Re: [gentoo-dev] Update for bzr.eclass

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Hi all, > Find below a small update for bzr.eclass. > > Sometimes it is convenient to unpack the sources in a location > different from ${WORKDIR}/${P}. The patch makes this configurable via > a new EBZR_UNPACK_DIR variable. The default locat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/base: ChangeLog package.use.force

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:05:35 +0200 > Michał Górny wrote: >> > So why are these features behind use flags? >> >> For compatibility with ${PYTHON_USEDEP}. > > Why not fix PYTHON_USEDEP? > An alternative would be insert some logic in the py

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Alex Xu wrote: > userpriv and usersandbox don't work in pypy because os.setgroups isn't > implemented there. > > I had a go at it a while back, but the complete and utter lack of any > documentation whatsoever... kinda threw me off. > I don't think we need to tail

Re: [gentoo-dev] revbumping ebuilds after USE dependency changes

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: > Hello, > > Please revbump an ebuild after changing its USE dependencies. > > Using net-p2p/transmission as an example, it used to depend on > dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus] > however, qtgui lost the dbus useflag, so the dependency was changed

Re: [gentoo-dev] PHP_TARGETS vs PYTHON_TARGETS different grammar, why?

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Leho Kraav wrote: > php5-5 vs python2_7 > > > Why, how did that happen? > We had some discussion of this a while back. RUBY_TARGETS is yet another permutation with no version separator at all. As for why it happened: the eclasses involved were each written at dif

Re: [gentoo-dev] Odd git format-patch behavior

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > I figure this is half-on-topic for this list since I'm trying to > prepare patch sets for a package. I'm getting fairly bizarre behavior > from git format-patch - patches that don't apply, and patches numbered > early in sequence that didn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Odd git format-patch behavior

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> Final output is: >> can't find file to patch at input line 17 >> (messing with -p doesn't help, which will be obvious from a quick >> inspec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Odd git format-patch behavior

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > I still find it odd that some are able to apply that patch. I just > tried again with git 1.8.3.2 and got the same behavior. If others are > getting a patch that applies then there is something bizarre going on. > I get a patch file that r

Re: [gentoo-dev] PHP_TARGETS vs PYTHON_TARGETS different grammar, why?

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Ole Markus With wrote: > I don't really care what the separator is. The reason I chose dash for > separation major/minor version was simply to distinguish between the > value and variable part of USE_EXPAND. Just seemed natural at the time. > I think a hyphen/dash

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to know packages providing files under some directory

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mié, 31-07-2013 a las 12:11 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: >> On 07/31/2013 12:03 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: >> > I would like to know if there is any kind of DB to check for packages >> > providing files under a directory. Does any exist? >> >> po

Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd team consensus?

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:29 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > I'll keep this short for now unless others here want to see the rest of > my evidence, but What it boils down to is this. As a member of the > systemd team, I have questioned the way we are doing things, multiple > times. I feel that we aren'

Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd team consensus?

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:03 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 02:44:09PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:29 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> > I'll keep this short for now unless others here want to see the rest of >> > my evi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status. >> >> I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords >> >> - s390 >> - sh >> - ia64

Re: [gentoo-dev] ruby_targets_ruby20 missing

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > >> ozzie src # emerge -vp ruby >> >> >> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: >> >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> >> emerge: there are no ebuilds buil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH systemd.eclass] Introduce systemd_install_serviced().

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >> > Nope. 'insinto' sets INSDESTTREE. Due to lack of proper scoping >> > support in bash, we need to localize this variable to restore previous >> > 'insinto' scope after leaving the function. >> >> Actually the only reason you are able to do

[gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review. Title: GRUB2 migration Author: Mike Gilbert Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2013-09-22 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed:

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 9/21/13 8:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news >> item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review. > > Great news! Thanks f

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/21/2013 11:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a >> news item to hopefully prevent any conf

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

On 09/21/2013 02:18 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." >> The grub postinst message links to >> <http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start> instead - and that wiki >> page has a link to <http://www.gentoo.org/

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." > wrote: >> On 9/21/13 8:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news >>> item to h

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Moving project pages to wiki.gentoo.org

On 09/19/2013 01:10 PM, Alex Legler wrote: > As discussed [1] on -dev a while ago, project pages will now be moving > to wiki.gentoo.org. > > From now on, you must not create new documents or projects in CVS/on > www.gentoo.org. > Existing projects are asked to move the contents of their project p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: status of OpenRC's public API

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:04 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:22:02PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 24/09/13 02:15 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 03:21:07PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: status of OpenRC's public API

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:01 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 04:27:42PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:04 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:22:02PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> >>

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/eapi-5-files: ChangeLog package.use.stable.mask

a4 Exp $ > + > + 26 Sep 2013 Ian Delaney use.stable.mask: > + Remove invalid entry for xen-tools-4.2.1-r3 which was removed > + 04 Jul 2013 on stabilising xen-tools-4.2.2-r3.ebuild; see > + Bug #484524 > >21 Sep 2013; Mike Gilbert package.use.stable.mask: >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 10/14/2013 03:32 AM, William Hubbs wrote: >> All, >> >> from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a >> symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. >> >> Are there any remaining concerns about doing this? > > Apart from breaki

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 10/14/2013 07:29 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >>> On 10/14/2013 03:32 AM, William Hubbs wrote: >>>> All, >>>> >>>> from what I&#

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:32 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> All, >> >> from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a >> symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. >> >> Are there any remaining concerns about doing this? >> >> If not

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:03 PM, David Leverton wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> However, FWIW, linux namespaces cannot be used to have only a single >> file appear differently to different processes. Mount namespaces can >> only operate at the directory level. > > > So to work around that limi

Re: [gentoo-dev] official games repository

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 8:09 AM, hasufell wrote: > what does the games team think of an official games repository? > ... > Yes, overlays suck. But bugzilla as a review platform sucks more and > IRC is also not the first place people look for. I think having an overlay which is reviewed for qualit

Re: [gentoo-dev] official games repository

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:40 AM, hasufell wrote: > On 10/20/2013 05:26 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: >> On 10/20/2013 04:22 PM, hasufell wrote: >>> On 10/20/2013 04:40 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: On 10/20/2013 03:31 PM, hasufell wrote: > On 10/20/2013 04:13 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Best way to handle suid binary in ebuild

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Vincent-Xavier JUMEL wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm developping and using a sympa ebuild for personnal use on a Gentoo > box. > > In order to work correctly with postfix, sympa needs to have its binary > /usr/libexec/queue and /usr/libexec/bouncequeue with the SUID

Re: [gentoo-dev] Releng breakage with respect to move from dev-python/python-exec to dev-lang/python-exec

On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/02/2013 04:35 PM, yac wrote: >> On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:20:41 -0400 >> "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" wrote: >> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >> >>> On

Re: [gentoo-dev] Releng breakage with respect to move from dev-python/python-exec to dev-lang/python-exec

On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Getting back to my original post: I want to make the python team aware of > the needs of releng and exercise care in the future when making a commit > where "alarm bells" go off. An email to releng@ or gentoo-dev@ asking "will > this mes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy-level discussion for minimum versions on dependencies

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 06/11/13 12:56 PM, yac wrote: >> On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 16:48:54 +0100 Alexis Ballier >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 10:15 -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: However, it's been a long-standing general practise that if there a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Michał Górny wrote: >> >>> As I understand, it tries to solve a "social" issue >>> (that an ARCH user might set a USE-flag which eventually >>> pulls in an ~ARCH package) on a technical level >>> (by forcibly disabling the USE-flag for the u

Re: [gentoo-dev] About preferred ntp provider

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El lun, 11-11-2013 a las 22:13 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió: >> Reading: >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489044 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489040 >> >> I don't know what should be preferred, personally I use net-misc/n

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc 0.12 - netifrc/newnet mix-up

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:25 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 06:46:36PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> seems like a virtual that wouldn't do anything useful except pull in >> random package(s) a la binary-distribution style > > What about the stages? Don't we need some form of

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc 0.12 - netifrc/newnet mix-up

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:31 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 04:30:30PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:25 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 06:46:36PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> >> seems like a vir

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc 0.12 - netifrc/newnet mix-up

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 12/05/2013 05:30 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:25 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 06:46:36PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>>> seems like a virtual that wouldn&#x

Re: [gentoo-dev] Recommend cronie instead of vixie-cron in handbook?

