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

2008-03-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:14:47 -0600 RB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

2008-03-14 Thread Rémi Cardona
Hi folks, During the past few weeks, I've been working on fixing and improving the Gnome2 eclasses wrt bug #155993. We plan on pushing these eclasses to portage before the Great Gnome 2.22 Unmask so that users can start benefiting from the improvements during the upgrade to 2.22. URL :

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

2008-03-14 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Rémi Cardona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - the gnome2 eclass now has a pkg_preinst, if you do multiple inherits, make sure that gnome2_pkg_preinst is called too. The _games_eclass_ is one of those. [...] *Please* review these eclasses because with a simple

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

2008-03-14 Thread Jan Kundrát
Natanael Copa wrote: So since I build a distro where size does matter (uclibc) I realised that even if I submit bugs for broken RDEPEND, there will never be an end to those bug reports. Looking at this thread, it seems i was right. I wonder what you are looking at :(. You've been told by

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

2008-03-14 Thread Bernd Steinhauser
Petteri Räty schrieb: 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 # Eclasses will test for this variable if they need to use EAPI 0 features. -# Ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

2008-03-14 Thread Rémi Cardona
Denis Dupeyron a écrit : On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Rémi Cardona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - the gnome2 eclass now has a pkg_preinst, if you do multiple inherits, make sure that gnome2_pkg_preinst is called too. The _games_eclass_ is one of those. [...] *Please* review these

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

2008-03-14 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:32:47 +: 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

2008-03-14 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Rémi Cardona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you remove from that list vlc, pidgin and celestia which are false positives, that leaves us: Why are they false positives? They include the gnome2 eclass and other stuff, I guess they'll be affected too.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

2008-03-14 Thread David Leverton
On Friday 14 March 2008 07:14:23 Rémi Cardona wrote: - the gnome2 eclass now has a pkg_preinst, if you do multiple inherits, make sure that gnome2_pkg_preinst is called too. The _games_eclass_ is one of those. Maybe worth adding a dummy to the current version of the eclass so that ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

2008-03-14 Thread Petteri Räty
David Leverton kirjoitti: On Friday 14 March 2008 07:14:23 Rémi Cardona wrote: - the gnome2 eclass now has a pkg_preinst, if you do multiple inherits, make sure that gnome2_pkg_preinst is called too. The _games_eclass_ is one of those. Maybe worth adding a dummy to the current version of

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

2008-03-14 Thread Petteri Räty
Rémi Cardona kirjoitti: This is where I kindly request the help of fellow Gentoo devs and PM developers : - the gnome2 eclass now has a pkg_preinst, if you do multiple inherits, make sure that gnome2_pkg_preinst is called too. The _games_eclass_ is one of those. I only found two ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

2008-03-14 Thread David Leverton
On Friday 14 March 2008 12:14:39 Petteri Räty wrote: David Leverton kirjoitti: Maybe worth adding a dummy to the current version of the eclass so that ebuilds can be updated now, instead of suddenly all at once as soon as the new eclass is committed? And break a bunch of ebuilds to stable

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

2008-03-14 Thread Rémi Cardona
David Leverton a écrit : On Friday 14 March 2008 07:14:23 Rémi Cardona wrote: - the gnome2 eclass now has a pkg_preinst, if you do multiple inherits, make sure that gnome2_pkg_preinst is called too. The _games_eclass_ is one of those. Maybe worth adding a dummy to the current version of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

2008-03-14 Thread Petteri Räty
David Leverton kirjoitti: On Friday 14 March 2008 12:14:39 Petteri Räty wrote: David Leverton kirjoitti: Maybe worth adding a dummy to the current version of the eclass so that ebuilds can be updated now, instead of suddenly all at once as soon as the new eclass is committed? And break a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

2008-03-14 Thread David Leverton
On Friday 14 March 2008 12:20:15 Rémi Cardona wrote: David Leverton a écrit : Maybe worth adding a dummy to the current version of the eclass so that ebuilds can be updated now, instead of suddenly all at once as soon as the new eclass is committed? Good idea, I'll see what I can do

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

2008-03-14 Thread Natanael Copa
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 10:09 +0100, Jan Kundrát wrote: Natanael Copa wrote: So since I build a distro where size does matter (uclibc) I realised that even if I submit bugs for broken RDEPEND, there will never be an end to those bug reports. Looking at this thread, it seems i was right.

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

2008-03-14 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've read Gentoo's new dev announcements about monkeys and paper weights. People with a couple of small open-source projects. The monkeys and paper weights get CVS rights. Then the chief architect of Sabayon is scotched over bugzilla output? Please. That smells

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

2008-03-14 Thread Fabio Erculiani
I don't really want CVS access neither I care. What I want is just fixing bugs. I'll try to file a huge bug on all the broken RDEPENDs I'll found. I'll try to find a free slot during the end of the next week for the hunting. Then, we'll see how long it will stay open, just one evidence here: