[gentoo-dev] news item: nfsmount renamed nfsclient

2015-01-30 Thread William Hubbs
All, this is covered in the nfs-utils-1.3.1-r1 ebuild by ewarns; however, qa asked me to write a news item as well, so here it is. Let me know what you think. Thanks, William Title: nfsmount service renamed nfsclient Author: William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Posted:

[gentoo-dev] rfc: news items vs ewarns

2015-01-30 Thread William Hubbs
All, as a separate thread from my last message, I would like to pose a question. When should ewarns vs news items be used to inform users about changes? I'm not asking for a policy, just thoughts about when one or the other should be used. Thanks, William signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command

2015-01-30 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:37:30 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 01/30/2015 12:14 AM, Jason Zaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:00:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Also, when the work read appears twice on a short line like that, it gives a wordy/redundant feeling. Perhaps

Re: [gentoo-dev] Office team needs developer help

2015-01-30 Thread Bob Wya
@Andreas, By coincidence I've just been playing around with the live build of libreoffice today. I heard the interface had a bit of a re-vamp (which is very much the case!!) I seem to have to work around this bug... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1333073 by setting:

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: news items vs ewarns

2015-01-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: When should ewarns vs news items be used to inform users about changes? I'm not asking for a policy, just thoughts about when one or the other should be used. IMHO it is almost pointless to issue news this far after

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Generate soname dependency metadata (282639)

2015-01-30 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 01/29/15 21:02, Zac Medico wrote: +#hppa_{32,64} +#ia_{32,64} +#m68k_{32,64} +#mips_{eabi32,eabi64,n32,n64,o32,o64} +#ppc_{32,64} +#s390_{32,64} +#sh_{32,64} +#sparc_{32,64} +#x86_{32,64,x32} +# +# NOTES: +# +# * The ABIs referenced by some of the above

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Generate soname dependency metadata (282639)

2015-01-30 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:01:51 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 01/29/2015 09:00 PM, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2015-01-26, o godz. 19:16:28 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org napisał(a): +from ...util.elf.constants import ( Please do not use relative imports. Almost all code is

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage sync changes, fixes

2015-01-30 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:45:18 -0800 Brian Dolbec dol...@gentoo.org wrote: From mgorny's recent suggestions and bug report... Plus a final pyflakes cleanup. pushed with suggested change for has_bin -- Brian Dolbec dolsen

[gentoo-dev] Re: news item: nfsmount renamed nfsclient

2015-01-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:22 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: this is covered in the nfs-utils-1.3.1-r1 ebuild by ewarns; however, qa asked me to write a news item as well, so here it is. There was a similar change in the systemd units (also mentioned in the ewarns). It might

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] Generate soname dependency metadata (282639)

2015-01-30 Thread Zac Medico
Generate soname dependency metadata for binary and installed packages, in the form of PROVIDES and REQUIRES metadata. It is useful to generate PROVIDES and REQUIRES metadata now, so that it will be available when dependency resolver support is added in the future. Note that slot-operator

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: news items vs ewarns

2015-01-30 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 06:22:31PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: When should ewarns vs news items be used to inform users about changes? I'm not asking for a policy, just thoughts about when one or the other should be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Review: desc/cpu_flags_x86.desc

2015-01-30 Thread James Cloos
MG == Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org writes: MG sse4_1 - Enable SSE4.1 instruction support MG sse4_2 - Enable SSE4.2 instruction support Does everything use the _ versions? The docs should cover the . versions, as well, if anything still expects them. I've had to use sse4.1 and sse4.2, too,

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: news items vs ewarns

2015-01-30 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:22:31 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: When should ewarns vs news items be used to inform users about changes? I'm not asking for a policy, just thoughts about when one or the other should be used.

[gentoo-dev] Re: news item: nfsmount renamed nfsclient

2015-01-30 Thread Duncan
William Hubbs posted on Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:22:38 -0600 as excerpted: this is covered in the nfs-utils-1.3.1-r1 ebuild by ewarns; however, qa asked me to write a news item as well, so here it is. Let me know what you think. Thanks, William Title: nfsmount service renamed nfsclient

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item: nfsmount renamed nfsclient

2015-01-30 Thread Manuel Rüger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 30.01.2015 23:22, William Hubbs wrote: All, this is covered in the nfs-utils-1.3.1-r1 ebuild by ewarns; however, qa asked me to write a news item as well, so here it is. Let me know what you think. Thanks, William

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command

2015-01-30 Thread Jason Zaman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:00:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: - print(Use + colorize(GOOD, eselect news) + to read news items.) + print(Use + colorize(GOOD, eselect news read new) + to read new items.) I guess that's fine, but I have to wonder how many people are

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command

2015-01-30 Thread Zac Medico
On 01/30/2015 12:14 AM, Jason Zaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:00:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Also, when the work read appears twice on a short line like that, it gives a wordy/redundant feeling. Perhaps better would be 'eselect news read' to view new items? ie. view instead of the

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command

2015-01-30 Thread Zac Medico
On 01/30/2015 12:14 AM, Jason Zaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:00:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Also, when the work read appears twice on a short line like that, it gives a wordy/redundant feeling. Perhaps better would be 'eselect news read' to view new items? ie. view instead of the

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command

2015-01-30 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:37:30 -0800 as excerpted: On 01/30/2015 12:14 AM, Jason Zaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:00:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Also, when the work read appears twice on a short line like that, it gives a wordy/redundant feeling. Perhaps better

[gentoo-dev] Office team needs developer help

2015-01-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hi all developers, The office team (packaging libreoffice and friends) needs your help. While both scarabeus and me are happy to do stuff there, we also have other projects, and real life occasionally intrudes as well. Which makes maintenance a bit burst-like at the moment... So, one or two

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command

2015-01-30 Thread Bob Wya
A timely idea when a Gentoo user has already been caught out by the CPU flags move. Nice one! On 30 Jan 2015 08:37, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 01/30/2015 12:14 AM, Jason Zaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:00:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Also, when the work read appears