Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Andrew Gaffney
t take things out of gentoo simply because of the lack of time. Apparently you missed his email to -core on the 27th of October with the subject "x86 Release Coordinator" where he asks for someone to step up to take beejay's old job...the one that he's doing now. -- Andrew

Re: [gentoo-dev] my apologies for the mess with this release of MySQL 5.0.16

2005-11-25 Thread Andrew Gaffney
ystems since 21 October without any issues and now I have to figure out how I am going to downgrade. Or you can just unmask it locally and stop whining. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Projec

Re: [gentoo-dev] my apologies for the mess with this release of MySQL 5.0.16

2005-11-25 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 10:51 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Or you can just unmask it locally and stop whining. I think users have a valid reason to be concerned about this, but if that is the developer's intention (to unmask it locally) then may I suggest this inform

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-17 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I agree with ciaranm (did I really just say that?) that repository IDs should not be allowed to contain spaces. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

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

2006-01-05 Thread Andrew Gaffney
the patches and suggestions we accept from people who have used the installer, etc. Unless you're actually going to do some research into our project before bitching about it, please pick another project to harass. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Ge

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

2006-01-05 Thread Andrew Gaffney
If you're not going to do some basic research before you go spouting off, then shut up. The installer has had *2* releases so far (0.1 released with 2005.1 and 0.2 with 2005.1-r1). There were announcements in the GWN, on the -installer and -dev MLs, and even on Slashdot! Have you been und

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

2006-01-05 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:18:40 -0600 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | What is your problem with the installer project? Over the past year | or so, there have been *2* people that complained about us treating | them badly. Hrm, have the arch teams really le

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Patrick Mclean

2006-01-23 Thread Andrew Gaffney
chance canoing and sailing." Girlfriend? Outdoor activities? What kind of geek are you? :) -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer

2006-02-26 Thread Andrew Gaffney
ally with different profiles) simultaneously. While we have had a few successful test installs with this method, it is still *extremely* alpha. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Where are the x86/i686 2006.0 packages?

2006-03-28 Thread Andrew Gaffney
. There is a function to copy a package from the LiveCD to the chroot, although, unfortunately, it didn't make it into the 0.3 release of the installer included on the LiveCD. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Deve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Where are the x86/i686 2006.0 packages?

2006-03-28 Thread Andrew Gaffney
rtage voodoo. I've added some code at the end to allow it to run standalone to perform steps like creating the dynamic stage3 and copying a particular package into a chroot. If you have more questions about it, feel free to drop by #gentoo-installer. -- Andrew Gaffney

Re: [gentoo-dev] Open Office on x86_64

2006-04-05 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Dennis Allison wrote: Open office appears to be masked (amd64). Who would I ask to find out the current status? It is masked because the current version does not compile on amd64. You can use openoffice-bin for now. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE/ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in catalyst spec files

2006-05-11 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Marko Djukic wrote: Hi, How can I specify particular USE flags or ACCEPT_KEYWORDS for individual packages within a spec file for catalyst? This is the wrong list for that question. There is a gentoo-catalyst mailing list just for stuff like this. -- Andrew Gaffney

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo Knowledge Base

2006-05-16 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Roy Bamford wrote: I have started a project site for this at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kbase. [snip] Sven, Your link gives me a 404 error It works for me. Also, please don't reply twice to the list (you had the list address in To and CC). -- Andrew Ga

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-17 Thread Andrew Gaffney
nine architectures, which it clearly hasn't. Therefore paludis can not deliver the same end result as Portage. Last I checked, Portage doesn't have the ability to generate bootable ISOs across nine architectures, either :) -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Funding Request

2006-05-18 Thread Andrew Gaffney
screen with exactly the mentioned resolution should become obvious after having a glance at: http://dev.gentoo.org/~blubb/funding.png Thanks in advance for your help, it is greatly appreciated! Classic :) -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Signing everything, for fun and for profit

2006-05-19 Thread Andrew Gaffney
work, since we allow users to only sync parts of the tree. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] xextproto, what to do

2006-05-30 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I am trying to install qemu and kqemu, and I run into a problem: This is a question for the gentoo-user mailing list. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage-2.1 released

2006-06-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Alec Warner wrote: Portage-2.1 final is released, Is that the 4th horseman I see off in the distance? -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification

2006-06-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Chris Gianelloni wrote: Well, I am going to do everything within my power to stop it. I will not back down until this project is dead. It really is that simple. *golf-clap* -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer

[gentoo-dev] request for Willikins

2008-09-04 Thread Andrew Gaffney
At robbat2's request, I'm requesting Willikins's presence in #-server and #-releng. Thanks. My sub to this list is -nomail, so I won't see any replies. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] genkernel support uuid for real_resume

2008-10-04 Thread Andrew Gaffney
real_root=UUID=d5587595-72aa-48e9-a6ba-43daa8e16db1 real_resume=UUID=5f267a01-971a-4440-99aa-04ac28145db1 vga=794 initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.25-gentoo-r7 -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer

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

2008-10-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
pkgcore? It's not Gentoo's primary package manager, so it probably doesn't matter if it goes a few days without getting fixed. The worst that happens is a few people get failed builds, right? -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ G

Re: [gentoo-dev] kerberos USE flag

2008-10-31 Thread Andrew Gaffney
ckages to work right. If that's the case, then I say whack it from global USE and change it to an IUSE default (or whatever is in vogue these days) for eds. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux DeveloperCatalyst/Genkernel + Release Engineering Lead

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why recently published stage3 tarball did not contain a /etc/make.conf.example?

2009-01-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
.conf.example for a more detailed example. > > If plan to remove that example file, why still keep this comment? The file is provided by portage, and the installed location was changed recently to /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example. -- Andrew Gaffney

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why recently published stage3 tarball did not contain a /etc/make.conf.example?

2009-01-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Cheng Renquan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Andrew Gaffney wrote: >> Cheng Renquan wrote: >>> Why recently published stage3 tarball did not contain a >>> /etc/make.conf.example? >>> >>> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/amd64/auto

Re: [gentoo-dev] Advice regarding backporting to Gentoo from Tin Hat.

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Gaffney
ses nasty tricks like copying some stuff to a tmpfs and then doing lots of symlinks into the squashfs. Either way, it's entirely memory based after initial boot. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux DeveloperCatalyst/Genkernel + Release Engineering Lead

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

2009-02-25 Thread Andrew Gaffney
t; which would also have the eapi function). > > Personally, if g54 is ixnayed #4 I tend to think is the best option > out there- if g54 is forced in, g55 (or at least something that > adjusts the extension to make it invisible to current managers) is > required. > > Com

Re: [gentoo-dev] `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info'

2009-04-05 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Andrew D Kirch wrote: > I think it's best as a general rule to NEVER _EVER_ under any > circumstances emulate paludis. While I'm not personally a fan of paludis, it doesn't help anyone to post crap like that to any mailing list. Please take it elsewhere. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-23 Thread Andrew Gaffney
ut of the minimal CD. The real issue here is the size. If these additional packages plus all of the alsa modules add 20MB to the minimal CD, it's just not worth it. It's not "minimal" anymore. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffne

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-24 Thread Andrew Gaffney
don't have the time/inclination to do it myself. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux DeveloperCatalyst/Genkernel + Release Engineering Lead

Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding Gentoo CDs and accessibility sizes

2009-05-25 Thread Andrew Gaffney
u keep creating new threads just to interject your random opinion about some other existing thread? Have you ever participated in a mailing list? This isn't IM/IRC. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux DeveloperCatalyst

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Seemant Kulleen wrote: This childishness from *all* sides is getting really old, really fast. People need to grow the hell up, and quit with the melodrama. +1 (with gusto!) -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage: missing pieces

2006-07-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
#x27;t force them to unmerge it, we can't force them to switch which gcc version is active. Masking in the profile would have no effect if this is true. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-30 Thread Andrew Gaffney
nd/or maintainer QA before hitting the tree. There is nothing you or anyone else can say that will make me think otherwise, and I think it needs to be killed. Now. I try to stay out of these types of things, but I have to say that I agree completely. -- Andrew Gaffney

Re: [gentoo-dev] Beta versions should be slotable

2006-08-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
use a pre-compiled package such as a RPM or DEB from the author's site. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
;) This is pretty much exactly what Kumba was talking about. I didn't like the idea simply because it allowed the user to shoot themselves in the foot way too easily. It will also cause QA problems, since the profiles wouldn't be strictly controlled by the arch teams and relen

Re: [gentoo-dev] So long (but if anyone sends me fish...)

