Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Brian Dolbec
> Remember that eclean acts on distfiles as well. > which is why eclean has a config file where you can add files/pkgs, patterns to exclude from being cleaned. -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Brian Dolbec
hat would usually be backed up. > then /var/repositories/ similar to my previous reply. It is very clear by the name what it's purpose is. Also name the portage tree dir gentoo like it's repo_name and all but one of the layman overlays available to install. -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Brian Dolbec
ble or fall back to running layman in a subprocess to sync the overlays as well as the portage tree. -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-19 Thread Brian Dolbec
't be /var/portage or /var/repositories, we heard you. From my rough tracking, I believe somewhere under /var/cache was majority vote. Anyway, once catalyst is ready it will be easy to set it to whatever is finally decided. -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-19 Thread Brian Dolbec
es /var/cache/repositories/ /var/cache/repositories/gentoo <== the main portage tree /var/cache/repositories/local<== the new location for a local overlay /var/cache/repositories/some-overlay <== layman installed overlay -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-20 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 09:11 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > > just to clarify, I'm voting for... > > > /var/cache/distfiles > > /var/cache/packages > > Fine. > > > /var/cache/r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Time based retirements

2012-12-21 Thread Brian Dolbec
list. For all those young devs out there still in college/university. You will find that time accelerates as you age. 3 months may seem a long time for you now, but give it another 5-10 years and you'll discover that 3 months can go by quite quickly. Especially with a family (wife, kids, pets) and a full time job. -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Time based retirements

2012-12-21 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 10:46 +, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 21 December 2012 08:49, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 21:30 -0800, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > >> I have several suggestions how we can improve things: > >> > >> 1. 3

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-22 Thread Brian Dolbec
se elog messages to a layman-updater script (needed for something else) which was capable of knowing what messages were relevant to display. I run that layman-updater script in pkg_postinst(). -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-23 Thread Brian Dolbec
users to locate (after some time to get use to the idea where to find them). -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] tools-portage herd unmaintained packages

2012-12-25 Thread Brian Dolbec
they will be candidates for the > > treecleaners. > > > > Regards, > > Paul Varner > > tools-portage lead > > > > > > What did occur finally with them? -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-29 Thread Brian Dolbec
g soon. > Not to sidetrack the topic farther, but isn't this best done in our github/gentoo account. It is one of the main reasons we have it, to easily accept pull requests from users. It would also make it easier for more devs to participate in a group proxy-maint repo. -- Brian Dolb

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2013-01-02 Thread Brian Dolbec
eep five > years of backlog (i.e. everything from before 2008 would be removed > now). > > Ulrich > OK, that seems to be some very good reasons to tree-clean them. What's our next step? Tree-cleaners, does this fall into your department? Or should I prepare a list of files and/or updates to clean? -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2013-01-11 Thread Brian Dolbec
ing to archive them to be available. It can be moved to there, otherwise I can remove it once we know it is not needed. Now, where to document this procedure for future reference? -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] app-emulation/qemu-user mask

2013-01-13 Thread Brian Dolbec
s the combined work of 2 active gentoo devs "Diego Petteno" who created the main gentoo tinderbox, and Brian Harring. And does not work "poorly" and in my opinion works much better, easier than libvirt, which I never did get working before getting a copy of Brian's init script. -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Brian Dolbec
build keywords So, for the new 13.0 profiles, please add this to the recommended steps for migrating profiles. It should greatly reduce the number of bugs and forum threads complaining about breakage. Yeah, I know, there will still be some that don't read instructions and continue to break their

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Brian Dolbec
the desktop profile from the base wouldn't be bad, would it? -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] stabilization candidates rss feed & html pages

2013-01-22 Thread Brian Dolbec
the rss feed in a web page with a search box, and/or integrate the candidates into the pkgs status reports it does. Second reason, I believe it is getting or already has deployment on gentoo infra servers. I pinged `fox` in #-www about it, Corentin wasn't online there at the time. cc'ing them here. -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilization candidates rss feed & html pages

2013-01-22 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 01:15 -0200, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 14:44 +0100, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Petteri Räty > >> wrote: > >> &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to publish an overlay

2013-02-07 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 09:03 +0200, Kfir Lavi wrote: > Hi, > I'm the author of bashlibs - general library framework and libraries > for bash programing. > I have created new overlay for bash libraries. > https://github.com/kfirlavi/bashlibs/tree/master/gentoo/portage > > How do I publish it via l

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo

2013-02-13 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 20:46 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 13.02.2013 20:19, schrieb Michael Sterrett: > > # Michael Sterrett (13 Feb 2013) > > # No longer licensed for sale upstream. > > # Masked for removal on 20130315. > > games-strategy/x2 > > games-strategy/x2-demo > > > > Sure, I canno

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 04:09 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 04:36:08PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > > It may be advantageous to have a gentoo wrapper script that calls GPG > > with recommended settings to make some tasks easier, > > > gentoo-gpg-create --recommended > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we list sys-apps/sed in DEPEND

2013-02-19 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 14:10 +0100, Thomas Kahle wrote: > ... if it is used in the ebuild? > > It is a system package here on amd64, but is it everywhere? > > Cheers, > Thomas > Only if the pkg is also a system package. I recently ran into a problem running a catalyst build because portage-util

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime

2013-03-24 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 2013-03-24 at 14:22 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > Nuno Silva wrote: > > mplayer *can* play it, but tuning is a different story. > > mplayer is not really an alternative. tvtime looks and feels > significantly better. > > A lot like saying that Fiat is an alternative to Ferrari. > > I'm als

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime

2013-03-25 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 06:40 +, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: > On 2013-03-25, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Markos Chandras > > wrote: > >> > >> # Markos Chandras (22 Mar 2013) > >> # Fails with automake-1.12 (#424289) > >> # Problems with the alsa p

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] SRC_URI behaviour

2013-06-15 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 15:05 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-06-15, o godz. 15:56:53 > "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" napisał(a): > > > And, moreover, I guess, SRC_URI can even be used for VCS: > > > > SRC_URI=" > > git+ssh://github.com/lol/moo.git > > hg+ssh://bitbucket.org/lol/moo >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-06-16 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 14:48 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Due ferringb retirement the following packages are up for grabs: > > dev-python/snakeoil > > sys-apps/pkgcore (likely to be treecleaned as it's no longer maintained > > and neither

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-06-16 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 16:44 +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:55:23 -0700 > Brian Dolbec wrote: > > > I'll take pkgcore (if somehow we can get eapi 5 finished.) > > Here's the catch: it's not only about finishing EAPI 5, but also about > i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-06-16 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 19:21 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El dom, 16-06-2013 a las 10:09 -0700, Brian Dolbec escribió: > [...] > > Thank you for considering helping. I have stayed away form the > > intricate details of package management in the past, but I also do not > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] unpacker.eclass extensions

2013-06-17 Thread Brian Dolbec
git repo in my dev space. It is in the compress branch. Note there is no master branch there, so a basic clone will error when it tries to checkout a master working copy on completion of the clone. Just "git checkout compress" after. http://dev.gentoo.org/~dolsen/catalyst/ I've atta

Re: [gentoo-dev] Patches on bug reports: thanks but no thanks for the credit

2013-07-04 Thread Brian Dolbec
ssenger. I > shouldn't be getting the credit for them at all. > > > Regards, > jer > Thank you for the extra effort. I appreciate it, although for the one I had recently, it made it harder. I had just migrated the ebuild to the new python eclasses. So the diff included the reversal of those changes too. -- Brian Dolbec

[gentoo-dev] Re: toolchain update was Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Questions for candidates for Gentoo Council 2013/2014

2013-07-05 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 22:18 -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > On 07/05/2013 09:41 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:47:08 -0400 > > "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" wrote: > > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >>> Paweł was nice enough to write a patc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: toolchain update was Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Questions for candidates for Gentoo Council 2013/2014

2013-07-06 Thread Brian Dolbec
n to rebuild itself during the stage2 run. Also the "--rebuild-if-new-ver gcc" only rebuilds gcc if it's deps are updated to new versions (likely breaking lib linkage), it is not unconditional. It is not as accurate as subslots, so may rebuild more often than possibly needed. But it is better than having unreliable stage builds, not knowing when they may break. -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: toolchain update was Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Questions for candidates for Gentoo Council 2013/2014

2013-07-06 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 09:36 -0700, Matt Turner wrote: > On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > Yes, it does need to be rebuilt if key deps are updated. The gcc > > produced in the stage1 is broken, so won't run to rebuild itself during > > the stage2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 00:35 +0200, hasufell wrote: > On 07/22/2013 12:33 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Dnia 2013-07-22, o godz. 00:16:31 hasufell > > napisał(a): > > > >> On 07/22/2013 12:07 AM, Duncan wrote: > >>> hasufell posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:22:24 +0200 as > >>> excerpted: > >>> >

Re: [gentoo-dev] PHP_TARGETS vs PYTHON_TARGETS different grammar, why?

2013-07-28 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 2013-07-28 at 13:33 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Leho Kraav wrote: > > Wondering if there's any plan for proper convergence at some point? > > I'd guess that the value of further convergence is so small that it > will not be a priority for any of the t

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] repositories.xml now served via api.gentoo.org

2013-07-29 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 18:13 +0200, Alex Legler wrote: > The overlays configuration file repositories.xml is the first file that > is now being served via api.gentoo.org. > > New public URL: https://api.gentoo.org/overlays/repositories.xml > Git repository: git+ssh://g...@git.gentoo.org/proj/api.gi

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRc-0.12 and gentoo-oldnet-0.1 keywording question

2013-08-03 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 16:44 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > one thing that is going to be different about OpenRc-0.12 is the oldnet > scripts (net.* and /lib*/rc/net/*) are going to be split out into their > own package, gentoo-oldnet-0.1. This will be brought in by a pdepend > initially to

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-03 Thread Brian Dolbec
cause all interesting features are > gone and it'll just become an inferior init system that needs to be > replaced. > ++ -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-04 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 2013-08-04 at 15:37 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > Doug and Brian, I'm going to reply in a little more detail. > > On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 07:38:04PM -0700, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 21:03 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] repositories.xml now served via api.gentoo.org

2013-08-10 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 16:09 -0700, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 18:13 +0200, Alex Legler wrote: > > The overlays configuration file repositories.xml is the first file that > > is now being served via api.gentoo.org. > > > > New public URL: http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Patch applying function for EAPI 6

2013-08-23 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 11:45 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > For EAPI 6, introduction of a patch applying function to the package > manager itself is being discussed. This would serve two purposes: > - support for PATCHES variable in a default src

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Scire project - plans?

2013-10-29 Thread Brian Dolbec
to eclean to get remote pkg lists from machines for consideration doing distfiles and binpkg cleaning. C'mon, there has to be more people interested in this... -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP proposal: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-11-10 Thread Brian Dolbec
/05/10/creating-new-gpgkey/) > .. [#DEBIANGPG] Debian GPG documentation >(https://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning) > .. [#RISEUP] RiseUp.net OpenPGP best practices >(https://we.riseup.net/riseuplabs+paow/openpgp-best-practices) > .. [#DEVMANUAL-MANIFEST] Gentoo Development Guide: Manifest >(http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/manifest/index.html) > .. [#GNUPG-USER] GnuPG Gentoo User Guide >(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml) > -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP proposal: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-11-11 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 17:45 -0800, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 00:01 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > Gentoo LDAP: > > > > All developers must list the complete GPG fingerprint for their root > > keys in the "gpgfingerprint" LDAP

Re: [gentoo-dev] Recommend cronie instead of vixie-cron in handbook?

2013-12-13 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 17:08 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > Sergey Popov wrote: > > >>> Last time I checked, vixie-cron upstream was died > > >> > > >> If vixie-cron upstream is dead as you say > > > > > > Define dead? > > > > Bugs are not fixed for a very long time, no answers on private > > e-mails

[gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-05 Thread Brian Dolbec
Once we get an indication that new volunteers are no longer coming forward to join. We will elect a new lead. Those interested in joining, please subscribe to the gentoo-portage-dev list and send an email stating what you can offer and any ideas you have to improve portage's code base. -- B

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-06 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 08:53 +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > We have several non-developer contributors helping out, but it will be > > very hard to match the productivity Zac has made over these past years. > > I must

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage QOS

2014-01-09 Thread Brian Dolbec
elp radhermit out as yet, I have been trying to get some other project cleaned up before delving deeper into pkgcore code. I have just recently taken over lead of portage (an interim position) due to Zac stepping down and away. So I have that added to my todo list at the moment too. -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-12 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 21:33 -0800, Brian Dolbec wrote: > This is a general call for developers to join the portage development > team. > > aka: Recruiting Drive > > If you have some "Good" python and/or bash skills and want/need to or > already know portage'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-12 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 19:07 -0800, Brian Dolbec wrote: > Our team is now, I think quite well rounded, with interests in different > areas of portage and it's utilities. > > We have also converted most of the old www.gentoo.org project pages to > the wiki [1], still a few

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Brian Dolbec
find their way in pkgcores code. That is when pkgcore will make more headway at becoming portage's replacement. But some new fires keep popping up. Long story in a nutshell, gentoo could use more GOOD firefighters. Sorry for the long speech ;) your friendly gentoo python firefighter -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Catalyst news item - v2

2014-01-30 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:57:36 -0800 "W. Trevor King" wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 04:21:39PM +, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto > wrote: > > +If you need to track the stable branch, please use the catalyst > > +2.0. ebuild that tracks the 2.X branch. > > How about “If you want to track the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: mbox -- looks sort of interesting

2014-02-11 Thread Brian Dolbec
rt of the > specified dependencies and @system. > > There was a gentoo gsoc project a few years ago that did exactly this for doing dep checks on ebuilds. There was also one for determining deps automatically. Is this the project mentioned? ^^^ -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: mbox -- looks sort of interesting

2014-02-13 Thread Brian Dolbec
s to portage that will help keep it working in the future. I started development of a public_api branch long ago just for having a stable API for apps to use. Perhaps some of what you need can be integrated there. -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: runlevels in runit

2014-02-23 Thread Brian Dolbec
r done as an emaint module. Especially for the original topic, since it is a user initiated maintenance item. Provided of course that it is determined to be done by portage code in the first place. As for the existing --config whatevers, the emaint module could probably be extended to add a list function. -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Patch set for git-r3 enabling full mirroring of upstream repo

2014-02-23 Thread Brian Dolbec
ocally), so the changes themselves are > good by me. > +1 There wasn't enough time left for people to respond. There is Scale going on this weekend also, not that 70% of the gentoo devs were attending... Still, 1 week is not too long to wait. -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] New package "eid-viewer", is app-misc ok?

