Re: [gentoo-dev] Are "Copyright 1999-20xx Gentoo Foundation" headers bogus?

2016-10-29 Thread Raymond Jennings
+1 for at least having this discussed out in the open. The issue of copyright did tickle my mind when I saw the headers during my dev quiz. On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Rich Freem

[gentoo-dev] rsync.gentoo.org rsync modules: gentoo-repo-changelog added, gentoo-x86-portage & gentoo-sec discontinued.

2016-10-29 Thread Robin H. Johnson
As part of the upcoming change to no longer distribute ChangeLogs in the main tree, Infra would like to announce some updates to the rsync modules. 1. The following legacy modules are hereby discontinued. - rsync.gentoo.org::gentoo-sec - rsync.gentoo.org::gentoo-x86-portage 'gentoo-sec' was a 200

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2016-10-29 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Saturday, October 29, 2016 11:44:39 PM EDT M. J. Everitt wrote: > > Whilst this may potentially be a contentious topic (and one that g-p-m > has partially attempted to address) there has been a mildly aggressive > policy applied to treecleaning, whereby if something is old and missing > a mainta

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Saturday, October 29, 2016 4:42:21 PM EDT M. J. Everitt wrote: > > Completely out of my depth here, but can you cross-compile a On Gentoo yes its called crossdev[1]. You can have a build system/toolchain for any arch you need to make an entire system or binaries for and them over to what eve

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2016-10-29 Thread M. J. Everitt
On 29/10/16 21:25, NP-Hardass wrote: > On 10/29/2016 02:30 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >> >> Someone needs to take over responsibility for the packages >> (maintainership) and fixing the issues then. If not, they should be removed. >> > I'm only talking about the packages that have no other is

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2016-10-29 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 10/29/2016 10:25 PM, NP-Hardass wrote: > If you feel that is too high a maintenance burden, fine, remove them > all. I'm merely proposing it be looked at since otherwise we are > potentially removing packages that don't have to or shouldn't be removed. If they aren't properly maintained, they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple misc. Python packages for grabs

2016-10-29 Thread Manuel Rüger
On 29.10.2016 23:21, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > dev-util/bumpversion Added myself as a maintainer. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Multiple misc. Python packages for grabs

2016-10-29 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, The Python team is dropping itself from maintainers of the following packages. As a result, those packages no longer have any maintainer: app-admin/supervisor app-editors/leo app-misc/yworklog app-text/pdfminer app-text/pylize dev-util/bumpversion dev-util/tailor net-ftp/pybootd net-im/tur

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2016-10-29 Thread NP-Hardass
On 10/29/2016 02:30 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 10/29/2016 07:59 PM, NP-Hardass wrote: >> On 10/08/2016 07:57 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: >>> # Fails to build (#515294), nothing needs it, relies on obsolete >>> capi4kutils. >>> >> >> For all the packages being removed due to capi4kutils, how

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2016-10-29 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 10/29/2016 07:59 PM, NP-Hardass wrote: > On 10/08/2016 07:57 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: >> # Fails to build (#515294), nothing needs it, relies on obsolete >> capi4kutils. >> > > For all the packages being removed due to capi4kutils, how many were > investigated with net-libs/libcapi? For WINE, w

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2016-10-29 Thread NP-Hardass
On 10/08/2016 07:57 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > # Fails to build (#515294), nothing needs it, relies on obsolete > capi4kutils. > For all the packages being removed due to capi4kutils, how many were investigated with net-libs/libcapi? For WINE, we transitioned to using libcapi instead of capi4kuti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread Benda Xu
Rich Freeman writes: > Well, that would be a different approach, but I imagine you could > build for prefix-style install using something like Catalyst and > cross-compile. I have no idea how much tweaking that would require. > The main issue is that unless you use qemu you're only going to get

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Michael, "M. J. Everitt" writes: >> No SD slot on Nexus. We will stress the internal NAND flash with >> millions of ebuilds and rsync :) > Completely out of my depth here, but can you cross-compile and Ah, I was half-joking. Considering the recent advancement of NAND flash, I expect it las

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Benda Xu wrote: > > Homework received. I have little experience blogging though. > > I will need first to set up a blog and then draft a writeup. > > Any hints? Gentoo can set them up, or you can just use Wordpress or whatever (Gentoo wasn't taking new blog requ

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 10/29/2016 06:22 PM, Benda Xu wrote: > Kristian Fiskerstrand writes: > > > I will need first to set up a blog and then draft a writeup. > > Any hints? > You can request a blog from blogs.gentoo.org and ask for it to be included in planet and universe -- Kristian Fiskerstrand OpenPGP ke

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread Benda Xu
Kristian Fiskerstrand writes: >>> Actually .. given my nosiness in -pr matters lately, anyone done a >>> write-up for Planet.g.o or suchlike that we can post up to social media? >>> From my own stand-point it might be something the wider community would >>> be interested in, and didn't know was a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread Benda Xu
Francesco Riosa writes: > Christmas is coming, I'll enjoy this Haha, good point. Should've called it Halloween release ;) Benda

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 11:42 AM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 29/10/16 16:35, Benda Xu wrote: >> No SD slot on Nexus. We will stress the internal NAND flash with >> millions of ebuilds and rsync :) >> >> That makes me think of squashdelta sync, but probably after gaining >> control of linux kernels

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 10/29/2016 05:36 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 11:18 AM, M. J. Everitt wrote: >> On 29/10/16 16:14, M. J. Everitt wrote: >>> On 29/10/16 16:09, Benda Xu wrote: This is an announcement of the latest Gentoo on Android stage3 tarball, >> >> Actually .. given my nosine

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread M. J. Everitt
On 29/10/16 16:35, Benda Xu wrote: > Hey MJE, > > "M. J. Everitt" writes: > >> COOL ! I'll have to give this a try .. got an old(er) Samsung Galaxy >> S4 Active, > From our past experience[1], Samsung sometimes imposed noexec to /data by > kernel hacks. It'll be interesting to find out what it lo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 11:18 AM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 29/10/16 16:14, M. J. Everitt wrote: >> On 29/10/16 16:09, Benda Xu wrote: >>> >>> This is an announcement of the latest Gentoo on Android stage3 tarball, > > Actually .. given my nosiness in -pr matters lately, anyone done a > write-up f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread Benda Xu
Hey MJE, "M. J. Everitt" writes: > COOL ! I'll have to give this a try .. got an old(er) Samsung Galaxy > S4 Active, From our past experience[1], Samsung sometimes imposed noexec to /data by kernel hacks. It'll be interesting to find out what it looks like on the Galaxy S4. > and I'm currentl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread M. J. Everitt
On 29/10/16 16:14, M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 29/10/16 16:09, Benda Xu wrote: >> Hi Fellows, >> >> This is an announcement of the latest Gentoo on Android stage3 tarball, >> >> >> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/prefix/rap/rap-stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20161026.tar.xz >> >> snapshot from the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread Francesco Riosa
Christmas is coming, I'll enjoy this Thank you! 2016-10-29 17:09 GMT+02:00 Benda Xu : > Hi Fellows, > > This is an announcement of the latest Gentoo on Android stage3 tarball, > > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/prefix/rap/rap- > stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20161026.tar.xz > > snapshot from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread M. J. Everitt
On 29/10/16 16:09, Benda Xu wrote: > Hi Fellows, > > This is an announcement of the latest Gentoo on Android stage3 tarball, > > > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/prefix/rap/rap-stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20161026.tar.xz > > snapshot from the latest main Gentoo repository, featuring gcc-5.4,

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Android stage3

2016-10-29 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Fellows, This is an announcement of the latest Gentoo on Android stage3 tarball, http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/prefix/rap/rap-stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20161026.tar.xz snapshot from the latest main Gentoo repository, featuring gcc-5.4, glibc-2.23, and the latest prefix-standalone (ak

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2016-10-29 Thread David Seifert
On Sa, 2016-10-08 at 13:57 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: > # Pacho Ramos (08 Oct 2016) > # Uses get_libdir at global scope (#593382). Dead for ages. Removal > in > a > # month. > app-cdr/nero I'd like to keep this package, hence fixed the issues, bumped to EAPI=6, took over maintainership.

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-29 Thread Peter Stuge
Peter Stuge wrote: > --8<-- mount(8) .. > portable. The mount(8) command internally uses udev symlinks > -->8-- That's of course only the mount in util-linux. //Peter

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-29 Thread Peter Stuge
Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > WilliamH wants everyone using /dev/disk/by-label/ > > paths in fstab to instead use LABEL= , to avoid issues if udev > > doesn't create the symlinks before localmount tries to use them. .. > UUID is the same situation in this case -- in fstab you can do it by > UUID= or