Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split definitions for an idiom

2006-01-07 Thread Drake Wyrm
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 05:26:44 -0700 Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | That begs the question... No it doesn't. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/begs.html | Curious users want to know! Perhaps said curious users should go and take a look, then.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Split definitions for an idiom

2006-01-07 Thread Duncan
Drake Wyrm posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:59:23 -0800: http://qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=693 Apropos indeed. Thanks! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your

[gentoo-dev] (Late) bugday announcement

2006-01-07 Thread kloeri
Hi all. Sorry about the late announcement but today is the monthly Bugday :) I hope we'll still see a lot of people turning up in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net to help squash some bugs and have a fun time with other gentoo users and/or devs. Regards, Bryan Østergaard --

[gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints

2006-01-07 Thread Stefaan
Hi! I'm having an issue with the openafs-ebuild, and I don't see a solution for the moment. I wondered if someone on the list would: Prerequisite: The ebuild needs to create the /afs directory, and remove that same directory when it is uninstalled. The obvious solution seems to do keepdir, so

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints

2006-01-07 Thread Joshua Baergen
Stefaan wrote: Prerequisite: The ebuild needs to create the /afs directory, and remove that same directory when it is uninstalled. Why not just create the directory in ${D} or ${IMAGE} and let Portage handle the rest? Do you really want to be removing /afs unconditionally on unmerge?

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints

2006-01-07 Thread Brian Jackson
You could handle it the way the baselayout ebuild does. --Iggy Stefaan wrote: Hi! I'm having an issue with the openafs-ebuild, and I don't see a solution for the moment. I wondered if someone on the list would: Prerequisite: The ebuild needs to create the /afs directory, and remove that same

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints

2006-01-07 Thread Stefaan
On 1/7/06, Joshua Baergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just create the directory in ${D} or ${IMAGE} and let Portage handle the rest? Do you really want to be removing /afs unconditionally on unmerge? Because this results in this: (directory /t existed and /dev/cdrom was mounted to it

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints

2006-01-07 Thread Joshua Baergen
Stefaan wrote: You suggest keeping the /afs dir, this would be an easy solution of course, but it does seem untidy, doesn't it? (Makes me think of the windows uninstallers saying not all files could be removed, have a nice day) Ah, I of course didn't pay enough attention and didn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints

2006-01-07 Thread Petteri Räty
Stefaan wrote: Hi! I'm having an issue with the openafs-ebuild, and I don't see a solution for the moment. I wondered if someone on the list would: Prerequisite: The ebuild needs to create the /afs directory, and remove that same directory when it is uninstalled. The obvious solution

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints

2006-01-07 Thread Petteri Räty
Petteri Räty wrote: Stefaan wrote: Hi! I'm having an issue with the openafs-ebuild, and I don't see a solution for the moment. I wondered if someone on the list would: Prerequisite: The ebuild needs to create the /afs directory, and remove that same directory when it is uninstalled. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints

2006-01-07 Thread Stefaan
On 1/7/06, Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan wrote: The obvious solution seems to do keepdir, so portage would attempt to make the directory and put a .keep file in there. I say attempt, because the following problem will occur during an re-merge or upgrade, while the

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints

2006-01-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefaan wrote: | I don't use pmount myself, but my guess is that /media is just a | directory that contains mountpoints, and which remains at all time | writeable for root. /afs is not writeable when mounted, just like | /dev/cdrom etc... That's

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

2006-01-07 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Sunday 01 January 2006 06:30, Mike Frysinger wrote: Keep in mind that every resubmission to the council for review must first be sent to the gentoo-dev mailing list 7 days (minimum) before being submitted as an agenda item which itself occurs 7 days before the meeting. Simply put, the