Re: [gentoo-dev] .la files removal news item (GLEP 42)

2010-10-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
come in as a news item whenever they do update. It almost makes you wonder whether portage-2.1.9 should run lafilefixer itself in postinst, just to ensure everything's fixed on the system before it starts fixing individual new packages. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkho

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: make system-sqlite a global USE flag

2010-10-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
flag implicitly endorses building bundled code as an OK thing to do. Why is it an option at all, local or otherwise? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpKR6xVx2BJM.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2010-10-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
eversing the logic when people use the !flag syntax. > local vartrue=${3:-${USE_SCONS_TRUE}} > local varfalse=${4:-${USE_SCONS_FALSE}} -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpmj3AYH1Q1S.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Revbumped php-ext-* eclasses

2010-10-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
the same loop. > RDEPEND="${RDEPEND} > || ( $SELFDEPEND ) > $PHPDEPEND" Is that || valid syntax if only one token is in SELFDEPEND? Is it possible for an ebuild to use this eclass without setting USE_PHP? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpJJDphXIOwu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Patches for distutils.eclass and twisted.eclass

2010-10-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
tails of twisted. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgphwsc3ER0b3.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2010-10-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 20:26 Wed 06 Oct , Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:52:33 -0500 > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > > local flag=${1} > > > local varname=${2:-${flag#!}} > > > > Could you explain how this works to me, please? It seems like you're

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

2010-10-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 07:35 Fri 08 Oct , Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:08:30 -0500 > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > So what happens if I want the !use syntax and say `use_scons !ssl > > nossl`? > > ${2} is set then, and ${flag#!} isn't even evaluated. Oh, righ

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-cdr/cdemu: metadata.xml ChangeLog cdemu-1.3.0.ebuild

2010-10-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
27;s removing a feature is an implementation detail that users don't and shouldn't have to care about at all. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgp3pDlIrCqP7.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Google Code-In: 13-18 year olds in open source

2010-10-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
will not be a major burden, so don't let that hold you back. I look forward to seeing all your cool ideas! 1. http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/index.html 2. http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/faqs.html 3. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Google_Code_In_2010_ideas -

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eshowkw

2010-10-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ting during the ebuild-processing phase (so printing starts earlier) as the previous implementation does would give the impression of speed. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpTcpmUj83hf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Code-In: 13-18 year olds in open source

2010-10-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:19 Mon 25 Oct , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Based on our participation in the Summer of Code, Google invited us to > apply for their revived program for 13-18 year olds called Google > Code-In [1-2]. The basic idea is that students will complete a series of > small tasks rat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/net-misc/aggregate: aggregate-1.6.ebuild

2010-10-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ne skipping ChangeLog, I take it as "something so minor, > not worth looking into at all". Quite the opposite. I take it as "making my job as a maintainer more difficult" because it gives me more places I have to look to track down what happened and why. -- Thank

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles

2010-10-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
have traditionally been a reasonable default set rather than a minimal set. This gives people who don't have much experience with Gentoo a decent chance at getting a working system on their first try. For people who have more experience, it's not exactly difficult to change things. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Code-In: 13-18 year olds in open source

2010-11-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 09:11 Fri 29 Oct , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > We now have 2 ideas. It's not even worth applying unless we can get > closer to 10. If nobody puts up more ideas in the next ~6 hours, we > won't be participating this year. Thanks to your help, we got enough ideas just i

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for Lua related packages

2010-11-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
0 85 9 95 2 105 7 115 1 125 4 135 4 145 1 165 1 185 4 195 1 205 1 215 1 225 1 245 2 255 1 265 3 295 2 345 2 355 2 375 1 485 1 545 1 985 1 -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo L

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Code-In: 13-18 year olds in open source

2010-11-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 10:02 Tue 02 Nov , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Thanks to your help, we got enough ideas just in time to apply. We > should hear Friday whether we're in. Unfortunately we weren't accepted. This was a highly selective set compared to GSoC -- only 20 organizations instead of 1

Re: [gentoo-dev] mercurial.eclass: change clone destination

2010-11-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
tof, I see you've said you're breaking all these ebuilds but I don't see any rationale for the change, at least in this email. Perhaps you could explain why this level of breakage is necessary? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpCuy0qPluWD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] mercurial.eclass: change clone destination

2010-11-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 21:30 Sat 06 Nov , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 10:22 Sat 06 Nov , Krzysztof Pawlik wrote: > > I'm sending this patch for discussion, what it changes? The change is > > to where the final clone of repository will be placed, it used to be > > ${WORKDIR}/${mod

Re: [gentoo-dev] mercurial.eclass: change clone destination

2010-11-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
f years? Clearly breaking things is unacceptable, but I could envision someone simultaneously updating the eclass and all consumers. Perhaps you could point me to the appropriate documentation, if any exists. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgppENlLMLoiu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mongolian keyboard layout

2005-04-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Lauer wrote: >> Mongolian keyboard layout works on Ubuntu Hoary, I >>yesterday installed. I have no mind about this problem. Any suggestions? It would be particularly helpful if you attached the differences in the XKB files between Ubuntu and

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 36: providing both CVS and Subversion?

2005-04-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg KH wrote: > Thanks for bringing this up, I was going to do so this week. I can get > the cvs data out of the bk tree, if we want to move it anywhere else, so > we will not loose the history (if that's an issue.) But we need to get > moved off of

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND additions

2005-04-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: > Anyway, any objections against moving the current USE_EXPAND out of > make.globals and into base's make.defaults? Those using <=2.0.50* won't get > any additions (how it is now anyway) and anybody using a stacked profile > (whi

Re: [gentoo-dev] reply-to munging

2005-04-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 00:15 +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > >>At the moment, I'm used to just clicking the Reply button to send to the >>list... however, on most lists that I participate in, Reply-To is left >>alone, so I'm n

Re: [gentoo-dev] reply-to munging

2005-04-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrea Barisani wrote: | There's no reference to @gentoo.org and our main MX server is rewriting @gentoo.org | to @lists.gentoo.org every time. Are you seeing @gentoo.org in those headers | in the messages you are getting? Something has changed recently

Re: [gentoo-dev] reply-to munging

2005-04-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrea Barisani wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:52:33PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >>Something has changed recently. I'm no longer getting both. >> >>If I go back to a post from April 2 and hit reply al

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Drake wrote: > Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not > brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.1 (the latest version) is installed on my > system, but more recently, they fixed a critical bug in the upstream CVS tre

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Drake wrote: > - I'm manually configuring a package that I want installed in ebuild-fashion. > I know when an ebuild runs econf it passes many configure parameters to > achieve this (installation into /var/tmp, etc.). It would be nice if I could

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Dev: Diego Pettenò (Flameeyes)

2005-04-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Maes wrote: > "electric screwdriver." Is that what they call 'em now? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCY1wLXVaO67S1rtsRAqQ7AKDjOAu6bB5To1FXMZSoTaU7HZauAQCgoSUM cu0oNqzJKwnBKlZqSRKhTKo= =39jk -END PGP

Re: [gentoo-dev] Soft RAID + LVM

2005-04-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Emmanuel VARAGNAT wrote: > > In checkfs init script, soft RAID is initialized just after LVM, but in > some case we can have LVM build on top of soft RAID. > Is there any interest in doing it so ? > > Device-mapper can do some sort of RAID but buildi

[gentoo-dev] Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-04-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just added a couple of new xorg-x11 ebuilds. 6.8.2-r2 is a work in progress and will soon be removed from package.mask and unleashed upon the masses. 6.8.99.3 is a development snapshot of CVS HEAD and is part of an occasionally released series (rough

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-04-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Any indication on the stability of the snapshots. I'm eager to try out all > the > new sugar, but do want to keep a somewhat stable system. No guarantees one way or the other, but I'm using it as my regular X. And unless the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-04-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Goller wrote: > do you want both on one bug or seperate bugs, from your email, you do > want success and problems on bugs.g.o, correct? do you want hardware > info/binary drivers used added? Basically emerge info and xorg.conf, from which I ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-04-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > I just added a couple of new xorg-x11 ebuilds. 6.8.2-r2 is a work in > progress and will soon be removed from package.mask and unleashed upon > the masses. 6.8.99.3 is a development snapshot of CVS HEAD and is par

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-04-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Some people have experienced font slowdowns. This is because of a > /usr/share/fonts/fonts circular symlink that's a migration artifact. I > just committed a fix for it, but feel free to simply delete the symlink

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-04-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: > Is the modularization going to be handled much as the KDE splits were > handled? That is, as with KDE having both the multilithic (multi- due to > still having multiple category packages) and split ebuilds available for > 3.4, will xor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving the updated apache and associated ebuilds back into package.mask

2005-04-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lance Albertson wrote: > Why do you have to > push all these improvements on the current stable line of apache (2.0.x) ? Why > can't these changes just be used in the upcoming alpha/beta releases and > totally > be implemented by the time they move to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-04-21 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul de Vrieze wrote: > I've found a bug (and reverted) in the matrox driver. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCZ+

Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system

2005-04-21 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luis F. Araujo wrote: > Nobody is forcing. I think it is better/easier to keep the package > than tracking/adding a lot of dependencies in the ebuilds. So you think actually knowing what packages truly depend on is a bad idea? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [gentoo-dev] xmms-mp123 pluggin

2005-04-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan wrote: > there were NO reports of the error that I was getting. The error report > said I was missing a pluggin, but it didnt say which, and therefore I > was left out in the cold to try to find the right one. So, I started > looking through the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a dedicated gentoo profile for commercial mysql support

2005-04-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Marlowe wrote: > They didn't know how they could do > this to gentoo based on the fact that one person's gentoo was different than > anothers. So is one person's Red Hat from another's, if they're updating their systems using RHN. Perhaps to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a dedicated gentoo profile for commercial mysql support

2005-04-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Georgi Georgiev wrote: > Are you sure you didn't miss something here? icc and amd64? Well, "amd64" in Gentoo -- it works on em64t at least. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCacbZXVaO67S1rtsRApUcAKDKCiH9KjYQdJSC3U

Re: [gentoo-dev] upcoming mirror cleansing

2005-04-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Harring wrote: > A quicky report of flies that'll be ixnayed is available at > http://dev.gentoo.org/~ferringb/failure.xml Thanks for making that page! I just searched it and found two packages I cared about with wrong SRC_URI's, fixed one and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin H. Johnson wrote: > You aren't the first no, but the solutions to it are limited: > - teach developers to use -kb where they should Wouldn't it be -ko for a patch? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using Gn

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 07:04:58PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > >>Robin H. Johnson wrote: >> >>>You aren't the first no, but the solutions to it are limited: >>>- teac

[gentoo-dev] New herd: x11-drivers

2005-04-24 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just created an x11-drivers herd. This will be for external X drivers such as the Nvidia and ATi binary drivers and x11-drm. It's also for less common things such as mtx-drivers and kyro-drivers. The x11 herd will continue maintaining the X11 cor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating sys-power/speedfreq

2005-04-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Tuesday 26 April 2005 06:57, Alin Nastac wrote: > >>Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: >> >>>On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 23:34 +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: >>> If it is superseded by cpufreqd, why not removing it from the tree and app

Re: [gentoo-dev] How deprecated is /usr/X11R6?

2005-04-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > Sure, this packages work just fine thanks to the "/usr/X11R6 -> > ../usr" symlink, so there is no real issue with that. But i was > wondering whether the long term goal is to get ride of this > symlink, and if so, w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Geographic Information System team ?

