Re: [gentoo-dev] anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-26 Thread Grant
May I ask why you force the g-cpan category to dev-perl? Using that category solves many issues in advance, ie: if you generated an ebuild locally, and then we provided a maintained copy, portage would just switch from one to the other seamlessly where needed without you having to modify all

[gentoo-dev] Re: anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-26 Thread Duncan
Grant posted on Fri, 25 May 2012 23:01:42 -0700 as excerpted: May I ask why you force the g-cpan category to dev-perl? Using that category solves many issues in advance, ie: if you generated an ebuild locally, and then we provided a maintained copy, portage would just switch from one to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-26 Thread Grant
I was thinking it would be nice to know which ebuilds came from g-cpan, but now that I think about it I suppose it doesn't really matter. Not a perl-head, but if I've been following the thread correctly... If you manage the overlays correctly (see the earlier note about it using the last

Re: [gentoo-dev] anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-26 Thread Grant
I switched local-lib from the g-cpan one to the perl-experimental one and all is well as far as installation all the way through Net-Braintree.  Thank you very much for sticking with me on this guys. I just used 'g-cpan -u' to update my g-cpan ebuilds and it generated ebuilds in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: lastpipe

2012-05-26 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/26/2012 12:05 AM, Katie Toreg wrote: I like it. There would be plenty of time for migration considering the 4.2 requirement. Unfortunately, writing a QA check for violations would be nearly impossible. (Unrelated.) Please disable HTML from your mail client when posting to Mailing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: review required by herd? (new ebuild)

2012-05-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: Some projects are territorial.  Games is one.  I imagine adding something to kde, gnome, or xfce categories without contacting those guys would get you an email.  If in doubt I usually file a bug when I'm adding a package

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: review required by herd? (new ebuild)

2012-05-26 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/26/2012 05:23 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: On Sat, 26 May 2012 02:33:06 +0200 hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: What's the official policy, so everyone can be clear about this? It's not a requirement, except when it is. :) Some projects

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: review required by herd? (new ebuild)

2012-05-26 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/26/2012 01:40 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: Perhaps, but in general devs should be fairly free to add new packages to the tree as long as they properly maintain them. If a dev makes a mistake with a newly-added package, then file a bug and they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-26 Thread Alexey Shvetsov
Ok. Since most of us want clean cut solution so i will close bug #333699 as WONTFIX -- Best Regards, Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NRC Kurchatov Institute, Gatchina, Russia Department of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics Gentoo Team Ru Gentoo Linux Dev

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-kernel/zen-sources-2.6*

2012-05-26 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org (26 May 2012) # Abandoned patchsets. Upstream stopped regular releases. # Live ebuild will remain in portage for now. # Removal in 30 days. # For regular releases please migrate to # sys-kernel/pf-sources

[gentoo-dev] rfc: OpenRC Networking Scripts

2012-05-26 Thread William Hubbs
All, I realize this has been discussed and there are definite opinions about which method works well. So, I want to take a different approach. Is there any interest in documenting and supporting newnet along side oldnet as opposed to killing newnet? Newnet would consist of the network init