Re: [gentoo-dev] Unofficial Gentoo Development Guide and Autotools

2005-05-20 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 20/05/2005-06:06:21(+0100): Ciaran McCreesh types On Thu, 19 May 2005 04:44:25 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | http://www.firedrop.org.uk/devmanual/general-concepts/autotools/ Updated based upon the feedback, thanks guys. If someone who's relatively clueless about

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unofficial Gentoo Development Guide and Autotools

2005-05-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 20 May 2005 15:06:12 +0900 Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | - The configure script is run to produce one or Makefile files | from Makefile.in files. | + The configure script is run to produce | one or more Makefile files from Makefile.in files. Gah! I'm

[gentoo-dev] Re: UPGRADE complete bugs.gentoo.org

2005-05-20 Thread R Hill
Hello. Jeffrey Forman wrote: The upgrade for bugs.gentoo.org went exactly as I had planned for. Completed in under 20 minutes, which included this email. I've upgraded our Bugzilla from the old 2.18rc2 to 2.18.1. This fixes more security and code than I can even begin to mention. I have cleaned

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unofficial Gentoo Development Guide and Autotools

2005-05-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 20 May 2005 18:01:04 +0900 Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | %.1 : %.in | | @regex_cmd@ -e s,[EMAIL PROTECTED]@,$(VERSION),g $? $@ | | | | The first @ is span.Special and the second one is span.Constant. | | Hrm, that's a vim thing (I'm using a vim script to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unofficial Gentoo Development Guide and Autotools

2005-05-20 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 20/05/2005-10:29:53(+0100): Ciaran McCreesh types On Fri, 20 May 2005 18:01:04 +0900 Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | %.1 : %.in | | @regex_cmd@ -e s,[EMAIL PROTECTED]@,$(VERSION),g $? $@ | | | | The first @ is span.Special and the second

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-20 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Jason Stubbs wrote: snip I intend that the package to be installed should not assume anything about where its dependencies are and should query portage for them all. Oh no, now many things get much clearer to me :( But - aren't there many settings left over to the packages to decide, at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming scheme confusion

2005-05-20 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Monday 16 May 2005 15:04, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: The current ebuild is orinoco-0.15_rc2-r2.ebuild, and the logical name for a CVS snapshot would, as I see it, be orinoco-0.15_rc2_pre20050516.ebuild, but mixing _rcX and _preY is not allowed by portage. in any case it should be _pY as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming scheme confusion

2005-05-20 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 10:27, Marius Mauch wrote: Well, it's valid with portage-2.1, but not 2.0. Concerning that, how far are we from it being testable by the general developer population? Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

Re: [gentoo-dev] Request for Permission

2005-05-20 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Monday 16 May 2005 23:48, Drake Wyrm wrote: Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am operating a small IT service organization and I would like to put a link to Gentoo on my site. My ad: [snip] If there is a standard ad that you would prefer, I will use it. This is a service for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywording, for the umpteenth time

2005-05-20 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 10:42 -0600, Jason Wever wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, let's review this again. If you cannot test a given ebuild on a given arch, then don't touch that arch's keyword (unless you need to remove it for broken dependencies). If you can

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywording, for the umpteenth time

2005-05-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 20 May 2005 02:53 pm, Duncan Coutts wrote: Sorry folks this was my fault. ah, good to know ... thought it might have been my binutils-2.16 ~sparc marking, but i guess that's somewhat sane since Weeve gave it a quick run and it seems to be OK thus far ... -mike --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywording, for the umpteenth time

2005-05-20 Thread Jason Wever
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 May 2005, Duncan Coutts wrote: Sorry folks this was my fault. I've sent my grovelling apology to the sparc team. Hopefully they'll accept my apologies and put my digressions down to me being a new dev. :-) You can only take some of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywording, for the umpteenth time

2005-05-20 Thread Brian Jackson
Jason Wever wrote: snip From my perspective, if a package maintainer asks for testing and the ability to keyword (i.e. Spanky asking me if it was OK to bump binutils to 2.16, to which I said yes) then that is fine. However adding or changing keywords in an ebuild for which you cannot test

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywording, for the umpteenth time

2005-05-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 20 May 2005 15:51:51 -0500 Brian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Wouldn't it be better from a QA perspective to go back to the (really) | old policy of dropping anything you can't test on. I know that puts | more work on you guys, but this is only going to get worse as we get | more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywording, for the umpteenth time

2005-05-20 Thread Tom Wesley
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 22:22 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Not gonna happen. Emulators don't cut it and won't find all the problems (but they will find a load of other bogus non-issues). Plus, from experience I'd say that at least half our devs wouldn't have a clue where to start when doing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unofficial Gentoo Development Guide and Autotools

2005-05-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 20 May 2005 19:11:13 +0900 Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | O, so true, so true... | | I am trying to redeem myself with the following. Care to give it a | try? Pretty close, thanks. I think I'll adapt it a bit to define a cluster in make.vim and then add to that cluster in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywording, for the umpteenth time

2005-05-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Cummings wrote: It's a nice idea (I know I recently opened negotiations up with the mips team for access so I could close some of my open bugs against them), but the two problems I can see with this are: remote access tends to mean you

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 20 May 2005 21:30, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: Jason Stubbs wrote: snip I intend that the package to be installed should not assume anything about where its dependencies are and should query portage for them all. Oh no, now many things get much clearer to me :( But - aren't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Wireless driver / firmware ebuilds wireless-tools

2005-05-20 Thread Doug Goldstein
Stroller wrote: Hi, . far to long. Stroller. In summary and simple conclusion, yes you are wrong. So that makes 2 out of the 4 or 5 active Mobile herd devs who say you're wrong. brix is 100% correct. Let me give you an explaination The firmware itself does