Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started

2008-06-11 Thread Matthias Langer
If, as a user or an arch person, I get a src_test failure right now, I don't know whether this means eek! Something's gone wrong, and I really need to fix this or oh, whoever maintains this package doesn't care. But with EAPI 2, I'll be able to know that a src_test failure really does mean

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-09 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 14:18 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: Thomas Anderson wrote: As Fabian said it really isn't a matter of We like XML better than LaTeX! It's not those people's prerogative. Problems like having homogeneous documentation aren't that small. The people who wrote PMS

Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange behavior of fonts... help :(

2008-03-03 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 20:34 +1300, Alistair Bush wrote: This is not a support channel and that, while an interesting picture, provides absolutely no information whatsoever. Indeed. Please try [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include some useful background information. Matthias signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-08 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 02:47 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:44:22 -0800 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh... So where do the original problems come from? Are you saying that packages mysteriously start breaking on their own because no-one's maintaining them?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-06 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 09:12 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 10:08:47 +0100 Denis Dupeyron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. What he meant and doesn't dare to say is you didn't ask, but demanded, in your usual dry and pesky I'm a spoiled 6-year old tone. And this as usual

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-06 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:35 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:09:24 +0100 Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This kind of conversation is not technical at all... Ciaranm, are you a MIPS user? If so, do you think that running KEYWORDS=mips is less likely to result

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-cluster/openmpi: ChangeLog openmpi-1.1.1.ebuild openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild

2007-12-14 Thread Matthias Langer
On 02:10 Thu 13 Dec , Justin Bronder (jsbronder) wrote: 1.1 sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild?rev=1.1view=markup plain:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-cluster/openmpi: ChangeLog openmpi-1.1.1.ebuild openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild

2007-12-14 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 12:13 +, Sébastien Fabbro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/12/07 10:24, Matthias Langer wrote: On 02:10 Thu 13 Dec , Justin Bronder (jsbronder) wrote: 1.1 sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild file : http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-cluster/openmpi: ChangeLog openmpi-1.1.1.ebuild openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild

2007-12-14 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 16:16 +, Sébastien Fabbro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/12/07 14:12, Matthias Langer wrote: F77=ifort FC=ifort FFLAGS=-O3 -xO emerge -av openmpi This how it should be. To make it automatically reproducible, specify environment

Re: [gentoo-dev] checkrestart from debian-goodies

2007-08-24 Thread Matthias Langer
http://www.arcdraco.net/~dragon/checkrestart (Needs lsb-release, portage-utils, lsof and python) looks interesting indeed... whats also interesting: is there a reason for lsb-release (a shell script) to be keyworded for x86 only? matthias -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-15 Thread Matthias Langer
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 13:24 -0700, Mike Doty wrote: All- We're going to change the -dev mailing list from completely open to where only devs can post, but any dev could moderate a non-dev post. devs who moderate in bad posts will be subject to moderation themselves. in addition the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Script for easier stabilising of ebuilds

2007-07-08 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 14:45 +0200, Lars Weiler wrote: * Christian Faulhammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [07/07/08 12:31 +0200]: Lars Weiler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Comments are welcome! Have a look at app-portage/gatt-svn and help improve it. :) It's C++ :-( well, helping doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC]: gentoo-politics ML

2007-06-11 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 19:01 +0200, Alexander Gabert wrote: The person has personally attacked me after i simply concluded that he should maybe change his attitude to make a better impression on gentoo-dev and Gentoo developers. This guy is trolling for years and he enjoys and knows it all

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 16:51 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:44:46 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why did I knew that this argument would come? Maybe because it's your default reaction to any opposition. What, providing evidence to the contrary? What more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for May

2007-05-03 Thread Matthias Langer
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 08:11 +0100, Roy Marples wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007 22:00:05 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What, people deliberately breaking policy that directly leads to breaking stable and not having any working ebuilds for a package in the tree, and then refusing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: File collisions

2007-04-20 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 09:06 +0200, Rob C wrote: Its obviously not, Many users are reporting file-collisions on a weekly basis. So either this isn't sufficient or the arch teams are not acting as you describe. Can you provide some bug numbers to backup this claim? Matthias -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: File collisions

2007-04-20 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 19:56 +0200, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Langer wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 09:06 +0200, Rob C wrote: Its obviously not, Many users are reporting file-collisions on a weekly basis. So either

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-14 Thread Matthias Langer
not having it tested. That all depends. If having it tested means that it _will_ work, I'd be infavour of that. Well, the problem is, that a working test suite does not guarantee a working program, as well as a failing test suite doesn't necessarily mean that the program is broken. This

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-14 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 14:58 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: Steve Long kirjoitti: That makes a lot of sense. How about exending it a tiny bit and asking for it to be policy for all ebuilds EAPI=1 not to be allowed into stable without RESTRICT=test, or a functional test suite on the arch in

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Matthias Langer
The arch teams have been pushing for this for a long time. They're trying to get this enforced, but are having limited success because there's no way for FEATURES=test to become widely used that won't lead to broken user systems. Moving src_test to be always on in future EAPIs is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Why don't you just ...

