ould somehow ensure that a USE flag is never set
globally, but only on a per-package basis?
Wkr,
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em standard that says
> how to do these things?
Yes, wouldn't the Docker project be happy to take on a patch that uses
gethostname() or so?
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ke free and open source
> software available to everyone.
>
Hi José,
Although it's sad to see you leave, I feel it's more like a mutation than a
farewell. I'm glad you continue to contribute to the open source/free
software community, and wish you all the best within the Fedora community.
With kind regards,
Sven Vermeulen
aka SwifT
certain
problem would already have been implemented. For instance, ebuilds with an
optional python part using the python-r1 eclass. Do you think it is
worthwhile to have a number of packages assigned as good examples?
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
of the commit
message).
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Sven Vermeulen
recommendation is used. See Beautiful bug reports [2] and
Bugzilla HOWTO [3] as examples.
[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Beautiful_bug_reports
[3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugzilla_HOWTO
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
just stop making
massive bug reports and do the change(s) myself...
Someone? Pretty-please?
Wkr,
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only. People who installed the package
already are not affected.
Thanks. I'll do the necessary updates tomorrow then (without revbump) and
invalidate
the bug reports I already made.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
developers to not forget this.
Is this a good approach to take?
Happy to hear your thoughts on this,
Sven Vermeulen
On July 22, 2014 11:25:05 AM CEST, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote:
El mar, 22-07-2014 a las 10:32 +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand escribió:
[...]
I find it somewhat curious that the difference between ~arch and
stable hasn't been brought up in this discussion yet. IMHO a user on
~arch should
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:13:12AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
Hi, developers and users.
[...]
Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions, please do
not hesitate to ask.
Hi Michał
Thank you for your endless effort to get Gentoo to this stage (and further).
Wkr,
Sven
on SELinux systems, but that
isn't something that cannot be worked around...
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-interactive/daemon) account (for that there is
also the user id range and so on) but for visibility it's definitely worth
persuing.
Wkr,
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cryptographic-related.
So - is app-misc ok?
Wkr,
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while cronie forked it
fixing some bugs :/
What do you think?
I'm ok with it. At least cronie's main website is quick to find, and I
remember a bug I sent in to the cronie maintainers and got a fast reply, so
positive experience as well.
Wkr,
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it is once I hit it, because I have a good idea what
changed and why.
Care to elaborate a small bit on this? Is this a hook through bashrc that
you use? I'm running a few - myself (not openrc though) and am
interested in doing something similar...
Wkr,
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that (at the time of conversion the project sites
themselves are still available to consult).
I'll update the stylesheet with the suggested style improvements this evening.
Wkr,
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better moves of our documentation as well.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:04:04PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:
I like the idea. It might help bring developers and users closer.
Me too, if I can ever contribute to it, or help users with their Gentoo
(Hardened/SELinux/IMA/EVM/...) through it, I'll be happy to work with it.
Wkr,
Sven
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 02:15:29PM +0200, Alex Legler wrote:
On 11.06.2013 13:05, Theo Chatzimichos wrote:
On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:20:20 Sven Vermeulen wrote:
Jason A. Donenfeld zx...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Alex Legler a...@gentoo.org wrote:
- Projects: Use
Jason A. Donenfeld zx...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Alex Legler a...@gentoo.org wrote:
- Projects: Use a GuideXML-to-Wikisyntax conversion tool to create an
initial wiki version of the document
What is the current status of such a tool?
It is a script (xslt) that
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/matching-packages-with-cves/
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:10:45AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
alsaconf should die as it's useful only for ISA/PCMCIA and currently broken
see, http://bugs.gentoo.org/456214
does anyone have problems with dropping alsaconf and patching the
gentoo's alsa-guide.xml to tell users to edit
below.
Feels like I'm on reddit now...
Upvote for you for the explanation, and an upvote to Robin for implementing it
for
us!
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into the chroot section, and mkdir /usr/portage
if that is needed?
Crap. Indeed, section moved towards the place where we optionally recommend
emerge --sync, and put in an mkdir /usr/portage.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:44:31AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote:
On 11/30/2012 06:46 AM, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
On Nov 29, 2012 10:24 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
We could slightly simplify the handbook installation procedure if we
told people to use emerge-webrsync
On Nov 29, 2012 10:24 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
We could slightly simplify the handbook installation procedure if we
told people to use emerge-webrsync to fetch the initial snapshot. What
do people think?
Seems a good improvement to me.
I'm ok with it as well. I'll
that a switch took place.
1) To a first approximation, nobody reads the documentation.
There sure are a lot of nobody's then...
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for a while anyhow).
Wkr,
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the
patches for the documentation.
Meanwhile, I could follow the procedure to become a docdev.
Hi Xavier,
You might want to take this to the gentoo-doc mailinglist. That being said,
I don't mind proxying commits for you guys. I'll contact you offlist for the
details.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
-imap
selinux-gnupg
selinux-haveged
selinux-openldap
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that new commits won't bring it in again.
