Re: [gentoo-dev] Going against co-maintainer's wishes (ref. bug 412697)

2013-05-25 Thread Carlos Silva
Ben, you're really just being a child here. Is that a really big problem to add a small text file to your package?! Is that a big maintaining burden? If you can't test it, systemd team can, just like there are arch teams to test packages on other archs the maintainers can't. It's not something

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-18 Thread Carlos Silva
Is the real problem just the god damn unit/init files?! Damn, who cares about 2KiB files in the age of GiBs?! You can install 1000 of them that it will only take 2MiB of storage, so please, quit complaining about this. One thing dev's should take care is (not that affects me, 'cause I really

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] patch linux-mod.eclass to add support for module signing V2

2013-03-11 Thread Carlos Silva
it signing_key.priv and siging_key.x509 and put it under /usr/src/linux. After the kernel is compiled, this keys can be moved elsewhere and the path to them specified in make.conf under the vars KERNEL_MODSECKEY and KERNEL_MODPUBKEY. Patch below for review, discussion and testing. Thanks, Carlos Silva --- linux

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] patch linux-mod.eclass to add support for module signing

2013-03-06 Thread Carlos Silva
specified in make.conf under the vars KERNEL_MODSECKEY and KERNEL_MODPUBKEY. Patch below for review, discussion and testing. Thanks, Carlos Silva [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447352 --- linux-mod.eclass 2012-09-15 16:31:15.0 + +++ linux-mod.eclass 2013-03-06 15:57

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] patch linux-mod.eclass to add support for module signing

2013-03-06 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: # This looks messy, but it is needed to handle multiple variables # being passed in the BUILD_* stuff where the variables also have - # spaces that must be preserved. If don't do this, then the stuff + # spaces

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] patch linux-mod.eclass to add support for module signing

2013-03-06 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Carlos Silva wrote: If one wants to create a key himself, it's also possible to use this key, he just has to name it signing_key.priv and siging_key.x509 and put it under /usr/src/linux. Do you know if this is a sane

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] patch linux-mod.eclass to add support for module signing

2013-03-06 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Carlos Silva wrote: If one wants to create a key himself, it's also possible to use this key, he just has to name it signing_key.priv and siging_key.x509 and put it under /usr/src/linux. Do you know

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-04 Thread Carlos Silva
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I'm not a C programmer, let alone a developer, so this may be a stupid question, but here goes... has anyone ever tried doing a HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) to present a reasonably stable interface to binary video

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Carlos Silva
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:42 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: What do we have useflags for in gentoo? add a unsupported-kernels useflag, mask it, add a clear statement in the masking reason and be done Not a bad solution, still, I, as a user, don't think making the compilation work

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Carlos Silva
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 23:11:44 -0800 Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: I do not find their stance wholly unreasonable. They offered to point users at an overlay, if someone was willing to maintain the patches there

[gentoo-dev] Fwd: Retiring...

2008-05-13 Thread Carlos Silva
Hi gang, I'm really sorry to leave you guys but my current life isn't compatible with working on Gentoo. Live is too busy to give Gentoo the time it deserves. I really liked to work with all of you. I'll try to contribute as much as possible via bugzzie. If anyone need any kind of

[gentoo-dev] fwbuilder and libfwbuilder

2007-07-24 Thread Carlos Silva
Hi guys, if nobody has an objection to it, i'll take maintainership of the fwbuilder/libfwbuilder ebuilds since they are in need of love. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multislot mysql

2006-02-03 Thread Carlos Silva
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 10:19 +, Francesco Riosa wrote: Ok, I've been realized that having a slotted mysql is not the dream of every end user ... or developer. Anyway I prefere too keep the possibility to do a similar install. A good solution should be to add the multislot USE flag to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X

2006-01-24 Thread Carlos Silva
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 13:38 +0100, Christian Heim wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 09:34, RH wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:06:12PM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: A) You have commit access to gentoo-x86, AND B) you're comfortable with the porting process OR are adept with ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] Just another portage enhancement idea...

2005-10-11 Thread Carlos Silva
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 09:18 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: This is probably the fifth time at least that I've been bitten by this... Portage is great in that it manages compiles for a bulk of applications (including dependencies) in one fell swoop. Yesterday I emerged gnome - that was it,

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: nsplugin

2005-08-26 Thread Carlos Silva
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 19:18 +0100, Carlos Silva wrote: Hey! Why was reading the use.local.desc file and noticed that there are 6 packages with this use flag... If nobody oposes it, I'll make it a global use flag with the Description all the nsplugin local flags have :) Just commited

[gentoo-dev] My GPG Key

2005-08-20 Thread Carlos Silva
About a week ago, i sent a mail to this list saying that i lost my key and posting a new one (AAC32A11). Now, i'm sending this email saying that i revoked this new key, since i managed to get my original one. Sorry for any inconvinience. -- Carlos r3pek Silva Gentoo Developer

[gentoo-dev] Put DESCRIPTION HOMEPAGE and LICENSE in another place

2005-08-10 Thread Carlos Silva
I know that portage team is closed for new features :) but this just came to my mind just 5 minutes ago and seemed good enought to try. Let's just think that portage handles 5 version of package foo and foo has http://www.foo.org; and homepage, GPL-v2 license and foo just make your pc look faster

Re: [gentoo-dev] Put DESCRIPTION HOMEPAGE and LICENSE in another place

2005-08-10 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 01:15 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:04:25 +0100 Carlos Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What do you think of this? GLEP 5 *G* :) thx for the info btw, why is the status of GLEP 5 timed out? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs is dead, let's move on

2005-07-15 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:46 -0700, Greg KH wrote: Ok, now that devfs is removed from the 2.6 kernel tree[1], I think it's time to start to revisit some of the /dev naming rules that we currently are living with[2]. To start with, the 061 version of udev offers a big memory savings if you

Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue)

2005-05-15 Thread Carlos Silva
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 17:18 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: one advantage that other binary based package managers have over Gentoo is ease of recovery from broken core packages ... break your gcc ? no problem ! simply do `apt-get install gcc` or `rpm -i gcc` or whatever my proposal is to