Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday, September 16, 2011 12:27:19 AM Michał Górny wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:13:15 +0200 Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I think systemd is nice for desktops/laptops. But on servers it seems to be overkill to me and as I umount filesystems as part of my backup-scripts,

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle dependencies on protocol headers?

2011-09-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:32:49 -0400 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: Often packages depending on X11 libraries will also have to specify the X11 libraries' proto packages in DEPEND. This is because the X11 library itself #includes files provided by the proto package. It's not really that

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 08:32:17 PM Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Will the ebuild automatically add all the different modules into the /etc/dracut.conf ? Please note, I am asking these questions to put my mind at ease

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:25:12AM +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: I've found that dracut is pretty auto-magic by default and the config file doesn't generally need tampering. Most of the options are to NOT load modules or to minimize the initramfs size by figuring out what modules are

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle dependencies on protocol headers?

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:25:29 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:32:49 -0400 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: Often packages depending on X11 libraries will also have to specify the X11 libraries' proto packages in DEPEND. This is because

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: PS why not merge all x86 abis into one keyword? because x86_32 x86_64 x86_x32 are only abis of x86. Also we dont have different keywords for different mips abis (64bit and 32bit ones) that'd be nice :) Seems even

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
On 09/16/2011 10:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: PS why not merge all x86 abis into one keyword? because x86_32 x86_64 x86_x32 are only abis of x86. Also we dont have different keywords for different mips abis (64bit and

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:58:01 +0300 Stratos Psomadakis pso...@gentoo.org wrote: On 09/16/2011 10:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: PS why not merge all x86 abis into one keyword? because x86_32 x86_64 x86_x32 are only

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle dependencies on protocol headers?

2011-09-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:54:47 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: This is a build-against dependency, and it's best expressed either by its own BADEPEND, or (because it's apparently now possible, and because otherwise we'd end up with six or seven *DEPEND variables) by switching to

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
On 09/15/2011 10:34 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: ive converted my system over to x86/amd64/x32 multilib for funs. but i can see how some people wont want all three all the time. so the question is how we want to make this available to users at the release/profile level. background: x32 is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:18:27 PM Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:00:47PM +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: See below on the existing udev retry queue that is hiding many of the issues from you. This hidden issues are also negatively affecting boot times

Re: [gentoo-dev] new `usex` helper

2011-09-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:00:19PM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 17:29 Wed 14 Sep , Brian Harring wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 02:16:41PM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 19:14 Tue 13 Sep , Brian Harring wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:02:28PM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle dependencies on protocol headers?

2011-09-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:08:36AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:54:47 +0200 Micha?? G??rny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: This is a build-against dependency, and it's best expressed either by its own BADEPEND, or (because it's apparently now possible, and because

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, I'm working on a tiny project called install-mask[1] which is supposedly a simple tool to enable/disable INSTALL_MASK. One of its features would be a common list of named locations where users may really want to consider INSTALL_MASK-ing; in a way similar to USE flags (or even instead of

Re: [gentoo-dev] new `usex` helper

2011-09-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 02:06 Fri 16 Sep , Brian Harring wrote: Specious argument; the point of controllable stacking was to avoid the issue of overlay's forcing their eclasses upon gentoo-x86 ebuilds (which may not support those modified eclasses) via the old PORTDIR_OVERLAY behaviour. This is why

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 15:34 Thu 15 Sep , Mike Frysinger wrote: ive converted my system over to x86/amd64/x32 multilib for funs. but i can see how some people wont want all three all the time. so the question is how we want to make this available to users at the release/profile level. background: x32 is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 11:36 Fri 16 Sep , Michał Górny wrote: The question is: where to store such a directory list? Keeping it inside project sources doesn't seem right as it would require me to bump and re-release project every time a directory is added. Keeping it in separate package which would need

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH autotools-utils 1/9] Fix handling whitespace in filenames when looking for .la files.

2011-09-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 21:53 Tue 13 Sep , Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: 2011/9/13 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org: ---  eclass/autotools-utils.eclass |    2 +-  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) I don't think sending 9

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev and /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: It may be that this is already sorted on the gnome side, or that all this talk of gnome-os is simply hot-air, but like I said, I'm a kde user, so I wouldn't know, tho I'm concerned about its implications for the rest of us

Re: [gentoo-dev] new `usex` helper

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:30:14 -0500 Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org wrote: Realistically I assume you're taking the stance EAPI gets in the way, lets do away with it- if so, well, out with it, and I'll dredge up the old logs/complaints that lead to EAPI. I see EAPI as a nice thing

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:36:32 -0500 Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15:34 Thu 15 Sep , Mike Frysinger wrote: ive converted my system over to x86/amd64/x32 multilib for funs. but i can see how some people wont want all three all the time. so the question is how we want to

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/16/11 10:58, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: On 09/16/2011 10:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: PS why not merge all x86 abis into one keyword? because x86_32 x86_64 x86_x32

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:39:48 -0500 Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org wrote: On 11:36 Fri 16 Sep , Michał Górny wrote: The question is: where to store such a directory list? Keeping it inside project sources doesn't seem right as it would require me to bump and re-release project

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 11:14:28 Michał Górny wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:39:48 -0500 Donnie Berkholz wrote: I don't want this in my repo. By *your* repo you mean dev overlay? Noone forces you to declare additional paths. i think he meant maintaining masks for pkgs in his repo for

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 09:36:32 Donnie Berkholz wrote: understanding is that it probably makes sense to switch to x32 no matter what you're using now (x86 or amd64). x32 needs a 64bit processor, so x86 cant go away as it's the only ABI that can run on 32bit processors but for 64bit

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 10:06:07 Michał Górny wrote: But doesn't switching mean we're going to hit LFS PITA once again? LFS hasnt really been a pain in a long while. but it's something worth raising on the x32 lists (which i'll do) since x32 has native 64bit support (uint64_t == %rax).

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 04:28:24 Stratos Psomadakis wrote: Is a x86/amd64/x32 multilib profile just going to provide toolchain support for x32 binaries (like x86 in a x86/amd64 multilib profile), or do we want a 'full' x32 profile, where every package is built by default as x32 code?

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 12:01:43 Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday, September 16, 2011 10:06:07 Michał Górny wrote: But doesn't switching mean we're going to hit LFS PITA once again? LFS hasnt really been a pain in a long while. but it's something worth raising on the x32 lists (which

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:42:59 -0400 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Friday, September 16, 2011 11:14:28 Michał Górny wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:39:48 -0500 Donnie Berkholz wrote: I don't want this in my repo. By *your* repo you mean dev overlay? Noone forces you to declare

Re: [gentoo-dev] new `usex` helper

2011-09-16 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:30:14 -0500 Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org wrote: Realistically I assume you're taking the stance EAPI gets in the way, lets do away with it- if so, well, out with it, and I'll dredge up

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 11:06:25 Markos Chandras wrote: On 09/16/11 10:58, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: On 09/16/2011 10:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: PS why not merge all x86 abis into one keyword? because x86_32 x86_64 x86_x32 are

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:39:48 -0500 Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org wrote: On 11:36 Fri 16 Sep     , Michał Górny wrote: The question is: where to store such a directory list? Keeping it inside project sources

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev and /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Duncan
Joost Roeleveld posted on Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:36:27 +0200 as excerpted: I agree, I just used this example to explain that it shouldn't be necessary to force an initramfs on all users just because there is a small group who wants to have an extreme setup. Careful with the extreme. As you no

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
On 09/16/2011 06:06 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: On 09/16/11 10:58, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: On 09/16/2011 10:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: PS why not merge all x86 abis into one keyword? because x86_32 x86_64

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 01:46:49 Duncan wrote: Mike Frysinger posted on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:18:43 -0400 as excerpted: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 17:03:07 Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:33:48 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 16:12:00 Michał

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/16/11 20:32, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday, September 16, 2011 11:06:25 Markos Chandras wrote: On 09/16/11 10:58, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: On 09/16/2011 10:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 Mike Frysinger

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Thomas Sachau
Mike Frysinger schrieb: On Friday, September 16, 2011 04:28:24 Stratos Psomadakis wrote: Is a x86/amd64/x32 multilib profile just going to provide toolchain support for x32 binaries (like x86 in a x86/amd64 multilib profile), or do we want a 'full' x32 profile, where every package is built by

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 15:09:52 Thomas Sachau wrote: Mike Frysinger schrieb: On Friday, September 16, 2011 04:28:24 Stratos Psomadakis wrote: Is a x86/amd64/x32 multilib profile just going to provide toolchain support for x32 binaries (like x86 in a x86/amd64 multilib profile), or

Re: [gentoo-dev] new `usex` helper

2011-09-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 07:30:14AM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 02:06 Fri 16 Sep , Brian Harring wrote: Specious argument; the point of controllable stacking was to avoid the issue of overlay's forcing their eclasses upon gentoo-x86 ebuilds (which may not support those modified

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-16 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/15/2011 05:20 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2011-09-16 01:54:44 Brian Harring napisał(a): On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 01:21:55AM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2011-09-15 09:55:08 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a): On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:35:21 +0200 Michał

Re: [gentoo-dev] A big thanks to Matt Turner for his hard work on Gentoo/MIPS

2011-09-16 Thread Stefan Behte
Hi, Thanks Matt! Thanks, too! :) I've used MIPS before, and might set up an old octane again...so thanks for your effort! :) Greetings, Craig

[gentoo-dev] Re: x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Duncan
Markos Chandras posted on Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:25:07 +0300 as excerpted: that would be ideal, and drop amd64 in the process: x86/x86_64/ -mike Ok so we will probably have the following multilib options * x86(ABI=x86_32{/lib}) + amd64(ABI=x86_64{lib64/}) + x32(ABI=x32{/libx32}) *