[gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites: app-portage/udept

2009-01-06 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:47:47 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > While I'm at it, is there anything useful to display metadata.xml? > In particular, the long descriptions and use flags can be useful. > With use.desc and especially the local version thereof going > deprecated, and wi

[gentoo-dev] Re: gcc 4.3.2 security updates

2009-01-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:22:50 -0500 Mike Frysinger wrote: > not to be out done, gcc-4.3.2-r3 will include changes like some other > distros are now carrying: > - the -Wformat-security flag is enabled by default > - the -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 flag is enabled by default > > if you dont want this stu

[gentoo-dev] Re: gcc 4.3.2 security updates

2009-01-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:06:45 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:03:17 -0600 > Ryan Hill wrote: > > I'm really hoping this isn't a stable candidate. :P > > Is an earlier gcc 4.3 a stable candidate, or have those plans been > abandoned? > &

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: package.mask

2009-01-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:31:03 +0100 Benedikt Böhm wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 01:56:52AM +0100, Friedrich Oslage wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Benedikt Boehm (hollow) schrieb: > > > hollow 09/01/10 21:41:41 > > > > > > Modified: pack

[gentoo-dev] Re: PR Project Activity Issues

2009-01-26 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:47:04 -0800 Alec Warner wrote: > Is GuideXML in fact a barrier for submission (do we get complaints > about it?) I seem to remember doc/newsletter people stating on multiple occasions that they're happy to accept plain text submissions (feel free to beat me if i hallucinat

[gentoo-dev] Re: Announcement of The G Palmtop Environment ebuilds

2009-02-05 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:36:15 +0200 Petteri Räty wrote: > Angelo Arrifano wrote: > > # manual document installation > > [ -n "${DOCS}" ] && dodoc ${DOCS} > > > > } > > > > dodoc should have || die with it Dieing on dodoc is a complete waste of time and effort. No one wants the ebuild

[gentoo-dev] GCC 4.3 patches will be applied nowish

2009-02-07 Thread Ryan Hill
All bugs blocking #198121 having obviously correct (eg. missing header) patches will be applied by me in the coming week. If you have concerns about me touching your package (i swear i'll wash my hands first), please let me know. As always, applying these patches yourself makes me a happy monkey.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)

2009-02-08 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:07:58 + Angelo Arrifano wrote: > I would keep existing categories and add a new TAG metadata to > existing ebuilds. Something like TAG="kde music player lyrics lastfm > visualization" for amarok, as example. > > A public list of *ALLOWED* tags would be published on our

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.3 patches will be applied nowish

2009-02-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:51:14 -0600 Jeremy Olexa wrote: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Ryan Hill > wrote: > > All bugs blocking #198121 having obviously correct (eg. missing > > header) patches will be applied by me in the coming week. If you > > have concerns about

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2009-02-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:02:12 +0100 "Santiago M. Mola" wrote: > net-p2p/nicotine+ I can take this one. -- gcc-porting, by design, by neglect treecleaner, for a fact or just for effect wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2

[gentoo-dev] Re: Live source based ebuild proposals

2009-02-13 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:53:51 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:46:54 +0100 > Luca Barbato wrote: > > master is just a name, you may have the main development happen in > > another branch (say devel) and the stabler tree is kept on the > > master branch and you may want to tr

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-video/gephex

2009-02-15 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:17:04 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Peter Alfredsen posted > 20090215212907.00a73...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Sun, 15 Feb > 2009 21:29:07 +0100: > > > +# Peter Alfredsen (15 Feb 2009) > > +# Masking for removal in 30 days. > > +# Fails to bui

[gentoo-dev] Re: bash-4.0 regression heads up (escaped semicolons in subshells)

2009-02-21 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:27:10 -0500 Mike Frysinger wrote: > looks like bash-4.0 has broken semicolon escaping in subshells. this > comes up when using find's -exec like we do in a few places in > eclasses: ls=$(find "$1" -name '*.po' -exec basename {} .po \;); shift > you can work around the issu

[gentoo-dev] Re: bash-4.0 regression heads up (escaped semicolons in subshells)

2009-02-21 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:55:37 -0500 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 21 February 2009 18:38:55 Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:27:10 -0500 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > looks like bash-4.0 has broken semicolon escaping in subshells. > > > this comes up when

[gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)

2009-02-23 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:43:09 -0700 Steve Dibb wrote: > Richard Freeman wrote: > > I still don't see why we need to be encoding metadata in filenames. > > PERL doesn't care what a file extension is, python doesn't care, > > bzip2 doesn't care, tar doesn't care, gzip doesn't care, and even > > ld-l

[gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)

2009-02-23 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:54:38 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:51:11 +0100 > Luca Barbato wrote: > > > 2. (with myeclass.eclass containing EAPI=2) > > > - > > > EAPI=1 > > > inherit myeclass > > > > Invalid > > QA violation, but legal and a pain in the ass. I didn't th

[gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)

2009-02-23 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:15:25 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:54:38 + > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:51:11 +0100 > > Luca Barbato wrote: > > > > 2. (with myeclass.eclass containing EAPI=2) > > > >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)

2009-02-24 Thread Ryan Hill
Alec Warner gentoo.org> writes: > Somewhat ironically, had everyone been less stubborn last year when > discussing this topic we could have embedded the EAPI in line X of the > ebuild in 2008 and be using it now; instead of still discussing it. > > I don't expect new novel ideas out of this thre

[gentoo-dev] Re: Collecting opinions about GLEP 55 and alternatives

2009-02-24 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:21:23 +0200 Petteri Räty wrote: > Let's try something new. I would like to get opinions from as many > people as possible about GLEP 55 and alternatives listed here in order > to get some idea what the general developer pool thinks. Everyone is > only allowed to post a sing

[gentoo-dev] Re: How to speed up maintenance and other Gentoo work?

2009-03-06 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:01:36 +0200 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > I'm collecting ideas from the wider development and contributing > community on how to help maintainers and contributors get work done > quicker, or rephrased - how to get more done in the limited time we > have. > > This basically means

[gentoo-dev] Re: gems.eclass review

2009-03-06 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:47:58 +0100 Alex Legler wrote: > Hey, > > we have some changes to be made in gems.eclass for Ruby 1.9.1. > Basically this introduces the possibility to install gems for multiple > versions of Ruby. > > If anyone feels like reviewing, please review the following > changes:

[gentoo-dev] Re: LC_ALL=C Set by default for portage

2009-03-08 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:20:14 +0100 Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > Hi, > lately i see that in our bugzilla most of the build reports are > reported with localized build logs which we dont understand. This > leads to us asking the user to run the emerge once more with LC_ALL=C. > > Wont it be nice to have

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 3 PMS Draft

2009-03-16 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:22:36 +0100 Tiziano Müller wrote: > > * Am I to take it src_test is to remain in its current worthless > > state? > Yes, I'd like to see it enable by default as well, but we have to > discuss that further. So, not suited for a fast eapi release. Please fix all 'pkg fails t

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 3 PMS Draft

2009-03-16 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:54:02 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:51:00 -0600 > Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:22:36 +0100 > > Tiziano Müller wrote: > > > > * Am I to take it src_test is to remain in its current worthless > > &

[gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-22 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:50:26 +0100 Alin Năstac wrote: > Please do not apply patches that have ${P} prefix in other ebuild > versions than ${PV}. > Is that hard to create a new patch with a proper name? Um, why? I'm not having six identical patches with different version numbers in FILESDIR. --

[gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-22 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:24:26 -0400 Mounir Lamouri wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Ulrich Mueller > wrote: > >> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, mrness wrote: > > > >> Please do not apply patches that have ${P} prefix in other ebuild > >> versions than ${PV}. > >> Is that hard to create a new p

[gentoo-dev] headless herds

2009-03-22 Thread Ryan Hill
These herds have no members: afterstep: net-mail/asmail x11-plugins/asapm x11-plugins/asclock x11-plugins/ascpu x11-plugins/asmem x11-plugins/asmon x11-plugins/astime x11-wm/afterstep Upstream is willing to maintain, just needs a contact. https://bugs.gentoo.org/180765 -- secure-tunneling: net-

[gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-22 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:19:26 +0100 Alin Năstac wrote: > Fine, then remove $PV from patch name and use it in any ebuild version > you want. Or just decouple the patch version from the ebuild version > (foo-bar-r1.patch sounds OK to me). No. It's done this way for a reason. -- gcc-porting,

