Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 09:04:13PM -0800, Corey Shields wrote: > On Saturday 19 November 2005 08:50 pm, Lance Albertson wrote: > > Yeah, we defiantly could use a beefy new server for CVS/SVN. Just make > > sure you chat with robbat2/Pylon on the specifics for the requirements. > > I believe the mai

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-23 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:06:18PM -0700, Duncan wrote: > Fourth Thursday in November... so tomorrow... Except in Canada, where it falls on the second Monday in October. So Chris might to well to have a time-machine and make the change last month. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-dev] my apologies for the mess with this release of MySQL 5.0.16

2005-11-24 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:51:42PM +0100, Francesco R. wrote: > # for i in libmysqlclient.so libmysqlclient_r.so ; do \ > for j in "" .15 .15.0 .15.0.0 ; do \ > echo ln -s /usr/lib/${i}.15.0.0 ${i}${j} \ > ; done \ > ; done ldconfig should have created these symlinks, unless something was wrong

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Manifest2 format

2005-12-06 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 06:39:10PM -0500, Olivier Crete wrote: > On Tue, 2005-06-12 at 17:04 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > > As promised here the GLEP for Manifest2 support: > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0044.html > > I see nothing about GPG in the GLEP.. Would those manifest files be

Re: [gentoo-dev] developer keyring?

2006-01-02 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:10:46PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Any automation of that process would be really appreciated :-) I've got a script that generates it from the rollcall data, as part of the keyring signing stuff. I'll attach it tommorrow (limited Net access at the moment, between ISPs

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:45:22PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Now I'm wondering - is there a sane way of handling this that doesn't > forcefully remove python 2.4? > e.g. could python modules be installed to multiple python versions? How > do others (ruby, perl, ...) handle it? For the moment I'

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:59:04PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > It installs itself for all versions of Python that are on the > > system. > I don't fully understand the magic how it finds all Python versions, > but can this be applied to other packages? It can and it is. Can't recall offhand whi

[gentoo-dev] Parallizing ebuilds - 'trivial' ebuilds

2006-01-11 Thread Robin H. Johnson
I've been cleaning up media-fonts/ to work with modular-X, and I see a lot of ebuilds with stuff like this: for font in *.bdf; do /usr/X11R6/bin/bdftopcf ${font} > `basename $font .bdf`.pcf done gzip *.pcf For having 100 files in *bdf, this is so

[gentoo-dev] FYI: earch with SLOT and masking support

2006-01-14 Thread Robin H. Johnson
For those that use the earch tool, I've written a new version that has support for SLOTs as well as masked packages (profiles, p.mask, missing keywords - any masking supported by portage). http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/earch-0.3 Try it on sys-devel/gcc for example, where there are presently 7 sl

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: earch with SLOT and masking support

2006-01-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Newer version now: http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/earch-0.6 Changes: - optionally include the category in the output - new mode to list ebuilds suitable for removal from portage (however this only checks your current profile so far, so be careful still, this is work in progress). - NOCOLOR sup

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: earch with SLOT and masking support

2006-01-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
New version again. http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/earch-0.7 Changes - Ignores /etc/portage like repoman by default, but added -f flag to revert to old behavior. - Added -i flag to ignore redundant versions (those that would be listed by -r). I've had a couple of people complain and say that earch

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: earch with SLOT and masking support

2006-01-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Another new version again, with bugfixes and cosmetic output changes. http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/earch-0.8 Changes: - keywords are sorted by the order they appear on disk, with the exception that '-*' will precede it if present. - All '-arch' flags will always appear in the list if present o

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

2006-01-20 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:10:02AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > that depends, does your code actually have things like > #ifdef DEBUG > > #endif And likewise your code should NOT have some logic like the following in it's build system. if(debug mode) ignore user cflags and use our

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X

2006-01-24 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:06:12PM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > A) You have commit access to gentoo-x86, AND > B) you're comfortable with the porting process OR are adept with ebuilds > and would like to help I'm up for being a volunteer here. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTE

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

2006-01-28 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 12:05:30PM +0300, Peter Volkov (pva) wrote: > To solve symlink problem I can suggest the following. Rather than handling it manually, perhaps eselect can help handle it consistently, and allow users to switch when they have both csh and tcsh installed. -- Robin Hugh Johnso

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multislot mysql

2006-02-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:19:18AM +, Francesco Riosa wrote: > A good solution should be to add the "multislot" USE flag to the ebuild > and let it to decide whenever make it slotted or not, sorry, this is not > viable, yes it's already used by other important packages but not well > supported

Re: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI component naming collision

2006-02-26 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:19:40PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Side note: if the packages in question are fetch restricted, you're > screwed, and will not be able to add them to the tree. Actually, there is a solution for this, and it's reasonable logical. Don't use the same name that upstream

Re: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI component naming collision

2006-02-27 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:34:00PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:05:00 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Is there any valid reason that we can't have portage do this > | automatically. This particular way is very user-un-friendly. > There's exactly one

Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support

2006-03-25 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 08:37:24PM +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Friday 24 March 2006 20:18, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > I really can't think of much besides kernel + toolchain that can have > > such devastating effects to the rest of the tree. The only other > > massive breakages would be via

Re: [gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary

2006-04-07 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 07:07:36PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > - lots of interest in kickstart-like features in our installer ... people > want > to throw install media into a fresh box, boot it, and come back later and > have it be done/usuable The 'CLI' frontend I wrote ~9 months ago worked

Re: [gentoo-dev] Having fun with compression

2006-04-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 06:30:23PM +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: > We have ~15k .tar.gz in distfiles. ~6500 .tar.bz2, ~2000 others. > A short run over 477 distfiles spanning 833M gave me 586M of .tar.bz2 - > roughly 30% more efficient! > A comparison run with 7zip gave me 590M files, so bzip2 seems t

Re: [gentoo-dev] staffing needs expirations?

2006-05-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:51:39PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > I just had somebody ask me about whether or not we still needed LDAP > help. It's a good question, and I didn't know the answer, which is > rather embarrassing since I'm the one who filed the LDAP staffing > request. Since then I b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-16 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 04:15:49PM +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote: > Comments? I have no objections to the concept - I would however like very through testing before it's actually committed. Could you please submit the profile as a patch to the mailing list, thus allowing detractors to test cases t

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

2006-05-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
This email is a discussion on why we need to care about more than the simple key parameters, and why - this includes things like changing the validity of an existing key. We also need to consider: location of key (primary key vs. subkey), expiry policies (expiries are only one element of key validi

Re: [gentoo-dev] New git.eclass

2006-05-19 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:08:08AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 01:45:30PM +0200, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: > > Also, git-sources *should* use this eclass once it is in the tree since > > people using it will save _lots_ of bandwidth and disk space. > Yes, I'll convert it over on

Re: [gentoo-dev] New git.eclass

2006-05-19 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 02:32:13PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:08:08AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > >> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 01:45:30PM +0200, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: > >>> Also, git-sources *should* use this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cvsutils

2006-05-19 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 12:22:25PM -0400, Mark Loeser wrote: > This package is currently without a maintainer and has open QA issues; > bug #123708. It was marked as testing on every arch without being > tested and could really use someone to clean it up. It will be booted > in 30 days if no one

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

2006-05-20 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 03:21:13PM +0200, Jan Kundr?t wrote: > I don't know much about cryptography, but could you please elaborate on > why is using one subkey for all the stuff considered a Bad Thing? The basic form of it, is a vulnerability towards a class of attacks that require a large supply

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

2006-05-20 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 06:54:44AM -0400, Peter wrote: > On Thu, 18 May 2006 23:45:17 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > >The problem, in short, is how to handle the checksumming and signing of > >gentoo-provided files so that manipulation by external entities becomes > >difficult. > all snip... > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Security/QA Spring Cleaning

2006-05-21 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:02:22PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: > ferringb took the time to write a parser and setup a cronjob > (every 4 hours at the half hour) to parse over our GLSA's and see what > pkgs remain in the tree and have nothing but newer versions stable. I [snip] Just because old versio

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for sys-libs/ldetect{,-lst}

2006-05-28 Thread Robin H. Johnson
While digging in the tree, I found this pair. 1. sys-apps/ldetect-lst has been broken for the last 9 months since perl-MDK-Common was removed from the tree. 2. Both of them are live CVS ebuilds, there are no fixed versions available (upstream does have outdated SRPMs). 3. The ONLY bug ever f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Security/QA Spring Cleaning

2006-05-28 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 02:20:55PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: > Package: net-nds/openldap Herd: ldap Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We will be keeping the most recent version of each of the major releases, as there are still people using them for interoperability with other systems. > Package: sys-auth

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC Maintainer-Wanted Bugs/Cleaning]

2006-05-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 07:30:25PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > So we created this awesome alias to put ebuilds that need a maintainer. > Good idea at the time, decent idea still. The problem? We have nearly > 2000 open bugs assigned to maintainer-wanted[1]. I would like to > discuss policy on t

Re: [gentoo-dev] mii-tool single distribution

2006-05-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:06:33PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > JFYI: I've made an mii-tool single distribution, which is > independent from the rest of the net-tools stuff. > http://www.metux.de/articles/oss/mii-tool-1_9_1_1 > This is especially interesting for embedded systems wit

Re: [gentoo-dev] mii-tool single distribution

2006-05-31 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:36:07PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Robin H. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:06:33PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > JFYI: I've made an mii-tool single distribution, which

Re: [gentoo-dev] maybe im wrong here but nsswitch and udev

2006-06-06 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:48:51AM +0100, J?rgen Schinker wrote: > actually my x86 maschine makes at boot when it starts udev > an ldap request and waits 6 ... 8 ...16 sec > so at this time ldap is not running > > so what wants udev at this early stage ? > > my nsswitch.conf > > hosts fi

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

2006-06-08 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 08:58:46PM +0100, Luis Medinas wrote: > Xmms will be removed soon... Lot's of users still use xmms mostly > because it has many plugins that others don't. Xmms is still stable but > the upstream is dead so it won't take our patchset. In the end of this > year i would like to

[gentoo-dev] parallel fun in src_install - going beyond the serial monotony of 'make install'

2006-06-08 Thread Robin H. Johnson
In the present devmanual, for src_install, it notes that make install DESTDIR="${D}" is the preferred way to fire off the install, and to not use emake, for fear of parallel issues. This has four nasty side effects: - Global assumption that make is GNU Make (Hi flameeyes). - Doesn't pass

Re: [gentoo-dev] parallel fun in src_install - going beyond the serial monotony of 'make install'

2006-06-08 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:58:07AM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > For a start, practically all Makefiles generated by a recent version > (newer than 2001 for definite) are parallel safe. There are a few minor > cases I saw where this wasn't true, but those packages also had ot

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

2006-06-12 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 03:41:56PM -0500, Mike Doty wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Molle Bestefich wrote: > > Hi > > > > Portage takes up a lot of space and time when doing server backups. > > > > How much of Portage needs to be backup up? > > Any large parts of the

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

2006-06-12 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:15:05AM +0200, 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...) The counter file is important if you intend to keep /var/log/p

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

2006-06-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:00:43AM +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote: > My current idea is to draw up a formal specification of what ebuilds > are allowed to do, and what to assume about the environment in which > they run, as well as defining the formats of everything under > profiles/, metadata.xml fi

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

2006-06-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:03:36PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > However, in consultation with some > > folks, it seems that what may be more desirable is to just add > > users/groups to the local files/compat backends instead, and not make > > any changes to the remote databases. > you mean up

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

2006-06-17 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:02:27PM -0700, Drake Wyrm wrote: > Thomas Cort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the proper quoting style for using epatch? In the tree there > > are about 3 different styles... > > > What is the proper quoting style for defining the S variable? In the > > tree ther

