[gentoo-dev] Re: headless herds

2009-03-23 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:55:48 +0100 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:55:38 -0600 > Ryan Hill wrote: > > > These herds have no members: > > > ... < > > > live-cd: > > app-admin/pwgen > > app-arch/pbzip2 > > app-misc/livecd-tools > > dev-python/pyparted > > dev-util/catalyst > > me

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-23 Thread Alin Năstac
On 3/23/09 1:42 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:19:26 +0100 > Alin Năstac wrote: > > >> Fine, then remove $PV from patch name and use it in any ebuild version >> you want. Or just decouple the patch version from the ebuild version >> (foo-bar-r1.patch sounds OK to me). >> > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-23 Thread Alin Năstac
On 3/23/09 1:44 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Alin Năstac wrote: > >> Fine, then remove $PV from patch name and use it in any ebuild version >> you want. Or just decouple the patch version from the ebuild version >> (foo-bar-r1.patch sounds OK to me). >> > > What exactly is your problem that you are t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for March 26

2009-03-23 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Sonntag, den 22.03.2009, 20:38 + schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:18:52 +0100 > Donnie Berkholz 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. > >

[gentoo-dev] newins "-" for standard input?

2009-03-23 Thread Ulrich Mueller
Now that "dosed" is going to be banned, what would people think of "newins" (and the other "new*" commands) accepting "-" as the first argument? I don't know how many usage cases there are, but the following are obvious: sed 's/quux/quuux/' foo | newins - foo It would allow for here documents:

[gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-23 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:04:32 +0100 Alin Năstac wrote: > I suppose what everyone does in their part of the tree is their > business, but a small subset of packages I maintain have other > maintainers as well. It is annoying to see rules you assume being > respected on your ebuilds being broken at

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] git.eclass / subversion.eclass support for http proxy

2009-03-23 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Hi, Some repositories has the git (or svn) and http support. I saw that we choose the git/svn one (it's faster i know, but it does not works under proxy). I propose a E{GIT,SVN}_REPO_HTTP_URI (or similar) variable that uses the http variant when the global use is set (or we can use the http_prox

Re: [gentoo-dev] newins "-" for standard input?

2009-03-23 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Montag, den 23.03.2009, 09:22 +0100 schrieb Ulrich Mueller: > Now that "dosed" is going to be banned, what would people think of > "newins" (and the other "new*" commands) accepting "-" as the first > argument? I don't know how many usage cases there are, but the > following are obvious: > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-23 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Ryan Hill wrote: > Alin Năstac wrote: > >> I suppose what everyone does in their part of the tree is their >> business, but a small subset of packages I maintain have other >> maintainers as well. It is annoying to see rules you assume being >> respected on your ebuilds being broken at every bump

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] git.eclass / subversion.eclass support for http proxy

2009-03-23 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Timothy Redaelli wrote: > Hi, > Some repositories has the git (or svn) and http support. I saw that we choose > the git/svn one (it's faster i know, but it does not works under proxy). > > I propose a E{GIT,SVN}_REPO_HTTP_URI (or similar) variable that uses the http Good idea. > variant when

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-23 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 23-03-2009 11:41:08 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > People split into three groups: > > - Friends of ${P}-fix-issue.patch naming > - Friends of ${PN}-fix-issue.patch naming > - Friends of ${PN}-1.2.3-fix-issue.patch naming > > Qualities [snip] I think what's missing is the foll

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-23 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Fabian Groffen wrote: > I think what's missing is the following observation: > > ${PN}-fix-issue.patch naming is bad if you patch code that is (likely) > to change in newer releases. This is almost always the case. Ultimate > example, patch something in ffmpeg or mplayer, and the next snapshot >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for March 26

2009-03-23 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Monday 23 March 2009, Tiziano Müller wrote: > Spec needed. DOCS or no DOCS? DOCS, and non-empty default value, please [1]. Some eclasses already do this (not base, but others), and if that default doesn't cover it for you, the function can be overridden. Concerning the argument of declarative

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI roadmap

2009-03-23 Thread Thilo Bangert
Serkan Kaba said: > Thilo Bangert yazmış: > > i doesnt make sense to introduce EAPI=2 into ebuilds, if we dont > > expect to have en EAPI=2 capable package manager stable within a > > reasonable timeframe. > > 2.1.6 is stable and supports EAPI2 thats pretty cool. thanks...

