Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding a program to portage, powstatd to be exact.

2007-01-08 Thread Thomas Kear
Have you considered other software alternatives? My prefered UPS monitor is NUT (sys-power/nut on gentoo) www.networkupstools.org Highly (and I do mean HIGHLY) configurable, support for many different brands of UPS, shutdown of multiple network-connected PCs on the same UPS, even GUI apps for

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2007-01-08 Thread mehul

Re: [gentoo-dev] A reminder about elog/einfo usage

2007-01-08 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:26:12 +0100 Thilo Bangert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Just a heads up that in the coming weeks I'll start checking packages that still use einfo for important messages and convert them to elog if appropriate. whats the policy? when

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding a program to portage, powstatd to be exact.

2007-01-08 Thread Dale
Thomas Kear wrote: Have you considered other software alternatives? My prefered UPS monitor is NUT (sys-power/nut on gentoo) www.networkupstools.org Highly (and I do mean HIGHLY) configurable, support for many different brands of UPS, shutdown of multiple network-connected PCs on the same

[gentoo-dev] so long and thanks for all the bugs

2007-01-08 Thread Francesco Riosa
Hi all, Time for me to leave, exclusively for personal reason. I had a real great time with gentoo, learn a lot of useful things so this is a sad leave but anyway it's needed. In the latest few days there have been rather strong changes and additions to the tree, mainly to fix some minor

[gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Raúl Porcel (armin76)

2007-01-08 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's my pleasure to introduce to you Raúl armin76 Porcel. He is joining us to put maintainer-wanted stuff to the tree and remove stuff via treecleaners. The teams he targets now are net-p2p, mozilla and treecleaners. Damn, and who can I now force to test

[gentoo-dev] Re: OT - Good skills (WAS: Re: Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-08 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I mean where do I start improving my skills? I've looked at source code from Gentoo packages that was written in C (I know the basics of C) and it made no sense to me. I found the experience quite overwhelming. Is there a place I can start training

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding a program to portage, powstatd to be exact.

2007-01-08 Thread Thomas Kear
There is a method to make NUT's upsmon app shut down after X minutes on battery rather than after the batteries reach low status. The method is referenced in the FAQ and described in far more detail than I care to read in upsshed.txt, which on a gentoo machine will be installed somewhere like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding a program to portage, powstatd to be exact.

2007-01-08 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could you take this conversation off the list, please? Also, for requesting ebuilds there's http://bugs.gentoo.org Thanks, - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding a program to portage, powstatd to be exact.

2007-01-08 Thread Dale
Vlastimil Babka wrote: Could you take this conversation off the list, please? Also, for requesting ebuilds there's http://bugs.gentoo.org Thanks, Sure will. Thanks for the info. Dale -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Gentle reminder about ChangeLog entries on profiles

2007-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
Most of the profiles under default-linux have a ChangeLog at the architecture level. If you make *any* changes to a profile, you should be putting your changes in the ChangeLog. For example, if you edit profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.1/no-multilib/package.mask, then you need to add an entry

[gentoo-dev] Re: dodoc default?

2007-01-08 Thread Steve Long
Alec Warner wrote: dodoc's purpose is to install files into ${D}/usr/share/doc/${PF} If you want to build the docs for a package, examine the build system for a doc target and run it. I don't see any reason to give a simple tool (dodoc) another thing to do. Agreed. --

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-www/mod_encoding and net-www/mod_random

2007-01-08 Thread Christian Heim
Dear people (those who care), I just masked net-www/mod_encoding and net-www/mod_random. net-www/mod_encoding is useless with any modern system (it was usefull back in the days where browsers/apache couldn't interpret non-ascii charsets correctly). There hasn't been any new release for 2

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2007-01-07 23:59 UTC

2007-01-08 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2007-01-07 23h59 UTC. Removals: net-ftp/kbear 2007-01-01 20:53:14 masterdriverz sys-kernel/systrace-sources 2007-01-02 11:30:20 lcars

Re: [gentoo-dev] A reminder about elog/einfo usage

2007-01-08 Thread Thilo Bangert
Hi, Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Basically if it's for the user to read use elog, if it's just a status message (like applying patch, nothing to do here, performing xyz) that isn't of any use after the build use einfo. and what about ewarn? will einfo reporting to the elog

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: PORTAGE_BINHOST Madness

2007-01-08 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 05:16 +, Steve Long wrote: Alec Warner wrote: Talk to solar about binhost, I know he has a better implementation lying around; it's a matter of finalizing it ;) solar: where is it on your site? Tip: If you want me to respond to something that directed to me it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentle reminder about ChangeLog entries on profiles

2007-01-08 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:27:50AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Most of the profiles under default-linux have a ChangeLog at the architecture level. If you make *any* changes to a profile, you should be putting your changes in the ChangeLog. Just wondering, any objections if we add

Re: [gentoo-dev] A reminder about elog/einfo usage

2007-01-08 Thread Marius Mauch
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:01:07 +0100 Thilo Bangert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Basically if it's for the user to read use elog, if it's just a status message (like applying patch, nothing to do here, performing xyz) that isn't of any use after the

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-misc/gpasman

2007-01-08 Thread Krzysiek Pawlik
x11-misc/gpasman was masked today due to bug #156490. It's going to be removed around 10 Feb 2007. -- Krzysiek Pawlik nelchael at gentoo.org key id: 0xBC51 desktop-misc, desktop-dock, x86, java, apache, ppc... -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentle reminder about ChangeLog entries on profiles

2007-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 12:20 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:27:50AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Most of the profiles under default-linux have a ChangeLog at the architecture level. If you make *any* changes to a profile, you should be putting your changes in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2007-01-07 23:59 UTC

2007-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 10:42 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2007-01-07 23h59 UTC. OK. Since my python sucks and my XSL isn't much better, I wrote a quick and dirty bash script to help parse

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentle reminder about ChangeLog entries on profiles

2007-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 17:40 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 12:20 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: Just wondering, any objections if we add ChangeLogs at the rest of the levels in profiles? Would esp. be useful for some of the more global changes. Not really. This

Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

2007-01-08 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi, Ivan Sakhalin wrote: Now, our memories of the past are not always as thruthful as we would like them to be, selective memory is what makes some large things small and some small things large. So let us not idealize the past as if it had no problems, but let us try to keep a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentle reminder about ChangeLog entries on profiles

2007-01-08 Thread Ned Ludd
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 17:40 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 12:20 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:27:50AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Most of the profiles under default-linux have a ChangeLog at the architecture level. If you make *any*

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentle reminder about ChangeLog entries on profiles

2007-01-08 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 00:43, Ned Ludd wrote: We/I try to keep them as static as possible. When they do change it's usually cuz somebody has some brilliant idea for some non linux which forces all other profiles to update to mask or unmask some use flag. Actually lately I've just cleaned up

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentle reminder about ChangeLog entries on profiles

2007-01-08 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:43:31PM -0800, Ned Ludd wrote: No objections. TBH we don't really have to edit those profiles often. We/I try to keep them as static as possible. When they do change it's usually cuz somebody has some brilliant idea for some non linux which forces all other

[gentoo-dev] Re: Somewhat OT - Making a suggestion for games-emulation/tuxnes

2007-01-08 Thread Steve Long
Well done for making the patch, and there's nothing at all wrong in asking IMO. Not sure if we needed the whole story ;) but that's minor. Besides what Alec Warner said, you should also try adding the patch to the ebuild in a local overlay. Please find out elsewhere in gentoo how to do this.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: PORTAGE_BINHOST Madness

2007-01-08 Thread Steve Long
Ned Ludd wrote: solar: where is it on your site? Tip: If you want me to respond to something that directed to me it's best to CC: me directly as it's easy to miss threads on high volume lists. Understood. (I don't use email client for news, but I'll fwd in future.) I use the qmerge

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-misc/gtk2mp

2007-01-08 Thread Andrej Kacian
Hi all, as of today, x11-misc/gtk2mp has been masked, and is pending removal around February 9th. It is unmaintained, deprecated, and somewhat broken. Also, better MPD clients exist as alternative - gmpc, glurp, qmpdclient, pympd, sonata. Kind regard, -- Andrej Ticho Kacian ticho at gentoo dot

[gentoo-dev] QA checks merged into portage SVN

2007-01-08 Thread Alec Warner
Today I merged a set of QA checks into portage's trunk. I expect they will be in ~arch whenever Zac gets around it ;) The checks basically do a half-assed job of checking if crazy devs change IFS or shopts in an ebuild, or an eclass, or a profile.bashrc. These checks do NOT manage to check

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentle reminder about ChangeLog entries on profiles

2007-01-08 Thread Luca Barbato
Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:27:50AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Most of the profiles under default-linux have a ChangeLog at the architecture level. If you make *any* changes to a profile, you should be putting your changes in the ChangeLog. Just wondering, any

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentle reminder about ChangeLog entries on profiles

2007-01-08 Thread Mike Doty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luca Barbato wrote: Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:27:50AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Most of the profiles under default-linux have a ChangeLog at the architecture level. If you make *any* changes to a profile, you should

[gentoo-dev] Re: dodoc default?

2007-01-08 Thread Steve Long
Just like to apologise for wittering on the list, especially over the last fortnight. Things have been a bit stressed. Sorry. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Getting rid of live-gimp-ebuild?

2007-01-08 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, I took over gimp-maintainership a while ago. There's a cvs/-ebuild in the tree, but I'm not really interested in that and have never touched it. I'd prefer to just maintain official releases, so if nobody else steps in and maintains the live-ebuild, I'll just remove it. I think it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA checks merged into portage SVN

2007-01-08 Thread Alec Warner
Alec Warner wrote: The correct way to mess with each is to save the old value (IFS) or restore the previous setting (shopts). local OLDIFS=$IFS ...do stuff IFS=$OLDIFS set -s extglob ...do stuff set -u extglob If you change a bunch of shell options or have no idea what you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting rid of live-gimp-ebuild?

2007-01-08 Thread Luca Barbato
Hanno Böck wrote: Hi, I took over gimp-maintainership a while ago. There's a cvs/-ebuild in the tree, but I'm not really interested in that and have never touched it. I'd prefer to just maintain official releases, so if nobody else steps in and maintains the live-ebuild, I'll just

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting rid of live-gimp-ebuild?

2007-01-08 Thread Alec Warner
Luca Barbato wrote: Hanno Böck wrote: Hi, I took over gimp-maintainership a while ago. There's a cvs/-ebuild in the tree, but I'm not really interested in that and have never touched it. I'd prefer to just maintain official releases, so if nobody else steps in and maintains the