Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] global useflags

2009-02-24 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Il martedì 24 febbraio 2009 00:00:26 Markus Meier ha scritto: > proposals: > > custom-cflags: Build with user-specified CFLAGS (unsupported) > as custom-cxxflags has been added (w/o discussion here) I asked it some times ago [1]. I hope we can have custom-c{xx,}flags in global useflags soon [1]

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA bashism check on portage

2009-02-25 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Hi, what do you think about checking for bashism on install_qa_check? Obviously only for scripts with #!/bin/sh and #!/sbin/runscript as first line. I think checkbashisms.pl [1] could be a good start point. [1] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/devscripts/trunk/scripts/checkbashisms.pl -- Timothy `

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA bashism check on portage

2009-02-26 Thread Timothy Redaelli
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 23:45:41 Mike Frysinger wrote: > i recall it being incorrect in some cases (it checked for what dash > supports, not what POSIX supports), but that was a while ago, so maybe my > experience is dated at this point. otherwise, integrating it sounds sane > to me, and if

[gentoo-dev] [amd64-fbsd] remove charset.alias

2009-03-11 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Hi, I'm creating the amd64 porting of Gentoo/FreeBSD (with multilib support). The problem is that some [1] ebuilds removes directly "${D}"/usr/lib/charset.alias and not "${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/charset.alias. May i fix all the packages or should I open a bug for every one? [1]: ./app-text/reco

Re: [gentoo-dev] [amd64-fbsd] remove charset.alias

2009-03-11 Thread Timothy Redaelli
On Wednesday 11 March 2009 14:56:18 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 11 March 2009 09:16:29 Timothy Redaelli wrote: > > I'm creating the amd64 porting of Gentoo/FreeBSD (with multilib support). > > > > The problem is that some [1] ebuilds removes > > directly

Re: [gentoo-dev] [amd64-fbsd] remove charset.alias

2009-03-11 Thread Timothy Redaelli
On Wednesday 11 March 2009 15:17:37 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > as for the ebuilds, those lines should be dropped completely. ive been > > > dropping them in newer versions of the packages rather than going back > > > and deleting them all by hand ... > > > > How can I inherit multilib in profile

Re: [gentoo-dev] And thanks for all the fish...

2009-03-21 Thread Timothy Redaelli
On Friday 20 March 2009 09:29:49 Markus Rothe wrote: > Hello, > > it's a classical subject for a classical reason: I don't have time to > contribute work to Gentoo anymore. So please retire me [1]. > > It was fun to work with all of you and it is a great experience to work in > such a big project.

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] git.eclass / subversion.eclass support for http proxy

2009-03-23 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Hi, Some repositories has the git (or svn) and http support. I saw that we choose the git/svn one (it's faster i know, but it does not works under proxy). I propose a E{GIT,SVN}_REPO_HTTP_URI (or similar) variable that uses the http variant when the global use is set (or we can use the http_prox

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] git.eclass / subversion.eclass support for http proxy

2009-03-23 Thread Timothy Redaelli
On Monday 23 March 2009 12:45:55 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Timothy Redaelli wrote: > > Hi, > > Some repositories has the git (or svn) and http support. I saw that we > > choose the git/svn one (it's faster i know, but it does not works u

Re: [gentoo-dev] newins "-" for standard input?

2009-03-23 Thread Timothy Redaelli
On Monday 23 March 2009 09:22:06 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Now that "dosed" is going to be banned, what would people think of > "newins" (and the other "new*" commands) accepting "-" as the first > argument? I don't know how many usage cases there are, but the > following are obvious: > >sed 's/q

Re: [gentoo-dev] gSoC add Multiple Repository support to sys-apps/portage

2009-03-26 Thread Timothy Redaelli
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 22:34:00 Caleb Cushing wrote: > The basic idea is to be able to easily use overlays (without layman). > I believe this to be a pre-req to the "Cache Sync" idea listed on the > wiki. > > each repo should be able to have a differently defined way of sync-ing > (within prede

Re: [gentoo-dev] Preserving mtimes for EAPI3

2009-03-31 Thread Timothy Redaelli
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 00:59:57 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > [1] For "find -newermt" we will need >=findutils-4.3.3 which shouldn't > be a problem because 4.3.4 went stable in May 2007. No, BSD find does not support it and we don't want to use findutils. Neither busybox find supports it. Make it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages

2009-04-04 Thread Timothy Redaelli
On Saturday 04 April 2009 13:05:04 Ehret Stefan wrote: > Hello > > I would ask if I can maintainer following packages for > the gentoo-amd64 arch. > > app-crypt/truecrypt What about bug #241650? -- Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli FreeSBIE Developer, Gentoo Developer, GUFI Staff There are two major pro

