Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/27/2012 02:01 PM, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:49:00PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: >> I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to >> create a separate partition for /usr/portage tree. I remember my >> first

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/27/2012 02:53 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 27/03/12 02:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev >> >>> The partitioning scheme is something that the user needs to >>> decide on *before* getting

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

2012-03-27 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/27/2012 03:05 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > I know this has come up before, but I don't really recall what the > specific objections were. > > IMO the portage directory doesn't belong under /usr at all. I was > chatting with another de

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-27 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/27/2012 03:13 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 27/03/12 03:04 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > >>> You know, we have "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem Example" in >>> Section 4, we could always adjust that to hav

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

2012-03-27 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/27/2012 03:47 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:40 PM, William Hubbs > wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:25:58AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: >>> On 28 March 2012 08:05, William Hubbs >>> wrote: /var/cache/repositories/gent

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

2012-03-28 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/27/2012 03:05 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > I know this has come up before, but I don't really recall what the > specific objections were. > > IMO the portage directory doesn't belong under /usr at all. I was > chatting with another de

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

2012-03-28 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/28/2012 02:53 PM, Christoph Mende wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Aaron W. Swenson > wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 03/27/2012 03:05 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >>&

[gentoo-dev] RFC: oDesk License

2012-03-30 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Find attached a license for an application I'm using. I've already cleared that redistribution of the package is okay. [1] I didn't see anything in there much more than the standard "don't blame us if your system blows up", and some fairly standard

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: oDesk License

2012-03-30 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/30/2012 12:08 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > Find attached a license for an application I'm using. I've already > cleared that redistribution of the package is okay. [1] > > I didn't see anything in there much mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Inconsistent flag name in some packages? webm and vpx speifically

2012-04-07 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/07/2012 07:52 AM, Paweł Rumian wrote: > Markos Chandras : > >> Thank you for your report. Yes this looks like an issue. If I had >> to choose I'd pick 'vpx' but it seems to me that media-video@ >> and mozilla@ teams needs to reach consensus. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] forcing recent patch-2.6.1 everywhere

2012-05-17 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/17/2012 03:51 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > any complaints ? -mike > > Index: profiles/base/packages > === > > RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/packages,v > retriev

Re: [gentoo-dev] forcing recent patch-2.6.1 everywhere

2012-05-17 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/17/2012 04:15 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 05/17/2012 11:00 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 05/17/2012 03:51 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> any com

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-23 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/23/2012 09:25 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > >> >> Please discuss my arguments and come to the conclusions to >> RESO/WONT-FIX "testing git-cvsserver", make a "clean cut" and >> remove this bug from the blockers of "[TRACKER] portage migrat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - Handling Pull Requests (Was: clean cut or git-cvsserver)

2012-05-24 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/24/2012 03:57 PM, Dan Douglas wrote: > Git is about decentralized version control. When you clone a repo, > you have your own "fork". When everyone has their own branch, > everyone is effectively equal. So yes you can expect much much > more f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-30 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/30/2012 12:53 PM, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, 30 May 2012, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman >> wrote: >>> Yeah... this is why I was asking about access to infra to test >>> the conversion;

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-31 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/30/2012 04:31 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Robin H. Johnson > wrote: >> No, the last mock conversion is still live and updating fairly >> often: >> http://git-exp.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=exp/gentoo-x86.g

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo-portage-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue

2012-06-05 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
e packages that are installed would be built. The actual list of the packages to be rebuilt would be determined at dependency checking time. That way, the user can approve the rebuild of the packages. Just placing the commands in a separate log won't really solve a whole lot. Further, it w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
s.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/ - -- Mr. Aaron W. Swenson Gentoo Linux Developer Email: titanof...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 2C00 7719 4F85 FB07 A49C 0E31 5713 AA03 D1BB FDA0 GnuPG ID : D1BBFDA0 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Usin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
disc, but that's because the online version is always current where the stages can be a week or so behind. - -- Mr. Aaron W. Swenson Gentoo Linux Developer Email: titanof...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 2C00 7719 4F85 FB07 A49C 0E31 5713 AA03 D1BB FDA0 GnuPG ID : D1BBFDA0 -BEGIN PGP S