2006-09-16 Thread Andrew Gaffney
CTED] if anyone needs anything. I wish you all the best! Thanks for all your hard work on the beginnings of the installer. If you ever feel like coming back and being my bitc...err...re-joining the installer team, just let me know :) -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp:/

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Unmaskings]

2006-09-19 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Alec Warner wrote: Pornview was unmasked; thanks to Ben Hodgetts for the fixes. w00t, I can get back to my porn viewing! -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: Gentoo Seeds

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 12:38, Alec Warner wrote: I think Chris's primary concern is one of "Tell us whats up before it happens." why should he care ? some Gentoo guys take catalyst and produce stag

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New project: Gentoo Seeds

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer wrote: Tach Andrew, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Andrew Gaffney schrieb: As somebody's already mentioned, the embedded project releases GNAP and has a releng liaison. There's no reason the seeds project couldn't a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New project: Gentoo Seeds

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Stuart Herbert wrote: On 9/20/06, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, now it's gotten to the point where people are being sneaky and underhanded about this whole thing. Stuart (I believe) said that they had talked to members of releng about this, but the truth seems

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Delay in approval of new developers

2006-09-22 Thread Andrew Gaffney
ust proved his point. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project Today's lesson in political correctness: "Go asphyxiate on a phallus" -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] treecleaner removals

2006-09-28 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Alec Warner wrote: stuff gets fixed (aka pornview) Why doesn't this surprise me? :) -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project Today's lesson in political correctness

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-10-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
to continue to contribute to various projects you've worked on such as gk4? -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project Today's lesson in political correctness: "Go asphyxia

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles, Round 2

2006-10-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
ng about putting together the new profiles now as well, is it going to be a separate profile tree (much as default-linux/ was created for cascaded profiles)? Will it be directly under profiles/? default-linux/? -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles, Round 2

2006-10-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
profiles myself (no gentoo-x86 commit access). I'm prepared to do the work here and, as this new layout would take some time, it should be done in a seperate repository for the time being. Not necessary. It can just be a separate directory tree under profiles/ mu

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles, Round 2

2006-10-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Zac Medico wrote: (of course, please don't use multiple inheritance in the live tree in ways that will hurt users of the current single inheritance profiles). If someone does, can we blame you? :) -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Andrew Gaffney
work which is a pentium II 400. Compiling glibc takes 3 hours here and while it may not be the Uhh, P2 is i686, which falls squarely into the realm of "supported" and "reasonable" :) -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffne

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Andrew Gaffney
. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is using a pentium mmx as a router, so you better think twice about it :P But when was the last time you reinstalled it? :) -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42?

2006-10-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
ge itself. None of the options have an interface that's usable via a bash script. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project Today's lesson in political correctness: &q

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: per-package default USE flags

2006-10-13 Thread Andrew Gaffney
flags for the particular ebuild but the user could still disable it via package.use if they *really* wanted to. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project Today's lesson in political

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-14 Thread Andrew Gaffney
a limit that *I* put into the code. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project Today's lesson in political correctness: "Go asphyxiate on a phallus" -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ignoring/overwriting IUSE from an eclass

2006-10-30 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Your solution is approximately on par with fixing a wobbly chair by sawing off all four legs and then attaching what's left to a crocodile. +1 for creativity and making me literally laugh out loud -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
sroot or any other root that needs to stay read-only -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project Today's lesson in political correctness: "Go asphyxiate on a phallus

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo list server dropping mail

2006-11-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
definitely want the msgid of the failed message for him. In that bug, he says he changed some config option but doesn't go into details. Andrea, can you give a brief synopsis of the issue, so that it could possibly help others avoid the same pitfall in the future? --

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Alexander Gabert (pappy) returns from retirement