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/10/2013 09:18 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: >> >> I'd say go one step further and get rid of vixie-cron completely, is >> there anything it does that cronie can't do as well or better? > > Is cronie a drop-in replacement, or do I have to

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 11/12/13 21:41, William Hubbs wrote: >> My thought is to rename our "rc" to "openrc", since that would be >> unique. > orc is shorter and more punny (nice excuse for designing an

[gentoo-dev] Enabling EAPI 5 in arch profile directories

I have noticed that the arch profile directories (profiles/arch/$ARCH) are not EAPI 5 capable. These profiles are inherited by both the default and hardened profiles and contain arch-specific settings. They are often used to override masks set in the base profile. The base profile already has an E

[gentoo-dev] A few packages up for grabs

I'm removing myself from these packages because I have never really used them. My only interest in them was their interaction with net-misc/freerdp. net-misc/remmina -- upstream is basically dead, but I do have commit access net-libs/libvncserver x11-misc/x11vnc Please feel free to take them.

[gentoo-dev] Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

It seems having XDG variables like XDG_CONFIG_HOME set in the environment when calling emerge has a tendency to cause sandbox violations. For example, see the bugs blocking bug 499202. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499202 If you grep for XDG_CONFIG_HOME in the eclass directory, you can

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-01-25, o godz. 11:13:38 > Mike Gilbert napisał(a): > >> It seems having XDG variables like XDG_CONFIG_HOME set in the >> environment when calling emerge has a tendency to cause sandbox >> violations

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >> Dnia 2014-01-25, o godz. 11:13:38 >> Mike Gilbert napisał(a): >> >>> It seems having XDG variables like XDG_CONFIG_HOME set in the >>> environmen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:59:59 +0100 > Michał Górny wrote: >> Dnia 2014-01-26, o godz. 21:35:27 >> Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a): >> > On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:21:44 -0800 >> > Alec Warner wrote: >> > > Sorry, I work on Portage. What I'm saying

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > People are encouraged to provide a prototype implementation of such > eclass in the previously mentioned bug report. > Ok, lets discuss the eclass approach here. The 4 variables we want to deal with are: XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOM

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > [Replying again since my mailer messed up my original message.] > > On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 12:03 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> Option 3: Unset the variables >> >> This should cause applications to defaul

[gentoo-dev] New eclass: xdg-basedir

Here's a simple eclass that pretty much just extracts the XDG stuff from the gnome2_environment_reset function. One difference: it creates 3 of the 4 directories under ${HOME} instead of ${T}, just to mimic the default behavior in the XDG basedir spec a bit more closely. Please give a look. # Cop

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New eclass: xdg-basedir

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:48 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 01/30/2014 02:37 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> Here's a simple eclass that pretty much just extracts the XDG stuff from >> the gnome2_environment_reset function. >> >> One difference: it creates 3 o

Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El jue, 30-01-2014 a las 13:47 +0100, Marc Schiffbauer escribió: >> * Pacho Ramos schrieb am 29.01.14 um 07:58 Uhr: >> >Currently, there is no really working version of it in the tree: >> >https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494624 >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:19 AM, hasufell wrote: > Googleearth is 90% of the time broken. I don't see how you can do > automated version bumps there. And we should not bump if the new version > is broken. > If that is the case, it sounds like it isn't worth keeping it in the tree.

