Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox & network-sandbox by default

2014-05-12 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/05/14 17:23, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > A flag being present or not in FEATURES does not mean anything, and > if you're assuming that it does then you have a bug. Please try to stay on topic, and don't obfuscate your posts needlessly. Note that I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of the as-is (so-called) license

2014-05-19 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 19/05/14 10:57, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > For almost all packages that had previously used "as-is", the > LICENSE variable has been updated now. We are down from some 700 > packages in mid-2012 to only 2 packages today (and course of action > is cle

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles?

2014-05-30 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/05/14 18:10, Tom Wijsman wrote: > Please no p.mask for a single line being wrong... So if an ebuild does "rm -rf / --no-preserve-root", it should not be masked as long as it does not break the command into several lines? - -- Alexander berna..

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles?

2014-05-30 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/05/14 19:11, Tom Wijsman wrote: > Well, let's just mask the whole tree; there are wrong lines > everywhere. It is not a matter of quantity but severity. $ echo "Dnoe" $ rm -rf / --no-preserve-root Same quantity, somewhat different severity.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles?

2014-05-30 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/05/14 19:18, Tom Wijsman wrote: > Well, this thread's problem is not severe at all; thus, no need to > mask. I disagree. I'm with ssuominen. Do with that information what you will... - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.ne

Re: [gentoo-dev] The state and future of the OpenRC project

2014-06-07 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/06/14 23:08, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > You can start fixing bugs immediately. You can check out the > sources, write patches and attach the patches to the bug reports. > Then all it takes is someone else to review/commit the patches. Hacking an i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The state and future of the OpenRC project

2014-06-08 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/06/14 18:38, Alexey Shvetsov wrote: >> Perhaps we could consider GitLab? > > Yep. Its better to have gitlab || gerrit || ReviewBoard Personaly > i have only expirience with gerrit > > However this will depend on migration of gentoo-x86 to git

Re: [gentoo-dev] The state and future of the OpenRC project

2014-06-10 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 For what it's worth, I strongly oppose using GitHub or any other SaaSS that is not licensed using AGPL or under similar terms. My suggestion is Phabricator, which additionally beats GitHub on functionality by having proper code review support. I wil

Re: [gentoo-dev] The state and future of the OpenRC project

2014-06-10 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/06/14 17:45, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > I don't know why CVS is still used for Gentoo main repository, > probably some infrastructure elements depends deeply on its > internals, because I see of no other reason why Git is still not > used des

Re: [gentoo-dev] The state and future of the OpenRC project

2014-06-11 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/06/14 18:45, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > Why are you saying that git is inefficient with large projects? Because it is. > It was developed with efficiency in mind in the first place. Not for big projects. > And kernel guys will likely disagree

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

2014-07-15 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 # emerge postgresql-server ... # emerge --config dev-db/postgresql-server:9.3 ... # systemctl start postgresql-server-9.3 Job for postgresql-9.3.service failed. See 'systemctl status postgresql-9.3.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

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

2014-07-15 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/07/14 13:36, Pacho Ramos wrote: > It's: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462118 Thank you for the info. > The problem is that it's not clear to us how to make it > automatically without needing to call it manually from every > ebuild i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: last rites: games-fps/postal2mp-demo

2014-07-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ulrich is right. Abandonware just means orphaned works -- i.e. the copyright holder hasn't sued anyone yet. Gentoo should not have anything to do with this. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: last rites: games-fps/postal2mp-demo

2014-07-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/07/14 21:19, Denis Dupeyron wrote: > I agree with you and Ulrich. That was a very poor choice of word > from my part and not what I wanted to say. I didn't mean we should > distribute distfiles without consent, but back them up to a hidden >

Re: [gentoo-dev] The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Please stop spamming this thread now. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlPHiMcACgkQ

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-21 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Friends, Michał has documented the shortcomings of dynamic deps in our wiki[0]. (Thank you!) This documentation also includes two of our possible solutions. 1. Improve dynamic-deps. This is, as Michał pointed out earlier in this thread a pipe dream

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default HOMEPAGE for packages with unavailable website

2014-07-21 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 +1. Nice idea Manuel! On 21/07/14 19:41, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > What's wrong with HOMEPAGE="()" ? It is not very informative. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/07/14 02:36, hasufell wrote: > William Hubbs: >> My concern about doing a revbump just because the deps change is >> that the new revision has to be committed in ~arch, so we then >> have to hit the arch teams, which we know are overworked anyw

