Re: [gentoo-dev] New Dev: antarus (Alec Warner)

2006-02-05 Thread Joshua Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Harring wrote: Hola all- We've got a new portage dev; Alec Warner, aka antarus- aside from doc work, he'll be doing repoman work and the usual random bug squashing. Welcome antarus, might I also mention that he helps out the x86 team as

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Dev: zmedico (Zac Medico)

2006-02-05 Thread Francesco Riosa
Brian Harring wrote: Hola all- Well looky here, we've got another new portage dev to report- Zac Medico (zmedico). Areas of focus thus far are general stable work, and work on the rewrite (you can thank him and marienz for the test framework work). Additionally, Zac is the maintainer

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 02 February 2006 20:55, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Yeah that would help. But in the mean time what should we do? What you should always do. Do the right thing, even if repoman disagrees. Seems like repoman is actually our boss in this case, so I was forced

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Dev: antarus (Alec Warner)

2006-02-05 Thread Marcelo Góes
On 2/5/06, Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently a senior, going after a Computer Science Bachelors with a cognate ( minor basically ) in Japanese. GO gentoo-jp :) Yay, nihongo++! Welcome aboard Alec! -- Marcelo Góes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 02 February 2006 20:55, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: but also make sure that there's a bug filed describing how repoman is broken. FWIW, I've filed that bug and attached a patch that solves the issue by letting repoman load the *.desc files in profiles dir for the use-expanded variables.

[gentoo-dev] env pollution

2006-02-05 Thread Chris PeBenito
I have two bugs [1][2] with installs failing due to some environmental variables being set, which end up overriding the settings in the packages' makefiles, causing sandbox violations. While this is a simple enough to work around with some unsets, how much do we really want to work to fix

Re: [gentoo-dev] env pollution

2006-02-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Chris PeBenito wrote: I have two bugs [1][2] with installs failing due to some environmental variables being set, which end up overriding the settings in the packages' makefiles, causing sandbox violations. While this is a simple enough to work around with some unsets, how much do we really

Re: [gentoo-dev] env pollution

2006-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 05 February 2006 12:17, Chris PeBenito wrote: I have two bugs [1][2] with installs failing due to some environmental variables being set, which end up overriding the settings in the packages' makefiles, causing sandbox violations. While this is a simple enough to work around with

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:51, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Thursday 02 February 2006 20:55, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Yeah that would help. But in the mean time what should we do? What you should always do. Do the right thing, even if repoman

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 05 February 2006 21:34, Mike Frysinger wrote: that's retarded, please remove all such linguas_* crap from use.desc files I can, but then Mr_Bones_ will come back to me again and we're stuck in this loop. You can remove them, but then it's your turn with Mr_Bones_ about them. So here

Re: [gentoo-dev] env pollution

2006-02-05 Thread Chris PeBenito
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 15:33 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 05 February 2006 12:17, Chris PeBenito wrote: I have two bugs [1][2] with installs failing due to some environmental variables being set, which end up overriding the settings in the packages' makefiles, causing sandbox

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Alec Warner
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:51, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Thursday 02 February 2006 20:55, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Yeah that would help. But in the mean time what should we do? What you should always do. Do the right thing, even if

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:43:58 +0100 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sunday 05 February 2006 21:34, Mike Frysinger wrote: | that's retarded, please remove all such linguas_* crap from | use.desc files | | I can, but then Mr_Bones_ will come back to me again and we're stuck |

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 05 February 2006 15:43, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Sunday 05 February 2006 21:34, Mike Frysinger wrote: that's retarded, please remove all such linguas_* crap from use.desc files I can, but then Mr_Bones_ will come back to me again and we're stuck in this loop.

Re: [gentoo-dev] env pollution

2006-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 05 February 2006 15:49, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote: But looking at 02kth-krb in its files directory we have: PATH=/usr/athena/bin ROOTPATH=/usr/athena/sbin LDPATH=/usr/athena/lib MANDIR=/usr/athena/man INFODIR=/usr/athena/info then, as Donnie said, kth-krb is wrong it should

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 05 February 2006 22:04, Mike Frysinger wrote: You can remove them, but then it's your turn with Mr_Bones_ about them. done Thanks :) -- Diego Flameeyes Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE pgp88DTyI0EEz.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] env pollution

2006-02-05 Thread Chris PeBenito
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 16:07 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 05 February 2006 15:49, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote: But looking at 02kth-krb in its files directory we have: PATH=/usr/athena/bin ROOTPATH=/usr/athena/sbin LDPATH=/usr/athena/lib MANDIR=/usr/athena/man

[gentoo-dev] Depend syntax

2006-02-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Just a reminder that all of the following are either illegal or strongly deprecated, so please don't use them even if Portage currently lets you get away with it: DEPEND=blah You should always use the full foo-bar/blah spec inside ebuilds. DEPEND==foo-bar/blah If you specify an operator, you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Depend syntax

2006-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 05 February 2006 16:46, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Just a reminder that all of the following are either illegal or strongly deprecated, so please don't use them even if Portage currently lets you get away with it: DEPEND=blah You should always use the full foo-bar/blah spec inside

[gentoo-dev] Self-circular dependencies

2006-02-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Another not-so-uncommon issue that crops up: packages DEPENDing upon themselves. Sometimes this is legit -- one of the Ada compilers, for example, DEPENDs upon || ( itself another-compiler ). Sometimes, however, it's the result of eclass screwups. Typical example: you're coding a foo.eclass, that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Self-circular dependencies

2006-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 05 February 2006 17:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Another not-so-uncommon issue that crops up: packages DEPENDing upon themselves. Sometimes this is legit -- one of the Ada compilers, for example, DEPENDs upon || ( itself another-compiler ). Sometimes, however, it's the result of eclass

Re: [gentoo-dev] Self-circular dependencies

2006-02-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 20:22:05 -0500 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sunday 05 February 2006 17:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Another not-so-uncommon issue that crops up: packages DEPENDing upon | themselves. Sometimes this is legit -- one of the Ada compilers, for | example, DEPENDs

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-portage] [PATCH] prevent world file corruption by writing atomically

2006-02-05 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:21:22AM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Zac Medico wrote: Okay, I've created a file-like class called atomic_ostream and it is now used for both write_atomic() and writedict(). I've been using this patch locally with no problems. Do we have any more feedback or are

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] should CATEGORY be properly documented in ebuild.5 and declared readonly in ebuild.sh?

2006-02-05 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:36:42PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Hi everyone, The subject says it all. What do y'all think? Go for it. ~harring pgpJ5TEihqeyZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] atexit does not work with os.execv

2006-02-05 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, While auditing the code related to bug 117988, I've noticed that it calls portageexit() directly because the normal atexit hooks do not work with the os.execv call when portage restarts itself. Currently, several other atexit hooks