Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql-4.1.12 call for testers

2005-05-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
Rumen Yotov wrote: Lance Albertson wrote: Robin H. Johnson wrote: Many thanks to Francesco Riosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] for his hard work in dealing with MySQL-4.1. He's joining Gentoo soon as a new developer to help maintain MySQL for the 4.1 and 5.0 series, and hopefully also

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

2005-05-21 Thread Roy Marples
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 05:06 +0100, Stroller wrote: - as I understand it: wireless-tools to actually configure the SSID, WEP key wpa_supplicant can do this as well which makes wireless-tools optional Roy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-05-21 Thread Stroller
On May 21, 2005, at 6:25 am, Doug Goldstein wrote: Stroller wrote: Hi, . far to long. Yeah, sorry... I've always been pedantic. It's a real hard habit to shift. In summary and simple conclusion, yes you are wrong. So that makes 2 out of the 4 or 5 active Mobile

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

2005-05-21 Thread Stroller
On May 21, 2005, at 8:47 am, Roy Marples wrote: On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 05:06 +0100, Stroller wrote: - as I understand it: wireless-tools to actually configure the SSID, WEP key wpa_supplicant can do this as well which makes wireless-tools optional Ah, expletive! Please excuse my last

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: xorg's RDEPEND

2005-05-21 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 13:14 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: emerge pxes Last time I checked this package, it didn't support XOrg X11 (only XFree86-4.3) and neither did it support linux-2.6 (only linux-2.4) - both showstoppers for me since the hardware, on which I wanted to deploy the thin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming scheme confusion

2005-05-21 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 15:23 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: in any case it should be _pY as your snapshot is newer than the current version. _p stands for patch level, _pre for prerelease. In case of cvs ebuilds patch levels are more appropriate as the new version is often not known. Thanks -

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Benjamin Smee (strerror)

2005-05-21 Thread Tom Martin
Hi list, I have a new developer to tell you about. He'll be joining the net-mail herd and his name is Benjamin Smee. He's an Australian by birth, but he is currently living in London and he has also lived in Berlin in the past. He works as a Unix security technician and spends most of his free

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Benjamin Smee (strerror)

2005-05-21 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Martin wrote: I have a new developer to tell you about. He'll be joining the net-mail herd and netmon too. mwuhaha :) Welcome once again Ben. - -- Anything is possible, unless it's not. Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ BSD | cron |

Re: [gentoo-dev] New dev Killerfox (Ren NussBaumer)

2005-05-21 Thread Jan Brinkmann
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:26:40PM +0200, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: Who else will attend What the Hack? I also thought about it already, I guess I'll be there. =) And, welcome to the team Killerfox. May the juice be with you. -- Jan Brinkmann : Gentoo Developer (Amd64, Java, PPC, Sound, Video)

[gentoo-dev] .keep files

2005-05-21 Thread Andrej Kacian
Are .keep files necessary in a live filesystem? AFAIK they're only there to keep portage from removing a directory from emerge-time image. Would it be possible to just remove them from live filesystem after package files are merged to / ? Or do .keep files serve another purpose, not obvious to

Re: [gentoo-dev] .keep files

2005-05-21 Thread marduk
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 22:28 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: Are .keep files necessary in a live filesystem? AFAIK they're only there to keep portage from removing a directory from emerge-time image. Would it be possible to just remove them from live filesystem after package files are merged to / ?

Re: [gentoo-dev] .keep files

2005-05-21 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 22 May 2005 05:38, marduk wrote: On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 22:28 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: Are .keep files necessary in a live filesystem? AFAIK they're only there to keep portage from removing a directory from emerge-time image. Would it be possible to just remove them from live

Re: [gentoo-dev] .keep files

2005-05-21 Thread Drake Wyrm
marduk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 22:28 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: Are .keep files necessary in a live filesystem? AFAIK they're only there to keep portage from removing a directory from emerge-time image. Would it be possible to just remove them from live filesystem

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: dang

2005-05-21 Thread Jason Huebel
It's with pleasure that I announce a new developer: Dang. Dang has been working as an Arch Tester for AMD64 for a while now and has proven himself to be an asset to the team. So we felt it would be good to officially make him a developer. He'll be helping with amd64 bug squashing of course,