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/25/2012 10:27 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > On 25-07-2012 13:29, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Aaron W. Swenson >> wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

2012-07-27 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
; Do you have any idea about how much time could that formalization > take? If it will take a long time, maybe we could go to that > amalgamations :-/ > Really, how much of an inconvenience is it that we don't use UTF-8 as a default? In my mind, it is sufficient that we instruct use

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

2012-07-30 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/30/2012 11:04 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Michał Górny > wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:35:36 -0400 Michael Orlitzky >> wrote: >> >>> On 07/27/12 16:16, Aaron W. Swenson

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites: dev-db/pgpool

2012-08-14 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 # Aaron W. Swenson (14 Aug 2012) # Obsolete. Superseded by dev-db/pgpool2. Removal 14 Sep 2012. # (Bug #431414) dev-db/pgpool - -- Mr. Aaron W. Swenson Gentoo Linux Developer Email: titanof...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 2C00 7719 4F85 FB07 A49C

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item 1: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-09-09 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 9/8/2012 2:05 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > Here is the second draft for this news item. > ... > Starting next week, new stages will have make.conf and make.profile > moved from /etc to /etc/portage. This is a change in the installation > defaults, that will only affect new installs so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: stable gcc 5.4.0 ??

2017-04-18 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-04-18 14:27, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 15:12:13 +0200 > Jörg Schaible wrote: > > > As said, I synced the tree twice this morning (4 hours ago) and the > > KEYWORDS in the ebuild do not declare amd64 as stable although it was > > committed to GIT already yesterday. And t

[gentoo-dev] New eclasses and USE_EXPAND: postgres{,-multi}.eclass

2017-04-21 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
multibuild postgres EXPORT_FUNCTIONS pkg_setup src_prepare src_compile src_install src_test # @ECLASS: postgres-multi # @MAINTAINER: # PostgreSQL # @AUTHOR: Aaron W. Swenson # @BLURB: An eclass to build PostgreSQL-related packages against multiple slots # @DESCRIPTION: # postgres-multi enables

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclasses and USE_EXPAND: postgres{,-multi}.eclass

2017-04-22 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-04-22 22:38, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > I do not believe that DESCRIPTION should have a dot in the end, because > that takes away from this precious nonsensical 80 characters limit, > making it 79 instead. On that note, I believe the limit should be > raised to at least 100 characters. > > Oh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Auto adding packages to world was -> Sets vs Meta ebuilds

2017-07-16 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-07-15 01:34, Raymond Jennings wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Gordon Pettey wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:14 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. < > > wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 01:03:00 +1000 > >> Sam Jorna wrote: > >> > >> > $ emerge -C apg > >> >

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass: opam.eclass

2017-07-24 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-07-24 17:20, Alexis Ballier wrote: > Hey, > > Here is an eclass that would allow me to factor quite a bit of > redundant code. > > … > if [ -d "${ED}/usr/share/doc/${PF}/${PN}" ] ; then It’s always been recommended to me that we should use the [[ … ]] form. Otherwise, looks good t

Re: [gentoo-dev] New item for sys-kernel/hardened-sources removal

2017-08-19 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-08-15 17:01, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to get this one up by Saturday so that we can proceed with > masking and removing of the hardened-sources after upstream stopped > releasing new patches. I hope I’m not too late. > We'd like to note that all

Re: [gentoo-dev] New item for sys-kernel/hardened-sources removal

2017-08-19 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-08-19 13:01, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: > El 19/08/17 a las 12:37, Aaron W. Swenson escribió: > > On 2017-08-15 17:01, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> I'd like to get this one up by Saturday

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News item: app-portage/gentoolkit-dev deprecation/removal

2017-09-18 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-09-18 15:09, Paul Varner wrote: > Please provide any feedback on the upcoming deprecation and removal of > app-portage/gentoolkit-dev with the upcoming stabilization of > app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.0 (Bug 627350) > > Regards, > Paul > Title: app-portage/gentoolkit-dev deprecation/remova