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] git.eclass / subversion.eclass support for http proxy

2009-03-23 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Timothy Redaelli wrote: > Hi, > Some repositories has the git (or svn) and http support. I saw that we choose > the git/svn one (it's faster i know, but it does not works under proxy). > > I propose a E{GIT,SVN}_REPO_HTTP_URI (or similar) variable that uses the htt

Re: [gentoo-dev] newins "-" for standard input?

2009-03-23 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Now that "dosed" is going to be banned, what would people think of I wouldn't call it banned, rather "useless" since everyone directly uses sed instead. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: dev-lang/pugs

2009-03-23 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Torsten Veller wrote: > # Masked for removal (#151986,#171649,#239222) (23 Mar 2009) > # 151986 - dev-lang/pugs-6.2.13 installs stuff in /lib instead of /usr/lib > # 171649 - dev-lang/pugs-6.2.13 fails to build with ghc-6.6 > # 239222 - Remove dependen

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] git.eclass / subversion.eclass support for http proxy

2009-03-23 Thread Timothy Redaelli
On Monday 23 March 2009 12:45:55 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Timothy Redaelli wrote: > > Hi, > > Some repositories has the git (or svn) and http support. I saw that we > > choose the git/svn one (it's faster i know, but it does not works under > > proxy). > > > > I p

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2009-03-23 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Following this month processing of the retirement batch, the following packages have been reassigned to maintainer-needed and can take some love. You know the drill, so if you want to maintain any of them please add yourself to the metadata.xml.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2009-03-23 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:26:06 -0100 "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" wrote: [...] > Saleem Abdulrasool (compnerd) [...] > dev-dotnet/dbus-glib-sharp > dev-dotnet/dbus-sharp [...] Snatched

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2009-03-23 Thread Ricardo Mendoza
2009/3/24 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto : > Hi. > > Following this month processing of the retirement batch, the following > packages have been reassigned to maintainer-needed and can take some > love. You know the drill, so if you want to maintain any of them please > add yourself to the metadata.xm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2009-03-23 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le lundi 23 mars 2009 à 11:26 -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto a écrit : > dev-libs/gdl > gnome-extra/gsynaptics will be taken by gnome. * gdl will die soonish because it's been integrated in anjuta proper iirc. * gsynaptics will die soonish anyway due to xorg-server 1.6 and

[gentoo-dev] [undertakers] Packages with updated metadata.xml

2009-03-23 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Following this month processing of the retirement batch, the following packages had their metadata.xml updated to remove all maintainers that were retired. If you are a maintainer or a member of a herd listed in these packages, you may want to rev

Re: [gentoo-dev] newins "-" for standard input?

2009-03-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:22:06 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Now that "dosed" is going to be banned, what would people think of > "newins" (and the other "new*" commands) accepting "-" as the first > argument? There's a slightly different variation in exheres-0: as well as do* and new*, there's als

Re: [gentoo-dev] updating baselayout PERMS_PROTECT

2009-03-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:53:23 -0400 Caleb Cushing wrote: > of course this leads to the problem... what if the 'admin' explicitly > changed the permissions... Maybe we should have something like > PERMS_PROTECT (similar to config_protect). where portage won't update > the permissions if file/directo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Legler
On Mo, 2009-03-23 at 11:26 -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > [...] > Ali Polatel (hawking) > [...] > net-irc/bip Shamelessly stole that one. Gracias, Alex signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] newins "-" for standard input?

2009-03-23 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> Now that "dosed" is going to be banned, what would people think of >> "newins" (and the other "new*" commands) accepting "-" as the first >> argument? > There's a slightly different variation in exheres-0: as well as do* > and new*, there's als

Re: [gentoo-dev] newins "-" for standard input?

