Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-23 Thread Fabian Groffen
I still don't see why you'd bother all existing users with that info. Just blog, or (better) write a nice email to -announce, and update the install docs. Also, can you exclude all Prefix profiles for this news item if you insist on pushing it out? Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread Fabian Groffen
reciate. > If anyone has particular suggestions about who should see this news > item, including the filter of how to achieve that, please let me know. You can limit news items to certain profiles, so, you could make them apply to the default/linux profiles, I guess. Not sure if the FreeB

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 24-07-2012 07:20:31 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > I don't know about general consensus. In my opinion, it's plain spam to > > existing users. (And that would IMO be the xth news item in a row to be > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread Fabian Groffen
em at all, IMO. > > From the perspective of a user who often deals with the install > process, and occasionally helps others with it, I think this is could > be very good. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread Fabian Groffen
about to break our systems > unannounced (again) ? - its not spam to give us a heads up, even if its > just reassurance. I think you misunderstood. Nothing is breaking at this time. Hence I don't think this is worth asking your attention for. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a diffe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread Fabian Groffen
em, so don't make everyone have to see the news item notice a couple of times and run `eselect news read` just for this. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 24-07-2012 09:33:39 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 24/07/12 07:39 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > From a different angle, perhaps stage3s shouldn't include a > > default /etc/make.conf at all. Would solve this issue nicely, and > > doesn't require a news

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 24-07-2012 13:15:43 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > I think a news item is reasonable here (in addition to the above). [snip good arguments] But that's a news item on (a version of) Portage, not on catalyst and stage3 building. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread Fabian Groffen
why don't you refuse to read elogs, news messages, and what more? Do we really have to babysit people, because they think they're too smart to check on the manual once again? Or when they notice things seem different? Any search engine is your friend. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

2012-08-01 Thread Fabian Groffen
ope not. There is a difference between "there is a UTF-8 locale available on the system" and "en_US.UTF-8 locale is in effect". Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] systemd.eclass: Patch for new function systemd_get_udevdir()

2012-08-06 Thread Fabian Groffen
sical not to pseudo-provide support for it. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] systemd.eclass: Patch for new function systemd_get_udevdir()

2012-08-06 Thread Fabian Groffen
the eclass is out of question > and should be left for ebuilds > > therefore pseudo-prefix support should be left in place too... right? I guess so, or you'll trigger "out of prefix" errors indeed. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] systemd.eclass: Patch for new function systemd_get_udevdir()

2012-08-06 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 06-08-2012 07:49:48 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > On 06-08-2012 13:37:55 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > >> > Also, I'm not so sure if this will work correctly for Prefix. > >> > >> I&#

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] systemd.eclass: Patch for new function systemd_get_udevdir()

2012-08-06 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 06-08-2012 11:16:52 -0700, Olivier Crête wrote: > On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 13:56 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > While OpenRC is likely perfectly capable of starting/stopping daemons as > > a normal user (with some tweaks), I expect systemd replacing init, to > > alrea

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] systemd.eclass: Patch for new function systemd_get_udevdir()

2012-08-06 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 06-08-2012 11:40:57 -0700, Olivier Crête wrote: > I think they only want to support systemd-in-systemd, not > systemd-in-random-init-system. I think neither fits Prefix. So we're back at the starting position. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc

[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in dev-perl/XML-Parser: XML-Parser-2.410.0-r1.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-08-07 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 07-08-2012 18:03:14 +0200, Torsten Veller wrote: > * "Fabian Groffen (grobian)" : > > grobian 12/08/07 15:21:54 > > > > Modified: ChangeLog > > Added:XML-Parser-2.410.0-r1.ebuild > > Log: > > Fix expat d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in dev-perl/XML-Parser: XML-Parser-2.410.0-r1.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-08-07 Thread Fabian Groffen
l be more harm than you can possibly imagine. It works fine under Linux, Solaris and Darwin. So I think you're jumping to conclusions here too quickly. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
is. Huh? Not sure I understand this, but it suggests something which isn't true for Prefix to me. > We could also make virtuals not pull in anything on Prefix in those > cases. Things like virtual/os-headers already do so. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 15-08-2012 07:32:45 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > On 15-08-2012 12:58:32 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > >> Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > 2. Things like Prefix rely on the system not installing local copies &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 15-08-2012 07:50:42 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > There are only a few packages I've seen that depend on a certain > > (min/max) version of glibc, and when in use for Prefix, mostly use > > "!prefix? ( e

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove system set?

