[gentoo-dev] Re: Smoother moderation scheme?

2007-07-14 Thread Ryan Hill
Alin Năstac wrote: > Do you have a solution to filter flamefests out of a ml? If you do, > please share it with the list. Please give one example of a mailing list plagued by flamefests that successfully solved their problems by adopting moderation without completely alienating their communities.

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-14 Thread Ryan Hill
Christina Fullam wrote: > I suppose the problem is high-volume and excessive flaming/trolling/OT. > The proposed solution asks that every developer take an active role, > yes, so that could easily equal more work - but I have little doubts > that there are developers that will take an interest in

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grab

2007-07-15 Thread Ryan Hill
Christian Heim wrote: > Here are some more :| > > Previously maintained by Elfyn McBratney (beu): > - app-doc/howto-html > - app-doc/howto-html-single > - app-doc/single-unix-specification I'll take these. -- dirtyepic salesman said this vacuum's guaranteed gentoo org

[gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Pierre-Yves Rofes (p-y)

2007-07-15 Thread Ryan Hill
Petteri Räty wrote: > Please give him the usual flamy welcome. ... py... -- dirtyepic salesman said this vacuum's guaranteed gentoo org it could suck an ancient virus from the sea 9B81 6C9F E791 83BB 3AB3 5B2D E625 A073 8379 37E8 (0x837937E8) -- [EMAIL PROTECT

[gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007/08

2007-07-16 Thread Ryan Hill
Torsten Veller wrote: > | for the quick low down: > | - nominations are from July 1 through July 31 > | - anyone can nominate > | - only Gentoo devs may be nominated > | > | so get with the nominating people ! I noticed Kumba isn't nominated, so I'll throw him into the ring. -- dirtyepic

[gentoo-dev] Re: For Jakub (and the other procmail-impaired)

2007-07-16 Thread Ryan Hill
Steve Long wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > >> :0 >> * ^List-Id:.gentoo-dev.gentoo.org. >> * ^Subject:.*ML changes >> /dev/null >> > Sorry was there some reason the rest of us had to read this? If so, please > explain it like a responsible Council member. Or is this your swansong? If > so it's l

[gentoo-dev] Re: x86 toolchain changes heads up

2007-07-18 Thread Ryan Hill
Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Peter Gordon wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 19:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> historically, gcc on x86 has always defaulted to i386. some people noticed >>> recently that glibc-2.6 fails to build in this situation as they were only >>> setting -mtune via CFLAGS, no

[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting -project started

2007-07-19 Thread Ryan Hill
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > gentoo-project > gentoo-dev-announce These are on gmane now as well. -dev-announce as RO and -project as RW. -- dirtyepic salesman said this vacuum's guaranteed gentoo org it could suck an ancient virus from the sea 9B81 6C9F E791 83BB 3AB3

[gentoo-dev] Re: joining the Software Freedom Conservancy

2007-07-22 Thread Ryan Hill
Marius Mauch wrote: > While I think this would be an excellent move, there are a few topics > that concern me a bit: > 1) just to be sure, did someone check the transfer agreement between the > Foundation and the old Gentoo, Inc for potential problems? > 2) what would this mean for our copyright si

[gentoo-dev] Re: New lists and their usage

2007-07-22 Thread Ryan Hill
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > gentoo-dev: This list is for technical discussion, primarily between > developers, about development and development-related issues that > directly affect the tree or current projects. For now, no changes are > made to this list. technical discussion > gentoo-projects:

[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting -project started

2007-07-22 Thread Ryan Hill
Duncan wrote: > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:29:19 -0500: > > [About the project list as carried on gmane.] > >> I had to send the confirmation email twice then it started sending me >> emails. WE may have caught it before we shoul

[gentoo-dev] Re: New lists and their usage

2007-07-22 Thread Ryan Hill
Jan Kundrát wrote: > Then it's worth cross-posting -core or -dev-announce or similar. I > thought that goal of -project was to keep devs away from poisonous > content without impairing their Gentoo-awareness. I'd like to think that the goal of -project is to let devs who are only interested in te

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-fonts/artwiz-fonts

2007-07-23 Thread Ryan Hill
# Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (23 Jul 2007) # duplicated by media-fonts/artwiz-aleczapka-en. use that instead. # Bug #186400 media-fonts/artwiz-fonts -- dirtyepicyou'd be tossed up or wash up, the narrator relates gentoo org in a spartan antarctican walk for many

