Re: [gentoo-dev] What are blocks used for?

2008-04-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 06:24 Wed 16 Apr , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > What all are blocks used for? > > a) Marking that two unrelated packages are mutually incompatible at > runtime because they happen to collide, for example on a commonly named > executable. > > b) Marking that two related implementations are mutu

Re: [gentoo-dev] PostgreSQL Status

2008-04-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 09:55 Wed 16 Apr , Tiziano Müller wrote: > What do the new ebuilds offer: > a) A split into dev-db/postgresql-{base,server,docs}. Now, I know that > splitting up packages isn't the Gentoo way. I know we could have done it > using USE flags but this approach gives more flexibility due to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst

2008-04-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 05:31 Sat 19 Apr , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > I'm rewording the PMS sections on dependencies to avoid permitting > overly lax circular dependency resolution. Which of these wordings is > accurate, given that usable means "has its RDEPENDs installed and > usable"? > > 1. During pkg_preinst and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst

2008-04-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 05:54 Sat 19 Apr , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:45:13 -0700 > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd go with RDEPEND only. Any other interpretation results in > > installing build-time-only packages along with a binpkg, which &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst

2008-04-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 06:33 Sat 19 Apr , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:27:21 -0700 > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My interpretation is pkg_* counts as runtime (I can imagine a package > > wanting to run itself at this point), so packages in RDEPEND

Re: OT: [gentoo-dev] Nazi symbols on Gentoo (and other offending content)

2008-04-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 02:27 Mon 28 Apr , Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 27 April 2008, Santiago M. Mola wrote: > > Anyway, next time I'll use @-project, and let's see if someone > > actually cares about that mailing list. > > unfortunately (fortunately?), that's the way the Gentoo community wants it. > gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for May

2008-05-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 03:04 Wed 07 May , Mike Frysinger wrote: > This is your one-day friendly reminder ! The monthly Gentoo Council > meeting is tomorrow in #gentoo-council on irc.freenode.net. See the > channel topic for the exact time (but it's probably 2000 UTC). > > If you're supposed to show up, please s

[gentoo-dev] Council meeting summary for 8 May 2008

2008-05-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Hi all, Here is the summary from today's council meeting. The complete log will show up at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ shortly. Thanks, Donnie Quick summary = Active-developer document: We reviewed it and made some suggestions for improving both the document and the onlin

Re: [gentoo-dev] app-crypt/kstart License questionable

2008-05-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 21:10 Fri 09 May , Michael Hammer wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to add kstart to the tree and have a question to the license > of the package. It's some kind of combination of the MIT License with > a few minor licenses. Should I add the whole license file to the tree? > Here is the link: > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Council meeting summary for 8 May 2008

2008-05-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 10:54 Sat 10 May , Duncan wrote: > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on Thu, 08 May 2008 16:33:28 -0700: > > > Here is the summary from today's council meeting. The complete log will > > show up at http:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bug wrangling

2008-05-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 08:03 Tue 13 May , Rémi Cardona wrote: > We all know which devs/herds bugs should be assigned to, we all know most > bugs aren't complete if emerge --info is not provided, that sort of things. > But Real Bug Masters (tm) know all the dupes, know all the current problems > in our various t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Special meeting [WAS: Council meeting summary for 8 May 2008]

2008-05-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 16:33 Thu 08 May , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Enforced retirement: After 2.5 hours on the previous topics, people had > to go to sleep and jokey's computer broke. Instead of waiting till the > next regular meeting, because of its urgency, we scheduled a special > session

[gentoo-dev] A unit-testing prototype

2008-05-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Hi everyone, A while back, vapier added some tests for the toolchain-funcs eclass to /usr/portage/eclass/tests/. I really like the idea, and I recently discovered an xUnit-style unit-testing framework for shell scripts called ShUnit2. I played with it a little and made a couple of prototypes.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Should preserve-libs be enabled by default?

2008-05-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 01:13 Thu 29 May , Marius Mauch wrote: > One concern raised by some people is that it might cause old libraries > with security issues to stay on the system for eternity even though > the package was upgraded, and eventually be preferred by new builds. > I can't rule this out completely but

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: --as-needed to default LDFLAGS (Was: RFC: Should preserve-libs be enabled by default?)

2008-05-30 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 22:53 Fri 30 May , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 31 May 2008 00:47:44 +0300 > Mart Raudsepp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The story that matters here is, that a C++ corner case that does not > > work on 0.01% of packages with --as-needed and breaks on non-ELF > > platforms, should not ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages up for grabs

2008-05-31 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 01:09 Sat 31 May , Mike Frysinger wrote: I'd like to advocate for interested people to pick up a few of these. > net-misc/ntp It would be good if someone took this, because a ton of people use it. > net-misc/dropbear > sys-libs/uclibc I'd really like for someone to pick these up, since

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 12:07 Tue 03 Jun , Łukasz Damentko wrote: > Nominations aren't open yet. They will be soon (rather days than > weeks). But not yet. I have no idea why you guys rushed it but you > will have nominate again after we open if for real. That sounds like pointless bureaucracy ... is there any rea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself)

2008-06-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 14:52 Thu 05 Jun , Samuli Suominen wrote: > # Samuli Suominen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (05 Jun 2008) > # Masked for removal in ~30 days by treecleaners. > # Replaced by USE libffi in sys-devel/gcc. Bug 163724. > dev-libs/libffi > dev-lang/squeak > x11-libs/gtk-server The latest version of g-wrap

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 02:35 Thu 05 Jun , Josh Saddler wrote: > Now that nominations are officially open, I nominate the current council > members (again): > dberkholz Yes. I'd like to continue trying to make the council more effective. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 13:32 Fri 06 Jun , Ferris McCormick wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 01:37 +, Ferris McCormick wrote: > And the bit about hearing appeals assumes that devrel initiated the > disciplinary action being appealed. I'd make it explicit that Council > is not itself a disciplinary body --- resol

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT Foundation <-> Council was -> Nominations for council

2008-06-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 15:53 Fri 06 Jun , William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/about.shtml > > "The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated > to supporting the FreeBSD Project." > > It's clear the that BSD Foundation is directly tied to the BSD project. > I

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT Foundation <-> Council was -> Nominations for council

2008-06-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 17:55 Fri 06 Jun , William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 14:13 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > On 15:53 Fri 06 Jun , William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > > http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/about.shtml > > > > > > "The Fre

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: lastrite: dev-cpp/libherdstat and app-portage/herdstat

2008-06-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 14:26 Sun 08 Jun , Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The tree's small enough that grep -r gives enough performance. > > Even better > > grep */*/metadata.xml > > the tree is not big enough that it exceeds the maximum argu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: glibc-2.8 / gcc-4.3 build failures

2008-06-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 19:03 Mon 09 Jun , Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Robert Buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > # [tracker] GCC 4.3 porting > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198121 > > or https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=gcc-4.3 > > > > > # [TRACKER] ebuilds failing to build agai

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 13:41 Sun 08 Jun , Alex Howells wrote: > I would like to see Council move towards a more compressed meeting > format -- people presenting arguments need to work out their stuff > before bringing it up in the meeting, and to allow for quick > turn-around of decisions I'd suggest fortnightly m

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 11:12 Sun 08 Jun , Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > Hello, > > looks like every nominee wants the council to be more technical so I > have a few technical questions for you: > > 1. GLEP54 > 2. GLEP55 I don't have any particular objections to these, besides the vague aesthetic one of having EAP

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55

2008-06-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 05:20 Tue 10 Jun , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Yet GLEP 55 is the only solution that's been proposed that solves the > requirements. And your entire argument boils down to "file extension > changes don't look pretty", for some arbitrary value of pretty that > also precludes index.html.en and in

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started

2008-06-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 00:11 Wed 11 Jun , Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > I would like the portage devs to comment upon which of the following features > they think could easily be implemented before portage 2.2 goes stable. These ones meet the criteria of "I know people are working around them because they don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 03:06 Wed 11 Jun , Mike Frysinger wrote: > This is your one-day friendly reminder ! The monthly Gentoo Council > meeting is tomorrow in #gentoo-council on irc.freenode.net. See the > channel topic for the exact time (but it's probably 2000 UTC). Here's the proposed agenda. I intend to get

Re: [gentoo-dev] Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 14:58 Wed 11 Jun , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Carefully note the Preparation sections. If they aren't completed, we > will postpone the topic to the -council mailing list or the next meeting > instead of waste time during the meeting doing things that should've &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] A unit-testing prototype

2008-06-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 02:47 Mon 26 May , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > A while back, vapier added some tests for the toolchain-funcs eclass to > /usr/portage/eclass/tests/. I really like the idea, and I recently > discovered an xUnit-style unit-testing framework for shell scripts > called ShUnit2. I pl

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 04:11 Wed 11 Jun , Brian Harring wrote: > Reiterating the early request, I'd like the council to please discuss > the current status of PMS, People actually working on the PMS would be better-placed to discuss its current status, if by that you mean progress toward an approved spec. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 17:11 Fri 06 Jun , Marius Mauch wrote: > It's not about "forcing" anyone to do something but giving people enough > information on how to implement it _if they choose to do so_. With the > current GLEP they'd have to make arbitrary decisions if e.g. a flag is > defined in both use.local.desc

Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 19:03 Thu 12 Jun , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:14:21 -0400 > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 12 June 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > On 04:11 Wed 11 Jun , Brian Harring wrote: > > > > Reiterating the

[gentoo-dev] Council meeting summary for 12 June 2008

2008-06-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Hi all, Here is the summary from today's council meeting. The complete log will show up at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ shortly. Thanks, Donnie Quick summary = Overall, the meeting went really well! Things that helped were additional preparation notes in the agenda, a requ

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggested default LDFLAGS+="-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common"

2008-06-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:15 Sun 29 Jun , Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 29-06-2008 07:29:57 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday 28 June 2008, Petteri Räty wrote: > > > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis kirjoitti: > > > > I would like to suggest that default LDFLAGS in Gentoo contain the > > > > following f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Assigning bugs back to bug-wranglers@

2008-06-30 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 22:04 Mon 30 Jun , Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > PS: I'd like to remind users reading here that assigning bugs directly > is _bad_ if you didn't perform the above checks. It is _not_ ok to > assign bugs just because you _think_ the package is owned by ${HERD}. The standard user privileges

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-07-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 19:33 Thu 05 Jun , Roy Bamford wrote: > I don't want to nominate anyone who hasn't been nominated already. > I would like to address all the candidates who have or will accept > council nominations. I just got to this because I was on vacation and I've been busy getting work done since I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2008/2009 - RESULTS

2008-07-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:00 Sat 05 Jul , Łukasz Damentko wrote: > Gentoo Council for term 2008/2009 will be: > > Donnie Berkholz (dberkholz) > Mark Loeser (Halcy0n) > Diego Petteno (Flameeyes) > Petteri Raty (Betelgeuse) > Luca Barbato (lu_zero) > Markus Ullmann (Jokey) > Tobias Sc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2008/2009 - RESULTS

2008-07-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:00 Sat 05 Jul , Łukasz Damentko wrote: > Gentoo Council for term 2008/2009 will be: > > Donnie Berkholz (dberkholz) > Mark Loeser (Halcy0n) > Diego Petteno (Flameeyes) > Petteri Raty (Betelgeuse) > Luca Barbato (lu_zero) > Markus Ullmann (Jokey) > Tobias Sch

Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-libs/scipy -> dev-python/scipy ?

2008-07-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-python, because things should be categorized functionally instead of by the language they're implemented in. 90% of the time you don't care about the language. But category moves are pretty much pointless, so I don't normally bring it up. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, G

Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-libs/scipy -> dev-python/scipy ?

2008-07-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 21:51 Mon 07 Jul , Joe Peterson wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > I actually object to having crap in dev-python, because things should be > > categorized functionally instead of by the language they're implemented > > in. 90% of the time you don't care a

Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-libs/scipy -> dev-python/scipy ?

2008-07-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 04:03 Tue 08 Jul , Andrey Grozin wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> I actually object to having crap in dev-python, because things should be >> categorized functionally instead of by the language they're implemented >> in. 90% of the tim

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sci-libs/scipy -> dev-python/scipy ?

2008-07-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 19:14 Tue 08 Jul , Ryan Hill wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 21:02:37 -0700 > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't think it's worth losing track of the CVS history just so we > > can have something in a different place that ulti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for July

2008-07-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
's unclear, or you have another suggestion. As before, since we have an agenda in advance we won't be holding an open floor. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com People who need to take action == No

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for July

2008-07-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
s no real debate about that (the only question was where), and Cardoe said this morning that he was just going to commit it. If people had any problems, they would've posted them to the thread. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-libs/scipy -> dev-python/scipy ?

2008-07-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
c template ebuilds of different packages. This would most likely be a problem when one is added and another is removed in the same commit, although that's the wrong workflow. I'm not sure whether it would also be a problem with multiple commits. I suppose you'd see the problem wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for July

2008-07-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 01:40 Wed 09 Jul , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 05:30 Tue 01 Jul , Mike Frysinger wrote: > > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even > > vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole > > Gentoo dev list to see. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] new eclass and portage category: octave-forge.eclass and dev-octave

2008-07-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
k glance), perhaps a script more like g-cpan or g-pypi would be merited instead of large numbers of trivial ebuilds? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgp09EI11seof.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Council meeting summary for 10 July 2008

2008-07-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Hi all, Here is the summary from Thursday's council meeting. The complete log will show up at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ shortly. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com Quick summary = GLEP 54: There

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for July

2008-07-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Here are quick updates on the topics we didn't discuss in detail during the council meeting. On 01:40 Wed 09 Jul , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Appeals of spb, rbrown, & philantrop We are actively discussing the appeals and will get decisions out ASAP. > Meeting frequency &

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sci-mathematics/axiom: ChangeLog axiom-200805.ebuild

2008-07-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
bout parallel builds? > src_install() { > make DESTDIR="${D}"/opt/axiom > COMMAND="${D}"/opt/axiom/mnt/linux/bin/axiom install \ > || die 'Failed to install Axiom!' Use emake, please. > > mv "${D}"/opt/axiom/m

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-mobilephone/galicesms: ChangeLog galicesms-1.62.ebuild

2008-07-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
p://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-mobilephone/galicesms/galicesms-1.62.ebuild?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain > src_install() { > dobin "${PN}" > } dobin doesn't die on failure. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog:

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-misc/hylafax: ChangeLog hylafax-4.4.4.ebuild

2008-07-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
einfo "Adding env.d entry for Hylafax" > doenvd 99${P} doenvd doesn't die on failure. > einfo "Adding init.d entry for Hylafax" > newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-4.2 ${PN} Neither does newinitd. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpLx32MeL6SE.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/mako: ChangeLog mako-0.1.10-r1.ebuild mako-0.1.10.ebuild

2008-07-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
> (Portage version: 2.2_rc1/cvs/Linux 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 i686) Could someone please explain why this requires a revision bump? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpg3Q5cvxRCi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: auto-detection of unpack dependencies

2008-07-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
unds like an argument against automation, and I'm not following it. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpAvCXWU63o1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: auto-detection of unpack dependencies

2008-07-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 20:25 Tue 15 Jul , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:23:08 -0700 > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could someone explain why manually doing work is better than > > automatically detecting the deps? This sounds like an argument > &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] ICC Profile

2008-07-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ort" FFLAGS="-openmp -parallel -ipo -xO -O2 -no-prec-div" FCFLAGS="${FFLAGS}" export CC CXX FC F77 FFLAGS FCFLAGS Is what you're proposing here an improvement over something like the above setup? If so, could you explain how? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpRKtYUHvEJk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] ICC Profile

2008-07-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ed livecd, and the compiler > itself with a fetch restriction allows the user to legally register > for their free non-commercial license. OK, so we can't sell icc-compiled software in our Gentoo store, so the releases would always remain built with gcc. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpyuC3bLpdh5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: Make developer profiles more difficult to select

2008-07-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
problem, this is something we need to figure out a better fix for. Perhaps we could abuse the 'deprecated' file in profiles with this type of message. Developers are basically our core audience, and we need to make things work well for them. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpng375BJQTL.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for July 24

2008-07-21 Thread Donnie Berkholz
e as well. We need to set up a new cron job for this.) -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpgXYZJVw6E3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for July 24

2008-07-21 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 17:13 Mon 21 Jul , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote > on, let us know! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev > list to see. Here's the list of ongoing items from 2 weeks ago: http://archive

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for July 24

2008-07-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 17:26 Mon 21 Jul , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Here's the list of ongoing items from 2 weeks ago: > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_bb3a3a0c1b0acb771a263294a67b722e.xml > > Here's the council summary from 2 weeks ago: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/coun

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New policy: LDFLAGS should be respected

2008-07-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
s policy. Why are you asking us? He's the QA lead, you should be talking with the QA team about this. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgp4SH3OZY8nf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] X11 on Lemote Fulong (Loongson 2E) -- 'lm2e' local USE flag RFC

2008-07-30 Thread Donnie Berkholz
lay and it's huge. It's clearly GPL-licensed, presumably from the GATOS project, and that makes it unacceptable for upstream. I'm presuming it is straight from the GATOS folks and thus is just adding TV-out. The libdrm and xorg-server patches look more reasonable

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-07-31 Thread Donnie Berkholz
st be notified at least 14 days before the meeting itself. For more info on the Gentoo Council, feel free to browse our homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgp16OwOswiB6.pgp Description

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-07-31 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:17 Thu 31 Jul , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote > on, let us know! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev > list to see. I know at least one person has already submitted an agenda item. Pleas

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:17 Thu 31 Jul , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd/4th > Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > irc.freenode.net) ! Jokey pointed out that in fact the council meeting is August 14. -

Re: [gentoo-dev] X11 on Lemote Fulong (Loongson 2E) -- 'lm2e' local USE flag RFC

2008-08-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 16:43 Sat 02 Aug , Stuart Longland wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > On 13:23 Thu 31 Jul , Stuart Longland wrote: > >>An alternative however, I'd like to propose is the addition of a 'lm2e' > >> local USE flag to the affected ebuilds &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jeeves IRC replacement now alive - Willikins

2008-08-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
would like to have the new bot in your #gentoo-* channel, would > each channel founder/leader please respond to this thread, stating the > channel name, and that they are the contact for any problems/troubles. #gentoo-desktop #gentoo-cluster #gentoo-pr #gentoo-council -- Thanks, Donnie Donn

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2008-08-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
uck on your future endeavors. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgphzccPOD43x.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
good faith effort to maintain the privacy of your personal information. " -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpgsH7O1ejCa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:17 Thu 31 Jul , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd/4th > Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > irc.freenode.net) ! > > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 03:01 Thu 14 Aug , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 23:17 Thu 31 Jul , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd/4th > > Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > > irc.freenode.net) !

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 03:01 Thu 14 Aug , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Here's a rough agenda. I'll hash it out a bit more a few hours in > advance of the meeting. Basically, council members haven't responded to > these items on the mailing list, and that's what needs to happen. For a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP 56] metadata.xml USE flag descriptions [Clarifications]

2008-08-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
x27;t end up saving anything at all once you have a consistency check anyway. Halcy0n also mentioned that this gets really annoying when USE flags inherited from eclasses change. You'd need to edit every metadata.xml of all inheriting packages. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer,

Re: [gentoo-dev] License Interpretation

2008-08-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
of licenses are the same. That means if we're enabling & encouraging our users to infringe copyrights or patents by providing ebuilds that do so, we may be guilty of the same. IANAL and all that. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpFC5Pj8xsVs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=live (instead of PROPERTIES=live-sources or RESTRICT=live)

2008-08-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
do multiple things on the back end? If there's actually reasons for these things to be very narrow, I'd like to see easily usable meta-properties that let people easily say something like "I've got a live CVS ebuild" without specifying 20 different PROPERTIES.

