Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X

2006-01-24 Thread Carlos Silva
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 13:38 +0100, Christian Heim wrote: > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 09:34, RH wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:06:12PM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > A) You have commit access to gentoo-x86, AND > > > B) you're comfortable with the porting process OR are adept with ebuil

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multislot mysql

2006-02-03 Thread Carlos Silva
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 10:19 +, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Ok, I've been realized that having a slotted mysql is not the dream of > every end user ... or developer. > > Anyway I prefere too keep the possibility to do a similar install. > > A good solution should be to add the "multislot" USE fla

[gentoo-dev] Fwd: Retiring...

2008-05-13 Thread Carlos Silva
Hi gang, I'm really sorry to leave you guys but my current life isn't compatible with working on Gentoo. Live is too busy to give Gentoo the time it deserves. I really liked to work with all of you. I'll try to contribute as much as possible via bugzzie. If anyone need any kind of help/informatio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Carlos Silva
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:42 PM, hasufell wrote: > What do we have useflags for in gentoo? > > add a "unsupported-kernels" useflag, mask it, add a clear statement in > the masking reason and be done > Not a bad solution, still, I, as a user, don't think making the compilation work with a specific

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Carlos Silva
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 23:11:44 -0800 > Alec Warner wrote: > > > I do not find their stance wholly unreasonable. They offered to point > > users at an overlay, if someone was willing to maintain the patches > > there (in lieu of user_patches.) The e

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-04 Thread Carlos Silva
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm not a C programmer, let alone a developer, so this may be a stupid > question, but here goes... has anyone ever tried doing a HAL (Hardware > Abstraction Layer) to present a reasonably stable interface to binary > video drivers? Think of

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] patch linux-mod.eclass to add support for module signing

2013-03-06 Thread Carlos Silva
ed elsewhere and the path to them specified in make.conf under the vars KERNEL_MODSECKEY and KERNEL_MODPUBKEY. Patch below for review, discussion and testing. Thanks, Carlos Silva [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447352 --- linux-mod.eclass 2012-09-15 16:31:15.0 + +++

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] patch linux-mod.eclass to add support for module signing

2013-03-06 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > # This looks messy, but it is needed to handle multiple variables > # being passed in the BUILD_* stuff where the variables also have > - # spaces that must be preserved. If don't do this, then the stuff > + # spaces that must be pre

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] patch linux-mod.eclass to add support for module signing

2013-03-06 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Carlos Silva wrote: > > If one wants to create a key himself, it's also possible to use this > > key, he just has to name it signing_key.priv and siging_key.x509 and > > put it under /usr/src/linux. > > Do yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] patch linux-mod.eclass to add support for module signing

2013-03-06 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Carlos Silva wrote: > > > > If one wants to create a key himself, it's also possible to use this > > > > key, he just has to name it signing_key.priv and siging_key.x509 and > > > > put it under /us

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] patch linux-mod.eclass to add support for module signing V2

2013-03-11 Thread Carlos Silva
this key, he just has to name it signing_key.priv and siging_key.x509 and put it under /usr/src/linux. After the kernel is compiled, this keys can be moved elsewhere and the path to them specified in make.conf under the vars KERNEL_MODSECKEY and KERNEL_MODPUBKEY. Patch below for review, discussion

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-24 Thread Carlos Silva
How about someone decide which is the best version and keep it integrated in OpenRC? There's no best version? diff the two of them and merge what matters. I mean, how many distros do you know that have two sets of init scripts *just* to configure networking? I know Gentoo is about choice, but this

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov > wrote: > > Hey, all! > > > > Just one question: why do you all talking about IUSE=+oldnet, but not > > REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( net oldnet )" for example? > > It it isn't necessary for

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Carlos Silva wrote: > > Care to explain how will the installation be done if "networking" > > isn't requirement? > > I build a stage4 tarball on a build host, and unpack that tarball > onto the media

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > Maybe I was miss understood here. I know that there are tons of ways to have gentoo *running* in a box without it having network connection. The thing is that makes like 0.01% of the total installs. It's not a default ins

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-18 Thread Carlos Silva
Is the real problem just the god damn unit/init files?! Damn, who cares about 2KiB files in the age of GiBs?! You can install 1000 of them that it will only take 2MiB of storage, so please, quit complaining about this. One thing dev's should take care is (not that affects me, 'cause I really don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Going against co-maintainer's wishes (ref. bug 412697)

2013-05-25 Thread Carlos Silva
Ben, you're really just being a child here. Is that a really big problem to add a small text file to your package?! Is that a big maintaining burden? If you can't test it, systemd team can, just like there are arch teams to test packages on other archs the maintainers can't. It's not something tha

[gentoo-dev] fwbuilder and libfwbuilder

2007-07-24 Thread Carlos Silva
Hi guys, if nobody has an objection to it, i'll take maintainership of the fwbuilder/libfwbuilder ebuilds since they are in need of love. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Kernel Sources on the DISTFILES mirrors

2005-04-25 Thread Carlos Silva
Hi guys, since the change of the eclass kernel-2 to make it use the subversion kernel patches that we no longer keep the kernel sources on our mirrors and they are downloaded from the kernel.org mirrors. What happends is that alot of people, including me, have traffic limits imposed by the IPS's. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel Sources on the DISTFILES mirrors

2005-04-25 Thread Carlos Silva
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 19:35 -0500, Brian Jackson wrote: > You know about the local mirror type in /etc/portage/mirrors right? > Well, that file could probably be used by you in many ways. Check it out. > > --Iggy > Well, i really don't know that one... what does it make, and where can i find info

Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue)

2005-05-15 Thread Carlos Silva
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 17:18 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > one advantage that other binary based package managers have over Gentoo is > ease of recovery from broken core packages ... break your gcc ? no problem ! > > simply do `apt-get install gcc` or `rpm -i gcc` or whatever > > my proposal

Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs is dead, let's move on

2005-07-15 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:46 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Ok, now that devfs is removed from the 2.6 kernel tree[1], I think it's > time to start to revisit some of the /dev naming rules that we currently > are living with[2]. > > To start with, the 061 version of udev offers a big memory savings if > y

[gentoo-dev] Put DESCRIPTION HOMEPAGE and LICENSE in another place

2005-08-10 Thread Carlos Silva
I know that portage team is closed for new features :) but this just came to my mind just 5 minutes ago and seemed good enought to try. Let's just think that portage handles 5 version of package foo and foo has "http://www.foo.org"; and homepage, "GPL-v2" license and "foo just make your pc look fa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Put DESCRIPTION HOMEPAGE and LICENSE in another place

2005-08-10 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 01:15 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:04:25 +0100 Carlos Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | What do you think of this? > > GLEP 5 > *G* :) thx for the info btw, why is the status of GLEP 5 "timed out"? si

[gentoo-dev] New GPG key

2005-08-16 Thread Carlos Silva
Hi guys, i had to reinstall my system so i lost my GPG key. So i generated another and the new one is 0xAAC32A11. If any other thing is needed (to update the dev-list page on www.gentoo.org for example), please mail me or contact me on irc. Thanks, Carlos "r3pek" Silva signature

[gentoo-dev] My GPG Key

2005-08-20 Thread Carlos Silva
About a week ago, i sent a mail to this list saying that i lost my key and posting a new one (AAC32A11). Now, i'm sending this email saying that i revoked this new key, since i managed to get my original one. Sorry for any inconvinience. -- Carlos "r3pek" Silva Gentoo Developer (kernel/amd64/mo

[gentoo-dev] New global use flag: nsplugin

2005-08-26 Thread Carlos Silva
Hey! Why was reading the use.local.desc file and noticed that there are 6 packages with this use flag... If nobody oposes it, I'll make it a global use flag with the Description all the nsplugin local flags have :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: nsplugin

2005-08-26 Thread Carlos Silva
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 19:18 +0100, Carlos Silva wrote: > Hey! > Why was reading the use.local.desc file and noticed that there are 6 > packages with this use flag... If nobody oposes it, I'll make it a > global use flag with the Description all the nsplugin local flags > have :

Re: [gentoo-dev] Just another portage enhancement idea...

2005-10-11 Thread Carlos Silva
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 09:18 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > This is probably the fifth time at least that I've been bitten by this... > > Portage is great in that it manages compiles for a bulk of applications > (including dependencies) in one fell swoop. > > Yesterday I emerged gnome - that was i