Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread lxnay
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Tiziano Müller dev-z...@gentoo.org wrote: Am Sonntag, den 24.05.2009, 20:04 +0200 schrieb lx...@sabayonlinux.org: And then it's a pm thing. So the person you want to talk about it is zmedico. And zmedico told me to start discussing here. -- Tiziano Müller

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-25 Thread Petteri Räty
Andrew Gaffney wrote: On 05/24/2009 05:32 AM, Roy Bamford wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.05.24 02:44, William Hubbs wrote: [snip] Random reply to thread William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org Put all the downloads for a minimal

[gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread Philipp Riegger
Good morning, I want to talk about improved binary package support for Gentoo. About 1-2 months ago there already was a discussion about this on gentoo-soc@ and on bugzilla [1]. If I remember correctly, there were no devs involved in the discussion, so I thought I'll post my thoughts here. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread lxnay
This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage = Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and apidocs. http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=entropy.git;a=summary -- Fabio Erculiani signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread Alex Legler
On So, 2009-05-24 at 20:04 +0200, lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: [...] app-admin/equo (sabayon overlay -- Entropy Framework client) supports the postfix @repository to let users force the installation of a package from a specific repository. @ is used by Portage for sets. Paludis has

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-25 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Sunday 24 of May 2009 01:14:57 Andrew Gaffney wrote: On 05/23/2009 05:56 PM, Mounir Lamouri wrote: William Hubbs wrote: [snip] My question for the group is, how do you feel about speech software being on our minimal cd as well as our live cd? I agree, it should be in our minimal

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread lxnay
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Alex Legler a...@gentoo.org wrote: On So, 2009-05-24 at 20:04 +0200, lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: [...] app-admin/equo (sabayon overlay -- Entropy Framework client) supports the postfix @repository to let users force the installation of a package from a

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread AllenJB
lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Alex Legler a...@gentoo.org wrote: On So, 2009-05-24 at 20:04 +0200, lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: [...] app-admin/equo (sabayon overlay -- Entropy Framework client) supports the postfix @repository to let users force the

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread Ben de Groot
lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage = Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and apidocs. http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=entropy.git;a=summary Only problem with entropy is that it doesn't work nice with

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread Dale
AllenJB wrote: As a side note, I think I've read somewhere that it may in the future be possible to specify sets in package.* (which I assume would be done using the @set-name syntax), but can't remember where off-hand. This may have just been a suggestion, but if it ever is implemented, it

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread lxnay
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage = Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and apidocs.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-25 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Christian Faulhammer fa...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, I'd like to collect some things we need to do before Baselayout 2 and OpenRC can go stable.  Up to now I have: * eselect 1.1 stable (current RC3) for the support

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread Ben de Groot
lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage = Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and apidocs.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Saturday 23 May 2009, Roy Marples wrote: Basically as Doug said, each OpenRC version comes with a few big chances. Well not massive as in your box will break now, but just a different spin on how things should work. OpenRC-0.5 will have the biggest re-spin to date - net.lo (net.eth0 etc) is

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Monday 25 May 2009, lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Alex Legler a...@gentoo.org wrote: On So, 2009-05-24 at 20:04 +0200, lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: [...] app-admin/equo (sabayon overlay -- Entropy Framework client) supports the postfix @repository

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread lxnay
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage = Entropy. I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread Josh Saddler
lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: Adding @overlay atoms/deps postfix support could really make life easier, especially because forcing specific atoms in *DEPEND hoping that these will be always pulled in from the same overlay is not something reliable, as you already know. No. This is a terrible

Re: [gentoo-dev] Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-25 Thread Roy Marples
Robert Buchholz wrote: On Saturday 23 May 2009, Roy Marples wrote: Basically as Doug said, each OpenRC version comes with a few big chances. Well not massive as in your box will break now, but just a different spin on how things should work. OpenRC-0.5 will have the biggest re-spin to date -

[gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-25 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Roy Marples r...@marples.name: If there is a real drive to make OpenRC stable then I suggest that I roll openrc-0.5.0 out sometime this week and try to roll rc events into 0.6.0, the embedded stubs into 0.7.0 and we'll go from there. Sounds fine to me. I don't want to press anything,

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread Ben de Groot
lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage = Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and apidocs. http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=entropy.git;a=summary Next time, please post

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread Ben de Groot
Robert Buchholz wrote: # emerge --update lsof @system versus # emerge --update l...@system would have completely different meanings. This is what I would dislike about the '@' character. I'm ok with :: though. I agree the :: looks like the better option here. If we use repo_name as

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Monday 25 May 2009, Ben de Groot wrote: Robert Buchholz wrote: If we use repo_name as the overlay identifier, we must rethink how layman-global.txt is currently handled. Many overlays in there have that file missing, and some have different identifiers than what layman displays as

[gentoo-dev] New feature for python eclass for review

2009-05-25 Thread Petteri Räty
I wrote support to the python eclass to make sure python version used to install has support for needed use flags. With current EAPIs I can't think of a way to do this without a pkg_setup check but feel free to surprise me. Regards, Petteri Index: python.eclass

Gentoo Security Project Summary -- was Re: [gentoo-dev] Project summaries

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Buchholz
Gentoo Security Project Summary Short Summary: The Security Team is up and running, but we are dealing with numerous tasks and a high load in daily maintenance. Fresh blood is not only appreciated, but needed to continue the luxury of Security Support we currently have. We have too many open

[gentoo-dev] Re: better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread Duncan
lx...@sabayonlinux.org posted fv50wm3klntqyetcw4uyaxe124vaj_fire...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Mon, 25 May 2009 12:16:06 +0200: This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage = Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and apidocs.

[gentoo-dev] Regarding Gentoo CDs and accessibility sizes

2009-05-25 Thread Keith Hinton
Hello, I'm afraidd I'm not seeing the size issues. Adding Speech to a LiveCD should not effect the operations of the minimal installation CDs that much. However, one thing I would suggest is to please be aware of two things: 1. Make sure that some boot prompt exists for users to activate the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding Gentoo CDs and accessibility sizes

2009-05-25 Thread Andrew Gaffney
On 05/25/2009 07:44 PM, Keith Hinton wrote: Hello, I'm afraidd I'm not seeing the size issues. Adding Speech to a LiveCD should not effect the operations of the minimal installation CDs that much. However, one thing I would suggest is to please be aware of two things: 1. Make sure that some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding Gentoo CDs and accessibility sizes

2009-05-25 Thread Petteri Räty
Andrew Gaffney wrote: On 05/25/2009 07:44 PM, Keith Hinton wrote: Hello, I'm afraidd I'm not seeing the size issues. Adding Speech to a LiveCD should not effect the operations of the minimal installation CDs that much. However, one thing I would suggest is to please be aware of two things: