Re: [gentoo-dev] checdeps.rb for getting deps out of elf files

2005-12-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:09:08PM +0200, Petteri R??ty wrote: > Basically it does ldd on all > the elf files in a package and then checks to which packages those > libraries belong. ldd is garbage for this purpose use `readelf -d ELF | grep NEEDED` or just `scanelf -n ELF` -mike -- gentoo-dev@g

Re: [gentoo-dev] sanity checking libtool versions & portability

2005-12-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 03:52:37PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In other words, it breaks portability. And let this be the one thing people > expect from using GNU's ubiquitous autotools. Our comments follow: this has been fixed already, you should update to libtool-1.5.20-r1 > c) follow adv

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 12:41:45PM -0500, Peter wrote: > We are in the process of developing and testing > a unified nVidia driver ebuild. When implemented, > it will replace the nvidia-kernel, nvidia-glx, and > nvidia-settings ebuilds. It will also add the utility > nvidia-xconfig. issues: - pe

Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation

2005-12-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 24 December 2005 10:43, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote: > Is there any reason for not doing this, and then recommend that the > users that don't use udev/devfs to run MAKEDEV ? because the process can easily go wrong leaving new users without a clue of whats going on -mike -- gentoo-de

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning

2005-12-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 26 December 2005 00:09, Doug Goldstein wrote: > the USE defaults are a bit INSANE... We need to get rid of some of this > crap... not really a useful endeavor unless we get something like per-package USE defaults everyone has their own opinion as to what a 'good' or 'sane' default is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning

2005-12-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 26 December 2005 02:24, Doug Goldstein wrote: > well there is always USE enabling... (i.e. When I emerge x11-libs/qt, > it'll turn on the "qt" USE flag) which we've already established quite clearly as something we wish to get rid of completely -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing li

Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing COPYING or LICENSE files

2005-12-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 26 December 2005 08:24, Petteri Räty wrote: > Petteri Räty wrote: > > R Hill wrote: > >>Daniel Ahlberg wrote: > >>>* if ebuild installs COPYING and/or INSTALL into doc. > >> > >>Is this actually important? There are a hell of a lot of ebuilds that > >> fail under this rule. I'd like to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: $BUILDDIR in ebuilds

2005-12-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 26 December 2005 08:24, Drake Wyrm wrote: > Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 02:51:26AM -0500, Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- wrote: > > > Like in here? > > > > > > app-doc/halibut/halibut-0.9.ebuild: BUILDDIR="${S}/build" \ > > > net-dns/mara

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Installing COPYING or LICENSE files

2005-12-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 02:01, R Hill wrote: > AFAIK most licenses need to be included with the distribution of the > source, not installed on the system after compilation. But I could be > wrong too. anyone who installs a program in portage already has a copy of the license on their system

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Installing COPYING or LICENSE files

2005-12-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 02:23, Brian Harring wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:08:25AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 December 2005 02:01, R Hill wrote: > > > AFAIK most licenses need to be included with the distribution of the > > > source, not in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml (GLEP 46)

2005-12-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 02:43, Julien Allanos (dju`) wrote: > Are the $HOMEPAGE, $DESCRIPTION possibly > $LICENSE or even $SRC_URI this answer should be pretty obvious, of course these values could change drastically across even revisions, let alone versions > package or version specific t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Putting qa warnings to a text file instead of showing them to the world

2005-12-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 14:41, Petteri Räty wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 12:54:04AM +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > >>Currently there are quite a few ebuilds in the tree that execute dodoc > >>or dohtml for files that do not exist. I think it would be nice to have > >>ebuilds die if this is

Re: [gentoo-dev] checdeps.rb for getting deps out of elf files

2005-12-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:11, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Unfortunately scanelf also doesn't know (nor can it know) no utility will be able to passively calculate dependencies that happen via dlopen() or any similar dynamic library loading interface -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing description for the xml global use flag

2005-12-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 29 December 2005 06:35, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 14:13 +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i dont really see this being an issue ... i dont think anyone really > > has 'xml -xml2' or '-xml xml2' ... much more likely they have '

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing description for the xml global use flag

2005-12-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 29 December 2005 08:06, Jakub Moc wrote: > Maybe you could rather have used those 5 minutes you had spent writing your > mail to fix horde ebuilds/eclass instead. They have been broken with > dev-lang/php ever since it came into portage. :P speaking of dicks, i knew i hadnt heard from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing description for the xml global use flag

2005-12-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 29 December 2005 12:29, Jakub Moc wrote: > For your reference, I even cared to attach a patch for horde (among tens of > other bugs filed for dev-lang/php compitibility) - but that patch never > made it to portage, despite the bug has been marked as fixed. that's because the way i chan

[gentoo-dev] heads up: adding ca-certificates as a PDEPEND to openssl

2005-12-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
just a heads up ... i'm going to be adding the ca-certificates package as a PDEPEND to the openssl package so most everyone in Gentoo will end up with it on their system for those wondering what this is: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/ca-certificates basically it's additional certifica

Re: [gentoo-dev] heads up: adding ca-certificates as a PDEPEND to openssl

2005-12-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 30 December 2005 23:17, Curtis Napier wrote: > Would it be best to make it into a USE flag so users have the choice, > install it by default or simply not offer it at all? > > Both sides should be happy with a USE flag IMHO. So long as it closes > the wget bug I'm all for it. a USE flag

[gentoo-dev] SuperH (sh) KEYWORD spam

2005-12-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
i'm injecting sh KEYWORDS as quickly as my lantank can emerge ... mr bones is keeping me up to date of broken stuff, so just chill rather than cutting out the KEYWORD on me :P -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday once a month), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] What to do with GCC 4 related bugs?

2006-01-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 01:43, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag, 2. Januar 2006 21:45 schrieb ext Mark Loeser: > > Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > The policy is pretty much if it doesn't compile, you get to fix it. If > > > you have a patch then report it to bugzilla. > > > > Actua

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

2006-01-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 09:29, Paweł Madej wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 13:20 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: > > > > I'm sorry, but I still think the idea of simply RSYNC_EXCLUDEing the > > ChangeLog by default would be a much better solution. > > I didn't know befor

Re: [gentoo-dev] invalid virtual/use flag

2006-01-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 19:13, Ricardo Loureiro wrote: > If I encounter such situations should I create a bug or report them > here? either works ive removed the entries -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 11:05, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: [Sun Jan 01 2006, 05:35:26PM CST] > > On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 05:30:01AM +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone still maintaining dev-libs/dietlibc ?

2006-01-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 06 January 2006 16:13, Christian Heim wrote: > devs who contributed/touched the ebuilds: > - Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > - Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> i regret ever touching this package ... and i'm pretty sure Ned feels the same way ... i'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-proxy/squid should be demoted to ~mips

2006-01-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 06 January 2006 08:07, Alin Nastac wrote: > Given the lack of interest manifested by mips team regarding > net-proxy/squid and its security bumps, I propose to remove the last > mips-stable version of this package - 2.5.10-r2 - marked as such by > hardave on September the 4th 2005. > > Ob

Re: [gentoo-dev] Need help fixing executable stack

2006-01-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 06 January 2006 12:30, Thomas Cort wrote: > When emerging wxGTK-2.4.2-r4 on alpha I get a QA message about > executable stacks ( http://bugs.gentoo.org/113119#c10 ). I read the > GNU Stack Quickstart ( > http://gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/gnu-stack.xml ). well you didnt read far enough d

Re: [gentoo-dev] init scripts and custom signals

2006-01-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 09 January 2006 07:32, Roy Marples wrote: > It's been brought to my attention that dnsmasq and acpid use > start-stop-daemon to send custom signals such as HUP. While this works with > baselayout-1.11, it does not work with baselayout-1.12 is this due to changes we are making in Gentoo ?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ca-certificates PDEPEND

2006-01-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 09 January 2006 11:56, Brian Harring wrote: >Curl won't honor/use the cacerts package for example it does actually, re-emerge it after ca-certificates -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] A New Linux Way

2006-01-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 09 January 2006 22:40, Mark Stewart wrote: > Please contact me if you are interested. thank you captain douche please unsubscribe yourself from our lists and never stop by again -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-01-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 02:11, Lares Moreau wrote: > And as for the flag reflecting the capability, you are absolutely > correct. The urt package seems to have mislabelled the entry in > use.local.desc. not really ... urt uses ghostscript to add postscript capabilities, i just called it 'gs' b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the autotools mess solvable?