2014-03-08 Thread Brian Dolbec
app-crypt category as it is middleware for interacting > with the card. However, unlike the middleware, the viewer doesn't > seem to perform anything cryptographic-related. > > So - is app-misc ok? > > Wkr, > Sven Vermeulen > app-misc is not full, it only has

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages masked for removal in 30 days

2014-05-24 Thread Brian Dolbec
..@lists.gentoo.org, but it never > appeared. I'm subscribed to gentoo-dev-announce; don't know what's > the matter. > > Andrey > You probably did not set the replyto header to the gentoo-dev list -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Avoiding rebuilds

2014-07-28 Thread Brian Dolbec
existence. I haven't kept track, but they may have finally done away with it. There are many other problems with using that syntax, namely most other tools are not compatible with it, so more than just portage needs to be modified. Adding that syntax to ebuilds will cause disruptions and bugs for years to come. So, please, forget about this syntax as a viable solution. -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Followup notes: {cvs,git,git.overlays}.gentoo.org migration; awol: some overlays commits, gitweb

2014-08-19 Thread Brian Dolbec
where cvs/git/git.overlays was hosted turned off the old servers, earlier than I expected. So, I'm sure there would have been an announcement again before the final switch. Had the actual date been known in advance. -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update to the pax-utils.eclass

2014-08-28 Thread Brian Dolbec
re > it is used in a few places. As we discussed today during the > Hardened meeting, we'll ewarn if we get here. > > scanelf is also used in the new python based revdep-rebuild. So, changing it will cause issues there too. -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information.

2014-08-31 Thread Brian Dolbec
/proj/elfix as a concrete > example, but the site is still down. This usefulness suggests that > it should be standardize and documented so that VDB information can > be read correctly by non-PM tools. > +1 The new python based revdep-rebuild also uses scanelf and subsequently the NEEDED.ELF.2 files. And there are other tools that make use of vdb info. It is past due to have a minimum set of defined info to be recorded in the vdb. -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: My masterplan for git migration (+ looking for infra to test it)

2014-09-16 Thread Brian Dolbec
portage's master branch before enabling it to be installed. It will also allow for third party sync modules to be created and easily installed. So a squashfs sync type could be created and installed for those repos where that a squashfs tree is offered. -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in games-roguelike/stone-soup: stone-soup-0.14.1.ebuild stone-soup-0.15.1-r1.ebuild stone-soup-0.15.1.ebuild stone-soup-0.13.2.ebuild stone-soup

2014-11-05 Thread Brian Dolbec
hich has me wondering if anything out there except human eyes every > reads . > > > jer > Porthole displays the long description when it exists and has always done so. -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] making the stable tree more up-to-date

2011-11-21 Thread Brian Dolbec
t many of you use the cvs tree for your main gentoo tree rather than the normal rsync. -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due loki_val retirement

2011-11-24 Thread Brian Dolbec
27;s been integrated into portage, > right? > I believe it is still needed as a standalone utility to fix existing installations broken by pkg upgrades. The integrated one fixes new pkgs, not existing ones. I still see those problems coming up in the forums, although not nearly as of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due loki_val retirement

2011-11-24 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 17:14 +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El jue, 24-11-2011 a las 07:37 -0800, Brian Dolbec escribió: > > On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 15:47 +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > > > On 11/24/11 1:38 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > > Due loki_val reti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Linking Stage, building a ebuild

2011-12-01 Thread Brian Dolbec
in ebuild > > Sorry about the english Sorry, this is the wrong mail list for that kind of help. You want the gentoo-devhelp mail list and/or the #gentoo-dev-help IRC channel. -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due dertobi123 retirement

2012-02-09 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 11:49 +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Due dertobi123 retirement the following packages need a new maintainer: > app-portage/etc-proposals > Thanks for taking them > I can take this one. -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] eutils.eclass: make_desktop_entry doesn't follow freedesktop spec

2012-02-23 Thread Brian Dolbec
le's .desktop explicitly set the category to System in order for it to be correct. -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: killing mediawiki

2018-07-04 Thread Brian Dolbec
ate templates for a go-jira command line interface so a visually impaired co-worker could interact with those systems. -- Brian Dolbec pgp2ADbD_1YTy.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Lastrites: app-crypt/gkeys-gen