2007-04-11 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 13:47 +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, I don't know what your problem really is about; I'm running x86, and if something breaks on my system, it's mostly not because of broken packages, but because I should have been

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-30 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 14:04 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tuesday 27 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Do you acknowledge that Portage is a severe limiting factor when it comes to improving the Gentoo user experience as a whole? what a lame question ... rather than waste time on this,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-24 Thread Matthias Langer
I'm very strongly against using Gentoo SoC time and resources for things that are not officially part of Gentoo (yes, this statement could be spun however you wish) or are not official Gentoo projects. And no, just because a project has Gentoo developers in it doesn't mean that it's a Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-14 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 18:18 +0100, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Kevin F. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So please, friends, just ignore it, nothing positive will come of it. Unfortunately it made its way onto big news site and lowers the view on Gentoo even more. From many comments I read we

Re: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies

2007-01-30 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 06:27 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [ Background: tr1 is a set of extensions to the C++ Standard Library giving various useful things like hash tables and smart pointers. There are partial implementations included in g++-4.1 and boost and full implementations available

Re: [gentoo-dev] jpeg-mmx is dead

2006-11-06 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 02:31 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 05 November 2006 22:42, Matthias Langer wrote: however, someone should adapt media-video/mjpegtools-1.8.0-r1 (see bug 154199) and someone should search for duplicates before filing bugs ups ... sorry - i should have looked

Re: [gentoo-dev] jpeg-mmx is dead

2006-11-05 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 02:26 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: upstream says it's dead and they dont want people using it ... considering the problems we've seen that sounds just peachy fine ... however, someone should adapt media-video/mjpegtools-1.8.0-r1 (see bug 154199) thanks, matthias --

[gentoo-dev] firefox-1.5.x still in ~arch

2006-03-19 Thread Matthias Langer
I'm just curious: What is the reason that firefox-1.5.x is still in ~arch ? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: firefox-1.5.x still in ~arch

2006-03-19 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 07:56 -0700, Duncan wrote: Matthias Langer posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:24:19 +0100: I'm just curious: What is the reason that firefox-1.5.x is still in ~arch ? General policy is that an ebuild should be bug-free in ~arch

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.14 stabilization

2005-12-21 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:36 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: since we have baselayout-1.12.x in ~arch, the new stable candidate (1.11.14) isnt getting much air time ... can people try upgrading to it and post any feedback they have with it ? it should mostly be a bugfix release over 1.11.13 since

[gentoo-dev] gcc-3.4 migration guide

2005-12-03 Thread Matthias Langer
Well done, i've allready switched completely to gcc-3.4 with my main box by reemerging about 650 packages. However, i allready started doing so a few days ago, so I didn't read the official migration guide before starting. Now, as everything works fine i just read this guide to compair it with my

Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-3.4 migration guide

2005-12-03 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 21:31 +0100, Jan Kundrát wrote: On Saturday 03 of December 2005 21:26 Matthias Langer wrote: 1.) If you remove gcc-3.3* before emerge -e system you will be left behind with a broken python and therefore emerge. Thus i think there should be a big red box telling users

Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-3.4 migration guide

2005-12-03 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 14:04 -0700, Joshua Baergen wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: 2.) emerge -e world on a system with lot of packages will most likley fail somewhere during the process for various reasons. Fixig the problem (for example by unmerging the package which causes

Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-3.4 migration guide

2005-12-03 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 21:38 -0400, Luis F. Araujo wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 14:04 -0700, Joshua Baergen wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: 2.) emerge -e world on a system with lot of packages will most likley fail somewhere during the process for various

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-12-01 Thread Matthias Langer
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 01:30 +0100, Marien Zwart wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:50:02 -0500 Mark Loeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 1.12.2005, 0:29:48, Chris Gianelloni wrote: revdep-rebuild --library=libstdc++.so.5 is all that's needed here to avoid

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-12-01 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 03:03 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 01:30 +0100, Marien Zwart wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:50:02 -0500 Mark Loeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 1.12.2005, 0:29:48, Chris Gianelloni wrote: revdep-rebuild

[gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation

2005-12-01 Thread Matthias Langer
I'm just a more or less simple user of gentoo who somtimes tries to look a bit behind the curtain, so if you think this posting doesn't belong to gentoo-dev let me know. However, maybe this is interesting to you: Recently i've got serious trouble with one of my hard drives, so that i was forced