Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-06 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 04/08/05 14:37 -0500, Brian D. Harring wrote: snip Hell, I have yet to see what I would define as a proper solution for config manamagent for N gentoo boxes. NFS solution possibly, but that seems a bit hackish to me. http://www.infrastructures.org/ is a good place to start. Devdas

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-installer] installer project status

2005-08-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Aug 6, 2005, at 1:16 AM, Andrew Gaffney wrote: * no lvm or software raid support If the installer detects an already-present lvm/raid, will it allow you to use it for your disks? The reason that I ask this is I am wondering if it is still possible to perform the necessary setup steps

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed change to base.eclass: patch || die

2005-08-06 Thread Dan Armak
On Friday 05 August 2005 12:34, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Friday 29 July 2005 15:56, Dan Armak wrote: base.eclass (which inherited by many other eclasses) has an src_unpack supporting patching from patchfiles listed in $PATCHES. However, today, if patching fails the process

[gentoo-dev] Package version requiring sse

2005-08-06 Thread Maurice van der Pot
The new valgrind version (3.0.0) requires sse support. If you have a processor without sse, you'll need to stay at 2.4.1. To make people aware of this, I could use the sse use flag in 3.0.0 and die if it is not present, telling people to mask versions 3.0.0 and up if they have a processor

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-installer] installer project status

2005-08-06 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Aug 6, 2005, at 1:16 AM, Andrew Gaffney wrote: * no lvm or software raid support If the installer detects an already-present lvm/raid, will it allow you to use it for your disks? The reason that I ask this is I am wondering if it is still possible to perform

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package version requiring sse

2005-08-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 16:15:32 +0200 Maurice van der Pot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The new valgrind version (3.0.0) requires sse support. If you have a | processor without sse, you'll need to stay at 2.4.1. | | To make people aware of this, I could use the sse use flag in 3.0.0 | and die if it is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package version requiring sse

2005-08-06 Thread Jeff Walter
Yuri Vasilevski wrote: Hi, On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 20:04:20 +0300 Ivan Yosifov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if it is better, but you can cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags | grep sse and die if not found. This will make packages dependant on the build system, which will create

[gentoo-dev] Re: Package version requiring sse

2005-08-06 Thread R Hill
Maurice van der Pot wrote: The new valgrind version (3.0.0) requires sse support. If you have a processor without sse, you'll need to stay at 2.4.1. To make people aware of this, I could use the sse use flag in 3.0.0 and die if it is not present, telling people to mask versions 3.0.0 and up

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Package version requiring sse

2005-08-06 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 06 August 2005 21:24, R Hill wrote: compile a small test program containing SSE specific intrinsics and die if it returns an error code?  does valgrind's configure check for sse? That will break while preparing packages for another machine (cross-compile the simple way). Checks that

[gentoo-dev] Three new forum staffers

2005-08-06 Thread kloeri
Hi all. It's my pleasure to announce three new forums moderators officially joining Gentoo. They've all been forum moderators for a while so I'm sure you all know them quite well by now if you've ever been to the forums. Here's's a short introduction to each of them for those who don't know them

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: properly handle metadata transfer on first sync of an empty tree (#96410)

2005-08-06 Thread Zac Medico
Brian D. Harring wrote: Hola all, patch (incvs now) to fix up a traceback on first sync with an empty tree; bug #96410 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96410 The fix isn't exactly what I'd call pretty (creating an intermediate portdbapi and config instance to do the updates), but it's a