[gentoo-dev] Re: joining the Software Freedom Conservancy

2007-07-23 Thread Ryan Hill
Michael Cummings wrote: >>> a. The Project Will Be Free Software. The Conservancy and the Project >>> agree that >>>any software distributed by the Project will be distributed solely as >>> Free Software. >> If that's not a problem I think this is a great idea. > It's not a problem - wh

[gentoo-dev] Re: joining the Software Freedom Conservancy

2007-07-24 Thread Ryan Hill
Ryan Hill wrote: > Michael Cummings wrote: > >>>> a. The Project Will Be Free Software. The Conservancy and the Project >>>> agree that >>>>any software distributed by the Project will be distributed solely as >>>> Free Software. >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-fonts/artwiz-fonts

2007-07-24 Thread Ryan Hill
Ryan Hill wrote: > # Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (23 Jul 2007) > # duplicated by media-fonts/artwiz-aleczapka-en. use that instead. > # Bug #186400 > media-fonts/artwiz-fonts Unmasked until artwiz-aleczapka-en gets the appropriate keywording. Sorry about that. -- dir

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: x11-misc/fsv

2007-07-27 Thread Ryan Hill
Steve Long wrote: > aiui, if there are no bugs the package goes to maintainer-wanted so a user > can pick it up for sunrise. Almost. Sunrise can only handle maintainer-needed packages; those that aren't in the tree yet. -- dirtyepicyou'd be tossed up or wash up, the narrator relates gento

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: x11-misc/fsv

2007-07-27 Thread Ryan Hill
Ryan Hill wrote: > Steve Long wrote: > >> aiui, if there are no bugs the package goes to maintainer-wanted so a user >> can pick it up for sunrise. > > Almost. Sunrise can only handle maintainer-needed packages; those that > aren't in the tree yet. Bah, I screwe

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites for media-fonts/twmoefonts

2007-07-28 Thread Ryan Hill
Ryan Hill wrote: > These fonts are severely busted. See bug #115110. > > Masked for removal in 30 days. Removed. -- dirtyepicyou'd be tossed up or wash up, the narrator relates gentoo org in a spartan antarctican walk for many days 9B81 6C9F E791 83BB 3AB3 5B2D

[gentoo-dev] Re: why? pciutils with zlib use-flag went stable on x86

2007-07-29 Thread Ryan Hill
Wulf C. Krueger wrote: >> Why did you provocate this breakage? >> This is not a good idea, IMHO. > > I think so, too. cf. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166790 That has got to be one of the stupidest bug reports i've ever seen. -- dirtyepicyou'd be tossed up or wash up, the narrator

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - July 16 - 29, 2007

2007-07-29 Thread Ryan Hill
5B2D E625 A073 8379 37E8 (0x837937E8) x11-misc/fsv Samuli Suominen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>21 Aug 2007 media-fonts/artwiz-fonts Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 23 Aug 2007 net-firewall/fireflier Markus Ullmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>24

[gentoo-dev] Re: New (old) Developer: Dimitry Brad (diox)

2007-07-29 Thread Ryan Hill
Christian Heim wrote: > It's my pleasure to (re)-introduce to you Dimitry Brad (also known as diox on > IRC), our latest addition joining the x86 arch monkeys. > > Dimitry has been a Gentoo Developer for quite some time (it has been nearly a > year now), and he finally sent in his ebuild quiz an

[gentoo-dev] Re: why? pciutils with zlib use-flag went stable on x86

2007-08-02 Thread Ryan Hill
Sven Köhler wrote: >> There are many more ebuilds than just hal which fail with a compressed >> pci.ids file. And many of them are non-obvious. It took me more than >> I little bit of effort after the zlib USE flag was first added to the >> pciutils ebuild to figure out why so many packages where

[gentoo-dev] Re: Release managment

2007-08-02 Thread Ryan Hill
Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > Martin Michlmayr, Debian Project Leader from 2003 to 2005, has finished > his Phd thesis about "Quality improvement in volunteer software > projects" [1] > > V-Li > > P.S.: Is -dev the correct list? I would say this is perfect for -project. It's a thesis o

[gentoo-dev] Re: why? pciutils with zlib use-flag went stable on x86

2007-08-02 Thread Ryan Hill
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 05:19:02PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: >>> Oh! Really? Which ones? >> app-laptop/smcinit >> app-misc/ddccontrol >> sys-apps/hwsetup >> sys-apps/{lib,}kudzu >> sys-apps/vbetool >> sys-boot/efibootmgr >

