Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-27 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 15:23 Wed 18 Jan 2012, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: [...] 5) If is a library, obviously, we can try to rebuild stable RDEPENDS in tree and an easy way to check the list of rdepend is asking our bot: !rdep ${package} Unfortunately it prints a complete list of RDEPEND(stable+testing), and is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-27 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/27/12 10:41 AM, Thomas Kahle wrote: On 15:23 Wed 18 Jan 2012, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: [...] 5) If is a library, obviously, we can try to rebuild stable RDEPENDS in tree and an easy way to check the list of rdepend is asking our bot: !rdep ${package} Unfortunately it prints a

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: if it's part of the implicit system dep, they absolutely need to defend their actions.  you want to change the policy, then start a thread on it. What policy? I don't see any written policy stating that you aren't

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-19 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/12 10:41 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: - you're confusing the literal @system with implicit system deps I don't quite follow here. literal @system = the exact

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 19 January 2012 09:04:08 Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: if it's part of the implicit system dep, they absolutely need to defend their actions. you want to change the policy, then start a thread on it. What

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 22:41:26 Mike Gilbert wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: - you're confusing the literal @system with implicit system deps I don't quite follow here. By implicit system deps, are you referring to the common sense set of essential

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: 4) Nobody knows how work all packages in tree, so there are obvious packages like a browsers, IM, audio player,that is easy decide if is ok or not, but there are also packages that an Arch tester has never seen, so is a lack of time everytime

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Alexis Ballier
Hi, On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:23 +0100 Agostino Sarubbo a...@gentoo.org wrote: 2) _Before_ filing a request, please run repoman full, to be sure that there is nothing to fix, then take a look at the ebuild and make sure your ebuild have a minimum of QA; all external binary called in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:23:00 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: So, everytime, I must suggest the same things and I can say that at some point it gets boring. so put it into a Gentoo guide and refer people to that 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you declare it,

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:23 +0100 Agostino Sarubbo a...@gentoo.org wrote: 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you declare it, please, as you said, exclude gcc/glibc and all package from

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 10:05 Wed 18 Jan , Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:23:00 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you declare it, please, as you said, exclude gcc/glibc and all package from @system portage generates a NEEDED

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 10:44:44 Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:23 +0100 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you declare it, please, as you said, exclude gcc/glibc and

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/18/12 4:48 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 10:05 Wed 18 Jan , Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:23:00 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you declare it, please, as you said, exclude gcc/glibc and all package

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 12:32:08 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 1/18/12 4:48 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 10:05 Wed 18 Jan , Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:23:00 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/18/12 7:10 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2012 12:32:08 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: Same here. How about adding some warning to portage (maybe just in the developer profile) when files in NEEDED are provided by packages not in RDEPEND? atm, we'll get a lot of false

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: it isn't just circular deps.  it's also about breaking alternatives and useless bloat.  adding coreutils to their depend because they execute `mv`, or sed because they execute `sed`, etc... is absolutely pointless.  same

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/18/2012 05:32 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 1/18/12 4:48 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 10:05 Wed 18 Jan , Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:23:00 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 13:42:12 Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: it isn't just circular deps. it's also about breaking alternatives and useless bloat. adding coreutils to their depend because they execute `mv`, or sed because they execute

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 14:02:01 Markos Chandras wrote: On 01/18/2012 05:32 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 1/18/12 4:48 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 10:05 Wed 18 Jan , Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:23:00 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: 3) Check your rdepend,

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: it is a problem.  not all profiles use coreutils ... they provide replacement packages.  busybox is just one example.  the bsd/prefix guys go in even weirder directions. Yup - hence my point about coreutils not being

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Agostino Sarubbo
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 11:55:30 Alexis Ballier wrote: 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you declare it, please, as you said, exclude gcc/glibc and all package from @system imho this has nothing to do with stabilization There is a misunderstading about

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 15:45:04 Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: it is a problem. not all profiles use coreutils ... they provide replacement packages. busybox is just one example. the bsd/prefix guys go in even weirder directions. Yup -

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote:  - you're confusing the literal @system with implicit system deps I don't quite follow here. By implicit system deps, are you referring to the common sense set of essential packages that you have floating around in that