Re: [gentoo-dev] issue with gentoo-x86 cvs repo

2010-10-02 Thread Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog)
Dne 2.10.2010 03:35, Robin H. Johnson napsal(a): On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 03:19:42AM +0200, Miroslav ?ulc (fordfrog) wrote: hi, yesterday i was able to use the repo but now i get this error (for any cvs command): $ cvs rm -f apgdiff-2.0.2.ebuild Your account has expired; please contact

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: .la files removal news item (GLEP 42)

2010-10-02 Thread Dale
Duncan wrote: Diego Elio Pettenò posted on Sat, 02 Oct 2010 03:06:56 +0200 as excerpted: Il giorno sab, 02/10/2010 alle 00.42 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan ha scritto: Right, so a few weeks later when they re-merge a binpkg, they suddenly get build failures again. And that confuses them

Re: [gentoo-dev] .la files removal news item (GLEP 42)

2010-10-02 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02-10-2010 03:01, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 10:20 Sat 02 Oct , Alistair Bush wrote: How is this news item going to help ppl in a month from now (till the issue is solved in its entirety). Can we reasonably expect a new user to be aware of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: .la files removal news item (GLEP 42)

2010-10-02 Thread Peter Volkov
В Птн, 01/10/2010 в 20:02 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò пишет: I, sincerely, have poured enough effort in trying to solve the issue, discussing it, documenting it, showing how to deal with new packages, showing how to identify pointless .la files that only increase the number of them installed and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: .la files removal news item (GLEP 42)

2010-10-02 Thread Peter Volkov
В Птн, 01/10/2010 в 12:38 -0700, Zac Medico пишет: Maybe advise them to use post_pkg_preinst instead of post_src_install, so it works even for binary packages. Is it possible for portage-2.1.8.x to depend on lafilefixer and add run lafilefixer (if installed) from base profile bashrc? --

[gentoo-dev] QA last rites for net-nntp/nntpswitch

2010-10-02 Thread Diego E . Pettenò
# Diego E. Pettenò flamee...@gentoo.org (02 Oct 2010) # on behalf of QA team # # Violate sandbox at least since July 2009 (bug #279090) # thus cannot install; ignores flags (bug #241090). # # Removal on 2010-12-01 net-nntp/nntpswitch

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: .la files removal news item (GLEP 42)

2010-10-02 Thread Luca Barbato
On 10/01/2010 09:12 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: I don't think it makes much difference though to them — beside making you feel righteous at dragging your feet. Nice try. I'm sorry, but I do not understand your hostility. Could you rephrase your objections with what I said in a way I can

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: .la files removal news item (GLEP 42)

2010-10-02 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: On 10/01/2010 09:12 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: I don't think it makes much difference though to them —  beside making you feel righteous at dragging your feet. Nice try. I'm sorry, but I do not understand your

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-chemistry/validation

2010-10-02 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
# Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org (02 Oct 2010) # Masking for removal in 30 days # Upstream is dead, does not build, would need massive work for current # gcc. Seems like nobody has missed it for some time. Bug 296651. sci-chemistry/validation -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help on f-spot-0.8 problem

2010-10-02 Thread Peter Volkov
Hi, Pacho. В Птн, 01/10/2010 в 20:14 +0200, Pacho Ramos пишет: Since Calchan doesn't have much time for f-spot and dotnet team is conformed basically by me, I would welcome any help for trying to bump f-spot to its 0.8 version. The problem is that eautoreconf doesn't run, even running

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: .la files removal news item (GLEP 42)

2010-10-02 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/02/2010 05:21 AM, Peter Volkov wrote: В Птн, 01/10/2010 в 12:38 -0700, Zac Medico пишет: Maybe advise them to use post_pkg_preinst instead of post_src_install, so it works even for binary packages. Is it possible for portage-2.1.8.x to depend on lafilefixer and add run lafilefixer (if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: .la files removal news item (GLEP 42)

2010-10-02 Thread Peter Volkov
В Сбт, 02/10/2010 в 10:43 -0700, Zac Medico пишет: On 10/02/2010 05:21 AM, Peter Volkov wrote: Is it possible for portage-2.1.8.x to depend on lafilefixer and add run lafilefixer (if installed) from base profile bashrc? We can do a portage-2.1.8.4 version bump with support for running

[gentoo-dev] .la files and their future on Gentoo

2010-10-02 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. Given the recent activity around .la files and conflict about how to deal with them, I propose we discuss this issue in this mailing list, and take this issue to the council. That way, we can make a global decision, taking into account all the

Re: [gentoo-dev] .la files and their future on Gentoo

2010-10-02 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 02/10/2010 21:54, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto a écrit : With that goal in mind, I'd like to ask anyone with arguments about this issue to present them as a reply to this thread. [putting on my X11 cap] As far as X11 packages are concerned (libX11, libXext, cairo, etc), we can remove .la