Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-18 Thread Markos Chandras
On 17 February 2013 22:46, Anthony G. Basile bluen...@gentoo.org wrote: On 02/17/2013 11:03 AM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I have no interest) because they appears understaffed. Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-18 Thread Raúl Porcel
On 02/17/13 17:03, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I have no interest) because they appears understaffed. Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, for SH since the dev- machine[1] is a bit slow; well, I discovered we

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-18 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Agostino Sarubbo a...@gentoo.org wrote: Now, imho, we have 2 choice: 1)Support them with an iso or at least a manual if we can't do an handbook 2)Lose the stable keyword and don't waste manpower anymore. What do you think about? I haven't seen many problems,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-18 Thread Sven Eden
Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2013, 14:08:06 schrieb Pacho Ramos: Due pva lack of time the following packages are now up for grabs: app-emulation/e-uae app-emulation/uae AFAIK both are long dead. The current actively developed uae variant is PUAE, but I'd say it is not ready for a wider audience

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-18 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: He means that until you install the package with all firmware enabled you don't know what lines you need to put into the savedconfig file. I have posted a snippet previously — you basically search for firmware=... in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-18 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Ryan Hill schrieb: He means that until you install the package with all firmware enabled you don't know what lines you need to put into the savedconfig file. Even after you do that it's hard to figure out what firmware files you actually need. I know I need iwl6000 firmware for Intel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-18 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 02/16/2013 08:08 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: Due pva lack of time the following packages are now up for grabs: net-firewall/xtables-addons (proxy maintained) net-misc/ipv6calc I can take care of these two. I use both. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-18 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le dimanche 17 février 2013 à 22:47 -0600, Ryan Hill a écrit : Even after you do that it's hard to figure out what firmware files you actually need. I know I need iwl6000 firmware for Intel Ultimate-N 6300 wifi, but linux-firmware contains: iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for nodejs apps - HOWTO?

2013-02-18 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le lundi 18 février 2013 à 01:39 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò a écrit : On 18/02/2013 00:46, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: rethinkdb is a young project and its build system is a 1.5k lines makefile horror. I wouldn't reintroduce stuff that isn't used in tree just for this. I, at least, am not

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi all, I've been asked a couple of times in IRC and other mediums, about what GPG key settings etc to use. I would not not call these final yet, but should be fairly close to final. This was originally intended to be part of the tree-signing GLEP series, but was in one of the unpublished ones

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:27:46PM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: 2. root key signing subkey of EITHER: 2.1. DSA, 1024 or 2048 bits 2.2. RSA, =2048 bits 3. Key expiry: 5 years. Clarification on reason: These key sizes are the largest supported by many smartcards. -- Robin Hugh Johnson

[gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/freecraft

2013-02-18 Thread Michael Sterrett
# Michael Sterrett mr_bon...@gentoo.org (18 Feb 2013) # Quite dead. Use games-engines/stratagus instead. # Masked for removal on 20130320. games-strategy/freecraft

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Kent Fredric
It may be advantageous to have a gentoo wrapper script that calls GPG with recommended settings to make some tasks easier, gentoo-gpg-create --recommended EDITOR=vim gentoo-gpg-rotation --recommended --old=DEADBEEF and gentoo-gpg-rotation would make a templated key-expiry document , edited

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 04:36:08PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: It may be advantageous to have a gentoo wrapper script that calls GPG with recommended settings to make some tasks easier, gentoo-gpg-create --recommended EDITOR=vim gentoo-gpg-rotation --recommended --old=DEADBEEF and

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:36:08 +1300 Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote: It may be advantageous to have a gentoo wrapper script that calls GPG with recommended settings to make some tasks easier, gentoo-gpg-create --recommended EDITOR=vim gentoo-gpg-rotation --recommended

[gentoo-dev] Re: The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-18 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:31:41 +0100 Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: I haven't seen many problems, except one point: that m68k seems to have much the same level of activity as mips, and it would be nice if we could drop it down in the little CC list on Bugzilla (to the unstable arches

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 04:09 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 04:36:08PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: It may be advantageous to have a gentoo wrapper script that calls GPG with recommended settings to make some tasks easier, gentoo-gpg-create --recommended

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Eray Aslan
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:27:46PM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: Bare minimum requirements: -- [...] 3. Key expiry: 5 years. I am assuming we are requiring a maximum of 5 years for key expiry. We might want to make it explicit. On first reading, it sounded like key

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Kent Fredric
The key rotation as described in RiseUp best practices should be a very rare occurrence. Each dev is going to run it at most once. Some material I read recommended doing a key rotation every 6 months, which I did for a while until it got tiresome to perform the rotation. I believe the