Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Short bugzilla outage today between 2100-2200 UTC

2012-07-05 Thread Xavier Miller
Quoting Theo Chatzimichos tampak...@gentoo.org: Finished, everything seems fine again. Please let us know if you notice any weird behavior Hello, When I want to see an attachment, the URL becomes https://#bug_od#.b.g.o and I need to register the certificate for every bug. Xavier

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Short bugzilla outage today between 2100-2200 UTC

2012-07-05 Thread Xavier Miller
Quoting Xavier Miller xavier.mil...@cauwe.org: Quoting Theo Chatzimichos tampak...@gentoo.org: Finished, everything seems fine again. Please let us know if you notice any weird behavior Hello, When I want to see an attachment, the URL becomes https://#bug_od#.b.g.o and I need to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Short bugzilla outage today between 2100-2200 UTC

2012-07-05 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 08:19 +0200, Xavier Miller wrote: Quoting Theo Chatzimichos tampak...@gentoo.org: Finished, everything seems fine again. Please let us know if you notice any weird behavior Hello, When I want to see an attachment, the URL becomes https://#bug_od#.b.g.o and I

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub:2 keywords

2012-07-05 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05.07.2012 06:26, Doug Goldstein wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:02:28 -0400 Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: That is exactly what Doug (cardoe) proposed, and he is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-05 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Wed, 04 Jul 2012, Greg KH wrote: Recently, I have again bumped into the question whether one should compile the kernel as root. One of the things that puzzles me is why almost every HowTo, blog post and book recommends building as non-root -- yet basically no distribution /helps/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-05 Thread Martin Gysel
Am 05.07.2012 01:58, schrieb Rich Freeman: About the only really safe approach would be to run as a limited user, install it into some offset/chroot, package it, and then install it using portage as a binpkg. That actually has advantages on many levels, and it basically is what we do with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-05 Thread Matthew Marlowe
The Linux kernel should not and really must not be built as root. This is neither supported nor recommended nor tested by upstream. You may recall there was a kernel build system bug which ran -rf / which would be bad if you built as root. The administrator usually has a normal user account

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-05 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 05/07/2012 10:27, Tobias Klausmann ha scritto: I vaguely remembered the rm-rf bug, but I was unable to find any reference to it (at least not easily), do you happen to have a pointer? Regards, Tobias neither I, but look at this bug for an example

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-05 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/05/2012 06:23 AM, Matthew Marlowe wrote: The Linux kernel should not and really must not be built as root. This is neither supported nor recommended nor tested by upstream. You may recall there was a kernel build system bug which ran -rf /

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-05 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 22:22 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2012 21:36:02 Albert W. Hopkins wrote: Might it be better if you could tell portage to look for kernel builds in another location than /usr/src/linux. Perhaps you can already and I'm not aware. export

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-05 Thread Dan Douglas
On Wednesday, July 04, 2012 10:30:20 PM Peter Stuge wrote: You may recall there was a kernel build system bug which ran -rf / which would be bad if you built as root. So there isn't anything during the build that requires writing outside the source tree? Since I use a custom script for

[gentoo-dev] New herd: radio

2012-07-05 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Hello all, The new radio herd will maintain packages related to sending and receiving of radio transmissions. Currently, these are GNU Radio and some packages from the Osmocom/SDR project. The initial members are zerochaos, creffett and me, but anybody is free to join. Plans for the near future

Re: [gentoo-dev] New herd: radio

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Beierlein
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:58:02 +0200 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello all, The new radio herd will maintain packages related to sending and receiving of radio transmissions. Currently, these are GNU Radio and some packages from the Osmocom/SDR project. The initial