Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
get smaller and faster and development is much easier. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the

Re: [gentoo-dev] client+server packages - build which one?

2006-08-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tuesday 08 August 2006 09:56, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > If you want an dhcp client, install "dhcp-client", if you > > want an dhcp server, install "dhcp-server". Could it be simpler ? > > Maybe you mis

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >foo/bar gui=gtk > >blah/blubb gui=qt2 > > bleh/enrico gui=qt4 s/qt4/ncurses/; ;-P cu -- --------- Enrico Weige

Re: [gentoo-dev] client+server packages - build which one?

2006-08-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
in the portage tree and learned how to apply patches in the files/ subdir. Now I need to know, how to download the patches (simply add them to $SRC_URI ?) and then get them referenced for applying ? cu -- --------- Enrico W

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jan Kundrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > For example: I've got several headless server systems where I now > > have to run some X applications. I only need xlib (and its deps) > > on this system, not the whole

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ever need. Is this compatible with the gentoo philosphy ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Tas

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
far much better than the old monolithic thing. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskfo

[gentoo-dev] Update notes on -p ?

2006-08-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
hile/after emerging. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce

Re: [gentoo-dev] per-package USE defaults

2006-08-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ich loads package.use. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot d

[gentoo-dev] Should patches sit withing the portage tree ?

2006-08-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
at do you think ? cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.met

[gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
r separate user-support bugs ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforc

[gentoo-dev] Portage Subtrees [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
overlays ;-) Of course this has to be done *very* careful, but IMHO it can help a lot. ... just my 0.02 EUR cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: Hi, > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >I already suggested an bug-reporting tool, which automatically > >collects all the necessary data, several weeks ago. This tool is > >simply called by commandline and asks the users several

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
important contributor. (they find and report bugs, which probably never would be found by the maintainers). cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sunrise contemplations

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
by. BTW: is this information also recorded in /var/db/pkg ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenS

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
they can be easily filtered. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_Q

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ut just posting bugs via command line is not enough. The tool has to gather and ask for the right information (maybe dependent on the package) and post it all together in an well-defined syntax. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt==

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Subtrees [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ut this implies quite some danger that I miss something I need. With clean subtree'ing, those things would be clear. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
t (currently can only file new bugs), but it's from ground up independent from the actual tracker software (drivers for virtually any issue tracker could be plugged in). If anyone likes to have a look at it, please drop a note to me. cu -- -------

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jean-François Gagnon Laporte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > You know that java is not available on all arch that Gentoo > supports right ? Which one ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT se

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Thomas Cort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:11:24 +0200 > Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm working on my own tool, written in java. > > That's great. Have you or are you going to setup a project page > somew

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Stephen P. Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > * Jean-Fran???ois Gagnon Laporte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > > > > > >> You know that java is not available on all arch that Gentoo > >> supports rig

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
he kaffe port is currently broken, then let's fix it. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wik

Re: [gentoo-dev] Coda file system needs new maintainer

2006-08-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
to coda for right some time, and so I'd offer to maintain the package. Maybe you could give me a short introduction about what has to be done. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Coda file system needs new maintainer

2006-08-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Maurice van der Pot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:58:05PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > I've got switching my nfs installations to coda for right some > > time, and so I'd offer to maintain the package. > > Actually I'm l

Re: [gentoo-dev] reminder: USE=static is *not* for libraries

2006-08-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ries ... if your package has an option to build shared and static > libraries, then it had better be building both or you'll get smacked ! BTW: is there a way to control whether static libs should be installed ? cu -- ---------

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Last rites for $package ...

2006-09-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
an discussion w/ subject "Last rites for $package" : (where $package is the qualified package / port name) Maybe we could also define other some other subject for the cases that removal is aborted or committed. What do you think about that ? cu -- -------

Re: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES to cut the excess in portage

2006-11-22 Thread Enrico Weigelt
e flags be used in dependencies ? Let's say, some package needs certain tools (ie. TeX) for building its documentation, it would be stupid to build the whole docs and so require these tools, if docs are not wanted at all. cu -- --------

[gentoo-dev] spamc standalone package

2006-11-22 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is anyone else working on an standalone spamc package ? I've got several machines where I don't want to have the whole spamassassin installed - they're just calling an remote machine to do this work. cu -- --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: spamc standalone package

2006-12-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is anyone else working on an standalone spamc package ? > > I've got several machines where I don't want to have the whole > > spamassassin installed - they&#x

[gentoo-dev] /var/lib/init.d/* vs. pidfiles

2006-12-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt
to use some pidfile ? The files in /var/lib/init.d/deamons already contain pidfiles, so this could be used. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service -

Re: [gentoo-dev] www-servers/axis -> commercial dependencies

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I've noticed, axis has some commercial/non-free dependencies, ie. > > sun-javamail-bin and sun-jaf. Are there free replacements for them ? > > > > Yes

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/lib/init.d/* vs. pidfiles

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
he flag files, such problems would (IMHO) be entirely fixed. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/pu

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/lib/init.d/* vs. pidfiles

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
nion and not actual fact ... > pidfiles are not completely reliable maybe, but in which situations would it be worse than the current situation ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/lib/init.d/* vs. pidfiles

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ew year it can be moved to ~ARCH. Ah, I'm on x86, so I don't have it yet. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
patent issue -> at least in EU, such patents are illegal (although they exists) Just my 0.02 EUR ... cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

[gentoo-dev] Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
uses perl-DBD for database access). Of course they maybe want to have access to some postgres database, but this obviously does not need an local server. cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
it's own. Assuming packages have different maintainers and aren't fixed all at the same time ... > Thanks for reporting the issues and the interest in our work. BTW: the first time I'm reading such words on this list :) cu -- -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I'd prefer the a) and so attached an fixed ebuild for 8.0.8. Forgot the attachement. Here it is ... This ebuild adds pg_config to libpq-8.0.8, gave it version -r1. Tested

Re: [gentoo-dev] www-servers/axis -> commercial dependencies

2006-12-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
mentation of certain things (SSL, and what else?) ? And it seems that ecj is used instead of the default java compiler. Can't jikes be used instead of ecj (IMHO, should be faster) ? cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://ww

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
his should allow an seamless update. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSourc

[gentoo-dev] License issues [WAS: Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?]

2006-12-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Saturday 23 December 2006 22:35, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > I'm not an license expert > Then shut up. > > You're wrong, it's true for dynamic linking as well as for > static link

[gentoo-dev] zlib + build useflag

2007-05-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
my personal feelings ;-O) cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patch

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

2007-05-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
gt; www-misc/nsxml2007-05-07 18:41:07 armin76 what did these packages do ? Sounds like mozilla stuff. Am I correct ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - h

[gentoo-dev] eselect missing depedency to realpath ?

2007-05-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
lect misses the dependency to realpath ? cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http:

[gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: splitting packages

2007-05-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ce the upstream to get it in. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-04-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
to an wrapper script (configurable via eselect) ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-04-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Didnt have the time for an deeper investigation, but if an widget toolkit requires an printing service, something really strange is happening, IMHO ... ;-o cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT se

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-04-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
want to fix this, let's fork. (i'm hereby volunteering as maintainer). cu PS: please no "we're not debian"-flamewars ;-o -- --------- Enrico Weigelt==

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-04-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Ben de Groot schrieb: > Or maybe the gtk+ maintainers want to split up their package... Actually, that would be a big step forward ... cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-04-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ny technical reasons for having that all within a widget toolkit, instead of a separate library. hmm, time for a fork ? ;-) cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC][NEW] Utility to find orphaned files

2010-04-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
luding content data and configs, of course) should be assigned to the package. The big Q: how can we achieve this ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] RESTRICT=parallel for builds that can't be executed in parallel

2010-04-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ld have to cope with. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/publ

Re: [gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names

2010-05-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
can just set the appropriate > variables. ACK. But it should also be possible to specify names here (not just numerical IDs), just in case the underlying kernel doesnt have numerical UIDs at all ... cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt=

Re: [gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names

2010-05-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
, these BSI guys are beaurocrats, not hackers. If they were hackers, they'd prefer source distros over binary ones to add more randomness to the overall installed machine code ... cu -- ----

[gentoo-dev] paper on oss-qm project

2010-05-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
qm-project-2010050101.pdf cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wik

Re: [gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names

2010-05-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
uot;secure" infrastructures for govermental crimes ... ;-o cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/O

Re: [gentoo-dev] paper on oss-qm project

2010-05-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
completely trivial when using free git hosters as mirrors) b) add an selective filtering system. AFIAK current stable git doesnt provide that yet - I've added an little patch for that: http://repo.or.cz/w/oss-qm-p

Re: [gentoo-dev] paper on oss-qm project

2010-05-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
to filter the very first entry? > > + while (walk && (walk->next)) > + { > + if (_filter_remote_ref(transport, walk->next)) > + walk->next = walk-&g

[gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. Comments welcomed :) cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://ww

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
elease the source archives along with whatever binary archives you may have." ^ cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ed in good old C/C++, etc Just give me everything you've got :) cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visi

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
(see my recent posts) is for. (and all goes sooo easy w/ tools like git ;-p) cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metu

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
;t actually have to create release tarballs, just hack up a little script which creates them on-the-fly from an canonical URL scheme (eg. oss-qm does exactly that). cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Ciaran McCreesh schrieb: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:39:15 +0200 > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > #2 One point i don't agree is the "dont add -Werror" rule. actually, > > i'm thinking of making -Wall and -Werror mandatory. if some > > package doenst build fi

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
agree with Ciaran here, to add one more thing: tags can be mutable. Thats a matter of proper VCS configuration (hooks, etc) cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt==

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Ciaran McCreesh schrieb: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:46:39 +0200 > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > BTW: if upstream has an proper VCS and an canonical tagging > > scheme, they don't actually have to create release tarballs, > > just hack up a little script which create

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ps ? cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Ciaran McCreesh schrieb: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:09:09 +0200 > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Well, with git this works. (I'll yet have to run some automatic > > stress tests, but at all my manual tests worked really fine). > > You assume that, given the same

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
em, not the individual package. Developers just should take care that there're no preventable warnings. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
str() ) > 0; I'm not sure if this really qualifies an warning, since - AFAIK - C spec never said, that there is an evaluation order for function parameters. cu -- ---------

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
t; enable it for stable releases. Okay, aggreed. I've reworked my rule, now: "package build systems MUST NOT enable "-Wall -Werror" (unless explicitly asked), but developers SHOULD use them for their test builds" cu -- --

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
I'm assuming modern VCS'es, not toys like svn ;-p) cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the Open

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ets distributed to dozens of machines and runs build tests coordinated by some server ... a bit like s...@home ;-) Enough CPU is available all around the world, just heavily distributed. cu -- -------

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
and then you can decide whether to > fix the code, if there is anything to fix, or to ignore. hmm, is there a (portable) way to prevent a specific warning in an specific place ? (some kind of #pragma ?) cu -- --------- Enrico Weigel

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ients have to be built against that two versions). It involves some interface analysis and a bit of graph theory. Should be possible to do it incrementally. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - htt

Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo

2010-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
he same direction I'm planning to go into. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSour

Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo

2010-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
make NM > work w/o PK/CK[2], add command line tools to NM, and move to systemd > by default. > (c) Support systemd as an alternative init system for use by desktop users. (d) Fix systemd to get rid of dependencies to dbus, etc. cu -- ------

[gentoo-dev] zlib ebuild from OSS-QM

2010-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
few words: the main idea is to solve problems at the source, provide generic downstream branches (which get rebased onto upstream) instead of single (often unncessarily distro-bound) patches. cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt==

[gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. - End forwarded message - -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib ebuild from OSS-QM

2010-07-06 Thread Enrico Weigelt
y to answer all questions :) cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib ebuild from OSS-QM

2010-07-06 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jeremy Olexa schrieb: > On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 18:48:43 +0200, Enrico Weigelt > wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > please refer my recent postings on details what the oss-qm > > project is all about. just a few words: the main idea is to > > > > Enric

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-06 Thread Enrico Weigelt
;ll get everything with next upstream release. Actually, I'm already doing so for quite some time now. But often cannot/doesnt want to apply hotfixes ad-hoc. That's what OSS-QM for: provide downstream branches for distros, embedded maintainers, etc. cu -- --

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib ebuild from OSS-QM

2010-07-06 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Sebastian Pipping schrieb: > On 07/06/10 22:04, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >> Enrico, There are actually so many 404s on your homepage (including > >> both links in your email signature) that it quickly loses my attention > >> span. > > > > Which ones

[gentoo-dev] creating git repos via ebuild

2010-07-06 Thread Enrico Weigelt
rea ? cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens o

[gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
u are receiving this mail because: --- You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. - End forwarded message - -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
rs which dont exist yet, procmail fails. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 --

Re: [gentoo-dev] svga useflag (media-libs/svgalib)

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
packages where libsvga stuff works, it IMHO should stay. Nobody knows who's still using it. But it probably doesnt have to be a global useflag. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Samuli Suominen schrieb: > On 07/08/2010 01:56 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > YFYI: yet another of my ebuilds kicked-down. > > > > It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates > > missing

[gentoo-dev] RFC: making revdep-rebuild more quiet

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
really happens. What do you think about this ? (I admit, I didnt have the time to dive into portage codebase yet and hack up something ... ;-o) cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
e && make install). cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
n an disk array crash a few years ago, and I didnt find the time to rewrite it yet. Meanwhile I dont need it anymore, since I gave up maintaining plaintext patches in favour of git. And that makes my daily works _much_ easier. Oh, btw: I'm announcing my oss-qm releases via twitter: h

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
hat simple. Many distros don't even do proper patches, instead wildly copy over or directly sed certain sourcesfiles, or even (like Debian) use their own broken tarballs. (the worst srcpkg I've ever seen is Debian's mysql-5.0.32 ...) And even *if* we assume, that everyone's jus

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
of social competence". (to be fair: this also applies to lots of other OSS projects). cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 5199

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-15 Thread Enrico Weigelt
approach, but > that didn't stop you. Right, that's why I'd people to use a proper vcs from start up, and I'll step by step tweak certain packaging systems to create git commits. (eg. a tweaked portage could import epatches directly into git and also commits between all comman

[gentoo-dev] OSS-QM again ...

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
et another reason why I'd like package maintainers to push their changes into the oss-qm repo. That would be a great help for others having to deal with the same package. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
eckouts (including a repo cache). Next step will be a mechanism to check tag signatures. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 275

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ent/content/article/57.html (see and of the text) cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-08-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jacob Godserv schrieb: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:04:03 +0200 > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > Meanwhile I've reworked my Briegel buildsystem [1] to support > > direct git checkouts (including a repo cache). Next step will be > > a mechanism to check tag signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: OSS-QM again ...

2010-08-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt
not just use it (as dumb downstream), but instead actively take part in it. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27

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