Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

Thank you for your answers :). I have few followup questions. Il 23/02/2018 19:09, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov ha scritto: Or in other word, it is enough to only look at /etc/portage/repos.conf? No What else should I look for? - is the package.mask file apply only on the packages of that

[gentoo-dev] details on the PMS

I noticed that the following files are not mentioned, or stated optional in the PMS: - profiles/repo_name - metadata/layout.conf It seems to me that without these files, portage complains. Shouldn't them be declared as mandatory? - profiles/package.use and profiles/make.defaults

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

Il 23/02/2018 20:37, Alec Warner ha scritto: My general observation is that Gentoo is not successful as an organization about deprecating and removing things. One area where Gentoo has done well is in EAPI and in PMS itself, with mostly-clear versioning and standards and whatnot. But in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:36:07 +0100 Michael Lienhardt wrote: > I started refactoring my solver to make it more modular, to fix some > details w.r.t. the PMS and to manage different repositories. I thus > have several questions on how multiple repositories work in

[gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

I started refactoring my solver to make it more modular, to fix some details w.r.t. the PMS and to manage different repositories. I thus have several questions on how multiple repositories work in portage. 1. My understanding was that /etc/portage/repos.conf replaced the PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[gentoo-dev] Its time to mask sys-libs/uclibc

Hi everyone, So if anyone has been following uclibc, you know that its development stalled with its last official release in 2012 (https://uclibc.org/). It was forked into uclibc-ng (https://uclibc-ng.org/) which has been actively maintained since. All my uclibc work has been done using

Re: [gentoo-dev] Its time to mask sys-libs/uclibc

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018, at 10:01 CST, "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > [...] > I'm not even sure a news item is needed here. What do people think? If > you think so, who do I even direct it at? If there is no action needed on user side and an upgrade and migration from

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-cluster/ganglia-web

# Thomas Deutschmann (23 Feb 2018) # Unmaintained in Gentoo, known critical vulnerabilities like # auth bypass. Removal in 30 days. Bugs #559658, #592080. sys-cluster/ganglia-web If you are using sys-cluster/ganglia-web or want to keep the package in official Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Its time to mask sys-libs/uclibc

On 2/23/18 11:22 AM, Matthias Maier wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018, at 10:01 CST, "Anthony G. Basile" > wrote: > >> [...] > >> I'm not even sure a news item is needed here. What do people think? If >> you think so, who do I even direct it at? > > If there is no action

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

> Or in other word, it is enough to only look at /etc/portage/repos.conf? No > In general, an overlay is a repository, i.e., a valid tree layout for the Yes > - can the profiles in a repository different from DEFAULT be selected? Yes > - is the package.mask file apply only on the packages of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Michael Lienhardt < michael.lienha...@laposte.net> wrote: > I started refactoring my solver to make it more modular, to fix some > details w.r.t. the PMS and to manage different repositories. > I thus have several questions on how multiple repositories work in