2005-04-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gérald Fenoy wrote: > I would like to know if there is any GIS team (not for Gentoo > Installation System but for Geographic Information System ...) or any > effort on that way ? You might want to subscribe to the gentoo-science list, where this is mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate

2005-04-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose a new global USE flag named 'logrotate' to add > support for app-admin/logrotate (by installing logrotate config files > to /etc/logrotate.d/). > > There are currently one local USE flag named

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLX no longer works after downgrade from xorg-x11-6.8.99.3

2005-04-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > For testing purposes (see #89767) I upgraded today from > >x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 >media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3 >media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6111-r1 > > to > >x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.3 >

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate

2005-04-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:48:52 -0700 Donnie Berkholz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | How annoying is it for someone to remerge a package just to get a > | logrotate file? I suggest that if you're goi

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate

2005-04-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant Goodyear wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: [Thu Apr 28 2005, 03:21:50PM CDT] > >>Yes. Or don't install it at all, and let people create their own. This >>is a dumb USE flag. > > > I'd say that "dumb

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate

2005-04-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: > What about the unused `ebuild [ebuild] config`? Isn't that the perfect place > for this sort of stuff? The only package that I know that uses this feature > is mysql. There are way more possibilities. Interesting idea. > Iggy'

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate

2005-04-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:36:54AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > >>What about the unused `ebuild [ebuild] config`? Isn't that the perfect place >>for this sort of stuff? The only package that I know that uses this feature >>

[gentoo-dev] Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

2005-05-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How long are all those non-cascaded profiles going to stick around? They make profile changes a mess for anyone who wants to do something crazy like change default USE flags for everyone. (Who would ever need to do that?!?!) Thanks, Donnie -BEGIN

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduction to myself

2005-05-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote: > Talking in terms of my collaboration with the Gentoo project, I've done > just a very few things, within the Hardened Gentoo subproject, but I'm > now interested in getting more involved and somewhat time becomi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unofficial Development Guide

2005-05-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > http://www.firedrop.org.uk/devmanual/ Before I read the whole thing, were you able to take anything from the existing handbook or need to rewrite everything from scratch? Thanks, Donnie -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo could become certified for IBM Server Hardware

2005-05-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i just returned from a meeting with IBM which was about getting support > for Gentoo Linux (hardware and software). The people from IBM told me > that it's possible for Gentoo to become officially supported on IBM > server ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-05-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: > However, my question is do you want gcc-4.0.0 bugs yet, or not? I tried > remerging w/ gcc4 without success, and now that I see the .99.5 > snapshot out, before I go trying to upgrade to it, I'm wondering if it's > worth my while to tr

Re: [gentoo-dev] OffTopic: VMWare ESX

2005-05-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > There are also some serious performance issues with I/O. Xen is a much > better way to go in the long run. See Did you read his post that said that wasn't an option? I hope not, because it would be annoying if you poste

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-05-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: > Umm... does that mean file the (gcc4+amd64+xorg) bugs, and he'll work with > them, or don't file them, because it's already got known issues that need > fixed before bug reports on that particular combo will be anything but > additional

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-libs => dev-cpp moves

2005-05-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Walker wrote: > Hey guys/gals, > > There are a sleu of C++-only libs in dev-libs that IMO belong in dev-cpp: Why is language a good way to sort these? I think they should be sorted by function. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-libs => dev-cpp moves

2005-05-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alin Nastac wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: >>Why is language a good way to sort these? I think they should be sorted >>by function. > > > prolly 'cause C++ libraries cannot be used unless your program is > written i

Re: [gentoo-dev] ATTN: fonts herd maintainers

2005-05-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Walker wrote: > According to herds.xml, there are currently 0 maintainers. ... > Of course being on the alias doesn't mean anything, but if you help maintain > the fonts herd, please add yourself to herds.xml. You are incorrectly reading it. T

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Trustee ML Archives

2005-05-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lance Albertson wrote: > Just thought I'd mention that the archives [1] are back up for the > trustee mailing list. Its still being worked on, but most of the talk > from the last year should be up. > > Please thank Grant for sifting through the archi

Re: [gentoo-dev] have_NPTL proposal/question

2005-05-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francesco Riosa wrote: > case $(getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION | tr abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz > ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ) in Wow, what a bad way to use tr. Apparently the author's unfamiliar with [:lower:] and [:upper:]. Donnie -BEGIN PGP SIGN

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

2005-05-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: > Use `quickpkg` before dangerous updates/merges. If something brakes - > untar the package. Doesn't work too well when tar's broken too. =) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCh84IXVaO67S1rt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming scheme confusion