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - July 29 - August 5, 2007

2007-08-05 Thread Ryan Hill
Attached are the packages that have been masked for removal 20070729-20070805. -- dirtyepicyou'd be tossed up or wash up, the narrator relates gentoo org in a spartan antarctican walk for many days 9B81 6C9F E791 83BB 3AB3 5B2D E625 A073 8379 37E8 (0x837937E8) mail-client/claws-m

[gentoo-dev] Re: Some ideas on how to reduce territoriality

2007-08-06 Thread Ryan Hill
Petteri Räty wrote: > Steev Klimaszewski kirjoitti: >> Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> >>> dodoc calls should have || die and USE=doc should be tested before >>> commiting a bump, IMHO >>> >> Sorry, I didn't realize my 3 hour compile of $APPLICATION should die >> because TODO wasn't around. Vote against

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - August 5th - 12th 2007

2007-08-12 Thread Ryan Hill
Attached are the packages that have been masked for removal 20070805-20070812. -- dirtyepicyou'd be tossed up or wash up, the narrator relates gentoo org in a spartan antarctican walk for many days 9B81 6C9F E791 83BB 3AB3 5B2D E625 A073 8379 37E8 (0x837937E8) net-wireless/aircra

[gentoo-dev] Re: Some ideas on how to reduce territoriality

2007-08-19 Thread Ryan Hill
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 10:12 +, Duncan wrote: >> Isn't the point, however, that if it's a die if the do* is on a file that >> no longer exists, the maintainer will see it when they test, take care of >> it, and as a result, it shouldn't ever hit the user? > > Y

[gentoo-dev] Re: app-arch/rpm needs a maintainer

2007-08-20 Thread Ryan Hill
Caleb Tennis wrote: > Title says it all. There are a lot of open bugs, and I'm trying to clear up > some > sys-libs/db dependency issues. Does anyone use this package and want to > maintain > it? I've been toying with the idea of taking it, or at least fixing it up a bit so it doesn't look so

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - August 12th - 20th 2007

2007-08-20 Thread Ryan Hill
One day late but moving fast, attached are the packages that have been masked for removal 20070812-20070820. -- dirtyepicyou'd be tossed up or wash up, the narrator relates gentoo org in a spartan antarctican walk for many days 9B81 6C9F E791 83BB 3AB3 5B2D E625 A073 8379 37E8 (0

[gentoo-dev] Re: app-arch/rpm needs a maintainer

2007-08-22 Thread Ryan Hill
Caleb Tennis wrote: > Title says it all. There are a lot of open bugs, and I'm trying to clear up > some > sys-libs/db dependency issues. Does anyone use this package and want to > maintain > it? After looking at the open bugs, i think this needs someone more familiar with rpm. One thing I do

[gentoo-dev] Re: app-arch/rpm needs a maintainer

2007-08-24 Thread Ryan Hill
Andrey Falko wrote: > I am not 100% sure if this is possible, but may a non-dev like myself > take up its maintenance? I use rpm a fair amount and know a decent > amount about it (I maintain a RHEL4 server + I wrote my B.A. Thesis on > package mangers). Taking a quick look > (http://bugs.gentoo.or

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007

2007-09-02 Thread Ryan Hill
enjoy. -- dirtyepicyou'd be tossed up or wash up, the narrator relates gentoo org in a spartan antarctican walk for many days 9B81 6C9F E791 83BB 3AB3 5B2D E625 A073 8379 37E8 (0x837937E8) app-emacs/slime-cvsUlrich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 27 Sep 2007 dev

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007

2007-09-02 Thread Ryan Hill
Samuli Suominen wrote: > On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:51:55 -0600 > Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> enjoy. >> > > Broken list.. Lastrited entire GStreamer 0.8, which includes removal of > some plugins like gst-plugins-dts, not shown here. >From what I

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007

2007-09-02 Thread Ryan Hill
Lars Weiler wrote: > * Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07/09/02 17:44 -0600]: >> plan on doing version-specific masks in the future unless someone can >> come up with a good argument for it. > > Slots? That's a good argument. -- dirtyepicyou'd be tosse

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007

2007-09-02 Thread Ryan Hill
Marius Mauch wrote: > Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not so sure. The last rites have historically always been for >> complete removals of a package from the tree. Is there any reason to >> change it? > > Well, different slots and different packages can be considered to be the >