2012-08-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
ty much useless to me as well. So, there is the system set which just is the central place where those packages are recorded. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] CIA.VC down for the count?

2012-08-23 Thread Fabian Groffen
> like a gitweb log to see what was going on. Any suggestions on how we > > can get the visibility back? > How about using the gentoo-commits mailing list in the meantime? it doesn't contain everything CIA has, but for a large deal -commits ML is indeed much better -- Fa

Re: [gentoo-dev] CIA.VC down for the count?

2012-08-23 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 23-08-2012 20:10:55 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 07:07:40PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > it doesn't contain everything CIA has, but for a large deal -commits ML > > is indeed much better > What's missing from the commits list? >

[gentoo-dev] Re: CIA.VC down for the count?

2012-08-26 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 26-08-2012 12:22:16 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:36:09 +0200 > Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > On 23-08-2012 20:10:55 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 07:07:40PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > > it doesn

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage

2012-08-31 Thread Fabian Groffen
> phasing > out in-between EAPIs (i.e. deprecate EAPIs 1 and 3 asap). I guess you meant 1 and 2. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: prune_libtool_files() and pkg-config dependency

2012-08-31 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 31-08-2012 18:08:12 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > And for a reasonable Gentoo toolchain, pkg-config is a must-have. At > least since we deprecated and are seriously fighting libtool. what? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo-portage-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue

2012-09-06 Thread Fabian Groffen
this whole example/question sounds like an ebuild-quiz question that any dev should be able to answer then.) What would be the advantage of sub-slot here, assuming the versioning of the libraries follows ABI versioning rules defined by e.g. libtool. Please enlighten me. Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo-portage-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue

2012-09-07 Thread Fabian Groffen
here. Could you give an example where implicit ${PV} as sub-slot would not do what you need? Do you allow sub-slot to depend on e.g. USE-flags in use? Suppose libfnord has a USE-flag cow that adds special cow interfaces to the ABI/API. Would SLOT="X/${PV}$(use cow && echo -- -cow)" work? (I think SLOT is supposed to be metadata-static, but does the sub-slot part count to that?) [1] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=e4ba8f36e6a4624f4fec61c7ce8bed0e3bd2fa01 [2] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EAPI_5_tentative_features -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[gentoo-dev] On flags being in IUSE (and the prefix USE-flag in particular)

2012-09-07 Thread Fabian Groffen
sponsible teams and maintainers to fix the eclasses, followed by ebuilds. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433894 [2] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commitdiff;h=d9040ab3482af5f790368bac5d053bf1cd760ba8;hp=f9f7729c047300e1924ad768a49c660e12c2f906 -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo-portage-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue

2012-09-07 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 07-09-2012 10:52:10 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > On 09/07/2012 10:13 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > Could you give an example where implicit ${PV} as sub-slot would > > not do what you need? > > Can you point out a package for which SONAME/ABI/whatever changes > every time

[gentoo-dev] Re: sub-slots (for EAPI 5)

2012-09-07 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 07-09-2012 13:51:24 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 07/09/12 01:13 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > On 06-09-2012 09:25:53 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > >> #1 - there is both a specification, and an initial > >> implementation, AND a fork of the tree that is kept

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sub-slots (for EAPI 5)

2012-09-07 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 07-09-2012 19:21:57 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 20:17:17 +0200 > Fabian Groffen wrote: > > Eh, no. Now it just always breaks when you perform a downgrade, and > > revdev-rebuild or @preserved-libs won't help you. I prefer that you > > give

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sub-slots (for EAPI 5)

2012-09-07 Thread Fabian Groffen
nction by e.g. implementing it itself, conditionally. A package maintainer might not have been aware of this, hence not expressed this in the dependencies (e.g. requiring the version that contains the missing function). Anyway, we should avoid downgrades of libraries, so no need to discuss this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sub-slots (for EAPI 5)

2012-09-07 Thread Fabian Groffen
just want to fully understand what slot-deps is supposed to do, and what not. It seems I fail in doing so. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sub-slots (for EAPI 5)

2012-09-07 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 07-09-2012 12:03:16 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > On 09/07/2012 11:17 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > I guess real-life examples, more extensively described than you did > > before, with exactly where it goes wrong, and how the situation is > > improved would help. > > P

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sub-slots (for EAPI 5)