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 28 (today)

2008-08-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
There's a council meeting in an hour and a half. Here's an agenda, it's all leftovers from last meeting. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com There are no new topics. EAPI 2 approval hasn't yet been r

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] LXDE project

2008-09-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
dback is welcome! Great, thanks! For future reference, please get in touch with me to talk about new desktop subprojects. Let me know whether there's anything I can do as desktop lead to make your work easier. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkh

Re: [gentoo-dev] global USE flag overrides in metadata.xml (bug 235708)

2008-09-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
nk? Yes, an override is OK iff it remains consistent with the global description. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpQ1qSVxXJys.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
hat really > matters is whether or not the majority of people see it as a useful > extension. I'm not writing new ebuilds from scratch or changing SRC_URI of existing ebuilds so often (especially those with this particular requirement) that there's any meaningful barrier to using ar

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile

2008-09-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ngs about ebuilds is that they're very natural to write in most cases, if you can manage to build the program by hand. Raising this barrier of entry for questionable benefit seems like a bad idea. We don't need to make it any harder to begin contributing to Gentoo. -- Thanks, Donn

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile

2008-09-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:13 Mon 08 Sep , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:33:50 -0700 > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12:46 Sun 07 Sep , Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > > > I personally agree with several others who have replied to this > > &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for September

2008-09-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
is that we document our appeals process. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpU3grP1Jk2X.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for September

2008-09-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
meetings posted. My wife & I just had a baby last week and things have been hectic around here for a while. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com Roll call = betelgeuse dberkholz dertobi123 halcy0n jokey lu_zer

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
milar to how upstream handles it. The SLOT still allows for useful dependencies, and people installing "any icedtea" will automatically get the newest one without having to somehow choose which of multiple package names is right. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpV3rntfApq0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
versioning system that doesn't suck? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpjiTNfarWGJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2

2008-09-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
PI (perhaps in the same appendix): approved, draft, or in progress. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgp2dusNrPP73.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for September 25

2008-09-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
list must be notified at least 14 days before the meeting itself. For more info on the Gentoo Council, feel free to browse our homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpysTAkIY2zm.pgp De

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for September 25

2008-09-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:13 Mon 22 Sep , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote > on, let us know! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev > list to see. Here's what I've got so far -- - Approving EAPI=2 - The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for September 25

2008-09-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 08:56 Tue 23 Sep , Zac Medico wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote > > on, let us know! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whol

Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
appropriate ARCH flags > for all of the 2008.0 profiles. Does this seem reasonable? Yes, and don't the arch profiles already have base as a parent? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgphffCk99RNw.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Council meeting summaries for August & September

2008-09-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
rg instead of irc.freenode.net. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpHNWr9xMcZC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for October

2008-10-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
holding up our open bugs. I intend to work on bug #237381 ("Document appeals process"). -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpbsv5KhcH7z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: fox.eclass update

2008-10-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 13:56 Mon 13 Oct , Petteri Räty wrote: > Could you also send a diff next time. Or this time, even. +1 on that. One easy thing to do is move what comments exist to the eclass-manpages format. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI change: Call ebuild functions from trusted working directory

2008-10-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
s to EAPI=0, they wouldn't be voted on. Since EAPI=0 isn't actually approved yet, council wouldn't vote either. As it's a draft standard, this would be resolved amongst package-manager developers and PMS editors. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Devel

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI change: Call ebuild functions from trusted working directory

2008-10-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 20:20 Mon 13 Oct , Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > On Monday, 13. October 2008 19:42:21 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Since EAPI=0 isn't actually approved yet, council wouldn't vote > > either. As it's a draft standard, this would be resolved amongst > > packag

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilize ebuilds which use EAPIs only supported by ~arch PMs

2008-10-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
to the EAPI=0 ebuild - Stabilize portage quickly -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpPRRDlntCoO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] virtualx eclass

2008-10-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
initially) the default will be "X". Which means the default is the same > as what we've got today. If it's set to an empty string, it'll always be > required. Otherwise, it will use the supplied USE flag. I'm not sure whether this would work, but one idea would be to handle dependencies depending on what's in IUSE of the ebuild inheriting. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgphn3ksNxYpD.pgp Description: PGP signature

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