Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-19 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:40:07 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:18:22 +0200 Kevin F. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Uh, as far as I recall, you've yet to come up with any technical | explanation other than it breaks one of my pet projects

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage: missing pieces

2006-07-10 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
the user to upgrade gcc, which meant no change required to the tree. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html - as far as devs are concerned, The problem described is not a bug so INVALID is the correct resolution marking. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage: missing pieces

2006-07-10 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
to change it. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd: vdr - topic reanimated

2006-07-10 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
to be the most sensible approach. What do you think of that? Zzam -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage: missing pieces

2006-07-10 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:23:54 +0200 Molle Bestefich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin F. Quinn wrote: The expectation here is that when a new version of gcc is stabilized, that users will upgrade to that in a reasonable amount of time, and use that (by selecting it with gcc-config

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage: missing pieces

2006-07-10 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
of GCC as possible.. That's unlikely to be true. Some upstream developers do maintain compatibility with a range of compiler versions. Some upstream developers only recommend one specific version. Many will be somewhere in between. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for some CD/DVD-recording applications

2006-07-08 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
writing - will it not use the newer app-cdr/cdrtools to support DVDs (perhaps with the -n option to not check the tool version)? Presumably the newer cdrtools is backwards-compatible with the cdrecord-prodvd command line options? -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Gentoo vs GNU toolchain (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags)

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
before this thread started, so don't think I'm just looking for something to complain about now.) Again, if you don't gave GCC_SPECS defined in your environment then that patch makes no difference to code generation. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding CPUFLAGS USE_EXPAND variable to the profiles

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
in more detail can do that as well. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo activity graphs

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
the total number of open bugs over the same period has increased by just 372 bugs from 9947 to 10319 (total new + reopened - closed = 3791). -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-06 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
already does the worst-case fall-back, as it responds 'no' if the compiler doesn't support -dM or doesn't define the relevant macro. echo | $(tc-getCC) ${CFLAGS} -dM -E - 2/dev/null | grep -q ${def} || hasfeat=no The '2/dev/null' is the critical element for that. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-06 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:44:22 +0200 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 July 2006 14:35, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: This could easily be done by configure scripts; perhaps it would be a good idea to look into writing some autoconf macros. Actually there's little

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-06 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
affected (1%), so I think it's worth a try. In the end it may be that a few packages need to deal with stuff manually like with the current USE flags, but they'd be local USE flags at that point. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-06 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
/evas x11-libs/libast x11-misc/rss-glx x11-terms/eterm x11-themes/polymer x11-wm/afterstep x11-wm/metisse -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Gentoo vs GNU toolchain (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags)

2006-07-06 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
exactly is it about the toolchain supplied with Gentoo that causes you problems? -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-06 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 22:13:11 +0200 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note: -march=i586 -mmmx for Pentium (classic) MMX is a good idea most of the times, as it's not an i686 but at the same time it has MMX support. There's -march=pentium-mmx for this. -- Kevin F. Quinn

Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd

2006-07-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
does, for many targets on many hosts. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd

2006-07-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
- indeed, a package can belong to more than one herd. However changing a package's category is much more disruptive and should be avoided. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing

2006-07-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
volunteers as appropriate using email acknowledgement to ensure requests are serviced. Point being, there are numerous ways we can comply, and no excuse for not complying from now on. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
one of them can accept... -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing

2006-07-01 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:53:42 + (UTC) Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin F. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily

Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL and Source code providing

2006-06-28 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
should be provided sufficient to build those binaries. Do my senses run wilde? Your just my imagination? Do I understand this right? If you're not sure whether something you do is compliant with the relevant licenses, talk to an appropriate lawyer. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GPL and Source code providing

2006-06-28 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
disc from you if they wish. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GPL and Source code providing

2006-06-28 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:20:00 +0200 Maurice van der Pot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:54:12PM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: You don't have to do this for binary files copied from a Gentoo Live CD, as in that case you're a third party (like a courier, or the postman

Re: [gentoo-dev] Assigning bugs to treecleaners

2006-06-27 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
and caching had become really long. If you want to sync just part of the tree, look into setting '--exclude' or '--exclude-from' options via PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS in make.conf. See rsync(1) and make.conf(5). Never tried it myself, but it should work. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-06-21 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
this issue (which presumably isn't limited to just gtk and qt), although it may not be worth the disruption to rework gtk/gtk2 into gtk/gtk1. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-06-21 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:25:42 -0700 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:14:08 -0700 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Thanks for the clarification The goal is to avoid a double-flag combo to do a single thing. qt always

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-06-20 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
- if/when qt5 becomes available, it means introducing a qt4 use flag and back-fitting to existing ebuilds that used 'qt' but don't build against qt5. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to , and depending on virtual/libc

2006-06-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
packages. As to what the best way to go about it, I'm not certain, but I do think specifying a few packages: virtual/compiler, virtual/libc and a few limited things from system packages should be ok. Or maybe even virtual/system (with the compiler removed from that virtual). -- Kevin F. Quinn

Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to , and depending on virtual/libc

2006-06-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
system dependencies to be omitted, we should be very explicit; i.e. publish a strict list. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] strict-aliasing rules, don't break them

2006-06-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
of these actually trigger real problems or not I don't know; but then probaly neither do the upstream developers... -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

2006-06-15 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
maintainers re-assign amongst themselves if appropriate. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

2006-06-15 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:57:21 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 15 June 2006 02:33, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: We could require that a herd mail alias be maintained for every herd, with the same name as the herd, such that the herd alias lists

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-06-15 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
from the Sunrise project team, where they've behaved like that. Best regards, Stu -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

2006-06-15 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:22:31 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would much rather see something like sunrise (but not necessarily sunrise itself) used to put packages which are no longer maintained, but were once in the tree. sunset.overlays.g.o :) -- Kevin F. Quinn

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification

2006-06-11 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
the benefits accrued so far from having a bunch of people helping to iron out early QA problems would remain, and at the same time the group of people most likely to pick up the package would also be aware of it. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Project Sunrise -- Proposal

2006-06-11 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
ebuilds to a decent standard, and it might help some users to contribute, but it won't help if no dev wants to take on maintainership of the package. That last point is the only reason why m-w/m-n packages are not in the tree. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds

2006-06-10 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
Which kinda defeats the purpose of a clean install. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds

2006-06-10 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:44:41 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 10 June 2006 04:32, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: I do think we should avoid built_with_use where we can, as it causes emerge to abort. no it doesnt ... the ebuild maintainer makes the package abort based upon

Re: [gentoo-dev] client+server packages - build which one?

2006-06-09 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
packages to possably beneift udhcp mldonkey samhain bacula boxbackup Interestingly, many packages have a server USE flag but not a client one - maybe make both a global USE flag? Good idea? Bad idea? Thoughts? Thanks -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] What is official?

2006-06-09 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
, then who gets to decide, and how is that decision made? How can that decision be made fairly, without contradicting the metastructure, and without giving rise to any accusations of 'cabals'? Best regards, Stu -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion + 1

2006-06-08 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
work completely, in that it needs to be in place for portage.py before the bashrc script is sourced. Is this no longer a problem? -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] tiny manpage fix

2006-05-26 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 25 May 2006 21:57:30 -0400 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached is a tiny diff for make.conf, can someone with l337 skills in manpages look it over before it gets commited. Easiest way to check how a man page looks is to do: nroff -man raw man page | less -- Kevin F. Quinn

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] tiny manpage fix

2006-05-26 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Fri, 26 May 2006 02:28:44 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 May 2006 02:27, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On Thu, 25 May 2006 21:57:30 -0400 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached is a tiny diff for make.conf, can someone with l337 skills in manpages look

Re: [gentoo-dev] et_EE locale and language of error messages

2006-05-24 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
LC_* to determine the user's locale preferences, I see no problem with that. What do you think? LC_ALL=C in portage or not? I vote not. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Signing everything, for fun and for profit