2006-01-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 16:47, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > While it would be interesting to get rid of some versions of autotools from > portage no it wouldnt once version in each SLOT will remain around ad infintum as far as i'm concerned it's not like it's a media video package (a

[gentoo-dev] Jan/2006 council agenda

2006-01-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
for this month: * GLEP 45 - GLEP date format * disallow multiple votes per person (from ciaranm) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=11346783302&r=1&w=2 * global gentoo goals for 2006 for next month: * periodically freezing the tree for new packages (from carlo) i miss anything ? -mike -- gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 05 January 2006 13:42, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 07:56:30AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > You guys are more than welcome to go apply at Red Hat or Novell. > > Some of us already work for companies that produce other Linux > distributions or support the companies that

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.14 stabilization

2006-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 09:36, Mike Frysinger wrote: > since we have baselayout-1.12.x in ~arch, the new stable candidate > (1.11.14) isnt getting much air time ... can people try upgrading to > it and post any feedback they have with it ? it should mostly be a > bugfix release

[gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

2006-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
as one of the new sane features of the next portage-2.1_pre release, we're looking to cut out use.defaults support existing stable users wont be affected as the 2.0.x versions will continue to carry support for this, but some of you stable users may notice some USE flags suddenly "disappearing"

Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

2006-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 January 2006 11:15, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: > Or is it because I always had: > USE="-* ${MY_USE}" > in /etc/make.conf? yes -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

2006-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 January 2006 11:15, Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:57:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > existing stable users wont be affected as the 2.0.x versions will > > continue to carry support for this, but some of you stable users may > > noti

Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

2006-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 January 2006 12:49, Harald van Dijk wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:57:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > as one of the new sane features of the next portage-2.1_pre release, > > we're looking to cut out use.defaults support > > Could you add a USE_OR

Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

2006-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 January 2006 15:13, solar wrote: > On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 06:57 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > as one of the new sane features of the next portage-2.1_pre release, > > we're looking to cut out use.defaults support > > I see this as a good and bad thing.

[gentoo-dev] learn to use RESTRICT=test people

2006-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
from time to time i see this crap: src_test() { :; } dont do this use RESTRICT=test -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Initng in vserver guests

2006-01-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 14 January 2006 10:26, Bruno wrote: > What are your thoughts about this? take it upstream, they have a bugzilla make it a configure option and we'll add a use flag `use_enable vserver` or some such junk otherwise, the answer is no ;) -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - new category dev-tos

2006-01-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 14 January 2006 08:47, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:32:49 +0100 sanchan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Hi all, I'm working on TinyOS related ebuilds (Bug #78908) and since > | actually there are 20 ebuilds in my overlay may be worth proposing a > | dev-tos category. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - new category dev-tos

2006-01-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 14 January 2006 13:41, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > | yes, but fbsd is a self hosting env, tinyos is not > | > | i wish there was a way we could convey the embedded aspect (embed-tos > > ?), but > > | dev-tos works for me > > Why st

[gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion

2006-01-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
this topic has come up before too many times and has yet to be solved, and we have too many hacks in place the issues: - USE=debug is way too vague; sometimes it builds different code (i.e. additional runtime checks, debugging output, yada yada) and sometimes it forces debugging gcc flags into

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion

2006-01-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 15 January 2006 01:19, Joshua Baergen wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > - portage will add sane debug defaults to make.globals (DEBUG_CFLAGS="-O > > -g" and DEBUG_LDFLAGS="") > > Nothing huge, but won't this fry certain systems (SP

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion

2006-01-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 15 January 2006 06:52, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:11:54AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > the one true solution: > > - USE=debug *never* changes CFLAGS or LDFLAGS or what have you, it *only* > > enables additional runtime code (such as

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion

2006-01-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 15 January 2006 13:25, Dan Meltzer wrote: > What would happen on subsequent merges or upgrades if --debug-build > was omitted? Would there be a way (/etc/portage file perhaps?) to > enable debug builds on a permanent basis? i didnt think anyone would want this but it'd be trivial to add

Re: [gentoo-dev] pdf use flags

2006-01-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 16 January 2006 16:54, Marius Mauch wrote: > So unless there are any objections to this I'll make the change this > weekend. dooo it -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Initng in vserver guests

2006-01-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 16 January 2006 16:36, Bruno wrote: > Will not need any special behavior on ebuild side (as distro is detected > automatically; works also when building system in chroot) WFM, thanks -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion

2006-01-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 10:11, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/15/06, Olivier Crête <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why not use the splitdebug instead of nostrip? And make building with -g > > the default, then tell small HD users how to disable it in the docs. And > > it needs to disable -fomit-frame

Re: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES="test" depends

2006-01-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 13:53, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Basically some packages have additional depends to be able to run the > tests. So if a user has FEATURES="test", then they need additional > depends. For example, gstreamer > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115448 and expat (ghetto fi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Does anyone want|need a static (lib)perl still?

2006-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 09:27, Drake Wyrm wrote: > Michael Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:18 -0800, Drake Wyrm wrote: > > > Portage is not the only important system tool. Some of us actually > > > use Perl. Please do not be with the breaking. > > > > Is this t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Does anyone want|need a static (lib)perl still?

2006-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 16 January 2006 14:04, Michael Cummings wrote: > Just curious whether there is any value at continuing to offer a libperl > ebuild (which creates libperl.so for you) and then having perl > statically built against an internally generated libperl.a (substitute > your platforms appropriate

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2

2006-01-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 15 January 2006 01:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: > this topic has come up before too many times and has yet to be solved, and > we have too many hacks in place ok, so after sitting on the list for a while and accumulating feedback, how about this: - USE=debug *never* changes CFL

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2

2006-01-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:52, Mark Loeser wrote: > Please lets avoid this assumption. I'd love to make it so we never make > this assumption anywhere in the tree so that we could actually build GCC > without pie or ssp, instead of generating all of the GCC profiles for every > user. pie is i

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2

2006-01-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:33, solar wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 17:56 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > DEBUG_CFLAGS=DEBUG_CXXFLAGS="-O -g" > > Mike, > how about > DEBUG_CFLAGS=DEBUG_CXXFLAGS="-O -g -fno-stack-protector -fno-pie" > > All Gentoo pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2

2006-01-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:17, Olivier Crete wrote: > On Thu, 2006-19-01 at 17:56 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > - if "debug-build" is in FEATURES, then the following happens: > > * auto sets CFLAGS to DEBUG_CFLAGS, LDFLAGS to DEBUG_LDFLAGS, CXXFLAGS > > to DE

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2

2006-01-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 20 January 2006 01:25, Harald van Dijk wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:56:47PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > - USE=debug *never* changes CFLAGS or LDFLAGS or what have you, it *only* > > enables additional runtime code (such as assert()'s or helpful debug >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-libs/xpm

2006-01-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 22 January 2006 09:48, Marcelo Góes wrote: > media-libs/xpm is currently just a dummy ebuild that depends on > virtual/x11. All ebuilds in the tree have already been adapted to > depend directly on virtual/x11 and/or modular X equivalents. Thus I'm > scheduling it for removal within a wee

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-libs/xpm

2006-01-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 22 January 2006 12:31, Marcelo Góes wrote: > On 1/22/06, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 22 January 2006 09:48, Marcelo Góes wrote: > > > media-libs/xpm is currently just a dummy ebuild that depends on > > > virtual/x11. All ebui

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2

2006-01-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 21 January 2006 23:12, Marius Mauch wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Sunday 15 January 2006 01:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > - we add an emerge flag (say '--debug-build') which adds "debug-build" to > > FEATURES > > IM

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2

2006-01-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 22 January 2006 16:30, Marius Mauch wrote: > I meant the option is redundant if it just triggers a feature setting, > as it's the same as `FEATURES=debug-build emerge foo` as noted in earlier proposal: > - no easy way for users/developers to quickly emerge a package and have it > contain

Re: "Environement categories" (was Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2)

2006-01-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 23 January 2006 13:28, Danny van Dyk wrote: > I'd love to have one package.env (or similarly named) file that can set > environmental options on a per-package-base. i thought this was already implemented -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] coreutils: deprecated behavior not so deprecated

2006-01-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
as a heads up, the next version of coreutils i add to portage (5.93) drops support for all those options upstream had labeled before as simply "deprecated" ... this isnt a patch i'm adding or not adding, upstream finally cut out all the code with these latest releases for those who dont know wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds and USE flags

2006-01-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 11:27, Rene Zbinden wrote: > I am writing an ebuild for a program written in perl. This program has > the dependency of gnuplot but with the png flag enabled. What is the > gentoo way to enable this USE Flag for gnuplot when I emerge my program. http://www.gentoo.org/pro

Re: [gentoo-dev] sed vs gsed

2006-01-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:14, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > What I'd like to ask is, if possible, to start using gsed instead, that's > present on both GNU and other userlands with current stable version of sed > (4.1.4; ppc-macos has no problem as the 4.0.9 version uses gsed anyway). if

Re: [gentoo-dev] sed vs gsed

2006-01-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 19:13, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 00:32, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > if you're implying we change all calls from 'sed' to 'gsed' in ebuilds > > then the answer is no from my pov > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] sed vs gsed

2006-01-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 19:17, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 00:48, Stephen Bennett wrote: > > We've discussed this several times in the past, and every time the > > answer has been that in the ebuild environment `sed` is gnu sed-4. It's > > the only sane way to

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion

2006-01-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 17:56, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > - we add an emerge flag (say '--debug-build') which adds "nostrip" to > > FEATURES and auto sets CFLAGS to DEBUG_CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to > > DEBUG_LDFLAGS - portage wil

Re: "Environement categories" (was Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2)

2006-01-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 01:44, Brian Harring wrote: > Might I suggest this one just get shelved for a while? everything that gets shelved portage way stays that way for *quite* a while i would be ok with implementing the back end (i.e. FEATURES=debug-build) but putting off the front end (i.e.

Re: [gentoo-dev] sed vs gsed

2006-01-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 00:16, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > maillog: 25/01/2006-00:14:13(+0100): Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò types > > > What I'd like to ask is, if possible, to start using gsed instead, that's > > present on both GNU and other userlands with current stable version of > > sed (4.1.4

Re: [gentoo-dev] bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 07:30, Sven Köhler wrote: > I'd like to see, that bootstrap.sh unmerges any old gcc > (emerge -C \<${gcc package that we just compiled}) that's a bad idea imo let the user decide which gcc they wish to have > so that a clean system is built with gcc 3.4 only! it wou

Re: [gentoo-dev] sed vs gsed

2006-01-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 03:21, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 02:23, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > If there are any hardcoded calls to /usr/bin/sed, it is reasonable for > > you to ask for them to be fixed. For any others, use a wrapper script. > > I think the wra

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: coreutils: deprecated behavior not so deprecated

2006-01-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 01:54, MIkey wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > note: for those who think they can argue for support of these features to > > be kept in Gentoo, you're barking up the wrong tree so dont waste your > > time -mike > > So, um, when can w

Re: [gentoo-dev] bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 11:38, Marius Mauch wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:23:20 +0100 > Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I'd like to see, that bootstrap.sh unmerges any old gcc > > >> (emerge -C \<${gcc package that we just compiled}) > > > > > > that's a bad idea imo > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 15:44, Sven Köhler wrote: > >> I'd like to see, that bootstrap.sh unmerges any old gcc > >> (emerge -C \<${gcc package that we just compiled}) > > > > that's a bad idea imo > > let the user decide which gcc they wish to have > > So i understand what you're trying to tel

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: tcsh vs. csh, removal of the latter

2006-01-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 15:47, Stuart Herbert wrote: > The csh package currently has a maintainer who is an active Gentoo > developer; have you spoken to taviso first to find out whether he > wants to remove csh from the tree? last we talked with taviso he had no problem punting csh -mike --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 21:40, Sven Köhler wrote: > I expected the result of these steps to be a "clean" system. > > What do i mean with a "clean" system? > > Actually i thought, that i mean the result of a "emerge -e system" - but > i know now, that this is not what i mean. For example "emerg

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 26 January 2006 08:54, Sven Köhler wrote: > Mike Frysinger is talking about "choice" and ignores me if i tell him, > that the "emerge -e system" uses the crippled gcc 3.3 for the first 10 > packages until "emerge -e system" finally rebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 22:07, Mikey wrote: > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 20:53, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Name one of those that isn't in 'system'. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emvp -e system | grep -e gzip -e linux-headers -e > > nano -e gettext -e glibc > > [ebuild N] sys-kernel/lin

Re: [gentoo-dev] sed vs gsed

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 26 January 2006 05:43, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Another candidate would be the strip binary which might be called > by certain makefiles instead of being portage controlled. packages should never strip, only portage should -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 26 January 2006 10:42, Mikey wrote: > On Thursday 26 January 2006 08:16, Mike Frysinger spammed: > > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 22:07, Mikey wrote: > > > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 20:53, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > > Name one

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 26 January 2006 13:23, Sven Köhler wrote: > >> Mike Frysinger is talking about "choice" and ignores me if i tell him, > >> that the "emerge -e system" uses the crippled gcc 3.3 for the first 10 > >> packages until "emerge -e sys

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:16, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:34, Mikey wrote: > > And those instructions have nothing whatsoever to do with common sense > > from a new, or even experienced users perspective. Knowing that a gcc > > upgrade will break libtool is not comm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:06, MIkey wrote: > Why should system packages (determined by your profile) be present in the > world file on official stage1/3 tarballs? whether they are in the world file itself doesnt really matter the "world" target includes all the packages listed in the world f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 26 January 2006 14:00, MIkey wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:06, MIkey wrote: > >> Why should system packages (determined by your profile) be present in > >> the world file on official stage1/3 tarballs? > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] sed vs gsed

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:06, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Thursday 26 January 2006 14:51, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Thursday 26 January 2006 05:43, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > > Another candidate would be the strip binary which might be called > > > by certain

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 26 January 2006 14:08, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 26 January 2006 14:00, MIkey wrote: > > /var/lib/portage/world should only contain the names of packages you > > explicitly emerge (without --oneshot). As far as I know an official > > stage3 tarbal

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 26 January 2006 13:23, Sven Köhler wrote: > You say, that it's the intended behaviour, that bootstrap.sh keeps the > crippled gcc 3.3 intact and as the default compiler. ok, i looked into this some more and ran some tests ... long and short of it is that the behavior i discussed befor

Re: [gentoo-dev] sed vs gsed

2006-01-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 27 January 2006 03:17, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Thursday 26 January 2006 19:53, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:06, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > > Sometimes when calling the strip option > > > of install. A strip wrapper prevents this br

Re: [gentoo-dev] coreutils: deprecated behavior not so deprecated

2006-01-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 23 January 2006 23:04, Mike Frysinger wrote: > for those who dont know what i'm talking about, consider: > tail -1 > head -1 > it would seem i lied about this (at least the first two still work) the source code was refactored and i assumed this to mean they cut o

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: tcsh vs. csh, removal of the latter

2006-01-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 28 January 2006 12:30, Marcelo Góes wrote: > On 1/28/06, Grobian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The question here now actually is: "is csh worth the hassle, or not?" > > My opinion is that it is not. > > csh_is_not_worth_it++; > It is causing trouble and not adding functionality. Unless

Re: "Environement categories" (was Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2)

2006-01-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 02:26, Brian Harring wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:06:12PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i would be ok with implementing the back end (i.e. FEATURES=debug-build) > > but putting off the front end (i.e. emerge --debug-build) > > Front-end

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 29 January 2006 20:37, Sven Köhler wrote: > >> You say, that it's the intended behaviour, that bootstrap.sh keeps the > >> crippled gcc 3.3 intact and as the default compiler. > > > > ive chatted with wolf and the real fix here is to change the 'emerge > > clean' at the end of bootstrap.s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 29 January 2006 20:50, Sven Köhler wrote: > >> I also noticed the "--oneshot" fix. > > > > i noted this already elsewhere in the thread > > > > dont you read all of the e-mails !? > > ??? > > I just wanted to say "Thank you" for both fixes. sorry i forgot the -mike -- gentoo-dev@gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-01-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 30 January 2006 11:15, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Monday 30 January 2006 06:17, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > Defining LINGUAS variable would be useful to allow people to know whether > > they are going to have special support for their language in a package, > > but it

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-01-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 30 January 2006 11:48, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Monday 30 January 2006 17:38, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > it makes a the -pv output unreadable and thus useless ... although if you > > do something like -pvv, then the user can expect to get a lot of out

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 06:31, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Monday 30 January 2006 20:54, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > 1. Because for things like LINGUAS, there are arbitrarily many legal > > values, and documenting them all and keeping the list up to date would > > be extremely difficult. > > "More p

[gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for February

2006-02-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday once a month), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev

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