[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites EAPI=6 packages: dev-php/*

Hi, I missed this announcement, looking specifically for composer again. If I make the effort of bumping to newest version, is this something that would be re-added to the tree? I note there were active security vulnerabilities under very specific conditions (composer.phar is exposed via htt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites EAPI=6 packages: dev-php/*

Hi Michael, Looks like we keep bumping into each other ... and not only on PHP packages. n 2024/09/11 13:26, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 09:33 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: Hi, I missed this announcement, looking specifically for composer again. If I make the effort of bumping

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites EAPI=6 packages: dev-php/*

Hi, On 2024/09/13 12:22, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 2024-09-11 17:23:16, Jaco Kroon wrote: 1.  Let users (myself included) just download and use that. 2.  We package the phar file rather than the individual deps. Yes, this is cheating.  Like using embedded libs, however, I've see

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Add esed.eclass for sed that dies if caused no changes

Hi, On 2022/05/31 16:29, Ionen Wolkens wrote: > esed does bring back the -i/die skipping but that's not its inherent > purpose and GNU sed currently does not support a mean to report if > changes occurred (if this happens, esed may well become obsolete too). > Haven't checked the code to validate.

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] linux-mod.eclass: Support module compression

Hi, On 2022/06/10 00:11, Mike Pagano wrote: > The Linux kernel supports the compression of modules utilizing GZIP, XZ > and ZSTD.  Add code into linux-mod.eclass to support this for out of > tree modules utilizing the compression binary specified in the kernel > config. > > Note that if the binar

[gentoo-dev] linux-mod - moving checks to pkg_pretend

Hi All, Currently checks for kernel options etc happen in pkg_setup, would it be possible to move this to pkg_pretend? Motivation:  pkg_setup executes just prior to unpack, so if it fails here it could be after a lot of other work has already gone into other packages, breaking the full merge, it

Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-mod - moving checks to pkg_pretend

Hi Ionen, On 2022/06/10 12:03, Ionen Wolkens wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 11:41:01AM +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Currently checks for kernel options etc happen in pkg_setup, would it be >> possible to move this to pkg_pretend? > One problem with

Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-mod - moving checks to pkg_pretend

Hi, On 2022/06/10 12:07, Ionen Wolkens wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 06:03:28AM -0400, Ionen Wolkens wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 11:41:01AM +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Currently checks for kernel options etc happen in pkg_setup, woul

Re: [gentoo-dev] proposal

Hi All, On 2022/07/06 15:50, Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 2022-07-04 at 16:19 +0200, Florian Schmaus wrote: >> I'd like to propose a new metadata XML element for packages: >> >> >> >> Maintainers can signal to other developers (and of course contributors >> in general) that they are happy

Re: [gentoo-dev] Up for grabs: net-misc/anydesk, net-misc/vde

On 2022/07/24 18:36, Sam James wrote: > The following packages are up for grabs b/c of inactivity: > net-misc/anydesk https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26587 Kind Regards, Jaco

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-misc/bgpq3

# Jaco Kroon (2022-08-22) # Superceded by bgpq4 (already in tree).  Non-co-operative upstream.  Removal # in 30 days.  Open bugs, already fixed in bgpq4.  Please convert your usage to # bgpq4.  Mostly you just need to drop the -3 argument. net-misc/bgpq3 Related PR:  https://github.com/gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-fs/eudev

Hi Mike, Sam This is the last I saw on the ML regarding eudev - has there been a change of strategy regarding eudev since? I note that the default provider for the virtual is systemd-utils[udev], followed by sys-fs/udev, sys-fs/eudev and finally sys-apps/systemd.  This contradicts the wiki page w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-fs/eudev

Hi Arve, On 2022/08/30 12:27, Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 at 11:52, Jaco Kroon wrote: >> I note that the default provider for the virtual is systemd-utils[udev], >> followed by sys-fs/udev, sys-fs/eudev and finally sys-apps/systemd. >> This contradicts the w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add systemd/merged-usr profiles

