Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ryan Hill wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:35:52 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ignoring possible semantic issues for the moment, I'd be against this simply because it would require the PM to be aware of the current revision of the repository and to transform it into a integer value

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:19:32 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused. If I have a gcc-4.4.0.live ebuild which checks out rev. 136737, after the merge do I have gcc-4.4.0_pre136737 or gcc-4.4.0_pre1 (and gcc-4.4.0_pre2 next time I merge it, etc) installed? it would be

Re: [gentoo-dev] eapi1 bug/pkgcore sucks thread [was EAPI-2 - Let's get it started]

2008-06-14 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 11:39 +0200, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 12 Jun 2008, at 04:16, Brian Harring wrote: Why the exherbo/paludis/PMS folk decided to go this route to report, I'm not quite sure aside from assuming they're just griefers. s-exherbo/paludis/PMS-pkgcore-g and:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:19:32 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused. If I have a gcc-4.4.0.live ebuild which checks out rev. 136737, after the merge do I have gcc-4.4.0_pre136737 or gcc-4.4.0_pre1 (and gcc-4.4.0_pre2 next time I merge it, etc)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:53:51 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:19:32 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused. If I have a gcc-4.4.0.live ebuild which checks out rev. 136737, after the merge do I have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:53:51 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:19:32 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused. If I have a gcc-4.4.0.live ebuild which checks out rev. 136737, after the merge do I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:04:45 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It will be available once you trigger again the generation or if you put a normal ebuild with such name. And what triggers said generation? I already replied in this thread, I guess the information is getting too

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:04:45 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It will be available once you trigger again the generation or if you put a normal ebuild with such name. And what triggers said generation? I already replied in this thread, I guess the information

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:45:31 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And none of those are even close to a reasonable, implementable idea. They are implementable. They're really not. You haven't even begun to discuss: * What generation looks like. * How to select which ebuilds to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Hill wrote: I'm guessing the dev would need to change 0.26.live to 0.26.1.live when 0.26 was released. I already need to do this with my live ebuilds. Of course, with some projects you never know if the next

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What's the need for a GLEP covering live ebuilds and what's wrong with - - ebuilds? I made myself that question when GLEP54 was submitted and during the initial discussion. At that time, I wasn't convinced of the need for such a GLEP. Now I think

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Santiago M. Mola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * media-sound/amarok: live version is 1.4.. Next version is 2.0, but that's a different branch so I'd expect 2.0.live to give me the latest 2.0 version available, not 1.4's. 1.4. has been switched from because of the 2.0/1.4 branches,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * What generation looks like. * How to select which ebuilds to trigger generation for. * When specifically to trigger generation. * Whether generation failure is possible, and what happens if it is. * What to do when generated information is required but not available. *

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Saturday 14 June 2008 11:53:51 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: What's the need for a GLEP covering live ebuilds and what's wrong with - ebuilds? I made myself that question when GLEP54 was submitted and during the initial discussion. At that time, I wasn't convinced of the need for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Santiago M. Mola wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Hill wrote: I'm guessing the dev would need to change 0.26.live to 0.26.1.live when 0.26 was released. I already need to do this with my live ebuilds. Of course, with some projects you never

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:27:22 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of them applies as well to the alternative proposal, I wonder how you could say we, council, had to vote the other proposal given such (and other) issues were open. No they don't. The alternative proposal is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: Those using paludis need just to run[1]: ~ paludis -pi1 compiz-fusion --dl-reinstall-scm always --compact \ ~--show-reasons none and what about # emerge @compiz [1] Simpler isn't it? Or # emaint -r world[2] # emerge -u compiz-fusion [1] you you can