2005-05-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > The current ebuild is orinoco-0.15_rc2-r2.ebuild, and the logical name > for a CVS snapshot would, as I see it, be > orinoco-0.15_rc2_pre20050516.ebuild, but mixing _rcX and _preY is not > allowed by portage. > > I can't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Another call for BugVoting on bugs.gentoo.org

2005-05-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Heinrich Wendel wrote: > I just read this: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/1055 and think it > explains things very well. I blogged [1] about this the other day. It also talks a bit about bounties, which I was actually more interested in. It'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Another call for BugVoting on bugs.gentoo.org

2005-05-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2005 16:47:17 -0700 Donnie Berkholz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Heinrich Wendel wrote: > | > I just read this: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/1055 and > | > think it

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

2005-05-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > A much better approach would be for there to be a rescue build, > completely independent of the stages, since it doesn't need to mirror > them in any way. It should be extracted (self-extracted?) to something > like /rescue a

Re: [gentoo-dev] UPGRADE complete bugs.gentoo.org

2005-05-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey Forman wrote: > You are very welcome, it was a pleasure to upgrade such a critical > piece of Gentoo, even though it required time I could have spent outside > in the Florida sun. Heh, that explains why I spend so much time working on Ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] death to underquoted M4 definitions

2005-05-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Walker wrote: > Ok that's fine. A function just seemed saner than adding 1 lines patches to > dozens of packages. It may be easier, but upstream would appreciate us sending a patch instead of just fixing stuff locally. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg's RDEPEND

2005-05-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rafael Espíndola wrote: > I noticed that xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1.ebuild has a very big RDEPEND. For > example, is there really a need for flex after xorg has been compiled? Let me know once you've tested removing each thing individually, then run every appl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: xorg's RDEPEND

2005-05-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rafael Espíndola wrote: > On 5/18/05, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Let me know once you've tested removing each thing individually, then >>run every application in the X distribution in every configura

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unofficial Gentoo Development Guide and Autotools

2005-05-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > http://www.firedrop.org.uk/devmanual/general-concepts/autotools/ > > What more would people like to see explained? Is there anything in there > that needs changing or clarifying? Anything that's just plain wrong? > Does it nee

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywording, for the umpteenth time

2005-05-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Cummings wrote: > It's a nice idea (I know I recently opened "negotiations" up with the mips > team for access so I could close some of my open bugs against them), but the > two problems I can see with this are: remote access tends to mean yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-05-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beber [Gentoo] wrote: > Xorg 6.8.99.5 really works good. > I've see that 6.8.99.7 have been released in CVS. Did you make some test ? No, not yet. But bumping them is pretty trivial and low priority. I do it when I get around to it. > [ Also, I've ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pinboard of outdated ports

2005-05-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Weiner wrote: > Outdated ebuild reporting system > > > Why > Reporting outdated ebuilds via bugzilla is in my opinion not the best > solution. > An outdated port isn't really a 'bug' and so there are man

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pinboard of outdated ports

2005-05-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Weiner wrote: > One more tab in ${BROWSER}.. And it shouldn't make more work. It should > ease the work already there. > Having submitted an outdated port seems to be more comfortable to me > than checking your portrepo everyday for actuality.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Conference - Call for ideas

2005-05-24 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corey Shields wrote: > The question I have is what kind of content would you like to see? This may > turn into a call for participation later, but right now we are trying to get > a feel for what topics people would be interested in hearing and talk

Re: [gentoo-dev] problem with first ebuild

2005-05-24 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonas Geiregat wrote: > The problem is with the install -g root -o root -m 755 scheme etc .. > command, it seems to run fine but at the end nothing is installed If you're manually running the install command, you might need to state that you're i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Conference - Call for ideas

2005-05-24 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corey Shields wrote: > On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:25 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > >>* Improving the desktop "experience" -- how, what, when? > > > You gonna be there to do this one? ;) I wish I could, but I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Pinboard of outdated ports

