Re: [gentoo-dev] broken kernel headers

2006-05-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:25, Dick wrote: > For example ethtool.h, which uses the u32 typedef defined in asm/types.h. > This typedef has been disabled outside the kernel "to avoid name space > clashes" which I think is a Good Thing. that's because the sed used in kernel-2.eclass is slightly broken

[gentoo-dev] [Fwd: [gentoo-portage-dev] Breakout etc-update, dispatch-conf]

2006-05-02 Thread Alec Warner
In an attempt to receive more comments and to request comments on the virtual/config-manager, I have forwarded this mail here. Please comment + point out weird things wrong. I'd prefer to make either dispatch-conf or cfg-update the default for the virtual, but I am definately open to discuss

Re: [gentoo-dev] default RDEPEND?

2006-05-02 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 29 April 2006 10:12, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 29 April 2006 03:08, Alin Nastac wrote: > > Carsten Lohrke wrote: > > >RDEPEND="cvs? ( dev-util/cvs ) > > > svn? ( dev-util/subversion ) > > > !cvs? ( ! svn? ( dev-util/cvs ) )" > > > > Huh? How about: > > RDEPEND="|| ( dev-ut

[gentoo-dev] PPC Meeting Summary - 2006-04-30

2006-05-02 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi devs, The PPC team had a meeting on Sunday, April 30th. I've attached a summary for those interested. Logs are available by request, (at least until I get them added to ppc.gentoo.org). Thanks, - -Joe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

[gentoo-dev] broken kernel headers

2006-05-02 Thread Dick
Hi all, I'm compiling some software created for Fedora/Red Hat and discovered some of the gentoo kernel-headers are broken. For example ethtool.h, which uses the u32 typedef defined in asm/types.h. This typedef has been disabled outside the kernel "to avoid name space clashes" which I think is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Having fun with compression

2006-05-02 Thread Jan Kundrát
Ryan Phillips wrote: > did you benchmark CPU load? Often bzip2 takes 3x as long to > uncompress a package than bzip. Often, the space savings doesn't > justify the cost of how long it takes for the cpu to decompress the > archive. How long does it take in time units defined as "the time required

Re: [gentoo-dev] Having fun with compression

2006-05-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 18:27 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 08:50 -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote: > > > Patrick, > > > > did you benchmark CPU load? Often bzip2 takes 3x as long to > > uncompress a package than bzip. Often, the space savings doesn't > > justify the cost of how

Re: [gentoo-dev] Having fun with compression

2006-05-02 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 08:50 -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote: > Patrick, > > did you benchmark CPU load? Often bzip2 takes 3x as long to > uncompress a package than bzip. Often, the space savings doesn't > justify the cost of how long it takes for the cpu to decompress the > archive. I did not comp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Having fun with compression

2006-05-02 Thread Ryan Phillips
Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all, > > I had this random idea that many of our distfiles are .tar.gz while more > efficient compression methods exist. So I did some testing for fun: > > We have ~15k .tar.gz in distfiles. ~6500 .tar.bz2, ~2000 others. > A short run over 477 distfile

Re: [gentoo-dev] Having fun with compression

2006-05-02 Thread Francesco Riosa
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 06:30:23PM +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> We have ~15k .tar.gz in distfiles. ~6500 .tar.bz2, ~2000 others. >> A short run over 477 distfiles spanning 833M gave me 586M of .tar.bz2 - >> roughly 30% more efficient! >> A comparison run with 7zip gave m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

2006-05-02 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 29 April 2006 19:52, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Jan Kundrát wrote: > > Ryan Phillips wrote: > >> Stable and unstable keywords are a hack on top of a version control > >> system. We wouldn't have them if gentoo used an SCM that supports > >> true branches. There would be no need. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

2006-05-02 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 28 April 2006 21:20, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Ryan Phillips wrote: [Fri Apr 28 2006, 01:57:30PM CDT] > > > I disagree. The developers should make *all* the decisions. > > Originally, Gentoo was effectively a meritocracy. It's now, in some > respects, a republic. If you want a democracy,