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/07/14 09:39, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Pacho Ramos wrote: >> >> Maybe this could be solved by having two kinds of revisions: - >> One would rebuild all as usually (for example, -r1...) - The >> other one would only regenerate VDB and wouldn't cha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/07/14 20:40, Martin Vaeth wrote: > If there is interest, I can post my patches so far. Where? If you think these patches are useful for Portage, please send them to dev-port...@gentoo.org. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plai

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/07/14 20:44, Kent Fredric wrote: > So we'll probably need a repoman check that is smart enough to know > "X is modified" and compare the DEPEND fields with the previous > incarnation prior to commit, and then at very least, warn people > doi

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-25 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 25/07/14 17:01, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > The reason everything is such a mess at the moment is precisely > because we've accumulated so much "good enough" and "not thinking > your cunning plan all the way through" that nothing is actually > corre

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-12 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Friends, the repoman patch is reverted. And that is the end of this. I do not have gx86 access, so if someone wants me to revert 3K commits there, I'll need a proxy... - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BE

Re: [gentoo-dev] tox

2014-09-08 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Check out Linphone. Works well to Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows in my experience. The interface is not great, but several non-technical users have been able to use it to talk to me, so it can't be that bad while we're waiting for Tox to mature. Usi

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item regarding c++98 vs c++11

2014-10-20 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/10/14 08:36, Luca Barbato wrote: > Since gcc-4.7 there is a -std=c++11 option, do not use it since it > breaks the ABI, resulting in a non-functional system. Since gcc-4.7 there is a -std=c++11 option, do not use it {+yet+} since it breaks the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage dependency solving algorithm

2014-11-23 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 24/11/14 02:50, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:16:09 -0800 Zac Medico wrote: >>> I forgot, we have a --verbose-conflicts option already. > Yeah, that's exactly what I need. Somehow I missed this option, > sorry. That's OK. I for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2014-11-28 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 27/11/14 10:51, Daniel Campbell wrote: > I have a lot of IRL things going on Gentoo is a strange place. But let me assure you, this is real life too. Happy hacking. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEG

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

2014-12-08 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'd just like to take a few seconds to say "thank you, Brian"! - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding my final year thesis

2015-02-06 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/02/15 19:01, hasufell wrote: > Jan Matejka: >> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:00:24 +0100 Luca Barbato >> wrote: >>> Anything written in haskell tend to be impractical to deploy. >> >> http://code.haskell.org/~dons/talks/dons-google-2015-01-27.pdf >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making more repoman checks fatal

2015-02-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 FWIW: I'm in the "warnings are pointless, either we care about something (so make it an error), or we don't (so get rid of it)". - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making more repoman checks fatal

2015-02-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/02/15 14:02, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > FWIW: I'm in the "warnings are pointless, either we care about > something (so make it an error), or we don't (so get rid of it)". s/\./ camp./ (I accidentally a word

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: media-video/mplayer2 media-video/smplayer2

2015-03-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/03/15 10:15, Ben de Groot wrote: > # These projects have been abandoned upstream. Most mplayer2 devs have moved > # on to media-video/mpv, and users are suggested to do the same. We have > # media-video/baka-mplayer and media-video/smplayer ava

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: media-video/mplayer2 media-video/smplayer2

2015-03-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/03/15 11:09, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 16/03/15 11:58, Alexander Berntsen wrote: >>> Does smplayer work with mpv? > Version 14.9.0.6690 and up supports mpv. Then I would encourage that we stabilise this before re

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should Gentoo do https by default?

2015-03-28 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 +1 for everything. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlUWwDgACgkQRtClrXBQc7XyRQEAh2fJrr9aW9kLLa+a4hmwOT80 2ucx01RUq2IGmm9P7kMA/2o/rh46QX8xrAn5lbHtjqc

Re: [gentoo-dev] CI services for Gentoo & Social Contract meanings of "dependant" notifications on depgraph breakages

2015-04-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/04/15 11:56, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > frankly it looks like to me that we are just selling our freedom, > slowly, bit by bit. Sadly, I think most Gentoo devs are way past the point of caring. But, for what it's worth, I agree with you comple

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

2015-04-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/04/15 15:02, Peter Stuge wrote: > the threshold to become a developer with write access to the > gentoo repo is very high LOL. No. It's way too low, given our review-less workflow in which any dev can do essentially whatever they want. - -- Al

