Re: [gentoo-dev] jpeg-mmx is dead

2006-11-06 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 02:31 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 05 November 2006 22:42, Matthias Langer wrote: however, someone should adapt media-video/mjpegtools-1.8.0-r1 (see bug 154199) and someone should search for duplicates before filing bugs ups ... sorry - i should have looked

Re: [gentoo-dev] Econf

2006-11-06 Thread KLessou
Thanks, it work very well !D PIRYOn 11/2/06, Johannes Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 05:02:29PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 22:44 +0100, KLessou wrote: Hello, I have to make a Live ebuild (from a CVS repository). But econf don't find the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Ignoring/overwriting IUSE from an eclass

2006-11-06 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:36:10 -0600 Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry, but is anyone else sick and disgusted with Ciaran talking to people like this? This isn't called for and shouldn't be tolerated. No. Perhaps he could have been a bit more subtle, but it was entirely called for

[gentoo-dev] Re: Ignoring/overwriting IUSE from an eclass

2006-11-06 Thread Ryan Hill
Ryan Hill wrote: I'm sorry, but is anyone else sick and disgusted with Ciaran talking to people like this? This isn't called for and shouldn't be tolerated. After sleeping on it, I've decided my problem is personal, so i've just taken my own advice and set up a simple mail filter so I don't

[gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Roy Marples
Hi List! This is a heads up to say that I'm going to be putting baselayout-1.13 into ~ARCH soon as all the exciting new features I wanted are in - FreeBSD and vserver support, buffered and wrapped einfo/ewarn/eerror output, rc-depend for lightning fast dependency sorting, no more critical

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
So if you're concerned about any of the above features breaking your precious Gentoo, now is a very good time to test :) Mon Oct 2 22:24:05 2006 sys-apps/baselayout-1.13.0_alpha1-r1 ^^ Using 1.13* for over a month and no problems whatsover. -- Piotr Jaroszyński Gentoo Developer --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Ignoring/overwriting IUSE from an eclass

2006-11-06 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 30 October 2006 17:44, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: E_IUSE=${E_IUSE//X} But that's a dirty portage-specific hack ;] On Monday 30 October 2006 18:43, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Your solution is approximately on par with fixing a wobbly chair by sawing off all four legs and then attaching

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Bruno
On Monday 06 November 2006 17:53, Roy Marples wrote: ... However, one issue is a concern. All baselayouts defined svcdir in /etc/conf.d/rc which defines where we hold the state information of the running services. This defaulted to /var/lib/init.d - which is bad as /var could be on a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2006-11-06 Thread Joshua Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Portnoy wrote: I've been mostly inactive for a good while but hanging on mostly for sentimentality's sake, it's past time for that to stop. I mostly only maintain a small handful of ebuilds, I'm sure they can find proper homes quickly. None

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Roy Marples
On Monday 06 November 2006 17:12, Bruno wrote: How is the case where the / partition always remains ro handled? Is rc-state information put into a tmpfs partition on that location, is the location configured differently for those? Good question! / is always ro at boot and the checkroot init

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Roy Marples
On Monday 06 November 2006 17:33, Roy Marples wrote: Admittedly, an always ro / isn't handled right now, but I'll ensure it will be for the next release :) We handle it with the attached patch, just comitted to our svn repo :) Thanks -- Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo/Linux/FreeBSD

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Francesco Riosa
Roy Marples wrote: [snip that change the meaning of the message ;] Ideas are welcome :) need to jump net.lo in symlink tests fex as tested below: for f in ${ROOT}etc/init.d/net.*; do [[ ${f} == ${ROOT}etc/init.d/net.lo || -L ${f} ]] continue echo einfo WARNING: You have older net.*

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Ignoring/overwriting IUSE from an eclass

2006-11-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 02:18:41 + Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Yes, I'm also sick of this negative level of civility. If I don't | preempt it now, I'll likely be told that I'm taking the above two | quotes out of context Which you are, since you removed a large part of my answer and

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Roy Marples
On Monday 06 November 2006 17:51, Francesco Riosa wrote: Roy Marples wrote: [snip that change the meaning of the message ;] Ideas are welcome :) need to jump net.lo in symlink tests fex as tested below: for f in ${ROOT}etc/init.d/net.*; do [[ ${f} == ${ROOT}etc/init.d/net.lo || -L

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Matthew Snelham
On 06 Nov 2006 04:53 PM or thereabouts, Roy Marples wrote: This is a heads up to say that I'm going to be putting baselayout-1.13 into ~ARCH soon as all the exciting new features I wanted are in - FreeBSD and vserver support, buffered and wrapped einfo/ewarn/eerror output, rc-depend for

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

2006-11-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 15:45 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: 3. The solution is for each enterprise to have their own tinderbox / build-machine. Tinderboxing is supported under catalyst, and I believe there is at least one other tinderbox implementation around. 4. (Assuming catalyst, as it's the

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Alexander Færø y (eroyf)

2006-11-06 Thread Bryan Østergaard
Hi all. This announcement is slightly late but Alex never the less deserves a warm welcome for all the good work I'm sure he'll be doing in the future. Alex have a mysterious norwegian background but lives in Denmark (some people are a bit concerned about that fact as well..). Adding to his

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

2006-11-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 11:50 +0200, Alin Nastac wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev list to see. I have a problem with our current SPF record. I wanna

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

2006-11-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 13:36 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: Alin Nastac napsal(a): Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 05 November 2006 05:39, Alin Nastac wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: that's nice, but again, why arent these being directed to infra ? It could be considered as

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

2006-11-06 Thread Jan Kundrát
Chris Gianelloni wrote: This also falls under Infra. Have you tried asking them, instead? Perhaps filing a bug like all other infra requests? Please see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154120 . Cheers, -jkt -- cd /local/pub more beer /dev/mouth signature.asc Description:

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

2006-11-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:37:00 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | So because you didn't like the answer from the people responsible for | this, you'd rather go over their heads and try to bring this up to the | council, so we can override their decisions? Not bloody likely. Isn't

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

2006-11-06 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 14:37 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: So because you didn't like the answer from the people responsible for this, you'd rather go over their heads and try to bring this up to the council, so we can override their decisions? Not bloody likely. Let me post a little more

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

2006-11-06 Thread Jakub Moc
Chris Gianelloni napsal(a): And WONTFIXed in 15 minutes. In that case, I'd like to resubmit it to the council... :/ So because you didn't like the answer from the people responsible for this, you'd rather go over their heads and try to bring this up to the council, so we can override their

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

2006-11-06 Thread Alec Warner
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 13:36 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: Alin Nastac napsal(a): Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 05 November 2006 05:39, Alin Nastac wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: that's nice, but again, why arent these being directed to infra ? It could be

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Alec Warner
Roy Marples wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 18:27, Matthew Snelham wrote: In 1.13, we've removed the variable from /etc/conf.d/rc and it's now forced to /lib/rcscripts/init.d which is safe as /lib is always on the same partition as /. From a filesystem usage point of view though, storing

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

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 06 November 2006 16:59, Jakub Moc wrote: Chris Gianelloni napsal(a): And WONTFIXed in 15 minutes. In that case, I'd like to resubmit it to the council... :/ So because you didn't like the answer from the people responsible for this, you'd rather go over their heads and try to

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Roy Marples
On Monday 06 November 2006 22:06, Alec Warner wrote: Roy Marples wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 18:27, Matthew Snelham wrote: In 1.13, we've removed the variable from /etc/conf.d/rc and it's now forced to /lib/rcscripts/init.d which is safe as /lib is always on the same partition as /.

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

2006-11-06 Thread Jakub Moc
Mike Frysinger napsal(a): No. Not because I didn't like the answer - because I haven't seen a *single* argument *in favour* of using the IMHO completely broken SPF thing. so what are you looking for ? us to regurgitate the entire SPF argument over again ? No. I expect you to _decide_ on

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

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 06 November 2006 18:03, Jakub Moc wrote: considering that quite a couple of arguments were given against using it which were a copy and paste of existing websites ... how about for the counterargument i copy and paste url's to pro-spf websites and then we'll have a proper exchange

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

2006-11-06 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Monday 06 November 2006 21:35, Seemant Kulleen wrote: Please stop being ridiculous, Council: if you're not going to actually listen to the people who voted for you without talking down to them, then, er, why exactly, did you run? I have to agree with seemant here, we should probably accept

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

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 06 November 2006 17:09, Alin Nastac wrote: I re-stated my case in comment #14 most of your dislike for SPF centers around the idea you dont want to send mail via gentoo.org mail servers ... is this really a problem ? seems like it's pretty trivial to do so -mike pgpQQMpR29oZK.pgp

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

2006-11-06 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Montag, 6. November 2006 20:37 schrieb Chris Gianelloni: On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 13:36 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: Alin Nastac napsal(a): Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 05 November 2006 05:39, Alin Nastac wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: that's nice, but again, why arent these being

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

2006-11-06 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Montag, 6. November 2006 20:37 schrieb Chris Gianelloni: On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 13:36 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: it isnt ... so file a bug for infra done in bug 154120 . And WONTFIXed in 15 minutes. In that case, I'd like to resubmit it to the council... :/ So because you didn't

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

2006-11-06 Thread Alec Warner
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 18:03, Jakub Moc wrote: considering that quite a couple of arguments were given against using it which were a copy and paste of existing websites ... how about for the counterargument i copy and paste url's to pro-spf websites and then we'll

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

2006-11-06 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 05:20:49PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: most of your dislike for SPF centers around the idea you dont want to send mail via gentoo.org mail servers ... is this really a problem ? seems like it's pretty trivial to do so While i couldn't care less about the whole SPF

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

2006-11-06 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 05:20:26PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 17:09, Alin Nastac wrote: I re-stated my case in comment #14 most of your dislike for SPF centers around the idea you dont want to send mail via gentoo.org mail servers ... is this really a problem ?

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

2006-11-06 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 05:11:42PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 18:03, Jakub Moc wrote: considering that quite a couple of arguments were given against using it which were a copy and paste of existing websites ... how about for the counterargument i copy and

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

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
(sorry for the infra cc, just need to make sure this particular one gets through ... drop it in your replies people :P) On Monday 06 November 2006 17:38, Harald van Dijk wrote: Sending mail via gentoo.org mail servers is explicitly disallowed (not even just strongly discouraged) if the dev in

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

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 06 November 2006 17:40, Harald van Dijk wrote: Why don't you do that? well, my reply was mostly dry sarcasm, but i hope we're all technically proficient enough to load up google.com and search for SPF ... even Alec could find three good links in no time and that dude cant even code

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

2006-11-06 Thread kashani
Alec Warner wrote: http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t1963.html Anyone who thinks you can block all spam with a single technique, let alone at all, is not someone I want data from in the first place http://blog.ferris.com/2005/06/_microsofts_enf.html Opinion

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

2006-11-06 Thread Alin Nastac
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 17:09, Alin Nastac wrote: I re-stated my case in comment #14 most of your dislike for SPF centers around the idea you dont want to send mail via gentoo.org mail servers ... is this really a problem ? seems like it's pretty trivial

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

2006-11-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:43:24 -0500 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | infra believes using SPF helps fight spam Then infra are wrong. SPF was not designed to fight spam. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ as-needed is

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

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 06 November 2006 20:06, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:43:24 -0500 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | infra believes using SPF helps fight spam Then infra are wrong. SPF was not designed to fight spam. original design does not limit future possibilities ... i could

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Matthew Snelham
On 06 Nov 2006 09:57 PM or thereabouts, Roy Marples wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 22:06, Alec Warner wrote: Roy Marples wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 18:27, Matthew Snelham wrote: From a filesystem usage point of view though, storing actively changing state data on /lib is

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Patrick McLean
Matthew Snelham wrote: If you want that level of flexability then simply symlink /lib/rcscripts to /var/rcscripts or where-ever you like. But then baselayout is still 'behaving badly' by sttempting to store dynamic state information in /lib. Something it has not done before, to the

[gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Sven Köhler
In 1.13, we've removed the variable from /etc/conf.d/rc and it's now forced to /lib/rcscripts/init.d which is safe as /lib is always on the same partition as /. From a filesystem usage point of view though, storing actively changing state data on /lib is ugly. The tmpfs

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 06 November 2006 21:42, Matthew Snelham wrote: But then baselayout is still 'behaving badly' by sttempting to store dynamic state information in /lib. it is and it isnt ... the dir is memory based so /lib could be read-only and that's fine -mike pgpTSguX5K8Nu.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Josh Saddler
Patrick McLean wrote: Matthew Snelham wrote: If you want that level of flexability then simply symlink /lib/rcscripts to /var/rcscripts or where-ever you like. But then baselayout is still 'behaving badly' by sttempting to store dynamic state information in /lib. Something it has not

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Roy Marples
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 04:06, Josh Saddler wrote: Agreed, this is a good point. Writing to /lib will also cause security complications for things like AIDE and other intrusion detection systems that look for writes to certain directories. If they see /lib changing quite often, it might

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

2006-11-06 Thread Georgi Georgiev
Quoting Lance Albertson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Personally, after skimming through this thread, I'd say leave it as is and stick with Kurt's decision. Our developers clearly have nothing better to do than rant on about something as trivial as this. I ain't no dev, but how is this trivial? A

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Roy Marples
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 02:42, Matthew Snelham wrote: (I've built a number of clusters with NFS root fs, but I've never even heard of a disk backed root with an NFS /var. Can we say that's pathologically odd, and unsupported/unsupportable?) OK, I have /var mounted on an LVM. I need to run