Re: [gentoo-dev] New Manifest Hashes

2012-07-04 Thread Jeff Horelick
The change has been made. Please remember to cvs up metadata/layout.conf and update portage (if necessary) before committing. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP draf for cross-compile support in multilib profiles

2012-07-04 Thread Luca Barbato
On 07/01/2012 01:41 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: I guess, you are mixing cross-compile support in multilib profiles and cross-compile support with cross-toolchains, multilib-portage is for the first one, while crossdev is for the second one. My suggestion does not support e.g. compiling for ppc

[gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-04 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! Recently, I have again bumped into the question whether one should compile the kernel as root. One of the things that puzzles me is why almost every HowTo, blog post and book recommends building as non-root -- yet basically no distribution /helps/ the user with doing that. I've discussed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-04 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 19:46:47 +0200 Tobias Klausmann klaus...@gentoo.org wrote: Recently, I have again bumped into the question whether one should compile the kernel as root. One of the things that puzzles me is why almost every HowTo, blog post and book recommends building as non-root -- yet

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-04 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Wed, 04 Jul 2012, Michał Górny wrote: There's a very simple yet custom solution I'm using. Shortly saying: checkout the kernel git to /usr/src/linux and chown to your user. As far as it goes, it's superior to having kernel sources installed by ebuilds. I just have to remember to do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-04 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/04/2012 01:58 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 19:46:47 +0200 Tobias Klausmann klaus...@gentoo.org wrote: Recently, I have again bumped into the question whether one should compile the kernel as root. One of the things that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-04 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 02:20:36PM -0400, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/04/2012 01:58 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 19:46:47 +0200 Tobias Klausmann klaus...@gentoo.org wrote: Recently, I have again bumped into the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-04 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/04/2012 08:56 PM, William Hubbs wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 02:20:36PM -0400, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/04/2012 01:58 PM, Michał Górny wrote: We could allow writes in the

[gentoo-dev] Short bugzilla outage today between 2100-2200 UTC

2012-07-04 Thread Theo Chatzimichos
All, bugs.gentoo.org will be down for 30 minutes sometime between 2100 and 2200 UTC. We are migrating the database replication to newer and faster boxes. Apologies for the short notice. We'll let you know with a newer announcement when it is finished. the Gentoo Infrastructure team

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-04 Thread Peter Stuge
Michael Weber wrote: I think running kernels from non-root checkouts is a pretty big security hole. Suggest think again. The Linux kernel should not and really must not be built as root. This is neither supported nor recommended nor tested by upstream. You may recall there was a kernel build

Re: [gentoo-dev] Liblo 0.26 wrong ebuild license

2012-07-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 07/02/2012 11:51 AM, Natanael Olaiz wrote: It is LGPL, not GPL. diff -aru liblo_original/liblo-0.26.ebuild liblo/liblo-0.26.ebuild --- liblo_original/liblo-0.26.ebuild2011-09-12 20:38:28.0 +0200 +++ liblo/liblo-0.26.ebuild 2012-07-02 10:43:29.0 +0200 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-04 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 20:06:58 +0200 Tobias Klausmann klaus...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi! On Wed, 04 Jul 2012, Michał Górny wrote: There's a very simple yet custom solution I'm using. Shortly saying: checkout the kernel git to /usr/src/linux and chown to your user. As far as it goes, it's

[gentoo-dev] Re: Short bugzilla outage today between 2100-2200 UTC

2012-07-04 Thread Theo Chatzimichos
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Theo Chatzimichos tampak...@gentoo.org wrote: All, bugs.gentoo.org will be down for 30 minutes sometime between 2100 and 2200 UTC. We are migrating the database replication to newer and faster boxes. Apologies for the short notice. We'll let you know with a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-04 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 07:46:47PM +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote: Hi! Recently, I have again bumped into the question whether one should compile the kernel as root. One of the things that puzzles me is why almost every HowTo, blog post and book recommends building as non-root -- yet

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su wrote: The KBUILD_OUTPUT / O= option seems like the best solution to me (especially so as I build three kernel images from a single sources tree), and it works well, except that it sometimes doesn't with especially monstrous and hard

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-04 Thread Richard Yao
On 07/04/2012 07:58 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su wrote: The KBUILD_OUTPUT / O= option seems like the best solution to me (especially so as I build three kernel images from a single sources tree), and it works well, except that it sometimes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-04 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 02:49 +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:56 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: Actually the directories do not need write permissions either. Take a look at the O= option documented in /usr/src/linux/README. The KBUILD_OUTPUT / O= option

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-04 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 04 July 2012 21:36:02 Albert W. Hopkins wrote: Might it be better if you could tell portage to look for kernel builds in another location than /usr/src/linux. Perhaps you can already and I'm not aware. export KBUILD_OUTPUT=... -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-04 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: There are kernel-dependent packages that (seem to) always look for configuration options, symbols, etc. in /usr/src/linux. When you use O= then those features do not exist in /usr/src/linux and thus those packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub:2 keywords

2012-07-04 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:02:28 -0400 Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: That is exactly what Doug (cardoe) proposed, and he is working on the docs for that. Ah yes, it's been a long-winded thread. :) jer I got