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:27:22 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of them applies as well to the alternative proposal, I wonder how you could say we, council, had to vote the other proposal given such (and other) issues were open. No they don't. False.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:15:45 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:27:22 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of them applies as well to the alternative proposal, I wonder how you could say we, council, had to vote the other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * What generation looks like. Mostly implementation detail? Somebody seems to have ideas there and I like to heard ideas from others as well. * How to select which ebuilds to trigger generation for. I'm fond of sets and I'd extend maint to be feeded to sets other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Saturday 14 June 2008 14:11:12 Bernd Steinhauser wrote: That's what metadata is there for. And ebuilds don't mind carrying a bit more ... after all it's just one line of text. So, what you want to do is to read every ebuild, if you want to find all live ebuilds? Metadata cache. It's

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:01:15 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:27:22 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of them applies as well to the alternative proposal, I wonder how you could say we, council, had to vote the other proposal given such

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:45:08 -0600 Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious, were you happy with the previous GLEP54 draft or were there still issues that had to be addressed? As far as I'm concerned it's fine. (though I would change the suffix to -live, just because i hate the term

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Bernd Steinhauser
Patrick Lauer schrieb: On Saturday 14 June 2008 14:11:12 Bernd Steinhauser wrote: That's what metadata is there for. And ebuilds don't mind carrying a bit more ... after all it's just one line of text. So, what you want to do is to read every ebuild, if you want to find all live ebuilds?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Bernd Steinhauser
Patrick Lauer schrieb: On Saturday 14 June 2008 14:11:12 Bernd Steinhauser wrote: That's what metadata is there for. And ebuilds don't mind carrying a bit more ... after all it's just one line of text. So, what you want to do is to read every ebuild, if you want to find all live ebuilds?

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:32:22 + Patrick Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here's a silly idea - tag the ebuilds with metadata. We already have RESTRICT, why not add a LIVE variable. The package manager can then treat all ebuilds with that tag differently. Scripts can find them easily.

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Duncan
Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:04:26 -0600: Having a method that lets the user choose that the PM should check the scm tree and update the package if there's a new revision would be even better. I think that can be easily

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ryan Hill wrote: So every user will have a different _preN version which would vary depending on how often they rebuild the package and that has absolutely no correlation with the revision number of the upstream codebase. I'm sorry, but that's unacceptable. :/ You'd like to have the cflags

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Bernd Steinhauser wrote: MPlayer has a psychological issue with 1.0 versioning, still 1.0.live correctly isn't higher than 1.0 No, it is not. For mplayer it is correct. I'm MPlayer upstream as well. I do know. In the -scm approach this means: trunk = -scm 4.1 branch = -4.1-scm so you'll

[gentoo-dev] Extending -scm with upstream revision awareness

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Since some people have been asking about this... Here's how I'd see upstream revision awareness being added to the -scm proposal. * add src_fetch_extra or whatever to avoid doing the fetches in src_unpack. * add pkg_scm_info. It outputs a string containing no spaces. * When installing an scm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On 14 Jun 2008, at 18:03, Luca Barbato wrote: trunk = .live nope it would resolve as foo_pre1 - meaningless. So your proposal is unable to handle that case, right? - ferdy -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: nope it would resolve as foo_pre1 - meaningless. So your proposal is unable to handle that case, right? You are forced to put a version, that's all. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On 14 Jun 2008, at 18:23, Luca Barbato wrote: Fernando J. Pereda wrote: nope it would resolve as foo_pre1 - meaningless. So your proposal is unable to handle that case, right? You are forced to put a version, that's all. Which doesn't always make sense so we are back to 9

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Bernd Steinhauser
Luca Barbato schrieb: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: In the -scm approach this means: trunk = -scm 4.1 branch = -4.1-scm so you'll be oblivious of changes needed inside the ebuild and you won't know what you merged last time you issued an emerge =foo-scm (that by itself it is a problem, since it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending -scm with upstream revision awareness

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * add src_fetch_extra or whatever to avoid doing the fetches in src_unpack. good idea. * add pkg_scm_info. It outputs a string containing no spaces. .live would need something a bit different. * When installing an scm package with suitable EAPI to VDB / exndbam,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Bernd Steinhauser
Ryan Hill schrieb: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:53:51 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:19:32 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused. If I have a gcc-4.4.0.live ebuild which checks out rev. 136737, after the merge do I have

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:55:27 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Hill wrote: So every user will have a different _preN version which would vary depending on how often they rebuild the package and that has absolutely no correlation with the revision number of the upstream

Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending -scm with upstream revision awareness

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:30:59 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * When installing an scm package with suitable EAPI to VDB / exndbam, rewrite the scm version to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so -scm will have a @ metachar to point that what's following is the hash/revision/reference to avoid

[gentoo-dev] Webapp with plugins

2008-06-14 Thread Mario Fetka
Hallo list, I stumble across a nice problem: At the moment i am creating the ebuilds for the Mandriva Management Console (http://mds.mandriva.org). the web Interface is php based so the webapp eclass would be the best way but know the show stopper the webiterface supports plugins so how can

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ryan Hill
could think of (and one I use constantly). gcc is nice enough that i can do `gcc -v` and get gcc version 4.3.2-pre20080612 built 20080614 (Gentoo SVN ebuild) rev. 136782 () but not everything works like that. -- gcc-porting, by design, by neglect treecleaner

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ryan Hill wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:55:27 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Hill wrote: So every user will have a different _preN version which would vary depending on how often they rebuild the package and that has absolutely no correlation with the revision number of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Bernd Steinhauser wrote: With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So: No that enforce people update the deps or at least gives one more reason to do. Keep in mind that -, -scm ebuild or .live templates aren't for public

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:38:18 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marius Mauch wrote: Ignoring possible semantic issues for the moment, Please point them so I could fix them properly ^^ For example all the ordering issues pointed out by others in this thread. Also the whole

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:32:22 + Patrick Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Portage 2.2 and others support sets, portage 2.2 even supports dynamic sets like the @preserved-rebuild. Shouldn't be that hard to add a live-ebuilds dynamic set. (Comments on the feasibility of my idea from portage

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On 14 Jun 2008, at 19:36, Luca Barbato wrote: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So: No that enforce people update the deps or at least gives one more reason to do. Keep in mind that -, -scm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 14 Jun 2008, at 19:36, Luca Barbato wrote: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So: No that enforce people update the deps or at least gives one more reason to do. Keep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On 14 Jun 2008, at 20:02, Luca Barbato wrote: Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 14 Jun 2008, at 19:36, Luca Barbato wrote: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So: No that enforce people update the deps

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Bernd Steinhauser
Luca Barbato schrieb: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So: No that enforce people update the deps or at least gives one more reason to do. Keep in mind that -, -scm ebuild or .live templates

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Joe Peterson
Ryan Hill wrote: (...I would change the suffix to -live, just because i hate the term SCM :P) ++ on using live and not the scm acronym (no matter which idea is selected), especially since there are various different acronyms for config mgmt (scm, cm...), and scm's meaning is less obvious at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
emerge -C @kde-svn emerge @kde-svn that should suffice. I don't see that working for something like, say, python or glibc. No need, emerge @kde-svn will re-merge all packages in the set by default. So unmerging isn't needed and it just works. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Bernd Steinhauser wrote: Wow, impressive. Actually, you can't be serious... I am. GLEP 54 for quite some time now and it works very well. adds nothing to - and sets usage as is. I just don't see any benefit from your proposal, on the contrary there are issues. No. And that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 14 Jun 2008, at 20:02, Luca Barbato wrote: Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 14 Jun 2008, at 19:36, Luca Barbato wrote: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So: No that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On 14 Jun 2008, at 22:18, Luca Barbato wrote: Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 14 Jun 2008, at 20:02, Luca Barbato wrote: Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 14 Jun 2008, at 19:36, Luca Barbato wrote: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 14 Jun 2008, at 22:18, Luca Barbato wrote: mainline glibc usually requires you to fix it or the rest of the world... What? I experienced that the hard way -_- (btw they are single packages, emerge =python- works as should) So what was your proposal all

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
Using live templates is something more ^^; For now it looks to me like it is only more work. Could you please clarify what new functionality they provide? -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński