[gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-15 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org: I don't have a long-term plan other than to stabilize the base system and provide n32 stages. Where it goes from there, I don't know. So I am sure you coordinate with redhatter. Though, you'd think with six members of the MIPS herd we'd have enough

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-15 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 11/15/10 11:20 AM, Christian Faulhammer wrote: * reducing your keyword set (stable-wise) to a relative small subset and rethink your normal testing keywords. I think there is a related point here: when you start with a minimal stable set, it's easy to extend that set later. However, if

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: fat binaries

2010-11-15 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno lun, 15/11/2010 alle 00.41 +0100, Thomas Kahle ha scritto: Using ‘--enable-fat’ selects a “fat binary” build on x86 or x86 64 systems, where optimized low level subroutines are chosen at runtime according to the CPU de- tected. This means more code, but gives reasonable performance

Re: [gentoo-dev] Disabling auto-bumping of active Python version

2010-11-15 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 11/14/10 22:42, Florian Philipp wrote: Is there a chance to do the same for perl and perl-cleaner? I understand perl is not slotted at the moment and there are probably good technical reasons for not doing so but I still wanted to ask. :) I'm not sure if the Perl team is watching this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-15 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 11:20 Mon 15 Nov , Christian Faulhammer wrote: I don't want to stop you, but you are relatively new to the real keywording business. amd64 at a point had over 30 members and could not work on the backlog in a timely manner. Think about ... I completely agree. I don't know even

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI versioning of files in profiles

2010-11-15 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-11-03 06:18:01 Zac Medico napisał(a): When you need to use a new EAPI, why not just create a sub-profile that uses the existing 'eapi' file support? For example, you could create 10.1 profiles that inherit from the 10.0 profiles, and put anything requiring the new EAPI in the 10.1

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI versioning of files in profiles

2010-11-15 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-11-15 19:32:28 Zac Medico napisał(a): On 11/15/2010 10:23 AM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2010-11-03 06:18:01 Zac Medico napisał(a): When you need to use a new EAPI, why not just create a sub-profile that uses the existing 'eapi' file support? For example, you could

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-15 Thread Matt Turner
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Panagiotis Christopoulos pchr...@gentoo.org wrote: On 11:20 Mon 15 Nov     , Christian Faulhammer wrote:  I don't want to stop you, but you are relatively new to the real keywording business.  amd64 at a point had over 30 members and could not work on the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-15 Thread Jeremy Olexa
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:41:17 -0500, Matt Turner wrote: snip I'm not planning an ad-hoc at-random stabilization/keywording spree. I'd just like to have a stable and tested base system. Sure, but you have to understand the concerns here. You have no long-term plan, you are underestimating the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI=4

2010-11-15 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-10-25 16:03:01 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a): On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:56:18 +0200 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2010-10-25 15:42:00 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a): On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:24:23 +0200 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Disabling auto-bumping of active Python version

2010-11-15 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Monday 15 November 2010 11:37:08 Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 11/14/10 22:42, Florian Philipp wrote: Is there a chance to do the same for perl and perl-cleaner? I understand perl is not slotted at the moment and there are probably good technical reasons for not doing so but I still

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI versioning of files in profiles

2010-11-15 Thread Alex Alexander
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 07:40:44PM +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: Some updates to my suggestion: - Files would optionally end with -${EAPI} suffix. - The following files would be affected: package.mask package.unmask package.keywords

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64

2010-11-15 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14-11-2010 18:41, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 11/14/10 8:36 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: The IA64 arch team does not have the resources to maintain Java support so we agreed that support will be dropped unless more man power becomes available.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Disabling auto-bumping of active Python version

2010-11-15 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/15/2010 02:02 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: Since none are slotted, I don't understand what outcome you expect by contacting the maintainers. At best, perl-cleaner and ocaml-rebuild.sh shall be merged into portage in a preserve-libs like manner. In case some aren't aware, I'll mention