[gentoo-dev] aging ebuilds with unstable keywords

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Ahlberg
Hi, This is an automatically created email message. http://gentoo.tamperd.net/stable has just been updated with 11406 ebuilds. The page shows results from a number of tests that are run against the ebuilds. The tests are: * if a version has been masked for 30 days or more. * if an arch was in KE

[gentoo-dev] punting USE=diet

2005-08-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
a heads up that i'd like to start deprecating (well, removing) USE=diet support from the tree this does not mean we're removing dietlibc or anything like that, it simply means that if you want to compile something against dietlibc, then that's your own business ... mixing compiler selection and

Re: [gentoo-dev] download problem in ebuild

2005-08-23 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:34:41PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > Thanks to all of you, thats now very clear. > > The message i have is that it will work, but its not allowed. Wrong interpretation- it won't work within an ebuild. It requires exteneral user intervention to make the ebuild work, *every*

Re: [gentoo-dev] download problem in ebuild

2005-08-23 Thread Nick Rout
Thanks to all of you, thats now very clear. The message i have is that it will work, but its not allowed. Apprently the package in question is also housed at sourceforge, but at the moment SF doesn't have the latestt version. I imagine that when it does the usual SF mirror thing will work. On T

Re: [gentoo-dev] download problem in ebuild

2005-08-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Aug 23, 2005, at 8:11 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:41:49 +0200 Marius Mauch wrote: DOWNLOAD_CMD="wget http://laby.toybox.de/download15/ -O laby_$(P).tar.gz" Nope. You have three options: a) bug upstream to fix that crap b) use RESTRICT="fetch" c) assuming the license per

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

2005-08-23 Thread Sven Köhler
> See, certain terminal emulators lie about their TERM setting. Usually > it's things that aren't xterm pretending to be an xterm, although rxvt > sometimes crops up too. Examples of things pretending to be xterm > include Konsole, Gnome Terminal. > > The logic behind it goes like this: > > * We

Re: [gentoo-dev] download problem in ebuild

2005-08-23 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:11:19PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:41:49 +0200 > Marius Mauch wrote: > > > > DOWNLOAD_CMD="wget http://laby.toybox.de/download15/ -O > > > laby_$(P).tar.gz" > > > > Nope. You have three options: > > a) bug upstream to fix that crap > > b) use RE

Re: [gentoo-dev] download problem in ebuild

2005-08-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 08:11 pm, Nick Rout wrote: > So am I being told that you can't change stuff from make.conf per ebuild? > That would fix it I think. > > FETCHCOMMAND="${FETCHCOMMAND} -O laby.${PV}" correct, that is not acceptable -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] download problem in ebuild

2005-08-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:41:49 +0200 Marius Mauch wrote: > > DOWNLOAD_CMD="wget http://laby.toybox.de/download15/ -O > > laby_$(P).tar.gz" > > Nope. You have three options: > a) bug upstream to fix that crap > b) use RESTRICT="fetch" > c) assuming the license permits it, repackage it > > Marius

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

2005-08-23 Thread Sven Köhler
> The termcap method is provided by libtermcap-compat. Most applications > which use this method only do so as an option for systems where terminfo > is not available -- for example, for Vim, terminfo vs termcap is a > compile-time option. The termcap database is limited, generally out of > date an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing the TERM mess

2005-08-23 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 23/08/2005-16:57:28(-0400): Olivier Crete types > I though about this thing last night, and frankly, I think its a lost > cause. I remember that during the Gnome 1.x era, gnome-terminal used to > set TERM=gnome (at least it did on Red Hat) and they had the proper > termcap/terminfo entries

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab

2005-08-23 Thread Kristian Benoit
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 12:27 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:25:03PM -0400, Kristian Benoit wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 15:39 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: > > > That and help would always be welcome :P > > > > Then where do I find the code (I'm an official dev yet, so I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing the TERM mess

2005-08-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:57:28 -0400 Olivier Crete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | As a gnome-terminal user, I've never had problems with anything that | tried to use advanced xterm crap... probably because no uses them. If | you want X stuff, just use a real X application (like gvim...). I'm | strictly

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing the TERM mess

2005-08-23 Thread Olivier Crete
On Tue, 2005-23-08 at 21:27 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 8:52:13 +0200 "Kevin F. Quinn" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On 21/8/2005 23:05:05, Ciaran McCreesh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > | > Now the proposal. This isn't something that can happen immediately, > | > but it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing the TERM mess

2005-08-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 8:52:13 +0200 "Kevin F. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 21/8/2005 23:05:05, Ciaran McCreesh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > Now the proposal. This isn't something that can happen immediately, | > but it's something I'd like to see us working towards: | > | > [...] | > |

[gentoo-dev] aging ebuilds with unstable keywords

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Ahlberg
Hi, This is an automatically created email message. http://gentoo.tamperd.net/stable has just been updated with 11404 ebuilds. The page shows results from a number of tests that are run against the ebuilds. The tests are: * if a version has been masked for 30 days or more. * if an arch was in KE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Status report: Gentoo PHP packages

2005-08-23 Thread Stuart Herbert
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:38 -0600, Jason Wever wrote: > Is there a reason you folks are using a non-gentoo bug system to work on > this? It seems a bit redundant and un-needed in my layman's > perspective. > > Cheers, Gentoo's bugzilla doesn't seem to be the place to log bugs about packages that

Re: [gentoo-dev] stripping implementation in portage

2005-08-23 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:58:46PM -0400, Olivier Crete wrote: > I havent looked at your new implementation (does it exist).. but yea > what you wrote seems to make sense... except that I keep the source code > too.. so it would bloat binary packages.. I think it should be done > before the package

Re: [gentoo-dev] stripping implementation in portage

2005-08-23 Thread Olivier Crete
On Tue, 2005-23-08 at 12:40 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: > First, sidenote (mild ot to this thread also), pardon the dupe posts, > thick fingered typing dumping an old message :) > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:34:33PM -0400, Olivier Crete wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-23-08 at 11:16 +0200, Paul de Vriez

Re: [gentoo-dev] stripping implementation in portage

2005-08-23 Thread Brian Harring
First, sidenote (mild ot to this thread also), pardon the dupe posts, thick fingered typing dumping an old message :) On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:34:33PM -0400, Olivier Crete wrote: > On Tue, 2005-23-08 at 11:16 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > As an aside to this. Does anyone know how debug infor

Re: [gentoo-dev] stripping implementation in portage

2005-08-23 Thread Olivier Crete
On Tue, 2005-23-08 at 11:16 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > As an aside to this. Does anyone know how debug information can be changed > to have a different basedir. My idea was to create a "custom" strip > wrapper that would create external debugging files (like now possible > with gdb/binutils)

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab

2005-08-23 Thread Brian Harring
Lot of text left inline, pardon, just scroll and deal with it :P On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:28:08PM -0400, Kristian Benoit wrote: > Here is my recent communication with Pieter: > > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 21:59 +0200, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote: > > On 13 Aug 2005, at 19:16, Kristian Benoit wrote

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab

2005-08-23 Thread Marius Mauch
On 08/23/05 Ricardo Loureiro wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:41:35 +0100 > Stephen Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > portage-ng is dead. There is a rewrite going on, but it'll take a > > while > > to get anywhere near usable. > > I searched a bit to find information about portage-ng but

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab

2005-08-23 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:25:03PM -0400, Kristian Benoit wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 15:39 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: > > That and help would always be welcome :P > > Then where do I find the code (I'm an official dev yet, so I only have > access to what's in the mirrors and the patchs on mai

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab

2005-08-23 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:25:03PM -0400, Kristian Benoit wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 15:39 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: > > That and help would always be welcome :P > > Then where do I find the code (I'm an official dev yet, so I only have > access to what's in the mirrors and the patchs on mai

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab

2005-08-23 Thread Ricardo Loureiro
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:39:10 -0500 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 2.1 code that was pushed out for inspection addresses the cache > issue mostly, and modularization as much as possible. Everything > else > falls to the rewrite which is underway- I'd suggest contacting > portage

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab

2005-08-23 Thread Ricardo Loureiro
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:41:35 +0100 Stephen Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > portage-ng is dead. There is a rewrite going on, but it'll take a > while > to get anywhere near usable. I searched a bit to find information about portage-ng but the only doc I found was Daniel's pdf with just a draw

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab

2005-08-23 Thread Kristian Benoit
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:41 +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:49:14 -0400 > Kristian Benoit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I do agree with that, portage probably need a rewrite/better > > modularization anyway. There is/was a project called portage-ng () you > > might want t

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo on the Lab

2005-08-23 Thread Kristian Benoit
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 15:39 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: > That and help would always be welcome :P Then where do I find the code (I'm an official dev yet, so I only have access to what's in the mirrors and the patchs on mailing lists) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support

2005-08-23 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 03:20:16PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > To allow for this to work with current portage versions, perhaps it would > be an option to introduce a new extension for .ebuild scripts that use > it's functionality. That would allow all non-EAPI aware portage versions > to aut

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-embedded] Interactive command

2005-08-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 22:41, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Thursday 14 July 2005 14:37, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > On Thursday 14 July 2005 20:58, Ned Ludd wrote: > > > echo "being that no portage dev in his/her right mind would > > > ever" echo "allow interactive code in an ebuild we use bashr

[gentoo-dev] init.d-scripts don't see stuff from /etc/profile.env

2005-08-23 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i just wrote an init.d-script and i thought that the LANG variable was inherited since it set system-wide in /etc/env.d/02locale and therefor is also found in /etc/profile.env Now i noticed, that LANG isn't set for the process started by my init.d-script. So what's the intension to ignore /e

Re: [gentoo-dev] init script guidelines

2005-08-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 20:00, Roy Marples wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 12:42 -0400, Eric Brown wrote: > > The real problem is not that the daemons don't return errors, but > > that our init scripts do not make reasonable attempts to verify > > service startup. If a Gentoo init script claims tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-embedded] Interactive command

2005-08-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 14 July 2005 14:37, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Thursday 14 July 2005 20:58, Ned Ludd wrote: > > echo "being that no portage dev in his/her right mind would > > ever" echo "allow interactive code in an ebuild we use bashrc tricks" > > Actually, I promote interactive code in pkg_confi

Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support

2005-08-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 07 July 2005 22:42, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:52:06AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > strlen(EBUILD_FORMAT) * 19546 = 249K > > > strlen(EAPI) * 19546 = 77K > > > strlen(EV) * 19546 = 39K > > > > > > Where 19546 is the number if ebuilds in the tree as. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] src_configure

2005-08-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 07 July 2005 03:14, Aron Griffis wrote: > Roy Marples wrote:[Wed Jul 06 2005, 08:51:17PM EDT] > > > ebuilds could be changed over time - unless I'm missing something > > basic here .. > > Yes, you're missing the default functions. Presently src_compile does > (effectively) "econf &

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/cache

2005-08-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 13:49 schrieb ext Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >Try df -i, maybe you're out of inodes. > > tnx, its out of inodes. How I can solve this problem? 1) backup the data and recreate the filesystem (maybe switch to reiserfs) 2) Create a new filesystem, c

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/cache

2005-08-23 Thread Ivan Yosifov
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 20:49 +0900, Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar wrote: > tnx, its out of inodes. How I can solve this problem? It's ext(2/3) right ? You can delete some files, reformat the filesystem using mkfs.ext(2/3) -i , or switch to a filesystem which creates inodes on the fly ( like reiserfs ). I

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/cache

2005-08-23 Thread Patrick Kursawe
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:49:11PM +0900, Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar wrote: > tnx, its out of inodes. How I can solve this problem? Reformat the partition with a different number of inodes (see the manual page for mkfs.$your_filesystem) or switch to a filesystem that does not use a limited number of in

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/cache

2005-08-23 Thread Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 13:23 schrieb ext Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar: emerge --metadata show such error messages: Failed cache update: app-admin/zprod-manager-0.1 [Errno 28] No space left on device: '/var/cache/edb/dep//usr/portage/app-admin/ but df shows me /dev/hda

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/cache

2005-08-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 13:23 schrieb ext Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar: > emerge --metadata show such error messages: > Failed cache update: app-admin/zprod-manager-0.1 [Errno 28] No space > left on device: '/var/cache/edb/dep//usr/portage/app-admin/ > > but df shows me > > /dev/hda8 9

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to tell 2.1.8 > 20030601

2005-08-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 12:36 schrieb ext Jason Stubbs: > On Tuesday 23 August 2005 15:23, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > > However, even after reading all the ebuild docs, I can't figure out how > > to tell portage that version 2.1.8 is newer than 20030601. The only way > > I could convince port

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/cache

2005-08-23 Thread Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar
Simon Stelling wrote: Hi, Next time please open a new thread instead of hijacking an unrelated one. Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar wrote: I know it's not developers problem, but some times ago I by mistake removed some directories in /var/cache. No I can't install any portage and update it via emerg

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/cache

2005-08-23 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi, Next time please open a new thread instead of hijacking an unrelated one. Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar wrote: I know it's not developers problem, but some times ago I by mistake removed some directories in /var/cache. No I can't install any portage and update it via emerge-webrsync (firewalled).

[gentoo-dev] /var/cache

2005-08-23 Thread Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar
I know it's not developers problem, but some times ago I by mistake removed some directories in /var/cache. No I can't install any portage and update it via emerge-webrsync (firewalled). What should I do? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to tell 2.1.8 > 20030601

2005-08-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 15:23, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Hi, > > I have written an ebuild for pam_krb5, based on the version found in > fedora, since the one from sourceforge which is currently in portage is > way outdated. > > However, even after reading all the ebuild docs, I can't figure out how

Re: [gentoo-dev] stripping implementation in portage

2005-08-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 00:38, Brian Harring wrote: > Hola all. > > Short version, the nostrip feature is a bit funky as an option. What > I'm after is effectively building all packages *with* debugging > information as default, and leaving it up to the repository you're > merging the package to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to post bug report/questions about webapp-config?

2005-08-23 Thread Julien Allanos
Quoting Ed W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, (I previously sent this message directly to Stuart and got no reply - is there a better mailing list to discuss this stuff?) I am writing an ebuild for sql-ledger an accounting package for small businesses. I am hitting a problem with symlinks not being c

[gentoo-dev] Where to post bug report/questions about webapp-config?

2005-08-23 Thread Ed W
Hi, (I previously sent this message directly to Stuart and got no reply - is there a better mailing list to discuss this stuff?) I am writing an ebuild for sql-ledger an accounting package for small businesses. I am hitting a problem with symlinks not being copied across to the virtual director

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gstreamer + Use Flags

2005-08-23 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:21:50AM +0200, Fabian Zeindl wrote: > Since nobody except Diego replied on my mail a week ago: > Is there another way besides filing bugs and mailing the list to make a > proposal which gets investigated? I think many users are concerned about that > gstreamer "oddness",

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gstreamer + Use Flags

2005-08-23 Thread Fabian Zeindl
Since nobody except Diego replied on my mail a week ago: Is there another way besides filing bugs and mailing the list to make a proposal which gets investigated? I think many users are concerned about that gstreamer "oddness", and I didn't find one good reason while reading through bugzilla of no