" > + if [[ ${EBUILD_PHA

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools.eclass: eclassdoc, cosmetic changes, drop old EAPIs

2021-03-28 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sun, 28 Mar 2021, David Seifert wrote: > This is just bringing it in line with the rest of the eclass. You know, > consistency. If that's the goal then the patch should update all occurences, though. Especially those where usage is inconsistent within the same line. signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools.eclass: eclassdoc, cosmetic changes, drop old EAPIs

2021-03-28 Thread Sam James
 > On 28 Mar 2021, at 13:46, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >  >>> On Sun, 28 Mar 2021, David Seifert wrote: >> This is just bringing it in line with the rest of the eclass. You know, >> consistency. > > If that's the goal then the patch should update all occurences, though. Well, that was defi

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-28 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 10:51:11PM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 3/27/2021 20:32, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 05:43:34PM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: > >> On 3/23/2021 07:31, Rich Freeman wrote: > >>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 6:54 PM Andreas K. Huettel > >>> wrote: > >

[gentoo-dev] developing a separate repo spec

2021-03-28 Thread Tim Harder
Hi all, Is there any interest these days in developing and maintaining a separate repo spec [1]? Among other uses, it would help in describing standardized repo features related to metadata/layout.conf settings allowing devs to reference a single, canonical source in order to support repo/profiles

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: x11-misc/piedock

2021-03-28 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all the following packages are up for grabs after dropping desktop-misc: x11-misc/piedock https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-misc/piedock It does not compile and needs patches. Upstream is informed too. We will have to last rite, if it is not fixed soon. I send in CC to Lars, who co

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-28 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 3/28/2021 16:05, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 10:51:11PM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: >> On 3/27/2021 20:32, William Hubbs wrote: >>> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 05:43:34PM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: On 3/23/2021 07:31, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 6:54 PM

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-28 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 3/28/2021 05:25, James Le Cuirot wrote:> On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:40:52 -0400 Joshua Kinard > wrote: > >> On 3/27/2021 18:16, James Le Cuirot wrote: >>> On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 17:43:34 -0400 Joshua Kinard >>> wrote: >>> I kinda wish the Linux kernel had an ability to partially boot, init

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] xorg-3.eclass: strip -fno-plt from *FLAGS

2021-03-28 Thread Matt Turner
From: Niklāvs Koļesņikovs <89q1r1...@relay.firefox.com> As discussed in #778494, the GCC flag -fno-plt will break lazy binding, which appears to still be necessary for Xorg. Stripping the offending flag out is the next best solution for reliable user experience on Gentoo. Closes: https://bugs.gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] developing a separate repo spec

2021-03-28 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, Tim Harder wrote: > Is there any interest these days in developing and maintaining a > separate repo spec [1]? Among other uses, it would help in describing > standardized repo features related to metadata/layout.conf settings > allowing devs to reference a single, canon

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-28 Thread William Hubbs
This is getting really long, so I'm going to remove more things I'm not answering directly. On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 07:31:02PM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: > > The problem is, there's a chicken-and-egg problem in the scenario where > > / and /usr are on separate partitions, and this is why a number