[gentoo-dev] Re: crossdev and multilib interference

2014-08-01 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: On 19/06/14 05:20 PM, Steven J. Long wrote: Well I've spent far too long at crossdev code, only to see this and realise you can simply hard-mask: cross-i686-pc-linux-gnu/{binutils,gcc,glibc,pkg-config} in the amd64 multilib profile, unless

[gentoo-dev] Re: package.mask vs ~arch

2014-08-01 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:01:53PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:04:54AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: A package that hasn't been tested AT ALL doesn't belong in ~arch. Suppose the maintainer is unable to test some aspect of the package, or any aspect of the package?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-08-01 Thread Raúl Porcel
On 07/26/14 19:33, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 07/27/2014 03:19 AM, William Hubbs wrote: If an arch team isn't going to honor a stable request, shouldn't they remove themselves from it and say so? Also, if an arch team does that, does that mean we don't have to file stable requests for that

[gentoo-dev] Re: Avoiding rebuilds

2014-08-01 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 05:49:07AM +, Martin Vaeth wrote: hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: Ulrich Mueller: I wonder if it wouldn't be saner to leave our revision syntax untouched. As already mentioned, -r1.1 is only one of several possible ways how to achieve the same aim; I am

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-08-01 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 08/01/2014 04:52, Raúl Porcel wrote: On 07/26/14 19:33, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 07/27/2014 03:19 AM, William Hubbs wrote: If an arch team isn't going to honor a stable request, shouldn't they remove themselves from it and say so? Also, if an arch team does that, does that mean we don't

[gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-08-01 Thread Duncan
Raúl Porcel posted on Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:52:21 +0200 as excerpted: But almost all arches except amd64/x86/arm are getting less and less popular: alpha: no new hardware in more than 8+ years hppa: being phased out IIRC, and no new workstations (ie, graphics/sound) in 5+ years ia64: no new

[gentoo-dev] Meeting of the ppc/ppc64 teams: Monday Aug 4, 2014 @20:00 UTC

2014-08-01 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone, I'm email gentoo-dev@ because I'm trying to hit up as many devs as possible. Hopefully you've seen the recent discussions about what to do with ppc/ppc64 given the low manpower. Let's get interested people meeting in #gentoo-powerpc on Monday Aug 4, 2014 @20:00 UTC. If there

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: crossdev and multilib interference

2014-08-01 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/08/14 05:05 AM, Steven J. Long wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2014, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: On 19/06/14 05:20 PM, Steven J. Long wrote: Well I've spent far too long at crossdev code, only to see this and realise you can simply hard-mask:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: package.mask vs ~arch

2014-08-01 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:13:33AM +0100, Steven J. Long wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:01:53PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:04:54AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: A package that hasn't been tested AT ALL doesn't belong in ~arch. Suppose the maintainer is unable

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: crossdev and multilib interference

2014-08-01 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:36AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: On 01/08/14 05:05 AM, Steven J. Long wrote: I don't know why we can't just mask cross-*/whatever in the multilib profile, instead of more talk of masking crossdev with a heavy heart. Nor do know if that's been done already, as I

[gentoo-dev] Re: Avoiding rebuilds

2014-08-01 Thread Martin Vaeth
Steven J. Long sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk wrote: It will probably also cause confusion for comaintainers and collaborators, especially when INSTALL_VERSION points to a version that has already been removed. So use another name that can't be confused. Perhaps there is a misunderstanding:

[gentoo-dev] PMS (was: don't rely on dynamic deps)

2014-08-01 Thread Martin Vaeth
Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Martin Vaeth wrote: Quite the opposite, PMS claims that one cannot rely on anything stored in /var/db Where does it say so? Appendix B: Unspecified Items The following items are not specified by this document, and must not be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Meeting of the ppc/ppc64 teams: Monday Aug 4, 2014 @20:00 UTC

2014-08-01 Thread Jack Morgan
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 09:37:10AM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: Hi everyone, I'm email gentoo-dev@ because I'm trying to hit up as many devs as possible. Hopefully you've seen the recent discussions about what to do with ppc/ppc64 given the low manpower. Let's get interested people

Re: [gentoo-dev] PMS

2014-08-01 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Fri, 1 Aug 2014, Martin Vaeth wrote: Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Martin Vaeth wrote: Quite the opposite, PMS claims that one cannot rely on anything stored in /var/db Where does it say so? Appendix B: Unspecified Items The following items are not

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Offer to read news while calcing deps (bug 517310)

2014-08-01 Thread Alexander Berntsen
Signed-off-by: Alexander Berntsen berna...@gentoo.org --- I don't have time for any more playing with this. Please test it, and ACK it if it is OK. I will merge it when I get back if it's OK. :-] pym/_emerge/actions.py | 10 -- pym/_emerge/post_emerge.py | 5 - 2 files changed,

[gentoo-portage-dev] New release: 2.2.11

2014-08-01 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Friends, Portage 2.2.11 is now out. Brian is uploading the tarball and bumping the ebuild right now. Release notes: - Remove some broken old style virtual code - Bug # 505428 RO only filesystem check - Bug # 506186 TaskSequence