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

2015-04-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/04/15 16:33, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > The problem is double effort: previously one developer effort was > needed, now effort is doubled at least You have correctly identified the problem; in order to do things properly one must do things prop

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies

2015-08-10 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/08/15 21:38, Sergey Popov wrote: > > > In short - apropriate REQUIRED_USE with setting recommended > USE-flag(e.g. USE="+qt4 qt5" or USE="qt4 +qt5") > > Strong -1. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander --

Re: rsync mirror security (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] .gitignore)

2015-08-11 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/08/15 22:59, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > Users can fetch/pull from Github. Users should not have to interface with or rely on proprietary software to use Gentoo. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA bikeshed: killing USE=dedicated in favor of uniform USE=client+server

2015-08-20 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 - -1. The way "dedicated" is used in games ebuilds is a very established term that all gamers know and expect to behave in a specific way. This will mess with our users. \ Also, this is retarded micro-management bullshit. QA doesn't need to police e

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA bikeshed: killing USE=dedicated in favor of uniform USE=client+server

2015-08-21 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 21/08/15 12:58, Rich Freeman wrote: > Somebody made the argument that sometimes having consistency > within domains matters more than global consistency. I can buy > that argument, but I don't think this is one of those cases. As an old-school ga

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: Allow to configure base patch location for epatch_user

2015-09-07 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/09/15 14:53, Rich Freeman wrote: > I was suggesting that somebody talk to the portage developers about > how they intend to implement EAPI6 We don't know. But our tardiness should not retard the development of other package managers. - -- Ale

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: Allow to configure base patch location for epatch_user

2015-09-08 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/09/15 15:14, Rich Freeman wrote: > If you ask and there is no answer I wouldn't hold things up. Michał was working on implementing EAPI6 in Portage, perhaps you should ping him somewhere. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plai

Re: [gentoo-dev] Github PR commenting policy

2015-09-21 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 20/09/15 11:26, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > My personal policy is to completely ignore anything Gentoo related > that gets posted on Github. +1. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

[gentoo-dev] Team leader(s) election meeting

2015-09-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Friends, please set your availability[0] for our next meeting, where we will elect team leader(s). We should probably also clear up the memberships as most of the members haven't been active in months (some have actually never been active at all).

Re: [gentoo-dev] Team leader(s) election meeting

2015-09-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 22/09/15 15:56, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > This is the Portage team i assume? It seems implied but i see > nothing explicit so i just wanted to confirm. Yes. I merely CC-ed dev FYI. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-hosted code review

2015-11-02 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 phabricator is very problematic in that it is a huge piece of PHP software that is very difficult to change, and it's virtually impossible to upstream your changes, unless they are simple bug fixes. It is tailored to Facebook's workflow. Their workf

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo-hosted code review

2015-11-02 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/11/15 14:24, Michael Palimaka wrote: > Which workflow do you mean? Most features seem optional, allowing > people to work as they wish. It's been a while since I looked at it outside of GHC, so please bear in mind these things might have chang

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18/11/15 08:25, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > - If you mix stable and unstable then you are by definition an > advanced user, who will be able to cope with the situation. :) This attitude is shitty, and I am willing to wager a really big bunch of users

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18/11/15 12:05, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Only that there is no real difference to the existing situation > when mixing stable and unstable. It is not guaranteed that all > dependencies of an unstable package are stable, so already now > users may h

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18/11/15 12:23, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > That sort of QA should take place before making a new Portage > relaese. I was talking about marking it stable, though. The problem we are talking about isn't making sure Portage's EAPI 6 support is bug fre

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18/11/15 12:59, Rich Freeman wrote: > Actually, what is less clear to me is how portage versioning > actually works, or if we attach any meaning to the version numbers > at all. The higher number is the newer version. - -- Alexander berna...@gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18/11/15 13:01, Rich Freeman wrote: > People who run ~arch are not really end-users - they're > contributors who have volunteered to test packages. We are talking about people who run Gentoo stable who need to keyword several specific packages be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: converting copyright/license information in OpenRC

2015-12-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I agree with Mike that this isn't kosher. It just isn't honest. On 15/12/15 20:37, William Hubbs wrote: > Multiple entries are what I want to get away from; it is a > nightmare to maintain, and the vcs shows far better than you or I > ever could whi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: converting copyright/license information in OpenRC

2015-12-16 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 16/12/15 13:39, Rich Freeman wrote: > I don't see how this is dishonest. You answered this yourself, > They'll just be credited side-by-side with everybody else in once > place. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~ale

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