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item: Perl 5.26 update

2017-10-07 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-10-07 17:03, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > … > This release brings several incompatible changes, also as a > consequence of fixing a security problem [1]. This reads kind of awkwardly. Maybe something along this lines of: This release brings several incompatible changes as a result of

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC v2: News item: Perl 5.26 update

2017-10-08 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-10-08 14:01, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > OK so here's the updated version: > … > Typical errors are Needs a colon. Typical errors are: But the rest looks good to me. I don’t know how to write “good job” without it sounding patronizing. But here it is anyway: Good job! signature.a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs net-im/pyaim-t

2017-10-09 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-10-09 16:03, Brian Evans wrote: > On 10/9/2017 3:49 PM, Jonas Stein wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > The following packages are up for grabs: > > > > net-im/pyaim-t > > > > after retirement of the proxied maintainer. > > > > AOL Instant Messenger will be retired on Dec 15, 2017. Last rite

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC v2: news item for the 17.0 profiles

2017-10-11 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-10-10 21:16, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > … > Switching involves the following steps: > If not already done, > * Use gcc-config to select gcc-6.4.0 (or later) as system compiler > * Re-source /etc/profile: > . /etc/profile > * Re-emerge libtool Should probably instruct users to upgrade

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-misc/goobook

2017-10-13 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-10-13 17:20, Jonas Stein wrote: > Dear all, > > The following packages are up for grabs: > > app-misc/goobook > > after retirement of the proxied maintainer. > > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/goobook > > The package is available on many large distributions: > https://re

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH 2/2] glep-0042: Update and clarify naming rules.

2017-11-27 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-11-27 10:54, Duncan wrote: > Ulrich Müller posted on Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:30:49 +0100 as excerpted: > > > diff --git a/glep-0042.rst b/glep-0042.rst > > index 7726ea4..90ae0b2 100644 > > --- a/glep-0042.rst > > +++ b/glep-0042.rst > > @@ -179,7 +179,9 @@ form ``-mm-dd-short-name``, wher

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] glep-0042: Drop requirement for detached signatures.

2017-11-27 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-11-27 00:13, Ulrich Müller wrote: > … > +.. Note:: A previous version of this GLEP had required that news items must > + be signed with a detached OpenPGP signature. This was no longer deemed > + necessary after moving news items to a Git repository with commit signing, > + and deploy

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC, PATCH] user.eclass: gracefully return when unprivileged

2017-11-27 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-11-26 10:02, Benda Xu wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > Patrick McLean writes: > > > I use portage as non-root all the time when developing and testing > > ebuilds, via the "ebuild" command. > > The enewgroup and enewuser are used in pkg_* functions, as documented in > user.eclass _assert_pkg_eb

Re: Accidental spoofing -> Re: [gentoo-dev] We Are All wltjr On This Blessed Day

2017-12-05 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-12-04 18:08, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 18:01:39 -0500 > "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 14:43:15 -0800 > > Matt Turner wrote: > > > > > > Sorry. I think I was confusing a number of irritating things you've > > > done: email spoofing, >

Re: Accidental spoofing -> Re: [gentoo-dev] We Are All wltjr On This Blessed Day

2017-12-05 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-12-05 10:51, Georg Rudoy wrote: > From and Reply-To are two separate fields. Yes, but that wasn’t what was being discussed. I was giving an example as to why the From field should be editable in an email client. I’ll set the Reply-To for emails to be directed to the proper contact point,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists

2017-12-05 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-12-03 00:18, Michał Górny wrote: > …snip… I understand, and sympathize with, the motivation to create another list and restrict gentoo-dev. And, I agree with most of the points, especially given some of the more recent events. I still vote no. gentoo-dev is supposed to be for open discus

Re: [gentoo-dev] AMD64 Arch Testers needed urgently

2017-12-13 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-12-13 13:20, Lucas Ramage wrote: > > In my discussions with other developers, I've found that this is the > ​> ​ > biggest concern. Most devs are runnning ~amd64, so they don't feel that > ​> ​ > they can mark things stable. > > W > ​hat about running a stable chroot?​ Are there any tools

Re: [gentoo-dev] AMD64 Arch Testers needed urgently

2017-12-14 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-12-14 13:58, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:58:05 +0100 > Slightly modified suggestion: > > Add a flag called "autostabilize" with [unset], [y], [n] > > Default is 'unset', and if found unset after a given time, it flips to > y and the stable bot gets queued up. > > If its

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moderator ruleset for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org

2017-12-16 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-12-15 16:37, R0b0t1 wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Nils Freydank wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > with regards to the current mailing list (ML) split discussion, and one > > specific message deep down there by mgorny asked for someone providing > > moderator rules,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] New policy: 'files' directory must not be larger than 32 KiB

2017-12-19 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2017-12-17 14:21, Michał Górny wrote: > Total size of 'files' subdirectory of a package should not be larger > than 32 KiB. If the package needs more auxiliary files, they should > be put into SRC_URI e.g. via tarballs. I don’t have any strong opinions about this either way. However, wha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deleting old news items

2018-01-02 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Deleting old news items

2018-01-05 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2018-01-05 15:16, William Hubbs wrote: > If we have a default expiration, it should be one year after the date > posted to go along with our current policy of not supporting things that > are older than a year. > > William I thought it was three years. At any rate, I think a year is too short

[gentoo-dev] News Item: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change

2018-01-10 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
Please review. Title: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change Author: Aaron W. Swenson Posted: 2018-01-11 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: >=app-office/gnucash-2.7.0 Along with changes to updates to use modern libraries, GnuCash 2.7+ has changed the schema [1] it uses for b

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change

2018-01-10 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2018-01-10 22:38, Peter Volkov wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 9:31 PM, Aaron W. Swenson > wrote: > > > Title: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change > > > > Aaron, but why do we need this news item? 2.7 version is a development > version that is not supposed to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change

2018-01-10 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2018-01-10 19:07, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:35:52 +0100 > Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > > On 01/10/2018 07:31 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > > > Display-If-Installed: >=app-office/gnucash-2.7.0 > > > > And we might want to display

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change

2018-01-10 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2018-01-10 19:33, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 01/10/2018 07:31 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > > It is imperative that you back up any files or databases that GnuCash > > uses in case you run into an issue with 2.7+ and want or need to revert > > back to 2.6. > &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change

2018-01-10 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
working with files/databases that are made by GnuCash 2.6. Title: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change Author: Aaron W. Swenson Posted: 2018-01-10 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: app-office/gnucash Along with changes to updates to use modern libraries, GnuCash 2.7+ has changed the

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change

2018-01-10 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2018-01-10 22:53, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:48:32 -0500 > "Aaron W. Swenson" wrote: > > Modified a bit. This should show for anyone who has GnuCash installed. > > For anyone who has any version of GnuCash installed, either now or at > an

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change (v3)

2018-01-11 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
This time with a version constrain that should allow this to expire at some point in the future. Title: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change Author: Aaron W. Swenson Posted: 2018-01-11 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/tag/2.7.0a Title

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change (v3)

2018-01-11 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2018-01-11 19:02, Francesco Riosa wrote: > It could be wise to close GnuCash before backup Good point. Added a line. > also the choice of creating a copy of the database is a bit unusual, > an offline backup may be more appropriated, example for mysql: > mysqldump gnucash_db | xz > gnucash-2.6

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change (v4)

2018-01-11 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
Revision number 4. Title: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change Author: Aaron W. Swenson Posted: 2018-01-11 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: gnucash-2.6.sql.xz For PostgreSQL: $ pg_dump -U gnucash_user -Z 5 gnucash_db > gnucash-2.6.sql.gz For SQLite: $ cp /path

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change (v4)

2018-01-12 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2018-01-11 23:30, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Aaron W Swenson wrote: > > > 2018-01-11-GnuCash-Breaking-Change.en.txt > > Since its last update, GLEP 42 strongly recommends using a very short > name, with at most 20 characters for th

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites: app-office/odeskteam

2018-01-14 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
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Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change

2018-01-14 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
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Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change

2018-01-16 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2018-01-16 15:07, Róbert Čerňanský wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:46:04 +0200 > Mart Raudsepp wrote: > > 2.6 is insecure by 400+ ancient webkit-gtk security vulnerabilities, > > we can't responsibly wait anymore. 2.7.3 was tested by Aaron (who > > uses it daily) to work quite nicely. > > I wan

Re: [gentoo-dev] [News item review] Portage rsync tree verification (v2)

2018-01-25 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2018-01-25 13:35, Michał Górny wrote: > Display-If-Installed: =2.3.22 this same information? I know we don’t have expires, yet. How about making it signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2018-05-13 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2018-05-05 04:49, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 10:52:11PM +0200, Patrice Clement wrote: > > The following packages are up for grabs: > ... > > net-misc/s3cmd > I'll take s3cmd, since my dayjob uses it heavily. I know I’m listed on the metadata, but I’ve never done anything

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Eclasses: postgres and postgres-multi

2016-01-25 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2016-01-24 18:44, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/24/2016 06:29 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > > Okay, provided that the new USE_EXPAND is okay for POSTGRES_TARGETS, > > attached are the eclasses that I'll commit to the tree. > > > > > case ${EAPI:-0

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND: POSTGRES_TARGETS

2016-01-25 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2016-01-24 18:33, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/24/2016 06:21 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > > Attached are the changes I'm looking to make. I've never play with > > global use flags, so I'd like for somebody to make sure I've done them > > right. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Eclasses: postgres and postgres-multi

2016-01-26 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2016-01-25 10:31, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 23/01/16 10:51 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > >> On Jan 22, 2016, at 3:11 PM, Aaron W. Swenson > >> wrote: > >> > >> I would like some feedback on the documentation/comments in > >> the eclass.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New Eclasses: postgres and postgres-multi

2016-01-26 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2016-01-25 22:34, Jonathan Callen wrote: > On 01/25/2016 07:29 AM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > > On 2016-01-24 18:44, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> On 01/24/2016 06:29 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > >>> Okay, provided that the new USE_EXPAND is okay for > >&

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

2013-01-18 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
profile is not expected. IMHO it > should be moved to the desktop profile > ++ If the base profile is to become our server profile, it should not have graphics related USE flags enabled. -- Mr. Aaron W. Swenson Gentoo Linux Developer Email : titanof...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 2C00 7719 4F85 FB07 A49C 0E31 5713 AA03 D1BB FDA0 GnuPG ID : D1BBFDA0 pgpJrpEK6gSzG.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2013-01-18 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
7;m going to reverse my original vote. The only packages that have the `dri' USE flag are in the x11-{drivers,libs} categories. As such, it doesn't matter very much whether or not `dri' is in the base profile. Better to leave it than remove it seeing as Chí-Thanh says, it will have l

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

2013-01-19 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
s' USE flag in the base profile, not the package itself. I don't believe we need it in the base profile. The only people who would enable it are those that are setting up a print server or those who are setting up a desktop, in which case they would want to use the desktop profile. -- Mr.

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

2013-01-19 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
we recommend any user who will be running a GUI use the desktop profile. Those who aim for a minimalist profile will enable the flag themselves. -- Mr. Aaron W. Swenson Gentoo Linux Developer Email : titanof...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 2C00 7719 4F85 FB07 A49C 0E31 5713 AA03 D1BB FDA0 GnuPG ID : D1BBFDA0 pgp7VmQZopbDI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2013-01-20 23h59 UTC

2013-01-22 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
t sending those mails to gentoo-dev-announce only? > > Theo > +1 from me. -- Mr. Aaron W. Swenson Gentoo Linux Developer Email : titanof...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 2C00 7719 4F85 FB07 A49C 0E31 5713 AA03 D1BB FDA0 GnuPG ID : D1BBFDA0 pgpZsK2vDnZ_5.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Add "test" to IUSE_IMPLICIT

2013-02-02 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
on won't be affected by this. From `man emerge`: > NOTE: This option ignores the state of the "test" USE flag, since > that flag has a special binding to FEATURES="test" (see make.conf(5) > for more information about FEATURES settings). What say you? -- Mr. Aaron

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add "test" to IUSE_IMPLICIT

2013-02-02 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 12:50:02AM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 23:33:26 + > "Aaron W. Swenson" wrote: > > > After years of "if use test ; then ..." just working when > > FEATURES="test" is declared, it isn't working

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] please sign your manifests

2013-02-13 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
bout-to-expire key -- not the already expired key because they would never allow that to happen -- revoke the about-to-expire key, then sync with the key server(s). This information, by the way, has been blogged about thousands of times. -- Mr. Aaron W. Swenson Gentoo Linux Developer Email : t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] please sign your manifests

2013-02-13 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 09:35:56AM -0700, Denis Dupeyron wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Aaron W. Swenson > wrote: > > This information, by the way, has been blogged about thousands of > > times. > > There is a reason people write documentation. Contrary to blo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] please sign your manifests

2013-02-13 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 07:58:30PM +0200, Eray Aslan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 05:22:14PM +0000, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > > I agree. This is officially documented by GnuPG. [1] That would be the > > best source to use. It details everything one needs to do to manage

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

2013-04-15 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
empty string by default still does not guarantee that ROOT won't end with a slash. Even if we change it so that it defaults to an empty string, it won't negate the need to do ${ROOT%/}/some/path. The only thing that would help is if PMS defined that ROOT must not end with a slash. In which

Re: [gentoo-dev] About how many spaces a tab represents

2013-04-15 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
> > width? > > > > Well, I was a bit surprised an ebuild I was thinking was looking in a > way, was really shown a bit different when, for example, simply running > less over it :/ > A tab is a tab. How wide it is, is up to you. The convention is that four spaces shoul

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: m68k, s390, and sh are dropping stable keywords

2013-09-19 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
to "which resulted in undesirable delays". > ... > > No steps are required from users, however you should be aware > of the upcoming changes. I'd "bottom line" this as: No action is required to prepare for this change. Of course, just my 2¢. -- Mr. Aaron

[gentoo-dev] Last Rite: x11-misc/slimlock

2014-02-03 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
The screen lock program x11-misc/slimlock has been masked for removal. slimlock has been merged into its inspirator, x11-misc/slim, as of 2013-10-01. Install >=x11-misc/slim-1.3.6 to get the most recent improvements/enhancements of slimlock. -- Mr. Aaron W. Swenson Gentoo Linux Develo

Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd + postgresql is non-obvious to me

2014-08-22 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
using it until it actually fixes a problem that's non-trivial, which is most likely never for me. So, if any of you would like to improve our systemd offering, it'd be welcomed enthusiastically. -- Mr. Aaron W. Swenson Gentoo Linux Developer PostgreSQL Herd Bull Email : titanof...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 2C00 7719 4F85 FB07 A49C 0E31 5713 AA03 D1BB FDA0 GnuPG ID : D1BBFDA0 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd + postgresql is non-obvious to me

2014-09-01 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2014-08-22 14:07, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Aaron W. Swenson > wrote: > > On the whole, I'm displeased with the systemd alternative for > > controlling PostgreSQL. It's significantly hampered and doesn't allow > > as much f

Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd + postgresql is non-obvious to me

2014-09-01 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2014-09-01 11:09, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Aaron W. Swenson > wrote: > > On 2014-08-22 14:07, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Aaron W. Swenson > >> wrote: > >> > On the whole, I

Re: [gentoo-dev] git security (SHA-1)

2014-09-17 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
ature, but that collissions are effectively not a concern. Instead, we should be more concerned about us all being dragged off into the night by wolves. Simultaneously. Git hasn't promised to be secure against attacks. Just secure against corruption. Two different things. -- Mr. Aaron W. Swen

Re: [gentoo-dev] git security (SHA-1)