2006-11-25 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Lisa Seelye wrote: Wow, welcome back pappy. Does it mean I've been around a long time when I remember his retirement? Well, I remember it, and when I became a dev, you had already been a dev for quiet a while :) -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~aga

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Gaffney
nt to do correctly, the Release tree would include only stable packages. Other packages wouldn't just be masked, they would be completely unavailable to anybody using that tree. This is what overlays are for :) -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Gaffney
pers on their books. The "non-stagnant" nature of Gentoo isn't the only reason that people use Gentoo. People use Gentoo for the configurability and customizability. As someone who admins more than a handful of Gentoo servers, I would absolutely *love* the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
n-moving tree to make upgrades easier to deal with. I honestly don't think you're ever going to get that out of Gentoo, because of the lack of backporting. Can you live with a slower-moving tree? Or do you personally really need a non-moving tree? A slow

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
help in terms of having say, up to date GUI packages, or is it just easier to use overlays? Overlays are definitely best here. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project Today

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Stuart Herbert wrote: On 11/29/06, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The 3-4 weeks of releng filing a ton of "doesn't build with gcc-4.1.1" bugs wasn't a big enough clue? :) No. We get those all the time; there's always someone trying out an unsupport

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
nder a bus on the way home from work tonight? I believe they're kept on poseidon, which many people have access to. Please stop arguing just for the sake of arguing. Are you trying to become the next ciaranm (no offense to ciaranm :P)? -- Andrew Gaffney

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
s ago, someone posted the following link in this thread in response to your earlier post about gcc-4.1.1 being a last minute change. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/39848 -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Deve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-12-01 Thread Andrew Gaffney
rocess? I'd say the answer is yes, since the only updates that will go in the release tree are security updates from GLSAs :P -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project Today's le

Re: [gentoo-dev] LAST RITES - rt2x00 beta 3

2006-12-22 Thread Andrew Gaffney
ility errors in beta3 with new kernels and want to concentrate on beta4. Is it really necessary to notify people of a version bump? :P -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project Today's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Somewhat OT - Making a suggestion for games-emulation/tuxnes

2007-01-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
r that you just don't like. Take it up with upstream. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project Today's lesson in political correctness: "Go asphyxiate on a phallus&

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Vic Fryzel (shellsage)

2007-01-21 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Ryan Hill wrote: Christian Heim wrote: Please welcome Vic as a new fellow developer among us ! Yay! Welcome to Gentoo. Whenever I see "shellsage", I always think "shell sausage" instead of "shell wizard" :) -- Andrew Gaffneyh

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd suggestion: religion

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Steve Dibb wrote: I'd like to propose a new herd: religion. The herd would take care of Would the non-believers in the group be able to ignore it like we do the real thing? :P -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Deve

Re: [gentoo-dev] imagemagick-6.3.0.5 without truetype doesn't compile

2007-02-18 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mohammed Hagag wrote: emerging imagemagick-6.3.0.5 without truetype USE flag "which depends on propritary corefonts" fails with compilation error. File a bug. This list isn't the place to complain about b0rkage in random packages. -- Andrew Gaffney

Re: [gentoo-dev] no binaries amarok-1.4.5 !

2007-02-18 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mohammed Hagag wrote: amarok-1.4.5 doesn't install any thing except the .po files when emerging without the kde USE flag, is this normal ? File a bug. This list isn't the place to complain about b0rkage in random packages. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.

Re: [gentoo-dev] more up to date minimal install cd

2007-03-01 Thread Andrew Gaffney
g you use to install from the minimal is fetched from the internet. The only thing that an updated minimal would give us is a slightly more hardware support during the install. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: more up to date minimal install cd

2007-03-01 Thread Andrew Gaffney
eration of these cd's? I'd rather like to see that the stages are being updated more often. This would certainly make more sense than updating the minimal CD, but the same reasons for not doing apply as for the minimal. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.

Re: [gentoo-dev] more up to date minimal install cd

2007-03-01 Thread Andrew Gaffney
thing else. I can tell you right now what Chris's answer is going to be. If you're volunteering to do it, join releng and have at it. As it is now, most members of releng do not have the time and/or desire to do a release more often than bi-annually. -- Andrew Gaffney

Re: [gentoo-dev] more up to date minimal install cd

2007-03-01 Thread Andrew Gaffney
ot;experimental", to work perfectly. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-02 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Paludis thing came about. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Something positive! (was Re: Client-serve flags (again ;))

2007-03-10 Thread Andrew Gaffney
wrong way. It was nothing more than a joke. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Something positive! (was Re: Client-serve flags (again ;))

2007-03-10 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Andrej Kacian wrote: On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:28:29 -0600 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thing is that kinda stuff just puts ppl off; i've seen you carry on bugzilla but i always thought fair enough he's stressed and working on loads a bugs; if you really wanted to say

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Something positive! (was Re: Client-serve flags (again ;))

2007-03-11 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Dan Meltzer wrote: This thread is gay. Well played. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days

2007-03-18 Thread Andrew Gaffney
*. Shouldn't an application as important as Firefox should get the usual month in package.mask? It's not the whole package, just older versions. With most packages, you wouldn't get the notification beforehand that older versions were disappearing. -- Andrew Gaffney

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-25 Thread Andrew Gaffney
e.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46648 Support for an alternative package manager != language bindings for said package manager :P -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tears of unfathomable sorrow

2007-04-06 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Alec Warner wrote: Much to the joy of many I am now retiring from Gentoo. I've already done most of the work (sorry to burden you kloeri I think just the tree-bits are left). Not that I didn't see this coming, but I'm still sad to see you go. You'll be missed.

[gentoo-dev] Re: 2007.0 release

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Gaffney
the release tracker bug? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156814 It's not exactly a release tracker...more for the release *snapshot*. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2007.0 release

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Gaffney
bers of releng, not users. There's a reason why it's +m. The information isn't there for users. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proctors Episode II - Attack of the clones

2007-04-18 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Roy Bamford wrote: You can see some of our outfits at http://dev.gentoo.org/~mark_alec/photos/Postbusters.jpg amne is pretty hot as a chick -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Christina Fullam (musikc)

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Christian Heim wrote: So please welcome Christina as a new fellow developer among us ! Let the hazing (well, more of it) begin! -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Christina Fullam (musikc)

2007-04-22 Thread Andrew Gaffney
hould have that boy toy of yours check on poseidon. My stuff is *done* done. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Announcing GLI ("the installer") 0.5

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
you can't find that, just use the following link: http://bugs.gentoo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Gentoo%20Release%20Media&component=Installer&format=guided -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2007-05-13 23h59 UTC

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew Gaffney
/nsxml 2007-05-07 18:41:07 armin76 what did these packages do ? Sounds like mozilla stuff. Am I correct ? I'm pretty certain a few simple google searches would answer this question for you. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linu

Re: Retiring (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2)

2007-06-05 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Chris Gianelloni wrote: Jason, If you leave, the plants win. That has just made my day. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fact Injection

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Gaffney
go home. I wonder how many people are going to get that reference :) -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Chris Gianelloni wrote: If the Gentoo developers as a whole decided to dedicate this list to pink ponies, we can. Are pretty purple ponies acceptable as well? -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to handle sensitive files when generating binary packages

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mike Frysinger wrote: any other potential ideas ? (pretend my idea here isnt the greatest thing since Robot Chicken) Lies...nothing is better than Robot Chicken! -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to handle sensitive files when generating binary packages

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
URES="buildpkg" myself, so I've always got that backup. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to handle sensitive files when generating binary packages

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:19:46 -0500 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not sure that's really a feasible solution (but then you probably weren't suggesting it with that intention). Being able to create a "backup" of any installed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Hiatus (sort of)

2007-06-24 Thread Andrew Gaffney
up on the email, but I'm back in action again. Now from Hobart, Tasmania (Australia) Welcome back! -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.6 / gcc-4.2 going into ~arch

2007-07-06 Thread Andrew Gaffney
adding the -fno-rape-house-or-burn-pet flag. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-15 Thread Andrew Gaffney
er flamewars we've seen on the list lately. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Gaffney
as our own personal toy (which we currently aren't), then so be it. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Vlastimil Babka wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gaffney wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read on this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that it is bec

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