Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: BLAS and LAPACK runtime switching

2019-05-29 Thread Benda Xu
Hi David, David Seifert writes: >> > An actual ABI compliance test, e.g. done using abi-compliance- >> > checker would be more interesting. >> >> As said above, the symbols don't need to be 1-1 copy of each other. >> Any library which is a superset of the reference one will work. > > Again, I'm

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why aren't GSoC projects affecting ::gentoo discussed on regular mls?

2019-06-26 Thread Benda Xu
Dear Michał, Michał Górny writes: > I would like to ask our this year's GSoC mentors a single question: > why weren't the GSoC proposals given proper discussion on our regular > mailing lists *before* they were accepted? > I can understand that most developers in Gentoo don't really care about

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/2] RFC: Introducing ldso switching to BLAS/LAPACK

2019-06-27 Thread Benda Xu
Mike Gilbert writes: > This looks a lot safer than yesterday's patch since there are no > ebuild removals here. Thank you Mike. > If/when you do want to remove old ebuilds, I suggest creating a github > PR, and let the CI bot check reverse dependencies. Yeah, that would have been a much safer

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why aren't GSoC projects affecting ::gentoo discussed on regular mls?

2019-06-27 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Marek, Marek Szuba writes: > On 2019-06-27 04:16, Benda Xu wrote: > >> Michał, you were overreacting to the word "GSoC" since our original RFC >> at gentoo-dev. Please, just ignore GSoC when you are executing your >> experise of QA. Gentoo should be deve

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: isodate for packages.mask starting on 2019-07-01

2019-06-29 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Jonas, Jonas Stein writes: > Dear all, > > Situation: > We have different date formats in packages.mask. > > Change: > I suggest that we start using the date format -mm-dd > for all dates in packages.mask > starting with 2019-07-01 For me isodate is more readable. I would vote for this

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PMS] [PATCH] Correct the definition of ESYSROOT as EPREFIX isn't always applicable

2019-07-30 Thread Benda Xu
Hi James, Sorry that I have re-ordered your text. > A check was added to Portage to ensure this held. Myself, the > ChromiumOS team, and others have since been caught out by this check > when trying to bootstrap brand new systems from scratch. You cannot > bootstrap with no headers at all! The ch

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2019-07-30 Thread Benda Xu
Michał Górny writes: > Add a new @INCLUDES_EPREFIX tag that indicates that a particular > function (= getter) or variable is a path that includes ${EPREFIX}. > This will be used in pkgcheck to detect accidental variable and getter > combinations that result in double prefix. > > Signed-off-by: Mi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PMS] [PATCH] Correct the definition of ESYSROOT as EPREFIX isn't always applicable

2019-07-31 Thread Benda Xu
Hi James, James Le Cuirot writes: >> > What if we want to bootstrap a brand new prefixed system using the >> > crossdev system as SYSROOT? This is the distinct SYSROOT case. The >> > problem is that there is no distinct variable for SYSROOT's prefix >> > and, as already stated, ESYSROOT is alway

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Gentoo CI news: pkgcheck is now running truly parallel

2019-10-08 Thread Benda Xu
Michał Górny writes: > Just a quick note: thanks to hard work of radhermit, the newest release > of pkgcheck features internal parallelization of checks. While it's not > perfect and there's still room for improvement (I mean, it could run > even faster!), it's a major step forward. > > This mea

Re: [gentoo-dev] separate /usr without initramfs

2019-10-27 Thread Benda Xu
Joshua Kinard writes: > Put simply, the kernel's single purpose, as nothing more than a > hyper-complex while loop, is to get the hardware up into a usable state and > then hand off to userland, then sit and service userland's needs as called > upon. The kernel should have all of the subsystems

[gentoo-dev] Migrate away from python-2 or not

2019-11-24 Thread Benda Xu
Dear all, Bug 684962 (dev-python/ipython-7.5.0: package conflicts) has demonstrated a painful consequence when upstream start to release python3 only versions. Upstream has dropped python-2.7 support in dev-python/ipython-7.5.0, thus there is no python_targets_python2_7 USE flag for the ebuild. d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Migrate away from python-2 or not

2019-12-03 Thread Benda Xu
Hi guys, Thank you very much for your comments. I have made up my mind to just help remove python 2.7. Actually, a lot of efforts are ongoing, for example, https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/13771 Cheers, Benda

Re: [gentoo-dev] GSoC 2020: Call for mentors and project ideas

2020-01-25 Thread Benda Xu
Thank you Alice! alicef writes: > As always, Gentoo plans to participate in the Google Summer of Code > 2020. We are looking for new project ideas and are always open for > new mentors. > Google Summer of Code is a big opportunity for making Gentoo project more > visible and get more people inte

Re: [gentoo-dev] GSoC 2020: Call for mentors and project ideas

2020-02-02 Thread Benda Xu
Dear Fellows, alicef writes: > As always, Gentoo plans to participate in the Google Summer of Code > 2020. We are looking for new project ideas and are always open for > new mentors. > Google Summer of Code is a big opportunity for making Gentoo project more > visible and get more people interes

[gentoo-dev] Ebuild Generators (Was: GSoC 2020: Call for mentors and project ideas)

2020-02-02 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Gerion, Gerion Entrup writes: > I saw the idea „Big Data Infrastructure by Gentoo“ and found it kind of > interesting. However, I have a little bit the fear that a full automation > won't be possible and the whole project becomes a little bit like g-sorcery > (gs-pypi, gs-elpa) or g-octave: a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild Generators

2020-02-03 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Gerion, Gerion Entrup writes: >> Yes, that makes a lot of sense. The R overlay follows this model. Most >> of the ebuilds are automated. When an ebuild generation fails, we add >> the ebuild manually, understand it and then update the generator to >> cover it in the future. > > Is this pos

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild Generators

2020-02-11 Thread Benda Xu
Tom Gillespie writes: > For historical curiosity there was also > https://github.com/domenkozar/g-pypi at one point (similar to > https://github.com/rafaelmartins/g-octave). Having used g-octave, the > primary issue is as Michał says, there are a lot of corner cases that > the generation doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eclass/acct-user.eclass: disable pkg_* on Prefix.

2020-02-18 Thread Benda Xu
Michael 'veremitz' Everitt writes: > Peanut gallery says 'ACK' +1 Thank you veremitz. Let's see :) Benda signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eclass/acct-user.eclass: disable fcaps() on Prefix.

2020-03-07 Thread Benda Xu
Michał Górny writes: > ^ wrong subject. OK. should be `acct-user.eclass: disable fcaps() on Prefix.` > On Sun, 2020-03-08 at 12:20 +0800, hero...@gentoo.org wrote: >> From: Benda Xu >> >> Gentoo Prefix runs with a normal user and cannot grant extra >> capab

[gentoo-dev] ELT-patches from overlay?

2015-05-11 Thread Benda Xu
Hi, In libtool.eclass[1], it is mentioned in the comments of elt_patch_dir() that # If an overlay has eclass overrides, but doesn't actually override the # libtool.eclass, we'll have ECLASSDIR pointing to the active overlay's # eclass/ dir, but libtool.eclass is still in the main Gentoo tree. So

Re: [gentoo-dev] impending c++11 clusterfuck?

2015-12-01 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Anthony, "Anthony G. Basile" writes: > different direction: what about building with > rpath=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.3/ and then making sure that > portage respects that library file during any --depclean or > @preserved-rebuild? i'm not sure how we'd > inject|||LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpa

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo-java][PR] ivy, mvn, sbt, gradle builders improvement for ebuild development

2020-04-10 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Samuel, Samuel Bernardo writes: > I send this email to mention that it seems to be missing eclasses for > JVM builders such as those I mention in this email subject. Dependencies > and tasks management are hard tasks now that I think to have great scope > for improvement. Have you read the J

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PR] ivy, mvn, sbt, gradle builders improvement for ebuild development

2020-04-18 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Samuel, Samuel Bernardo writes: > My point is about other JVM languages such as scala, groovy, kotlin, > clojure, ... And about builders such as gradle or sbt? > > I think that eclasses for those would be very useful to develop > ebuilds and evolve with the right procedures. That's a good id

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo/OpenBSD current status

2020-05-30 Thread Benda Xu
Aisha Tammy writes: > I've been trying to play around with the prefix and reading the > code. Basically trying to get it to work for my system. I've not > managed to get even a small headstart and am quite lost to say the > least. I was wondering if the openbsd prefix support is something > tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to jlec being MIA

2020-08-05 Thread Benda Xu
Michał Górny writes: >> The following packages are looking for a new maintainer: >> > > + cuda.eclass I would like to adopt this eclass on behalf of the science project. Yours, Benda signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: switching default udev provider for new systems to udev

2020-08-09 Thread Benda Xu
William Hubbs writes: >> William - can you actually elaborate on WHY you want to change things? >> Is there some problem with eudev? Is it actively maintained and >> generally tracking upstream udev commits (minus whatever they >> intentionally don't want to accept)? > > It is maintained pri

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: switching default udev provider for new systems to udev

2020-08-10 Thread Benda Xu
Hi William, William Hubbs writes: > No one has offered to switch from eudev to udev and look at > regressions. People are asking me to show what features exist in udev > that aren't in eudev. I stuck with udev. I don't use eudev so I don't > know. I don't think imposing a personal preference to

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-python/cryptography to use rust, effectively killing alpha, hppa, ia64, m68k, s390

2021-02-09 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Michał, Michał Górny writes: > So it seems that upstream has practically closed the discussion, > and the short summary is that they only care for the 'majority' of > users, they don't care for minor platforms (but we're free to port > LLVM/Rust to them) and -- unsurprisingly -- this is a par

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

2021-04-19 Thread Benda Xu
Roy, Roy Bamford writes: > Its my 18th anniversary of installing Gentoo. A number of coincidences gave > rise to > my original liveCD turning up when I was searching for bits to get an old > system to boot > just one more time to get some forgotten data off its hard drives. I just had > to tr

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Un-slotting LLVM

2021-11-09 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Michał, Michał Górny writes: >> [...] >> >> Unfortunately, this ended up pretty bothersome to maintain. Besides >> making ebuilds quite complex (and prone to mistakes), I'm hearing more >> and more reports of programs being broken through getting multiple LLVM >> versions in the link chain.

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