Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-03 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 01:33:38 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Dear all, 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a certain size (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog) the file is rotated similar to /var/log logfiles. I.e. the current file is renamed with a date

Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files

2011-11-03 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Andreas K Huettel wrote: The old entries file ChangeLog-2010 will be identical to the current ChangeLog file except for skipping at the start all entries added later than 31/12/2010. Just to make sure that I understand it: Does this imply that the old entries file will

Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files

2011-11-03 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On 11/03/2011 01:33 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: In a week's time I personally, manually, will rotate all ChangeLog files larger than 100k in the tree, by splitting them at 31/12/2010-1/1/2011. Opinions, flames, ...? opinion Again for 'emerge --changelog': As we do have the $delay before

Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files

2011-11-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 09:24:07 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Andreas K Huettel wrote: The old entries file ChangeLog-2010 will be identical to the current ChangeLog file except for skipping at the start all entries added later than 31/12/2010. Just to make sure that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files

2011-11-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 10:16:53 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: Again for 'emerge --changelog': As we do have the $delay before breaking old period, usually with $delay=1 year: Should we also apply this $delay to the output of above command? If yes, what I can think of ATM is: * Do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 09:09:19 Michał Górny wrote: Maybe we should keep old changelogs in a separate directory to decrease ebuilddir pollution? Not sure about that. The new ChangeLog file will be identical to the current ChangeLog file except for being truncated at 1/1/2011.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files

2011-11-03 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Andreas K Huettel wrote: On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 10:16:53 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: As we do have the $delay before breaking old period, usually with $delay=1 year: Should we also apply this $delay to the output of above command? Makes all perfect sense...

[gentoo-dev] recovering from corrupted vdb

2011-11-03 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
Shouldn't portage offer some means to recover from a corrupted vdb? I just stumbled upon http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-900382-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html and it seems really bad. It would suck if the only solution to this is reinstall (I remember package database

Re: [gentoo-dev] recovering from corrupted vdb

2011-11-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: I think we can't salvage much from a corrupted db (anything can happen, and the reporter mentions some code being present in the files), but at least emerge -e world or equivalent should be possible. I'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-03 Thread James Broadhead
On Nov 3, 2011 10:25 a.m., Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 09:09:19 Michał Górny wrote: Maybe we should keep old changelogs in a separate directory to decrease ebuilddir pollution? Not sure about that. Thank you for this infusion of

Re: [gentoo-dev] recovering from corrupted vdb

2011-11-03 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/03/2011 04:15 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: Shouldn't portage offer some means to recover from a corrupted vdb? I just stumbled upon http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-900382-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html and it seems really bad. It would suck if the only

Re: [gentoo-dev] enew{user,group}: killing off [extra] argument

2011-11-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest signing

2011-11-03 Thread enno+gentoo
Hi, Am 02.11.2011 17:11, schrieb Robin H. Johnson: On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 01:03:21PM +0100, enno+gen...@groeper-berlin.de wrote: I followed the threads about manifest signing with interest and even had a look at the manifest signing guide [4]. Sounds nice at first view. But, please correct

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest signing

2011-11-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 10:55:52PM +0100, enno+gen...@groeper-berlin.de wrote: If it is (also) for the users, why is there no code for it in portage anymore [3]? Hmm, I hadn't see that removal, but it makes sense unless the entire tree is developer-signed, which isn't likely to happen

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog in eclass dir (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? In my personal opinion this is missing there, if only for historical reasons... Should we still start one? as there was only positive feedback to this suggestion, I'll create a ChangeLog file in the eclass directory during the next

Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files

2011-11-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 11:59:55 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Andreas K Huettel wrote: On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 10:16:53 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: As we do have the $delay before breaking old period, usually with $delay=1 year: Should we also apply this $delay