Hi, That really depends. If the expectation is that everything in /usr/{bin,sbin,lib*} needs to now fit on / rather than /usr we're queued to re-install a very, very large number of hosts. Kind Regards, Jaco On 2022/08/31 18:01, Jeff Gazso wrote: > Just out of curiosity, how much pain is this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add systemd/merged-usr profiles

Hi, On 2022/08/31 19:38, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 12:29 PM Jaco Kroon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> That really depends. >> >> If the expectation is that everything in /usr/{bin,sbin,lib*} needs to now >> fit on / rather than /usr we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to undeprecate EGO_SUM

Hi All, This doesn't directly affect me. Nor am I familiar with the mechanisms. Perhaps it's worthwhile to suggest that EGO_SUM itself may be externalized.  I don't know what goes in here, and this will likely require help from portage itself, so may not be directly viable. What if portage had a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to undeprecate EGO_SUM

Hi, On 2022/09/30 16:53, Florian Schmaus wrote: > jkroon@plastiekpoot ~ $ du -sh /var/db/repos/gentoo/ >> 644M    /var/db/repos/gentoo/ >> >> I'm not against exploding this by another 200 or even 300 MB personally, >> but I do agree that pointless bloat is bad, and ideally we want to >> shrink the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] A new GLSA schema

Hi, On 2022/11/10 06:13, John Helmert III wrote:  - Drop synopsis and description fields. These fields contain the same    information and will be superceded by the existing impact field. Well, I'm not saying "no" but it feels a bit weird reading a GLSA that doesn't say a word what the proble

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] A new GLSA schema

Hi, On 2022/11/10 11:40, Matthew Smith wrote: Hi, On 10/11/2022 08:43, Jaco Kroon wrote: A mechanism to QUERY which installed packages are affected by known GLSA's would also be tremendously helpful. You can use glsa-check for this, which comes with portage: https://wiki.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] A new GLSA schema

Hi Sam, On 2022/11/10 12:19, Sam James wrote: One could thus also link GLSA issues to specific USE flags, taking asterisk again, let's say the problem is with the http web server having a buffer overflow in the http basic authenticator, then if that embedded server isn't even compiled in, how

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] A new GLSA schema

Hi, On 2022/11/10 16:24, John Helmert III wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 10:43:55AM +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: Hi, On 2022/11/10 06:13, John Helmert III wrote:  - Drop synopsis and description fields. These fields contain the same    information and will be superceded by the existing

[gentoo-dev] last-rite: net-voip/captagent

# Jaco Kroon (2022-12-14) # Multiple open bugs (bug #870910, bug #877731, bug #884815), only one of which # is trivial to solve. # With more and more SIP traffic using TLS rather than plaintext UDP or TCP # this is fast becoming less and less useful.  You should rather use # asterisk's re

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: x11-misc/lightdm-mini-greeter and x11-misc/xautolock

Hi Hans, On 2023/06/17 10:12, Hans de Graaff wrote: After migrating to Wayland I no longer have a need for these X packages. I have already removed myself as maintainer. x11-misc/xautolock Has one open bug that should be addressed upstream, but upstream is pretty much dead: https://bugs.gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: x11-misc/lightdm-mini-greeter and x11-misc/xautolock

Hi Orbea, My time availability is somewhat constrained at the moment, but, also given Hans's response to my email, happy to assist or even co-maintain. Kind regards, Jaco On 2023/06/21 18:36, orbea wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 16:23:38 +0200 Jaco Kroon wrote: Hi Hans, On 2023/06/17

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] cmake.eclass: workaround S=${WORKDIR} creating builddir above ${WORKDIR}

Hi, On 2023/06/26 12:36, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, Sam James wrote: + + # Avoid creating ${WORKDIR}_build (which is above WORKDIR). + # TODO: For EAPI > 8, we should ban S=WORKDIR for CMake. + # See bug #889420. + if [[ ${

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help wanted with net-misc/frr maintenance

Hi Alarig, On 2023/07/12 15:18, Alarig Le Lay wrote: Hello Jakov, On Wed 12 Jul 2023 10:54:47 GMT, Jakov Smolić wrote: Hi all, I was recently left as the sole maintainer of net-misc/frr and given I'm not actively using the package anymore it would be good if someone who is an active user could

[gentoo-dev] Re: Standard parsable format for profiles/package.mask file

Hi, On 2023/09/22 13:16, Florian Schmaus wrote: On 21/09/2023 21.40, Arthur Zamarin wrote: If this is a last-rite message, the last line must list the last-rite last date (removal date) and the last-rite bug number. You can also list FWIW, I would assume the last-rite date to be the date wher

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-misc/drive

Hi, net-misc/insync::ppfeufer-gentoo-overlay is a sensible albeit proprietary alternative. Kind regards, Jaco On 2023/11/13 00:08, Zac Medico wrote: commit ba6f1c6fd9b9434bd2c07cf7233ee38cb6ab430a Author: Brian Harring AuthorDate: 2023-11-09 20:51:11 -0800 Commit: Zac Medico Commi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-admin/fluentd

https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/34126 ?? Perhaps I'm missing something if you say it's non-trivial but we're using that on 9 hosts currently. On 2023/12/31 12:34, Michał Górny wrote: # Michał Górny (2023-12-31) # Unresolved vulnerability.  The current version is from 2022-03, # and th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-admin/fluentd

Hi, On 2024/01/09 13:42, Michał Górny wrote: On Tue, 2024-01-09 at 12:54 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/34126 ?? Perhaps I'm missing something if you say it's non-trivial but we're using that on 9 hosts currently. Do tests pass

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-admin/fluentd

Hi Sam, On 2024/01/10 13:02, Sam James wrote: Jaco Kroon writes: How critical is it that they do? Even for the bump PR they do not, they fail with the below, and frankly my knowledge of ruby is outright scary.  The below to me indicates that the tests are designed specifically to run from a

[gentoo-dev] mirror storage growth rate

Hi All, I was messing with some storage related caching on some of our hosts this morning when I wondered about how much storage the gentoo mirrors were consuming.  I'm not too worried about the current storage, but I am noticing that the storage requirements are creeping quite a bit (as per

[gentoo-dev] netmount and glusterfs (fuse) dependency management

Hi All, I was hoping for some advise regarding how I could improve the glusterfs package for users (and myself).  At least those using openrc, but I suspect similar may be applicable to systemd, but I have no idea how systemd handles network mounts so perhaps someone could chip in here on tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] netmount and glusterfs (fuse) dependency management

Hi Joonas, Thanks for the below.  Further comments there. On 2024/04/11 07:11, Joonas Niilola wrote: On 8.4.2024 12.51, Jaco Kroon wrote: In order for glusterfs to mount successfully the fuse module needs to be available when mount.glusterfs is invoked.  This can be achieved in one of two

Re: [gentoo-dev] netmount and glusterfs (fuse) dependency management

Hi Joonas, On 2024/04/11 12:02, Joonas Niilola wrote: Hey, On 11.4.2024 9.14, Jaco Kroon wrote: The latter can certainly be done and makes sense (only required if you're using the fuse mount, so if USE=fuse at least). The former doesn't make sense to do blindly in /etc/init.d/netmo

[gentoo-dev] default php-ext status

Hi All, For PHP modules that's getting installed, by default they all link ext/${modulename}.ini into ext-active/ such that all modules by default is active for all SAPIs. Short of INSTALL_MASK, is there way to better control for sysadmins? If I rm the symlinks, on next remerge they restore

Re: [gentoo-dev] default php-ext status

Hi, On 2024/04/22 18:49, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On Mon, 2024-04-22 at 16:46 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: Which in my *opinion* is not desirable behaviour, but I'm open for discussion. xdebug.mode = off by default, but the extension still gets loaded. Not sure if there is a sensible &quo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Imminent Python 3.12 switch reminder

On 2024/05/30 17:56, orbea wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2024 17:54:32 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 2024-05-30 at 08:09 -0700, orbea wrote: This is a reoccurring theme and its driving away contributors. The PR queue really should be taken care of. Talk is cheap. If I had the power to do it my

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] profiles/desc: add curl_quic

Hi, On 2024/06/21 15:15, kan...@gentoo.org wrote: From: Matt Jolly The CURL_QUIC USE_EXPAND enables us to sanely manage QUIC (RFC 9000) backends as they are added to cURL in the future: currently there are two supported implementations, OpenSSL and ngtcp2, however it's likely that other popu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reviewing ebuilds with git

Hi, Is there a way to make this work with github PR reviews? Kind regards, Jaco On 2024/06/30 19:38, Sam James wrote: Hi, I've mentioned this on IRC a bunch of times to people but I figure I'll mention it here in case anyone finds it useful. Our use of git doesn't lend itself well to the de

[gentoo-dev] recommendation to last-rite openl2tp

Hi All, I noted there has been a recent push to deprecate and clean up the tree as much as possible. Another possible candidate is net-dialup/openl2tp. We've been using this for a while now, with some recent patches we've added against xl2tpd (mostly myself) we now believe there is no longer

[gentoo-dev] last-rite: net-dialup/openl2tp

# Jaco Kroon (2024-07-11) # Superseded by xl2tpd, this no longer has any operational advantage over # xl2tpd.  If you need help you're welcome to contact me (jkroon on # libera.chat). # Removal on 2024-08-11. bugs: #414901, #768075, #919269 net-dialup/openl2tp

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] php-ext-source-r3.eclass: Rebuild exts should dev-lang/php[threads,debug] change.

If these use flags change then the extension dir changes too, requiring extensions to be rebuilt. The downside of this change is that different versions of PHP can no longer have different USE values for threads and debug. Signed-off-by: Jaco Kroon --- eclass/php-ext-source-r3.eclass | 9

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] php-ext-source-r3.eclass: Rebuild exts should dev-lang/php[threads,debug] change.

Based on no feedback I proceeded to push a PR available here: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/37712 On 2024/07/23 12:42, Jaco Kroon wrote: If these use flags change then the extension dir changes too, requiring extensions to be rebuilt. The downside of this change is that different

[gentoo-dev] Fwd: open pull requests [was on netifrc]

into our local repositories and projects instead. Hoping for some advise on how to proceed. Kind regards, Jaco Forwarded Message Subject:open pull requests Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:06:58 +0200 From: Jaco Kroon Organization: Ultimate Linux Solutions (Pty) L

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] User and group management via dedicated packages

Hi Michal, This sounds sensible and is an interesting approach.  I kinda like it. There is only one technical comment I have based on the earlier discussion, not addressed. What if users needs to be created into a centralized UID/GID system to be pulled in via nss? So calling system tools

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] User and group management via dedicated packages

Hi, On 2019/05/29 18:01, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 5/29/19 5:50 AM, Jaco Kroon wrote: This GLEP follows the best practice of leaving obsolete user/groups accounts intact. This guarantees that no files with stale ownership are left (e.g. on unmounted filesystems) and that the same UID/GID is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 5/9] user.eclass: Die if no free UID/GID is found

Hi, Why not utilize -r or --system as per useradd(8) in order to add system users? The limits for the allocated user ids comes from /etc/login.defs. Kind Regards, Jaco On 2019/05/30 14:50, Michał Górny wrote: Signed-off-by: Michał Górny --- eclass/user.eclass | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 i

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v4 12/19] user.eclass: Support getting & setting comment field

Hi, + # update the comment + case ${CHOST} in + *-freebsd*|*-dragonfly*) + pw usermod "${euser}" -c "${ecomment}" && return 0 + [[ $? == 8 ]] && eerror "${euser} is in use, cannot update comment" + eerror "There was an error when atte

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2] profiles: add more language codes to desc/l10n.desc

Hi, Any chance of adding en-NZ? asterisk-core-sounds depends on L10N USE_EXPAND and there is an upstream en-NZ pack.  It's the only language pack for which there isn't currently an option already in the list here. Kind Regards, Jaco On 2019/06/13 10:26, Marek Szuba wrote: Many thanks for

