Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: dang

2005-05-22 Thread Chris White
Jason Huebel wrote: 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

[gentoo-dev] root:root and fbsd

2005-05-22 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten
Hi, ok another problem for Gentoo/FreeBSD project :P Currently there are a few places where, to fix permissions of files, the ebuilds does a chown -R root:root ${D} or something similar. Unfortunately such a command is invalid on G/FBSD because there's no root group, instead wheel group has

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: slight deunofficialisation of Unofficial Gentoo Development Guide

2005-05-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 22 May 2005 04:35 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I'd like to move the Unofficial Gentoo Development Guide [1] onto my devspace [2]. This could be construed as weakening its unofficial status (despite the title and the footers), so I'm asking for comments first rather than simply doing

Re: [gentoo-dev] root:root and fbsd

2005-05-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 22 May 2005 10:49:39 +0200 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | So I was wondering for a solution for this problem: we have a | $USERLAND variable which can be used to select the way the chown must | be done, if chown root:root or chown root:wheel; I think both BSD and |

Re: [gentoo-dev] root:root and fbsd

2005-05-22 Thread Stuart Longland
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Hi, ok another problem for Gentoo/FreeBSD project :P Currently there are a few places where, to fix permissions of files, the ebuilds does a chown -R root:root ${D} or something similar. Unfortunately such a command is invalid on G/FBSD because there's no

Re: [gentoo-dev] root:root and fbsd

2005-05-22 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten
On Sunday 22 May 2005 11:06, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: get_root_group() { That should do, so in ebuilds chown -R root;$(get_root_group) blablah. For me is ok for G/FBSD. Now, if someone from G/OSX or G/Darwin can tell me how they manage that, we can be happy for all /alt archs :P -- Diego

Re: [gentoo-dev] root:root and fbsd

2005-05-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 22 May 2005 05:06 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: get_root_group() { sounds like a lot of crap when i'm willing to bet most of these chowns probably dont need to specify the group at all ... -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: dang

2005-05-22 Thread Michael Cummings
Are we allowed to make aw dang jokes now? Oh, wait, I see someone already has. My job here is done. Welcome aboard :) On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:57:30AM -0500, Jason Huebel wrote: It's with pleasure that I announce a new developer: Dang. Dang has been working as an Arch Tester for AMD64 for

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: dang

2005-05-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 22 May 2005 08:04:38 -0400 Michael Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Are we allowed to make aw dang jokes now? No. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

[gentoo-dev] bacula needs lovin'!

2005-05-22 Thread Rob Holland
Ey peeps, Can someone please take a look at the bacula ebuilds, they really do suck and have several open bugs. Quite how any of them are marked stable I dunno. They could use a new maintainer, seems zul is now inactive. Cheers, Rob -- rob holland - [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] - Gentoo Audit Team

Re: [gentoo-dev] root:root and fbsd

2005-05-22 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: | Hi, | ok another problem for Gentoo/FreeBSD project :P | Currently there are a few places where, to fix permissions of files, the | ebuilds does a chown -R root:root ${D} or something similar. | Unfortunately such a

Re: [gentoo-dev] root:root and fbsd

2005-05-22 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 22 May 2005 16:38, Alec Warner wrote: Yeah, this means get working on GLEP 27 *cracks whip*. Don't think it's related. That's related to new accounts/group added. The problem we have is with the base accounts/groups present in the system itself. -- Diego Flameeyes Pettenò Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] root:root and fbsd

2005-05-22 Thread Kito
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 22, 2005, at 4:20 AM, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Sunday 22 May 2005 11:06, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: get_root_group() { That should do, so in ebuilds chown -R root;$(get_root_group) blablah. For me is ok for G/FBSD. Now, if

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: dang

2005-05-22 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 09:59 -0500, Homer Parker wrote: On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 00:57 -0500, Jason Huebel wrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-dev] .keep files

2005-05-22 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sat, 21 May 2005 17:37:53 -0700 Drake Wyrm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always thought that they were to keep 'emerge unmerge' from removing an empty directory, but I could be wrong... That, and to keep portage from removing empty directories during the post-merge clean phase. Were it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-05-22 Thread Beber [Gentoo]
Hi Xorg 6.8.99.5 really works good. I've see that 6.8.99.7 have been released in CVS. Did you make some test ? [ Also, I've made some ebuilds dor XCB, if you are interested : http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93582 ] See Ya Beber, On 4/19/05, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] .keep files

2005-05-22 Thread Marius Mauch
Andrej Kacian wrote: On Sat, 21 May 2005 17:37:53 -0700 Drake Wyrm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always thought that they were to keep 'emerge unmerge' from removing an empty directory, but I could be wrong... That, and to keep portage from removing empty directories during the post-merge

[gentoo-dev] Removing svga from default USE flags

2005-05-22 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I don't really see why USE=svga is enabled by default. This brings svgalib into emerge system. svgalib is quite problematic and not used much anymore. Any objections to dropping it from the default USE flags? Thanks, Daniel -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some new xorg ebuilds

2005-05-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beber [Gentoo] wrote: Xorg 6.8.99.5 really works good. I've see that 6.8.99.7 have been released in CVS. Did you make some test ? No, not yet. But bumping them is pretty trivial and low priority. I do it when I get around to it. [ Also, I've made