Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds

2006-06-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 09 June 2006 21:27, Ned Ludd wrote: > Maybe along the same lines as what you are pointing out here it should > also be noted that built_with_use is semi faulty and can return wrong > results when no /var/db/pkg/$CATEGORY/$PVR/USE exists. this is done on purpose -mike pgpkeT3VMXksr.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds

2006-06-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 10 June 2006 04:32, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > I do think we should avoid built_with_use where we can, as it causes > emerge to abort. no it doesnt ... the ebuild maintainer makes the package abort based upon the results of built_with_use ... -mike pgpIaYYFHjNYa.pgp Description: PGP si

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with /var/cache on unmerge

2006-06-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 09 June 2006 20:25, Andrew Ross wrote: > Apologies if this has been addressed previously, i dont believe it has ever come up before > Is there any sort of policy covering how an ebuild should deal with > /var/cache during unmerge? maybe give ebuilds a way to maintain a list of files th

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds

2006-06-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 10 June 2006 10:29, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 18:34 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Friday 09 June 2006 16:35, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > This is the "official" (hehe) request for comments on making a policy > > > of h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage-2.1 released breaking -U

2006-06-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 09 June 2006 11:57, Wernfried Haas wrote: > Oh, and -U has finally been killed :-) too bad there is no usuable solution in its place for developers -mike pgpju0pwm1363.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with /var/cache on unmerge

2006-06-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 11 June 2006 05:01, Jakub Moc wrote: > Daniel Drake wrote: > > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> maybe give ebuilds a way to maintain a list of files that portage > >> should nuke when unmerging the package ... > > > > Something similar to this would

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 June 2006 08:23, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 19:56 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday 10 June 2006 10:29, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 18:34 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > On Friday 09 June 2006

Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 10 June 2006 10:42, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:56:48 +0200 Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > When someone contacts GWN to have > | > something corrected, it would be appreciated were the GWN staff to > | > at least deign to acknowledge receipt, even if for so

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

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 June 2006 09:28, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:02:46AM +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the > > 2nd Thursday once a month), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ >

Re: [gentoo-dev] backups: remove Portage cruft?

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 June 2006 19:28, Alec Warner wrote: > Joerg Plate wrote: > >>Do make sure you back up the base /var/cache/edb/ > > > > Why? Anything in /var/cache doesn't need to be in a backup, > > because it can be generated when necessary (in theory...) > > in theory, yes; in practice, this needs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 June 2006 00:31, Alec Warner wrote: > So apparently they suck, anyone have a new shiny idea on how to group > packages and maintaining developers? they work just fine for me -mike pgpyOk8hXaUzk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Profiles Part 2

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 June 2006 16:58, Stephen Bennett wrote: > I am also aware that this falls roughly under what the Council was > asked to discuss in its June meeting, but since that seems to have not > happened, I'm bringing it up anyway, since I would like to get > something done here. we meet Jun 15t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Profiles Part 2

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 June 2006 17:15, Brian Harring wrote: > B) council > outcome tomorrow (no point in changing it till they've weighed in on > the whole enchilada). not really it makes people dropping in their own stuff easier and doesnt adversely affect the portage tree in any way -mike pgpouPWaF83

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 June 2006 02:33, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > We could require that a herd mail alias be maintained for every herd, > with the same name as the herd, such that the herd alias lists the > maintainers of all packages in the herd. this would be useful regardless -mike pgpNaJsppizDH.pgp De

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defining the Tree: a proto-GLEP.

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 June 2006 19:00, Stephen Bennett wrote: > My current idea is to draw up a formal specification huge wang this would simplify greatly the work required for people to develop a package manager compatible with Gentoo ebuilds -mike pgpW85vGl5vYU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 09 June 2006 15:01, Stefan Schweizer wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Everyone that you happen to include as allowed to actually commit, you > > mean. As opposed to "everyone that can sign themselves up for > > bugzilla"? > > > >> It is designed to be more open and more easily fixabl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 16:17, Peter wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:17:10 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > | Care to elaborate? The wise, all-knowing Zen argument isn't | > > > > particularly helpful > > > > It's perfect proof that there are users that are utterly clueless about > > what is

Re: [gentoo-dev] eclasses maintainers - raise your hands please

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 June 2006 06:26, Jakub Moc wrote: > cvs.eclass - ??? i'll take over while the main guy is out > eutils.eclass - ??? it depends highly on the function, but generally base-system > flag-o-matic.eclass - ??? base-system / hardened > gnuconfig.eclass - ??? this is dead as it's bee

