Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Lastrite: app-pda/libopensync and reverse dependencies

2011-02-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
On Thursday 10 February 2011 22:57:41 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
[snip]

Repeat after me: Politeness and professional courtesy is an integral part of 
our QA team policy.

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Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfri...@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/




[gentoo-dev] Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello!


In relation to bug 354395 [1] I would like to downgrade my glibc back to
2.12.2.  Portage doesn't allow me to do that:

 * Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:
 *  Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction
 * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.12.2 failed (setup phase):
 *   aborting to save your system

Can anyone guide me or point me to a guide how to savely do that manually?

Thanks,



Sebastian


[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354395



[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Lastrite: app-pda/libopensync and reverse dependencies

2011-02-11 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 09.17 +0100, Andreas K. Huettel ha
scritto:
 
 Repeat after me: Politeness and professional courtesy is an integral
 part of 
 our QA team policy. 

Politeness is due where politeness is received. If you keep
second-guessing QA team, without looking at the packages at all (see
Samuli's mail) you're not going to receive any.

-- 
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/




[gentoo-dev] Re: Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 09.50 +0100, Sebastian Pipping ha
scritto:
 
 
 Can anyone guide me or point me to a guide how to savely do that
 manually? 

There really isn't a safe way as soon as you built anything at all
against the new version.

-- 
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/




[gentoo-dev] Re: Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 10.55 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner ha
scritto:
 
 what do you think of working around the memcpy troubles with
 glibc-2.13 by
 simply redirecting memcpy to memmove within glibc, either
 unconditionally or
 optional/temporary (via USE-flag?) until everyone uses memmove where
 necessary?

That unless things start crashing down nobody will fix the issues at
all.

We're not talking a last minute change! memcpy() *always* documented not
to use overlapping memory areas.

-- 
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/




[gentoo-dev] Re: Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Duncan
Diego Elio Pettenò posted on Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:22:44 +0100 as excerpted:

 Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 09.50 +0100, Sebastian Pipping ha
 scritto:
 
 
 Can anyone guide me or point me to a guide how to savely do that
 manually?
 
 There really isn't a safe way as soon as you built anything at all
 against the new version.

The glibc ebuild really needs an override, like the usual check for 
I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING_AND_WILL_KEEP_THE_PIECES_IF_IT_BREAKS or some such, 
set in the environment.  Failing to have such an override at all, seems 
rather unGentooish to me.

Fortunately for me (I haven't upgraded to 2.13 yet, but ran into the need 
to downgrade an ~arch version myself not long ago, I hadn't emerged 
anything of major interest since so the warning was incorrect on its 
face), Gentoo has a number of alternative methods to enforce one's will 
over an obstinate system, if one believes it necessary.  I think I copied 
to my personal overlay and edited the ebuild there... after cursing the 
fact that I couldn't simply set some sort of var to get the perfectly good 
binpkg of the old version to install.  The problem has since been fixed 
and I've upgraded past it, since.

If that hadn't worked, I'd have tried the untar-the-binpkg-over-the-live-fs 
thing.  Either that, or the boot to backup snapshot, set ROOT 
appropriately, and emerge from there.

-- 
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and if you use the program, he is your master.  Richard Stallman




Re: [gentoo-dev] Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Sebastian Pipping
A little update from my side:


I was abe to downgrade glibc to 2.12.2 and my sound problem [1] is now
gone again!  If it's not glibc itself, it's one of the packages
re-installed after (again, see [1] for the list).

If anyone considers masking glibc 2.13 for now: please take my vote.

Best,



Sebastian


[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354395



Re: [gentoo-dev] Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 2/11/11 10:55 AM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
 what do you think of working around the memcpy troubles with glibc-2.13 by
 simply redirecting memcpy to memmove within glibc, either unconditionally or
 optional/temporary (via USE-flag?) until everyone uses memmove where 
 necessary?

I'm not a maintainer of base-system, but it seems to me that such a
change in behavior would only add to the confusion. glibc behaving
differently on Gentoo than other distros... no, that doesn't sound good.

Paweł Hajdan, Jr.



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 2/11/11 1:06 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
 I was abe to downgrade glibc to 2.12.2 and my sound problem [1] is now
 gone again!

Just curious, what downgrade method did you use? Just untaring an older
glibc package?



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[gentoo-dev] Re: Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 13.06 +0100, Sebastian Pipping ha
scritto:
 
 If anyone considers masking glibc 2.13 for now: please take my vote.

It should have been masked _beforehand_, masking it now is going to
cause more trouble.

Remember: unless you're able to rebuild everything that was built
afterwards without _using_ it, your system is going to be totally
broken.

Sure it sucks, haven't I said that enough times, regarding pushing stuff
that's going to break other stuff straight to ~arch?

-- 
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/




Re: [gentoo-dev] Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 02/11/11 13:26, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
 Just curious, what downgrade method did you use? Just untaring an older
 glibc package?

This is what I did:

 0) Log out of X, log in to root console

 1) Collect packages emerged after previous update to glibc from
files in PORT_LOGDIR (using simple shell scripting)

 2) Emerge glibc 2.12.2

 3) Re-emerge packages from (1)

 4) Reboot

WARNING: It may not work as well on your system.

Best,



Sebastian



Re: [gentoo-dev] Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Michael Haubenwallner

On 02/11/2011 01:20 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
 On 2/11/11 10:55 AM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
 what do you think of working around the memcpy troubles with glibc-2.13 by
 simply redirecting memcpy to memmove within glibc, either unconditionally or
 optional/temporary (via USE-flag?) until everyone uses memmove where 
 necessary?
 
 I'm not a maintainer of base-system, but it seems to me that such a
 change in behavior would only add to the confusion. glibc behaving
 differently on Gentoo than other distros... no, that doesn't sound good.

While Fedora 14 has shipped with glibc-2.13 and vanilla memcpy it seems, I'm 
really
curious if a next Red Hat Enterprise Linux or any distribution designed for 
enterprise
environments would do so, risking commercial applications to break.

So I'm not convinced yet that they can perpetuate this new memcpy 
implementation.

/haubi/
-- 
Michael Haubenwallner
Gentoo on a different level



Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Michael Haubenwallner

On 02/11/2011 11:12 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
 Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 10.55 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner ha
 scritto:

 what do you think of working around the memcpy troubles with
 glibc-2.13 by
 simply redirecting memcpy to memmove within glibc, either
 unconditionally or
 optional/temporary (via USE-flag?) until everyone uses memmove where
 necessary?
 
 That unless things start crashing down nobody will fix the issues at
 all.
 
 We're not talking a last minute change! memcpy() *always* documented not
 to use overlapping memory areas.

Yes, *documented*, I'm aware of that.

But both that document as well as uncountable lines of source code are rather 
old.
While the source code isn't that large a problem for Gentoo, existing binaries
without source code still are.

The questions simply are:
*) Does anyone really need memcpy when there is memmove?
*) Is it worth the effort to bug everyone to replace memcpy by memmove in their
   existing applications, with or without investigating that memcpy doesn't 
suffice?

/haubi/
-- 
Michael Haubenwallner
Gentoo on a different level



Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@gmail.com wrote:

 Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 13.06 +0100, Sebastian Pipping ha
 scritto:
 
  If anyone considers masking glibc 2.13 for now: please take my vote.

 It should have been masked _beforehand_, masking it now is going to
 cause more trouble.


Given this situation; it is desirable for future Portage/EAPI to be
able to create a deptree depending on whether an atom is already
installed or not?

With this functionality it is possible to mask a
package-without-downgrade-path again for systems that haven't the new
atom installed yet.

It should be used as little as possible of course, but for situations
like this the damage can be limited to as few systems as possible.



Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 02/11/2011 01:27 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
 It should have been masked _beforehand_, masking it now is going to
 cause more trouble.

Portage will propose a downgrade of glibc on emerge-update-world, okay.
How bad would that be?  Does it cause any other trouble?


 Remember: unless you're able to rebuild everything that was built
 afterwards without _using_ it, your system is going to be totally
 broken.
 
 Sure it sucks, haven't I said that enough times, regarding pushing stuff
 that's going to break other stuff straight to ~arch?

In your eyes, is there anything we can do to improve the current situation?

Best,



Sebastian



[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 15.37 +0100, Sebastian Pipping ha
scritto:
 Portage will propose a downgrade of glibc on emerge-update-world, okay.
 How bad would that be?  Does it cause any other trouble?

And glibc will refuse to downgrade unless you hack the ebuild. Now let's
say that the user rebuilt gcc after the glibc upgrade, and now forces
downgrade; after forcing downgrade, gcc will fail to find the symbols
with higher versioning (GNU versioning), which means it won't run.

 In your eyes, is there anything we can do to improve the current situation?

Every time a base package changes that could cause huge breakage, mask,
send a message to q...@gentoo.org to start up testing ebuild $foo with an
unmask list, and wait till we give the go before unmasking.

-- 
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/




[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 14.23 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner ha
scritto:
 
 But both that document as well as uncountable lines of source code are
 rather old.
 While the source code isn't that large a problem for Gentoo, existing
 binaries
 without source code still are.

