Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] repo_name/layman-global.txt overlay name mismatches

2009-07-13 Thread Zhang Le
On 15:53 Sun 12 Jul , Sebastian Pipping wrote: The output produces line like MISMATCH gentoo-china (layman-global) versus china (repo_name) I have just changed gentoo-china overlay's repo_name to gentoo-china. -- Zhang, Le Gentoo/Loongson Developer http://zhangle.is-a-geek.org 0260

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-28 Thread Zhang Le
subscriber already has that. Agreed. -- Zhang, Le Gentoo/Loongson Developer http://zhangle.is-a-geek.org 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 pgpDo0wS2P2Fi.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-portage-dev] a little patch related to arrow in SRC_URI

2008-11-28 Thread Zhang Le
Hi, all, It seems that arrow in SRC_URI needs a little patch in order to work. Please check the attachment. Thanks! Zhang, Le Index: pym/portage/__init__.py === --- pym/portage/__init__.py (revision 12119) +++ pym/portage

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jeeves IRC replacement now alive - Willikins

2008-08-07 Thread Zhang Le
for any problems/troubles. #gentoo-cn Thanks Robin! Zhang Le

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] A seemingly bug found when emerging @preserved-rebuild

2008-07-01 Thread Zhang Le
On 21:05 Tue 01 Jul , Marius Mauch wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:41:14 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a bug? or did I miss something here? Thanks for your time! The 'bug' here is that USE=multislot shouldn't exist. People using it should be able to deal

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] A seemingly bug found when emerging @preserved-rebuild

2008-07-01 Thread Zhang Le
On 21:05 Tue 01 Jul , Marius Mauch wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:41:14 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a bug? or did I miss something here? Thanks for your time! The 'bug' here is that USE=multislot shouldn't exist. People using it should be able to deal

Re: [gentoo-dev] How can I get the ebuild I wrote noticed by someone(maybe developer)?

2008-04-06 Thread Zhang Le
and maintain this package yourself. Zhang Le Simplifid Chinese Doc/GMN Lead -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

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

2008-03-06 Thread Zhang Le
-maintainer due credit and publicity, meaning make it a formal position, could solve the very problem Anant's proposal intended to solve. Zhang Le -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Thomas Pani wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:59:14 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And file extension like welcome.html.fr is quite self-explanatory. But an total outsider has no chance to deduce what the 1 in ebuild-1 means on his own. A total outsider doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: On Thursday 20 of December 2007 19:29:22 Zhang Le wrote: So please make those people understand, so they can comment usefully. Are we in the elementary school or something? This is really getting ridiculous. IMHO, what is more ridiculous is keeping ask other

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Friday 21 December 2007 05:25:00 Zhang Le wrote: The question is really simple. Whether we should have two different place to define EAPI? We need two places because it wasn't implemented properly in the first place and we want to retain backwards compatibility

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
, upgrading is part of our normal life. Now I will try read portage to understand how the metadata generation process works and try to make a doc of it. So before that, I will probably be not so responsive. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
. Whatever you'd like to have in the suffix, we can put it on the first line of the ebuild. Just go and get it, and that's the EAPI. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:09:27 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, what is more ridiculous is keeping ask other to be quiet in a discussion which is supposed to be open to everyone who cares about it. It's open to anyone who cares about

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Luca Barbato wrote: Still I think we should just postpone this discussion and get a 2008.0 out. And postpone until some doc is out. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:01:23 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luca Barbato wrote: Still I think we should just postpone this discussion and get a 2008.0 out. And postpone until some doc is out. There is absolutely no need for such a doc. You don't need

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2007 20:01:55 Zhang Le wrote: IMO, we can not have more than two EAPI's simultaneously. That defeats the whole purpose of having EAPIs. Which is to keep a sane upgrade path... Upgrading happens between two versions. When a new version

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:55:50 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Note *the way things are currently*. If you think this is untrue, provide an algorithm that will correctly give the EAPI of any current or future ebuild given that ebuild's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:49:10 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: As long as there is an agreement in any given point of time, it is OK. Such as, put your EAPI definition on the first line of your ebuild, like EAPI=value No good for package

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:27:31 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I am not sick of EAPI's. You see? I am sick of so *many* EAPI's. What? All two of them that you need to know about, where the second one is the first one with three new features? Sorry, I made

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Zhang Le wrote: I have just created a page of EAPI on wikipedia, let's improve it together. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAPI And later convert it to guidexml and put it on gentoo.org, of course. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:58:28PM +0800, Zhang Le wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:09:27 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, what is more ridiculous is keeping ask other to be quiet in a discussion which is supposed to be open

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Richard Freeman wrote: Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:01:04PM +0800, Zhang Le wrote: All could be get before sourcing. I know you'd say people will use all syntaxes to define. But how many are there? EAPI=1, EAPI=1 these are the two ways currently used in tree. A simple

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:01:04PM +0800, Zhang Le wrote: Your algorithm: Does not work for existing ebuilds that have implicit EAPI 0. That's obvious. If no suffix, just treat it as EAPI 0. I thought I don't need to say this explicitly. '# Copyright 1999-2007

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: Their docs are usually the source. And files under Documentation And they have a policy which requires them to write a doc for any new feature/functionality to be accepted -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
, e.g. from UTF-8 to utf8? -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
. And you are keeping scolding people for not understanding the process. So, why not introduce the process a little bit? -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
understand, so they can comment usefully. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
can extrace the definition from file content no matter how it is defined using whatever way you like. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
name is used to uniquely identify a file in a system, not to decide how the content of the file should be interpreted. Never ever seen a file type extension with a version number. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
on the transition. Other than that we can only have one working EAPI which all package managers conforms to. Otherwise, I think we may be risking forking the portage tree. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:52:16 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly. And this way is not elegant. File name is used to uniquely identify a file in a system, not to decide how the content of the file should be interpreted. Never ever seen a file type extension

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
participated in this discussion has shown their concerns about their distro. If someone don't understand, we should help them to understand, not just exclude them from this discussion. They should learn, however we should at least give them directions. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Santiago M. Mola wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 8:01 PM, Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many EAPI's do we have now? In Portage tree we have 0 (default) and 1. There are others in external projects, for example prefix (in Gentoo/Alt:Prefix) or paludis-1 (used in paludis repositories

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
on this thing? If the EAPI's feature is not freezing, I think we should do nothing but wait. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:09:44 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see it differently. Everyone participated in this discussion has shown their concerns about their distro. If someone don't understand, we should help them to understand, not just exclude them from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:49:04 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should not appear as a black box, and effectively prevent normal gentoo users and developers from contributing to decisions which may have a great impact on their distro. The GLEP doesn't have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:52:04 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:14:12 +0100 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Ok. What's the EAPI for the following ebuild that's written in an EAPI

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:26:06 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And no, it's not worth writing them. If people have time to spend documenting ebuildy things, there are a lot more useful places to start. It worths. It will influence our future. And bringing

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:38:43 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am afraid if we want all people accept this GLEP wholeheartedly, someone ought to be stand out and take this responsibility. No no, we want all the people who are qualified to discuss it to accept

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:23:08 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really don't see the necessity to have so many EAPI's A new EAPI is needed for new features, so new EAPIs will be needed in the future. Equally, migrating the whole tree at once to newer EAPIs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:51:03 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the problem about the agreement between PM and ebuild. If this is agreed upon import vim-spell using language=en You should be able to get it. If not, then blame the ebuild writer

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:03:25 +0800 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We can't take the risk of forking/splitting ourselves in exchange of only a little features. EAPI introduces no risk of that. Quite the opposite -- it reduces it by making it less likely that people

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Features and documentation

2007-11-28 Thread Zhang Le
flag description in metadata.xml is just an example of new feature, IMO. My 2 HK$, ;) -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Le Zhang (r0bertz)

2007-05-17 Thread Zhang Le
call me Robert. Or if you prefer to call me my Chinese name, please call me Zhang Le whenever possible. Thanks! In Chinese tradition, family name is placed before given name. ;) Le is joining us from Hong Kong (yes, that's in China boys and girls) where he's currently working for Thizlinux

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Le Zhang (r0bertz)

2007-05-17 Thread Zhang Le
just call me Robert. Or if you prefer to call me my Chinese name, please call me Zhang Le whenever possible. Thanks! In Chinese tradition, family name is placed before given name. ;) Le is joining us from Hong Kong (yes, that's in China boys and girls) where he's currently working for Thizlinux

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New Developer: Le Zhang (r0bertz)

2007-05-17 Thread Zhang Le
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 17 May 2007 23:16:59 +0800: Le is joining us from Hong Kong (yes, that's in China boys and girls) where he's currently working for Thizlinux (a Hong

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to publish ebuild

2007-03-22 Thread Zhang Le
to the gentoo portage system. Any suggestion? Are thoses software widely used in Chinese user community? If so, I can put them in gentoo-china overlay. -- Zhang Le, Robert http://zhllg.blogspot.com http://zh.gentoo-wiki.com http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook http://groups.google.com/group

[gentoo-dev] [gentoo dev]suggestion to distutils eclass

2006-07-16 Thread Zhang Le
Some packages don't provide standard setup.py. Take a look at the attachment.This is a new ebuld.So my suggestion is to add a new variable to distutils.eclass, e.g. SETUP.PY, if it's set, then use it, otherwise let it defaults to setup.py.Looking forward to hear your feedback on this.-- Zhang Le

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo dev]suggestion to distutils eclass

2006-07-16 Thread Zhang Le
On 7/17/06, Alastair Tse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 00:49 +0800, Zhang Le wrote: Some packages don't provide standard setup.py. Take a look at the attachment. This is a new ebuld.I agree with Stefan, just put a symlink in from whatever their distutils install script