[gentoo-dev] Re: How to handle x86/amd64 only packages on other arches

2012-01-25 Thread Duncan
Xavier Miller posted on Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:19:03 +0100 as excerpted: > Doubling the timeout seems to work (no error so far, the SHDHC card is > fully useable). > Quoting Sergei Trofimovich : > >> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:30:26 +0100 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn >> wrote: >> >>> Doug Goldstein sc

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle x86/amd64 only packages on other arches

2012-01-25 Thread Xavier Miller
Hello, Thank you very much for your replies :) Doubling the timeout seems to work (no error so far, the SHDHC card is fully useable). I disabled the MMC debugging, and I also see that, grepping mmc in dmesg: [2.795410] _regulator_get: omap_hsmmc.0 supply vmmc_aux not found, using dummy regu

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: More versatile return codes for emerge

2012-01-25 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/25/12 10:23 AM, Thomas Kahle wrote: > I suggest that emerge could signal its various failures via return > codes. That would be useful in automated archtesting: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400705 My opinion is very similar to what Brian Harring said on that bug: some Python

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle x86/amd64 only packages on other arches

2012-01-25 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
> It's the simplest thing to maintain. It eases binary package creation > and does not need any blockers, virtuals or conditional depends. > > You just patch an ebuild, run `emerge --buildkpgonly seabios` > and package is ready. All in one place. Sample patch with USE=binary attached. -- Ser

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle x86/amd64 only packages on other arches

2012-01-25 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:30:26 +0100 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Doug Goldstein schrieb: > > I need to be able to have ppc/arm/etc users install a package that can > > only be built on x86/amd64. The packages in question are > > sys-apps/seabios and sys-apps/vgabios. The point is that a P

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle x86/amd64 only packages on other arches

2012-01-25 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:01:20 -0600 Doug Goldstein wrote: > I need to be able to have ppc/arm/etc users install a package that can > only be built on x86/amd64. The packages in question are > sys-apps/seabios and sys-apps/vgabios. The point is that a PPC machine > that's using qemu-system-x86_64 s

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle x86/amd64 only packages on other arches

2012-01-25 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Doug Goldstein schrieb: > I need to be able to have ppc/arm/etc users install a package that can > only be built on x86/amd64. The packages in question are > sys-apps/seabios and sys-apps/vgabios. The point is that a PPC machine > that's using qemu-system-x86_64 still needs to use seabios and > vga

[gentoo-dev] RFC: More versatile return codes for emerge

2012-01-25 Thread Thomas Kahle
Hi, I suggest that emerge could signal its various failures via return codes. That would be useful in automated archtesting: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400705 Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[gentoo-dev] How to handle x86/amd64 only packages on other arches

2012-01-25 Thread Doug Goldstein
I need to be able to have ppc/arm/etc users install a package that can only be built on x86/amd64. The packages in question are sys-apps/seabios and sys-apps/vgabios. The point is that a PPC machine that's using qemu-system-x86_64 still needs to use seabios and vgabios. I was planning on building t