2014-09-17 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2014-09-17 12:08, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:04:08 -0400 > "Aaron W. Swenson" wrote: > > This is what's been driving me batty. None of you verified my identity > > before letting me be an official Gentoo Developer. > > Why does that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add bc back to the stage3

2014-09-17 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
you're smart enough to do that and want to make your own path, you're smart enough to emerge bc. -- Mr. Aaron W. Swenson Gentoo Linux Developer PostgreSQL Herd Bull Email : titanof...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 2C00 7719 4F85 FB07 A49C 0E31 5713 AA03 D1BB FDA0 GnuPG ID : D1BBFDA0 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Unifying the PostgreSQL Ebuilds

2014-09-19 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
ibs/vtk sci-mathematics/pspp sci-physics/root sys-auth/libnss-pgsql sys-auth/pam-pgsql sys-cluster/gearmand sys-cluster/slurm www-apache/mod_auth_nufw www-apache/mod_auth_pgsql www-apps/liquid_feedback_core www-apps/webmcp www-servers/uwsgi ============

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unifying the PostgreSQL Ebuilds

2014-10-11 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2014-09-19 10:11, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > I've been working on unifying the PostgreSQL ebuilds for a while now. > > Besides just being cleaner and taking a bit less time to compile, it > will inherently resolve a couple issues that are difficult to > workaround, such as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unifying the PostgreSQL Ebuilds

2014-11-02 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2014-10-11 18:02, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > On 2014-09-19 10:11, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > > I'm hoping to press forward with this change in the next week or so. > > > > Thank you in advance! > > > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unifying the PostgreSQL Ebuilds

2014-11-03 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2014-11-02 10:52, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > On 2014-10-11 18:02, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > > On 2014-09-19 10:11, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > > > I'm hoping to press forward with this change in the next week or so. > > > > > > Thank you in advance!

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites: dev-cpp/libpqpp

2011-03-15 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
# Aaron W. Swenson (15 Mar 2011) # Upstream no longer exists. Superseded by dev-lib/libpqxx. # Removal 15 Apr 2011 (bug #348359) dev-cpp/libpqpp

[gentoo-dev] RFC: postgresql.eselect

2011-03-28 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
preference to the set slot and then lists the other slots in descending order Thank you. Sincerely, Mr. Aaron W. Swenson (TitanOfOld) # Copyright 1999-2011 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Id: $ inherit config multilib output package-manager

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: postgresql.eselect

2011-03-29 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/29/2011 05:06 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Aaron W Swenson wrote: > >> This module is to replace the existing one that is shipped with >> > Some remarks: > > - Globa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: postgresql.eselect

2011-03-30 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/30/2011 03:58 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 29-03-2011 22:35:48 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: >>> Because 'ls' would complain that files didn't exist, such as lib*.dylib >>> when on a Linux system. It doesn't matter. But, using 'find' avoids this >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!

2011-03-30 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/30/2011 05:41 PM, Dale wrote: > Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: >> Justin has pointed problem which is worth our attention. It is not just >> me being pissed off when reading „Enable support for foo”, there are >> many users complaining about that. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] git-2.eclass final review

2011-03-31 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/31/2011 12:00 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > 2011/3/31 Tomáš Chvátal : >> Dne 31.3.2011 06:55, Jeroen Roovers napsal(a): >>> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:42:51 +0100 >>> Tomáš Chvátal wrote: >>> Again the diff is: http://tinyurl.com/62eb88b >>> >>> W

Re: [gentoo-dev] Can't update/checkout gentoo-x86 repo

2011-04-07 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/07/2011 07:09 AM, "Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog)" wrote: > hi, > > today i tried to update my local copy of gentoo-x86 cvs repo but the > update failed with this error: > > cvs [checkout aborted]: Could not map memory to RCS archive > /var/cvsroot

Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtual for tftp server

2011-05-01 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/01/2011 03:04 PM, Maxim Koltsov wrote: > Hi, > Assuming we have a package, that want to have any tftp server on > system, no matter which one exactly, what must we set in DEPEND? I > think creating virtual for tftp server would be nice. > Maxim

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