2012-09-07 Thread Fabian Groffen
dependency > resolver can note that reinstalling pkg would fix it, since dep:1/b > also satisfies pkg's slot 1 := dependency (but not the locked 1/a > dependency that the installed version of pkg has picked up). Thanks. It seems we're there. At last. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] On flags being in IUSE (and the prefix USE-flag in particular)

2012-09-10 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 07-09-2012 16:38:15 -0700, Gregory M. Turner wrote: > On 9/7/2012 10:32 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > With the introduction of IMPLICIT_IUSE (scheduled for EAPI 5), a phrase > > has been added to PMS, that finally makes a statement on what's supposed > > to be in IUS

Re: [gentoo-dev] On flags being in IUSE (and the prefix USE-flag in particular)

2012-09-10 Thread Fabian Groffen
ths not to have to use newer EAPIs... I think the problem is that this vision doesn't really give a migration path, even when people are willing to move on to EAPI 5. Personally, this vision doesn't really encourage me to push any changes for this, since Portage seems to handle it well.

Re: [gentoo-dev] On flags being in IUSE (and the prefix USE-flag in particular)

2012-09-10 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 10-09-2012 10:28:26 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:25:05 +0200 > Fabian Groffen wrote: > > On 10-09-2012 09:32:23 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > So really we should just not support prefix at all in any EAPI > > > before 5, and not ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-09-25 Thread Fabian Groffen
ing what is preventing the _council_ from reviewing this or why > the _author_ of that GLEP hasn't requested it for the next council meeting. I guess nothing is preventing them from reviewing it. However, it's just a waste of time if you're just asking those guys to review the GLEP

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Initial python-r1.eclass & distutils-r1.eclass

2012-09-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
ore the path to the original files, so generating in ${ROOT} yields in wrong paths. Python sometimes regenerates the files when it runs. It may as well just ignore them (since they are newer but non-matching, unclear to me). In the worst case it returns "Bad marshalling data". -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Initial python-r1.eclass & distutils-r1.eclass

2012-09-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
m, so python-distutils-ng was wrong from the beginning and nobody > cared to point it out? I'm not reviewing each and everything in detail, sorry. It's just that Pacho raised the point in this thread that made me recall the above. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Initial python-r1.eclass & distutils-r1.eclass

2012-09-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
And be aware that this doesn't just mean changing eclasses, since this rule is effectuated in certain ebuilds too (dev-lang/python itself being the most obvious example). -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Initial python-r1.eclass & distutils-r1.eclass

2012-09-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
ation, meaning the .pyc/.pyo from py2.6 is > exposed/accessed for py2.7 for example. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300922 I doubt whether it's a Python bug, we have to mess with the files. But then again, I did some toying, and it seems Python doesn't care about this

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Initial python-r1.eclass & distutils-r1.eclass

2012-10-01 Thread Fabian Groffen
y my tests with Python 2.7 worked fine when I tinkered with the .pyc and/or moved it around. Thanks -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: CIA replacement

2012-10-01 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 02-10-2012 12:40:20 +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: > The irker proxy was mentioned in this thread. I think we should look > into this. Unless someone has a better idea. I think it might be more beneficial to try and relay -commits email to irc. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH/RFC] eclass/flag-o-matic.eclass: prepend-ldpath

2012-10-06 Thread Fabian Groffen
patch to Python, such that the build-system just inserts it. I recall it's necessary at least on FreeBSD, Darwin, Solaris, but I don't recall any more why it works/worked on Linux fine. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 30-10-2012 19:08:39 +, Samuli Suominen wrote: > Added: udev.eclass > Log: > New eclass to determine udevdir from udev.pc pkg-config file as requested > by many people, without ML review due to unproductive feedback Uhm... Please, stop doing this! -- Fabian Groffen

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
#x27;t really reliable for precise formatting, prefer printf when > it matters. (in this case it doesn't matter but seems good practices) echo -n is not always working, but in this case no point in using it at all. > have you checked what is the udevdir value on prefix, if at al

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 30-10-2012 15:47:51 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > On 30-10-2012 19:08:39 +, Samuli Suominen wrote: > >> Added: udev.eclass > >> Log: > >> New eclass to determine udevdir from udev.pc pkg-co

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-31 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 30-10-2012 23:22:01 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: > So exactly what is (your) problem with the current eclass now? Your eclass pretends to support Prefix, but it is broken in that respect, and because some other eclass does it the same way (your claim), you refuse to fix it. -- Fab

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-31 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 31-10-2012 09:51:51 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: > I don't do prefix and I'm _always_ expecting a patch from prefix@ for > prefix issues. In that case, please don't invent prefix things yourself. Thanks. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc

[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/sys-apps/openrc: openrc-9999.ebuild

2012-11-07 Thread Fabian Groffen
nces to EROOT and ED need not to be quoted. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] A script/binary that iterates over arguments and spits out different variants?

2012-11-08 Thread Fabian Groffen
E="-x y" > USE=" x -y" > USE="-x -y" > > This should be so simple to script but I can't figure out how to do it. > Anyone have any ideas or a ready example script? % echo {x,-x}" "{y,-y} x y x -y -x y -x -y Is that what you need? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] A script/binary that iterates over arguments and spits out different variants?

2012-11-08 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 08-11-2012 19:41:41 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 08-11-2012 19:18:10 +0100, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > For a while I've been thinking that it would be sweet to feed all > > variants (enabled/disabled) of several USE flags to a script to automate > > testi

Re: [gentoo-dev] A script/binary that iterates over arguments and spits out different variants?

2012-11-08 Thread Fabian Groffen
t; IUSE="-debug sdl static-libs xv" IUSE="-debug sdl static-libs -xv" IUSE="-debug sdl -static-libs xv" IUSE="-debug sdl -static-libs -xv" IUSE="-debug -sdl static-libs xv" IUSE="-debug -sdl static-libs -xv" IUSE="-debug -sdl -static-libs xv" IUSE="-debug -sdl -static-libs -xv" Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH systemd.eclass] Use local variables instead of subshelling for do*() and new*().

2012-11-12 Thread Fabian Groffen
t; - doins "${@}" > - ) > + local INSDESTTREE > + insinto "$(_systemd_get_unitdir)" > + doins "${@}" Isn't this a bit ugly and assuming knowledge that you better not? Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Fabian Groffen
Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Fabian Groffen
gt; /. You end up with a symlink (e.g. bin -> ./usr/bin) from one place to the other regardless, so it doesn't matter much. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Fabian Groffen
. Please don't make it our problem. It doesn't add anything useful to this discussion. Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-19 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 19-11-2012 15:20:56 +0700, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: > 18.11.2012 22:51, Fabian Groffen пишет: > > You end up with a symlink (e.g. bin -> ./usr/bin) from one place to the > > other regardless, so it doesn't matter much. > > So, why not to make /usr/bin ->

[gentoo-dev] News item for Exim 4.88

2017-03-01 Thread Fabian Groffen
Hi, I'd like to push out attached news item ASAP. Please review. Thanks in advance, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level Title: =mail-mta/exim-4.88 problem with chunking Author: Fabian Groffen Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2017-03-01 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item for Exim 4.88

2017-03-01 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 01-03-2017 14:04:07 -0600, Matthias Maier wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017, at 13:43 CST, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to push out attached news item ASAP. Please review. > > Looks good. Has a clear and precise structure. Thanks,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: profiles/arches.desc - improve repoman flexibility (with other benefits)

2017-03-26 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 26-03-2017 20:54:51 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Congratulations for getting this far. What's your opinion? When you say "arch" you actually mean a keyword as per GLEP-53[1] right? Thanks, Fabian [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:53 -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: profiles/arches.desc - improve repoman flexibility (with other benefits)

2017-03-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 26-03-2017 22:02:38 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > When you say "arch" you actually mean a keyword as per GLEP-53[1] > > right? > > Which doesn't agree with actual usage in the tree,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: profiles/arches.desc - improve repoman flexibility (with other benefits)

2017-03-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 27-03-2017 09:56:50 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > >> > When you say "arch" you actually mean a keyword as per GLEP-53[1] > >> > right? > >> > >> Which doesn't

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: eclass/

2017-05-16 Thread Fabian Groffen
hat is the actual problem with that? Hardware or more deltas to download by users? Just wondering. Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New package neomutt

2017-07-31 Thread Fabian Groffen
l to me to have both mutt and neomutt around. I sent my detailed comments on the neomutt ebuild to Nicholas off-list already. The changes suggested should show even more how the two are different. Thanks, Fabian [1] http://mailman.neomutt.org/pipermail/neomutt-devel-neomutt.org/2017-April/000364.html -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New package neomutt

2017-08-10 Thread Fabian Groffen
hen sorry, I am not aware of that. I can live with a symlink USE-flag. It doesn't seem very elegant to me, but it would work for this scenario. Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New package neomutt

2017-08-10 Thread Fabian Groffen
nary is still always called 'mutt'. > > Why not just have mutt and/or neomutt for both packages? Whoever only > wants neomutt and run it with 'mutt' can "alias mutt=neomutt" and be > done. Both packages install /usr/bin/mutt by upstream's defau

Re: [gentoo-dev] New package neomutt

2017-08-10 Thread Fabian Groffen
ch will be, given the suggestions you and others have done in this thread. Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] "Not a git repository" error on ebuild

2017-11-07 Thread Fabian Groffen
age. > > > >  Thanks in advance: > > > > > Please post the ebuild. That's a git error (not a portage error) and it > means you are trying to run "git " without running "git > init" first Chances are git is called from the Makefile. Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: Prefix bootstrap script maintainability (Was: No more stable keywords for Games)

2017-11-22 Thread Fabian Groffen
code. Perhaps open up the dicussion on the related project's mailing lists. At least I haven't come across any request to explain certain bits/decisions yet. Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC, PATCH] user.eclass: gracefully return when unprivileged

2017-11-22 Thread Fabian Groffen
t, mostly usable on NAS > or smartphones, when we do ultimately like portage to manage groups and > users. I think we could definitely live with this until someone requests otherwise. Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] GLEP 74 post-Council review update [v5]

2017-12-01 Thread Fabian Groffen
ference implementation for this GLEP is being developed > as the gemato project [#GEMATO]_. > > > Credits > === > > Thanks to all the people whose contributions were invaluable > to the creation of this GLEP. This includes but is not limited to: > > - Ro

[gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo:master commit in: dev-libs/libunibreak/

2017-12-14 Thread Fabian Groffen
k/metadata.xml > deleted file mode 100644 > index a8bbb441f29..000 > --- a/dev-libs/libunibreak/metadata.xml > +++ /dev/null > @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ > - > -http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd";> > - > - > - > - Libunibreak is an implementation of the line breaking and word > breaking algorithms > - as described in Unicode Standard Annex 14 and Unicode Standard > Annex 29. It is > - designed to be used in a generic text renderer. > - > - > - Generate man pages with doxygen. > - Install html API documentation. > - > - > > -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo:master commit in: dev-libs/libunibreak/

2017-12-14 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 14-12-2017 13:39:18 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 14 grudnia 2017 13:21:47 CET, Fabian Groffen > napisał(a): > >Can we make it a policy to list /what/ QA issues are the justification > >for commits like these? A description in the commit message would be > >prefe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo:master commit in: dev-libs/libunibreak/

2017-12-14 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 14-12-2017 13:39:18 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 14 grudnia 2017 13:21:47 CET, Fabian Groffen > napisał(a): > >Can we make it a policy to list /what/ QA issues are the justification > >for commits like these? A description in the commit message would be > >prefe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo:master commit in: dev-libs/libunibreak/

2017-12-14 Thread Fabian Groffen
oking for > excuses and loopholes, and start doing something good for Gentoo. So, breaking the tree, just because someone forgot to set the maintainer field is doing something good for Gentoo? (That's called QA?) https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-commits/message/7f34111f0e45f451d5b3a5

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo:master commit in: dev-libs/libunibreak/

2017-12-14 Thread Fabian Groffen
see) contact Andrey upfront to establish how honest his mistake was? > Andrey pretty clearly stated that he did this *on purpose*. Andreas also did his commit *on purpose*. Honestly. And he made things worse, now actually *affecting* our users. ... Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo:master commit in: dev-libs/libunibreak/

2017-12-14 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 14-12-2017 14:41:17 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > W dniu czw, 14.12.2017 o godzinie 13∶56 +0100, użytkownik Fabian Groffen > napisał: > > On 14-12-2017 13:39:18 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > > > Dnia 14 grudnia 2017 13:21:47 CET, Fabian Groffen > > > napisał(a): &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-10 Thread Fabian Groffen
e-light, I suggest to anyone who doesn't like this direction that we move discussions to -project instead. Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] about stable, dev and exp profile status

2018-01-10 Thread Fabian Groffen
's playground", and I wonder if in that case it wouldn't be better to introduce a new one instead? Maybe I'm just one of a few who thinks the order is reversed now. Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo:master commit in: sys-devel/llvm/

2018-01-20 Thread Fabian Groffen
equires USE=clang) > + Support dumping LLVM bitcode sections in > Mach-O files > + (uses app-arch/libxar) I think you mean app-arch/xar everywhere? Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Bugzilla arch list reordering

