Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: what happened to /etc/init.d/hal{d,daemon,whatever} script ?

2008-12-29 Thread Ben de Groot
Jeremy Olexa wrote: Andrey Grozin wrote: It was discussed (don't have a reference to the thread at hand) that it would be useful to have a table which shows which functions die by themselves, and which not. Andrey I see this asked every X months and never quite figured out why, (this

[gentoo-dev] Need to mask non-visible packages in package.mask?

2008-12-29 Thread Torsten Veller
Some time ago (31 Oct 2008) I renamed perl-core/File-Spec-3.2701 to perl-core/File-Spec-3.27.01 by adding the new file and removing the other. I expected portage to do an downgrade. It didn't. I realised it when i got this bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/248178 and after joining #-portage I add a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Need to mask non-visible packages in package.mask?

2008-12-29 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Torsten Veller wrote: Some time ago (31 Oct 2008) I renamed perl-core/File-Spec-3.2701 to perl-core/File-Spec-3.27.01 by adding the new file and removing the other. I expected portage to do an downgrade. It didn't. I realised it when i

[gentoo-dev] RSBAC-related packages removal notice

2008-12-29 Thread Gordon Malm
RSBAC has been without a maintainer for some time and Hardened is discontinuing support for RSBAC. As such, the following packages are going into package.mask for eventual removal after January 31st, 2009. sys-apps/rsbac-admin sys-kernel/rsbac-sources Gordon Malm (gengor)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python expat USE flag

2008-12-29 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2008-12-28 05:23:12 Jesus Rivero napisaƂ(a): Hello everyone, ~A while ago there was a discussion about the new expat USE flag in dev-lang/python. The flag was first introduced by Vapier on December 08th. ~While having expat USE flag may be of great use for embedded systems or in

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should unicode be allowed in ebuild metadata variables?

2008-12-29 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, In response to bug 252748 I've implemented a new 'variable.invalidchar' repoman check that will trigger if an ebuild metadata variable contains any characters that aren't in the ASCII character set (0-127). Is this okay, or does anybody think

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should unicode be allowed in ebuild metadata variables?

2008-12-29 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zac Medico wrote: Hi, In response to bug 252748 I've implemented a new 'variable.invalidchar' repoman check that will trigger if an ebuild metadata variable contains any characters that aren't in the ASCII character set (0-127). Is this okay,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should unicode be allowed in ebuild metadata variables?

2008-12-29 Thread Ben de Groot
Zac Medico wrote: In response to bug 252748 I've implemented a new 'variable.invalidchar' repoman check that will trigger if an ebuild metadata variable contains any characters that aren't in the ASCII character set (0-127). Is this okay, or does anybody think that we should allow UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should unicode be allowed in ebuild metadata variables?

2008-12-29 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: Zac Medico wrote: Nevermind, apparently GLEP 31 already requires ASCII anyway: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0031.html The way I read that GLEP is that in ChangeLog and metadata.xml we should accept the full

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should unicode be allowed in ebuild metadata variables?

2008-12-29 Thread Marius Mauch
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:37:24 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: Zac Medico wrote: Nevermind, apparently GLEP 31 already requires ASCII anyway: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0031.html

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should unicode be allowed in ebuild metadata variables?

2008-12-29 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Marius Mauch gen...@gentoo.org wrote: And none of that is relevant to Zacs original question, which is covered by the following section of the GLEP: Oops, sorry, misread the question :) -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan