Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Danny van Dyk
e question for > "necessary". Re 'necessary': Tests for scientific packages are surely necessary, i'd even claim they're mandatory. Nothing is as bad as having a program that yields unreproducable (read: wrong) results. Been there, seen that, had the primordial urge to kill things. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Danny van Dyk
ember of the sci team I have to say I completely disagree with you here. sci-* packages mostly have reasonable test suites, the importance to run them is very high (you do want reproducable and correct results, don't you?). However, sometimes you cannot run those tests from an ebuild's env

Re: [gentoo-dev] Planning for automatic assignment of bugs

2007-04-26 Thread Danny van Dyk
s assigned directly to me, but to the herd instead. > > > While for others I _do_ want the duplicate. > > > > Could "contact" be named differently then? > > 'autocontact' then? > Both 'assign' and 'cc' (and derivations the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

2007-04-25 Thread Danny van Dyk
compare multiple suffixes there will be no problem. This Council decission was to avoid 'existing practice' that might be necessary to include in PMS. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

2007-04-25 Thread Danny van Dyk
quot; which might need to be respected by either PMS or tree policy. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

2007-04-24 Thread Danny van Dyk
ssible?) that affects pretty much all Gentoo developers (and > prospective developers). Anybody who attends the regular Council meetings and/or reads their logs/summaries knew that this kind of decission is possible. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

2007-04-24 Thread Danny van Dyk
ly spoken. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

2007-04-24 Thread Danny van Dyk
ymore, and I think > it's quite easy to imagine when this additional -r1 would be > neccessary. I'd like to refer you that this is kind of 'best-practice' for the tree. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

2007-04-24 Thread Danny van Dyk
n? Wouldn't that prevent portage from enforcing update to _rc3 > when it's delivered? Of course I might be wrong and if this is the > case then excuse me for the whole fuss ;) Existing _rcX cases can be handled like this: _rc2-rYYYYMMDD Portage will update from _rc2 to a version with re

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

2007-04-24 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Dienstag, 24. April 2007 schrieb Petteri Räty: > Danny van Dyk kirjoitti: > > Hi all, > > > > [CC'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] as requested by GLEP amendment from March 8th, > > 2007] > > > > A subset of council members decided today that multiple version

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

2007-04-24 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Dienstag, 24. April 2007 schrieb Fernando J. Pereda: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:16:38PM -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: > > Danny van Dyk wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Danny, > > > > This wouldn't have to be because you have a vested interest in > > p

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

2007-04-24 Thread Danny van Dyk
yone has any suggestions for naming schemes in the > meantime, I'm all ears. Only a short response, as I'm a bit in a hurry right now. From #gentoo-council earlier: 18:25 <@robbat2> make him covert it to "_rc%04d%04d%02d%02d",$RC,$YEAR, $MONTH,$DAY I hope that helps, Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

2007-04-24 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Dienstag, 24. April 2007 schrieb Doug Goldstein: > Danny van Dyk wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > [CC'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] as requested by GLEP amendment from March 8th, > > 2007] > > > > A subset of council members decided today that multiple version

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

2007-04-24 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Dienstag, 24. April 2007 schrieb Danny van Dyk: > Hi all, > > [CC'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] as requested by GLEP amendment from March 8th, > 2007] > > A subset of council members decided today that multiple version > suffixes are illegal in the tree pending further notic

[gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

2007-04-24 Thread Danny van Dyk
scode-1.0.3_rc2_p20070310-r1 An illegal version specification of media-sound/alsa-driver has already been removed from the tree. I would like to ask the affected package maintainers to move these versions to sane version specifications as soon as possible. Thanks in advance for this. Danny -- Danny va

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

2007-04-22 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Sonntag, 22. April 2007 schrieb Kevin F. Quinn: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:46:18 +0200 > > Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 22. April 2007 schrieb Michael Cummings: > > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 08:47:54AM +0100, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > &

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

2007-04-22 Thread Danny van Dyk
ir ebuilds/eclasses/profiles and forget/lie about it, and still have the same $Headers$ line. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-04-05 Thread Danny van Dyk
eapi=1 today, zac implements it tonight, and releases it tomorrow > morning (with no bugs). Very well. I'd like to target this for KDE people to use it for kde-4. > So... again- it's not pretty, but it's not an issue that's going to > be solved tomorrow, so it's not

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

2007-04-05 Thread Danny van Dyk
for a start, > instead of trying to make one big bump that will bring all changes we > can think of now, but will be implemented only in 2010... I agree fully. Nobody said we can't finetune the EAPI steps/bumps. > Now it may look like I contradict myself saying to bump ASAP but not &

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

2007-04-05 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2007 23:24 schrieb Brian Harring: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:40:55PM +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2007 20:20 schrieb Mike Doty: > > > Torsten Veller wrote: > > > > * Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > &

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

2007-04-05 Thread Danny van Dyk
see. > > another one i had mentioned earlier: > - a time frame on moving gentoo-core to public archives ... two > years ? -mike What happened to 1 year? Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2007-04-05 Thread Danny van Dyk
gentoo ebuild devs*) either with lists of QA problems in the tree to fix, or with tools that enable you to search for one particular (kind of) QA violation in the whole tree, whatever your prefer. Danny *I'm only adressing gentoo devs here as patches against the whole tree don't make sen

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

2007-04-05 Thread Danny van Dyk
ike any privacy in that at all. vapier comes to my mind there :-D Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2007-03-30 Thread Danny van Dyk
is FUD about forking Gentoo. Paludis is not a fork of Gentoo, it's new package manager. The relation between Portage and Paludis can, if at all, probably be compared to dselect vs apt. Don't reply to this mail, just let it drop. Thank you very much. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New ALSA maintainers

2007-03-29 Thread Danny van Dyk
should probably add a bullet point g) Hasn't looked yet. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2007-03-24 Thread Danny van Dyk
ly ebuild repositories. This is what comes to my mind right now. The list is certainly not complete :-) Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] dont use `which` in ebuilds

2007-03-16 Thread Danny van Dyk
x27; in eclasses and ebuilds. > > sci-mathematics/octave/octave-2.1.57-r1.ebuild:34: > sci-mathematics/octave/octave-2.1.69.ebuild:36: ^^ fixed. Must have slipped through in my first round. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] dont use `which` in ebuilds

2007-03-12 Thread Danny van Dyk
lplot/plplot-5.5.2.ebuild: >use fortran && ! use ifc || if [ -z 'which g77' ]; then > ./sci-visualization/xd3d/xd3d-8.2.1.ebuild: >which g77 2> /dev/null || die "No GNU Fortran compiler found!" ^^^ fixed, too. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] dont use `which` in ebuilds

2007-03-12 Thread Danny van Dyk
grass/grass-6.2.0-r1.ebuild:111: > sci-geosciences/mapserver/mapserver-4.10.0.ebuild:106: > sci-misc/boinc/boinc-4.72.20050813-r3.ebuild:56: > sci-misc/boinc/boinc-5.2.14.ebuild:57: > sci-misc/boinc/boinc-5.4.11.ebuild:53: > sci-misc/boinc/boinc-5.5.6.ebuild:59: ^^^ fixed as well. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] stop using $IMAGE

2007-03-09 Thread Danny van Dyk
gt; ./trunk/general-concepts/install-destinations/text.xml:"${IMAGE}"< >/c>. > > Can you corrent the devmanual then? Done. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Samstag, 3. März 2007 19:48 schrieb Thomas Rösner: > Hi, > > Danny van Dyk schrieb: > > 2) There are countries who acutally adhere to the Berne Convention > > (1886). This means even the deed of commiting sources with a > > "Copyright (C) Gentoo Foundati

Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Danny van Dyk
> part a legal structure to protect our collective work, (code, logos, > etc.) and would be considered a third-party project. > > I'd be really surprised - flabbergasted, really - if this has > changed. But at this point I almost wouldn't be surprised. :) Suprise! :-) Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 17:41 schrieb Brian Harring: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 05:07:22PM +0100, Danny van Dyk wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 14:26 schrieb Brian Harring: > > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:13:11AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Danny van Dyk
out is intended to get multiple folks > involved who each have their own specialized domain knowledge. > > For example, dismissing Chris when he's effectively the "profiles > guy". Granted, can involve him afterwards, but don't much see the > point in *not* doing it up front. Read again, he did not dismiss Chris, he dismissed the claim that Infrastructure should send somebody to discuss the package manager standard. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Richard Brown (rbrown)

2007-02-21 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007 20:10 schrieb Stephen Bennett: > Please welcome Richard to our ranks, or accuse him of being an evil > cabalist (he works on Paludis, particularly maintaining its Ruby > bindings), as you see fit. Welcome aboard Richard! Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMA

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] custom-cflags global USE

2007-02-21 Thread Danny van Dyk
g > reports if i remove custom-cflags use and also mplayer. What about making custom-cflags default in the base profile? Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Danny van Dyk
27;s done, which is not now. > > Council- y'all were after getting this finished as far as I know, > perhaps you could discuss intentions? Why? There is work done on this, and there will be further work being done. Several council member have access to it - including me - and are quite

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Samstag, 17. Februar 2007 00:52 schrieb Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò: > On Saturday 17 February 2007, Danny van Dyk wrote: > > a) It's _qualudis_ ;-) > > Whatever, can we get back on track? > > How much good did Google Summer of Code to the Gentoo _community_

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Danny van Dyk
tribute(d) to it, including yourself ;-) Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] amd64 help

2007-01-29 Thread Danny van Dyk
usually say yes, * Mike usually says yes, * you're aboard. It's just that we don't have sufficient _active_ devs. :-/ Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] matrox.eclass

2007-01-27 Thread Danny van Dyk
Hi, besides a deprecated call to check_KV, matrox.eclass sets SLOT=${KV} which breaks the metadata cache. Any objections to change it to SLOT=0 anyone? Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-11-08 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Mittwoch, 8. November 2006 16:07 schrieb Kurt Lieber: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:25:19PM +0100 or thereabouts, Danny van Dyk wrote: > > Kurt: Please write up a short text to explain why you think this is > > necessary for Gentoo mailservers. Thanks in advance! > >

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

2006-11-06 Thread Danny van Dyk
eciate if Kurt could write up a short text which explains why SPF is a good thing(TM) for Gentoo Infrastructure, so I can understand it :-) My vote would be: Remove, unless there is a real need for it. But this could change rather quickly once Kurt (or anybody else from Infra) has replied. Danny --

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

2006-11-06 Thread Danny van Dyk
Reply-To:'-munging: I'm going to vote to keep it as is, and i don't think that anybody would be able to convince me otherwise. In regard to SPF: If klieber (or any other infra member) can explain to me why SPF is a good thing(tm) to have for Gentoo Infrastructure, and convince me t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ignoring/overwriting IUSE from an eclass

2006-10-30 Thread Danny van Dyk
; is (in my eyes) at least sloppy. If it doesn't work for all sensible cases, it shouldn't be labelled as 'works'. > reports about paludis, would you? This is why we discourage bugreports w/p prior contact on IRC. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] [Council] Summary of the last meeting

2006-10-24 Thread Danny van Dyk
alyst, new profile structure, planning for 2007.0 Robbin H. Johnson: tree-signing, infra (Bugzilla, anon(cvs|svn)) Danny van Dyk: AMD64 releng (testing, soon new profiles) Kingtaco: infra(Bugzilla, anon(cvs|svn), utf8 on pecker) Mike Frysinger:tool

[gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Creation of eselect-1.0.x branch

2006-10-21 Thread Danny van Dyk
nches/branch-1.0.x. * Use only modules from branch-1.0.x when you update/bump packages in the tree, as it will take sometime till 1.2.x will hit the tree. Thank you for your attention :-) Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: per-package default USE flags

2006-10-15 Thread Danny van Dyk
lt USE-flags at one spot (per profile) _is_ easier to maintain. Ciaran has a point here: Default useflags have annoyed me in the past while building releases, and having to change several packages (and redigesting them) for the snapshot is way more: * complicated * time-consuming * error-prone tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] *plop*

2006-10-13 Thread Danny van Dyk
Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42?

2006-10-11 Thread Danny van Dyk
Y}/${PN}:${SLOT}. Yay! > I thought we were eventually going to use that format to specify deps > with specific USE set. Nope, that was ${CATEGORY}/${PN}[foo]. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles, Round 2

2006-10-08 Thread Danny van Dyk
ould take some time, it should be done in a seperate repository for the time being. The Seeds project could do something like this: +-Seeds | +-amd64-lamp, inherits releases/2006.1/amd64-hardened and adds lamp specific useflags/packages. But i lack knowledge here. Stuart? Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-10-07 Thread Danny van Dyk
ven't) made my time here so > enjoyable. Thank you very much > So long, and thanks for all the fish... I think you oughta know that I'm feeling very depressed :-( Danny, who hopes to see you again next year! -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Bugzilla Account for Gentoo Council

2006-10-05 Thread Danny van Dyk
Hi all, FYI, I just created a Bugzilla account for the Council. You can assign/CC us on bugs via '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT noise (Was: Profile masking and profiles package.mask)

2006-09-30 Thread Danny van Dyk
s mailing list. I for one don't consider it anywhere near appropriate. This shall be no offense, just a comment in regard that you can do better. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: Gentoo Seeds

2006-09-20 Thread Danny van Dyk
that more llama action be put in GLEPS (rar?). Senseless. What did you want to contribute to the discussion? Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: Gentoo Seeds

2006-09-20 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Mittwoch, 20. September 2006 20:56 schrieb Donnie Berkholz: > Danny van Dyk wrote: > > * How do you want to implement the profiles? > > > > * Re: the meta-ebuilds you'd been talking about in this thread: > > Have you yet considered to use the profiles' p

[gentoo-dev] Removed net-wireless/{bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac}

2006-09-18 Thread Danny van Dyk
net-wireless/{bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac} had been in package mask since June, as they * didn't work with recent kernel versions * were moved into kernel as of 2.6.17. * were plain obsolete. I just removed them. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo

[gentoo-dev] [Council] #gentoo-council

2006-09-13 Thread Danny van Dyk
Just a short note: The new council will be showing more presence in #gentoo-council. This means: even when no meeting is taking place you can reach us all together on IRC to discuss Gentoo development or to point out problems. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 P

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Danny van Dyk
non cummultative. I'd like to keep it hardcoded, as loading of such variables can go wrong and you'd end up without a working env tool. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers

2006-09-07 Thread Danny van Dyk
t. Sadly we don't suspend developers for extended history of QA violations. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

The Age of the Universe (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 2006.1)

2006-09-02 Thread Danny van Dyk
ch compilation would actually succeed, you'd still have ~8e28 seconds. The age of the universe is approximately 4e17 seconds. This hasn't yet investigated allt he possible combinations of packages depending on dev-lang/php, or the ~10,000 other packages in the tree. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman: check for deprecated eclasses

2006-09-01 Thread Danny van Dyk
ere two deprecated eclasses, it > would falsely label the new class as mod-kernels. ECLASS_DEPRECATED="${ECLASS_DEPRECATED} foo:new-foo,new-foo-modules" > Meanwhile; I'd just stick a file up somewhere on gentoo.org, and > mangle repoman to pull down a copy every N days as ne

Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman: check for deprecated eclasses

2006-09-01 Thread Danny van Dyk
new file for that IMHO. I'd propose to add something like ECLASS_DEPRECATED="${ECLASS_DEPRECATED} foo" ECLASS_REPLACEMENTS="${ECLASS_REPLACEMENT} new-foo" to foo.eclass. In my eyes this is much less work as repoman merely has to check for 2 envvars. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 39 compliance

2006-08-30 Thread Danny van Dyk
Handbook list of authors contains former Gentoo devs. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for cleaning portage a bit (themes and other eyecandy stuff)

2006-08-19 Thread Danny van Dyk
job'. We _could_ implement it, but none of the possible implementations is really elegant. We considered these possibilites: * using an external repo, that autogenerates the dep information _after downloading all of CPAN_. (yes, that would be necessary) * g-cpan mode of autogenerating the bu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: mulltiib cruft: /emul

2006-08-09 Thread Danny van Dyk
27;t be to hard to change it from /emul to /lib32 and /usr/lib32. And yes, /emul was there from the very beginning aka Tester/brad_mssw :-) Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Brand spanking new developer - Anrdrew Ross aka aross

2006-08-08 Thread Danny van Dyk
pe team. Not to forget he's working on an eselect module for app-admin/logrotate. Welcome aboard, Andrew! Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default

2006-08-05 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Samstag, 5. August 2006 11:19 schrieb Kevin F. Quinn: > On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 02:39:16 +0200 > > Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Samstag, 5. August 2006 02:11 schrieb Kevin F. Quinn: > > > At the very least, ebuild maintainers and ATs should be runnin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default

2006-08-04 Thread Danny van Dyk
d making FEATURES="test" a default. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] webdav global use flag and default

2006-07-28 Thread Danny van Dyk
haviour changed. Much better than informing users of the other 4 packages that the behaviour changed. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] Incomplete IUSE for useflags in {,R,P}DEPEND, SRC_URI etc...

2006-07-12 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2006 15:36 schrieb Jakub Moc: > Danny van Dyk wrote: > > Wrt the pcmcia thing, well not really ebuilds' fault, see > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122868 Yeah, genstef is working on it. > There are already bugs filed for some of the rest

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] Incomplete IUSE for useflags in {,R,P}DEPEND, SRC_URI etc...

2006-07-12 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2006 17:00 schrieb Aron Griffis: > Danny van Dyk wrote: [Wed Jul 12 2006, 09:16:30AM EDT] > > > There are 505 ebuilds which are missing use flags in IUSE that they > > use in other places. Much of those 505 violations are a missing pcmcia flag, which i stop

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] Incomplete IUSE for useflags in {,R,P}DEPEND, SRC_URI etc...

2006-07-12 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2006 15:23 schrieb Matthias Schwarzott: > On Wednesday 12 July 2006 15:16, Danny van Dyk wrote: > > Hi all, > While reading your list I have seen pcmcia often. e.g. on my ebuild > v4l-dvb-hg not supporting pcmcia as conditional. A bit digging showed > tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding CPUFLAGS USE_EXPAND variable to the profiles

2006-07-07 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Freitag, 7. Juli 2006 16:19 schrieb Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò: > On Friday 07 July 2006 16:20, Danny van Dyk wrote: > > I suggest to add a "CPUFLAGS" USE_EXPAND variable to the tree. > > Improvement respect the current situation? You're just asking f

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding CPUFLAGS USE_EXPAND variable to the profiles

2006-07-07 Thread Danny van Dyk
feel uncomfortable to be unable to use cpuflags in metadata phase. This is what worries me most. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-06 Thread Danny van Dyk
has support for xchg16 since the very beginning. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] SpanKY's Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-06 Thread Danny van Dyk
g Thanks, I accept this nomination. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] [Last Rites] app-text/bow

2006-06-18 Thread Danny van Dyk
maintain it. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification

2006-06-09 Thread Danny van Dyk
ny damage to applications that have not been directly > installed from the overlay. Only when you have FEATURES="collision-protect". Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification

2006-06-09 Thread Danny van Dyk
ny damage to applications that have not been directly > installed from the overlay. > That is only true, if you have enabled FEATURES="collision-protect". Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification

2006-06-09 Thread Danny van Dyk
ny damage to applications that have not been directly > installed from the overlay. Only when you got FEATURES="collision-protect". Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect-compiler updates and unmasking

2006-06-09 Thread Danny van Dyk
r an enhancement request. I'm quite positive we can get it going. :-) Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect-compiler updates and unmasking

2006-06-09 Thread Danny van Dyk
Hi Kumba, > In a similar vein, will this eselect tool eventually supplant the > functionality of binutils-config as well (and thus need its own > wrapper script)? Have a look at eselect binutils please, which is shipped with app-admin/eselect. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default useflag cleanups: -apm -foomaticdb -fortran -imlib -motif -oss -xmms

2006-06-06 Thread Danny van Dyk
this and you'll break merging of approx. 30% of the ebuild in scientific herd. As long as there is no use-based deps, fortran should stay in default. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 27 Proposal - Feedback Requested

2006-05-30 Thread Danny van Dyk
execute the new code instead. As a member of Release Engineering who encountered already a problem with user-management code in eutils.eclass, i beg you: _plase_ don't add it to that eclass. Instead, create a new eclass 'euser' or something similar and add it there. Dann

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] New eselect modules for blas, cblas, lapack

2006-05-26 Thread Danny van Dyk
lementations are hardcoded into the modules rather than being > autodetected from the system. This just doesn't scale well, and it > ties upgrades and changes to BLAS/LAPACK/whatever into a required > update of eselect. > > A point of disagreement between Danny van Dyk (Ku

Re: [gentoo-dev] cmake.eclass

2006-05-25 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Freitag, 26. Mai 2006 01:10 schrieb Danny van Dyk: > Am Freitag, 26. Mai 2006 00:50 schrieb Panard: > > I removed need-cmake function and add : > > > > if [ ! -z "${NEED_CMAKE}" ]; then > > DEPEND="dev-util/cmake" > > else > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] cmake.eclass

2006-05-25 Thread Danny van Dyk
t; > > is it ok ? Rather use DEPEND="dev-util/cmake-${NEED_CMAKE+-${NEED_CMAKE}}" please. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] cmake.eclass

2006-05-25 Thread Danny van Dyk
see no major difference between doing 'need-cmake x.y' and 'NEED_CMAKE x.y'... Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] I'm retiring

2006-05-17 Thread Danny van Dyk
in touch. I which you all the best for whatever you'll be doing next. :-) Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-16 Thread Danny van Dyk
don't file bugs with gentoo. Come to #paludis and discuss with us. If we tell you to do so, file bugs with [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are really interested to know which packages don't work. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] New ebuild Developer: Christian Hartmann (ian!)

2006-04-16 Thread Danny van Dyk
Hi, It is my pleasure to announce publicly that ian! has passed all necessary quizzes to touch our holy gra^H^H^H portage tree. He'll be helping mcummings in his perpetuate combat with perl and its dependencies. May the source be with him. Congratulations Christian! :-) Danny -- Dann

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: bbj

2006-04-04 Thread Danny van Dyk
irith? ;-)). His current work is a research job at the Federal University of Itajubá where he tries to build Cylons^H^H^H neural networks. At least this is more exciting than his brother's job who's a math professor. bbj, welcome aboard! Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[gentoo-dev] Renewed security risk uhm Dev

2006-04-04 Thread Danny van Dyk
tions! Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-03 Thread Danny van Dyk
stated above. This is how it has been handled so far except in the ciaranm incident. This is how I personally think this should be handled in future. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support

2006-03-23 Thread Danny van Dyk
Portage tree, and you're not fit to be a Gentoo dev in the first place I would say this should be clarified some more. Surely anybody with an access to an overlay can commit, but the projects should be the keepers of the keys. Overlays are not the tree, they are probably very experimental.

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Karol Pasternak (reb)

2006-03-19 Thread Danny van Dyk
and swiming, watching movies and chilling with his favourite music. Karol joined Gentoo to help with the Gentoo/OpenBSD project. I guess Flameeyes will be happy with another slav^H^Hminio^H^H^Hhelping hand :-) Karol, welcome aboard :-) Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-04 Thread Danny van Dyk
tion " echo } pkg_prepare() { local ret=0 if use foo && use bar ; then emutexuse foo bar ret=1 fi if use fnord2 && ! use fnord ; then emissinguse fnord fnord2 ret=1

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-03-01 Thread Danny van Dyk
hat chokes on coding style (like tabs and whitespaces) should be > ifself fixed. Hmm, you never used repoman, right? repoman checks for whitespace and tab oddities and warns you, if you want to commit them. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Danny van Dyk
e. Danny - -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEBKe7aVNL8NrtU6IRAl75AKCT9h+9V4sM9YxRgIoaD+136dug9ACgkqoI chBYTGNn2hEChDAi/WfV1+k= =INNg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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