2009-03-23 Thread Timothy Redaelli
On Monday 23 March 2009 09:22:06 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Now that "dosed" is going to be banned, what would people think of > "newins" (and the other "new*" commands) accepting "-" as the first > argument? I don't know how many usage cases there are, but the > following are obvious: > >sed 's/q

Re: [gentoo-dev] newins "-" for standard input?

2009-03-23 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:11 +0100, Timothy Redaelli wrote: > On Monday 23 March 2009 09:22:06 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > >newins - baz <<<$'# a short\n# file' > > Why can't you use "newins /dev/stdin foo" that it works out of the box? Nope, /dev/stdin isn't portable. While Linux and Solari

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: dev-lang/pugs

2009-03-23 Thread Torsten Veller
* "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" : > Torsten Veller wrote: > > # Masked for removal (#151986,#171649,#239222) (23 Mar 2009) > > # 151986 - dev-lang/pugs-6.2.13 installs stuff in /lib instead of /usr/lib > > # 171649 - dev-lang/pugs-6.2.13 fails to build with ghc-6.6 > > # 239222 - Remove dependencies in

Re: [gentoo-dev] newins "-" for standard input?

2009-03-23 Thread Alec Warner
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >>> Now that "dosed" is going to be banned, what would people think of >>> "newins" (and the other "new*" commands) accepting "-" as the first >>> argument? > >> There's a slightly different

Re: [gentoo-dev] [undertakers] Packages with updated metadata.xml

2009-03-23 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 12:28 -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > dev-ruby/coderay > dev-ruby/exifr > dev-ruby/png The ruby herd will take these. Kind regards, Hans signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-23 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:51:28 +0100 Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 23-03-2009 11:41:08 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > People split into three groups: > > > > - Friends of ${P}-fix-issue.patch naming > > - Friends of ${PN}-fix-issue.patch naming > > - Friends of ${PN}-1.2.3-fix-issue.p

Re: [gentoo-dev] please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-23 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Dne neděle 22 Březen 2009 17:50:26 Alin Năstac napsal(a): > Please do not apply patches that have ${P} prefix in other ebuild > versions than ${PV}. > Is that hard to create a new patch with a proper name? > > Cheers, > Alin Hi, I was working on patches glep [1] (nothing final and it is highly in p

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: genstef gems special edition

2009-03-23 Thread Peter Alfredsen
Since genstef has been .away for some time, I arranged with him that I'd send a list of his ebuilds that need maintenance to be put up for grabs. This list contains all ebuilds that have no herd, at least one open bug and where genstef is the maintainer. media-video/linux-uvc media-video/isight-fi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: genstef gems special edition

2009-03-23 Thread Markos Chandras
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 00:08:53 Peter Alfredsen wrote: > Since genstef has been .away for some time, I arranged with him that I'd > send a list of his ebuilds that need maintenance to be put up for grabs. > This list contains all ebuilds that have no herd, at least one open bug > and where genste

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: genstef gems special edition

2009-03-23 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le lundi 23 mars 2009 à 23:08 +0100, Peter Alfredsen a écrit : > Since genstef has been .away for some time, I arranged with him that I'd > send a list of his ebuilds that need maintenance to be put up for grabs. > This list contains all ebuilds that have no herd, at least one open bug > and where

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: genstef gems special edition

2009-03-23 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Montag, den 23.03.2009, 23:08 +0100 schrieb Peter Alfredsen: > Since genstef has been .away for some time, I arranged with him that I'd > send a list of his ebuilds that need maintenance to be put up for grabs. > This list contains all ebuilds that have no herd, at least one open bug > and where

Re: [gentoo-dev] newins "-" for standard input?

2009-03-23 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Tiziano Müller wrote: >> what would people think of "newins" (and the other "new*" commands) >> accepting "-" as the first argument? > I like it :-) Bug 263565 now. Ulrich