Yours faithfully,
your local doc monkey
Sven Vermeulen
PS Sending to gentoo-dev because it also includes changes on the
xml/htdocs/proj/* documents.
stabilized then we can talk about Handbook integration, not?
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 08:56:22AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Do you really want to be advertising an awful hack that doesn't really
work, is conceptually unsound and that breaks all kinds of things in
subtle ways?
Isn't that something all major distributions do? ;-)
Sven
is seriously recommended (should), what is nice to have
(could), etc. And for me, having a separate /usr/portage is a nice-to-have
imo.
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work again on it...
Wkr,
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, people start asking more information
for just the necessary bits, making the guides longer and longer, after
which they'll eventually need to be made multi-page.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
, privoxy, squid and apache on
a daily basis (albeit not to their full potential).
Wkr,
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a separate partition for /usr and
includes it in the example setup. This should be changed now, not when
stabilization time comes.
It's an example, and we still endorse it. Only will we now tell users to use
an initramfs with it.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
restrictions or even SELinux) that makes Gentoo Hardened systems less
vulnerable to this specific vulnerability.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:08:44PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Or will /etc move to /usr too?
No, /etc isn't going anywhere.
Are you sure? I heard a rumour that systemd will soon require you to
put /etc inside your initrd (since / can't be mounted without it).
Obviously, you'd have
.
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underlying, etc.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
check on IRC regardless, if not just to give a heads
up on changes.
Also, my apologies for not sorting the list. Careful readers will notice it
is sorted, but by the package name, not category :/
Thanks you all for the feedback!
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
there are quite a few packages that would need updates, I thought about
first mailing gentoo-dev for feedback and perhaps a first chunk of work done. I
also wouldn't mind creating bugreports for each of them, but that would still be
best done after having mailed gentoo-dev ;-)
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to mail me
or, even better, file a bugreport (I act better on bug reports than on
e-mails).
Oh, and I use a separate /usr with no initramfs (yet), with software raid
and lvm2.
/me quickly hides
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
and for all ;-)
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml
[2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/docs/previews/gcc-upgrading.xml
Hi all,
For those using one of the SELinux profiles, sec-policy/selinux-mta will be
masked/removed as its policy is already part of selinux-base-policy
(and as such gives conflicts, cfr bug #384851).
Other people won't notice this as the package is already masked by default.
Wkr,
Sven
they should
be okay now. However, some good reviews never hurt.
If you do still find issues, don't hesitate to create a bugreport for it.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 07:42:29PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:06:48PM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
That said, I'm a bit hesitant to describing that we recommend it
regardless of the situation. What is wrong with describing when? At least
inform our users
that creates an initramfs know which files to copy from
/usr and /var anyhow?
Also, how well does this play with all our profiles (so not only the popular
architectures)? What about SELinux and/or grSecurity's RBAC model? Are these
supported throughout the initramfs?
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
on a separate partition too (using LVM) without an
initramfs or initrd. Works just fine. And I'd like to keep it that way,
since it is simple and very manageable.
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) its
source code or application behavior, i.e. learn the program, not
modify it.
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the package manager.
Most of the time, the user is happy with the answer ;-)
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, have fun and we'll sure see you around!
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was willing to
become its lead when I begged him to do so. Please give him the usual
Gentoo words of encouragement for which we are so well known.
My condolences to Jorge...
Or isn't that the encouragement you were looking for? *g*
Hit the bug(ger)s!
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sent in his ebuild quiz and thus becoming a
full-fledged Ebuild developer.
So please welcome Dimitry as a new (old) fellow developer among us !
Even though diox is short, I'd like to propose a nickchange to O2 to
save some expensive bytes. But for the rest: always welcome Dimitry !
;-)
Wkr,
Sven
There is an unofficial
Gentoo Wiki filled with guides written by several hundreds of users.
I'm sure this can't be wrong...
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At least there's one sane property on this guy - he doesn't like the Perl
language. And for that alone I disregard his mushroom incident... as long as
he doesn't think he sees Larry fly.
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On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:43:23AM -0400, Michael Cummings wrote:
Sven Vermeulen wrote:
At least there's one sane property on this guy - he doesn't like the Perl
language. And for that alone I disregard his mushroom incident... as long as
he doesn't think he sees Larry fly.
Bah. Can't
their mind. Look paps, no hands!
Anyway, he loves books and movies too - as well as a good beer. If you ever
find the time, come over to Belgium and I'll show you what *real* beers are
like.
You get a good 'old welcome from me, Wolf. Welcome.
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for the KB (we're all lazy).
Each time a good candidate is found, we can put the topics in it and test
it.
For more discussion on this, please use the gentoo-kbase mailinglist.
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PS I've tried to get it on the gmane lists but apparently failed. I'll
retry.
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on the
writing.
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[1] This is actually what I had in mind for the Gentoo KB
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. The mailinglist is
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to go (sic), a GLEP will probably follow for those who don't want to follow
the mailinglist but do want to know what we will be/are doing.
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[1] http://kb.redhat.com
[2] http
.
Like I said on the meeting, I need coffee, so please forgive any spelling
and grammar mistakes made.
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itself? I really don't know if that would help or not, but it is an
idea.
The amount of bugs isn't the problem, but it does serve as a warning event
to show the user how fragmented a project goal can be. In this case, not
even all documentation is handled by the documentation team.
Wkr,
Sven
decent versioning tools (or they have them
but they're really awkward to use).
The Java team already uses the gentoo-wiki.com infrastructure, indeed an
unofficial wiki for official documentation.
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-100 Feature Requests [1], Gentoo
Binary profile [2], Gentoo Knowledge Base [3], USE-flag triggered
software installation [4], etc.
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[1] A site where the community can vote (one vote per bugzilla account?) on
feature requests (or bugs), could be integrated in bugzilla
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:21:39PM +0100, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
There are some interesting ideas on the Gentoo Forums that aren't situated
in any of the current projects, such as Top-100 Feature Requests [1],
Gentoo
Binary profile [2], Gentoo Knowledge Base [3], USE-flag triggered
software
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:56:37AM +0100, Marius Mauch wrote:
current agenda:
decision on multi-hash for Manifest1
You mean the Manifest2 GLEP, or did I miss something?
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:51:25AM -0600, Brian Harring wrote:
Please welcome Marien Zwart, aka marienz to the crew. He's joining up
as a python monkey, working on twisted (2.x stable ebuilds anyone?
^.^), portage 3 hacking, and pretty much anything python wise.
Finally, he's been helping
was that we need a strong,
compelling case for not using it since it is something the community has
voted on.
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FAQ
- Update the Gentoo FAQ
- Update the Gentoo Handbook FAQ
Perhaps I should use the blink.../blink tags more often.
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yada
* content get third most points
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of other automated emails, that's not an accurate representation
of whether an email alias is actively used or not.
Isn't this an issue that also exists for the Gentoo developers in general?
Wkr,
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,
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PS I would be quite surprised if there is *one* arch tester who feels good
with this entire thread; it doesn't show of much appreciation between
people. There is a huge difference between saying that a group has made
an unfortunate decision or did not grasp the essence
for
that.
Time is no-one's friend, you'll always find that you can't find any spare
hours in your back pocket.
I wish them the best and they're of course always welcome for a quick chat.
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open (with a moderation system to check
message), then they will be used more.
But there is no such system available yet. It is a single commit that gets
transferred to the web site, no moderation possible.
Doesn't mean that it shouldn't be done though.
Wkr,
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PS. If you
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 05:10:28PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
If the latter: hump the baselayout team.
What does baselayout have to do with this?
They're to blame for about everything.
Nah, my bad. Of course I meant those responsible for the profiles.
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as dependency of
virtual/logger?
If the former: hump the GDP.
If the latter: hump the baselayout team.
If both, try humping one of them at a time. Doing both just makes funny
pictures, but doesn't give much results.
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Sven Vermeulen
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we really need is to find what topics people
are interested in learning more about.
... and document those.
Welcome to the Gentoo Documentation Project.
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anyway)
2. automate the upgrading of archives to a new version
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The Gentoo Projecthttp
/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-install-tools.xml file you'll see a
bunch of reasons over the past few changes.
Afaik, most architectures prefer syslog-ng.
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backwards compatibility.
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But Gentoo can surely use propriatary products. Whether or not we want to is
a different question.
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use translation teams to continuously
keep translating interesting stuff, like documentation but also help with
the localisation of Portage if that ever comes this far.
Translating bugs is such a waist of resources...
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Sven Vermeulen
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After a long marathon of requests and quizzes, runner 972 has just crossed
the finish. We had an exclusive interview with Michael Curtis Napier who
likes to call himself curtis119 because his first 118 egos all failed
miserably.
Michael is an old rot in the ICT business (yo! guys! we have a nerd
on choosing interesting KDE ebuilds:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml
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staff and not official from other moderators,
giving the idea of valid technical support from the gentoo staff
moderators.
There is no such thing as an official Gentoo reply. You can have replies
from Gentoo developers, but no Gentoo reply.
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:22:09PM -0700, Michael Curtis Napier wrote:
I have already taken the quiz in conjunction with another non-forum
project. You are correct, it was easy.
/me checks his archives
... after a couple of tries.
=)
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On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 09:03:09PM +0200, Benjamin Judas wrote:
I'd like to welcome another potential member of the German Conspiracy,
especially since he shares the same general taste for music as me.
We're doomed
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stating
note
This article was originally published at the IBM DeveloperWorks website.
/note
and we get the agreement of the authors we should be all right.
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:39:57AM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
I know from Daniel that DW takes the exclusive rights to publish the
articles for the first X months (I believe it was 6 months, but don't take
my word on it). We are allowed to republish those articles later (as we've
done
on irc.freenode.net.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp
[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/status/status_20050307.xml
[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/doc/doc-policy.xml#doc_chap4
[4] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
[5] http://bugs.gentoo.org
[6] http
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