[gentoo-dev] Re: package.mask or package.mask.d

2009-08-23 Thread Duncan
William Hubbs posted on Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:52:54 -0500 as excerpted: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 08:39:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: We also need to consider whether people even want it done exactly the way Portage does it now. Some developers have expressed a preference for a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: package.mask or package.mask.d

2009-08-23 Thread Dale
Duncan wrote: William Hubbs posted on Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:52:54 -0500 as excerpted: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 08:39:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: We also need to consider whether people even want it done exactly the way Portage does it now. Some developers have expressed a

Re: [gentoo-dev] New 10.0 LiveDVD release enhancements

2009-08-23 Thread Alexey Shvetsov
Hi all! Also i think it wil be good idea to include parted into liveDVD since its only tool that support gpt partition tables =) 2009/8/23 James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com: -Original Message- From: Samuli Suominen [mailto:ssuomi...@gentoo.org] Sent: August 22, 2009 10:47 AM To:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: package.mask or package.mask.d

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Dale wrote: While I like your example, if this were to happen and a couple other things has been updated, like for example expat a while back and other similar update nightmares, wouldn't a reinstall be easier and most likely recommended anyway? I have seen this recommended and even made

[gentoo-dev] Major problems in the tree in the last month

2009-08-23 Thread Torsten Veller
* Andrew D Kirch trel...@trelane.net: This should really be a non-issue. I just spent 2 days dealing with being 3.5 weeks out of date. To help us improve the user experience, what were the problems that cost you two days?

Re: [gentoo-dev] New 10.0 LiveDVD release enhancements

2009-08-23 Thread Chip Parker
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Alexey Shvetsovale...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi all! Also i think it wil be good idea to include parted into liveDVD since its only tool that support gpt partition tables =) +1 On this one. Since parted comes with partprobe, which is really nice when you want to

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo stats server/client @ 2009-08-22

2009-08-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/22/2009 07:30 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: [...] Distribution-specific No data, yet That No data, yet indicates you're not running the correct version of the Smolt client. Either that's a plain 1.3.x release or the master branch from my repo, not the gentoo one. Have you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Major problems in the tree in the last month

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Torsten Veller wrote: * Andrew D Kirch trel...@trelane.net: This should really be a non-issue. I just spent 2 days dealing with being 3.5 weeks out of date. To help us improve the user experience, what were the problems that cost you two days? The major problem was getting

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Make 10.0 profiles EAPI-2 'compliant'

2009-08-23 Thread David Leverton
On Sunday 23 August 2009 03:39:52 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: /etc/make.profile is by default a symlink to appropriate profile directory in ${PORTDIR}/profiles. Again, a detail of how Portage is configured. PMS only covers profiles that are in repositories - it's up to the

[gentoo-dev] Re: package.mask or package.mask.d

2009-08-23 Thread Duncan
Andrew D Kirch posted on Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:05:03 -0400 as excerpted: Dale wrote: While I like your example, if this were to happen and a couple other things has been updated, like for example expat a while back and other similar update nightmares, wouldn't a reinstall be easier and most

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: package.mask or package.mask.d

2009-08-23 Thread Dale
Duncan wrote: Andrew D Kirch posted on Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:05:03 -0400 as excerpted: Dale wrote: While I like your example, if this were to happen and a couple other things has been updated, like for example expat a while back and other similar update nightmares, wouldn't a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: package.mask or package.mask.d

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Dale wrote: I'm just not sure that portage should be s backward compatible as it appears to be now. Dale, It really doesn't have to, unless you're not running portage... in which case we have to wait on all package managers to implement every major feature change the others want. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Major problems in the tree in the last month

2009-08-23 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew D Kirch wrote: Torsten Veller wrote: * Andrew D Kirch trel...@trelane.net: This should really be a non-issue. I just spent 2 days dealing with being 3.5 weeks out of date. To help us improve the user experience, what were the

[gentoo-dev] Post-GSoC project document

2009-08-23 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, My Google Summer of Code project was about writing a portage backend for PackageKit. Before beginning the work we knew it will not be easy. So I tried to write the backend as much complete as possible and I did a few changes to portage to help that. But this work helped me to see all the

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 3 and nonfatal die

2009-08-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:48:56 +0200 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: There was a change in wording to better convey the original intent. There was no change in behaviour. There was a change in behavior of 'nonfatal eclass_function_which_sometimes_calls_die'.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Make 10.0 profiles EAPI-2 'compliant'

2009-08-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 22 August 2009, Chip Parker wrote: 2009/8/21 Robert Buchholz r...@gentoo.org: On Saturday 22 August 2009, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: It's true, but being able to modularize profile may outweights the need to be strict-with-the-book here - it's a matter of usefulness. I think it

Re: [gentoo-dev] New 10.0 LiveDVD release enhancements

2009-08-23 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 23/08/2009 11:02, Chip Parker a écrit : On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Alexey Shvetsovale...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi all! Also i think it wil be good idea to include parted into liveDVD since its only tool that support gpt partition tables =) +1 On this one. Since parted comes with

Re: [gentoo-dev] New 10.0 LiveDVD release enhancements

2009-08-23 Thread likewhoa
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 18:40 +0200, Rémi Cardona wrote: Le 23/08/2009 11:02, Chip Parker a écrit : On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Alexey Shvetsovale...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi all! Also i think it wil be good idea to include parted into liveDVD since its only tool that support gpt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Major problems in the tree in the last month

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: Andrew D Kirch wrote: Torsten Veller wrote: * Andrew D Kirch trel...@trelane.net: This should really be a non-issue. I just spent 2 days dealing with being 3.5 weeks out of date. To help us improve the user experience, what were the

[gentoo-dev] FYI: use-based deps on virtuals

2009-08-23 Thread Thilo Bangert
FYI -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: monkeyd-0.9.2-r1.ebuild Date: Monday 20 April 2009 From: Michael Sterrett mr_bon...@gentoo.org To: bang...@gentoo.org use-based deps are undefined behavior on virtuals. So, in monkeyd-0.9.2-r1, please fix up the

Re: [gentoo-dev] profiles/info_pkgs

2009-08-23 Thread David Leverton
On Sunday 23 August 2009 18:28:46 Ulrich Mueller wrote: ... still contains the following entries: app-admin/eselect-compiler dev-util/confcache Both packages were punted about two years ago, so maybe it's time to clean up? Ulrich confcache is still available in masterdriverz's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo stats server/client @ 2009-08-22

2009-08-23 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Seems to work OK now and I just submitted my data to smolt.hardwork.org. Great to hear, thank you. Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo stats server/client @ 2009-08-22

2009-08-23 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [..] since [smoltGui] doesn't take a --server parameter [..] Fixed/added. http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=smolt-gentoo.git;a=commitdiff;h=707e98bd454ae416bec7870296ed108549275ecc Sebastian

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2009-08-23 23h59 UTC

2009-08-23 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2009-08-23 23h59 UTC. Removals: net-libs/xyssl 2009-08-18 12:39:03 tommy dev-python/cjkcodecs2009-08-19 01:28:43 arfrever