[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow

2010-11-20 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:35:18 +1300 Alistair Bush wrote: > > > We don't do revbumps on masked toolchain packages. > > > > Why not? > > Yeah why not? do you inform users of this? Users unmasking toolchain packages need to be paying close attention to what's going on behind the scenes. They're

[gentoo-dev] IUSE="minimal" seems like a bad idea

2010-11-20 Thread Matt Turner
matts...@sempron /usr/portage $ egrep -l 'IUSE=.*minimal' `find -name '*.ebuild'` ^ shows lots of ebuilds with IUSE="minimal". Instead of having a minimal use flag for these packages, shouldn't we have, possibly local, use flags for whatever feature(s) the minimal flag turns off? Thanks, Matt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow

2010-11-20 Thread Alistair Bush
> On 11/21/2010 04:57 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:38:23 +0200 > > > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 11/21/2010 12:46 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > >>> I'm unmasking sys-devel/gcc-4.5.1 tomorrow. I'd like to recommend > >>> everyone who has already unmasked it to rebuild it now as

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow

2010-11-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/21/2010 04:57 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:38:23 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/21/2010 12:46 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: I'm unmasking sys-devel/gcc-4.5.1 tomorrow. I'd like to recommend everyone who has already unmasked it to rebuild it now as there has been some import

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow

2010-11-20 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:38:23 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/21/2010 12:46 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > > I'm unmasking sys-devel/gcc-4.5.1 tomorrow. I'd like to recommend everyone > > who has already unmasked it to rebuild it now as there has been some > > important > > patches added recently

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow

2010-11-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/21/2010 12:46 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: I'm unmasking sys-devel/gcc-4.5.1 tomorrow. I'd like to recommend everyone who has already unmasked it to rebuild it now as there has been some important patches added recently (see ChangeLog). revbump?

[gentoo-dev] GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow

2010-11-20 Thread Ryan Hill
I'm unmasking sys-devel/gcc-4.5.1 tomorrow. I'd like to recommend everyone who has already unmasked it to rebuild it now as there has been some important patches added recently (see ChangeLog). As always, bugs in packages should be assigned to that package's maintainer. Bugs in GCC should be assi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-auth/munge: metadata.xml ChangeLog munge-0.5.9.ebuild

2010-11-20 Thread Drake Wyrm
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Does this user/group need to be present on the build system for some > reason? Dunno about that package in particular, but for many packages, the build process involves assigning ownership of certain files and folders to particular users and groups. For that, you'd need t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-auth/munge: metadata.xml ChangeLog munge-0.5.9.ebuild

2010-11-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:28:02 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > (With the exception of mysql.eclass, which for some reason calls them > from both pkg_setup and pkg_preinst.) That's historical. In the very very early days you had to do that for binaries to work properly. Nowadays just using pkg_setup s

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-auth/munge: metadata.xml ChangeLog munge-0.5.9.ebuild

2010-11-20 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > This is kind of a strange time to run these, since then you'll end > up with a new user and group even if the build fails or is killed. > You'll also end up with extraneous users and groups on build > servers. Does this user/group need to be pres

[gentoo-dev] last rites: games-action/armagetronad

2010-11-20 Thread Michael Sterrett
# Michael Sterrett (20 Nov 2010) # Unsupportable. masked for removal on 20101220 # Use games-action/gltron instead games-action/armagetronad

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-auth/munge: metadata.xml ChangeLog munge-0.5.9.ebuild

2010-11-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:04 Sun 14 Nov , Justin Bronder (jsbronder) wrote: > pkg_setup() { > enewgroup munge > enewuser munge -1 -1 /var/lib/munge munge > } This is kind of a strange time to run these, since then you'll end up with a new user and group even if the build fails or is killed. You'll a