[gentoo-dev] RFC: USE=qa-test
Some packages, like dbus[1], have testing features that, while useful for developers and arch-testers, aren't something that should be foisted on users. Dbus' case is extreme, as it builds-in functions that are useful for unit testing, but result in an insecure and unstable package (I just "fixed" a bunch of testsuite failures i've been seeing in dbus-using packages by disabling USE=test). Other packages have testsuites that take an unreasonable amount of time to build/run (db, ppl, boost, that faad/faac one that takes six hours), are pretty much guaranteed to fail (gcc, binutils), have strange dependency quirks (can't run the tests unless the package is already installed, create circular dependencies), or a dozen other situations I can't think of right now. I'd like to propose a new USE flag, qa-test or a better name, to handle these cases in a consistent way. This would give us a way to differentiate between tests that everyone should run and tests that only devs and arch-testers would be interested in, making enabling FEATURES=test by default in a future EAPI a little more palatable.Use of this flag would be up to the maintainer, of course. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/287722 -- fonts, Character is what you are in the dark. gcc-porting, wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GNOME 2.26 upgrade
On K, 2009-10-07 at 06:24 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Rémi Cardona wrote:
> > "not handle the desktop." => "not handle the desktop's background image"
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> I thought it handled the icons on the desktop as well?
yeah, we cleared that on IRC and the e-mail was "ack either way", but
s/desktop/desktop icons might be more clear.
Anyhow, how to I get eselect news or news-tng to actually see these news
items out of a svn checkout when my PORTDIR is from CVS, not rsync?
strace'ing eselect news{,-tng} suggests they stat metadata/cache, but
doesn't even try to look for a metadata/news with my setup, so I can't
verify on my end everything is working right to proceed with this..
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Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GNOME 2.26 upgrade
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Rémi Cardona wrote: > "not handle the desktop." => "not handle the desktop's background image" > I thought it handled the icons on the desktop as well? -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan GNOME+Mozilla Team, Gentoo
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Add RUBY_TARGETS to USE_EXPAND
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 22:19:25 +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > Alex Legler : > > RUBY_TARGETS contains a list of ruby implementations and versions to > > install a package for, like this: > > Python has to do the same for 2.x and 3 versions...wouldn't it be > nice to have the same solution for both languages? > It might be nice, /eventually/. As far as I can see, the proposed Python solution is just a concept, where we already have near-beta eclasses that we *really* want to deploy this year as they block the unmasking of Ruby 1.9. Additionally, there are some really nasty things about the current ruby.eclass (prepall override) and incompatibilities with RubyGems that should be resolved rather sooner than later. > V-Li > A3-Li signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Add RUBY_TARGETS to USE_EXPAND
Hi, Alex Legler : > RUBY_TARGETS contains a list of ruby implementations and versions to > install a package for, like this: Python has to do the same for 2.x and 3 versions...wouldn't it be nice to have the same solution for both languages? V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in xfce-base/xfconf: ChangeLog xfconf-4.6.1.ebuild
David Leverton wrote: > On Monday 05 October 2009 23:20:10 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> You probably will see some remarks about "commit it, and let >> everyone else deal with the mess for years to come" being the >> long-established Gentoo tradition, however. > > Not to mention "accuse anyone who disagrees with you of being a troll". Full stop. If you don't have anything productive to add, please stay quiet.
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in xfce-base/xfconf: ChangeLog xfconf-4.6.1.ebuild
On Monday 05 October 2009 23:20:10 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > You probably will see some remarks about "commit it, and let > everyone else deal with the mess for years to come" being the > long-established Gentoo tradition, however. Not to mention "accuse anyone who disagrees with you of being a troll".
[gentoo-dev] RFC: Add RUBY_TARGETS to USE_EXPAND
Hey, I would like to propose the addition of a new USE_EXPAND variable. The Ruby team is currently working on a new version of ruby.eclass with proper support for packages installed for multiple versions of ruby. RUBY_TARGETS contains a list of ruby implementations and versions to install a package for, like this: [ebuild U ] dev-ruby/actionpack-2.3.2-r1 [2.3.2] USE="-doc -test%" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18* ruby19* -jruby%" 746 kB [0=>1] In that example, actionpack would install for Ruby 1.8 and 1.9. USE dependencies are then used to ensure all dependencies are built at least for 1.8 and 1.9 as well. Any comments or questions? Thanks, Alex signature.asc Description: PGP signature
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Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GNOME 2.26 upgrade
Le 06/10/2009 13:02, Mart Raudsepp a écrit : On T, 2009-10-06 at 02:11 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: Hello, See attached news item for consideration. Suggestions on how to improve it, including the text section, very welcome. Attached is a tweaked version with wording fixes from dabbott and author as me instead of team, as I understood to be more appropriate. I will probably wait for further reviews for a couple hours and then commit this and proceed with CCing arch teams for the stabilization work. "not handle the desktop." => "not handle the desktop's background image" But even without this change Reviewed-by: Rémi Cardona Cheers
Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GNOME 2.26 upgrade
On T, 2009-10-06 at 02:11 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Hello, > > See attached news item for consideration. > Suggestions on how to improve it, including the text section, very > welcome. Attached is a tweaked version with wording fixes from dabbott and author as me instead of team, as I understood to be more appropriate. I will probably wait for further reviews for a couple hours and then commit this and proceed with CCing arch teams for the stabilization work. -- Mart Raudsepp Gentoo Developer Mail: l...@gentoo.org Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio Title: Upgrade to GNOME 2.26 Author: Mart Raudsepp Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2009-10-06 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: http://gnome.gentoo.org/howtos/gnome-2.26-upgrade.xml signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-dev] About my confusing ~sparc-fbsd mail.
Things have changed a bit, thanks to Monkeh I've got a access to a one. So does aballier. So we are trying to give it a bit of life support. I'm working on getting python rekeyworded today. Hold off the keyword dropping for now. Thanks, Samuli