[gentoo-dev] Re: headless herds

2009-03-22 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:38:16 -0700 "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 05:55:38PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > > secure-tunneling: > > net-analyzer/mping > > net-misc/corkscrew > > net-misc/ghamachi > > net-misc/hamachi > > ne

[gentoo-dev] Re: headless herds

2009-03-23 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:55:48 +0100 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:55:38 -0600 > Ryan Hill wrote: > > > These herds have no members: > > > ... < > > > live-cd: > > app-admin/pwgen > > app-arch/pbzip2 > > app-misc/live

[gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-23 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:04:32 +0100 Alin Năstac wrote: > I suppose what everyone does in their part of the tree is their > business, but a small subset of packages I maintain have other > maintainers as well. It is annoying to see rules you assume being > respected on your ebuilds being broken at

[gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-23 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:51:28 +0100 Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 23-03-2009 11:41:08 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > People split into three groups: > > > > - Friends of ${P}-fix-issue.patch naming > > - Friends of ${PN}-fix-issue.patch naming > > - Friends of ${PN}-1.2.3-fix-issue.p

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: flag-o-matic.eclass

2009-04-04 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:57:54 + "Fabian Groffen (grobian)" wrote: > grobian 09/04/04 17:57:54 > > Modified: flag-o-matic.eclass > Log: > backport fix for x86-macos in filter-flags from Prefix > > Revision ChangesPath > 1.133eclass/flag-o-matic.eclas

[gentoo-dev] Re: net-www category

2009-04-07 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:21:07 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Is the following description for the category metadata O.K.? > More translations are welcome. > > en: The www-plugins category contains plugins for Web browsers. > de: Die Kategorie www-plugins enthält Plugins für Webbrowser. en_CA: The

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI-3 draft: slot operator support

2009-04-09 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 23:36:16 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Tiziano Müller wrote: > > roughly 90% packages depending on one of: > > > > sys-libs/db > > Why the hell does this have so many slots in-tree? I am unaware of the > reasons for it. Horribly changed API

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 3 PMS Draft

2009-04-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:20:39 +0300 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > All developers should enable it (a QA enforcement), but users by default > - no, NO. > There is more to a distribution than technical considerations. Yes, please, and can we do it now? I am frankly sick of failing testsuites and would r

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-cdr/cdrdao: ChangeLog cdrdao-1.2.2-r3.ebuild

2009-05-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 10 May 2009 07:38:43 + "Samuli Suominen (ssuominen)" wrote: > ssuominen09/05/10 07:38:43 > > Modified: ChangeLog cdrdao-1.2.2-r3.ebuild > Log: > Doesn't compile with distcc wrt #264170. > (Portage version: 2.1.6.13/cvs/Linux x86_64) > +pkg_setup() { > + i

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-cdr/cdrdao: ChangeLog cdrdao-1.2.2-r3.ebuild

2009-05-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 10 May 2009 02:00:17 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: > On Sun, 10 May 2009 07:38:43 + > "Samuli Suominen (ssuominen)" wrote: > > > ssuominen09/05/10 07:38:43 > > > > Modified: ChangeLog cdrdao-1.2.2-r3.ebuild > > Log: &g

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-cdr/cdrdao: ChangeLog cdrdao-1.2.2-r3.ebuild

2009-05-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 10 May 2009 10:41:03 +0100 David Leverton wrote: > On Sunday 10 May 2009 09:58:22 Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Sun, 10 May 2009 02:00:17 -0600 > > > > Ryan Hill wrote: > > > You can't test FEATURES in an ebuild. It's portage-specific. > &

[gentoo-dev] Re: Project summaries

2009-05-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 6 May 2009 08:49:53 +0200 Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > any project lead/member can post an answer to this mail for a status > report: I miss these. ;) GCC-Porting: Thanks to a load of help from darkside, loki_val, fauli, and others, GCC 4.3 is now stable on our primary archs

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-cdr/cdrdao: ChangeLog cdrdao-1.2.2-r3.ebuild

2009-05-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 11 May 2009 23:29:10 +1200 Alistair Bush wrote: > I would assume it would be better to directly test whether the user is > root, than test that userpriv is set? AFAIK: if [[ ${EUID} -eq 0 ]]; then rootstuff else nonrootstuff fi But for tests that fail with userpriv just because the

[gentoo-dev] about gold bugs

2009-05-15 Thread Ryan Hill
Could I ask that people stop closing bugs against the gold linker with such classy witticisms as "patches welcome". There is no patch a user can provide to make a package build with the gold linker. These bugs should be assigned to toolchain, not the maintainer of the package that gold happens to

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI Changes

2009-05-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:31:25 +0200 Tiziano Müller wrote: > Wrong. For example: > - stuff like docompress may change the content being installed depending > on the package manager > - --disable-static (maybe in a later EAPI) changes content > - slot-dep-operators change the rdepend of installed pa

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Project proposal -- maintainer-wanted

2009-05-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 14 May 2009 03:32:12 +0300 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Project maintainer-wanted > = > > Abstract: > There are currently quite some package requests (over 3000) languishing > on bugzilla waiting for a developer or team to get interested and > package it in the official

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55 updated

2009-05-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 17 May 2009 17:56:06 +0200 Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > Hello, > > I have just updated GLEP 55 [1], hopefully making it a bit clearer. > > Just FYI, my order of preference of solutions is: > > 1. EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (obviously) > 2. EAPI in the filename with one-time extension change >

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55 updated

2009-05-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 17 May 2009 19:18:14 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:15:24 -0600 > Ryan Hill wrote: > > I'd like 2 if we could have multiple same-versioned ebuilds of > > different EAPI. 3 is good enough for me. > > We couldn't. Allowing multipl

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI Changes

2009-05-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 17 May 2009 21:03:46 +0200 Tiziano Müller wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 17.05.2009, 11:11 -0600 schrieb Ryan Hill: > > On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:31:25 +0200 > > Tiziano Müller wrote: > > > > > Wrong. For example: > > > - stuff like docompress may chang

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI Changes

2009-05-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 17 May 2009 20:40:41 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Ryan Hill posted > 2009051752.133c7...@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca, excerpted below, on Sun, 17 > May 2009 11:11:52 -0600: > > >> Do we want to document the following? (do we have already?

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI Changes

2009-05-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 17 May 2009 23:00:21 +0200 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > 2009-05-17 22:51:50 Ryan Hill napisał(a): > > On Sun, 17 May 2009 21:03:46 +0200 > > Tiziano Müller wrote: > > > So, unless you're doing a pkgmove > > > it's a danger

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI Changes

2009-05-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 17 May 2009 15:19:17 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2009 23:00:21 +0200 > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > > > 2009-05-17 22:51:50 Ryan Hill napisał(a): > > > On Sun, 17 May 2009 21:03:46 +0200 > > > Tiziano Müller wrote: > >

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-doc/afsdoc (Jun 1 2009)

2009-05-19 Thread Ryan Hill
Masked this a couple weeks ago but forgot to announce it: - old old old docs for the AFS file system, which get installed with net-fs/openafs USE=doc anyways - not touched since 2005 - unmaintained -- gcc-porting, by design, by neglect treecleaner,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-doc/afsdoc (Jun 1 2009)

2009-05-20 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 20 May 2009 19:44:27 +0300 Petteri Räty wrote: > Ryan Hill wrote: > > Masked this a couple weeks ago but forgot to announce it: > > > > - old old old docs for the AFS file system, which get installed with > > net-fs/openafs USE=doc anyways > > - not touc

[gentoo-dev] Re: How not to discuss

2009-05-28 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 28 May 2009 08:28:12 +0200 Patrick Lauer wrote: > This is becoming a rather lengthy email ping pong, but as people seem to be > unable to discuss things I had to highlight a few issues there. I'm sorry to be rude, but ever consider that the reason people keep repeating things to you is

[gentoo-dev] Re: How not to discuss

2009-05-30 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 29 May 2009 23:49:26 +0200 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On Friday 29 May 2009 04:12:04 Ryan Hill wrote: > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > > but ever consider that the reason people keep > > repeating things to you is that you continually misunderstand what they're > &g

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Council 2009/2010 - Nominations are now open

2009-06-02 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:39:57 +0100 David Leverton wrote: > On Monday 01 June 2009 05:25:06 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > > Hello fellow developers and users. > > > > Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2009/2010 are now open for the next > > two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 14/06/2009). > > I wou

[gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-24 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:03:13 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100 > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > I don't know if this has been discussed before but, what issues are > > preventing us from unmasking gcc-4.6 (and think on a near > > stab

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2012-03-05 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:17:12 + Markos Chandras wrote: > app-text/chm2pdf I maintain a bunch of chm stuff, so I'll help with this. > sys-apps/cpuid Got it. -- fonts, gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:27:06 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > An initramfs which does this is created by >=sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25 or > >=sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be > sure any initramfs you create pre-mounts /usr. We should really have some documentatio

[gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-12 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:34:37 + Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:49:11AM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > > We should really have some documentation on how to create a minimal > > initramfs > > that mounts /usr (if we don't already, I haven't look

[gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-12 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:08:47 + "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > The quickest initramfs, assuming that ALL kernel modules you need to > boot are already compiled into your kernel: > genkernel --install --no-ramdisk-modules initramfs > > Plus optionally, If you know you don't need any of these, inc

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-video/ffmpeg: ffmpeg-0.10.2.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-03-18 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:54:03 + (UTC) "Alexis Ballier (aballier)" wrote: > aballier12/03/18 13:54:03 > > Modified: ChangeLog > Added:ffmpeg-0.10.2.ebuild > Log: > version bump > > (Portage version: 2.2.0_alpha91/cvs/Linux x86_64) > FFTOOLS="avioc

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

2012-03-18 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:25:58 +0100 Pacho Ramos wrote: > Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer: > app-doc/ebookmerge This is something bass wrote that grabs html manuals from http://htmlhelp.berlios.de (which doesn't exist anymore - it moved to http://code.google.com/p/

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-video/ffmpeg: ffmpeg-0.10.2.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-03-19 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:05:46 -0300 Alexis Ballier wrote: > imho it doesnt hurt anyone to have fine-grained control > > what could be discussed is to put these into a use expand variable, to > better distinguish between important useflags and less important ones > > is that what you mean by 'put

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

2012-03-19 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:34:22 +0100 Pacho Ramos wrote: > El dom, 18-03-2012 a las 23:56 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: > > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:25:58 +0100 > > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > > > Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer: > > &g

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

2012-04-07 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:02:17 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > dev-util/dialogblocks > dev-util/helpblocks wxwidgets will take these. -- fonts, gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2012-04-07 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:09:39 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > El lun, 19-03-2012 a las 21:20 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:34:22 +0100 > > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > > > El dom, 18-03-2012 a las 23:56 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: > > &g

[gentoo-dev] Re: About how to handle wxGTK based packages with gnome profiles

2012-04-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:21:20 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > OK, looks like I misunderstood how wxwidgets work and most opinions > point to enable wxwidgets by default in gnome profiles, ok with that > solution? As I mentioned in the bug I'd like it default for desktop. There's nothing inherently "g

[gentoo-dev] Re: About adding a way to check for bugs referring to no longer existing packages in the tree

2012-04-15 Thread Ryan Hill
> > > From time to time I see old bug reports that are still wrongly opened > > > and referring to old packages no longer in the tree. Would be possible > > > to add a way to periodically check for bugs referring in summary to > > > obsolete packages and, then, allow us to have a cleaner bug list?

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-15 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:35:40 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > On 04/15/2012 01:16 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > > Right now we have support in some packages for user patches - those being > > patches dropped into /etc/portage/patches/pkgname/ - which are automatically > > applied. Be

[gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available

2012-04-15 Thread Ryan Hill
Right now we have support in some packages for user patches - those being patches dropped into /etc/portage/patches/pkgname/ - which are automatically applied. Because this feature is implemented by epatch_user() in eutils.eclass, it is only available for ebuilds that inherit eutils and explicitly

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-15 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:53:04 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 04/15/12 16:16, Ryan Hill wrote: > > Right now we have support in some packages for user patches - those being > > patches dropped into /etc/portage/patches/pkgname/ - which are automatically > > applied. Be

[gentoo-dev] Re: About adding a way to check for bugs referring to no longer existing packages in the tree

2012-04-15 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:00:45 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > Also, the idea is to simply generate a list with possible obsolete bug > reports, closing would still be done manually after checking for false > positives ;) Ah, okay. I thought you wanted something automatically closing them. -- fonts

[gentoo-dev] Re: About how to handle wxGTK based packages with gnome profiles

2012-04-15 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:59:11 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > OK then to enable wxwidgets in desktop profile? Yes. -- fonts, gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:41:39 +0100 David Leverton wrote: > The point I was trying to get at was that it seems a bit heavyweight to > rely on a whole eclass for a minor use-case, as well as a bit > error-prone to expect people to remember it every time, but maybe that's > the least bad option a

[gentoo-dev] Re: epatch_user usage

2012-04-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:45:36 -0500 Doug Goldstein wrote: > So I've just had one reservation when using epatch_user for allowing > users to apply patches. And that's figuring out when to run > eautoreconf. I don't necessarily want to run it unconditionally but > sometimes users have patches which

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/adobe-flash: metadata.xml adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-04-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:12:46 + (UTC) "Jim Ramsay (lack)" wrote: 24 Apr 2012; Jim Ramsay adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild, metadata.xml: On darkside's suggestion, providing a USE flag (IUSE=+sse2check) that can be turned off to allow binpkg users to override this check (or at least red

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:03:18 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > On 04/25/2012 09:44 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > > Yeah the whole idea here was to make user patches available without ebuild > > modifications or eclass dependence. > Using the "apply_user_patches_here" approach [1]

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/adobe-flash: metadata.xml adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-04-26 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:06:45 -0300 Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:15:34 -0400 > Matt Turner wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Christian Ruppert > > wrote: > > > I haven't followed the prev. conversation but what's wrong with a > > > USE flag for SSE2? We already hav

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/adobe-flash: metadata.xml adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-04-26 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:00:04 +0200 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:04:08 -0600 > Ryan Hill wrote: > > > especially for an instruction set that every system has supported > > for over a decade. > > Er, some of my teenage systems run desktops just fine

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite app-text/chmsee. Semi-lastrite libopensync-plugin-google-calendar.

2012-05-02 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:17:55 +0200 Michael Weber wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > According to upstreams homepage [1], > the current tagged v1.99.09 does support xulrunner 11.0. > > @dirtyepic: Any chance to bump the version in portage? > I can take a look (and gra

[gentoo-dev] Re: epatch_user usage

2012-05-04 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 4 May 2012 22:23:31 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > > There's all kinds of reasons to not use autotools-utils.eclass. > > I wouldn't want to see another python.eclass bullying around the tree. > >504 autotools-utils.eclass > 3186 python.eclass > > Do you have any real arguments? I th

[gentoo-dev] GCC 4.6.* unmasked, 4.7.0 added to tree

2012-05-21 Thread Ryan Hill
I've added 4.7.0 to the tree tonight (unkeyworded and masked as usual). I've also keyworded the 4.6 series on all arches except amd64 (due to the grub bug). This is a temporary measure until we figure out the best course of action (at least we have some people looking at the problem now). I pers

[gentoo-dev] Re: Adding PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 to base profile

2012-05-21 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 21 May 2012 21:50:33 -0500 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 16:27 Sun 13 May , Mike Gilbert wrote: > > To make ebuilds utilizing python-distutils-ng.eclass usable > > I didn't read any farther because I couldn't stop laughing. What will > the next version of this eclass be called, -ng-ng

[gentoo-dev] Re: Remove eclass/ChangeLog (was: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: autotools.eclass)

2012-05-22 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 20 May 2012 15:33:11 +0300 Samuli Suominen wrote: > ChangeLog entries missing for every autotools.eclass modification today. > > On 05/20/2012 03:31 PM, Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote: > > vapier 12/05/20 12:31:33 One person doesn't do entries. OMG let's remove it! -- fonts, gcc

[gentoo-dev] Re: Remove eclass/ChangeLog

2012-05-23 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 23 May 2012 11:02:58 +0300 Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 05/23/2012 05:36 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > > One person doesn't do entries. OMG let's remove it! > absolutely because inconsitency renderess the file useless Perfect is the enemy of good enough. Stuck in a

[gentoo-dev] Re: autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds!

2012-05-23 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 23 May 2012 11:28:13 +0300 Petteri Räty wrote: > On 22.5.2012 8.53, Michał Górny wrote: > >> Excuse me but the way this change was handled is a bit depressing. > >> First, the ebuilds should have been fixed to inherit eutils and then > >> remove eutils from autotools. Now, a bunch of ebui

[gentoo-dev] Re: autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds!

2012-05-23 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 21 May 2012 21:04:44 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > Looks like ebuilds not inheriting eutils directly even using epatch are > a lot as I have seen running: > grep inherit $(grep -r epatch */*/*.ebuild| cut -d: -f1) | grep -v > eutils > > Maybe they should be checked and a repoman warning sho

[gentoo-dev] Re: autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds!

2012-05-23 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 23 May 2012 23:09:14 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > On 05/23/2012 11:11 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Mon, 21 May 2012 21:04:44 +0200 > > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > >> Looks like ebuilds not inheriting eutils directly even using epatch are > >> a lot as

[gentoo-dev] Re: autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds!

2012-05-24 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 24 May 2012 14:02:05 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012 00:02:37 -0600 > Ryan Hill wrote: > > I don't see how removing an inherit is breaking an eclass' API. > > The way eclasses are defined, the eclasses it inherits are itself part >

[gentoo-dev] Re: comprehensive eclass checking in repoman

2012-05-24 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 24 May 2012 15:47:09 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > i implemented eclass checking for some of the most common ones in the tree, > but Zac didn't particularly care for the maintaining of lists of functions > used by eclasses directly in repoman (due to the concern of them getting out > o

[gentoo-dev] Re: comprehensive eclass checking in repoman

2012-05-24 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 24 May 2012 21:47:23 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: > Is there any sane way to handle sub-eclasses? eg. foo-base inherits > foo-functions. Oh and even if there isn't, big +1 from me. -- fonts, gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: comprehensive eclass checking in repoman

2012-05-25 Thread Ryan Hill
> maybe a new eclass-level keyword @INHERITED-API ? it takes a space delimited > list of eclasses that are guaranteed by the API. so in distutils.eclass, > we'd > add: > # @INHERITED-API: python > > and repoman would use this to build a tree of implicit funcs to allow w/out a > direct inher

[gentoo-dev] Re: review required by herd? (new ebuild)

2012-05-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 26 May 2012 02:33:06 +0200 hasufell wrote: > What's the official policy, so everyone can be clear about this? It's not a requirement, except when it is. :) Some projects are territorial. Games is one. I imagine adding something to kde, gnome, or xfce categories without contacting tho

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH eutils] Move remove_libtool_files() from autotools-utils for wider use.

2012-06-04 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 28 May 2012 09:58:56 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > As autotools-utils exports phase functions, it will be better if > remove_libtool_files() functions would be somewhere else. Thank you. -- fonts, gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] New herd: app-doc

2012-06-25 Thread Ryan Hill
I'm not sure if you're supposed to announce these things or not, so here goes. The app-doc herd will maintain packages in app-doc/ that don't otherwise have a maintainer. Most of this stuff is either static or updated infrequently by script, but if you're interested feel free to join. Because th

[gentoo-dev] Re: -Werror unwanted?

2012-06-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 14 May 2012 19:58:13 +0100 Markos Chandras wrote: > On 05/14/2012 06:03 PM, hasufell wrote: > > So, I will file a documentation bug unless someone can point me in > > the right direction. I didn't find a reference to that issue. > Open a bug, write a devmanual patch and I will be happy t

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: remove ldap from desktop profiles use flags

2012-07-15 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 6 May 2012 15:25:02 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 6 May 2012 07:33:59 -0400 > Rich Freeman wrote: > > Some other questionable ones: > > emboss - Adds support for the European Molecular Biology Open > > We've had this discussion before... The question is not "are people > likely

[gentoo-dev] Re: Kernel calls gcc directly: fine?

2012-08-12 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:19:59 +0200 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > So it calls gcc directly. > > I see we don't like gcc called directly from the tracker[1], but this is for > packages/ebuild. Should this bug block that tracker or it is invalid? > > > [1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=cc

[gentoo-dev] Re: CIA.VC down for the count?

2012-08-26 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:36:09 +0200 Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 23-08-2012 20:10:55 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 07:07:40PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > it doesn't contain everything CIA has, but for a large deal -commits ML > > > is indeed much better > > What's

[gentoo-dev] Re: CIA.VC down for the count?

2012-08-26 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:35:53 +0200 Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 26-08-2012 12:22:16 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:36:09 +0200 > > Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > > > On 23-08-2012 20:10:55 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > >

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