Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-04 Thread John Myers
[[ACK! I sent this out from the wrong address before. Hope you don't get it twice!]] On Thursday 03 November 2005 21:44, Nathan L. Adams wrote: > No, I happen to understand the that point. Emerge outputting a short > summary is great. But the GLEP should cover the "hey mr. end user, the > central

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-06 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 06 November 2005 13:38, Duncan wrote: > I don't believe the apache upgrade issues were announced on the announce > list. For the record, it was sent to the announce list on 2004-12-24. Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [gentoo-announce] Apache packages refresh on 8th January 20

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates

2005-12-11 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 11 December 2005 13:19, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:57:23 -0700 Lares Moreau > | * Before an ``emerge --ask`` 'yes||no' response > > Does anyone really use emerge --ask? I do. Almost always in fact. When I want to install a package, I use --ask with --verbose so I g

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates

2005-12-11 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 11 December 2005 14:07, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Sunday 11 December 2005 22:57, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > You forgot d) a pain in the ass to parse, e) inconsistent with > > everything else, f) a pain in the ass to sort, g) massive overkill. > > I find ISO 8601 simple to sort

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance

2005-12-15 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 15 December 2005 04:48, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if there are any sane ways to optimize the performance > of a Gentoo system. > Overoptimization (the well known "-O9 -fomgomg" CFLAGS etc.) tends to > make things unstable, which is of course not what we want. Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-17 Thread John Myers
Not that my lowly user opinion matters, but I agree with ciaranm that repository IDs should not be allowed to contain spaces GLEP 42 wrote: > * Before an ``emerge --ask `` sequence What, exactly, does this mean? I'm guessing it means between the package list and the prompt, but it's not quite cl

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-17 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 17 December 2005 20:57, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:50:43 -0800 John Myers > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | GLEP 42 wrote: > | > * Before an ``emerge --ask `` sequence > | > | What, exactly, does this mean? I'm guessing it mea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance

2005-12-23 Thread John Myers
On Friday 23 December 2005 15:52, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Friday 23 December 2005 18:35, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > Just to add. This is not so much related to debugging information in the > > library files (what gdb can use). That information never makes it from > > disk so is not tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] X.Org 7.0 Release

2005-12-23 Thread John Myers
On Friday 23 December 2005 16:29, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > I've been meaning to get it into guidexml and make it a real project doc > for a while now (and the accompanying porting guide), but haven't had > time. Anybody who wants to help out by doing this is quite welcome to do > so. > Here's one I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml

2005-12-26 Thread John Myers
On Monday 26 December 2005 16:11, Marcelo Góes wrote: > ``maintainer`` can contain the tags ``name`` and ``email``, indicating the > person/organization responsible for upstream maintainership of the package. What if upstream is more than one person, but less than an organization? What if there i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: /etc/rc.conf

2006-02-13 Thread John Myers
On Monday 13 February 2006 14:24, Forrest Voight wrote: > What happens if two env.d files set the same variable? AFAIK, the env.d files processed in lexicographic order, and later entries override earlier ones, except for certain variables (such as PATH) which are added to instead. -- # # elect

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE, metapackages, and monolithic packages

2006-02-25 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 25 February 2006 10:33, Mike Myers wrote: > emerge --newuse kde-meta use also '--deep'. Also, consider using 'world' as the target Also, you don't have to unmerge packages before re-merging them. -- # # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia # pgpT4o3hhtfsQ.pgp Descripti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Signing everything, for fun and for profit

2006-05-19 Thread John Myers
On Friday 19 May 2006 08:17, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 19/05/06, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > > It is a single signature across the entire portage tree. It means that > > > after rsync emerge can check the signature against the retrieved tree > > > to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default useflag cleanups: -apm -foomaticdb -fortran -imlib -motif -oss -xmms

2006-06-05 Thread John Myers
On Monday 05 June 2006 23:13, Harald van Dijk wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:48:37AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:31, Harald van Dijk wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:07:42AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > On Monday 05 June 2006 21:23, Chris Gianelloni

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-12 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 14:36, Steve Dibb wrote: > Well, it could happen while testing an ebuild. :) I'd be pretty ticked > if I were testing Qt and I didn't realize they did change the doc files > around before doing a test run. > > Besides that though, imho, a simple function with a boolean re

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-im/aim masked for removal

2006-08-02 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:12, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > I've masked net-im/aim, AOL's proprietary offering. It hasn't seen a > > release in years, it's binary-only, and it's far less capable than any > > other client out there. > > BTW: could be

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

2005-05-04 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 09:10, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > I think an easier solution would be a portage rescue set of profiles. > These would be minimal profiles not designed for actual use, but only > for performing a portage update for those people that lag too far > behind. The idea would be a ve

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

2005-05-15 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 15 May 2005 16:41, david stanek wrote: > Add an option to emerge, --backup or something > similar, that will automatically run quickpkg. If you set FEATURES="buildpkg", portage automatically makes binary packages for you. No need to add new support. pgpqwMjzk44tL.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting build deps out from depends

2005-07-07 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 02:39, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > Also as already asked, what about the chicken egg issue ... (think tar > needing tar, or gzip needing gzip to unpack)? The stages could come primed with the data that the packages on them are already installed. pgpyh0WySyPe7.pgp Descript

Re: [gentoo-dev] New MySQL doc

2005-07-11 Thread John Myers
On Monday 11 July 2005 21:38, Chris White wrote: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html > > Comments, etc are welcome. You might want to make Code listing 4.19: Finding our guest user in the user table a little narrower, as it makes the page much wider than my 1,280 pixel wide scr

Re: [gentoo-dev] New MySQL doc

2005-07-11 Thread John Myers
On Monday 11 July 2005 21:38, Chris White wrote: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html > > Comments, etc are welcome. Sorry for posting twice, but Code listing 4.11: REVOKE format is incorrect. It probably should say REVOKE [privleges] ON database.* FROM '[user]'@'[host]';

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla Bug #109301 dev-db/mysql-4.1.14 stable request.

2005-10-19 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 07:18, Petre Rodan wrote: > can anyone please check out if you can create a new user with the > 'deprecated' version and that you can actually use it in mysql-4.1.14? I > invariably got 'bad password for user ...'. What client version are you using? This sounds like it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: ebuilds linked to kernel upgrade

2005-10-19 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 06:36, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:32:19AM -0200, Herbert G. Fischer wrote: [snip] > > - Patch kernel's "make" to warn at the end of "make modules_install" [snip] > I think you should check out sys-kernel/module-rebuild Actually, a combinati

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies.

2005-10-25 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 07:09, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:37:03 -0700 Donnie Berkholz > | > | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | | Now, the other side of the story. It's not true runtime dependence > | | because it's not required for programs to run, o

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-01 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 02:00, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Notification that new relevant news items will be displayed via the > > ``emerge`` tool in a similar way to the existing "configuration files > > need updating" messages: > > > > * Important: 3 config files in