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3] glep-0081: User and group management via dedicated packages

Hi, On 2019/06/21 07:59, Andrew Savchenko wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:32:56 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 2019-06-20 at 09:53 -0400, Brian Evans wrote: On 6/9/2019 7:39 AM, Michał Górny wrote: +Tracking of user/group usage is done through dependencies. As long +as any installed package

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/6] Make 'split-usr' USE flag global and use it in gen_usr_ldscript

Hi, Perhaps it's just me not being in the loop, but what exactly is the problem we're trying to solve here? I'm personally using a separate /usr (On numerous systems) and other than one problem I've encountered this isn't actually currently an issue for me, and the reason this specific case

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/6] Make 'split-usr' USE flag global and use it in gen_usr_ldscript

l as possible a partition, with the bulk of the system on /usr makes a lot of sense for me. Kind Regards, Jaco On 2019/07/15 14:28, Marek Szuba wrote: On 2019-07-15 12:38, Jaco Kroon wrote: I'm personally using a separate /usr (On numerous systems) and other than one problem I'

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/6] Make 'split-usr' USE flag global and use it in gen_usr_ldscript

is matter.  We'll just have to bloat our initrd's even further.  Fortunately they do get freed post post ... just hoping they'll fit into the existing /boot partitions we have on our systems. Kind Regards, Jaco Kroon C.E.O. *T:* +27 (0)12 021 | *F:* +27 86 648 8561 | *E:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/6] Make 'split-usr' USE flag global and use it in gen_usr_ldscript

into /? Kind Regards, Jaco On 2019/07/15 17:37, William Hubbs wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 10:51:46AM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 7/15/19 10:45 AM, Jaco Kroon wrote: I have no idea who wrote this: "The historical justification for a /bin, /sbin and /lib separate from /usr no long

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New QA policy: Packages must not disable installing manpages via USE flags

Hi, I'm with Rich on this one.  I trust that like me most of the developers here earn pay checks from elsewhere and that our time here is either completely volunteer work, or towards a purpose that suits that of our employers. Unless there is a way to automate the building of the associated

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New QA policy: Packages must not disable installing manpages via USE flags

Hi Michał, On 2019/07/23 14:39, Michał Górny wrote: On Wed, 2019-07-24 at 00:17 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 13:38:28 +0200 Gerion Entrup wrote: What about a compromise?: Deliver a (prebuild) manpage as package maintainer by default, but keep a use flag "man-build" (or what

[gentoo-dev] dynamic groups and users

Hi, Looking at the new eclasses for acct-user and acct-group. These enforce that a group and user id should be set. This is not a requirement for enewuser nor enewgroup. As a further discrepancy, the user eclass requires >0 for the IDs, whereas the checks in acct-user and acct-group is for >=

Re: [gentoo-dev] dynamic groups and users

eriously doesn't matter as it'll never write to disk (other than the log files ...). Heck, even if it could, sharing that state wouldn't make much sense either.  Even something like asterisk being predictable makes sense, since /var/spool/asterisk/monitor (and a few others, as we cu

Re: [gentoo-dev] dynamic groups and users

2019-08-01 at 21:04 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: Hi, Looking at the new eclasses for acct-user and acct-group. These enforce that a group and user id should be set. This is not a requirement for enewuser nor enewgroup. As a further discrepancy, the user eclass requires >0 for the IDs, whereas

Re: [gentoo-dev] dynamic groups and users

Hi Michał, On 2019/08/02 19:06, Michał Górny wrote: On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 12:24 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 8/2/19 11:58 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Given that overlays won't do proper assignment, the numbers they choose may collide with numbers used in ::gentoo. Forcing explicit assignment

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] glep-0067: Add 'proxied' and 'watcher' maint types

Hi On 2019/08/03 01:19, Jonas Stein wrote: On 02/08/2019 22.55, Michał Górny wrote: Add two new maintainer types: 'proxied' for proxied maintainers, and 'watcher' for people who wish to be CC-ed on bugs but are not maintainers (e.g. upstream developers). Can't we solve this simply in the bug t