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/certifi and dev-python/mozrunner

# Mike Gilbert (26 Jan 2014) # Python library that has no reverse deps. Removal in 30 days. dev-python/certifi # Mike Gilbert (29 Jan 2014) # I suspect this package is not used. If you are using it, please contact me. # Otherwise, it will be removed in 30 days. dev-python/mozrunner dev-python

Re: [gentoo-dev] upstreams that release lzip compressed tarballs (tar.lz) only

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Lars Wendler wrote: > Hi, > > it seems like some GNU projects start to release their source tarballs > in lzip compressed versions only [1][2]. > This is a problem since portage's unpack function doesn't know anything > about lzip. > > ... > > What do you think? >

Re: [gentoo-dev] February 2014 QA policy updates

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Chris Reffett wrote: > This does not affect sys-boot/grub's USE=multislot, as that > does not mangle the SLOT value like the others (as I understand it). Right. USE=multislot on grub just toggles the renaming of the grub-foo commands to grub2-foo, in case someone

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item draft for >=sys-fs/udev-209 upgrade

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Thomas D. wrote: > Hi, > > not everyone is using systemd. On my systems for example, I don't have > "/lib/systemd/" (INSTALL_MASK). > > The current news item draft raises question like "When the 'actual > configuration' is in /lib/systemd/network/99-default.link...

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item draft for >=sys-fs/udev-209 upgrade

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 24/02/14 10:55 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Thomas D. >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> not everyone is using systemd. On my systems for example, I don't >&

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item draft for >=sys-fs/udev-209 upgrade

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 02/24/2014 12:17 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >>> On 24/02/14 10:55 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Thomas D. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] News draft #2 for the udev-210 upgrade (was: 209 upgrade)

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > I haven't looked into the details as to why a config file is stored in > /lib/systemd, but I imagine that they're trying to store settings in > one place and have them applied to multiple executables (though > obviously by overriding the rule

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item draft for >=sys-fs/udev-209 upgrade

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Lars Wendler wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:46:23 +0100 Peter Stuge wrote: > >>Lars Wendler wrote: >>> >> - try to prevent most naming pollution of pure udev with systemd >>> >> crap. >>> > >>> >childish. me don't like pink ponies. pink too much. pony okay. >>> >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding slot and subslot deps to others' packages

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:37:22 +0100 > Michał Górny wrote: > >> Few months ago I have written a small FAQ on how to use slots >> and subslots for library dependencies properly [1]. However, today >> I see that most of the developers didn't car

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding slot and subslot deps to others' packages

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > My script for spotting opportunities to use slot op deps is still out > there. Of course, I wouldn't just "fix" any ebuild that comes up as > there are situations where it isn't appropriate. What would probably > make sense is for QA to defin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding slot and subslot deps to others' packages

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > Honestly, setting up a tracker and blocking it with bugs about packages > which someones-sub-SLOT-checking-script has vetted to be involved could > be done in less than a day (for the hundred or so packages that depend > on dev-libs/libgcrypt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding slot and subslot deps to others' packages

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 14:44:52 -0500 > Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> Unless I have missed mgorny's point here, this isn't just about >> libraries that have currently subslots. This is about every single >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-functions is in the tree

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:30 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > for bug 373219 [1], we are working on providing a functions.sh that does > not rely on OpenRc so that people who are not using OpenRc can > completely remove it from their systems. > > I can now report that gentoo-functions has been

[gentoo-dev] Maintenance for net-misc/openswan

I picked up maintenance for net-misc/openswan a coupe of years ago. The project has since been forked by its main maintainer upstream into the "libreswan" project. This seems to be better maintained than the current openswan software. I have added libreswan to the tree and it is what I use on a da

Re: [gentoo-dev] sandbox access violations while running matlab binary installer

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > The best solution is to figure out why the directory is being created there > and whether it is customizable. Maybe the code actually is creating > $HOME/InstallShield? Then export HOME=${T} in your ebuild. > Portage already sets HOME

Re: [gentoo-dev] Change or revert the "30 days maintainer timeout" stabilization policy

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > The "30 days maintainer time out" stabilization policy isn't working > when package has multiple SLOTs, because > the bugs are filed for only latest SLOT, where as some packages require > stabilization in sync at both SLOTs > > Option 1: >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Change or revert the "30 days maintainer timeout" stabilization policy

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:28 PM, hasufell wrote: > I'm just not sure what any of the randomly filed stablereqs are for. > It doesn't help anyone, unless the guy who filed it actually uses it > or if it is a blocker for another stabilization. > > It's annoying me for some time now. I expect maintain

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why is IUSE=hpn mandatory in openssh ?

