[gentoo-dev] Re: net-misc/bcm4400 going away

2006-08-31 Thread Sven Köhler
net-misc/bcm4400 is a kernel driver built as an external package through portage. The codebase which this package use has been discontinued upstream. The upstream replacement (which is not in Portage directly) is simply a copy of the in-kernel b44 driver code. For this reason we are

[gentoo-dev] 2006.1 server profile

2006-08-31 Thread Sven Köhler
Hey you Gentoo-Developers! On gentoo.org, in the great announcement of Gentoo 2006.1, it says: The most popular architectures now use GCC 4.1, glibc 2.4 and baselayout 1.12.1, as well as including a new profile layout, with separate desktop and server profiles. So i took you at your word, but

[gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags

2006-08-31 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
I think that cairo, logrotate, openexr, udev and vnc USE flags should be global. These are now local USE flags. Do you agree to change their globalness? Jak zerwać z dziewczyną, która potrafi fruwać, przenosić góry i przebijać wzrokiem

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags

2006-08-31 Thread Chris White
On Thursday 31 August 2006 07:24, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: I think that cairo, logrotate, openexr, udev and vnc USE flags should be global. These are now local USE flags. Gotta say why along with that. Jak zerwać z

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags

2006-08-31 Thread Steve Dibb
Chris White wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 07:24, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: I think that cairo, logrotate, openexr, udev and vnc USE flags should be global. These are now local USE flags. Gotta say why along with that. Local use flags: cairo: 15 logrotate: 8

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags

2006-08-31 Thread Simon Stelling
Steve Dibb wrote: And the descriptions seem to be pretty much the same in all of them from use.local.desc I think we agreed at least 3 times on that the logrotate use flag shouldn't exist at all because those files add 4kb to the package. About the udev, there's one package that doesn't share

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags

2006-08-31 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:58, Simon Stelling wrote: I think we agreed at least 3 times on that the logrotate use flag shouldn't exist at all because those files add 4kb to the package. Right. Open a bug and cc involved maintainers. This is the way it works - maybe slowly, but it does. We

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags

2006-08-31 Thread Alin Nastac
Simon Stelling wrote: I think we agreed at least 3 times on that the logrotate use flag shouldn't exist at all because those files add 4kb to the package. Please look at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/35754 . I said it once, I'm saying again: squid need this USE flag.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags

2006-08-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:58:20 +0200 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I think we agreed at least 3 times on that the logrotate use flag | shouldn't exist at all because those files add 4kb to the package. No we didn't. It's another file in /etc, which is entirely different from another

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags

2006-08-31 Thread Grant Goodyear
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [Thu Aug 31 2006, 10:37:21AM CDT] On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:58:20 +0200 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I think we agreed at least 3 times on that the logrotate use flag | shouldn't exist at all because those files add 4kb to the package. No we didn't. It's

Re: [gentoo-dev] reminder: USE=static is *not* for libraries

2006-08-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: just found another broken package that uses the 'static' USE flag to control generation of static libraries (aka libfoo.a) this is very much wrong ... USE=static is only to control the static-ness of binaries ... if your package has an option to

Re: [gentoo-dev] reminder: USE=static is *not* for libraries

2006-08-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 31 August 2006 13:19, Enrico Weigelt wrote: BTW: is there a way to control whether static libs should be installed ? `man make.conf` - INSTALL_MASK dont even think about filing a bug though when something breaks because it's missing static libs cause it'll just make me stab you

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2006.1 server profile

2006-08-31 Thread Doug Goldstein
Sven Köhler wrote: This profile has not been tested thoroughly and is not considered to be a supported server profile at this time. For a supported server profile, please check the Hardened project (http://hadrened.gentoo.org). (Beside that, there is a spelling mistake: it should read

Re: [gentoo-dev] reminder: USE=static is *not* for libraries

2006-08-31 Thread Doug Goldstein
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 13:19, Enrico Weigelt wrote: BTW: is there a way to control whether static libs should be installed ? `man make.conf` - INSTALL_MASK dont even think about filing a bug though when something breaks because it's missing static libs cause

Re: [gentoo-dev] reminder: USE=static is *not* for libraries

2006-08-31 Thread Chris White
On Thursday 31 August 2006 15:42, Doug Goldstein wrote: I just filed bug #140776 for you because I masked out all shared libraries and my system doesn't work. You only mentioned masking out static libraries so I didn't mask those out. Please consider this a serious issue and fix it ASAP.

Re: [gentoo-dev] reminder: USE=static is *not* for libraries

2006-08-31 Thread Alec Warner
Doug Goldstein wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 13:19, Enrico Weigelt wrote: BTW: is there a way to control whether static libs should be installed ? `man make.conf` - INSTALL_MASK dont even think about filing a bug though when something breaks because it's missing

[gentoo-dev] Paludis version 0.6.0

2006-08-31 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hiya all, Just a quick note to let you know that the Paludis guys are happy to inform you that they've just released version 0.6.0 of Paludis, the most popular and widely used alternative to Portage. With this release they're finally more or less VDB compatible with Portage, so switching to and

Re: [gentoo-dev] reminder: USE=static is *not* for libraries

2006-08-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 31 August 2006 18:53, Chris White wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 15:42, Doug Goldstein wrote: I just filed bug #140776 for you because I masked out all shared libraries and my system doesn't work. You only mentioned masking out static libraries so I didn't mask those out.

Re: [gentoo-dev] reminder: USE=static is *not* for libraries

2006-08-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 31 August 2006 19:41, Alec Warner wrote: He didn't say use install masked to mask out shared libraries he said use install mask to mask static libraries. looks like two people missed the short bus actually ... -mike pgpL1XLzxTYzu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis version 0.6.0

2006-08-31 Thread Doug Goldstein
Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: Hiya all, Just a quick note to let you know that the Paludis guys are happy to inform you that they've just released version 0.6.0 of Paludis, the most popular and widely used alternative to Portage. With this release they're finally more or less VDB compatible

Re: [gentoo-dev] reminder: USE=static is *not* for libraries

2006-08-31 Thread Alec Warner
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 19:41, Alec Warner wrote: He didn't say use install masked to mask out shared libraries he said use install mask to mask static libraries. looks like two people missed the short bus actually ... -mike JEEVES!? And yes I a realized it was a

[gentoo-portage-dev] package.test

2006-08-31 Thread Christopher Chan
Hi all, I have a need to selectively run src_test() for some packages, but do not want to run it for all like FEATURES=test. Has anyone discussed or thought about this? If not, here is my proposal. Have a /etc/portage/package.test file that contains packages that will run src_test().

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] package.test

2006-08-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 31 August 2006 20:06, Christopher Chan wrote: I have a need to selectively run src_test() for some packages, but do not want to run it for all like FEATURES=test. Has anyone discussed or thought about this? what you actually want is per-package environment variables search