Re: [gentoo-dev] dynamic groups and users

Hi Guys, Attaching.  It seems for some reason if I inline the patches they don't come through.  If I mail to myself only it works just fine. Kind Regards, Jaco Kroon C.E.O. *T:* +27 (0)12 021 | *F:* +27 86 648 8561 | *E:* j...@iewc.co.za *W:* iewc.co.za <http://www.iewc.co.z

Re: [gentoo-dev] dynamic groups and users

Hi Michał, On 2019/08/07 17:48, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 13:41 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> > Attaching. It seems for some reason if I inline the patches they don't >> come through. If I mail to myself only it works just fine.

Re: [gentoo-dev] dynamic groups and users

Hi Ulrich, > >> I don't see any reason to prohibit having a user/group package for >> root. > > Is creation of (additional) users with UID 0 a good idea from a > security point of view? Maybe it is better to explicitly forbid it? > I believe the current code already prevents re-use of an already

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: ignore missing directory in preinst

Hi, On 2019/08/15 16:47, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 8:33 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 8/15/19 3:19 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> I don't think that's a sane situation, so maybe the eclass should just >>> die here? (Basically, there are two possibilities: Either, things wil

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-*.eclass: Allow dynamic UID/GID assignment via -1

Thank you. Kind Regards, Jaco On 2019/08/17 22:37, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 19:10 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: >> Allow a special value of '-1' to dynamically assign UID/GID for the user >> or group. This is intended to be used in overlays where proper >> assignment does not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-misc/libss7

Hi Michał, To the best of my knowledge this used to be a dependency for DAHDI (zaptel at the time if I recall my time lines).  I've confirmed that DAHDI and asterisk can compile on current versions without this, can't find any other users of this in the tree. So as far as I know this can be retir

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: add global USE flag 'split-sbin'

Hi, On 2019/10/15 19:34, David Seifert wrote: > On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 12:04 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 12:02 PM Mike Gilbert >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 8:00 AM David Seifert >>> wrote: On Sun, 2019-10-13 at 12:33 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: add global USE flag 'split-sbin'

Hi, -- large trim -- >> For what it's worth. All of my systems are installed with a fixed- >> size >> 512MB / with everything else (including /usr) on separate LVs. >> >> Whilst sbin vs bin is just a matter of what's available, to me it >> makes >> sense to keep these split. To me it's always be

Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout

Hi All, On 2019/10/21 18:42, Richard Yao wrote: If we consider the access frequency, it might actually not be that bad. Consider a simple example with 500 files and two directory buckets. If we have 250 in each, then the size of the directory is always 250. However, if 50 files are accessed

Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout

Hi, On 2019/10/22 10:43, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Tue, 22 Oct 2019, Jaco Kroon wrote: I also agree with others that it used to be easy to get distfiles as and when needed, so an alternative structure could mirror that of the portage tree itself, in other words "cat/pkg/distfile".

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

Hi, On 2019/10/25 20:14, William Hubbs wrote: Hey all, I have been advised to bring this topic back to the list before taking any action, so here it is. First, I need to clarify what I'm *NOT* talking about. This discussion has nothing to do with whether or not you have the split-usr use flag

[gentoo-dev] RFC acct-{user,group} for asterisk

Hi, As part of taking maintainership of the net-misc/asterisk package (and related), one of the cleanup items is to use the new acct-{user,group} method for assigning UID and GID values. As such I'd like to please reserve UID and GID = 42 for asterisk. Why 42? echo -e "\x$(bc <<<"obase=16; 42")

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC acct-{user,group} for asterisk

#x27;t particularly care what the exact value ends up being, 42 would have been a sweet one due to the ascii value of * being 42. Kind Regards, Jaco Kroon On 2019/11/10 18:31, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 2019-11-10 at 18:23 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As part of

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC acct-{user,group} for asterisk

Hi, On 2019/11/10 20:21, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 11/10/19 12:36 PM, Jaco Kroon wrote: >> What's the motivation for trying to match the UID and GID values from >> other distributions? >> >> I previously tried to motivate a "purely dynamic" allocation

