Re: [gentoo-dev] lights on internals

2005-10-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 11:07:13PM +0200, Francesco R wrote: The ready to cut ebuild at the bottom print it's environment (variable and functions) to a bunch of files into /var/tmp/fakebuild/. May be useful for who want to have a look at what and when is avaible during the various emerge

[gentoo-dev] user/group manipultaion feedback request.

2005-10-03 Thread Tres Melton
Ladies Gentlemen, Some of you may know me from lurking on #gentoo-dev or moderating #gentoo or any of another handful of channels that I'm in. Anyway, I'm trying to become a developer and to learn the Gentoo way. I have been assigned an old bug to try and resolve, Bug #5113, New

[gentoo-dev] Re: Ebuild limits?

2005-10-03 Thread Duncan
Dave Nebinger posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:46:13 -0400: Wouldn't it be better to use the associated portage-provided packages? That's the goal - strip out the parts from their distribution that have exiting components already within the portage tree

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub reiser4

2005-10-03 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 03/10/05, Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd prefer if the patch was left out for amd64 users, or included via a use flag. reiser4 isn't yet stable or proven on amd64. A quick search found this quote: The topic in channel #gentoo-amd64 on irc.freenode.net has said Reiser4 is evil for

[gentoo-dev] Re: user/group manipultaion feedback request.

2005-10-03 Thread Duncan
Tres Melton posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:49:29 -0600: However, this is going to take a couple of weeks to write entirely in bash so that it is both portable and can be used on the most minimal of systems. Imagine seeing /you/ here! =8^) Portability is

Re: [gentoo-dev] lights on internals

2005-10-03 Thread Francesco R
Brian Harring wrote: On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 11:07:13PM +0200, Francesco R wrote: The ready to cut ebuild at the bottom print it's environment (variable and functions) to a bunch of files into /var/tmp/fakebuild/. May be useful for who want to have a look at what and when is avaible during

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: user/group manipultaion feedback request.

2005-10-03 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Monday 03 October 2005 11:14, Duncan wrote: Portability is good, but as I've been reading Diego Flameeyes various posts as he struggles to get Gentoo/FBSD up and running, and with Gentoo/Darwin and etc. in mind, I'm sure one of the requests is going to be making it full borne shell standard

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: user/group manipultaion feedback request.

2005-10-03 Thread Tres Melton
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:04 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Monday 03 October 2005 11:14, Duncan wrote: Hello Duncan. Actually, bash is fine, as long as you declare #!/bin/bash the script. Every Gentoo/ALT system should have bash installed as part of base system, as bash is what

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub reiser4

2005-10-03 Thread Luis Medinas
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 10:10 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 03/10/05, Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd prefer if the patch was left out for amd64 users, or included via a use flag. reiser4 isn't yet stable or proven on amd64. A quick search found this quote: The topic in channel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: user/group manipultaion feedback request.

2005-10-03 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Monday 03 October 2005 13:39, Tres Melton wrote: I've coded the parts that extract and parse the information from the /etc/{passwd,group} files I think with this you're already out of portability. /etc/passwd structure in Linux and FreeBSD is different, and on Darwin the users part is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: grub reiser4

2005-10-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 10:02 +, Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 02/10/05, R Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The grub maintainer's stance was that reiser 4 support would not be included in grub until it was included in gentoo-sources, not any kernel in portage. The grub maintainer has been AWOL

Re: [gentoo-dev] Interactive emerge

2005-10-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 13:21 -0400, Dan Meltzer wrote: Hi, I would just like some clarification if at all possible. Recently, while testing bugzilla-2.18.4 for x86 (bug # 107796) I ran into some interactivity. I was under the impression that emerge was supposed to be completely autonomous,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: grub reiser4

2005-10-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 17:43 +, Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 02/10/05, Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/2/05, Chris Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/10/05, Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 02/10/05, R Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] UK Expo rota and opening times

2005-10-03 Thread Marcus D. Hanwell
Hi, I just wanted to remind you guys that this is about the last chance you have to send me your GPG keys to be added to the list. For instructions please see http://dev.gentoo.org/~cryos/keysigning_lwe_05.html and email me your key. Look forward to seeing you guys down at the expo in

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub reiser4

2005-10-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 22:57 -0500, Mike Doty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: | On Thursday 29 September 2005 02:10 pm, Chris Bainbridge wrote: | |I was wondering if there's any chance of having the reiser4 patch for |grub (or even the whole

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub reiser4

2005-10-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 10:10 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 03/10/05, Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd prefer if the patch was left out for amd64 users, or included via a use flag. reiser4 isn't yet stable or proven on amd64. A quick search found this quote: The topic in channel

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: grub reiser4

2005-10-03 Thread Duncan
Chris Gianelloni posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 03 Oct 2005 08:54:21 -0400: On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 10:02 +, Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 02/10/05, R Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still think it's retarded to have a reiser 4 boot partition, but whatever stirs your

Re: [gentoo-dev] Interactive emerge

2005-10-03 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 03/10/2005-08:56:57(-0400): Chris Gianelloni types On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 13:21 -0400, Dan Meltzer wrote: Hi, I would just like some clarification if at all possible. Recently, while testing bugzilla-2.18.4 for x86 (bug # 107796) I ran into some interactivity. I was under the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Interactive emerge

2005-10-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 23:15:37 +0900 Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does it seem like it is time for RESTRICT=interactive. Such ebuilds | would refuse to emerge if stdout is not a tty. If only there was | use-flag based RESTRICT... No, because then that would encourage even more people

[gentoo-dev] test

2005-10-03 Thread Benjamin Allen
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Interactive emerge

2005-10-03 Thread Jan Kundrát
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 23:15:37 +0900 Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does it seem like it is time for RESTRICT=interactive. Such ebuilds | would refuse to emerge if stdout is not a tty. If only there was | use-flag based RESTRICT... No, because then that would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Interactive emerge

2005-10-03 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 19:39 +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 23:15:37 +0900 Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does it seem like it is time for RESTRICT=interactive. Such ebuilds | would refuse to emerge if stdout is not a tty. If only there was

Re: [gentoo-dev] Interactive emerge

2005-10-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 07:39:05PM +0200, Jan Kundr?t wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 23:15:37 +0900 Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does it seem like it is time for RESTRICT=interactive. Such ebuilds | would refuse to emerge if stdout is not a tty. If only there

Re: [gentoo-dev] Interactive emerge

2005-10-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 17:51 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 23:15:37 +0900 Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does it seem like it is time for RESTRICT=interactive. Such ebuilds | would refuse to emerge if stdout is not a tty. If only there was | use-flag based

Re: [gentoo-dev] Interactive emerge

2005-10-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 13:23 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: C) 15 hour upgrade/build, hanging an hour into it is going to be an ass biter. This is actually why I've been doing something I would normally *not* do and have been breaking up some games ebuilds that require a CD into a $foo and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Interactive emerge

2005-10-03 Thread Jan Kundrát
Brian Harring wrote: Ebuilds are non-interactive compile/install... that's the design, and intention of them. Sure, I thought that RESTRICT=interactive would just tell the user that she would have to provide some feedback in cases like those that wolf31o2 mentioned (games from CD). I don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] deprecation of SANDBOX_DISABLED

2005-10-03 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 03:05 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: Hola. Subject says it all; SANDBOX_DISABLED functions as (essentially) RESTRICT=sandbox, except sandbox is left on for pkg_setup . This is pretty much redundant, considering it's usage. People stick it in the global scope; if you

[gentoo-portage-dev] [CLEANUP] ebuild

2005-10-03 Thread Jason Stubbs
I've attached the whole file because the patch was pretty much nonsensical. * Cleaned up initialization * Check that the ebuild specified is the ebuild that portage will use and adjust paths if it isn't. * Alter clean behavior when FEATURES=noauto to bring it into line with Brian's changes to

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] EAPI cleanups and fixes

2005-10-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:06:35AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: Don't like the size of this patch, but it's quite repetitive so... Wouldn't worry on the repetitive, it's repetitive due to the fact the *dbapi classes don't (ab|)use inheritance... * Make all aux_get() functions return a list of

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] EAPI cleanups and fixes

2005-10-03 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 03:30, Brian Harring wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:06:35AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: Don't like the size of this patch, but it's quite repetitive so... Wouldn't worry on the repetitive, it's repetitive due to the fact the *dbapi classes don't (ab|)use

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] EAPI cleanups and fixes

2005-10-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:27:09AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 04 October 2005 03:30, Brian Harring wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:06:35AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: Don't like the size of this patch, but it's quite repetitive so... Wouldn't worry on the repetitive, it's