2018-01-23 Thread Fabian Groffen
of that, I'd like to group 32/64 bits versions of arches. Basically djc converted into: AMD64 X86 PPC64 PPC ARM64 ARM SPARC64 (?) SPARC ALPHA IA64 HPPA MIPS ... Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] about commits in the future

2018-02-21 Thread Fabian Groffen
is it technically possible to reject such commits? 3) if 2) should we decide on some clock skew and reject anything which is beyond that? How do others feel about this? Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] about non-ebuild files in the tree (and verification thereof)

2018-02-28 Thread Fabian Groffen
repoman also is as happy as it can be on this odd file (I thought it used to complain about stray/unadded files). Does anybody know or have a pointer to what the policies on files in our ebuild dirs actually is? Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] about non-ebuild files in the tree (and verification thereof)

2018-02-28 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 28-02-2018 22:08:54 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 04:10:52PM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm working on a verification implementation of > > https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0074.html and ran into the following > &

[gentoo-dev] About making mastersync redundant

2018-03-20 Thread Fabian Groffen
ng snapshots (for emerge webrsync) and no rsync propagation. > > -A > > > > References: >1. https://infra-status.gentoo.org/ > > read_char: errno==EILSEQ; invalid byte sequence for UTF-8: -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: app-metrics

2018-03-22 Thread Fabian Groffen
-snmp_exporter > * net-analyzer/prometheus-uwsgi_exporter > * net-analyzer/prometheus-pushgateway > * net-analyzer/prometheus-alertmanager > > With the growing adoption of prometheus I expect more exporters to be > added (I have five more that I want to add in the near future). > &

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: empty directories in ${D}

2018-03-29 Thread Fabian Groffen
ould feel more obliged to fix them? > Provided that the packages are still maintained, and it won't be > 'hey, we just made it impossible to install this package, maybe someone > will fix it one day'. I agree, packages shouldn't suddenly start failing. Not during install, not during runtime either. For changes like this EAPIs were invented. Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Developer commit timeline updates

2018-06-24 Thread Fabian Groffen
look at. Thanks :) > [1]:https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/dev-timeline.html > [2]:https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/active-devs.html -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: eclass/

2016-04-17 Thread Fabian Groffen
for review, or even start wondering > that we might be using USE=libressl all around for some reason... While I believe your point is right (patches for review), I think this style of communication is unnecessary. Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.as

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] bugs.g.o: Merging UNCONFIRMED & CONFIRMED into NEW

2016-06-16 Thread Fabian Groffen
gt; replace the two with a single NEW state. ... > Your thoughts? How about UNRESOLVED instead? Else you get bugs which are NEW for years even though they have activity all over. Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] bugs.g.o: Merging UNCONFIRMED & CONFIRMED into NEW

2016-06-16 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 16-06-2016 14:51:26 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:41:43 +0200 > Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > On 16-06-2016 14:26:47 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > Hello, everyone. > > > > > > Here's my second RFC wrt bugs.gentoo.org re

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] bugs.g.o: Merging UNCONFIRMED & CONFIRMED into NEW

2016-06-16 Thread Fabian Groffen
properly, or to generally harm others and ignore good > practices because you can't handle your mail. You mean ignoring the Reply-To header is "good practice"? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] bugs.g.o: Merging UNCONFIRMED & CONFIRMED into NEW

2016-06-16 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 16-06-2016 19:37:55 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:52:32 +0200 > Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > On 16-06-2016 16:37:10 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > P.S. Please don't CC me when replying to my e-mails on the list, > > > &

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 3/4] toolchain-funcs.eclass: Add tc-get-compiler-type()

2016-06-22 Thread Fabian Groffen
+ # cpp is probably broken > + if [[ $1 != CPP_WORKS ]]; then > + echo unknown > + # Check which of the defines were substituted > + elif [[ $3 != __clang__ ]]; then > + echo clang > + elif [[ $2 != __GNUC__ ]]; then > + echo gc

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] new eselect module: compiler

2016-08-08 Thread Fabian Groffen
t it does a lot of things also for the environment. With clang, from my experience, you just want it as drop-in replacement for gcc as it doesn't give you too much issues (on Darwin at least). Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] new eselect module: compiler

2016-08-10 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 10-08-2016 08:39:26 +0800, Lei Zhang wrote: > 2016-08-09 13:58 GMT+08:00 Fabian Groffen : > > As a question to Lei, I'm wondering why you chose eselect compiler, and > > not gcc-config to manage the links. In a way, gcc-config is tailored > > towards gcc, but it doe

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