Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

On 04/04/2024 15:24, Eddie Chapman wrote: Since there appears to be some interest I'll put together a single email to the list later today detailing everything, as I needed to do more things overall in addition to replacing /usr/bin/xz. Below is a guide I've written to removing app-arch/xz-util

Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

> On Sat, 06 Apr 2024, Eddie Chapman wrote: > [...] this is ridiculous and unnecessary :-). Indeed. SCNR, Ulrich

Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

On 2024.04.06 12:57, Eddie Chapman wrote: > On 04/04/2024 15:24, Eddie Chapman wrote: > > Since there appears to be some interest I'll put together a single > email > > to the list later today detailing everything, as I needed to do more > > things overall in addition to replacing /usr/bin/xz. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

On 06-04-2024 12:57:23 +0100, Eddie Chapman wrote: > There is one significant thing that breaks, which is Gemato > (app-portage/gemato). Gemato requires lzma support in core python in > order to do GPG signature verification. This means you will have to say > goodbye (for now) to verifying upstr

[gentoo-dev] Update on the 23.0 profiles

Hi all, so here's a small update on the state of the 23.0 profiles: * For all arches, the 23.0 profiles are now marked at the same stability status (mostly for the CI and pkgcheck) as before the 17.x profiles. Most 17.x profiles have been downgraded to "exp". * All stage downloads (with th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

Eddie Chapman writes: > On 04/04/2024 15:24, Eddie Chapman wrote: >> Since there appears to be some interest I'll put together a single email >> to the list later today detailing everything, as I needed to do more >> things overall in addition to replacing /usr/bin/xz. > > Below is a guide I've w

[gentoo-dev] Last-rites: KDE Telepathy and net-libs/telepathy-logger-qt

# Andreas Sturmlechner (2024-04-06) # Dead upstream, as is the whole telepathy stack. Some parts depend on # dev-qt/qtwebengine:5. # Removal on 2024-05-06. Bug #926679 kde-apps/ktp-accounts-kcm kde-apps/ktp-approver kde-apps/ktp-auth-handler kde-apps/ktp-common-internals kde-apps/ktp-contact-list

[gentoo-dev] Last-rites: telepathy related packages

On Freitag, 25. November 2022 04:24:15 MESZ Matt Turner wrote: > GNOME 43 will no longer need these packages. They seem to be in varying > states of decay upstream. > > - net-im/telepathy-connection-managers > - net-libs/farstream > - net-libs/sofia-sip > - net-libs/telepathy-farstream > - net-voi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update on the 23.0 profiles

On Sat, 2024-04-06 at 17:06 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Hi all, > > so here's a small update on the state of the 23.0 profiles: > Why was this silently added to make.defaults for all 23.0 profiles? > # This just makes sense nowadays, if only for distfiles... > USE="lzma zstd"

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rites: telepathy related packages

On Sat, 2024-04-06 at 21:20 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: > > # Andreas Sturmlechner (2024-04-06) > # Dead upstream for many years, in a state of decay and no revdeps. > # Removal on 2024-05-06.  Bug #926193 > net-libs/sofia-sip This package also has open security bugs. I've added the relev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

Fabian Groffen wrote: > If you just want to verify signatures and manifests after sync, > qmanifest from portage-utils can help you do this. > > Thanks, > Fabian Thanks for the pointer, and I see you are one of the authors, thanks for writing a very useful tool!