Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-11-02 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 15:29, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 03:21 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:11:37 +0900 pclouds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Just curious how other distros deliver important news to their | users? By sticking out a new

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-02 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 02:29, Brian Harring wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:16:35PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | How will it handle GLSAs then? [1] gentoolkit != portage. Correct. Course, also incorrect. A plan for handling GLSA's from portage (emerge --security) was

[gentoo-dev] Proposed changes to base profile for Gentoo/ALT

2005-11-02 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
As I'd like to get sooner or later (better sooner) the profiles for Gentoo/FreeBSD in main tree, I've synced the fake base profile in gentoo-alt overlay with the one in the tree. Unfortunately there are things in base that are linux-specific, so they, IMHO, should be moved in default-linux.

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 19:29 -0600, Brian Harring wrote: We already have a module for parsing metadata.xml in use in the experimental 2.1 branch (which can be backported to 2.0 if anyone wants it and does the work). Python comes bundled with xml as long as you don't have the build flag

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed changes to base profile for Gentoo/ALT

2005-11-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 13:11 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: As I'd like to get sooner or later (better sooner) the profiles for Gentoo/FreeBSD in main tree, I've synced the fake base profile in gentoo-alt overlay with the one in the tree. Unfortunately there are things in base that

[gentoo-dev] Prozilla

2005-11-02 Thread Alec Warner
www-client/prozilla has been masked since february with quite a few security vulnerabilities. It's even had a lovely bug with tons of comments and code additions and audits[1]. Can we ditch it please? kyoto skyfw # emerge -pv prozilla These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed changes to base profile for Gentoo/ALT

2005-11-02 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 15:38, Mike Frysinger wrote: -*app-arch/tar put '-*app-arch/tar' into your packages I'm still thinking for the eselect-able tar command and virtual/tar, as long as they are syntax-compatible (bsdtar and gnutar are compatible). -*sys-process/procps err, this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed changes to base profile for Gentoo/ALT

2005-11-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:22:25PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote: On Wednesday 02 November 2005 15:38, Mike Frysinger wrote: -*app-arch/tar put '-*app-arch/tar' into your packages I'm still thinking for the eselect-able tar command and virtual/tar, as long as they are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed changes to base profile for Gentoo/ALT

2005-11-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:12:43AM -0500, solar wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 14:38 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 01:11:24PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote: Obviously if this is going to be applied the missing packages should be added to the packages of

Re: [gentoo-dev] ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 16:56, Dale wrote: !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: !!! /var/tmp/portage/bonobo-1.0.22/work/bonobo-1.0.22/config.log -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 10:56 -0600, Dale wrote: Well, it's me again. LOL I am trying to successfully finish a revdep-rebuild and am having a bit of fun with it. It wants to recompile gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 and it fails to finish the compile with this: ...SKIP... checking for GTK -

Re: [gentoo-dev] ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Dave Shanker wrote: Try emerging x11-libs/gtk+ again and then building bonobo again. I did that first thing. I was hoping it would fix it too. It compiled fine but puked on bonobo afterwards. I even did the etc-update and env-update thing. Would a source /etc/profile help maybe? Dale

Re: [gentoo-dev] ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Dale wrote: Well, it won't let me copy and paste it in. I hope a attachemnt is OK. It is pretty big too. It may be best as a attachment anyway. It has the word error and warning in it, a *lot*. I suspect that ain't good. Dale :-) Hurray for 812K attachments to a public mailing list :/

Re: [gentoo-dev] ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Andrew Gaffney wrote: Dale wrote: Hurray for 812K attachments to a public mailing list :/ Well, he asked me for it. Was I supposed to ignore the request? He asked so I assume he needs it to see what is up. It may as well be Greek to me so maybe he can understand it. I'm new here so how

Re: [gentoo-dev] ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 11:41 -0600, Dale wrote: Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, An essential feature of portage is the ability to have two/three/more different (usually major) versions of the same package installed at the same time. Examples: GTK - 12 Glib 12 etc. etc. They are called SLOTS in

Re: [gentoo-dev] ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 12:03 -0600, Dale wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: Dale wrote: Hurray for 812K attachments to a public mailing list :/ Well, he asked me for it. Was I supposed to ignore the request? He asked so I assume he needs it to see what is up. It may as well be Greek to

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-02 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Tuesday 01 of November 2005 23:16 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | How will it handle GLSAs then? [1] gentoolkit != portage. To quote GLEP 14 [1]: Once this tool is implemented and well tested it can be integrated into portage. | It's not a question of what's wrong with XML?. It's a question

Re: [gentoo-dev] ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Alec Warner wrote: I would suggest the gentoo-user mailing list, this list is not appropriate for this discussion. And in the future if there is a large attachment it is better to place it somewhere on the web and just link to it. People archiving the list don't need a large attachment

Re: [gentoo-dev] ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Wrote too fast, now checking things first. First advice is to recompile GTK+, this usually fixes things. Then bonobo again. Now to get some info first: ... #dep -l bonobo gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22: =gnome-base/orbit-0* gnome-base/orbit-0.5.17

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-02 Thread Eldad Zack
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 14:39, Jakub Moc wrote: 1.11.2005, 13:26:57, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:16:03 +0100 Thierry Carrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | For them to know about it, they need to be warned when they do their | emerge -p world or emerge -a mysql that the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-11-02 Thread lnxg33k
Hello. First time posting; hope the message isn't ugly. Anyway, from a generic point of view, I think the different suggestions mentioned are all nice. One argument that seems to have cropped up in the latter messages regards those users who do not keep up with news, break their system and then

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 19:33:37 +0100 Jan Kundrát [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Once this tool is implemented and well tested it can be integrated | into portage. can ! will. It might, but don't count on it. | GLSA already contains stuff for marking items as valid only for given | systems, for

[gentoo-portage-dev] branches/2.0 reopened

2005-11-02 Thread Jason Stubbs
Hi all, As per previous discussion, 2.0.53_rc7 is pretty much ready to go stable. We're now just waiting on it lasting a couple of weeks without bugs. Seeing as we're all wanting to move ahead with 2.0.54 (and that 2.0.54 has already been committed to the branch), we may as well get on with