Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:24:55 -0700 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 08:41:46PM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:37:47 -0700 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:05:03AM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Ned Ludd
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 17:10 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:10:51 -0400 Ned Ludd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Every single year quarter after quarter the more updates | that happen the slower portage is becoming. | Care to solve that? This is a minute amount of time in

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Jakub Moc
Ned Ludd wrote: | Well it should. | | package.keywords package.use package.mask etc.. | | Where is the stability and consistency when we end up | forcing people to update /etc/portage files... Erm... Portage updates these automatically. as .cfg_** files. The end user still has to

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Simon Stelling
Jakub Moc wrote: Erm... Portage updates these automatically. as .cfg_** files. The end user still has to run an etc-update and pray that it was not a file he/she had in masking. Err, no? You don't need to run etc-update/dispatch-conf to get those updated on package moves. Err, yes. At

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-db/xmysqladmin

2006-07-22 Thread Luca Longinotti
dev-db/xmysqladmin has no herd or maintainer, upstream hasn't made a release since 2001, and it has an open security bug [1]. It's already package.masked since about a year because of the security bug, so the removal is long overdue, and I will proceed with it in a month. An alternative, more

[gentoo-dev] New developer: joslwah

2006-07-22 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
Hi all. Joshua Ross (joslway) joined the Gentoo/PPC64 team a couple weeks ago. He'll be helping with release engineering among other things. Joshua has an extensive background in programming and different OSes going all the way back to a hex based machine. We finally managed to convince Joss to

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: joslwah

2006-07-22 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Welcome joslwah! :) On Saturday 22 July 2006 17:28, Bryan Østergaard wrote: I'm a research mathematician with interests in linguistics. I'm a Brit., living in China, so am used to utf-8 and CJK issues. Uh, fresh meat for the CJK herd and possibly for an eventual future i18n project? :) --

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:05:20 -0700 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately the category system is deeply embedded in portage and the tree, so changing that system is simply not going to happen, which is why I've stopped whinging about the semantic inadequacy of the system.

[gentoo-dev] Proposal for a global xinetd USE flag

2006-07-22 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Currently we have the following local xinetd USE flags. The semantics of xinetd in each case are roughly the same: dev-db/firebird:xinetd - If you want inetd version instead of a superserver (daemon) net-ftp/proftpd:xinetd - Enable support for starting from xinetd net-ftp/vsftpd:xinetd - Add

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: joslwah

2006-07-22 Thread Peter Gordon
Bryan Østergaard wrote: Joshua Ross (joslway) joined the Gentoo/PPC64 team a couple weeks ago. He'll be helping with release engineering among other things. [...] Welcome aboard, Joshua! :D -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 /

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 06:04:10PM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:05:20 -0700 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately the category system is deeply embedded in portage and the tree, so changing that system is simply not going to happen, which is why

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:04:10 +0200 Kevin F. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | If it were to be implemented with symlinks (implying one entry is | real and the others are aliases) the package manager just needs to | canonicalise any symlinked CPs it comes across. Not that simple. Think about

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: joslwah

2006-07-22 Thread Christian Heim
On Saturday 22 July 2006 17:28, Bryan (kloeri) wrote: Hi all. Joshua Ross (joslway) joined the Gentoo/PPC64 team a couple weeks ago. He'll be helping with release engineering among other things. Joshua has an extensive background in programming and different OSes going all the way back to a hex

[gentoo-dev] Re: Einput eclass

2006-07-22 Thread John Jawed
Updated version, revised to use Gentoo supplied color codes (thanks to shillelagh for pointing me to these). http://jawed.name/dev/gentoo/einput.eclass Also cleaned up logic in displayListPrompt. Regards, John Open source, you don't pay back, you pay forward. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Naming Conventions

2006-07-22 Thread Brian
On Sat, 2006-22-07 at 04:43 +0900, Chris White wrote: This said, the following are recommendations: 1) Create aliases to the new functions, then at some yet-to-be-determined point, kill the aliases and bomb on the scripts (this suffers from procrastination). 2) Make an official release

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Naming Conventions

2006-07-22 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris White wrote: 1) Create aliases to the new functions, then at some yet-to-be-determined point, kill the aliases and bomb on the scripts (this suffers from procrastination). 2) Make an official release with the new function names and no

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Naming Conventions

2006-07-22 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 04:25:01PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Chris White wrote: 1) Create aliases to the new functions, then at some yet-to-be-determined point, kill the aliases and bomb on the scripts (this suffers from procrastination). 2) Make an official release with the new

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage phase hooks patch

2006-07-22 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Kelly wrote: Hello, This is that patch I had mentioned earlier on #gentoo-portage. It works by sourcing every script found in /var/libexec/portage/hooks/{pre,post}_${EBUILD_PHASE} at the appropriate time. In my case, I feel this

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage phase hooks patch

2006-07-22 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:52:38 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Kelly wrote: In my case, I feel this functionality would be very useful as it allows for me to integrate my GLEP 27 implementation into portage without portage

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Naming Conventions

2006-07-22 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:25:01 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris White wrote: 1) Create aliases to the new functions, then at some yet-to-be-determined point, kill the aliases and bomb on the scripts (this suffers from