Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lance Albertson wrote: | Donnie Berkholz wrote: | |Lance Albertson wrote: || What if instead of having proj/en we did herd/en on www? Of course, that || doesn't help the whole GuideXML is hard bit. I like the idea of using || RST, but it doesn't seem

[gentoo-dev] Re: Projects and simple guides

2006-01-10 Thread Duncan
Brian Harring posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 09:29:15 -0800: Where exactly did I ask for universal r/w? I've seen a lot of args against this based upon joe idiot will screw up the page. What I'm after is non gentoo personnel capable of handling the docs-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-10 Thread Jan Kundrát
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Sven Vermeulen wrote: | We have already received many bugs for documentation in /proj/* which is | not GDPs. I had no issue with this as I hoped this would be a transient | state where the documentation is eventually handed over to the GDP so that | both the project

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout 1.12 and runlevel changes Was: init scripts and custom signals

2006-01-10 Thread Roy Marples
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 08:19, Duncan wrote: Roy Marples posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:32:32 +: baelayout-1.12 is a bit more strict about things. If you ask something to --stop it stops regardless. Creating a new subthread on a slightly

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 01:17 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: I understand the block was lifted for projects, but that doesn't mean herds should all should fit underneath proj/. I think we should open up a similar space just for herds. I think that would be a wonderful idea. What would we do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
Chris Gianelloni said: Really, I think that the number of bugs the GDP gets is probably fairly minimal for project-based documentation. Perhaps we could have something added to the project dtd that adds a little blurb at the bottom to file bugs for project documentation against the project

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-10 Thread Lance Albertson
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 01:17 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: I understand the block was lifted for projects, but that doesn't mean herds should all should fit underneath proj/. I think we should open up a similar space just for herds. I think that would be a wonderful

Re: [gentoo-dev] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 07:49 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 03:40 +, Mark Stewart wrote: Please contact me if you are interested. I am interested in hearing more. Stupid Reply-To munging... Anyway, I'll let you guys know if there's anything actually worth hearing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout 1.12 and runlevel changes Was: init scripts and custom signals

2006-01-10 Thread Roy Marples
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 17:11, Duncan wrote: So that means don't bother filing a bug, then, as you are already working on it? The fix is already comitted to our svn repo. File a bug if it still doesn't work when baselayout-1.12.0_pre14 hits portage. Thanks -- Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-10 Thread Aron Griffis
Grant Goodyear wrote: [Tue Jan 10 2006, 11:09:15AM EST] As an aside, it's ciarnanm has already put work in on developing an RST to guidexml converter, so I wouldn't worry too much about RST not scaling. Could that be used dynamically on the server? The last time I was familiar with the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-10 Thread Stuart Herbert
Hi Donnie, On 1/10/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: | I don't want to get into the habit of inconsistency and finding herds in | two different locations. To clarify, add an either onto the end of that. |

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Package moves in overlays

2006-01-10 Thread Mike Auty
Ok, Well, what if instead we were to try and treat the overlay trees as exactly that, overlays. So the moves were used from the lowest layer (ie the main tree) unless a higher up layer overrode them, could that work? It would mean effectively that the overlay moves were global, but I guess

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Fwd: /etc/portage/profile/{pmask,arch.list, categories}

2006-01-10 Thread Marius Mauch
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:21:49 -0500 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Apologies, KMail died, and when I restarted it it had the mail but stripped the attachment ;) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: /etc/portage/profile/{pmask,arch.list, categories} Date: Monday 09

[gentoo-portage-dev] Patch: handle collision-protect for symlinks

2006-01-10 Thread Thomas Bettler
Is there any feedback on my recent post? The collision-protect feature didn't recognize two files as the same, if they were symlinked. i.e. /usr/FILE and /usr/X11R6/FILE caused a collision, while X11R6 - . linked This patch for portage-2.1 should fix this. Works fine for me in all thinkable

[gentoo-portage-dev] making aux_get more usable for vardbapi

2006-01-10 Thread Marius Mauch
Currently vardbapi.aux_get only works for a subset of all auxdbkeys, as some like KEYWORDS or DESCRIPTIOn aren't stored in vdb directly. They are however stored in environment.bz2, but not accessible there. This is unintuitive and limits tools like equery or my own auxget and metascan tools in

[gentoo-portage-dev] emaint and handling of user editable files

2006-01-10 Thread Christian Hoenig
Hi, Since a long time I wanted to start a project like emaint ... now there it is :-). Currently we have two kinds of config files for portage: o user editable (like /etc/portage/package.*) o not user editable (like /var/lib/portage/world, as it is rewritten all of the time and no comments