Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:13:14 -0500 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | RESTRICT="fetch" is between the package, the manager, and the user (as | someone has to fetch the files). Except that the user shouldn't have to care about it then either. The user need only care when a package requires ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-09 Thread Alec Warner
Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:23:55 + > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:41:50 -0800 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> | Bug #161045 [1] requests that portage support RESTRICT=sandbox. >> | This is certainly a valid request but a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add LCD_DEVICES to USE_EXPAND

2007-01-09 Thread Robert Buchholz
Ciaran McCreesh schrieb: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:15:45 +0100 Robert Buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | I would like to unify possible devices via the USE_EXPAND'ed > | LCD_DEVICES. Right now, this would contain about 50 devices [1]. > > How standardised is the naming of these devices? It'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add LCD_DEVICES to USE_EXPAND

2007-01-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:15:45 +0100 Robert Buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I would like to unify possible devices via the USE_EXPAND'ed | LCD_DEVICES. Right now, this would contain about 50 devices [1]. How standardised is the naming of these devices? -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-09 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:23:55 + Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:41:50 -0800 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Bug #161045 [1] requests that portage support RESTRICT=sandbox. > | This is certainly a valid request but a user may wish to reject a > | pa

[gentoo-dev] Add LCD_DEVICES to USE_EXPAND

2007-01-09 Thread Robert Buchholz
Hi *, both app-misc/lcdproc and app-misc/lcd4linux can use numerous kinds of displays. The device selections are right now handled via environment variables and/or single use flags. I would like to unify possible devices via the USE_EXPAND'ed LCD_DEVICES. Right now, this would contain about 50 de

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-09 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Bug #161045 [1] requests that portage support RESTRICT=sandbox. This is certainly a valid request but a user may wish to reject a package based on certain questionable values of RESTRICT. Examples other than sandbox incude unattended [2]

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA checks merged into portage SVN

2007-01-09 Thread Alec Warner
Alec Warner wrote: > Note, the examples above could be improved by prefixing your variables > (you don't want global collisions, trust me) > > So fex KDE_SHOPTS or KDE_OLD_IFS instead of just OLD_IFS. > And as Caster pointed out on irc, this is only a problem if a local var won't cut it; a local

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Robert Clark (hyakuhei)

2007-01-09 Thread Alex Howells
On 09/01/07, Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's my pleasure to introduce to you Robert Clark (also known as hyakuhei), our latest addition helping with forensics. Everyone better read up on securely scrubbing those hard drives ;) Robert is joining from Aberystwyth (that's in Wale

Re: [gentoo-dev] Timetable for removing digest-* files

2007-01-09 Thread Marius Mauch
On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:12:55 +0200 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As the Manifest 2 format makes the digest-* files unnecessary, does > anyone have a timetable for removing the digest files? Would be great > if we could make this one of the features of 2007.0. Our plan was to disable d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Timetable for removing digest-* files

2007-01-09 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Petteri Räty wrote: > As the Manifest 2 format makes the digest-* files unnecessary, does > anyone have a timetable for removing the digest files? Would be great if > we could make this one of the features of 2007.0. I think it's still too early. Rec

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Robert Clark (hyakuhei)

2007-01-09 Thread Christian Heim
It's my pleasure to introduce to you Robert Clark (also known as hyakuhei), our latest addition helping with forensics. Robert is joining from Aberystwyth (that's in Wales, UK). He's currently halfway through his degree (at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth), currently taking part in a one y

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo can't boot

2007-01-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 11:20 -0800, rami jiossy wrote: > Hi; > i am booting gentoo on my Napa machine but it freezes on "copying > read-write contents to tmpfs". > any help? i am using gentoo i686 livecd. > > with minimal-x86 i am booting fine, but it keeps failing in installer > and sometimes d

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo can't boot

2007-01-09 Thread Charlie Shepherd
1. Don't send HTML emails - they just annoy people 2. Try the gentoo-user ml ;) -- -Charlie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] gentoo can't boot

2007-01-09 Thread rami jiossy
Hi; i am booting gentoo on my Napa machine but it freezes on "copying read-write contents to tmpfs". any help? i am using gentoo i686 livecd. with minimal-x86 i am booting fine, but it keeps failing in installer and sometimes decides to shutdown for some reason. Thanks __

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentle reminder about ChangeLog entries on profiles

2007-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 15:52 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > I was referring to all of profiles/ in general. > > It came to me because antarus was looking for vapier to see why > profiles/lang.desc existed. > > I'm thinking that keeping track of the very top level stuff like > thirdpartymirrors,

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites for games-action/d1x

2007-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
# Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (09 Jan 2007) # This has been dead upstream for close to eternity and is broken with GCC 4.x. # Use games-action/d1x-rebirth instead. This will be removed on (09 Feb 2007). games-action/d1x -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-apps/pcsc-ase-iiie-drv

2007-01-09 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Hello, Users that uses the above package should move to: app-crypt/asedriveiiie-serial app-crypt/asedriveiiie-usb Best Regards, Alon Bar-Lev. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] new eclass: ant-tasks.eclass

2007-01-09 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've created a new eclass [1] for easier mainenance of new packages which will be created as part of split-ant effort [2]. There will be some 19 packages (dev-java/ant-* except ant-core, ant-tasks and some external tasks like ant-owanttasks) using it,

[gentoo-dev] misc/herds.xml file gone.

2007-01-09 Thread Bryan Østergaard
Hi all. I just killed the misc/herds.xml file in the gentoo CVS repository so that we only have one copy of herds.xml left now. The remaining copy is in xml/htdocs/proj/en/metastructure/herds. See bug 151324 for the discussion leading to this. I also left a misc/herds.old.xml file pointing to the

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-video/nvidia-freebsd

2007-01-09 Thread Timothy Redaelli
# Timothy Redaelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (09 Jan 2007): # Deprecated by x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers # Pending removal 2007/2/9 media-video/nvidia-freebsd -- Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli - http://dev.gentoo.org/~drizzt/ FreeSBIE Developer, Gentoo Developer, GUFI Staff There are two major products that c

[gentoo-dev] Timetable for removing digest-* files

2007-01-09 Thread Petteri Räty
As the Manifest 2 format makes the digest-* files unnecessary, does anyone have a timetable for removing the digest files? Would be great if we could make this one of the features of 2007.0. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature