Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-07 Thread Kent Fredric
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > 2) That won't necessarily stop the bugs from rolling in. Some devs may > > get tired of live pkg bugs and package.mask it, thus putting up a double- > > barrier to t

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-07 Thread Duncan
Nirbheek Chauhan posted on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:38:56 +0530 as excerpted: > We had something interesting happen with policykit. It was masked for a > very long time, and so all users of policykit had "sys-auth/policykit" > in p.unmask. Then it was unmasked, but of course who bothers cleaning up > t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations

2009-11-07 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Zac Medico wrote: > Peter Volkov wrote: >> Looks like this will not work for all noarch packages. Stardict >> dictionary itself is noarch, but it RDEPENDS on stardict package which >> is keyworded only on some archs. So we'll be forced either to keyword >> stardict

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-07 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > 2) That won't necessarily stop the bugs from rolling in.  Some devs may > get tired of live pkg bugs and package.mask it, thus putting up a double- > barrier to the live ebuild.  If users jump BOTH barriers and fall over > the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations

2009-11-07 Thread Zac Medico
Peter Volkov wrote: >> We could introduce "noarch" and "~noarch" KEYWORDS, add "noarch" to >> the default ACCEPT_KEYWORDS setting for all profiles, and instruct >> unstable users to add "~noarch" to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. > > Looks like this will not work for all noarch packages. Stardict > dictionary i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-block/gparted: gparted-0.4.3.ebuild

2009-11-07 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > I'm seconds away from masking KDE 3.5.10, only fixing gentoo-x86 in a > shape it's possible. > > So sorry everyone for not stopping on every single package and metadata.xml. > > Just getting this done. Quantity isn't a replacement for quali

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-07 Thread Duncan
Christian Faulhammer posted on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:33:12 +0100 as excerpted: > William Hubbs : >> > * Masking live... >> > Heck no. This is not proper usage. Just use keywords mask. >> > KEYWORDS="". Problem solved and the package.mask is smaller. (Note, >> > in overlays do what ever you want, sin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-07 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 07:33:12PM +0100, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > William Hubbs : > > > * Masking live... > > > Heck no. This is not proper usage. Just use keywords mask. > > > KEYWORDS="". Problem solved and the package.mask is smaller. (Note, > > > in overlays do what ever you want

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-07 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, William Hubbs : > > * Masking live... > > Heck no. This is not proper usage. Just use keywords mask. > > KEYWORDS="". Problem solved and the package.mask is smaller. (Note, > > in overlays do what ever you want, since it does not polute the > > main mask from g-x86). > > True. If we mask l

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-07 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, I'm not QA, but I'll go ahead and add my comments to this also. On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 06:24:10PM +0100, Tom Chv??tal wrote: > * Masking beta... > This masks are good if the software release is KNOWN to break previous > behaviour or degrade user experience. Otherwise the software sh

[gentoo-dev] QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-07 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Hi, since I aint got blag i will polute our lovely mailing list (sorry if i hit some in-middle flame :P). Currently i've been reviewing the package.mask file (since we have to keep with it for a while [no package.mask folder near us :)] we have to trim it down and keep sane). NOTE: The p.mask

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations

2009-11-07 Thread Peter Volkov
В Птн, 06/11/2009 в 14:07 -0800, Zac Medico пишет: > Fabian Groffen wrote: > > On 06-11-2009 19:48:16 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: > >>> In the past when smaller arches were not that active we used to mark > >>> Java packages stable after

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations

2009-11-07 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Thu, 05 Nov 2009, Petteri Räty wrote: > In the past when smaller arches were not that active we used to > mark Java packages stable after testing by at least one arch > team. The probability to find arch specific issues in something > like Java is not so high so I think arrangements like t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-block/gparted: gparted-0.4.3.ebuild

2009-11-07 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le samedi 07 novembre 2009 à 13:31 +0100, Romain Perier a écrit : > In the future , please have a discussion on IRC, that's a bit more > "constructive". I meant why "flood" on ML for that if we can discuss on > IRC together ? We're adults or nop ? (I already said that to ssuominen > on #-kde). ema

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: KDE 3.5.10

2009-11-07 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen (07 Nov 2009) # # Mask KDE 3.5.10 for removal, excluding the dependencies # required for stable koffice. Removed in 30 days. # [ .. ] Everything from kde-base/ matching =3.5* excluding the deps of koffice. # Samuli Suominen (06 Nov 2009) # Cleaning out packages with KDE3 depe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-block/gparted: gparted-0.4.3.ebuild

2009-11-07 Thread Samuli Suominen
Romain Perier wrote: > In the future , please have a discussion on IRC, that's a bit more > "constructive". I meant why "flood" on ML for that if we can discuss on > IRC together ? We're adults or nop ? (I already said that to ssuominen > on #-kde). > > To conclude, what's Gilles wanted to say is

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-block/gparted: gparted-0.4.3.ebuild

2009-11-07 Thread Romain Perier
In the future , please have a discussion on IRC, that's a bit more "constructive". I meant why "flood" on ML for that if we can discuss on IRC together ? We're adults or nop ? (I already said that to ssuominen on #-kde). To conclude, what's Gilles wanted to say is there are rules, so ALL developer

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-block/gparted: gparted-0.4.3.ebuild

2009-11-07 Thread Samuli Suominen
Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > Le samedi 07 novembre 2009 à 09:47 +, Samuli Suominen (ssuominen) a > écrit : >> ssuominen09/11/07 09:47:59 >> >> Modified: gparted-0.4.3.ebuild >> Log: >> Remove USE kde from this almost unused ebuild to avoid breaking deptree >> for sparc.

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-block/gparted: gparted-0.4.3.ebuild

2009-11-07 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le samedi 07 novembre 2009 à 09:47 +, Samuli Suominen (ssuominen) a écrit : > ssuominen09/11/07 09:47:59 > > Modified: gparted-0.4.3.ebuild > Log: > Remove USE kde from this almost unused ebuild to avoid breaking deptree for > sparc. > (Portage version: 2.2_rc48/cvs/Li

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] got an error while emerging dev-python/setuptools-0.6.4

2009-11-07 Thread Duncan
Xi Shen posted on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:31:16 +0800 as excerpted: > i am using gentoo amd64, and have just changed my profile to > default/linux/amd64/10.0 as it is recommended. then i ran emerge -auvND > world, and got the following error while emerging > dev-python/setuptools-0.6.4 > > * Install

[gentoo-dev] Re: redistribute intel rpms

2009-11-07 Thread Duncan
Sébastien Fabbro posted on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:04:41 -0800 as excerpted: > We have a few fetch restricted Intel packages in the main tree (icc, > ifc, mkl, ipp, tbb). All except tbb are closed-source but free with > non-commercial licenses. Lately upstream has repackaged the icc and > ifort (ifc)