[gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

2008-12-04 Thread Song Ma
Hi, With Gentoo if the user runs emerge --update --newuse --deep world, the config file under /etc may be updated and get the new config file named as ._cfg_, for example, ._cfg_ntp.conf. Normally I will compare this newly updated config file with my existing one, then decide if I am

Re: [gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

2008-12-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/12/4 Song Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, With Gentoo if the user runs emerge --update --newuse --deep world, the config file under /etc may be updated and get the new config file named as ._cfg_, for example, ._cfg_ntp.conf. Normally I will compare this newly updated config file

Re: [gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

2008-12-04 Thread Cheng Renquan
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Song Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, With Gentoo if the user runs emerge --update --newuse --deep world, the config file under /etc may be updated and get the new config file named as ._cfg_, for example, ._cfg_ntp.conf. Normally I will compare

Re: [gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

2008-12-04 Thread Song Ma
Thanks guys. I didn't realize there are such tools existed already. 2008/12/4 Cheng Renquan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Song Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, With Gentoo if the user runs emerge --update --newuse --deep world, the config file under /etc may be

Re: [gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

2008-12-04 Thread Song Ma
I tried dispatch-conf and etc-update. Here are two major differences from my tool: 1. For desktop user, my tool will invoke GUI based kdiff3 to do diff and merge files if the user installed the kdiff3. And for remote login user or the user without kdiff3, the tool will just get the normal

Re: [gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

2008-12-04 Thread Josh Saddler
Song Ma wrote: I tried dispatch-conf and etc-update. Here are two major differences from my tool: 1. For desktop user, my tool will invoke GUI based kdiff3 to do diff and merge files if the user installed the kdiff3. And for remote login user or the user without kdiff3, the tool will just

Re: [gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

2008-12-04 Thread Song Ma
Thanks Josh. I will look at cfg-update. Best Regards. 2008/12/4 Josh Saddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Song Ma wrote: I tried dispatch-conf and etc-update. Here are two major differences from my tool: 1. For desktop user, my tool will invoke GUI based kdiff3 to do diff and merge files if the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

2008-12-04 Thread Tiziano Müller
Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 10:02 Sat 29 Nov , Mauricio Lima Pilla wrote: What are the nominees intending to do if they are elected? I miss the manifests. To those of you telling us to look at what you do now, what you're saying is that you're good in your current role. That doesn't

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo council voting - ~36 hours left

2008-12-04 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. This is a final warning that if you are an eligible voter you have ~36 hours left to cast your vote - before 00H00 UTC Saturday 6th Dec. At this point, we have *57* submitted votes from the *245* eligible voters - which means a turnout of around

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-misc/nxclient-2xterminalserver and net-misc/nxserver-2xterminalserver

2008-12-04 Thread Bernard Cafarelli
They will be moved to the NX overlay in one month # Bernard Cafarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] (04 Dec 2008) # Masked for removal in 30 days (bug #249799) # * Upstream closed web site and source downloads # * No updates since first release 2 years ago # * Still based on old NX 1.5 code, missing

[gentoo-dev] Adding QEMU_TARGETS to USE_EXPAND

2008-12-04 Thread Luca Barbato
Since I'm planning to revamp the qemu ebuilds and provide a more flexible way to pick which targets get built since most of the interesting one are already supported by tcg thus building with gcc4 just fine, I'd merge back softmmu and user and export the available targets this way. lu

[gentoo-dev] Soliciting news items to test GLEP 42 support in sys-apps/portage-2.1.6_rc

2008-12-04 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The GLEP 42 news support [1] is going to be available in stable when sys-apps/portage-2.1.6 is marked stable later this month. I think the news code is pretty well tested already, but it would be nice to deploy some news items in order to get

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Since not all the buildsystem we support use make for the actual build, and they don't necessarily support make-like options (-jX -s and so on), it would be nice to be able to express a JOBS variable that could be used for parallel build with any build systems. Right now there are ebuilds like

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Luca Barbato
On 4-12-2008 21:29, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: One has to consider people might be using -l for parallel building too, I'd have it in a separate variable as well, IFF another build system is as nice as make towards parallel build. lu

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Tiziano Müller
Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?= wrote: Since not all the buildsystem we support use make for the actual build, and they don't necessarily support make-like options (-jX -s and so on), it would be nice to be able to express a JOBS variable that could be used for parallel build with

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Tiziano Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you do for other build systems which also decide on load-basis how many jobs to run? Parse again? In that case I'd like to see a more abstract definition of how many jobs to run in parallel which gets translated to the correct make-options for

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Alec Warner
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since not all the buildsystem we support use make for the actual build, and they don't necessarily support make-like options (-jX -s and so on), it would be nice to be able to express a JOBS variable that could

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks Good To Me, but I would prefix the JOBS variable with some sort of namespace (EJOBS, GENTOO_JOBS, etc.) to avoid conflicts with other systems that may use JOBS internally already (seems vaguely likely). Good point, GENTOO_JOBS sounds good to me. --

[gentoo-dev] net-misc/arpstar facing removal

2008-12-04 Thread Daniel Drake
It's unmaintained and broken against recent kernels. It would be nice if someone could step up and replace it by adding and maintaining a package for arpon: http://arpon.sourceforge.net/ which I guess it not a kernel module, yay I'm planning to add arpstar to package.mask on December 11th,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Soliciting news items to test GLEP 42 support in sys-apps/portage-2.1.6_rc

2008-12-04 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:12:58 -0800 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The GLEP 42 news support [1] is going to be available in stable when sys-apps/portage-2.1.6 is marked stable later this month. I think the news code is pretty well

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Joe Peterson
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks Good To Me, but I would prefix the JOBS variable with some sort of namespace (EJOBS, GENTOO_JOBS, etc.) to avoid conflicts with other systems that may use JOBS internally already (seems vaguely likely). Good

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 05/12/2008 05:33, Joe Peterson a écrit : How about PORTAGE_JOBS to go along with PORTAGE_OVERLAY, PORTAGE_NICENESS, etc. While this part of the thread has a lot of bikeshedding potential, Joe's name sounds more consistent with what we already have. Naming issues appart, it's a good idea.