User patches (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-apps/iproute2: ChangeLog iproute2-2.6.24.20080108.ebuild)

2008-03-31 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Mark Loeser wrote: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: On Sunday 30 March 2008, Mark Loeser wrote: Actually, I'd say this should just be removed. If a user wants to apply a patch, they can put their own ebuild into an overlay and do it themselves (presumably if they want to patch somethin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Early stabilisation

2008-04-16 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Jeroen Roovers wrote: Dear ebuild maintainers, thirty days is the norm for the minimal period between an ebuilds last non-keywording change while in the tree and the usual call for stabilisation. If you cannot find a pressing reason to push stabilisation forward, then don't ask. In the las

Re: [gentoo-dev] Early stabilisation

2008-04-17 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Samuli Suominen wrote: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:09:24 -0700 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kirjoitti: On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 11:49 +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: thirty days is the norm for the minimal period between an ebuilds last It is the norm. It is not a requirement. In fact,

Re: [gentoo-dev] What are blocks used for?

2008-04-17 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: Hi, Hi Enrico, long time no see! b) Marking that two related implementations are mutually incompatible at runtime because they both provide the same binary. Classical example: MTA's: Traditionally they tend to provide an

Re: [gentoo-dev] What are blocks used for?

2008-04-17 Thread Vlastimil Babka
roblems comes from ebuilds or upstream ;-o If you don't know why the blocks nned to be there then why comment on that? -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] What are blocks used for?

2008-04-18 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: Hi, Hi Enrico, long time no see! b) Marking that two related implementations are mutually incompatible at runtime because they both provide the same binary. Classical example: MTA's: Traditionally they tend to provide an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Default blank lines for error, elog, einfo, etc

2008-06-06 Thread Vlastimil Babka
d newline before the message but I can't think of a use for it myself. The question is how to name the switch :) "-n" could be confusing as "echo -n" has the opposite effect. Maybe "-b" for "blank"? -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-06 Thread Vlastimil Babka
especially outside of g.o domain is not the best thing durability-wise :) -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-06 Thread Vlastimil Babka
r should be preferred by tools" ++ I suppose you want people to read the package-specific information and not e.g. fill bug reports caused by wrong assumptions about the flag's meaning. -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Default blank lines for error, elog, einfo, etc

2008-06-06 Thread Vlastimil Babka
use this processing only for the elog post-processing system (which I personally think matters more), and during the build itself emit the newlines immediatelly so that non-elog output is not tied too closely to ends of elog blocks. -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-07 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Łukasz Damentko wrote: Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will be open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2008). I'd like to nominate: armin76 (Raúl Porcel) opfer (Christian Faulhammer) zmedico (Zac Medico) -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55

2008-06-12 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, at 15:33, Joe Peterson wrote: Luca Barbato wrote: Check if exists a line EAPI=*$, if does and the rest of the string matches an understood eapi, go on sourcing, otherwise ignore/mask it... And placing it out-of-band (like "# EAPI=...") avoids any so

[gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-15 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Apparently, setting USE=x86 in make.conf on amd64 arch can have funny consequences such as [1]. And I can imagine even more subtle and hard to detect errors due to this. I think it's better to prevent this rather than waste time with bug reports like that. I asked Zac on IRC whether portage could

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making built_with_use die by default with EAPI 2

2008-09-21 Thread Vlastimil Babka
David Leverton wrote: > On Saturday 20 September 2008 18:15:27 Alexis Ballier wrote: >> I can think of checks like: >> - foo is a dep/rdep of bar >> - foo has a "plugin like" architecture >> - bar will "work" with minimal foo >> - most people will expect some features in bar that come with foo's >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] BugDay - Saturday 4th October

2008-09-27 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Ben de Groot wrote: > Roy Bamford wrote: >> It's that time of the month again, time for another BugDay on Saturday >> 4th September. >> Read all about it http://bugday.gentoo.org/ > > Maybe it would be a good idea to update that bugday page? Maybe devs > could propose some bugs to be looked at? A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usage of econf with an additional || die

2008-09-28 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Thomas Sachau wrote: > I see many ebuild that still use "econf || die", also econf should die by > itself. Are there any > specific reasons for this? Some cases where econf does not die also it fails? > Or some other reason > for this? My guess is that due to the general lack of consistency in w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last Rites: games-puzzle/ksudoku