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007 take two

2007-09-02 Thread Ryan Hill
Here's the new list including the gstreamer-0.8 packages. Disregard the previous mail. -- dirtyepicyou'd be tossed up or wash up, the narrator relates gentoo org in a spartan antarctican walk for many days 9B81 6C9F E791 83BB 3AB3 5B2D E625 A073 8379 37E8 (0x837937E8) app-emacs/

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - September 2nd - 10th 2007

2007-09-10 Thread Ryan Hill
Attached are the packages that have been scheduled for removal this week. -- fonts / wxWindows / gcc-porting / treecleaners 9B81 6C9F E791 83BB 3AB3 5B2D E625 A073 8379 37E8 (0x837937E8) net-dialup/bpaloginStefan Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>02 Oct 2007 dev-

[gentoo-dev] Re: net-wireless/ipw3945{,d} needs your help

2007-09-10 Thread Ryan Hill
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 11:09:32AM +0200, Christian Heim wrote: >> The package itself is hopefully going away when iwl3945 is finally useable. > What do you mean finally usable? > > I've been using iwl3945 on my laptop for close on 2 months, with no > issues in the last

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: font.eclass

2007-09-15 Thread Ryan Hill
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 02:20 Sun 16 Sep , Ryan Hill (dirtyepic) wrote: >> dirtyepic07/09/16 02:20:05 >> >> Modified: font.eclass >> Log: >> Forgot to remove -v flag from chmod. > >> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ >> for su

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - September 9th - 16th 2007

2007-09-16 Thread Ryan Hill
Attached are the packages that have been scheduled for removal this week. -- fonts / wxWindows / gcc-porting / treecleaners 9B81 6C9F E791 83BB 3AB3 5B2D E625 A073 8379 37E8 (0x837937E8) app-text/hspellAlon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20 Sep 2007 mail

[gentoo-dev] Re: commit reviewing ... new list or keep it on -dev ?

2007-09-17 Thread Ryan Hill
Mike Frysinger wrote: > ive been sending private e-mails as i didnt want to make a lot of noise, but > many of the comments i make i imagine would be applicable to a lot of > people ... i also see others doing reviews and such > > how do people feel about responses ? keep them all on gentoo-dev

[gentoo-dev] locking wxGTK dependencies

2007-09-17 Thread Ryan Hill
One of the (too many) things we need to do to get wxGTK-2.8 into the tree is lock all packages in portage with wxGTK DEPENDS to the 2.6 SLOT. This is because the way the eclass works requires ebuilds to specify the SLOT they need in order to know what configuration scripts to use. (ie. an ebui

[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in dev-db/firebird: ChangeLog metadata.xml firebird-2.0.3.12981.0-r1.ebuild firebird-2.0.1.12855.0-r4.ebuild firebird-2.0.1.12855.0-r5.ebuild

2007-09-22 Thread Ryan Hill
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 10:29 +0200, Torsten Veller wrote: >>> pkg_postinst() { >>> # Hack to fix ownership/perms >>> chown -fR firebird:firebird /etc/firebird /usr/share/firebird >>> chmod 750 /etc/firebird >>> >> ROOT!=/ ? >> >>> pkg_config() { >>> cd

[gentoo-dev] Re: "Trivial" commit reviews

2007-09-23 Thread Ryan Hill
Mike Doty wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> Mike Doty (KingTaco) just told me I could stop sending reviews to -dev >> that are just about adding quotes or other trivial issues that come up >> over and over. I'm going to tell you why it's still a good thing. >> >> First, where one problem lurks, ot

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - Sept 16th - 23rd, 2007

2007-09-23 Thread Ryan Hill
Attached are the packages that have been scheduled for removal this week. -- fonts / wxWindows / gcc-porting / treecleaners 9B81 6C9F E791 83BB 3AB3 5B2D E625 A073 8379 37E8 (0x837937E8) sys-auth/bioapiMike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]08 Oct 2007 sys-a

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-fs/udev: ChangeLog udev-115-r6.ebuild

2007-09-24 Thread Ryan Hill
Duncan wrote: > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 > 13:09:57 -0700: > >> For tests, pick a style >> [[ ]] or [ ] and stick with it. The [[ ]] one is pretty nice because it >> generally doesn't require quotes, so the code looks a l

[gentoo-dev] new old eclass - wxwidgets.eclass

2007-09-24 Thread Ryan Hill
since everyone is getting into the reviewing mood, i thought it would be a good time to get some opinions on the wxwidgets eclass rewrite i've done. it's pretty simple and i hope the docs make it self-explanatory. a couple things: - is the stuff in global scope kosher? i've seen other eclasses

[gentoo-dev] Re: new old eclass - wxwidgets.eclass

2007-09-26 Thread Ryan Hill
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 21:14 Mon 24 Sep , Ryan Hill wrote: >> - is the stuff in global scope kosher? i've seen other eclasses do >> similar, but i want to be sure. the reason for the looping is because >> i figure calling built_with_use in global would g

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-scheme/bigloo: ChangeLog bigloo-3.0b_p2.ebuild

2007-09-26 Thread Ryan Hill
Alec Warner wrote: > You should not use $FEATURES in an ebuild as they are not meant to be > part of the API. Can someone put something in the dev guide about this? I was looking for exactly this answer a week or so ago and couldn't find anything. ;) -- fonts / wxWindows / gc

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/pygobject: ChangeLog pygobject-2.14.0.ebuild

2007-09-26 Thread Ryan Hill
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 13:15 Wed 26 Sep , Mart Raudsepp (leio) wrote: >> 1.1 dev-python/pygobject/pygobject-2.14.0.ebuild >> >> file : >> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-python/pygobject/pygobject-2.14.0.ebuild?rev=1.1&view=markup >> plain: >> http://

[gentoo-dev] Re: stripping out the DO NOT REPLY from bugzie emails

2007-09-29 Thread Ryan Hill
Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: >> Robin H. Johnson wrote: >>> DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Also, do not reply via email to the >>> person whose email is mentioned below. To comment on this bug, >>> please visit: >> >> Please consider lowercasing the first sentence, to stop the yell

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - Sept 23rd - 30th, 2007

2007-09-30 Thread Ryan Hill
Attached are the packages that have been scheduled for removal this week. -- fonts / wxWindows / gcc-porting / treecleaners 9B81 6C9F E791 83BB 3AB3 5B2D E625 A073 8379 37E8 (0x837937E8) app-emacs/speedbar Ulrich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 26 Oct 2007

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

2007-10-01 Thread Ryan Hill
Mike Frysinger wrote: > This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the > 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > irc.freenode.net) ! As in the past these threads have been usually less-than-technical, i wonder if they should be done on -project? --

[gentoo-dev] Re: locking wxGTK dependencies

2007-10-01 Thread Ryan Hill
Ryan Hill wrote: > One of the (too many) things we need to do to get wxGTK-2.8 into the tree is > lock all packages in portage with wxGTK DEPENDS to the 2.6 SLOT. I will also need to lock wxpython since it pulls in the corresponding wxGTK SLOT. I'll be touching these ebuilds: [EMAI

[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting rid of lurking no* USE flags - profile-based package.use

2007-10-02 Thread Ryan Hill
Zac Medico wrote: > Jason Smathers wrote: >> On 10/2/07, *Robin H. Johnson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > wrote: > >> Hi Guys, > >> Before dberholz complains about my next commit, given that we have >> support in profiles for package.use, how soon can we start to u

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: sh versionator.eclass

2007-10-02 Thread Ryan Hill
Steve Long wrote: > IMO the real reason you have such an issue with quoting is the redundant > braces which are Gentoo house style; too many newbie scripters think that > cd ${S} is safe when it should be cd "${S}" or more simply cd "$S". I don't > buy the legibility argument since most people use

[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting rid of lurking no* USE flags - profile-based package.use

2007-10-03 Thread Ryan Hill
Zac Medico wrote: > Ryan Hill wrote: >> SLOT depends are something we could really use right now. What kind of >> time frame are you thinking of? > > Trying to include things that aren't implemented or things that are > controversial will delay it. It's diff

[gentoo-dev] controlling src_test

2007-10-03 Thread Ryan Hill
There are several packages in portage (and even in base-system) that fail in src_test when userpriv/usersandbox is enabled or disabled. That is, some testsuites fail when run as root and some fail if not run as root. I'd like a simple consistent way to mark or handle these packages without disabl

[gentoo-dev] Re: controlling src_test

2007-10-04 Thread Ryan Hill
Rémi Cardona wrote: > Ravi Pinjala a écrit : >> I, for one, would like to be able to control whether or not to run tests >> that take a huge amount of time to run. Some test suites are >> ridiculously comprehensive, and if we could have an option to disable >> only those, or even run a reduced tes

