Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-17 Thread Petteri Räty
Roy Marples wrote: Saying that, the project is almost complete - the only reason it never hit portage was the it destroyed config parts that it did not know about. After SOC finished, my student has been mute to my emails :/ Thanks Roy Maybe we should restrict people we approve to work

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: upstart on gentoo

2007-02-17 Thread Roy Marples
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:40:03 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and a bit of history - at one point, I used djb's supervise as part of the initscripts so that we could do stuff similarly to upstart. When the initscripts were rewritten, we went to bash and had the intention of

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: upstart on gentoo

2007-02-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 16 February 2007, William Hubbs wrote: I saw that we have a request for an ebuild for upstart. I am looking it over and looking at the sample jobs that can be downloaded from the site. I think this would be an intresting idea, and I'm curious what others on this list would think

Re: [gentoo-dev] Timezone /etc/conf.d/clock

2007-02-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 16 February 2007, Daniel Robbins wrote: OK, I did not understand how it was supposed to work. Is there documentation anywhere that explains how it works and why? other than the comment in /etc/conf.d/clock, nope ... the init script will warn you at boot if you still havent set it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-17 Thread Dimitry Bradt
Petteri Räty wrote: Roy Marples wrote: Saying that, the project is almost complete - the only reason it never hit portage was the it destroyed config parts that it did not know about. After SOC finished, my student has been mute to my emails :/ Thanks Roy Maybe we should

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-17 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * devmanual. Not converting it over to a new shiny XML thing or whatever, but just extending and reworking the parts that need it. Last year's SoC FAQ said that the actual work would have to be coding, not writing documentation. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: upstart on gentoo

2007-02-17 Thread Luca Barbato
William Hubbs wrote: All, I saw that we have a request for an ebuild for upstart. I had requests for other highly experimental yet to be tested programs... I think this would be an intresting idea, and I'm curious what others on this list would think about it. As long as it won't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-17 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:19:04PM +, Dimitry Bradt wrote: Petteri Räty wrote: Maybe we should restrict people we approve to work on projects to existing Gentoo developers or to people with a history of contributions to bugzilla or overlays. This would at least increase the change that

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-fonts/mikachan-font

2007-02-17 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
As per summary, I've just masked mikachan-font for removal. Don't panic! I'm not removing the mikachan font from portage. This package installs, depending on version, either a TTF font (TrueType Fonts files) or a TTC font (TrueType Collection); the latter is not compatible with some software,

[gentoo-dev] the destiny of the 2.4 headers

2007-02-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
now that the 2.6 headers have entered a sane state and are *quite* nice to work with, i have no inclination whatsoever to touch unsanitized headers (keep your puns to yourself :p) so here's the question i pose: what to do ? people file bug reports saying package FOO fails to build with

Re: [gentoo-dev] the destiny of the 2.4 headers

2007-02-17 Thread Luca Barbato
Mike Frysinger wrote: now that the 2.6 headers have entered a sane state and are *quite* nice to I'm looking forward to see the cvs log of the removal of 2.4 lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] the destiny of the 2.4 headers

2007-02-17 Thread Daniel Robbins
Mike, I think you have a good plan. Retiring the 2.4 headers sounds like the right thing to do. Building glibc against 2.6 and enabling backwards compatibility with older kernels should not be problematic. It all sounds good from a maintainability and stability perspective. Nothing should break

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] mask and force various profile specific USE flags

2007-02-17 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, If we mask and force various profile specific USE flags appropriately, it will give repoman the information it needs to stop producing bogus warnings about unsatisfied conditional dependencies that are actually irrelevant. An additional

[gentoo-portage-dev] dep resolution weirdness

2007-02-17 Thread George Shapovalov
Hi guys. I am quite confused by the following: aldar ~ # emerge -puD world --tree These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [nomerge ] dev-ada/cbind-6.0 [nomerge ] virtual/gnat-4.1 [ebuild UD] dev-lang/gnat-gcc-4.1.1

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] dep resolution weirdness

2007-02-17 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:30:31 +0100 George Shapovalov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys. I am quite confused by the following: aldar ~ # emerge -puD world --tree These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [nomerge ]

[gentoo-portage-dev] New preserve-libs feature

2007-02-17 Thread Marius Mauch
If you haven't noticed, I just added a new 'preserve-libs' feature for bug 62207 that moves shared object that are still used but would be removed on an update into the new package instance (so on a update from expat-1 to expat-2 the user would still have libexpat.so.0, owned by expat-2). The

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] dep resolution weirdness

2007-02-17 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:42:49 +0100 George Shapovalov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, found it. Thanks Marius! (for the debug hint) It was indeed forcing gnat-gcc-4.1.1 by asis-gcc-4.1.1 which has =dev-lang/gnat-4.1.1 (this is an extension to compiler and has to match it 1 for 1, forgot to

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] New preserve-libs feature

2007-02-17 Thread Simon Stelling
Marius Mauch wrote: So everyone who has valid objections to the _general idea_ of this implementation (preserving old libraries to avoid some runtime linker errors) speak up now. For how long are these libraries preserved? This might have a security impact in cases like the recent

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] New preserve-libs feature

2007-02-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 February 2007, Simon Stelling wrote: Using preserve-libs it would leave the old lib around, making it possible for programs to link against the wrong version and ending up being vulnerable. generally, this is incorrect the only way you could link against it is if you were to

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] New preserve-libs feature

2007-02-17 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:55:26 +0100 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marius Mauch wrote: So everyone who has valid objections to the _general idea_ of this implementation (preserving old libraries to avoid some runtime linker errors) speak up now. For how long are these libraries

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: r5975 - FEATURES=preserve-libs

2007-02-17 Thread Brian Harring
Realize you didn't want comments upon the implementation, but tough cookies, already reviewed it; suckers in svn mainline anyways, thus it's fair game. Modified: main/trunk/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py === ---

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] New preserve-libs feature

2007-02-17 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 09:39:58AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 17 February 2007, Brian Harring wrote: Security impact is from a pkg potentially dragging along old libs; if you've got a stable pkg that gets an update once every blue moon, it can hold onto the lib for a *long*

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] New preserve-libs feature

2007-02-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 February 2007, Brian Harring wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 09:39:58AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 17 February 2007, Brian Harring wrote: Security impact is from a pkg potentially dragging along old libs; if you've got a stable pkg that gets an update once

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] New preserve-libs feature

2007-02-17 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 10:09:35AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 17 February 2007, Brian Harring wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 09:39:58AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 17 February 2007, Brian Harring wrote: Security impact is from a pkg potentially dragging along

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] New preserve-libs feature

2007-02-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 February 2007, Brian Harring wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 10:09:35AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 17 February 2007, Brian Harring wrote: (assuming the code knows the appropriate linker args) there is no such thing ... it's always -lfoo The point is that it