2009-02-01 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Richard Freeman wrote: > Tobias Scherbaum wrote: >> >> Wouldn't it make much more sense to package move ksudoku then? >> > > I was thinking the same thing - this is a stable package, so ideally it > shouldn't be "replaced" with an unstable one. Why not keep -0.4 in the > tree for stable users? +

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: News item: Generation 1 deprecation

2009-04-18 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Petteri Räty wrote: > Now with the right address. Original was CCed to pr already so this is not. > > -- Forwarded Message -- > > Subject: News item: Generation 1 deprecation > Date: Monday 23 February 2009 > From: Petteri Räty > To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org > > We are gett

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/ant*-1.7.0* and whole dev-java/ant-tasks

2009-04-30 Thread Vlastimil Babka
dev-java/ant-tasks was a meta ebuild that is no longer used in 1.7.1 so it's going away completely # Vlastimil Babka (30 Apr 2009) # masked for removal, bug #261563 =dev-java/ant-core-1.7.0* =dev-java/ant-antlr-1.7.0* =dev-java/ant-apache-bcel-1.7.0* =dev-java/ant-apache-bsf-1.7.0* =dev-jav

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retiring

2009-05-04 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Peter Faraday Weller wrote: On a more serious note, the problem seems to be the complete lack of management in the required places, Gentoo is fast becoming (or more likely, already is) an anarchic organisation, where it's becoming nigh-on impossible to keep track of things. I see a number of i

[gentoo-dev] Illegal news item name

2009-06-20 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Hi, it was brought up by ulm that the news item '2009-04-18-java-config-wrapper-0.16' has an illegal name because it contains a dot. As it was me who named and commited it, I am sorry for this mistake. The file name in -dev review mail was called 'generation1-deprecation' and I probably shoul

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 52 - GLEP 23 revisited

2006-09-20 Thread Vlastimil Babka
.conf variable for allowed licenses and block based on that? +1 -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Notification about MD5 support

2006-09-21 Thread Vlastimil Babka
ough those can't be deemed the mandatory ones because they're not directly in python. So if both MD5 and SHA1 are now insecure but one of them needs to be the mandatory one, the question is, is it still harder to crack SHA1 than MD5? If yes, then just forget MD5. -- Vlastimil Babka (Cast

Re: [gentoo-dev] Notification about MD5 support

2006-09-22 Thread Vlastimil Babka
tched distfile yourself, and compare that with upstream :) Of course, if you want to verify digests of random packages without wanting to actually download and use them, then you would miss MD5 in the manifest, but how likely is that? -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: default USE flags in profiles (oss)

2006-09-23 Thread Vlastimil Babka
w bout changing this flag to "aoss" and making it new default instead of oss? mozilla-launcher already has an aoss flag. Or wait for per-package USE defaults and use it for oss in alsa-driver as an exception. -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is it time for bash-3?

2006-10-13 Thread Vlastimil Babka
o "system" wouldn't help those people. This reminded me of this bug [1] we once got about OSX having only 2.59, not sure if that still holds. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139899 - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: RESTRICT=interactive

2006-10-13 Thread Vlastimil Babka
:) Although RESTRICT="non-interactive" sounds weird too, and introducing new variable would be bloating. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Developer retirement

2006-10-17 Thread Vlastimil Babka
as well, "reply" is intended to mean "reply to author", >> and there is a separate "reply to list" function which works on >> gentoo-core and gentoo-dev just the same. > > Well, there's no "reply to list" function in Thunderbird [1], an

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Christian Faulhammer (opfer)

2006-10-27 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Christian Heim wrote: Please welcome Christian as a new fellow developer among us (and a new minion for the x86-monkeys)! Welcome onboard, Opfer :) Glad to see you made it to full dev. -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stricter --newuse settings

2006-11-29 Thread Vlastimil Babka
was arts flag removed and you know the ebuild didn't actually need/use it, remove it from IUSE, and possibly USE) and --newuse won't trigger no more. It's a bit of hack, but works, for user it's the same amount of work as editing some newuse.mask file, for portage developers it&#

Re: [gentoo-dev] Big change ideea

2006-12-15 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marijn Schouten wrote: > Alexandru Mincu wrote: > Okay :) flame away > Please, not here. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozil

Re: [gentoo-dev] www-servers/axis -> commercial dependencies

2006-12-24 Thread Vlastimil Babka
re totally broken. the gentoo devs of course claim evrytings perfect ;-o Care to elaborate and give evidence? For both first and second part of this statement? Vlastimil Babka -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?

2006-12-24 Thread Vlastimil Babka
t" or something, for the unconditional violations? Vlastimil Babka -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Miroslav Šulc (fo rdfrog)

2007-01-02 Thread Vlastimil Babka
> > Nice to see yet another guy from Czechoslovakia :). We should really > meet and go out for a beer... > > Cheers, > -jkt > That's right. Too bad he's left Prague already... but Beroun is pretty close :) Welcome, fordfrog :) - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gent

Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] bugstest.gentoo.org - public beta for the new Gentoo BugZilla - please test!

2007-01-03 Thread Vlastimil Babka
the tons of pointless duplicates, non-responsive > bugzilla and both users' and developers' complaints on IRC. It's wasting > everyone's time. > +1 please! - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding a program to portage, powstatd to be exact.

2007-01-08 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could you take this conversation off the list, please? Also, for requesting ebuilds there's http://bugs.gentoo.org Thanks, - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

[gentoo-dev] new eclass: ant-tasks.eclass

2007-01-09 Thread Vlastimil Babka
t_Ant [3] https://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/java/split-ant-overlay/dev-java/ Regards, - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFo6xntbrAj05h3

Re: [gentoo-dev] A Gentle Reminder

2007-02-11 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-unsupported arches anyway. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFzw2vtbrAj05h3oQRAkYKAJ9OrSazZHmSjDiv9rDh5kXU3k+J5gCdGhcZ eV55R7A3HE633efoE+it1gM= =fOsh -END PGP

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Vlastimil Babka
have not revoked it except in dire circumstances. > > Then why are there public archives? > Note the subtle difference between "receiving" and "reading in public archives". Some people may prefer their mail client. -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] It's just a bit of bash..

2007-03-14 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Steve Long wrote: I wonder if the CoC should also mention such things (remember also Enrico Weigelt's mails) as unacceptable behaviour. Or is it already covered by one of the descriptions although I don't see it? -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] {Guide,Project,Foo}XML too confusing for many devs?

2007-03-28 Thread Vlastimil Babka
o wiki. Not entirely true, project overlays on overlays.g.o can use the wiki on trac there. And at least we (Java) use it to hash out new stuff (that's exactly "content that is likely to change over a short period of time"), that can be later converted to guidexml (FAQs etc). - --

Re: [gentoo-dev] {Guide,Project,Foo}XML too confusing for many devs?

2007-03-28 Thread Vlastimil Babka
erver, checking out the sources etc etc. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGCmCltbrAj05h3oQRAn7EAJ0SgRHTeU339uMt/zkH6EoifOjtdwCgktHH wo5WimRT1DoUC1FSLEbVWqo= =01NV

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-29 Thread Vlastimil Babka
events continue, instead of trying to force any specific > issue? Yeah, I don't think it's now helpful to hear that portage sux and paludis can do $x and $y and $z, over and over again. Someone's little too early for an election campaign? - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gen

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

2007-04-05 Thread Vlastimil Babka
. But I see slot deps without limits only half of a feature. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGFXsstbrAj05h3oQRAid6AJ4lJldHuRwA0rHdr+CwGlth6zgG5wC

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

2007-04-05 Thread Vlastimil Babka
t;> version limit, to make it worth EAPI bump. > > Please have a look at the slot dep format proposal. AFAIK none of the > P{aludis,kgcore,ortage} devs disagreed on that. Sorry, I thought it was only about what's already implemented in portage and that's AFAIK only =cat/pac

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Tears of unfathomable sorrow

2007-04-07 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: > Much to the joy of many I am now retiring from Gentoo. This sucks. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] [POLICY] Keywording/Stabilizing Bug Assignment Policy

2007-04-17 Thread Vlastimil Babka
uld be added to the respective bugs. Then you (the maintainer) can easily create (and save) an advanced search that will filter them out, while still being able to check them in a different search. Might be also useful for arch teams to separate stabling and keywording bugs? - -- Vlastimil Babka (

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deskzilla license for Gentoo Bugzilla for everyone

2007-04-20 Thread Vlastimil Babka
public anyway But it was already said that cross-posting -dev and -core is bad so let this be the last mail that goes to both, and any further only to -dev. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (G

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

2007-04-21 Thread Vlastimil Babka
other VCS, it would destroy the beauty of atomic commits... -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deskzilla license for Gentoo Bugzilla for everyone

2007-04-24 Thread Vlastimil Babka
to the license's path as provided by elog. For this and other small changes you should remerge it if you previously had it from java-experimental. Enjoy :) - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Moz

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/joscar

2007-04-28 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 +# Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (28 Apr 2007) +# Still generation 1 and stale upstream, library that +# nothing in tree uses so it's not needed. Will be +# removed around 28 May. Generation 2 revision is in +# the java-overlay. +dev-

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/jmbus

2007-04-28 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 # Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (28 Apr 2007) # Stale upstream, library that nothing in tree uses # so it's not needed. Will be removed around 28 May. # Generation 2 revision is in the java-overlay. dev-java/jmbus - -- Vlastimil Ba

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/sun-{connector-bin,dsml-bin,ejb-spec}

2007-04-28 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 +# Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (28 Apr 2007) +# Unused generation-1 fetch restricted binary libraries. +# Will be moved to junkyard around 28 May. +dev-java/sun-connector-bin +dev-java/sun-dsml-bin +dev-java/sun-ejb-spec - -- Vlastimil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites media-gfx/opcion

2007-04-29 Thread Vlastimil Babka
less someone cares about this package, needs it, > uses it, and/or is willing to updated it. Recalled and unmasked at user's request. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-java/dbconnectionbroker-bin

2007-04-30 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 +# Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (30 Apr 2007) +# Stale upstream (since 2002), -bin library that nothing in tree uses +# so it's not needed. Will be removed into java junkyard around 30 May. +dev-java/dbconnectionbroker-bin - -- Vlas

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-java/dbconnectionbroker-bin

2007-04-30 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 # Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (30 Apr 2007) +# Fetch-restricted binary library that nothing in tree uses, upstream +# unsupported (EOL). Will be removed into java junkyard around 30 May. +dev-java/infobus-bin - -- Vlastimil Babka (

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Vlastimil Babka
nable tests >> - don't run tests at all >> Again, is that list comprehensive? >> > > Don't forget tests that have heavy requirements to run. Many gnome > tests, for example, need a virtual X to run, which puts a new set of > DEPENDS requirements on your

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Vlastimil Babka
ement for elog? I thought news were supposed to be delivered before upgrading. Also "You should update your configuration files after upgrading." sounds like something one would read before upgrade... - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuP

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Vlastimil Babka
24. How likely is that someone has had such version previously, then uninstalled paludis completely leaving config files around, and now installs >=0.24? So likely it's worth that future fresh installs of say 0.50 will display this news too? - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEG

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 news item for review: Radiant upgrade

2007-05-06 Thread Vlastimil Babka
_post() feature, not GLEP 42. glep 42: Checks for new news messages should be displayed: * After an emerge sync * After an emerge --pretend * Before an emerge (which may also include a red warning message) - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: G

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages with same name was -> Conversion of Emacs virtual packages

2007-05-17 Thread Vlastimil Babka
;s > > I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how you justify calling Java a > dead language. > It's not C++ nor Ruby. Anyway, offtopic :) - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: U

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: stabilizing expat 2.0.0

2007-05-17 Thread Vlastimil Babka
2007.1 profile run revdep-rebuild. > > Now, how can we do this? Could we start changing the profiles right now? > (I guess people on ~arch will need to unmask it to not downgrade). That can be avoided if you make an artifical revbump that won't change anything, just have stable ke

[gentoo-dev] STABLEREQ/KEYWORDREQ Keywords in bugzilla

2007-05-27 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Ramsay wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 07:39 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote: >>> Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Or maybe implement new bugzilla keywords, like STABLEREQ and

Re: [gentoo-dev] STABLEREQ/KEYWORDREQ Keywords in bugzilla

2007-05-27 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 12:23:56PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> Bug was fixed yesterday, keywords added, so to let you know. I would of >> course love to go now and add these keywords to all my (java) curr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deskzilla for Gentoo

2007-05-31 Thread Vlastimil Babka
e key is installed by ebuild). Trialware otherwise. You can request such license for any FOSS project. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGXn/1tb

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new bugzilla resolution: NEEDPATCH

2007-05-31 Thread Vlastimil Babka
where a user can work on. > I think a keyword might be more useful, as at least with my bugs, I'd > like to keep them open myself - if the user doesn't provide a patch, > it's still something that I'd get around to doing eventually. > > I specifically want my

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag, xulrunner

2007-06-06 Thread Vlastimil Babka
ported by package AND enabled by user? Some of those local flag descriptions suggest that USE="firefox xulrunner" results in using xulrunner (so it has higher priority). So is that recommended, and how about seamonkey? - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC]: gentoo-politics ML

2007-06-07 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kumba wrote: > And maybe a dev who > secretly dabbles in another OSlike Wind...err, Ubuntu! I thought this position has been already filled :) - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Non-Dev Contributors and the Tree

2007-06-07 Thread Vlastimil Babka
to be? > > Isn't this the reason it was approved by the previous Council? Well the difference is that AFAIK Sunrise is just for maintainer-wanted stuff that's not in the tree yet, but Michael talks about (rev)bumps of stuff that's already in tree. Personally I think that pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag, xulrunner

2007-06-08 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raúl Porcel wrote: > Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> Raúl Porcel wrote: >>> Agreed from mozilla. >>> firefox and seamonkey already have the global use-flag >> Is there any guideline from mozilla team about what to do when th

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/jdbc-informix

2007-06-09 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 +# Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (10 Jun 2007) +# Outdated version, proprietary binary package, library that nothing in tree +# uses. Still generation-1. Assuming nobody needs it as there was never a +# version bump request. Will be r

[gentoo-dev] [gentoo-java] Last rites: dev-java/jdbc-mssqlserver

2007-06-09 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 +# Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (10 Jun 2007) +# Outdated version, proprietary binary package, library that nothing in tree +# uses. Still generation-1. Assuming nobody needs it as there was never a +# version bump request. Will be r

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo-java] Last rites: dev-java/jdbc-mssqlserver

2007-06-11 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vlastimil Babka wrote: > +# Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (10 Jun 2007) > +# Outdated version, proprietary binary package, library that nothing in > tree > +# uses. Still generation-1. Assuming nobody needs it as there was ne

Re: [gentoo-dev] Do not modify ebuilds which are already in the tree... even if masked

2007-06-12 Thread Vlastimil Babka
en filling bugs for such packages as there are no guarantees while in p.mask. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGboh4tbrAj05h3oQRAvv1AJ45RRl0kr1246ug5

[gentoo-dev] Re: OT: gentoo-kindergarten

2007-06-13 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thilo Bangert wrote: > I want a gentoo-kindergarten list, where useless discussions like this > (sub)thread can be directed to. > > kids, grow up! right s/gentoo-// - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-13 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gustavo Felisberto wrote: > Any alternatives? Drop it from stable completely, possibly package.mask or move to overlay. Why should this closed-source rootkit be in stable? - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-13 Thread Vlastimil Babka
h() via einfo, telling users they either find the distfile themselves (might have it on another computer, or get from a friend or just maybe have luck with google) or use the ~arch 1.4. This won't affect users that already have <1.4 installed, or just have the distfile. - -- Vlastimil Babk

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-13 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Wednesday 13 Jun 2007 10:11:24 pm Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> Drop it from stable completely, possibly package.mask or move to >> overlay. Why should this closed-source rootkit be in stable? >> > If close

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-13 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent Fredric wrote: > On 6/14/07, Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Also, ion3 was IIRC removed recently also for upstream trying to force >> new versions against our stable policy. And that was opensource.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are you guys for real?

2007-06-13 Thread Vlastimil Babka
ll be back. Love the distro, but Jesus the > politics and the bitching gets out. Just unsubscribe the list and you won't see it :) - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-1 (or >1, perhaps) Proposal: AND Dependencies

2007-06-14 Thread Vlastimil Babka
on is, does this make sense? Is something like this > planned for some EAPI>0? Would it be appropriate for me (a non-dev) to > file a bug and link it to SpanKy's "EAPI-1 tracker" bug? There's been bug 4315 for ages, so maybe just reassign it to PMS? - -- Vlastimi

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-1 (or >1, perhaps) Proposal: AND Dependencies

2007-06-15 Thread Vlastimil Babka
e loops were already solved in some recent version? Now it spits some error about conflicting deps that cause that. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQ

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-15 Thread Vlastimil Babka
rly tested yet. > > Users will see that stuff that used to work for them is broken now. > That's a regression that could have been avoided if Skype wasn't marked > stable. > > It could be interesting to evaluate a new rule "fetch/mirror restricted > package can'