Re: [gentoo-dev] `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info'

2009-04-05 Thread Timothy Redaelli
On Saturday 04 April 2009 18:12:09 Thilo Bangert wrote: > > 'guess'. Like how you have to guess what use flags are really being > > used for the package in question, because it doesn't tell you? > > i'd like to ask the developers of package managers to standardize this. > having --info be the same

Re: [gentoo-dev] `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info'

2009-04-06 Thread Timothy Redaelli
On Monday 06 April 2009 05:29:01 Andrew D Kirch wrote: > I think it's best as a general rule to NEVER _EVER_ under any > circumstances emulate paludis. I think that everyone may have a good idea, also Microsoft (TM). I only take the idea. I don't care about who has it ;) I think that it's better t

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: David Shakaryan (omp)

2006-10-15 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Alle 21:12, sabato 14 ottobre 2006, Christian Heim ha scritto: > Its my pleasure to introduce to you David Shakaryan (also known as omp), > our latest addition joining to help out with desktop-misc and the > commonbox-herd. > > He hails from Glendale (that's in the Los Angeles area as he told me).

[gentoo-dev] last rites for app-antivirus/vlnx

2006-12-09 Thread Timothy Redaelli
can't fix rpath, application check its checksum -- Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli - http://drizzt.bsdnet.eu/blog/ FreeSBIE Developer, Gentoo Developer, GUFI Staff There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Christian Marie (pingu)

2006-12-18 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Petteri Räty wrote: > It's my pleasure to introduce to you Christian "pingu" Marie. > He is joining us to help with the mozilla herd but will probably do > other things too in the future. > > He hails from down under. He's living in Australia and currently work as > a developer at a small company

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Mike Frysinger wrote: > having ebuilds in the tree that only work when you have a mingw compiler > annoy > me greatly as their only purpose is to produce windows binaries ... aka, > things that are useless to a linux host > > however, i think it's a lovely idea to open a mingw overlay and popul

Re: [gentoo-dev] portage idea - auto embed user patches

2006-12-21 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Alexander Zubkov wrote: > Hi! > I have some idea on extending portage building system (ebuild?). > Sometimes I'm (for example) want to apply custom patch to some package. > This patch can do something unusual, that can not be accepted by > maintainers and I know this. But I like features in my patc

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-video/nvidia-freebsd

2007-01-09 Thread Timothy Redaelli
# Timothy Redaelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (09 Jan 2007): # Deprecated by x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers # Pending removal 2007/2/9 media-video/nvidia-freebsd -- Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli - http://dev.gentoo.org/~drizzt/ FreeSBIE Developer, Gentoo Developer, GUFI Staff There are two major product

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Hi, I want to propose a "Maintainer Timeout" such as FreeBSD. If a maintainer or herd does not fix (or assign/comment) a bug in a reasonable amount of time (2 weeks? 3 month?) any developer can fix it (or a pre established group of developers such as QA) Thanks for your time :) -- Timothy `Drizzt

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Tobias Scherbaum wrote: >> I want to propose a "Maintainer Timeout" such as FreeBSD. >> If a maintainer or herd does not fix (or assign/comment) a bug in a >> reasonable amount of time (2 weeks? 3 month?) any developer can fix it >> (or a pre established group of developers such as QA) > > There's

Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

2007-02-19 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Simon Stelling wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently worked on the app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-* packages and > used almost identical code snipplets in them, so I realized I might as > well put together an eclass and drop the duplication. The eclass would > provide a common template for the following p

Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

2007-02-19 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 19 February 2007, Fabian Groffen wrote: >> On 19-02-2007 14:14:18 +0100, Timothy Redaelli wrote: >>>>cp -a "${S}"/* "${D}"/ || die "copying files failed!" >>> For future *BSD compatibility (yes i w

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] custom-cflags global USE

2007-02-21 Thread Timothy Redaelli
What do you think about custom-cflags global USE? app-emulation/xen-tools:custom-cflags - Use CFLAGS from /etc/make.conf rather than the default Xen CFLAGS (not supported) app-emulation/xen:custom-cflags - Use CFLAGS from /etc/make.conf rather than the default Xen CFLAGS (not supported) games-emul

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] custom-cflags global USE

2007-02-21 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:32:56 +0100 Timothy Redaelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | What do you think about custom-cflags global USE? > > I think it encourages policy violations. > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/user-environ

Re: [gentoo-dev] add bzip2/zlib to default USE in default-linux

2007-02-27 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Mike Frysinger wrote: > most arches have bzip2/zlib in default-linux/arch/make.defaults so why not > just move it to default-linux/make.defaults > -mike Why not base/make.defaults? -- Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli - http://dev.gentoo.org/~drizzt/ FreeSBIE Developer, Gentoo Developer, GUFI Staff The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unused global useflags

2007-03-06 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Joao Emanuel wrote: > Die vim! :-D Real programmers use cat > filename :-} Btw i think the dead keywords can die -- Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli - http://dev.gentoo.org/~drizzt/ FreeSBIE Developer, Gentoo Developer, GUFI Staff There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mozilla, pthread libs, and Gentoo/FreeBSD.

2007-03-07 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Javier Villavicencio wrote: > Hello, > > A bit of background first: > Currently firefox-2* and seamonkey-1.1.1 doesn't build on > Gentoo/FreeBSD. The main reason is that upstream (I think) has 'fixed' > how the pthread lib has to be linked, and now it needs -lc to link > successfully. This little

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mozilla, pthread libs, and Gentoo/FreeBSD.

2007-03-07 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Javier Villavicencio wrote: > Timothy Redaelli wrote: >> Javier Villavicencio wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> A bit of background first: >>> Currently firefox-2* and seamonkey-1.1.1 doesn't build on >>> Gentoo/FreeBSD. The main reason is that up

Re: [gentoo-dev] base packages up for grabs

2007-04-08 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Alle domenica 08 aprile 2007, Mike Frysinger ha scritto: > working here is no longer fun; the following are up for grabs > ... drop me a line if something interests you > net-misc/netkit-rsh I know it very well (patches are mine) so I can maintain it. Happy Easter to .* :) -- Timothy `Drizzt` Re

Re: [gentoo-dev] genlop-0.30.6 released

2007-04-10 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Michael Cummings ha scritto: > Been a while, upstream moved on in life but we continued to get interested > users > filing bugs, so > > genlop-0.30.6 went into the tree this morning. Primarily a bug fix release > based > on what was open in bugs.gentoo.org. Enjoy :) Imho is a waste of time

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-fs/ext2resize out like a trout

2007-04-12 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Mike Frysinger ha scritto: > e2fsprogs has integrated resize2fs now so no point in keeping around the old > unmaintained ext2resize -> punt You should package.mask it for one month -- Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli - http://dev.gentoo.org/~drizzt/ FreeSBIE Developer, Gentoo Developer, GUFI Staff The

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Mike Frysinger ha scritto: > On Thursday 12 April 2007, Jeff Walter wrote: >> I can understand traceroute being setuid, but why put it in /usr/sbin so >> only root sees it? If we only want root to run it, it doesn't need to be >> setuid. It just doesn't make sense for a setuid application to only

Re: [gentoo-dev] $Header:$ and ebuilds

2007-04-20 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Alle venerdì 20 aprile 2007, Fabian Groffen ha scritto: > On 20-04-2007 15:45:00 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > > > I use it to make deltas of changes made in the tree, and apply those > > > deltas on the overlay I'm using. Without $Header: $ there I have no > > > way to actually see which version I

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: Gentoo Artwork

2007-04-27 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Jakub Moc ha scritto: > On 4/27/07, Dawid Węgliński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a): >> > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:03:02 -0600 >> > Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Sweet. Are you gonna bring back those Gentoo icons that mysteriously >> >> disappeared? :) >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-db/firebird needs an active maintainer

2007-05-10 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen ha scritto: > dev-db/firebird is without an active maintainer and have an open > security bug #120343 ¹. > > Anyone willing to take care of this package in the future, please update > metadata.xml and CC yourself on the bug. > > ¹ https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?i

Re: [gentoo-dev] trial software in portage?

2007-05-14 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Daniel Black ha scritto: > As software licenses seem to be so popular to talk about on gentoo-dev how > about this one. > > Marijn mentioned on Irc that the bestcrypt license commercial trial license > shouldn't be a supported package in Gentoo. > > Seeking further there is more > > Other

Re: [gentoo-dev] irregular metdata.xml check

2007-05-23 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Alle mercoledì 23 maggio 2007, Chris Gianelloni ha scritto: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 19:49 +0200, Thilo Bangert wrote: > > Also, many ebuilds put the herds email address as an additional > > . This is simply redundant and unless complaints are raised, > > all herd tags will be removed and replaced

Re: [gentoo-dev] council and proctors

2007-07-15 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Alle domenica 15 luglio 2007, Ferris McCormick ha scritto: > Here's one I should sleep on -- I didn't: > > Not much. > Very few Comments. > I'll start them. > 1. Council is just wrong. They are also just gone. > > 2. I am just wrong. Most likely. > > 3. Council blew it. They ignore