[gentoo-dev] Re: controlling src_test

2007-10-04 Thread Ryan Hill
Ryan Hill wrote: > Rémi Cardona wrote: >> Ravi Pinjala a écrit : >>> I, for one, would like to be able to control whether or not to run tests >>> that take a huge amount of time to run. Some test suites are >>> ridiculously comprehensive, and if we coul

[gentoo-dev] Re: controlling src_test

2007-10-04 Thread Ryan Hill
Alin Năstac wrote: > Ryan Hill wrote: >> NEWFEATURES= >> >> for f in ${FEATURES}; do >> if [[ ! $f == "test" ]]; then >> NEWFEATURES="${NEWFEATURES} $f" >> fi >> done >> >> FEATURES="${NEWFEATURES

[gentoo-dev] Re: controlling src_test

2007-10-04 Thread Ryan Hill
Ryan Hill wrote: > > here's a crappy little script to automate it. > here's take two. if someone could tell me a simple way to get the category given a package name, including a way to detect ambiguous names, i could drop the dependency on app-portage/udept. anyways it now

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: gnustep-base.eclass

2007-10-05 Thread Ryan Hill
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 10:51 Fri 05 Oct , Bernard Cafarelli (voyageur) wrote: >> 1.4 eclass/gnustep-base.eclass >> >> file : >> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/eclass/gnustep-base.eclass?rev=1.4&view=markup >> plain: >> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.p

Re: [gentoo-dev] new old eclass - wxwidgets.eclass

2007-10-06 Thread Ryan Hill
Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Hello, > > On E, 2007-09-24 at 21:14 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: >> since everyone is getting into the reviewing mood, i thought it >> would be a good time to get some opinions on the wxwidgets >> eclass rewrite i've done. > > > I fi

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - Sept 30th - Oct 7th, 2007

2007-10-07 Thread Ryan Hill
Attached are the packages that have been scheduled for removal this week. -- fonts / wxWindows / gcc-porting / treecleaners EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 (0xF9A40662) dev-db/mysql-administrator Sven Wegener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 30 Oct 2007 dev-d

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-games/crystalspace: ChangeLog crystalspace-1.2.ebuild

2007-10-07 Thread Ryan Hill
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 21:51 Sun 07 Oct , Michael Sterrett (mr_bones_) wrote: >> 1.1 dev-games/crystalspace/crystalspace-1.2.ebuild >> >> file : >> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-games/crystalspace/crystalspace-1.2.ebuild?rev=1.1&view=markup >> plain:

[gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options

2007-10-08 Thread Ryan Hill
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: > Marius Mauch wrote: >> We already have this with USE_EXPAND. Not exactly the same syntax, but >> I don't see a terrible problem in that, and we don't have to fix all >> three trillion related tools to handle it. Unless you can come up >> with a case that can't be h

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/gnome-python-extras: ChangeLog gnome-python-extras-2.19.1-r1.ebuild

2007-10-13 Thread Ryan Hill
Rémi Cardona wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> python_mod_optimize() { >> local myroot >> # strip trailing slash >> myroot="${ROOT%/}" >> >> ... >> >> ebegin "Byte compiling python modules for python-${PYVER} .." >> python${PYVER} ${myroot}/usr/$(get_libdir)/python${PYVER}

[gentoo-dev] Re: new old eclass - wxwidgets.eclass

2007-10-13 Thread Ryan Hill
Ryan Hill wrote: > since everyone is getting into the reviewing mood, i thought it > would be a good time to get some opinions on the wxwidgets > eclass rewrite i've done. Committed. If anyone has any problems please let me know. -- fonts / wxWindows

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - Oct 7th - 14th, 2007

2007-10-14 Thread Ryan Hill
Attached are the packages that have been scheduled for removal this week. -- fonts / wxWindows / gcc-porting / treecleaners EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 (0xF9A40662) dev-lang/anubisSamuli Suominen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>08 Nov 2007 a

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-tv/mythtv: ChangeLog mythtv-0.20.2_p14668.ebuild mythtv-0.21_pre14666.ebuild mythtv-0.21_pre14480-r1.ebuild

2007-10-15 Thread Ryan Hill
Doug Goldstein wrote: > I still stand by my original feeling that we'd better the community NOT > only the developers doing the commits by updating the devmanual, which > is accessible to all developers and all users in the Gentoo community. This would be a great thing, but I'm under the impressio

[gentoo-dev] jam -> ftjam

2007-10-15 Thread Ryan Hill
i'd like to change the jam build-system implementation in Gentoo from dev-util/jam to dev-util/ftjam. ftjam is maintained by the freetype project and is a drop in replacement for jam. jam itself hasn't seen much if any development upstream in quite some while and has some issues with strict alias

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - Oct 14th - 21st, 2007

2007-10-23 Thread Ryan Hill
Attached are the packages that have been scheduled for removal this week. Sorry bout the wait. -- fonts / wxWindows / gcc-porting / treecleaners EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 (0xF9A40662) x11-misc/xcut Krzysiek Pawlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - Oct. 21st - 28th, 2007

2007-10-28 Thread Ryan Hill
Attached are the packages that have been scheduled for removal this week. -- fonts / wxWindows / gcc-porting / treecleaners EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 (0xF9A40662) app-emacs/wanderlust-cvs Ulrich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 23 Nov 2007 de

[gentoo-dev] Re: Resolving HAL vs. pciutils/usbutils

2007-10-31 Thread Ryan Hill
Daniel Drake wrote: + if [[ ! -e "${ROOT}"/usr/share/misc/pci.ids ]]; then + myconf="--disable-pci-ids" - don't use ${ROOT} outside of pkg_* - en/disabling functionality based on existence of files is kinda gross, especially when based on what exists on the compiling system

[gentoo-dev] Re: It's Bugday!

2007-11-03 Thread Ryan Hill
Peter Weller wrote: > It's bugday today, guys and gals! Come along to #gentoo-bugs on > irc.freenode.org and help fix bugs! > > As per usual, there is a list of suitable bug candidates for you guys to > help us devs out with at http://bugday.gentoo.org/. > > If anyone has any requests with regard

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - October 29th - November 5th, 2007

2007-11-05 Thread Ryan Hill
Attached are the packages scheduled for removal this week, extended one day to include the treecleaners cleanup. -- looks like christmas at fifty-five degrees this latitude weekens my knees EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-print/cups: ChangeLog cups-1.3.4-r1.ebuild cups-1.3.4.ebuild

2007-11-10 Thread Ryan Hill
Let's stop this thread here please. -- looks like christmas at fifty-five degrees this latitude weekens my knees EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 (0xF9A40662) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: to patch or sed was -> repoman and checking for correct quoting

2007-11-10 Thread Ryan Hill
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > Now I know some will scream, puke, throw up in their mouth, and so on. > But seems like sed should have an OPTIONAL argument or etc to tell sed > to either fail if it can't make the change anywhere. And/or keep/output > a count of how many things were modified. you

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Nov 4th - Nov 11th, 2007

2007-11-12 Thread Ryan Hill
Attached are the packages masked for removal this week. -- looks like christmas at fifty-five degrees this latitude weakens my knees EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 (0xF9A40662) dev-db/firebird-docs Will

[gentoo-dev] Re: packages.gentoo.org lives!

2007-11-13 Thread Ryan Hill
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > After a LOT of development, Gentoo Infra is pleased to announce the > return of the new packages.gentoo.org site. The new site is a complete > rewrite. Yay! Nice work guys. > Please read the entire FAQ before asking any questions! > http://packages.gentoo.org/faq/ Does

[gentoo-dev] Re: New eclass: emul-linux-x86.eclass

2007-11-14 Thread Ryan Hill
Ferris McCormick wrote: > (The line that looks like an oversight is: > > ebuild.sh:1019: if [[ ${PORTAGE_BUILDDIR}/.compiled -nt ${WORKDIR} ]] ; > then > ) you don't need to quotes when referencing variables inside [[ double brackets ]], but you do in [ single brackets ]. confused yet? ;) --

[gentoo-dev] Re: packages.gentoo.org lives!

2007-11-14 Thread Ryan Hill
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Having small fonts isn't common, at least not amongst folk that I've > directly observed in usability testing. Having text at sizes that don't > strain the eyes is more common. It doesn't seem unreasonable that the site be readable despite the font size. The logo overlap

[gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Justin Bronder (jsbronder)

2007-11-16 Thread Ryan Hill
Petteri Räty wrote: > It's my usual please to announce a new ebuild monkey. Justin hails from > Brighton, Massachusetts. His educational background should provide a > good theoretical approach to all the future flames on gentoo-dev: > "I'm pretty much self taught computer wise as I went to the Univ

[gentoo-dev] Re: Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2007-11-18 23h59 UTC

