[gentoo-dev] Re: /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-17 Thread Duncan
Herbert Fischer posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 16 Jul 2005 22:13:19 -0300: All scripts created by Gentoo emerges have some header signature (sort of cvs information), am I right? If so, some sort of checking script can detect Gentoo signed files on /etc/profile.d and

Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs is dead, let's move on

2005-07-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:37:52AM +0100, Carlos Silva wrote: Sorry to only reply to this now, but i saw a mail of you talking about ndevfs. will that go into 2.6.13? not that i use devfs, 'cause i don't, i'm just curious. No, ndevfs was written in a bout of temporary insanity. I will not

Re: [gentoo-dev] [G/FBSD] /usr/lib/charset.alias

2005-07-17 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 17 July 2005 02:26, Mike Frysinger wrote: this of course assumes that *no package* should ever install that file, including your bsd libc ... Actually, libiconv should install that file, at least. We can RESTRICT it for just a package? -- Diego Flameeyes Pettenò Gentoo Developer -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Hello

2005-07-17 Thread Drake Wyrm
Stuart Longland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Stelling wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: Filtering the lists leads to a slippery slope. What happens when you start getting false positives? True, but why not filtering binary attachments? *If* you have to send an attachment to these

[gentoo-dev] DOWNTIME/upgrade for bugs.g.o at 2000 UTC

2005-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Forman
Hey all, It's that time again...the time you get to get up from your chairs/couches/bathtubs and grab a drink from the fridge because I am bringing down bugs.g.o for about 30 minutes at 2000UTC, give or take. I am applying the 2.18.1 - 2.18.3 upgrade as evidenced by some recently discovered and

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] DOWNTIME/upgrade for bugs.g.o at 2000 UTC

2005-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Forman
Jeffrey Forman wrote: Hey all, It's that time again...the time you get to get up from your chairs/couches/bathtubs and grab a drink from the fridge because I am bringing down bugs.g.o for about 30 minutes at 2000UTC, give or take. I am applying the 2.18.1 - 2.18.3 upgrade as evidenced by

Re: [gentoo-dev] DOWNTIME/upgrade for bugs.g.o at 2000 UTC

2005-07-17 Thread Kumba
Jeffrey Forman wrote: Hey all, It's that time again...the time you get to get up from your chairs/couches/bathtubs and grab a drink from the fridge because I am bringing down bugs.g.o for about 30 minutes at 2000UTC, give or take. I am applying the 2.18.1 - 2.18.3 upgrade as evidenced by some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild versioning problems

2005-07-17 Thread Anders Bruun Olsen
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:47:14AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: I absolutely agree, but I am not associated with them in any way and therefore am not in a possition to convince them to reconsider their versioning policy (unfortunately). Why not just ask them? I've found that some people

[gentoo-dev] ebuild development (vpopmail, etc.)

2005-07-17 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
Hi everyone, I'm planning to edit the vpopmail ebuild Real Soon Now to add the mysteriously missing postgres USE flag and thus end up with a package compiled with the support we need. Instead of wasting my time re-adding this every time a new version of vpopmail comes along, I'd much rather

[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal: pre-emerge advisories

2005-07-17 Thread R Hill
Craig Lawson wrote: Comments? This subject has also been brought up on the forum[1] very recently. There have been some interesting ideas and alternatives posed that seem workable. I was hoping some of the developers, if they have a moment, could consider and critique these suggestions so

Re: [gentoo-dev] [G/FBSD] /usr/lib/charset.alias

2005-07-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 17 July 2005 12:03 pm, Ned Ludd wrote: INSTALL_MASK is non cumulative. Please use INSTALL_MASK=${INSTALL_MASK} /usr/lib/charset.alias as to not override the user in anyway. any harm with making it cumulative ? iirc, it takes just a few minor tweaks to portage to declare it as such

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild development (vpopmail, etc.)

2005-07-17 Thread Anthony Gorecki
On Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:26 pm, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: Do I simply mail a patch to this list, or ask somebody for a CVS account and commit changes directly? Bugzilla: bugs.gentoo.org I'm also a bit confused about the portdir_overlay thing - If there exists a -r15, do I then add a -r16

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild development (vpopmail, etc.)

2005-07-17 Thread Alin Nastac
Casey Allen Shobe wrote: I'm planning to edit the vpopmail ebuild Real Soon Now to add the mysteriously missing postgres USE flag and thus end up with a package compiled with the support we need. Instead of wasting my time re-adding this every time a new version of vpopmail comes along, I'd

[gentoo-dev] ppc-macos dev machine online

2005-07-17 Thread Kito
Hi Kids, I have a lowly 500MhzG4 with 768MB Ram running OS X 10.4.2 and portage online in case anyone wants a shell for testing, breaking, or seeing why the macos team does some of the wacky things that they do...if you've never logged into a Darwin machine, don't be shy, the box is

[gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: Test UID against portage_uid rather than portage_gid (#99120)

2005-07-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99120 Author: Jeremy Barton The ccache permissions check incorrectly compares the directory's UID against the portage GID. UID and GID of the portage are usually the same but it is possible that they are not. -- Jason Stubbs diff -uNr

[gentoo-portage-dev] CLEANUP: Replace separation of root and wheel based on USERLAND with gid 0

2005-07-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
Author: Jason Stubbs The permissions modifying code of ebuild.sh sets files to have group wheel on BSD and Darwin and group root on other systems. The intention is that the group have gid 0 on all systems. This code removes the if block and uses the numerical identifier. -- Jason Stubbs diff

[gentoo-portage-dev] Posting of patches

2005-07-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
Hi all, Just posted six patches. I guess some people are wondering why when I'm the one that will apply them to CVS and release anyway. The reason is that I'd like a second pair of eyes to look (as I am guilty of releasing broken patches) and am thinking that it'll also help people interested