Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Fabio Erculiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After having discussed with one of your dev about it, he suggested me to ask here looking for a mentor. If there's anything I can do, I'm ready. On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Fabio Erculiani [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-dev] When does gnome-2.22 come in portage?

2008-03-13 Thread Shaochun Wang
Gnome 2.22 was out recently. When does it come in portage? -- Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] When does gnome-2.22 come in portage?

2008-03-13 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/3/13, Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gnome 2.22 was out recently. When does it come in portage? When the gentoo-devs add it! They are aware of the newly released gnome, so be patient! Regards, Daniel -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Thilo Bangert
end up copying the ebuild from the tree into our overlay and fix. great! where is it? does it have a webvc or trac interface? thanks Thilo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] When does gnome-2.22 come in portage?

2008-03-13 Thread Rémi Cardona
Shaochun Wang a écrit : Gnome 2.22 was out recently. No, it was released less than 24 hours ago. Recently would have been something like a week or two. I have to say that this is by far one of the best 0-day bump reports I've seen in a long time... When does it come in portage? When

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Fabio Erculiani
media-libs/x264-svn - dev-lang/yasm dev-libs/lzo - dev-lang/nasm sys-apps/attr - sys-devel/autoconf x11-libs/qt:3 (I reported it a while ago and it got fixed, it was a real mess) net-dialup/capisuite - sys-devel/autoconf dev-libs/xmlsec - sys-devel/autoconf x11-misc/fluxbg - sys-devel/autoconf

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:24:23AM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: media-libs/x264-svn - dev-lang/yasm dev-libs/lzo - dev-lang/nasm I responded to you on IRC about these two, please see my message there, as from everything I can see, the DEPs are actually correct. (The config.log for lzo-1

Re: [gentoo-dev] When does gnome-2.22 come in portage?

2008-03-13 Thread Patrick Ohearn
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 18:02 +0800, Shaochun Wang wrote: Sorry for the impatience! Where is the gnome overlay? -- Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's listed as gnome-experimental in layman. -- Patrick Ohearn Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-dev] When does gnome-2.22 come in portage?

2008-03-13 Thread Rémi Cardona
Shaochun Wang a écrit : Sorry for the impatience! Where is the gnome overlay? The git repository is here : http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gnome.git;a=summary You can emerge and setup app-portage/layman and then use it to manage the Gnome overlay using the following command

Re: [gentoo-dev] When does gnome-2.22 come in portage?

2008-03-13 Thread Shaochun Wang
Sorry for the impatience! Where is the gnome overlay? -- Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Hi Robin, first of all. What I need is _basic_ respect on #gentoo-dev You here seem all polite, but there you like playing me. This is not a good start. On 3/13/08, Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:24:23AM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: media-libs/x264-svn -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Fabio Erculiani
[02:31] Halcy0n lxnay: we offer all of our work that you base your distribution off, and you don't contribute back at all, in any way. ^^ This is a really stupid sentence. It seems some of you don't even realize how many users we brought to Gentoo, and this is really sad. You see, people like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Natanael Copa
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 00:35 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: I offer my help to fix DEPEND/RDEPEND split issues which is causing me a lot of headaches (along with localizations). For reference, please have a look here: http://planet.sabayonlinux.org/?p=105 I'm another distro builder that uses

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Petteri Räty
Natanael Copa kirjoitti: On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 00:35 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: I offer my help to fix DEPEND/RDEPEND split issues which is causing me a lot of headaches (along with localizations). For reference, please have a look here: http://planet.sabayonlinux.org/?p=105 I'm another

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Petteri Räty
Fabio Erculiani kirjoitti: [02:31] Halcy0n lxnay: we offer all of our work that you base your distribution off, and you don't contribute back at all, in any way. ^^ This is a really stupid sentence. It seems some of you don't even realize how many users we brought to Gentoo, and this is really

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Rémi Cardona
Natanael and Fabio, Petteri Räty a écrit : Natanael Copa kirjoitti: I'm another distro builder that uses the Gentoo framework. I can only agree. I had to roll my own binary package format and after a short while I had to do the dependencies myself and just ignore RDEPEND since it was close to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Steve Dibb
Fabio Erculiani wrote: media-libs/x264-svn - dev-lang/yasm dev-libs/lzo - dev-lang/nasm sys-apps/attr - sys-devel/autoconf *snip* Some of those aren't broken, and I just fixed a few media ones in the tree, but that list is similiar to what I was asking for earlier, and a good way to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Fabio Erculiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [02:31] Halcy0n lxnay: we offer all of our work that you base your distribution off, and you don't contribute back at all, in any way. ^^ This is a really stupid sentence. While I would agree Halcy0n's statement is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Caleb Tennis
+1 on that and if people who use binary pkgs don't tell us what breaks, we won't know. I'll kick it off, then. The binpkg format needs some way to store the actual versions of the dependencies as they were on the machine the package was compiled on. Then, when emerging the binpkg, someway to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Fabian Groffen
(I experimented with binpkgs a little while ago in Prefix) On 13-03-2008 10:15:33 -0400, Caleb Tennis wrote: +1 on that and if people who use binary pkgs don't tell us what breaks, we won't know. I'll kick it off, then. The binpkg format needs some way to store the actual versions of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le jeudi 13 mars 2008 à 10:15 -0400, Caleb Tennis a écrit : +1 on that and if people who use binary pkgs don't tell us what breaks, we won't know. I'll kick it off, then. The binpkg format needs some way to store the actual versions of the dependencies as they were on the machine the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Caleb Tennis
Isn't that stored in the NEEDED file? It very well might be, I'm not much of an expert here :) I think binpkgs store more information than you think. It's just that Portage doesn't fully use it (yet). This is good information to know. Thanks! Caleb -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Caleb Tennis
I think remi was more speaking about incorrect deps (say misplaced in RDEPEND) than problems concerning the package manager. In any case, openssl is the perfect example of what can go wrong because of upstream's behavior. The problem is that program A compiled against version X of openssl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Jan Kundrát
Fabio Erculiani wrote: ^^ This is a really stupid sentence. It seems some of you don't even realize how many users we brought to Gentoo, and this is really sad. I'm not sure I understand how exactly you bring people to Gentoo. You bring people to your distribution which is a binary rebuilt of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 17:22 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: [gio mar 13 2008] [02:54:56] lxnay agaffney: I don't think it's worth it wasting my time insulting you, I've something better to do [gio mar 13 2008] [02:55:07] agaffney lxnay: oh, burn! [gio mar 13 2008] [02:55:11] * agaffney

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 17:48 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: On 3/13/08, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a distro builder, too, and I haven't been hitting any of these problems. Would you care to point out the actual problems, or will the close to useless comment be our only

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On 3/13/08, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for reminding me once again how you like to interact with the people that you're trying to help out. You wonder why people respond negatively to your demands and this is how you react to people. -- Chris Gianelloni Release

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Rémi Cardona
Fabio Erculiani a écrit : I might found around 150-200 bugs on (R)DEPEND. Take 200 on about 6500 packages we have in our repository, if I take 5 minutes each, I'd end up to take 16 hours. Then open a reduced number of bugs, say one per portage category that has over 20 bugs and group the rest

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 14:48 -0400, Caleb Tennis wrote: As much as I hate to say it, your example was rather bunk, because openssl changed SONAME during that time. Keeping the package You're right here. After review, the problem was the difference between 0.9.8e and 0.9.8g, the latter

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread René 'Necoro' Neumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not a gentoo-dev - and I did not read the whole thread, because it was too political for me (do I really have to read all these IRC quotes?). But I just had an idea for this topic (don't know if anyone had this already - or if it is not

[gentoo-dev] Re: Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Markus Ullmann
René 'Necoro' Neumann schrieb: I'm not a gentoo-dev - and I did not read the whole thread, because it was too political for me (do I really have to read all these IRC quotes?). +1, this stuff belongs to the -project mailinglist But I just had an idea for this topic (don't know if anyone had

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:53:34PM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: Hi Robin, first of all. What I need is _basic_ respect on #gentoo-dev You here seem all polite, but there you like playing me. This is not a good start. Excuse me? I have never spoken to you on the #gentoo-dev IRC channel, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 05:43:35PM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: What I just need is respect. I might found around 150-200 bugs on (R)DEPEND. Take 200 on about 6500 packages we have in our repository, if I take 5 minutes each, I'd end up to take 16 hours. As the others said, you can either

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Natanael Copa
Rémi Cardona wrote: Natanael Copa a écrit : But somethimes you just need to accept we don't live in a perfect world. I understood early that nobody cares that much about binpkgs anyway and moved on. I'd say you're mistaken. A lot of people care about binpkg. It's not because a majority of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Natanael Copa
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 14:34 +0100, Natanael Copa wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 00:35 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: I offer my help to fix DEPEND/RDEPEND split issues which is causing me a lot of headaches (along with localizations). For reference, please have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Qian Qiao
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Natanael Copa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding the RDPEND's, there is nothing in the framework protecting the RDEPENDS from be wrong. If its wrong, package still compiles and installs and (almost) everyone is happy. Just because it compiles and installs,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread davecode
Well I'm a newcomer to Gentoo and never heard of Sabayon (great project btw). Knowing no one here or there, nor any history: This conversation reminds me of Human Resources. They always have 'procedures' and 'career tracks.' Gentoo's chitchat about earning gold stars and brownie points is

[gentoo-dev] Re: Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then the chief architect of Sabayon is scotched over bugzilla output? Can I declare myself Chief Architect of unieject? Does that give me right to take and fix others' software without passing through the usual ways? Counting titles seems more an HR thing to me than

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread joshua jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fabio Erculiani wrote: | Hi all, | snip | Cheers interestingly enough ixnay...I've tried contacting you about working together with Gentoo and on things related to eapi as sabayon is one of the more popular distributions that has somewhat of a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Pierre-Yves Rofes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Well I'm a newcomer to Gentoo and never heard of Sabayon (great project btw). [...] When someone as expert as this [...] He is worth ten bugzillas. [...] He knows what he is doing and filing bugzillas is a waste

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Anant Narayanan
This conversation reminds me of Human Resources. They always have 'procedures' and 'career tracks.' Gentoo's chitchat about earning gold stars and brownie points is giving me HR sickness. You're asking Michael Jordan to prove himself on the high school team. You must be American. I am

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Hi Joshua, I never had issues with my emails. So I don't really know what to answer you regarding to your issues :) SPLIT: Although I think it can be a suboptimal thing for us, I can understand your policy. Let me add that, to me, the biggest issue is about (R)DEPEND. Splitting packages and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On 3/14/08, Pierre-Yves Rofes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You seem to know him pretty well it seems... Come on lxnay, who are you trying to fool here? You think that just by opening an anonymous mail account, we would be dumb enough to not recognize you? You could at least have been a little

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread joshua jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fabio Erculiani wrote: | Hi Joshua, | I never had issues with my emails. So I don't really know what to | answer you regarding to your issues :) | SPLIT: Although I think it can be a suboptimal thing for us, I can | understand your policy. Let me add

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:25:17 -0700 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 13:53 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: What I need is _basic_ respect on #gentoo-dev I guess you don't understand that respect has to be earned. Mmm, funny, when I said that, certain people

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Petteri Räty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: Well I'm a newcomer to Gentoo and never heard of Sabayon (great project btw). Knowing no one here or there, nor any history: Never heard of and you say it's a great project? This conversation reminds me of Human Resources. They always have 'procedures' and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Joshua, I know that draft quite well, I used as reference for writing Entropy, our binary package manager which only uses {R,P}DEPEND and not DEPEND. So here comes the issue, when *DEPEND are not declared properly Entropy pulls in unneeded packaged. What you are saying is something I am already

Re: [gentoo-dev] RDEPEND=DEPEND (was: Help offered - Portage tree)

2008-03-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:01:09 -0700 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did we ever set RDEPEND=DEPEND or vice versa automatically? Maybe it never went into EAPI=0. In either case I'm sure most maintainers would appreciate feedback in this area. PMS is supposed to say something like

[gentoo-dev] EAPI and PMS for people who haven't been paying attention

2008-03-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
It looks like way too many people don't understand EAPI or PMS. In the interests of reducing the amount of noise these people make whenever anyone mentions either, I give you the following guide. EAPI and PMS for People Who Haven't Been Paying Attention

[gentoo-dev] FYI clarifications to skel.ebuild EAPI usage

2008-03-13 Thread Petteri Räty
solar reported that he had ebuild submissions blindly using EAPI=1 so we hopefully made the text better reflect that it should not be used unless absolutely needed. Regards, Petteri [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/portage $ cvs diff -r 1.44 skel.ebuild Index: skel.ebuild

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI clarifications to skel.ebuild EAPI usage

2008-03-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 14 March 2008 03:29:26 Petteri Räty wrote: solar reported that he had ebuild submissions blindly using EAPI=1 so we hopefully made the text better reflect that it should not be used unless absolutely needed. 'Absolutely' is far too strong a word. A better wording would be 'unless

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI clarifications to skel.ebuild EAPI usage

2008-03-13 Thread RB
non-system packages, the only thing stopping people from using EAPI 1 where useful is ludditism. While most of us appreciate your desire to move forward, ad-hominem attacks (however subtle) really only serve to damage your point. That said, this is the typical developer-wants-shiny-object,