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending Removal of $KV

2006-06-19 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05:00:41PM -0700, infowolfe wrote: > >Kernel headers being the virtual/linux-headers dependency that Georgi > >mentioned. `uname -r` works, but is annoying because you can't build > >for a kernel other than the one you're running. > Which only applies to kernel modules, not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending Removal of $KV

2006-06-20 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:49:41PM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > > Could upstream have handled it better? Yes, most definitely. Did they? > > No, not yet. We're stuck picking up the pieces. > What does upstream have to do with the decision to "chmod u+s,go-r > /usr/bin/gpg" or not? If using a ker

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:24:23AM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > media-libs/x264-svn -> dev-lang/yasm > dev-libs/lzo -> dev-lang/nasm I responded to you on IRC about these two, please see my message there, as from everything I can see, the DEPs are actually correct. (The config.log for lzo-1 indi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:53:34PM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > Hi Robin, > first of all. > What I need is _basic_ respect on #gentoo-dev > You here seem all polite, but there you like playing me. > This is not a good start. Excuse me? I have never spoken to you on the #gentoo-dev IRC channel, a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 05:43:35PM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > What I just need is respect. > I might found around 150-200 bugs on (R)DEPEND. Take 200 on about 6500 > packages we have in our repository, if I take 5 minutes each, I'd end > up to take 16 hours. As the others said, you can either

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-03-16 23h59 UTC

2008-03-16 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-03-16 23h59 UTC. Removals: x11-misc/ASFiles2008-03-10 12:17:16 voyageur app-portage/gatt-svn2008-03-11 18:39:22 opfer x11-plugins/gkrel

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Bugzilla enhancements wrt AT work

2008-03-17 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 05:37:15PM +0100, Torsten Rehn wrote: > <+jakub> scel: basically... instead of KEYWORDREQ/STABLEREQ > <+jakub> create keywording and stabilization components > <+jakub> and use flags accordingly there > <+jakub> bugzilla already has the features, why not use them > <+jakub>

[gentoo-dev] Escaping+Quoting notes for linux-mod.eclass

2008-03-23 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi folks, Just a quick note about Escaping+Quoting stuff relevant to the usage of linux-mod.eclass. Up until recently, linux-mod.eclass had a bug where if you passed variables inside the $BUILD_PARAMS variable, AND those inner variables contained spaces, they would not be passed to Make correctly

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-03-23 23h59 UTC

2008-03-23 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-03-23 23h59 UTC. Removals: games-kids/tuxtype2 2008-03-17 03:04:02 mr_bones_ games-fps/quake3-wop2008-03-17 23:23:28 nyhm Additions: dev-p

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Ahmed Ammar (b33fc0d3)

2008-03-28 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:41:49PM +0200, Petteri R??ty wrote: > Joining us from the land of the pyramids, we have Ahmed "b33fc0d3" Ammar. > Although originally from Egypt, nowadays he lives in UK and studies > Computer Engineering there. He will be joining us to help with Gnome and > all sorts

[gentoo-dev] =sys-boot/grub-0.97-r5 testers wanted

2008-03-29 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi folks, The new -r5 of Grub provides a LOT of functionality and workings over the previous -r3 and -r4, however I would like more testers than I previously had. Specific functionality for testing: - GPT partition tables (bug 178586, 211584) - Large kernels (bug 160801) - * Long command lines (b

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-03-30 23h59 UTC

2008-03-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-03-30 23h59 UTC. Removals: dev-java/cryptix2008-03-24 22:00:11 caster dev-java/cryptix-asn1-bin 2008-03-24 22:00:12 caster dev-java/cryptix-jce-bin20

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: =sys-boot/grub-0.97-r5 testers wanted

2008-04-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:33:54PM +, Duncan wrote: > "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on > Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:37:13 -0700: > > The new -r5 of Grub provides a LOT of functionality and workings over > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] =sys-boot/grub-0.97-r5 testers wanted

2008-04-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:37:13PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > The new -r5 of Grub provides a LOT of functionality and workings over > the previous -r3 and -r4, however I would like more testers than I > previously had. The new grub is now out of package.mask, thanks to those th

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-04-06 23h59 UTC

2008-04-06 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-04-06 23h59 UTC. Removals: x11-themes/gtk-engines-mist 2008-03-31 06:09:41 remi dev-libs/tinyq 2008-03-31 09:44:49 armin76 net-ftp/gtkfxp 200

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

2008-04-07 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:10:03AM +0300, Petteri R??ty wrote: > Guess I wasn't clear enough. There is no filtering in that list based on > the developer role in Gentoo. It's all Gentoo developers marked as active > in LDAP. We first need to add the LDAP attributes before we can add the > filter

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

2008-04-08 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 06:30:17PM +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > That's worrying, I'm not supposed to have commit access to the tree. > trustees docs, yes but that's the limit. To my knowledge, I've never > made a commit there either. That's for ALL of CVS. Not just gentoo-x86. -- Robin Hugh Johns

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting summary for 10 April 2008

2008-04-10 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:50:52PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Ways to track commit stats of various sorts came up, such as cia.vc > and ohloh. cia seems to have too much downtime to rely on. ciaranm > talked with ohloh people already. ohloh would require some > modif

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting summary for 10 April 2008

2008-04-10 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 01:28:43AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:21:20 -0700 > "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having OhLoh would be nice, but over the course of the last year, > > they've found that their syste

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting summary for 10 April 2008

2008-04-10 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 01:41:09AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:37:31 -0700 > "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's why I setup them up with the ability to rsync it, and they > > never got back to me on that, nor

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 27

2008-04-11 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:35:36PM -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: > How does everyone feel about the proposed layout and syntaxes of GLEP 27? > Do we want to revisit this GLEP with an updated GLEP or status quo? > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0027.html I'm strongly in favour of moving forw

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-04-13 23h59 UTC

2008-04-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-04-13 23h59 UTC. Removals: media-video/x264-svn-encoder2008-04-07 22:46:11 yngwin media-libs/x264-svn 2008-04-07 22:47:24 yngwin dev-lang/smalltalk

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-04-20 23h59 UTC

2008-04-20 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-04-20 23h59 UTC. Removals: sys-fs/cryptsetup-luks 2008-04-14 18:58:17 cardoe dev-scheme/mit-scheme 2008-04-14 21:19:26 hkbst dev-lisp/gcl-cvs200

Re: [gentoo-dev] Putting edac and ipmi (and other server-related) packages in a herd

2008-04-21 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:52:01PM +0400, Peter Volkov wrote: > sys-apps/ipmitool > sys-apps/ipmiutil > sys-libs/freeipmi > sys-libs/openipmi > sys-apps/edac-utils > > and most of them are maintained by robbat2. So Robin, please, > comment! :) Please don't CC me since I am actually on the list. I

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

2008-04-23 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:21:27PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > OK, it seems that hard lines in multipart configs seem to be an issue, so I'm > doing this now. > > For a summary of why we're using hard lines you can read this thread > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/45756/focus=45

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

2008-04-23 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:04:38PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2008 21:46:18 Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:21:27PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > > > OK, it seems that hard lines in multipart configs seem to be an issue, so > &

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

2008-04-24 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:05:35PM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > All in all I guess we need to make the rules up as we go and decide > policy later. I suggest the first herd/address in the list should be > the primary contact. If you don't agree with that, please consult > metadata.xml for the pac

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-04-27 23h59 UTC

2008-04-27 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-04-27 23h59 UTC. Removals: net-firewall/conntrack 2008-04-21 05:33:28 jer sci-electronics/lard2008-04-21 17:13:26 calchan sci-libs/libgdgeda 2008

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

2008-05-01 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 07:34:51AM +0200, Tiziano M?ller wrote: > Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > All in all I guess we need to make the rules up as we go and decide > > policy later. I suggest the first herd/address in the list should be > > the primary contact. If you don't agree with that, please cons

[gentoo-dev] Upcoming infra work - Bugzilla, CVS/SVN/Git

2008-05-02 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi folks, Hopefully sometime THIS weekend, I'll be moving Bugzilla as well at our VCS services (CVS/SVN/Git on stork.gentoo.org) to new machines. I don't have a more accurate time estimate of when yet, but downtimes are going to be minimal, as the flips will be near-live. -- Robin Hugh Johnson

[gentoo-dev] Bugzilla migration 20h30 - 21h30 UTC TODAY

2008-05-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 12:02:47AM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Hopefully sometime THIS weekend, I'll be moving Bugzilla as well at our > VCS services (CVS/SVN/Git on stork.gentoo.org) to new machines. > > I don't have a more accurate time estimate of when yet, but downt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla migration DONE

2008-05-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:09:34PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > I don't have a more accurate time estimate of when yet, but downtimes > > are going to be minimal, as the flips will be near-live. > I'm moving bugzilla in <30 minutes. > Starting at 20h30 UTC.

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-05-04 23h59 UTC

2008-05-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-05-04 23h59 UTC. Removals: app-admin/dirvish 2008-04-28 20:11:59 ramereth sys-libs/hardened-glibc 2008-04-29 01:05:44 pappy sys-devel/hardened-gcc 2

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-05-11 23h59 UTC

2008-05-11 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-05-11 23h59 UTC. Removals: java-virtuals/sun-jdk 2008-05-05 00:35:28 betelgeuse x11-misc/grpn 2008-05-10 00:12:32 drac xfce-extra/squeeze

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-05-18 23h59 UTC

2008-05-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-05-18 23h59 UTC. Removals: profiles/selinux/alpha 2008-05-13 01:54:13 pebenito profiles/selinux/sparc 2008-05-13 01:54:20 pebenito media-video/fr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-23 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 07:18:16AM +0200, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tiziano ??? wrote: > | Marius Mauch wrote: > |>> - only have one location where members of a given team are listed, > |>> currently it's possible and quite likely that herd

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-05-25 23h59 UTC

2008-05-25 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-05-25 23h59 UTC. Removals: media-fonts/ttf-sil-charis 2008-05-19 00:55:31 dirtyepic media-fonts/ttf-sil-arabicfonts 2008-05-19 02:28:05 dirtyepic media-fonts/ttf-sil-ezra

[gentoo-dev] VCS repository overview for Gentoo

2008-05-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
This is more of a reminder email than anything else, in my capacity as the VCS administrator for Gentoo. Recently, some folk have wondered if we can come up with a better name than 'overlays', as a lot of the newer repositories aren't actually overlays of the tree, but rather independent developme

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-06-01 23h59 UTC

2008-06-01 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-06-01 23h59 UTC. Removals: media-sound/gtkguitune 2008-05-27 12:52:48 drac media-sound/playspc_gtk 2008-05-27 12:52:49 drac media-sound/yconsole

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-06-08 23h59 UTC

2008-06-08 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-06-08 23h59 UTC. Removals: dev-util/larch 2008-06-03 02:23:20 mr_bones_ app-text/docbook-to-man 2008-06-04 16:15:57 loki_val games-fps/ame

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

2008-06-09 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 12:19:21PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > I love aliasing :) > Any pybugz lovers, this patch will allow use of aliases. For anybody that wants nicer bugzilla URLS, you can use these: http://bugs.gentoo.org/${NUMERIC} http://bugs.gentoo.org/alias/${NUMERIC} http://bugs.ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] What to do for better support?

2008-06-12 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:20:47PM +0900, Takashi Yoshii wrote: > I want sh to be supported more, and to be released officially in future. > Currently, it doesn't have stable profile, and no 2008.0 release > (not even as an experimental), though. Seeing your employer's domain, can you offer pointer

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-06-15 23h59 UTC

2008-06-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-06-15 23h59 UTC. Removals: x11-plugins/gai-pager 2008-06-09 16:36:41 drac x11-plugins/gai-pal 2008-06-09 16:36:42 drac x11-libs/gai2008-0

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2008/2009 Nominations end TODAY 23:59 UTC

2008-06-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 07:50:01AM +0200, ??ukasz Damentko wrote: > Robin H. Johnsonrobbat2 Nope, I won't be running this time around. I've got a lot more done in the past year that I wasn't a council member than the preceding year when I was.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: package.mask

2008-06-21 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:56:51AM +0200, Albert Zeyer wrote: > > Thus whenever you change anything in arch profile, or in base or > > features subdirectory use relevant ChangeLog. For other changes like > > local USE flags documentation, masking/unmasking/updating masks (not > > comments :)) use /

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Gentoo Bugzilla going live on CACert certificates

2008-06-21 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 04:00:18PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > In a couple of minutes, bugs.gentoo.org should flip over to using > CACert-issued SSL certificates. The actual key is the same as before, > just a certificate and new CA chain in place. For anybody with issues with thei

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-06-22 23h59 UTC

2008-06-22 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-06-22 23h59 UTC. Removals: app-pda/syncekonnector 2008-06-19 01:22:03 darkside dev-util/lincvs 2008-06-19 12:47:53 mpagano x11-wm/aquamarine

[gentoo-dev] gentoo-dev fortune submissions

2008-06-27 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Have some good Gentoo laughs? This is a reminder that I collect input for the Gentoo-dev fortunes database. If you have some to submit, please email them to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED], with some combination of 'fortune' and 'gentoo-dev' in the subject line. Should be formatted per the existing entries,

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-06-29 23h59 UTC

2008-06-29 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-06-29 23h59 UTC. Removals: xfce-extra/notification-daemon-xfce 2008-06-23 02:16:35 drac xfce-extra/xfkc 2008-06-23 03:44:30 drac xfce-extra/xfce4-dev-t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Assigning bugs back to bug-wranglers@

2008-06-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:04:31PM +0200, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > PS: I'd like to remind users reading here that assigning bugs directly > is _bad_ if you didn't perform the above checks. It is _not_ ok to > assign bugs just because you _think_ the package is owned by ${HERD}. The same goes

[gentoo-dev] [v3] Planning for automatic assignment of bugs

2008-06-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
So this is now the third revision of this proposal. The first two editions are available here. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/48485 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/49601 Comments are welcome, as are offers to implement it. Implementations should be a small pyt

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-scheme/drscheme: ChangeLog reversion.patch drscheme-4.0.1.ebuild drscheme-0.372-r1.ebuild

2008-07-02 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 04:53:06PM +, Marijn Schouten (hkbst) wrote: > hkbst 08/06/28 16:53:06 > > Modified: ChangeLog > Added:reversion.patch drscheme-4.0.1.ebuild > drscheme-0.372-r1.ebuild > Log: > add new major version 4.0.1

Re: [gentoo-dev] b.g.o down?

2008-07-02 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 08:08:38AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > I'm getting "Connection refused" when trying to connect to > http://bugs.gentoo.org. Is this intentional? Yeah, read the -dev topic. I broke it, and I'm working on it. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy E-Ma

[gentoo-dev] Bugzilla muckup

2008-07-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Ok, my bad. I screwed up. I changed something in cfengine, then rushed off to a family dinner, and caused a couple of hours of bugzilla badness because I didn't fully review my change. Approximately: 2008/07/03 02h38 till 05h06. The following bugs may have duplicate comments, or the various other

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:26:13AM +0100, Tony Chainsaw Vroon wrote: > Just an idea: > How about a metadata.xml tag that indicates whether early bump requests are > welcome? > It's more of an individual developer preference, but that seems the right > place for it. If used, what about including a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [2 GLEPs] metadata improvements

2008-07-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:22:02PM +0200, Tiziano M?ller wrote: > And this is where the second GLEP comes in: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~dev-zero/glep/glep-xsd.html Don't remove the DTD DOCTYPE line. Leave it there. Let simple tools be able to use the DTD to validate the well-formedness, then upg

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