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Ali Polatel (hawking)

2007-06-20 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Ali :) - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGeaJOtbrAj05h3oQRAi3lAJwKducWie0CgqMwZeXN4aI3apvBUwCffgF7 6PX1hIR+D1jEg4+dwU9p6+4= =P7os -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EM

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to handle sensitive files when generating binary packages

2007-06-20 Thread Vlastimil Babka
for dev-java/ibm-jdk-bin-1.5.0.5 ... [ ok ] * Packages now in '/usr/portage-packages': * dev-java/ibm-jdk-bin-1.5.0.5: 50.9M - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gn

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to handle sensitive files when generating binary packages

2007-06-20 Thread Vlastimil Babka
ing package for dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r5 ...[ ok >> ] >> >> * Packages now in '/usr/portage/packages': >> * dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r5: 188K >> -mike > > Please do the same for qpkg.c > tia. And for emerge -b/-B/FEATURES=buildpkg.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-21 Thread Vlastimil Babka
ngeLog for app-emulation/ies4linux *ies4linux-2.0.5 (21 Jun 2007) 21 Jun 2007; Jurek Bartuszek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +ies4linux-2.0.5.ebuild: Initial version (closing bug #143798), credit goes Mathieu Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for providing the ebuilds. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster)

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-dev-announce list

2007-06-24 Thread Vlastimil Babka
it's forgotten again? Or do we need a GLEP and/or council approval? (just kidding) ((hopefully)) - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGfmeVtbrAj05h3o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cyclic dependency

2007-07-02 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Hill wrote: > Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: >> Vieri Di Paola wrote: >>> The two software packages depend at run-time. >> then they can simply RDEPEND on eachother. The package manager should do the >> right thing. > > It doesn't. See freetype

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

2007-07-04 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raúl Porcel wrote: > good, now my nick is armin79 :D Lies! No way your karma would go up! Cheater! armin79-- armin78-- armin77-- You're good now. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Vlastimil Babka
nondevs from bugzilla then? Close #gentoo, disband PR, etc? Not sure if we can keep any sponsors then... - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGm2AFtbrAj05h3oQRAnqlAJ4y

Re: [gentoo-dev] So...

2007-07-16 Thread Vlastimil Babka
ong as the temperature is somewhere in the middle of linear scale between freezing water and average healthy human body temperature. And not higher than the latter, as nowadays! - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comme

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

2007-07-16 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Long wrote: > And no, I don't like being lumped in with Mr McCreesh. Why would anyone do that? His trolling is sophisticated, but you're just an annoying spammer. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC : New ebuild function pkg_create for creating corespondent sorce tarball

2007-07-17 Thread Vlastimil Babka
rlay bumps and bugzilla reports on version bump that just renaming the ebuild works?). OTOH, while this might be useful for more than few packages (I can also think of some), it's not too many to clutter the tree significantly. > Or am I missing something? > > Cheers, > -jkt &g

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

2007-07-18 Thread Vlastimil Babka
r-set -mtune then? Since AFAIK -march implies -mtune, will also the default -march override user-set -mtune? - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGndsrtbrAj05h

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 stablisation plans

2007-07-21 Thread Vlastimil Babka
[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186156 > > Thanks As you wish! [1] :) [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_activity.cgi?id=186156 - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozi

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Vlastimil Babka
hus it would cause circular deps. PDEPEND is a way to relax this for such cases. If this is what you call RDEPEND conceptually broken, then sorry for useles try to explain it :) Maybe package manager could be smart enough and relax the RDEPEND in such cases itself, maybe it's better to sa

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

2007-08-04 Thread Vlastimil Babka
check whether the file has simply been moved, by either correcting the path or removing the filename from the dodoc call. dodoc calls should have || die and USE=doc should be tested before commiting a bump, IMHO -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-08-17 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: >> perhaps it'd be useful to introduce an "anal_die". developers run anal >> tests, >> users get sane tests. >> -mike >> >> > > Anal ftw > > -Alec Also known a

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag how are they supposed to work?

2007-09-08 Thread Vlastimil Babka
indication that I should use it locally pr. package. Right, as mentioned above, there is no relation, although the "global/local" notion may suggest it. One might even ask why we have separate use.desc and use.local.desc then. Good question :) IMHO it's mostly administrative thing so people

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