2018-07-04 Thread Brian Dolbec
# Brian Dolbec (4 July 2018) # No longer needed, newer app-crypt/gnupg-2 versions have simple cli options # for generating new keys and doing key maintenance. Removal in a month app-crypt/gkeys-gen -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3 10/12] glep-0063: Make 2-yearly expiration term mandatory

2018-07-06 Thread Brian Dolbec
d do it before it actually expires. > I have gkeys spec-check start warning at 30 days, and it has been my experience that often it only gets renewed last minute (depends on how active the developer is. As it is one of those things that gets put off thinking there is still lots of time... But also, many of those had keys that did not meet the spec requirements. -- Brian Dolbec pgphYyrmtOdFC.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3 10/12] glep-0063: Make 2-yearly expiration term mandatory

2018-07-06 Thread Brian Dolbec
them *before* the term, they are not very nice because how does > someone dare remind very important developer who was planning to do it > week before expiration, and now he needed to waste his precious time > reading your mail. > I never experienced a single developer show or say anything like you are suggesting. Most, thanked me for the reminder whether it was in IRC or email. And since I always cc'd the gkeys alias (most needed changes to meet the spec too), I'm sure Kristian will confirm this. -- Brian Dolbec pgp5aZWnCcqDB.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

2018-07-09 Thread Brian Dolbec
with catalyst-3 for all arches, but I don't know about some of the lesser used arches as some of those are older dates. That and a portage release with the new default location set in it's backup configs. So, it should be ready to convert if the minor arches stage are b

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

2018-07-12 Thread Brian Dolbec
and the package manager. PLUS, it has been decided already long ago that the directory name should reflect the repository name. We have been enforcing that rule for overlays for a long time. It has just been taking a long time to get our tooling in order so that we can change our own to follow that rule. So, "portage" should not be a directory name in the new default path. -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

2018-07-12 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:35:41 -0700 Raymond Jennings wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:47 PM Brian Dolbec > wrote: > > > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:49:37 -0700 > > Raymond Jennings wrote: > > > > > In that case, I vote for /var/cache/portage, since

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-backup/fsarchiver, app-cdr/daa2iso...

2018-07-19 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:10:11 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > Due to Markos Chandras' prolonged absence, the following packages are > up for grabs now: > > dev-util/buildbot-slave I've taken over all buildbot maintenance. This one will be tree-cleaned soon. The old buildbot-0.8 release

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree (was: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-07-29)

2018-07-27 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:31:15 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Corentin “Nado” Pazdera wrote: > > > July 27, 2018 4:07 PM, "William Hubbs" > > wrote: > > >> Section 5.5.2 describes the directory structure of /var/cache. > >> These paths are all optional [1]. > >> >

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding app-crypt/gentoo-keys to @system

2019-02-19 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 23:03:51 -0600 Matthew Thode wrote: > On 19-02-20 00:00:04, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 2/19/19 11:21 PM, Matthew Thode wrote: > > >> > > >> What problem would this solve? (Is adding gentoo-keys to @system > > >> the least bad way to solve it?) > > >> > > > > > > It'd

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Python application with multiple new dependencies

2019-04-13 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 23:03:53 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 22:27 +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > imagine a Python application "monty" with the following requirements > > listed in setup.py: > > > > install_requires=[ > > 'ham>=1.0', > > 'spam>=

[gentoo-dev] New portage-9999 plugin-sync system

2014-12-05 Thread Brian Dolbec
; einfo "" einfo "Currently installed sync-type modules include:" einfo "rsync, git, cvs, svn, websync" einfo "the websync module currently runs emerge-webrsync for you" einfo "" einfo "For sync module specifications: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Sync"; einfo "" } -- Brian Dolbec

[gentoo-dev] Fw: FOSSASIA 2015, March 13-15 Singapore: Call for Speakers and Projects

2014-12-13 Thread Brian Dolbec
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Re: [gentoo-dev] First release of Gentoo Keys

2015-01-11 Thread Brian Dolbec
/gkey-logs/ [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/ [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo-keys [4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo-keys/Fisrt-Use -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] First release of Gentoo Keys

2015-01-11 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 12:06:18 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Brian Dolbec > wrote: > > Of the remaining devs, only 16 keys total pass the GLEP 63 > > requirements. More info can be found in the First-Use wiki page > > [4] > > If

Re: [gentoo-dev] First release of Gentoo Keys

2015-01-11 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:55:29 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Brian Dolbec > wrote: > > I added a little more info to the First-Use wiki page, I included a > > link to a great webpage about setting up gpg keys. > > > > https://alexcaba

Re: [gentoo-dev] First release of Gentoo Keys

2015-01-11 Thread Brian Dolbec
the new key provided it belongs to the same primary key. Updates like that will be taken care of whenever a "gpg --refresh-key ..." or "gkeys-refresh-key -C gentoo-devs" operation is done on the keyring. -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Review: news item and script for CPU_FLAGS_X86

2015-01-23 Thread Brian Dolbec
utomatically look for a matching *.sig to use to verify with against the installed gpg keys. It can even save and use timestamps to prevent unneeded downloads for unchanged data in a local cache. But, for gkeys to become commonplace in usage, it also requires devs to fix their current keys and LDAP data, or generate new GLEP 63 compliant keys. But that is an off topic discussion -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] about the stable requests

2015-01-31 Thread Brian Dolbec
recent etc-proposals bump and re-Stabilization request for the EAPI/distutils-r1 change. Is that one you prefer we just handle and not add to your list? I wouldn't have for just the berlios url changes. -- Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command

2015-02-02 Thread Brian Dolbec
colorize("GOOD", "eselect news") + " > to read news items.") > + print("Use " + colorize("GOOD", "eselect news read") > + " to view new items.") print() Wrong list. Plus it's already applied and in git. -- Brian Dolbec

[gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-02 Thread Brian Dolbec
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 sys-apps/portage-2.2.16 is ready for release and is just waiting for the news announcement about the new plug-in sync system being used and the changes in it's operation. Attached is the news announcement for review. - -- Brian D

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-02 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 19:24:38 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Brian Dolbec > wrote: > > > > sys-apps/portage-2.2.16 is ready for release and is just waiting > > for the news announcement about the new plug-in sync system being > > used and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-02 Thread Brian Dolbec
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 23:21:53 +0100 Manuel Rüger wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 02.02.2015 22:58, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > > > sys-apps/portage-2.2.16 is ready for release and is just

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Brian Dolbec
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 16:54:37 -0800 Brian Dolbec wrote: > > On 02.02.2015 22:58, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > > > > > sys-apps/portage-2.2.16 is ready for release and is just waiting > > > for the news announcement

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:37:49 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 16:54:37 -0800 Brian Dolbec wrote: > > Attached is an updated news item. > [...] > > > Changes: /etc/portage/repos.conf/* > > New for all repository types (needed): > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Brian Dolbec
and of migrating from make.conf style to repos.conf style with only a few steps on the users part. See the wiki page [1] for more detailed migration instructions. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Sync -- Brian Dolbec signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 20:52:27 +0300 Diamond wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 08:36:54 -0800 > Brian Dolbec wrote: > > > > 1. Why autosync is disabled by default? This broke current > > > default for emerge --sync. And if users added overlays, they > > > most

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Brian Dolbec
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 13:25:39 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Brian Dolbec > wrote: > > > > You can't fix crap code to both keep the old crap handling while > > still giving you new decent

Re: [gentoo-dev] arm64

2015-02-04 Thread Brian Dolbec
; > understand the issue. > > I can give you an accout here; system is Opteron 2000 (i.e., ancient) > but it is arm64. > Isn't an opteron processor an amd64, not arm64. The arm64 is a very new processor in the arm family, just in the last year or so. -- Brian Dolbec

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