2005-05-24 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Tuesday 24 May 2005 22:44, R Hill wrote: > >>I like this. It could probably be done through keywording, and in fact >>the keywords are already there (ebuild and tested)[1]. > > TESTED is not something a simple u

[gentoo-dev] pdflib-6 might not work with everything

2005-05-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Earlier today, I added pdflib-6 to the tree. Some of you may need to accommodate this in your ebuilds. I just wanted you to be aware, so if you got reports of things related to it suddenly breaking, you'd have a clue. Thanks, Donnie -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

2005-06-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Walker wrote: > I agree with Lars (particulary about adding maintaining arch to metdata if > it's > necessary). Another alpha++. So, let's get a way to do this. That way most concerns will be addressed. Thanks, Donnie -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

2005-06-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ferris McCormick wrote: > I also like alpha, but that is not what I am responding to. And I have > to admit that I haven't followed this too closely. But the "if one arch > stabalises..." assumption can be misleading. For example, xorg-x11 > maintai

[gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2: testers requested

2005-06-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to remove the latest xorg revision from package.mask by the end of the week, so I'd appreciate testing on any ebuild regressions or relatively simple fixups from anyone who has a chance to try it out. If you've got a problem, file a bug. Don'

Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2: testers requested

2005-06-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ferris McCormick wrote: >> So far as I know, sparc is fine with 6.8.99.8; OK, but this isn't the version I was asking about ... Did ya see the subject? =P Thanks, Donnie -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCqG+NXVa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of articles.xml from website

2005-06-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Vermeulen wrote: > Many Gentoo developers have written articles about Linux and Gentoo on > third-party sites. The articles page [1] was originally meant to provide > links to those articles. However, it frequently occurs that links change > (most

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of articles.xml from website

2005-06-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:35:26AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > >>It would still be useful to keep the titles and other info, just >>removing the link. Otherwise, how are people supposed to even know th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of articles.xml from website

2005-06-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olivier Crete wrote: > I still fail to see why everything done by Gentoo devs belongs on the > Gentoo page. The only article that belongs on the Gentoo page is the one > about the Enoch and how it became Gentoo. Because it's something relevant to Linu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of articles.xml from website

2005-06-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Vermeulen wrote: > Many Gentoo developers have written articles about Linux and Gentoo on > third-party sites. The articles page [1] was originally meant to provide > links to those articles. However, it frequently occurs that links change > (most

Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcing Gentoo Universe

2005-06-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Drake wrote: > Gentoo Universe can be found at http://planet.gentoo.org/universe/ > > Currently, there isn't a great amount of difference between the two sites. > This will change as more people give me their entire feed URL's. Now we can star

[gentoo-dev] Re: xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2 status on sparc

2005-06-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ferris McCormick wrote: > You asked for patches. Both of these are incorporated in the 6.8.99 > series, and have been around long enough that they should go into > 6.8.2-r2 if it is going mainstream: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1259

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2 status on sparc

2005-06-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ferris McCormick wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >>> I'd prefer to avoid adding patches that are feature enhancements instead >>> of small fixes, if possible. Is it a problem if we pass on those? >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Intent to help with #gentoo-dev voicing issues

2005-06-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marius Mauch wrote: > Won't work. First it would introduce a single point of failure. If we'd > really follow this route there has to be a role for this, not a user. > Then how are people supposed to know about this in teh first place? I > wouldn't exp

Re: [gentoo-dev] chriswhite herd(?) status update

2005-06-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joshua Baergen wrote: > 1) We don't want to undermine bugzilla's function. Yes, it's noisy, > but a suitably motivated individual (to use Donnie's catchphrase) can > find what they're looking for. I used the word "individual" in reference to a person

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Wegener wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:56:43PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: > >>I'm in favor of this. Would you mind calling it package.autouse, >>package.use.auto or are you set on .force? > > > As Mike already wrote those names are too confus

Re: [gentoo-dev] Acquiring a deeper understanding of Gentoo

2005-06-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark S Petrovic wrote: > I am about to embark on a serious project and I am considering Gentoo > as the platform. My luck with installation, on which I've spent several > solid days, thus far has been mixed, and I'm willing to hold off believing > it'

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