Beside flash what else is involved for now? We can decide that once
that's defined.

-- 
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/




Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/11/2011 05:13 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
 Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 15.37 +0100, Sebastian Pipping ha
 scritto:
 Portage will propose a downgrade of glibc on emerge-update-world, okay.
 How bad would that be?  Does it cause any other trouble?
 
 And glibc will refuse to downgrade unless you hack the ebuild. Now let's
 say that the user rebuilt gcc after the glibc upgrade, and now forces
 downgrade; after forcing downgrade, gcc will fail to find the symbols
 with higher versioning (GNU versioning), which means it won't run.
 
 In your eyes, is there anything we can do to improve the current situation?
 
 Every time a base package changes that could cause huge breakage, mask,
 send a message to q...@gentoo.org to start up testing ebuild $foo with an
 unmask list, and wait till we give the go before unmasking.
 

That will be definately done for libpng-1.5.1 that just hit tree with
KEYWORDS=.

It turns most, if not all deprecation warnings from libpng-1.4.x series
to fatal errors.

ABI break, .la files drop and the fun of 90% of packages not building
against it \o/

- Samuli



Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Lastrite: app-pda/libopensync and reverse dependencies

2011-02-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:23:19 +0100
Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@gmail.com wrote:
 Politeness is due where politeness is received. If you keep
 second-guessing QA team, without looking at the packages at all (see
 Samuli's mail) you're not going to receive any.

Sorry, but that violates the devrel Etiquette Policy [1], which quite
clearly states that:

One should try to not be rude, abusive or impolite under any
circumstances.

I look forward to seeing your proposed change to QA policy to bring it
in line with this requirement.

[1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3chap=2

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh


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[gentoo-dev] libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade

2011-02-11 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
I'm not a member of QA team or libpng maintainer, but hopefully I'm not
going to write something horribly wrong here.

To ensure good upgrade experience for our users, and learning some
lessons from previous, um... disruptive upgrade (1.2 - 1.4), I'd have
some questions:

1) Are we going to have a tinderbox run *before* libpng-1.5 gets keyworded?

2) If the upgrade is non-trivial, i.e. just emerge -uDNa world and
revdep-rebuild isn't going to fix it, will we have an upgrade guide,
possibly as a news item?

3) Can we do something to make catching libpng problems easier? As
Samuli pointed out in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354479
there is a predictable compilation warning. How about making portage
print it as a QA warning, so more people can report the issues without
even emerging libpng-1.5 on their systems? That may be a good backup
option for the tinderbox too.

4) What have we learned from libpng 1.2 - 1.4 upgrade? I'd just like to
be better informed.

Finally, it seems that hard work on --as-needed and automatic fixing of
.la files is going to make the upgrade experience better now, right?

Paweł Hajdan, Jr.

P.S. The 1.2 - 1.4 upgrade wasn't really bad for me, but I guess it
could be frustrating for some people, and I just wonder if we can make
it better.



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Re: [gentoo-dev] libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade

2011-02-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/11/2011 06:38 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
 I'm not a member of QA team or libpng maintainer, but hopefully I'm not
 going to write something horribly wrong here.
 
 To ensure good upgrade experience for our users, and learning some
 lessons from previous, um... disruptive upgrade (1.2 - 1.4), I'd have
 some questions:
 
 1) Are we going to have a tinderbox run *before* libpng-1.5 gets keyworded?

Absolutely.

 4) What have we learned from libpng 1.2 - 1.4 upgrade? I'd just like to
 be better informed.

One way under consideration:

We have been discussing about removing libpng.pc, libpng.so and
unversioned headers from the libpng 1.5.x package allowing it to install
parallel with libpng 1.4.x.

That means every package that has been checked working against 1.5.x,
will need to be patched to link against -lpng15, use headers from the
libpng15/ directory and use libpng15.pc instead.


Or we go with the old route as with 1.2 to 1.4 but that means everything
must be ported before it gets KEYWORDS.

 Finally, it seems that hard work on --as-needed and automatic fixing of
 .la files is going to make the upgrade experience better now, right?

Indeed.   That's a blessing :)




Re: [gentoo-dev] libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade

2011-02-11 Thread Michael Haubenwallner

On 02/11/2011 05:38 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
 To ensure good upgrade experience for our users, and learning some
 lessons from previous, um... disruptive upgrade (1.2 - 1.4), I'd have
 some questions:

FWIW: For that upgrade I've not used lafile-fixer or anything like that
on my stable x86 binhost.
Instead, alternating 'emerge -uDN world' with 'revdep-rebuild' a couple
of times until there was nothing more to do did work as well.

/haubi/
-- 
Michael Haubenwallner
Gentoo on a different level




[gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade

2011-02-11 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 17.38 +0100, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. ha
scritto:
 1) Are we going to have a tinderbox run *before* libpng-1.5 gets keyworded?

Absolutely.

 2) If the upgrade is non-trivial, i.e. just emerge -uDNa world and
 revdep-rebuild isn't going to fix it, will we have an upgrade guide,
 possibly as a news item?

As Samuli said we're planning on making it as standard as possible,
similarly to what's done with Berkeley DB. This is going to take a bit
more work than a standard bump but will avoid further breakage.

Slotted installation is the thing that makes most sense, especially
since upstream helps us there already by versioning the symbols.

 3) Can we do something to make catching libpng problems easier? As
 Samuli pointed out in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354479
 there is a predictable compilation warning. How about making portage
 print it as a QA warning, so more people can report the issues without
 even emerging libpng-1.5 on their systems? That may be a good backup
 option for the tinderbox too.

Tinderbox is also going to report all those warnings to me, which means
I'll open them to the bugzilla. While it might not cover 100% use cases,
I doubt adding the warning to Portage's reported ones is going to
help, based on the experience of not even being able to get
fortify-sources will overflow warnings to be acted upon.

 Finally, it seems that hard work on --as-needed and automatic fixing of
 .la files is going to make the upgrade experience better now, right?

Most definitely, yes. It could have been better, to be honest, but it's
definitely not going to be the many-tiers failure we have seen before.

-- 
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/




[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/magicdev

2011-02-11 Thread Pacho Ramos
# Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org (11 Feb 2011)
# Upstream dead since a lot of time, still using gnome-vfs and 
# other deprecated stuff, replaced by udisks, udisks-glue, 
# udiskie or gvfs. Removal in 30 days.
app-misc/magicdev



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Policy for conflicting USE flags

2011-02-11 Thread Zac Medico
On 02/09/2011 03:11 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
 In order to try to avoid forcing users to micro-manage flags too much,
 it might make sense to avoid REQUIRED_USE whenever it's possible to do a
 build that will almost certainly suit the user's needs. The most common
 case that I can imagine where REQUIRED_USE is really necessary is for
 libraries were reverse USE dependencies might be broken without it.

To clarify about issues with reverse USE dependencies, I mean  any
library with something like REQUIRED_USE=^^ ( a b ) where either a or
b would be specified in reverse USE dependencies.  Also, it's worth
noting that something like REQUIRED_USE=c? ( ^^ ( a b ) ) may not need
REQUIRED_USE if reverse USE dependencies dep on c rather than a or b.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac



[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/ggv

2011-02-11 Thread Pacho Ramos
# Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org (11 Feb 2011)
# Upstream dead for a long time, replaced by app-text/evince
# Removal in 30 days.
app-text/ggv



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[gentoo-dev] Re: Status of sparc-fbsd

2011-02-11 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Friday, February 11, 2011 03:53:35 AM Torsten Veller wrote:
 * Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org:
  So I think your own chance is to contact aballier, ask if he still has
  access (or ask for renewed opinion for the killing)
 
 That was the intention. I cc'ed the bsd team and am still expecting a
 reply.
 
 I will move the sparc-bsd and amd-bsd profiles to exp in one week.
 I suggest to remove amd-bsd completely.


as far as i'm concerned, you can proceed with this

A.

 
 
 --- profiles.desc   14 Dec 2010 20:44:09 -  1.166
 +++ profiles.desc   11 Feb 2011 06:49:12 -
 @@ -147,8 +147,8 @@
  # Gentoo/FreeBSD Profiles
 -amd64-fbsd default/bsd/fbsd/amd64/7.2  dev
 -amd64-fbsd default/bsd/fbsd/amd64/8.0  dev
 -sparc-fbsd default/bsd/fbsd/sparc/7.2  dev
 -sparc-fbsd default/bsd/fbsd/sparc/8.0  dev
 +amd64-fbsd default/bsd/fbsd/amd64/7.2  exp
 +amd64-fbsd default/bsd/fbsd/amd64/8.0  exp
 +sparc-fbsd default/bsd/fbsd/sparc/7.2  exp
 +sparc-fbsd default/bsd/fbsd/sparc/8.0  exp
  x86-fbsd   default/bsd/fbsd/x86/7.2dev
  x86-fbsd   default/bsd/fbsd/x86/8.0dev



Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade

2011-02-11 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@gmail.com wrote:
 Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 16.51 -0300, Alexis Ballier ha scritto:

 you are seriously considering patching every single package using
 libpng like
 this instead of fixing those that fail??? (and i'm not talking about
 the fact
 that these patches cannot be upstreamed...)

 Why not? We're *not* inventing the libpng15 thing at all...

I was thinking there's no way this can be a good plan, but if a bunch
packages have to be patched, we might as well slot libpng.

I'm a little unclear about -lpng vs -lpng15. ssuominen tells me on IRC
that probably 90% of packages linking with libpng will fail with 1.5.
These 90% will link with -lpng until a version that supports 1.5 is
released? The remaining 10% will go ahead and link with -lpng15? What
happens when 1.6 is released and breaks compatibility again?

Matt



[gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade

2011-02-11 Thread Duncan
Matt Turner posted on Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:39:04 + as excerpted:

 I'm a little unclear about -lpng vs -lpng15. ssuominen tells me on IRC
 that probably 90% of packages linking with libpng will fail with 1.5.
 These 90% will link with -lpng until a version that supports 1.5 is
 released? The remaining 10% will go ahead and link with -lpng15? What
 happens when 1.6 is released and breaks compatibility again?

That last is my first thought as well.

If we go ahead and patch a whole bunch of stuff to -lpng15, we're locking 
ourselves in to screwing with them for 1.6 and beyond, as well.  It seems 
to me that if we're going to patch, patch the real problem, so -lpng 
continues to work, and then we'll only be forced to fix what breaks with 
1.6 when it comes out, not everything we broke by locking it to 1.5 
specifically, as well.

But I'm not the one doing the patching, so...

-- 
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and if you use the program, he is your master.  Richard Stallman




Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade

2011-02-11 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Friday, February 11, 2011 05:07:50 PM Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
 Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 16.51 -0300, Alexis Ballier ha scritto:
  you are seriously considering patching every single package using
  libpng like
  this instead of fixing those that fail??? (and i'm not talking about
  the fact
  that these patches cannot be upstreamed...)
 
 Why not? We're *not* inventing the libpng15 thing at all...

as i read it, it's breaking the libpng.so/pc thing however...

A.



Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade

2011-02-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, February 11, 2011 18:33:32 Alexis Ballier wrote:
 On Friday, February 11, 2011 05:07:50 PM Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
  Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 16.51 -0300, Alexis Ballier ha scritto:
   you are seriously considering patching every single package using
   libpng like
   this instead of fixing those that fail??? (and i'm not talking about
   the fact
   that these patches cannot be upstreamed...)
  
  Why not? We're *not* inventing the libpng15 thing at all...
 
 as i read it, it's breaking the libpng.so/pc thing however...

so why dont you ask the libpng upstream people ?
-mike


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade

2011-02-11 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Friday, February 11, 2011 08:44:04 PM Mike Frysinger wrote:
 On Friday, February 11, 2011 18:33:32 Alexis Ballier wrote:
  On Friday, February 11, 2011 05:07:50 PM Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
   Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 16.51 -0300, Alexis Ballier ha scritto:
you are seriously considering patching every single package using
libpng like
this instead of fixing those that fail??? (and i'm not talking about
the fact
that these patches cannot be upstreamed...)
   
   Why not? We're *not* inventing the libpng15 thing at all...
  
  as i read it, it's breaking the libpng.so/pc thing however...
 
 so why dont you ask the libpng upstream people ?

ask what ?
pretty please dont install libpng.pc/.so, pretty please force every consumer 
to hardcode the version because i know people that want to do this ?

Thanks, I'm fine with having it non slotted.

A.



[gentoo-dev] Re: Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:24:14 +0100
Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@gmail.com wrote:

 Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 14.23 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner ha
 scritto:
  
  But both that document as well as uncountable lines of source code are
  rather old.
  While the source code isn't that large a problem for Gentoo, existing
  binaries
  without source code still are.
 
 Beside flash what else is involved for now? We can decide that once
 that's defined.

There's a patch for flash.  Skype is broken.
Tracker: https://bugs.gentoo.org/353816


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[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: app-pda/libopensync and reverse dependencies

2011-02-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:40:53 +0200
Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote:

 On 02/10/2011 11:03 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
 I'm not sure if you understand opensync then, there's 3-4 series in tree
 and mostly not compatible with each other:
 0.22, 0.36, 0.39 and latest being live .

0.39 is fixed.  0.36 we'll keep around since very few of the plugins seem to
be ported to 0.39 (just looking at the dependencies), but it needs a lot more
work than 0.39.  I know barry needs 0.22 but I looked at cherry-picking some
upstream patches to bring it up to date a few months ago.  If there are no
other users then I think we should stabilize 0.36 once it's resolved and drop
0.22.  I'm not interested in maintaining the live ebuild but I can get it up
to date at least.


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