Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-misc/cidr

2006-12-11 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:52:50PM +1100, Andrew Ross wrote: It's always nice to suggest a replacement - I use net-misc/whatmask :-) net-misc/ipcalc is quite nice, too. cheers, Wernfried -- Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne at gentoo dot org Gentoo Forums: http://forums.gentoo.org IRC:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-misc/cidr

2006-12-11 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:52:50PM +1100, Andrew Ross wrote: It's always nice to suggest a replacement - I use net-misc/whatmask :-) net-misc/aggregate and net-misc/aggregate-flim are a pair that I find useful in the same vein. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP :

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-11 Thread Steve Long
Stephen Bennett wrote: It's seems to be needed sometimes b/c it does change the order of generated deplist(emerge -e world). AFAIK some packages dep on zlib b/c of that. If you don't know about the unwritten yet near universal exception clause then you shouldn't be invoking it. Could you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-11 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:03:18 + Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you spell out that exception clause, please? It doesn't translate well into words, but we'll go with something like Unless you know exactly why the rule is there, understand fully the imp -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-11 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:35:34 + Stephen Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:03:18 + Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you spell out that exception clause, please? It doesn't translate well into words, but we'll go with something like Unless you know

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-11 Thread Steve Long
Stephen Bennett wrote: Steve Long wrote: Could you spell out that exception clause, please? It doesn't translate well into words, but we'll go with something like Unless you know exactly why the rule is there, understand fully the implications of breaking it, and know why it's a good idea

[gentoo-dev] sys-fs/submount removal

2006-12-11 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, After no response to my call for maintainers, submount will enter package.mask tomorrow for removal in 3 weeks. http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_141377.xml Daniel -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for app-antivirus/vlnx

2006-12-11 Thread Tavis Ormandy
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 04:01:30PM +0100, Timothy Redaelli wrote: can't fix rpath, application check its checksum This looks like a serious security issue, attempting to scan a file named `liblnxfv.so.4` in the cwd will execute arbitrary code (by installing a constructor in the dso, for

[gentoo-dev] Updates from the Bugday team.

2006-12-11 Thread Alexander Færøy
Hi Lists, I have recently made some plans out of my ideas about the bugday project. They have ended up in a forum thread[1] in the userrep forum. Feel free to comment on it or contact me directly or any of my team members if you have any questions about this. We are hanging around in #Gentoo-Bugs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies on sys-apps/portage

2006-12-11 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:39:41 +0100 (MET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Faulhammer) wrote: I maintain the three ELOG viewers app-portage/ {elogviewer,kelogviewer,elgov} which need the ELOG feature found in Portage 2.1. So I think a dependency on that version is ok, as long as it isn't in