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 June 2006 09:04, George Prowse wrote: > On 15/06/06, Kevin F. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:31:41 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So apparently they suck, anyone have a new shiny idea on how to group > > > packages and maintaining deve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 June 2006 05:39, Peter wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:29:44 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > being able to download patchsets from the internet, touchup a few lines > > so they apply without rejects, and releasing the result to the rest of > > the world deser

Re: [gentoo-dev] eclasses maintainers - raise your hands please

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 June 2006 11:21, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Thursday 15 June 2006 16:50, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > this is dead as it's been integrated into portage > > Can gnuconfig_update calls go away from new ebuilds, then? yes, i'll upda

Re: [gentoo-dev] eclasses maintainers - raise your hands please

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 June 2006 14:10, Daniel Drake wrote: > Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > Can gnuconfig_update calls go away from new ebuilds, then? > > Yes, because base/make.defaults includes FEATURES="autoconfig" and no > profile turns it off. actually, portage doesnt even respect that anymore

Re: [gentoo-dev] eclasses maintainers - raise your hands please

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 June 2006 14:48, Harald van Dijk wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 02:32:36PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Thursday 15 June 2006 11:21, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > > On Thursday 15 June 2006 16:50, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > t

Re: [gentoo-dev] eclasses maintainers - raise your hands please

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 June 2006 16:39, Harald van Dijk wrote: > The question was explicitly about new ebuilds it was ... when i first read the question though i missed the "new" portion -mike pgp7yhdPvFdIb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 June 2006 14:17, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > > I don't see why it matters so much... agreed -mike pgpEISahsw3VX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 June 2006 21:36, Mike Kelly wrote: > As part of my original plans for my GLEP27 implementation, I was > going to have my scripts automatically add the users requested by a > package (for example, the cron user), to all the passwd backends > listsed in /etc/nsswitch.conf. nss is glib

Re: [gentoo-dev] using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 16 June 2006 15:10, Sven Köhler wrote: > i just wanted to ask, if the is an eclass or something else, that > enables me to temporarly select a certain gcc-version? or perhaps just > finding the path to the gcc and g++ executables of a specific > gcc-versions (like gcc-3.*)? no, there isn

Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 June 2006 01:22, Alin Nastac wrote: > Thomas Cort wrote: > > What is the proper quoting style for using epatch? In the tree there > > are about 3 different styles... > > > > epatch ${FILESDIR}/some-fix.patch # used by 7326 ebuilds > > epatch "${FILESDIR}"/some-fix.patch

Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 June 2006 01:34, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > 2) When you set a variable to a string, you should use quotes. dont need them, bash does not expand in setting variables -mike pgpVgd6PjFRxs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 June 2006 02:02, Drake Wyrm wrote: > Thomas Cort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DEPEND="virtual/libc" # used by 809 ebuilds > > There are opinions on both sides of this subject, but I think that most > devs are starting to see the value in this. If a package requires some > other

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 16 June 2006 10:00, Mike Kelly wrote: > "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 16 June 2006 05:03, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > nss is glibc-only, so such a solution would be inadequate > > > > Actua

Re: [gentoo-dev] strict-aliasing rules, don't break them

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 June 2006 06:17, Luca Barbato wrote: > Long term solution: > 1- check your new package for aliasing compliance, and if you have time > fix it in the code or in the makefile, if you haven't append > -fno-strict-aliasing to the cflags and maybe send a notice about it > upstream > > 2-

Re: [gentoo-dev] strict-aliasing rules, don't break them

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
some more docs: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#nonbugs_c Casting does not work as expected when optimization is turned on -mike pgpnrnzc6upFu.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] June Council meeting summary + log

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
- GLEP49/GLEP50/Alternate package managers: both GLEP49 and GLEP50 are inappropriate solutions. the new proto-tree idea spawned by spb on the gentoo-dev mailing list looks like the correct path to move forward, so he will be doing the footwork and ironing out the details with the portage team.

Re: [gentoo-dev] strict-aliasing rules, don't break them

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 June 2006 13:20, Mike Frysinger wrote: > some more docs: > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#nonbugs_c > Casting does not work as expected when optimization is turned on and a follow up link: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2003/08/11/0001.html -mike pgppux3c

Re: [gentoo-dev] strict-aliasing rules, don't break them

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 June 2006 13:28, Harald van Dijk wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 01:15:58PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday 17 June 2006 06:17, Luca Barbato wrote: > > > Long term solution: > > > 1- check your new package for aliasing compliance, and if yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 16 June 2006 20:10, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > The reason for describing this is to illustrate that qemu is not > "broken" as such; it just relies on implementation detail of the pre-4 > gcc series. then it's broken by design ... sure the idea about how qemu goes about its emulation is pre

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: June Council meeting summary + log

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 June 2006 16:26, Ryan Hill wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > unadulterated log of the meeting will be synced out to the servers in a > > bit: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20060616.txt > > I got http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meet

[gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.15-r3 testing for stable

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
hrm ... i sent this like a week ago, but seems it never got through ... can people give 1.11.15-r3 a run through ? as always, 1.11.x is a bugfix version only (for the most part :D) -mike pgpCHKfpV0WRF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.15-r3 testing for stable

2006-06-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 18 June 2006 04:32, Philip Webb wrote: > I suspect most users wb happy to see packages stabilised a bit sooner, > even if they're only 95 % reliable (another smile). people are *not* happy when their machine cannot boot -mike pgp7nVT5KH2DY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer wanted for dev-lang/pike

2006-06-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 18 June 2006 12:08, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: > dev-lang/pike is without an active maintainer and has an open security bug > 136065 i'm already working on an updated ebuild -mike pgpSZHyiOSVIc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.15-r3 testing for stable

2006-06-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 18 June 2006 14:11, Roy Marples wrote: > On Sunday 18 June 2006 17:12, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Sunday 18 June 2006 04:32, Philip Webb wrote: > > > I suspect most users wb happy to see packages stabilised a bit sooner, > > > even if they're onl

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] i18n project

2006-06-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 19 June 2006 13:16, Flammie Pirinen wrote: > 2006-06-19, Jan Kundrát sanoi, jotta: > > Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > > What about messages output by ebuilds? Are they also going to be > > > translated? In that case, how? > > > > There's no way to provide localized output of einfo/... calls fr

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] OpenRC & baselayout-2 meets Gentoo

2008-03-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 20 March 2008, Doug Goldstein wrote: > That being said, I will be the primary point of contact on the > transition to OpenRC appearing in ~arch (along with it's associated > baselayout-2.0.0 ebuild). Any and all grievances, concerns, suggestions > and comments can and should be routed t

[gentoo-dev] update-modules and modules.d -> modprobe.d

2008-03-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
just a little background for the (bi)curious modutils-2.4.x provided a way for the user to customize things: /etc/modules.conf. here users could control aliases and options and do all sort of neat tricks when loading/unloading modules. the problem was that it didnt allow for packages to easil

Re: [gentoo-dev] [SECURITY] Minimizing the suid usage

2008-03-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 23 March 2008, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > linux-2.6.24 supports file based capabilities via: > CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES > > This enables the use of filesystem attributes in order to store per > executable capabilities list, more information at [1]. > > This enables improved security l

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-power/nut: ChangeLog nut-2.2.1.ebuild

2008-03-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 06:03 Sun 09 Mar , Rajiv Aaron Manglani (rajiv) wrote: > > 1.1 sys-power/nut/nut-2.2.1.ebuild > > > > file : > > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-power/nut/nut-2.2.1.e > >build?rev=1.1&view=markup plain:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [SECURITY] Minimizing the suid usage

2008-03-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 24 March 2008, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 3/24/08, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Diego and i were talking ... we're going to go with USE=filecaps because > > it's so new and doesnt require the libcap library in order to work at > > r

Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC & baselayout-2 meets Gentoo

2008-03-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
[1]. > > The bug for the documentation is #213988 [2]. > > > > Lastly, I will be out of town March 21st through March 23rd. I will > > not have IRC access but I will have e-mail and Bugzilla access. > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212696 > > h

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC & baselayout-2 meets Gentoo

2008-03-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 24 March 2008, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Monday 24 March 2008, Doug Goldstein wrote: > >> Doug Goldstein wrote: > >>> All, > >>> > >>> This is a formal notice to everyone that OpenRC will be hitting the &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC & baselayout-2 meets Gentoo

2008-03-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 24 March 2008, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Monday 24 March 2008, Doug Goldstein wrote: > >> And by all upgrade paths would that include adding the bad > >> conversion of /etc/modules.autoload.d/ > > > > looks/tested corre

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC & baselayout-2 meets Gentoo

2008-03-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 24 March 2008, Doug Goldstein wrote: > /etc/modules.autoload.d has always allowed module parameters to appear > after the module name. > > /etc/conf.d/modules has allowed a completely different syntax requiring > variables based on the module name to be set with the module parameters. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC & baselayout-2 meets Gentoo

2008-03-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Roy Marples wrote: > On Monday 24 March 2008 22:03:48 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > we're going to need to extend the syntax anyways to allow for > > per-version-per-module arguments. unless openrc does that now ... Roy ? > > It now supports per

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC & baselayout-2 meets Gentoo

2008-03-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 24 March 2008, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Monday 24 March 2008, Doug Goldstein wrote: > >> /etc/modules.autoload.d has always allowed module parameters to appear > >> after the module name. > >> > >> /etc/conf.d/modu

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-apps/iproute2: ChangeLog iproute2-2.6.24.20080108.ebuild

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 17:26 Sat 29 Mar , Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote: > > 1.1 sys-apps/iproute2/iproute2-2.6.24.20080108.ebuild > > > > file : > > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/iproute2/i

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-devel/gdb: ChangeLog gdb-6.8.ebuild

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 16:02 Sat 29 Mar , Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote: > > 1.1 sys-devel/gdb/gdb-6.8.ebuild > > > > file : > > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-devel/gdb/gdb-6.8.ebu > >ild?re

Re: [gentoo-dev] explicit -r0 in ebuild filename

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 29 March 2008, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The reason I'm emailing -dev is to ensure there is consensus on > > leaving off an explicit -r0 in the ebuild name- long term, it seems > > folks always followed the rule but it needs to be codified due

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-editors/leafpad: ChangeLog leafpad-0.8.14.ebuild

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > > On 19:37 Sat 29 Mar , Saleem Abdulrasool (compnerd) wrote: > >> 1.1 app-editors/leafpad/leafpad-0.8.14.ebuild > >> > >> src_compile() { > >>econf --enable-chooser --en

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-editors/leafpad: ChangeLog leafpad-0.8.14.ebuild

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> > >> And IMHO the "emacs" USE flag should not be used here: > >> > >> $ ./configure -hs > >> Configuration of Le

Re: [gentoo-dev] explicit -r0 in ebuild filename

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > those arent the same thing. -r# is a Gentoo-specific revision > > marking. _alpha/_rc/etc... are used to track upstream. if upstream > > uses _alpha0, then it makes o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-apps/iproute2: ChangeLog iproute2-2.6.24.20080108.ebuild

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Mark Loeser wrote: > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On 17:26 Sat 29 Mar , Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote: > > > 1.1 sys-apps/iproute2/iproute2-2.6.24.20080108.ebuild > > > > > > file : > > &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-apps/iproute2: ChangeLog iproute2-2.6.24.20080108.ebuild

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Mark Loeser wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Sunday 30 March 2008, Mark Loeser wrote: > > > Actually, I'd say this should just be removed. If a user wants to > > > apply a patch, they can put thei

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-editors/leafpad: ChangeLog leafpad-0.8.14.ebuild

2008-03-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 31 March 2008, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > | On Sunday 30 March 2008, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > |>>>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: > |>>> > |>>> And IMHO the "emacs" USE

[gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), 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 G

[gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your one-day friendly reminder ! The monthly Gentoo Council meeting is tomorrow in #gentoo-council on irc.freenode.net. See the channel topic for the exact time (but it's probably 2000 UTC). If you're supposed to show up, please show up. If you're not supposed to show up, then show up a

[gentoo-dev] gcc-4.2 / gcc-4.3 plans

2008-04-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
i dont plan on suggesting any gcc-4.2 version for stable. arches of course are free to determine if gcc-4.2 works better for them than gcc-4.1 and thus move to stable. gcc-4.3 seems to be standing up well. since the major gcc-ebuild-specific issues seem to be resolved now, i'll probably do a

[gentoo-dev] glibc-2.7 stabilization

2008-04-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
some heads up here glibc-2.7 has sat in ~arch for much longer than i would have liked. the only real issue holding it back is nscd. i never use this thing myself, but on some arches (like ppc), it's known to eat your cpu like a dirty C-globbler (where C is short for CPU). on other arches, it

Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-4.2 / gcc-4.3 plans

2008-04-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 02:57 Thu 10 Apr , Mike Frysinger wrote: > > gcc-4.3 seems to be standing up well. since the major > > gcc-ebuild-specific issues seem to be resolved now, i'll probably do a > > sweep of bugs to see if there

Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-4.2 / gcc-4.3 plans

2008-04-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Jan Kundrát wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Presuming you're adding the direction-flag patch to 4.3.0 so it doesn't > > break people on a kernel earlier than 2.6.25? > > gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r4 has that patch, at least when looking at the > changelog. Or is it just f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-4.2 / gcc-4.3 plans

2008-04-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Duncan wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted: > > then move on to the gcc 4.3 tracker bug (#198121). once this gets below > > a certain critical mass (i wont know what the critical mass is until > > it's been de-attained

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.7 stabilization

2008-04-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 10 April 2008, José Luis Rivero (yoswink) wrote: > Mike Frysinger escribió: > > glibc-2.7 has sat in ~arch for much longer than i would have liked. the > > only real issue holding it back is nscd. > > In alpha we still have a bastard called 205099[1]. We need to

Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-4.2 / gcc-4.3 plans

2008-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 11 April 2008, Vaeth wrote: > > So the point is, our current 2.6.24 kernel is safe. > > I can *not* confirm this. Just some days ago, I compiled > hardened-sources-2.6.24 (which uses genpatches-2.6.24-5; > current gentoo-sources uses genpatches-2.6.24-6, but the > difference is obviously

Re: [gentoo-dev] xmpp vs. jabber USE flag

2008-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 12 April 2008, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > A user recently filled bug #216300 > (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216300) which is about changing > > jabber USE flag to xmpp. Here is user's comment: > > Is it another reason than legacy reasons that named the USE-flag > > "jabb

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-dialup/freeradius: freeradius-2.0.3.ebuild

2008-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 13 April 2008, Thomas Anderson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:41:18PM +, Alin Nastac (mrness) wrote: > > mrness 08/04/13 17:41:18 > > > > Modified: ChangeLog > > Added:freeradius-2.0.3.ebuild > > Log: > > Version bump. > > (Portage versi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem with latest portage!!!

2008-04-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 14 April 2008, Mateusz A. Mierzwiński wrote: > >>> Verifying ebuild Manifests... > > !!! Digest verification failed: > !!! > /usr/portage/sys-apps/net-tools/files/1.60_p20071202044231/0010-Patch-by-To >m-Duffy-tduffy-sun.com-to-teach-ifconfi.patch !!! Reason: Filesize does not > match re

Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem with latest portage!!!

2008-04-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 14 April 2008, Mateusz A. Mierzwiński wrote: > Mike Frysinger pisze: > > On Monday 14 April 2008, Mateusz A. Mierzwiński wrote: > >> >>> Verifying ebuild Manifests... > >> > >> !!! Digest verification failed: > >> !!! > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] escaping variables in sed expressions

2008-04-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: > Hi list, > > it seems I have been using some fragile sed expression and I'd like to tap > the collective wisdom for avoiding doing that in the future. > > dev-scheme/slib-3.1.5-r1 currently does > > sed "s_prefix = /usr/local/_prefix = ${D}

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removing .la files...

2008-04-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > > By the way, asking a question is not poisonous. > > Absolutely. Asking about it here was my suggestion. his point was you should have asked him directly instead of starting a thread on a mailing list to talk about him. doesnt seem terribly un

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing .la files...

2008-04-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > Furthermore, such things should not be decided and pushed through > unilaterally but be agreed upon here prior to doing this change. > > Especially since even though removing .la files might make sense (with > exceptions, of course) we should thin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removing .la files...

2008-04-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > libogg and popt are now masked, and they'll wait a bit before return to > ~arch that way. please dont leave it like this. revbump both packages in question minus the .la removal portion. libtool script scuttling is independent of ver

Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-4.2 / gcc-4.3 plans

2008-04-21 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: > gcc-4.3 seems to be standing up well. since the major gcc-ebuild-specific > issues seem to be resolved now, i'll probably do a sweep of bugs to see if > there's any patches i'm missing (if you guys know of a bug th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Prioritising contact information in metadata.xml

2008-04-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 24 April 2008, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > One other thing is that it is sometimes difficult to figure out to > whom a bug should be assigned, because metadata.xml for many packages > simply isn't clear. If you list a few developers as well as a herd, > does that mean you want bugs assigned

Re: [gentoo-dev] config_eth0 deprecated - new name?

2008-04-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 24 April 2008, Luca Barbato wrote: > Roy Marples wrote: > > On Thursday 24 April 2008 00:01:01 Robin H. Johnson wrote: > >> The problem in this is that you cannot set the properties for each > >> address or route. Please don't take us back to the stoneage of writing > >> the advanced ne

Re: OT: [gentoo-dev] Nazi symbols on Gentoo (and other offending content)

2008-04-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 27 April 2008, Santiago M. Mola wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Santiago M. Mola kirjoitti: > > > Thoughts? Isn't there anyone else willing to keep Nazi symbols outside > > > forums? If yes, at the expense of punting all politics or ju

[gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for May

2008-05-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), 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 G

[gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for May

2008-05-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your one-day friendly reminder ! The monthly Gentoo Council meeting is tomorrow in #gentoo-council on irc.freenode.net. See the channel topic for the exact time (but it's probably 2000 UTC). If you're supposed to show up, please show up. If you're not supposed to show up, then show up a

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage

2008-05-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Fabian Groffen wrote: > m4, that one gave me some headaches, because lzma-utils required some > eautoreconf, which introduced a nice cycle. must have been a prefix-only bug as the version in the tree never did -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage

2008-05-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 10 May 2008, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 10-05-2008 03:32:08 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > m4, that one gave me some headaches, because lzma-utils required some > > > eautoreconf, which introduced a ni

Re: [gentoo-dev] FRC: debtools herd creation

2008-05-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 16 May 2008, Yuri Vasilevski wrote: > I will be adding some debian build tools to the tree, and would like to > create the debtools herd to associate with the packages. > > I'll be adding things like debhelper, lintian and a little > bit later things like apt, aptitude, cdebootstrap, debi

[gentoo-dev] packages up for grabs

2008-05-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
many of these are low maintence ... i'd forgotten i was even listed under them as i havent seen a bug report in a long time. some i added (well probably too many) on a lark, so if they do end up being crappy and no one cares, i guess that's why we have a tree cleaners group. no herd: app-admin

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages up for grabs

2008-05-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 31 May 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 01:09 Sat 31 May , Mike Frysinger wrote: > > I'd like to advocate for interested people to pick up a few of these. i think some of the herds are capable without a specific maintainer ... in this case, "base-system"

[gentoo-dev] profile shift for arm/s390/sh from "stable" to "dev"

2008-05-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
ive made this shift in profiles.desc: sed -ir '/^(arm|s390|sh)/s:stable:dev:' profiles.desc if/when we get dedicated arch maintainers, they can think about shifting back -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] profile shift for arm/s390/sh from "stable" to "dev"

2008-05-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 31 May 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: > ive made this shift in profiles.desc: > sed -ir '/^(arm|s390|sh)/s:stable:dev:' profiles.desc > if/when we get dedicated arch maintainers, they can think about shifting > back for the confused ... you should still be adding t

[gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), 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 G

[gentoo-dev] glibc-2.8 / gcc-4.3 build failures

2008-06-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
it seems packages are failing when built with glibc-2.8 and/or gcc-4.3. these are issues in the package, not the toolchain. previous versions were lazy and included API "bleeding" which packages took advantage of. with these newer versions, things bleed less means those packages break. some

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.8 / gcc-4.3 build failures

2008-06-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 09 June 2008, Rémi Cardona wrote: > Mike Frysinger a écrit : > > please refrain from assigning to toolchain. if you have questions, feel > > free to ask. > > Is there a howto for users/developers when migrating to glibc 2.8? > Something other than a ChangeLog (to

[gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your one-day friendly reminder ! The monthly Gentoo Council meeting is tomorrow in #gentoo-council on irc.freenode.net. See the channel topic for the exact time (but it's probably 2000 UTC). If you're supposed to show up, please show up. If you're not supposed to show up, then show up a

Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

2008-06-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 04:11 Wed 11 Jun , Brian Harring wrote: > > Reiterating the early request, I'd like the council to please discuss > > the current status of PMS, > > People actually working on the PMS would be better-placed to discuss its > current status, i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggested default LDFLAGS+="-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common"

2008-06-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 28 June 2008, Petteri Räty wrote: > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis kirjoitti: > > I would like to suggest that default LDFLAGS in Gentoo contain the > > following flags: "-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common". > > > > -O1 enables some basic optimizations. > > At least adding -O1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Suggested default LDFLAGS+="-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common"

2008-06-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Fabian Groffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > as long as it doesn't go in /base, but in the linux/freebsd profiles > > instead, it's fine with me. > > --has-style=gnu should not be used on non-GLIBC systems (I'm unsure > about uclibc, but

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