2006-05-18 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
, this issue is obvious as each subdirectory would have its own manifest. Obviously the best way to add this sort of thing is to add support to repoman, which has been mentioned before for profiles at least, for QA. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
as it is currently being proposed. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Modular X and hardened

2006-05-14 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
On Sat, 13 May 2006 23:04:10 -0700 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: Oh, OK, let's argue semantics. It's suggested by a hardened user on a bug the hardened team is CC'd on, but the team didn't say anything was wrong with the change. That's because

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Modular X and hardened

2006-05-14 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
, binutils would also be patched to support -z nonow, and -Wl,-z,nonow would be appended to LDFLAGS, but that's something for later concern. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X and hardened

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
On Sat, 13 May 2006 11:32:49 +0200 Simon Strandman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) skrev: On Fri, 12 May 2006 10:49:22 +0200 Simon Strandman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed modular X on my server running hardened. X on a server? If it's just for the libs that's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Modular X and hardened

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
raise a separate bug about the QA message and Xorg, and attach the diff you apply to x-modular.eclass. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X and hardened

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
probably start looking at it again once it becomes stable (also upstream have a pending task to resolve the issue properly, but don't hold your breath). P.S. there's a hardened mailing list that is relevant. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-05 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
superseded. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that need maintainers

2006-05-05 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
In the first instance, do the work on bugzilla. Look for open bugs for existing packages, and post fixes/patches there. For packages not currently in portage, raise a new bug. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-05 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
On Fri, 5 May 2006 13:20:09 +0200 Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 08:32, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: If you use specific versions in the package.keywords file (i.e. do =category/package-version-revision ~arch instead of category/package ~arch, this doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-05 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
On Fri, 5 May 2006 16:38:57 +0200 Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 15:23, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: I disagree. Your argument is for not using ~arch at all, rather than an argument against keeping control of what you have from ~arch. No. My argument

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds, Teams and Projects

2006-04-28 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
at it; herds are a mechanism for locating maintainers for packages. Seems simple enough when written out like that - flame me if I have it wrong :) -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds, Teams and Projects

2006-04-27 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
a few people think this then I suggest it would be better to accept the common interpretation of herd as a group of people who can maintain a package. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds, Teams and Projects

2006-04-27 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:27:12 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 09:22 +0200, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: I must admit I've assumed that the herd entry in metadata.xml is a reasonable fall-back if the maintainer entry is missing or the listed maintainer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Purpose of USE=doc

2006-04-26 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
) cause extra deps (2) and (3) are usually co-incident. IMHO, of course ;) Whatever we decide USE=doc means, it should be documented as such in use.desc -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

2006-03-25 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
doesn't. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

2006-03-25 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:46:58 + Duncan Coutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 12:42 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: This is a valid issue, as ghc is only supplied upstream for linux (some older versions available in mingw32). I don't think this is right. All

Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

2006-03-25 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:37:45 + Duncan Coutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:32 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:46:58 + Duncan Coutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 12:42 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: User created package lists

2006-03-21 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
adding '--list file' to emerge, you can of course to package lists yourself anyway as portage exists today. Just create a file with a list of atoms in it, and do for example: # cat file | xargs emerge -puv Doesn't get much easier than that - perhaps I'm missing something :) -- Kevin F. Quinn

Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?

2006-03-09 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
character) - instead it leaves the non-conformant bytes alone. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [rfc] variable naming for marking binaries as QA ignorable

2006-03-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
: if [[ -n ${QA_STRICT_TEXTRELS} ]]; then f=$(scanelf -qyRF '%t %p' ${D}) else filter version fi ... where we can add QA_STRICT_TEXTRELS to make.defaults. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [rfc] variable naming for marking binaries as QA ignorable

2006-03-06 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 20:46:25 -0500 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 05 March 2006 19:48, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: This could be done via the profiles, perhaps - package.qa, something like package.mask/use/keywords: i hate such things ... imo this information should

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [rfc] variable naming for marking binaries as QA ignorable

2006-03-05 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
/slmodem QA_EXECSTACK=... QA_TEXTRELS=... -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to turn off hardened gcc flags reliably?

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
(if any) come across it as the only supported way to use the stack protector at the moment is by using the hardened compiler. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
/mspress/books/sampchap/5612b.asp describes a number of risks of accepting UTF-8, including the above. So far I haven't found anything that could be considered a general security risk, but that doesn't prove much :) -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: seeing a new trend of laziness developing.

2006-02-26 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
along with the resolution this becomes unnecessary in the majority of cases. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Putting all log related packages into it's own category (sys-logging)

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
be a question for the maintainers of those packages :) -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 47: Creating 'safe' environment variables

2006-02-09 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:48:32 +0100 Grobian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please find attached GLEP 47: Creating 'safe' environment variables. Could you add a definition of 'safe' to the GLEP? It's not clear what this means at the moment. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2

2006-01-20 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
the ssp-stubs - from 4.1 onwards that'll be upstream as well. Having said that, I don't think we need -fno-stack-protector in default DEBUG_FLAGS anyway, as it doesn't inhibit debug (unlike -Wl,pie). -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2

2006-01-19 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
executables, which might be better as it'd keep code closer to the non-debug code. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada compiler: split complete, naming suggestions for gnat-gpl?

2006-01-15 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
as a release version; gnat-gpl-2005 would be enough. Later releases can add a point revision if necessary; if you do 2005.1 now, what happens if upstream release gnat-gpl-2005.1.tgz? Another possibility is gnat-gpl-3.4.5.2005, but I'm not sure that it's worth it. -- Kevin F. Quinn -- Kevin F

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance

2005-12-24 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
-s' (which shows all segments). If any one can point me to code in the kernel or loader that maps debug symbol sections I'm sure many would be interested. -- Kevin F. Quinn -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Textrels in packages policy

2005-12-14 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:19:56 +0100 Harald van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 08:51:42AM +0100, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:59:23 +0100 Harald van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005

Re: [gentoo-dev] Textrels in packages policy

2005-12-13 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
and upstream are happy to have the issues fixed, and we should be most insistent for shared libraries that are actually used as libraries shared between applications. For profiles that must refuse textrels, unfixed packages can be masked. Similarly with executable stack. - -- Kevin F. Quinn -BEGIN

Re: [gentoo-dev] Textrels in packages policy

2005-12-13 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
as ebuilds are concerned, if you add it to LDFLAGS you will need to re-check the application every time you bump the ebuild, and it's difficult to find new occurrences of nested functions for example if you've applied '--noexecstack'. - -- Kevin F. Quinn -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 25/11/2005 11:46:54, Marius Mauch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Except that no{man,info,doc} are on the to-die list anyway. When you say 'to-die' do you mean completely removed, or do you mean replaced with {man,info,doc} (i.e. removing inverted logic)? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 26/11/2005 13:55:25, Ned Ludd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 19:30 +0100, Bruno wrote: What's the advantage of splitting out the debug info to some extra location instead of leaving it in the original binary (maybe smaller foot-print in memory while the debugging

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 20/10/2005 21:16:47, Dan Armak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:58, Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote: On 10/20/05, Dan Armak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default flag, i.e. 'noxserver'. I know some people are strongly

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 20/10/2005 21:16:47, Dan Armak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:58, Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote: On 10/20/05, Dan Armak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default flag, i.e. 'noxserver'. I know some people are strongly

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

2005-10-11 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 11/10/2005 9:18:41, Dave Nebinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is probably the fifth time at least that I've been bitten by this... https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11359 [NEW FEATURE] pkg_postinst/pkg_preinst ewarn/einfo logging -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
How about if the maintainer wants wider testing, i.e. wants to move it out of package.mask and into ~arch but isn't confident it's ready yet for arch, adding a string variable to ebuilds indicating why the maintainer considers the package unstable, eg: UNSTABLE=#100435, #100345, unconfirmed break

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 17/9/2005 0:20:57, Mark Loeser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: C++ herd is a good idea, especially with that number of packages. I would also like to see many of them, if not all, moved to the dev-cpp category: Is this bit really necessary? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 17/9/2005 13:33:30, Christian Parpart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Saturday 17 September 2005 11:36, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On 17/9/2005 0:20:57, Mark Loeser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: C++ herd is a good idea, especially with that number of packages. I would also like to see many

Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 17/9/2005 11:34:56, Brian Harring ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:28:03AM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: The 30-day could be calculated from the $Header: of ebuilds that have no UNSTABLE, or where it's empty. Doesn't work for N arches keywording, or ebuild dev doing

Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 7/9/2005 3:10:12, Stuart Longland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 9:44:41 +0200 Kevin F. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 5/9/2005 1:29:57, Ciaran McCreesh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 1:12:54 +0200 Kevin F. Quinn | [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-05 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 5/9/2005 13:41:54, Jason Stubbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Monday 05 September 2005 20:21, Simon Stelling wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: If it isn't fit to be marked stable, it shouldn't be out of package.mask. ~arch means candidate for going stable after more testing, not might

Re: [gentoo-dev] merge amd64 x86 arches? (was: crap use flags in the profiles)

2005-09-01 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 31/8/2005 9:18:53, Stephen P. Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Keep in mind that the *stable* trees of x86 and amd64 are actually pretty close to the same versions anyway, I just ran gmsoft's imlate script for amd64 vs. x86 keywords: hmm; missed a biggie - sys-devel/gcc which is stable

Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64

2005-09-01 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 1/9/2005 20:54:14, Stephen P. Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is it just me, it seems that only sparc/mips devs want that kind of change and non none of the x86/amd64 devs... I still dont see what practical advantage that would bring to x86/amd64 users or developers? If you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles

2005-08-30 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 30/8/2005 10:46:54, Stephen P. Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is this also a good time to note that the amd64 and x86 could *easily* be covered under the same keyword? The big reason I think, is that few x86 people have a clue about amd64. Contrast this with the mips team; I'd guess

Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed shift of files in the tree of non profiles files into seperate dir

2005-08-27 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 27/8/2005 10:42:25, Brian Harring ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hola all. Straight to the point, I'm proposing that the following files- arch.list categories use.desc use.local.desc package.mask updates be moved out of the profiles directory in the tree Not sure about package.mask.

Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed shift of files in the tree of non profiles files into seperate dir

2005-08-27 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 27/8/2005 13:34:15, Brian Harring ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Rough filtering stack- profiles/package.mask /etc/make.profile/package.mask (incremental through subprofiles) users package.mask, and users package.unmask Ordered it in that fashion to show that it's effectively repository

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing the TERM mess

2005-08-23 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 21/8/2005 23:05:05, Ciaran McCreesh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Now the proposal. This isn't something that can happen immediately, but it's something I'd like to see us working towards: [...] * De-cripple the standard xterm definition and remove restrictions from programs which can

Re: [gentoo-dev] digest + manifest = new file format

2005-08-05 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 5/8/2005 4:36:40, Alec Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Problems with all of these include the same problems as the cascaded profiles, some goofball doesn't upgrade for a year, syncs with new digests...how does he get his portage upgraded? An upgrade path should be provided and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Modular X plans

2005-08-02 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 2/8/2005 16:30:45, Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Donnie Berkholz wrote: I'm still awaiting any solid arguments against x11-proto, and they had best be expedited (read below for why). Well, I kind of mentioned it on irc, but I'll throw it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: pre-emerge advisories

2005-07-14 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 14/7/2005 7:24:03, Craig Lawson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] To be more concrete, I'm thinking of something like a database [...] I don't think a separate database is a good idea; too many sources for information. [...] For example [...] current: any target:

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