[gentoo-dev] dev-libs/lzo-2 help

2005-09-11 Thread Daniel
To anyone out there with a bit of skill and lack of direction. I've been meaning to do this for a while but have lost time. A number of packages that depend on lzo don't work with lzo-2. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to work out which programs: a. won't recognise/link to the new

[gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-11 Thread Peter Hyman
Several core ROX programs are out of date. Rox bug # 102228 Rox-lib bug # 79333 Rox-clib bug # 78309 Despite the above bug reports, and copies to the current listed maintainers, the products are not being updated. Rox is among the easiest programs to maintain, and many ebuilds simply need to

Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 = 4.1 upgrade

2005-09-11 Thread Francesco R
Michael Kohl wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:24:46 +0200 Maurice van der Pot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this path going to be published somewhere or is this mail it? As Francesco said he won't publish a guide somewhere and I think MySQl is a widely used package, I decided to write up a

Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 = 4.1 upgrade

2005-09-11 Thread Jan Kundrát
Francesco R wrote: Documentation herd what now ? Well, standard procedure is to create bugreport and assign it to the [EMAIL PROTECTED]; I don't know how many GDP members read every single message on this list :-). -jkt [apologies if you get this twice; blame thunderbird and/or

Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 = 4.1 upgrade

2005-09-11 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 12 September 2005 00:05, Francesco R wrote: http://dev.gentoo.org/~vivo/doc/mysql-update.html With step 2, you should probably mention the issues that can arise with non-ASCII data in char fields. The character set really needs to specified in the dump. After the upgrade to 4.1, the

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-libs/lzo-2 help

2005-09-11 Thread Marcin 'aye' Kryczek
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 07:55:36PM +1000, Daniel wrote: ./media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r4.ebuild ./media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r5.ebuild ./media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1.ebuild ./media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r6.ebuild

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-11 Thread Peter Hyman
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 17:50 +0200, Maurice van der Pot wrote: If bugs are not handled in a timely manner, it is because we're shorthanded. This is also the reason new ebuilds are often assigned to maintainer-wanted. We'd rather not add packages to portage if there is no developer to pick up

Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 = 4.1 upgrade

2005-09-11 Thread Francesco R
Martin Schlemmer wrote: [...] Just use bash's built-in read function: - local password newpasswd # Read the password into $password read -sp Please enter password: password # Just echo a newline so that next output start on new line echo [...] Or something to that regards. In Cvs,

Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 = 4.1 upgrade

2005-09-11 Thread Jason Wever
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Francesco R wrote: Please notice that MySQL-5.0 has been erroneously unmasked for few hours but it will return under the package.mask cover at next rsync. The MySQL herd is pleased to announce that Mysql 4.1 has been unmasked

Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 = 4.1 upgrade

2005-09-11 Thread Francesco R
Jason Wever wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Francesco R wrote: Please notice that MySQL-5.0 has been erroneously unmasked for few hours but it will return under the package.mask cover at next rsync. The MySQL herd is pleased to announce that Mysql 4.1 has been unmasked today and is now

Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 = 4.1 upgrade

2005-09-11 Thread Francesco R
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Monday 12 September 2005 00:05, Francesco R wrote: http://dev.gentoo.org/~vivo/doc/mysql-update.html With step 2, you should probably mention the issues that can arise with non-ASCII data in char fields. The character set really needs to specified in the dump.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last call for media-video/spca50x

2005-09-11 Thread Mike Doty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Doty wrote: | This package was due for removal on May 1 2005, having been replaced by | media-video/spca5xx. Unless someone objects in the next 7 days, I will | remove it from the tree. | going, going, gone. - --

Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 = 4.1 upgrade

2005-09-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:46:25 +0200 Francesco R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is there any particular reason that the utf8 use flag was | re-introduced rather than using the unicode use flag like everything | else does (and was standardized on)? | | Because it does not Adds support for Unicode but

Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 = 4.1 upgrade

2005-09-11 Thread Francesco R
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:46:25 +0200 Francesco R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is there any particular reason that the utf8 use flag was | re-introduced rather than using the unicode use flag like everything | else does (and was standardized on)? | | Because it does not Adds

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-11 Thread Maurice van der Pot
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 12:42:11PM -0400, Peter Hyman wrote: Certainly, I am others have fulfilled this. I have emailed the two maintainers offering to assist. No response. I can't speak for them. If they're non-responsive and you want to become a developer, contact the recruiters. For some

Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 = 4.1 upgrade

2005-09-11 Thread Jan Kundrát
Jan Kundrát wrote: Well, standard procedure is to create bugreport and assign it to the [EMAIL PROTECTED]; I don't know how many GDP members read every single message on this list :-). http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105626 -- cd /local/pub more beer /dev/mouth signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-11 Thread Alin Nastac
Peter Hyman wrote: Firstly; to be asked to become a developer you should either apply to an opening, or just help out whether in the form of user support or filing bug reports - we notice frequent contributors making contributions to Gentoo and we attempt to reward them by giving them the chance

Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 = 4.1 upgrade

2005-09-11 Thread Łukasz Damentko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:36:55 +0200 Jan Kundrát [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Kundrát wrote: Well, standard procedure is to create bugreport and assign it to the [EMAIL PROTECTED]; I don't know how many GDP members read every single message on

[gentoo-dev] FAQs for maintainer-wanted ebuilds

2005-09-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
I've put together a kind of FAQ for the most common maintainer-wanted problems: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/docs/mw-faq/ The idea is to replace most of my usual bullet points in the please fix list with URLs with more complete explanations. Any additions or suggestions for changes would be

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Lukasz Damentko

2005-09-11 Thread Jose Luis Rivero (YosWinK)
Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:21:30AM +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote: internal GDP joke Is staking, poking out of the eyes and burning of hands considered a warm welcome? :-) /internal GDP joke Must have missed a few memo's. I thought only YoswinK was allowed to do this. You

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Lukasz Damentko

2005-09-11 Thread Łukasz Damentko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:51:42 +0200 Jose Luis Rivero (YosWinK) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: internal GDP joke Is staking, poking out of the eyes and burning of hands considered a warm welcome? :-) /internal GDP joke Must have missed a few

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

2005-09-11 Thread Ed W
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:03:37 +0100 Ed W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | As an outsider reading that summary the message *I* read is that | there is some strain over fitting the development model into | stable, ~, and package.mask. I think I see people basically | saying that

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

2005-09-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:53:03 +0100 Ed W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Might there be an option 4 which is that a slightly different system | might stop everyone bitching over the current one and hence avoid | wasting some time? Nope, no idea what that would be, but the thought | does occur when

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-11 Thread Peter Hyman
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 00:02 +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: snip... Indeed, your name is everywhere when it comes down to rox thing. Because your dedication on rox subject, I am willing to help you become a dev, but I need to be sure you are not going to dissapear in the very next moment. Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-11 Thread Aron Griffis
Alin Nastac wrote: [Sun Sep 11 2005, 05:02:27PM EDT] Gentoo history is full of such individuals who only want to be sure that they could become devs but are not willing to put any effort behind it. Gentoo's history is full of hard-working devs. The slackers are simply forgotten. ;-)

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-11 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Thank you for the opportunity. Apparently though, my submissions have already been rejected Ciaran. It's important to realize that the submissions were intended to AID the developers, not to necessarily be PERFECT in every way. Of course they have been criticized by Ciaran. In case you didn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

2005-09-11 Thread Peter Hyman
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 20:27 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: Thank you for the opportunity. Apparently though, my submissions have already been rejected Ciaran. It's important to realize that the submissions were intended to AID the developers, not to necessarily be PERFECT in every way.

Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 = 4.1 upgrade

2005-09-11 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 12 September 2005 02:51, Francesco R wrote: Jason Stubbs wrote: On Monday 12 September 2005 00:05, Francesco R wrote: http://dev.gentoo.org/~vivo/doc/mysql-update.html With step 2, you should probably mention the issues that can arise with non-ASCII data in char fields. The

[gentoo-dev] aging ebuilds with unstable keywords

2005-09-11 Thread Daniel Ahlberg
Hi, This is an automatically created email message. http://gentoo.tamperd.net/stable has just been updated with 12219 ebuilds. The page shows results from a number of tests that are run against the ebuilds. The tests are: * if a version has been masked for 30 days or more. * if an arch was in

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2005-09-11 Thread Drake Wyrm
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