Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-15 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org schrieb: Ah, so you want us to use your git repos as patch managers? That clears up a few things. I dont want you to use *my* repos. But I'd like to advocate git-based workflows (eg. downstream branches w/ rebase, etc) instead of loose patches. And I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-12 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: * Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org schrieb: Thats not even necessary. They just should use the infrastructure, as described in my paper. So everyone can easily set up automatic notifications, cherry-pick, etc, etc.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 01:28 -0400, Jacob Godserv wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:13, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: I've already explained the strategy behind the git repo (and not doing plaintext patches). Please refer to my paper, and my other mails posted recently on this list.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Hans de Graaff gra...@gentoo.org schrieb: I do understand the response, because part of the strategy mentioned *is* not to provide plain-text patches, but instead manage them, possibly jointly with other distributions, in a midstream repository. Exactly. The point is: I have to maintain

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: The point is: I have to maintain lots of packages for different distros, as well as for my own build system. I cannot do this manually for each single distro, so I prefer doing _generic_ fixes and let the distro

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org schrieb: If I understand your system correctly, you essentially maintain clones of upstream repos, with all the various distro patches applied on top, and release tarballs as well. Yes. And if some upstream does not provide suitable vcs access (or

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: * Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org schrieb: I don't see how these various distros can be made to agree with each other and I certainly can't see them using a common tarball source. Thats not even necessary. They just

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nirbheek, thanks for writing such a well thought-out and comprehensive reply to Enrico. I agree with all the points you raised. On 11-07-2010 10:28, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: *

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org schrieb: Thats not even necessary. They just should use the infrastructure, as described in my paper. So everyone can easily set up automatic notifications, cherry-pick, etc, etc. Why should we? To make tracking and applying other's changes much

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvice...@gentoo.org schrieb: just because you decided to offer some service, it in no way forces us to accept it. No, it does not. I never claimed that. And so really I dont understand that fundamentalistic kind of argumentation (which is really near to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.org schrieb: Hi, It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates missing maildir directories. Stock procmail does this already. From procmailrc: If the mailbox is specified to be an MH folder or maildir folder, procmail will create

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org schrieb: On 07/08/2010 01:56 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, YFYI: yet another of my ebuilds kicked-down. It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates missing maildir directories. Provide your patches as

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-10 Thread Jacob Godserv
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:13, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: I've already explained the strategy behind the git repo (and not doing plaintext patches). Please refer to my paper, and my other mails posted recently on this list. I'm not quite sure I understand your response here. He

[gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, YFYI: yet another of my ebuilds kicked-down. It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates missing maildir directories. cu - Forwarded message from bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org - From: bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org Subject: [Bug 322157]

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-07 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 07/08/2010 01:56 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, YFYI: yet another of my ebuilds kicked-down. It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates missing maildir directories. Provide your patches as plain/text attachments like everyone else does, can't expect

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-07 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 12:56:52AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: YFYI: yet another of my ebuilds kicked-down. It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates missing maildir directories. Stock procmail does this already. From procmailrc: If the mailbox is specified to be an