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-firmware/iwl1000-ucode

Hi, On 2019/11/15 21:35, Matt Turner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 2:20 AM Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> The package is somewhat redundant, because sys-kernel/linux-firmware >> installs the same files. (Same for all other sys-firmware/iwl*-ucode >> packages.) > Should last-rite all of them, IMO. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-firmware/iwl1000-ucode

Hi, On 2019/11/16 19:08, Michael 'veremitz' Everitt wrote: > On 16/11/19 16:59, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 1:06 AM Jaco Kroon wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 2019/11/15 21:35, Matt Turner wrote: >>>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2

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

Hi Benda, On 2019/11/24 14:15, Benda Xu wrote: > What do you think? Is it possible to disable python2_7 by default, even if python2 is installed, and only enable python2_7 for those packages specifically requiring it (ie, being a dep for one of the packages that only supports python2_7? I tried

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rites: media-libs/mediastreamer, media-plugins/mediastreamer-amr, media-plugins/mediastreamer-bcg729, media-plugins/mediastreamer-ilbc, media-plugins/mediastreamer-x264

Hi, I've got a local repository for asterisk-g72x that depends on mediastreamer-bcg729.  It actually conflicts with bcg729 which is more widely used.  I'll rather check if I can fix asterisk-g72x to work againts net-libs/bcg729 instead.  Currently we're experiencing decoder lockups (infinite loops

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v4] mount-boot.eclass: Check if /boot is sane, but don't try to mount it.

is a grown-up program > which doesn't need any help from egrep or sed. :-) > > Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/532264 > See-also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/274130#c5 > Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller Acked-by: Jaco Kroon > > --- > v3: Exit awk commands on first match. > > v4:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v4] mount-boot.eclass: Check if /boot is sane, but don't try to mount it.

Hi, >> What about just checking "${EROOT}/boot" instead? > For what, existence? There may well be a "boot" directory present under > EROOT. (And we could check ${EROOT}/etc/fstab, but I don't think we > should open that can of worms. There's no reliable way to guess the > user's exact configuratio

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Introducing VIDEO_CARDS=iris to virtual/opencl

Hi, As someone with a Radeon / Intel hybrid/dual graphics chip. I can only emphasise what Matt says below.  It's a PITA currently. Having said that ... I don't see how this can be made simpler, unless we have a tool of sorts that when run on *any* hardware gives you what this needs to be set to,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/2] allow acct-user home directories in /home

Hi Michael, My background:  21 years of Linux, 18 of which was primarily on Gentoo.  17 years of no other OS other than Linux.  Ex-sysadmin for a largish setup with 4000+ active users, and ~500-600 available workstations and a number of storage and other servers.  Not to brag, just to give you an

[gentoo-dev] automated build failure bugs

Hi All, Example:  https://bugs.gentoo.org/710484 Relates to the dropping of my_bool from mysql-connector-c. This has been addressed upstream and a ~ ebuild has been pushed. My question is simple:  Is that good enough to close the bug?  Do I need to remove 13.29.1 from the tree (via proxy maint

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword

Hi, I'd be in support.  Especially for "data only" kind of packages, like: net-misc/asterisk-moh-opsound net-misc/asterisk-extra-sounds net-misc/asterisk-core-sounds For all three these I've already dropped the DEPEND on net-misc/asterisk anyway, and upgraded the PDEPEND on net-misc/asterisk bac

[gentoo-dev] musl doesn't provide execinfo.h

Hi, https://bugs.gentoo.org/713668 relates.  * Searching for /usr/include/execinfo.h ... sys-libs/glibc-2.29-r7 (/usr/include/execinfo.h) As I see I can either add an explicit depend on glibc which I'd prefer not to.  Or someone from the musl team could possibly assist on how to get the backtrac

[gentoo-dev] dev.gentoo.org unreachable

Hi All, Is there a known issue with dev.gentoo.org? I initially thought it might just be a routing issue from our network but have since confirmed at least two other sources with the same problem.  One of these are IPv4 only, the other two are trying IPv6 too.  All failing. One v6 and v4:  1?:

Re: [gentoo-dev] musl doesn't provide execinfo.h

Hi Michał, On 2020/03/23 18:25, Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 10:21 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/713668 relates. >> >> * Searching for /usr/include/execinfo.h ... >> sys-libs/glibc-2.29-r7 (/usr/include/exec

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: x11-terms/aterm, x11-terms/xvt

Hi, On 2020/03/26 23:34, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > # Andreas K. Hüttel (2020-03-26) > # Fail to build with glibc-2.30; no maintainer. Removal in 30days. > # Bugs 691756, 691710 > x11-terms/aterm I'll take this via proxy-maint. Kind Regards, Jaco

Re: [gentoo-dev] musl doesn't provide execinfo.h

Hi, On 2020/03/27 03:25, Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 3/23/2020 04:21, Jaco Kroon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/713668 relates. >> >>  * Searching for /usr/include/execinfo.h ... >> sys-libs/glibc-2.29-r7 (/usr/include/execinfo.h) >> >&

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: x11-terms/aterm, x11-terms/xvt

Hi, On 2020/03/26 23:48, Jaco Kroon wrote: > Hi, > > On 2020/03/26 23:34, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > >> # Andreas K. Hüttel (2020-03-26) >> # Fail to build with glibc-2.30; no maintainer. Removal in 30days. >> # Bugs 691756, 691710 >> x11-terms/aterm >

Re: [gentoo-dev] musl doesn't provide execinfo.h

the newest available for musl profile.  Reports seems to indicate that this be related to "old linux-headers" (which is at ). Kind Regards, Jaco On 2020/03/27 07:43, Jaco Kroon wrote: > Hi, > > On 2020/03/27 03:25, Joshua Kinard wrote: >> On 3/23/2020 04:21, Jaco Kr

[gentoo-dev] stabilization requests not making progress

1.0 by now ... Kind Regards, Jaco Kroon C.E.O. *T:* +27 (0)12 021 | *F:* +27 86 648 8561 | *E:* j...@iewc.co.za *W:* iewc.co.za <https://www.iewc.co.za/> | *A:* Unit 201, Building 2B, Sunwood Park, Queen's Crescent Lynnwood, Pretoria   Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Int

Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilization requests not making progress

Hi Mart, On 2020/03/28 18:07, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Ühel kenal päeval, L, 28.03.2020 kell 17:24, kirjutas Jaco Kroon: >> Hi All, >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/705754 >> Not sure if this is the only one. This is becoming problematic. >> This specific one is blocking

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for gentoostats implementation

Hi Michał, and the rest of the Gentoo devs, I've been patiently sitting and watching this discussion. I raised some ideas with another developer (Not Michał) just days before he raised this thread to the ML. I believe all points raised to this point is valid, I'll try to summarise: 1.  This mus

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoostats continued] Collected data and justification for it

Hi, On 2020/05/08 08:17, Hans de Graaff wrote: > On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 09:29 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: >> >> 1) list of selected packages (@world) >> >> We would use this to determine the popularity of individual packages, >> plus by scanning their dependencies we would be able to make combined >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Anti-spam for goose

Hi, On 2020/05/21 11:48, Tomas Mozes wrote: > > > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:47 AM Michał Górny > wrote: > > Hi, > > TL;DR: I'm looking for opinions on how to protect goose from spam, > i.e. mass fake submissions. > Option 1: IP-based limiting > =

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Anti-spam for goose

Hi Michał, On 2020/05/21 13:02, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 2020-05-21 at 12:45 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: >> Even for v4, as an attacker ... well, as I'm sitting here right now I've >> got direct access to almost a /20 (4096 addresses). I know a number of >> peop

Re: [gentoo-dev] Revival of Gentoo BugDay: everyone is welcome to come debug

Hi, Can we possibly include the concept of "helping to file bug reports" here? For example, I've got an issue (which hasn't annoyed me just quite enough yet to put effort in) where on bootup after xdm init script starts it takes ~2 minutes before slim login is displayed.  But I don't know enough

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