[gentoo-dev] Introduction

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Clark
Hey, Thanks to phreak`` for that great introduction and all his help over the last month or so, much appreciated, if you (or any gentoo dev) find yourself in switzerland, I'll gladly buy you a drink. As phreak`` mentioned I have a strong security interest and I will thusly be harassing Taviso

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Jakub Moc
Kevin F. Quinn napsal(a): On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:23:55 + Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a RESTRICT value is questionable, it shouldn't be supported or used. I agree; it'd be useful to know exactly what is failing the sandbox and why, with the aim of fixing sandbox if it

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-p2p/ww

2007-01-10 Thread Raúl Porcel
# Raúl Porcel armin76 at gentoo.org (10 Jan 2007) # Upstream dead almost 2 years ago and doesn't compile with GCC 4.x. # Pending removal 10 Feb 2007, bug 152464 net-p2p/ww -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Marijn Schouten (hkBst)

2007-01-10 Thread Petteri Räty
It's my pleasure to introduce to you Marijn hkBst Schouten. He is joining us to take care of the packages related to the weird programming language called scheme. He hails from Zeist, near Utrecht in the Netherlands. This is how he describes himself: I'm working on my combined master thesis for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add LCD_DEVICES to USE_EXPAND

2007-01-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 01:15 +0100, Robert Buchholz wrote: If no one objects, I'd like to implement these changes. But there are some questions still open: * Who will add the entries to base/make.defaults? Can I do this? Not only *can* you, but you absolutely *must* do this if you're making the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 09:40 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: into pkg_setup and be done with it; no need for RESTRICT=sandbox or ACCEPT_RESTRICT. Users can decide whether they really wish to install such app and disable sandbox temporarily if they think it's a good idea. Uhh... you missed

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 03:40, Jakub Moc wrote: If you want to write an ebuild for some commercial broken stuff that doesn't work w/ sandbox and stick it into some overlay, then stick before you start anymore ignorant rants, why dont you look at what actually needs this app-editors/emacs

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/11/07, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 09:40 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: into pkg_setup and be done with it; no need for RESTRICT=sandbox or ACCEPT_RESTRICT. Users can decide whether they really wish to install such app and disable sandbox temporarily if they

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-www/bk_edit

2007-01-10 Thread Christian Marie
net-www/bk_edit has been dead upstream since the end of 2003 and does not build with GCC 4.x. We've only had one report of it failing to build, thus I am led to believe it will not be profoundly missed. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] deprecating /etc/make.profile

2007-01-10 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi all, As per bug 148388 [1] comment 1, I'd like to discuss the deprecation of /etc/make.profile and the use of a PORTAGE_PROFILE variable instead. Reason for this change aside from consistency with all other portage settings is the annoyance of re-adjusting the /etc/make.profile link

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Jakub Moc
Mike Frysinger napsal(a): On Wednesday 10 January 2007 03:40, Jakub Moc wrote: if you're categorizing those as commercial broken stuff you might want to look up the word commercial Huh? I was referring to this link [1] on Bug 161045 (which presumably started this whole debate) [1]

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 10/01/2007-15:34:52(+0100): Jakub Moc types Mike Frysinger napsal(a): On Wednesday 10 January 2007 03:40, Jakub Moc wrote: if you're categorizing those as commercial broken stuff you might want to look up the word commercial Huh? I was referring to this link [1] on Bug 161045

Re: [gentoo-dev] deprecating /etc/make.profile

2007-01-10 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 15:30, Simon Stelling wrote: Before the change to portage is finally made, a few things will have to be done: * Adjust handbook * Adjust the eselect plugin * (Anything I'm missing?) Am I right in thinking there would be a transition period when profile setting

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Marijn Schouten (hkBst)

2007-01-10 Thread Seemant Kulleen
Welcome on board, Marijn, I'm looking forward to doing the gnucash bumps with you soon :) -- Seemant Kulleen Developer, Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] deprecating /etc/make.profile

2007-01-10 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
Make a transition like locales.build and locales.gen, for instance. That would be handy. On 1/10/07, Piotr Jaroszyński [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 10 January 2007 15:30, Simon Stelling wrote: Before the change to portage is finally made, a few things will have to be done: * Adjust

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 09:34, Jakub Moc wrote: Huh? I was referring to this link [1] on Bug 161045 (which presumably started this whole debate) so you're replying to a non-gentoo-dev thread on a gentoo-dev thread when the threads arent even closely related ? how does that make sense ?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add LCD_DEVICES to USE_EXPAND

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Buchholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10.01.2007 at 13:56, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 01:15 +0100, Robert Buchholz wrote: * Who will add the entries to base/make.defaults? Can I do this? Not only *can* you, but you absolutely *must* do this if you're making the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Jakub Moc
Georgi Georgiev napsal(a): The gcl borkage is your job [2] and you might want to finally revert your broken commit: [2] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-lisp/gcl/gcl-2.6.7-r2.ebuild?r1=1.2r2=1.3 I looked at the diff and it replaces export SANDBOX_ON=0 with

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Jakub Moc
Mike Frysinger napsal(a): On Wednesday 10 January 2007 09:34, Jakub Moc wrote: Huh? I was referring to this link [1] on Bug 161045 (which presumably started this whole debate) so you're replying to a non-gentoo-dev thread on a gentoo-dev thread when the threads arent even closely related ?

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Jakub Moc
Chris Gianelloni napsal(a): Uhh... you missed RESTRICT=userpriv and the upcoming RESTRICT=unattended when calling for no ACCEPT_RESTRICT... Don't see how's userpriv related here; also the original idea was to stick FEATURES=unattended (or non-interactive or whatever else) into portage, instead

Re: [gentoo-dev] deprecating /etc/make.profile

2007-01-10 Thread Josh Saddler
Simon Stelling wrote: Hi all, As per bug 148388 [1] comment 1, I'd like to discuss the deprecation of /etc/make.profile and the use of a PORTAGE_PROFILE variable instead. Reason for this change aside from consistency with all other portage settings is the annoyance of re-adjusting the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 13:03, Jakub Moc wrote: And RESTRICT=sandbox is still completely unneeded, commercial packages or not... We don't need to introduce a special RESTRICT because of two borked packages in the tree and we should not introduce any more packages borked in a similar way

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Jakub Moc
Mike Frysinger napsal(a): this is what you should have said in the first place we need a real solution for emacs/gcl ... exporting SANDBOX_ON=0 is not the answer -mike Real solution, sure... RESTRICT=sandbox is not a solution, it's identical to the current hackish workaround, so I guess we

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 13:45, Jakub Moc wrote: Real solution, sure... RESTRICT=sandbox is not a solution, it's identical to the current hackish workaround, so I guess we can save portage folks the trouble... except that RESTRICT is the documented method for disabling user FEATURES in

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Jakub Moc
Mike Frysinger napsal(a): On Wednesday 10 January 2007 13:45, Jakub Moc wrote: Real solution, sure... RESTRICT=sandbox is not a solution, it's identical to the current hackish workaround, so I guess we can save portage folks the trouble... except that RESTRICT is the documented method for

[gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Marijn Schouten (hkBst)

2007-01-10 Thread Hans de Graaff
A fellow Dutchman, and he also likes cats! Gentoo keeps getting better all the time. :-) Welkom, Martijn! -- Hans de Graaff -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:03, Jakub Moc wrote: Mike Frysinger napsal(a): On Wednesday 10 January 2007 09:34, Jakub Moc wrote: Huh? I was referring to this link [1] on Bug 161045 (which presumably started this whole debate) so you're replying to a non-gentoo-dev thread on a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:02:37 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Besides, if I want to maintain some nasty application that | doesn't work with sandbox, who are you (or anyone, for that matter) to | tell me that I cannot? Given how Portage relies upon sandbox to ensure that packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:06 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: Chris Gianelloni napsal(a): Uhh... you missed RESTRICT=userpriv and the upcoming RESTRICT=unattended when calling for no ACCEPT_RESTRICT... Don't see how's userpriv related here; also the original idea was to stick FEATURES=unattended

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 21:01 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:03, Jakub Moc wrote: Mike Frysinger napsal(a): On Wednesday 10 January 2007 09:34, Jakub Moc wrote: Huh? I was referring to this link [1] on Bug 161045 (which presumably started this whole debate)

[gentoo-dev] gentoo-sources-2.4 needs a maintainer (a real one)

2007-01-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, A few weeks ago I posted that gentoo-sources-2.4 needs a maintainer. antarus stepped up but realised his fatal mistake and has now fled from the scene. If anyone is interested please step up, otherwise this will go through the usual mask/removal process. Recruiting a non-developer to

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-libs/openquicktime

2007-01-10 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
So the openquicktime package was up to now broken with GCC 3.4 and later, see bug #65453; as nobody seemed to actually give a damn about it, and there's libquicktime that works decently enough, I've masked it and will be remove it in 30 days. -- Diego Flameeyes Pettenò -

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Jakub Moc
Chris Gianelloni napsal(a): On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:06 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: Don't see how's userpriv related here; also the original idea was to stick FEATURES=unattended (or non-interactive or whatever else) into portage, instead of inventing new variables to handle this, AFAICR. Wow.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:43:52 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | That's fine, but it still doesn't remove the usefulness of an | ACCEPT_RESTRICT for some other variables. For what other variables? We already established that it doesn't work for fetch, and that it's unsafe for

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-sources-2.4 needs a maintainer (a real one)

2007-01-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 16:47 -0500, Daniel Drake wrote: Please mention this in the next GWN. I don't always read every post of every thread. In the future, send such requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be sure I'll actually see it before making up the GWN. Thanks, -- Chris Gianelloni Release

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 23:02 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: The name of the GLEP is even RESTRICT=unattended... not FEATURES=unattended... And how's that in contradiction? Why can't a user stick 'unattended' into FEATURES instead of having to care about yet another variable? Sticking

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Jakub Moc
Chris Gianelloni napsal(a): On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 23:02 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: The name of the GLEP is even RESTRICT=unattended... not FEATURES=unattended... And how's that in contradiction? Why can't a user stick 'unattended' into FEATURES instead of having to care about yet another

Re: [gentoo-dev] deprecating /etc/make.profile

2007-01-10 Thread Ned Ludd
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 16:30 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: Hi all, As per bug 148388 [1] comment 1, I'd like to discuss the deprecation of /etc/make.profile and the use of a PORTAGE_PROFILE variable instead. Reason for this change aside from consistency with all other portage settings is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 18:36, Jakub Moc wrote: OK, dunno which of us is being dense; the whole point is that the damned ACCEPT_RESTRICT is completely redundant; hard to grok or what exactly? You already *don't* accept the restrict by sticking 'unattended' into FEATURES... WTH would you

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Georgi Georgiev
Quoting Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Georgi Georgiev napsal(a): I looked at the diff and it replaces export SANDBOX_ON=0 with RESTRICT=sandbox. It seems that the problem is older than that revision. No, the gcl problem didn't exist until vapier fixed the ebuild. I still fail to see why

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:07:54 +0900 Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Further, by adopting ACCEPT_RESTRICT, it would be possible to be able | to say: ACCEPT_RESTRICT=-sandbox: Do not let any ebuild touch | anything outside the sandbox. | ACCEPT_RESTRICT=-userpriv: Do not let any ebuild run

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Jakub Moc
Mike Frysinger napsal(a): On Wednesday 10 January 2007 18:36, Jakub Moc wrote: OK, dunno which of us is being dense; the whole point is that the damned ACCEPT_RESTRICT is completely redundant; hard to grok or what exactly? You already *don't* accept the restrict by sticking 'unattended' into

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Georgi Georgiev
Quoting Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:07:54 +0900 Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Further, by adopting ACCEPT_RESTRICT, it would be possible to be able | to say: ACCEPT_RESTRICT=-sandbox: Do not let any ebuild touch | anything outside the sandbox. |

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:22, Jakub Moc wrote: Mike Frysinger napsal(a): On Wednesday 10 January 2007 18:36, Jakub Moc wrote: OK, dunno which of us is being dense; the whole point is that the damned ACCEPT_RESTRICT is completely redundant; hard to grok or what exactly? You already

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:38:29 +0900 Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Quoting Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:07:54 +0900 Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: | | Further, by adopting ACCEPT_RESTRICT, it would be possible to be | | able to say:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:56:00 -0500 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | as stated in original e-mail, unattended/sandbox are just some | examples, not the only ones So which RESTRICT values *should* the user legitimately have to care about? -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:00:42 -0500 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 10 January 2007 13:45, Jakub Moc wrote: Real solution, sure... RESTRICT=sandbox is not a solution, it's identical to the current hackish workaround, so I guess we can save portage folks the trouble...

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-10 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:06:09 +0100 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Gianelloni napsal(a): Uhh... you missed RESTRICT=userpriv and the upcoming RESTRICT=unattended when calling for no ACCEPT_RESTRICT... Don't see how's userpriv related here; also the original idea was to stick

Re: [gentoo-dev] deprecating /etc/make.profile

2007-01-10 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:30:00 +0200 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, As per bug 148388 [1] comment 1, I'd like to discuss the deprecation of /etc/make.profile and the use of a PORTAGE_PROFILE variable instead. Reason for this change aside from consistency with all other

Re: [gentoo-dev] deprecating /etc/make.profile

2007-01-10 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/11/07, Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I assume there is a non-trivial number of custom scripts out there using make.profile, but that's nothing we can do about. You could give them all a grace period for which have to comply with the new standard by then end of it, and have (

Re: [gentoo-dev] deprecating /etc/make.profile

2007-01-10 Thread Ned Ludd
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 17:37 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: On 1/11/07, Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I assume there is a non-trivial number of custom scripts out there using make.profile, but that's nothing we can do about. You could give them all a grace period for which have

Re: [gentoo-dev] deprecating /etc/make.profile

2007-01-10 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/11/07, Ned Ludd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or we/gentoo could just support it and stop breaking the end user. uh, the point was, what will happen to all those apps for users who switched to the -new- standard by using make.conf, who will therefore have no make.profile dir, so programs