2007-11-19 Thread Ryan Hill
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:55:14AM +0100, Markus Ullmann wrote: >> Robin H. Johnson schrieb: >>> The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed >>> from the tree, for the week ending 2007-11-18 23h59 UTC. >> Just thinking, as we send package fadeout

[gentoo-dev] Re: maintainer-wanted bugcount

2007-11-26 Thread Ryan Hill
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > d) In addition to c), keep them open, flagged with sunrise in the status >board, so that when a developer does want some package not in the >tree, they can search first. > e) Encourage existing developers to review and commit this stuff more >often. > > I rea

[gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to rox.eclass

2007-11-28 Thread Ryan Hill
Jim Ramsay wrote: > I know I'm the only one who uses this, but thought it would be prudent > to post this here before I actually commit it, in case I'm doing > something obviously wrong, or if you bash maniacs out there can think > of better ways to do things I've done here. > > This is mostly a c

[gentoo-dev] Re: Ranged licenses

2007-11-28 Thread Ryan Hill
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:54:57 +0100 > Thilo Bangert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> there is also the legal argument. it's better to state explicitly >> which versions apply and not have to cleanup the mess, when somebody >> decides to release GPL-2.5. > > That's an argument

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Nov. 25th - Dec. 2nd, 2007

2007-12-02 Thread Ryan Hill
Attached are the packages marked for removal this week. -- looks like christmas at fifty-five degrees this latitude weakens my knees EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 (0xF9A40662) www-apps/viewcvs Gunn

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-www/pears

2007-12-04 Thread Ryan Hill
# Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (04 Dec 2007) # Masked for removal 04 Jan 2008 # See bug #201246 for details net-www/pears -- looks like christmas at fifty-five degrees this latitude weakens my knees EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD

[gentoo-dev] Re: Few packages for grabs.

2007-12-05 Thread Ryan Hill
Samuli Suominen wrote: > media-gfx/fontypython, dirtyepic just opened a bug for me.. wxgtk > problems, why did I add this even if first place?! > > media-gfx/gnome-specimen, no bugs, nice font viewer for gnome (and why > not others) (gnome may want this) You can stick these with fonts (me ;P).

[gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] scm package version suffix

2007-12-09 Thread Ryan Hill
� wrote: >> Specification >> = >> >> ``scm`` is a special suffix. It can be used on its own, but also in any other >> valid version spec, just before the place where revision would go. And just >> like >> revision it can be used only once in a version spec, e.g.: >> >> * ``cat/pkg-1

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites: December 2nd - 9th, 2007

2007-12-09 Thread Ryan Hill
Gunnar Wrobel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>02 Jan 2008 app-emacs/md5 Ulrich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04 Jan 2008 app-emacs/sha1 Ulrich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04 Jan 2008 net-www/pears Ryan Hill <[EMAIL P

[gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] scm package version suffix

2007-12-10 Thread Ryan Hill
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Incidentally, I suspect the gcc example with _p is confusing people. The normal use for an -scm suffix will be as follows: Yeah I abused the _p suffix. My bad. The whole _p thing only comes up for those very rare (or possibly non-existent) projects that have patchset b

[gentoo-dev] Re: Handling branch strings

2007-12-10 Thread Ryan Hill
Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 10:34 Mon 10 Dec , Santiago M. Mola wrote: On Dec 10, 2007 10:21 AM, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While we're getting a bit off the original topic here, it occurred to me that using SLOTs for this, in combination with various SLOT deps and SLOT bloc

[gentoo-dev] Re: How to pass list of paths to eclass?

2007-12-11 Thread Ryan Hill
Peter Volkov wrote: > Some eclasses (kernel-2, font) use variable to pass space separated PATH > to patch or fontconfig files from ebuild to eclass. In ebuild we use: > > FONT_CONF="path1 path2" > > Then eclasses use the variable: > > for conffile in ${FONT_CONF}; do > ... > done > > The

[gentoo-dev] Re: The return of the old fart: Mark Loeser (halcy0n)

2007-12-14 Thread Ryan Hill
Petteri Räty wrote: > I have an early Christmas present for all of you. Mark "halcy0n" Loeser > is returning to waste all his time on Gentoo development. Perhaps now we > will actually have someone to maintain devmanual. For those of you who > don't know him, Mark lives in Freehold, NJ, USA. He lov

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Some new global USE-flags

2007-12-20 Thread Ryan Hill
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: custom-cflags 7 This one shouldn't be a use flag at all. Pushing it global will just encourage even more people to use it. +1 -- looks like christmas at fifty-five degrees this latitude weakens

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