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Marcin Mirosław wrote: > According to last problem with openssl and +tls-heartbeat I'd like to > see less features enabled by default. USE="-*" isn't the best solution;) > A bug in an upstream-supported feature is quite different from a patched-in feature that upst

[gentoo-dev] ARM64 stable keyword

I see that vapier has been adding arm64 as a stable keyword to lots of packages. When I am requesting stabilization for newer versions these packages, is there an arm64 arch team I should copy? If not, these stable keywords are just going to get lost as old ebuilds get dropped. For an example, se

Re: [gentoo-dev] ARM64 stable keyword

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Mikle Kolyada wrote: > > 22.04.2014 21:40, Mike Gilbert пишет: >> I see that vapier has been adding arm64 as a stable keyword to lots of >> packages. >> >> When I am requesting stabilization for newer versions these packages, &g

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/manifestdestiny

# Mike Gilbert (23 Apr 2014) # Unused python library. Should have been removed with the moz* packages. # Removal in 30 days. dev-python/manifestdestiny

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox & network-sandbox by default

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Montag, 12. Mai 2014, 13:15:35 schrieb Alexander Berntsen: >> -1 from me until Portage is capable of detecting if the user's >> operating system supports the FEATUREs, and informing them of this. >> >> I also agree with Ryan that the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox & network-sandbox by default

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2014 17:46:57 +0200 > Alexander Berntsen wrote: >> On 12/05/14 17:23, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> > A flag being present or not in FEATURES does not mean anything, and >> > if you're assuming that it does then you have a bug.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox & network-sandbox by default

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2014 12:44:38 -0400 > Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Ciaran McCreesh >> wrote: >> > On Mon, 12 May 2014 17:46:57 +0200 >> > Alexander Berntsen wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox & network-sandbox by default

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2014 17:15:32 + > hasufell wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh: >> > Sandboxing isn't about security. >> > >> >> Sure it is. > > Then where do the bug reports for all the "security violations" > possible with sandbox go? > There

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox & network-sandbox by default

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2014 14:44:58 -0400 > Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Ciaran McCreesh >> wrote: >> > On Thu, 15 May 2014 17:15:32 + >> > hasufell wrote: >> >>

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH python-utils-r1] Move python_fix_shebang to python-utils-r1 and rewrite it clean.

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > It serves both as public shebang fixing function and replacement of > _python_rewrite_shebang internal function. For the sake of having common > code and consistent behavior. > > Notes on the 'new' function: > > 1. takes a list of files and/or

Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > Rich Freeman asked, in another thread, for specific examples of old > package.mask entries that just have "masked for testing" as the > description. > > Here is what I found with a quick look through package.mask. These > should be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Need help with sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.11 build failure

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Lars Wendler wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just add e2fsprogs{,-libs}-1.42.11 p.masked to our tree as I get a > strange build failure in e2fsprogs-1.42.11: > > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I../../lib -I../../lib -D_GNU_SOURCE > -march=barcelona -mtune=barcelona -O2 -pip

Re: [gentoo-dev] Need help with sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.11 build failure

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Lars Wendler wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just add e2fsprogs{,-libs}-1.42.11 Is there some reason that we continue to maintain these as two separate packages? It seems like the e2fsprogs ebuild could build/install both the binaries and the libraries, and that would pro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Need help with sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.11 build failure

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Lars Wendler wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I just add e2fsprogs{,-libs}-1.42.11 > > Is there some reason that we continue to maintain these as two > separate packages? It seems l

Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-4.8 may be needed in stable for www-client/chromium-38.x

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:48 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > Looks like www-client/chromium is going to start using c++11 seriously > and require gcc-4.8+, see thread > > > This is in the dev channel for

Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd + postgresql is non-obvious to me

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Aaron W. Swenson > wrote: >> On the whole, I'm displeased with the systemd alternative for >> controlling PostgreSQL. It's significantly hampered and doesn't allow >> as much flexibility as the initscript. Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sys-apps/iproute2 to the @system set

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Alex Xu wrote: > On 05/09/14 01:34 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> All, >> >> there is a bug open requesting that we add sys-apps/iproute2 to the >> system set [1]. Originally the request was to drop net-tools, but it has >> become just adding iproute2. >> >> If no one

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sys-apps/iproute2 to the @system set

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 09/05/14 16:08, Michał Górny wrote: >> >> Dnia 2014-09-05, o godz. 12:34:11 >> William Hubbs napisał(a): >> >>> there is a bug open requesting that we add sys-apps/iproute2 to the >>> system set [1]. Originally the request was to drop

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add bc back to the stage3

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 12:47:14 +0200 > Luca Barbato wrote: >> Because I'd expect a stage3 to be posix compliant > > I agree. It's time to replace nano with Vim. > To restate this: There are numerous other utilities specified in POSIX which

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add gcc-specs-stack-check() to toolchain-funcs.eclass

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Dan Douglas wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Anthony G. Basile > wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'd like to add the patch below to toolchain-funcs.eclass. I need it for >> bug #46 and it helps to address a category of bugs which gcc-4.8 >> uncovers.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing a blocker from a stable package

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:02:55 -0400 > "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > >> On 10/13/14 12:58, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> > I've got two obsolete packages masked currently: app-text/unix2dos >> > and app-doc/djbdns-man. Both of them block other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News item regarding c++98 vs c++11

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> On 20/10/14 06:58 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> >>> I don't think we'll ever want to support a mixed abi system. >> >> Can we, even? Would it be a mixed-abi system or a multi-abi system? > > I am afraid, we *have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Implicit system dependency

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 05/11/14 02:16, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> When I was taking my ebuild quizzes, I asked for someone to clarify the >> implicit system dependency that we have enshrined in the devmanual: >> >>https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 14/11/14 01:05, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> Isn't it possible to disable C++ in GCC with USE="-cxx"? > > It is, but I think if that's disabled you're on your own. :-) Perhaps we should add a package.use.force entry for this. Is there a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Alexander Hof wrote: > Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Michael Palimaka >> wrote: >>> On 14/11/14 01:05, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >>>> Isn't it possible to disable C++ in GCC with USE="-cxx&q

[gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for python3.4 defaults

Please review the attached news item. This is intended as a head-up before I adjust the default PYTHON_TARGETS setting in our profiles. Any improvements are welcome. Title: Python 3.4 enabled by default Author: Mike Gilbert Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2014-11-15 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for python3.4 defaults

Here's version 2. Title: Python 3.4 enabled by default Author: Mike Gilbert Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2014-11-15 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Python 3.4 will be enabled by default on 2014-11-22, replacing Python 3.3 as the default Python 3 interpreter. PYTHON_TARGETS will be adju

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for python3.4 defaults

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >> You may want to mention --changed-use. Also, I don't think >> python-updater is relevant here since python.eclass doesn't support >> 3.4. > > Than

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News item for python3.4 defaults

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Mike Gilbert posted on Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:21:14 -0500 as excerpted: > >> At the same time, support for Python 3.2 will be removed from the >> python-r1 family of eclasses. This version no longer recei

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > >> On Nov 17, 2014, at 7:03 PM, hasufell wrote: >> >>> On 11/18/2014 12:47 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >>> Am Dienstag, 18. November 2014, 00:38:36 schrieb hasufell: >>> >>> We just don't want to answer a thousand >>> questions when t

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