Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml:

2010-02-24 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Robin H Johnson wrote: > Metadata.xml should allow use of a element. Within > the element, package maintainers should be able to describe how > non-maintainer changes to the package are handled. Could we allow this element in the category metadata files, too? Its value

[gentoo-dev] Re: eutils changes wrt EAPI-3 - ebeep and epause no longer available

2010-02-24 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Wednesday 17 of February 2010 03:25:16 Maciej Mrozowski wrote: If no objections, I'm going to commit in 5 days the following patch to eutils.eclass Index: eutils.eclass === RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] Criticial news item "2010-02-25-layman-storage-path-change" (GLEP 42)

2010-02-24 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 02/25/10 01:15, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > === > Title: Layman storage path changed from version 1.3.0 on > Author: Sebastian Pipping > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2010-02-25 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 1.0 > Displ

[gentoo-dev] gentoo-sources 2.6.32 stable plans

2010-02-24 Thread Mike Pagano
I'm planning to request the stabling of gentoo-sources-2.6.32 on March 5th, a little more than 1 week from now. We have a few regressions we are tracking but they are not far reaching and most are close to resolution. We will follow up on all unresolved regressions. Regressions in external packa

[gentoo-dev] Re: news regarding mysql 5.1 incomplete

2010-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/25/2010 02:44 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:45:31PM +0100, Hanno Böck wrote: Just noticed yesterday an issue with the upgrade documentation in the news regarding mysql 5.1 and revdep-rebuild. It suggests running # revdep-rebuild --library libmysqlclient.so.15 but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Pending mask of Qt3 and MythTV

2010-02-24 Thread Ben de Groot
On 24 February 2010 08:15, Doug Goldstein wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: [...] >> one remaining issue: MythTV. Its current stable version uses Qt3, but >> there is a Qt4 version in testing. In all this time the MythTV >> maintainers have not taken any action. > > I

Re: [gentoo-dev] news regarding mysql 5.1 incomplete

2010-02-24 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:45:31PM +0100, Hanno Böck wrote: > Just noticed yesterday an issue with the upgrade documentation in the news > regarding mysql 5.1 and revdep-rebuild. > > It suggests running > # revdep-rebuild --library libmysqlclient.so.15 > but this is not enough. mysql has more tha

[gentoo-dev] [rfc] Criticial news item "2010-02-25-layman-storage-path-change" (GLEP 42)

2010-02-24 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello! As a proper solution to bug #306233 [1] I have prepared a draft for a related glep-42-style [2] news item, my first such item ever. This is my request for review. If I don't hear anything for the next 72 hours I may put it online, as I understand the GLEP. If you'd need more time for a

[gentoo-dev] metadata.xml:

2010-02-24 Thread Robin H. Johnson
I'm forking this thread from -core, so we can have some useful discussion about the idea, and then somebody can take it to the gentoo-dev list. This needs a lot more polishing still, and I'm not happy with some of the semantics (esp. "policy" is too harsh a word for what we are trying to convey).

[gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to flag-o-matic's _filter-var

2010-02-24 Thread Duncan
ChIIph posted on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:27:21 -0300 as excerpted: > Here are some minor changes I'd like to propose to flag-o-matic's > _filter-var() to work properly with LDFLAGS. Without this, things like > "-Wl,-O1,--as-needed" won't be affected by any kind of filter since > there are no spaces to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New eclass for x11 packages

2010-02-24 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dne 19.2.2010 02:22, Ryan Hill napsal(a): > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:33:42 +0100 > Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > >> Hi, >> we prepared new eclass for x11 packages that should be used as >> replacement for x-modular.eclass. >> >> After long discussion with oth

Re: [gentoo-dev] upcoming problem? new-style virtuals and USE deps

2010-02-24 Thread Zac Medico
On 02/24/2010 10:49 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:06:37 -0800 > Zac Medico wrote: >> There was a bug in > which prevented propagation of USE deps in virtuals. If you set >> EAPI=3 in the ebuilds then that will ensure that users will not >> encounter the bug. > > Wait, what?

[gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

2010-02-24 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Jonathan Callen wrote: > + # Don't append another ";" when a valid category value is provided. > + [[ -n ${type} && ${type} != *';' ]] && type+=";" This can be shortened to: [[ -n ${type} ]] && type="${type%;};" or even shorter: type="${type%;}${type:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

2010-02-24 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 24-02-2010 a las 14:53 -0500, Jonathan Callen escribió: > On 02/24/2010 01:16 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > El mar, 23-02-2010 a las 20:26 -0500, Jonathan Callen escribió: > >> Attached is a patch to properly comply with the part of the FDO Desktop > >> Menu Specification pertaining to Categor

[gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

2010-02-24 Thread Jonathan Callen
On 02/24/2010 01:16 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mar, 23-02-2010 a las 20:26 -0500, Jonathan Callen escribió: >> Attached is a patch to properly comply with the part of the FDO Desktop >> Menu Specification pertaining to Categories (namely, always ensuring >> that the list ends in a ";") and the par

Re: [gentoo-dev] Check LICENSE and SRC_URI changes when bumping GNU packages

2010-02-24 Thread Petteri Räty
On 24.2.2010 8.19, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > Oh, and one other thing. Attached is a list of ebuild that use > ftp.gnu.org instead of mirror://gnu in their SRC_URI. Please make the > switch. Maybe this should be a QA check as well? repoman would have all > the information it needed... There's alr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

2010-02-24 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 24-02-2010 a las 20:33 +0100, Ulrich Mueller escribió: > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > >> Why should "Science" be a sub-category of "Education"? > >> That doesn't make sense to me. > > > I agree with you bad, sadly, spec states it's a sub-category: > > http://standards

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

2010-02-24 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Pacho Ramos wrote: >> Why should "Science" be a sub-category of "Education"? >> That doesn't make sense to me. > I agree with you bad, sadly, spec states it's a sub-category: > http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html Where does it say that Science is

[gentoo-dev] Changes to flag-o-matic's _filter-var

2010-02-24 Thread ChIIph
Hello everyone, Here are some minor changes I'd like to propose to flag-o-matic's _filter-var() to work properly with LDFLAGS. Without this, things like "-Wl,-O1,--as-needed" won't be affected by any kind of filter since there are no spaces to separate each flag. I don't know of any better way to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

2010-02-24 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 24-02-2010 a las 19:55 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió: > > I agree with you bad... bad -> but (sorry for the typo) signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje está firmada digitalmente

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

2010-02-24 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 24-02-2010 a las 19:40 +0100, Ulrich Mueller escribió: > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > Would be nice if you would have time to look at the following old > > make_desktop_entry bug: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191000 > > Why should "Science" be a sub-ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

2010-02-24 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/24/2010 08:40 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Pacho Ramos wrote: > >> Would be nice if you would have time to look at the following old >> make_desktop_entry bug: >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191000 > > Why should "Science" be a sub-category of "Education"

Re: [gentoo-dev] upcoming problem? new-style virtuals and USE deps

2010-02-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:06:37 -0800 Zac Medico wrote: > There was a bug in which prevented propagation of USE deps in virtuals. If you set > EAPI=3 in the ebuilds then that will ensure that users will not > encounter the bug. Wait, what? If you mean old-style virtuals, the position has always bee

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

2010-02-24 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Would be nice if you would have time to look at the following old > make_desktop_entry bug: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191000 Why should "Science" be a sub-category of "Education"? That doesn't make sense to me. Ulrich

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

2010-02-24 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mar, 23-02-2010 a las 20:26 -0500, Jonathan Callen escribió: > Attached is a patch to properly comply with the part of the FDO Desktop > Menu Specification pertaining to Categories (namely, always ensuring > that the list ends in a ";") and the part of the FDO Desktop Entry > Specification and I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed change to savedconfig.eclass

2010-02-24 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
While you're touching this, could you improve this part a bit: # maybe the user is screwing around with perms they shouldnt #289168 if [[ ! -r ${base} ]] ; then eerror "Unable to read ${base} -- perms are screwed ?" die "fix your system" fi I understand frustration caused by weird things people

Re: [gentoo-dev] Check LICENSE and SRC_URI changes when bumping GNU packages

2010-02-24 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:47:55 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > > Attached is a list of ebuild that use ftp.gnu.org instead of > > mirror://gnu in their SRC_URI. Please make the switch. Maybe this > > should be a QA check as well? > > No, because

[gentoo-dev] Proposed change to savedconfig.eclass

2010-02-24 Thread Jeroen Roovers
Hello developers, this has annoyed me for a long time. restore_config() dies when it cannot find a saved config file, while later on in any ebuild that uses savedconfig.eclass, it will save the config file anyhow. That means it will not use an edited saved config file during the first emerge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Check LICENSE and SRC_URI changes when bumping GNU packages

2010-02-24 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > Attached is a list of ebuild that use ftp.gnu.org instead of > mirror://gnu in their SRC_URI. Please make the switch. Maybe this > should be a QA check as well? No, because not all files that are available on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/ are also on mirror

[gentoo-dev] Check LICENSE and SRC_URI changes when bumping GNU packages

2010-02-24 Thread Jeroen Roovers
Hello package maintainers, most of the GNU packages had their LICENSE updated to GPL-3 along with some minor bug fixes or even just documentation changes in recent times. Please do check the LICENSE and adjust it if needed. Oh, and one other thing. Attached is a list of ebuild that use ftp.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Pending mask of Qt3 and MythTV

2010-02-24 Thread Richard Freeman
On 02/24/2010 02:15 AM, Doug Goldstein wrote: My response was the arch teams haven't stabilized MythTV in years because none of them have a setup to test it, so please stabilize it. I'm running it on a stable machine. Well, to their credit, you CAN'T stabilize a package if you can't test it. I

[gentoo-dev] news regarding mysql 5.1 incomplete

2010-02-24 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, Just noticed yesterday an issue with the upgrade documentation in the news regarding mysql 5.1 and revdep-rebuild. It suggests running # revdep-rebuild --library libmysqlclient.so.15 but this is not enough. mysql has more than one library and not all applications link against the main lib.