Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-13 Thread C . Bergström
Drive-by trolling comment but I wish the effort to keep porkage alive would have instead been directed towards pkgcore.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-13 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/01/14 09:39, C. Bergström wrote: Drive-by trolling comment but I wish the effort to keep porkage alive would have instead been directed towards pkgcore. Realistically, we have to keep updating them both in parallel. pkgcore needs to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-13 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:39 AM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: Drive-by trolling comment but I wish the effort to keep porkage alive would have instead been directed towards pkgcore. If you know your email is going to be drive-by trolling, maybe just hold it in next time?

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread C. Bergström
On 01/13/14 03:43 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/01/14 09:39, C. Bergström wrote: Drive-by trolling comment but I wish the effort to keep porkage alive would have instead been directed towards pkgcore. Realistically, we have to keep

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:15 AM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: On 01/13/14 03:43 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: Where I work uses pkgcore[1], but not the areas which are generally beneficial to the whole community. (We use it as part of a web application to handle testsuites

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread C. Bergström
On 01/13/14 04:31 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:15 AM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: On 01/13/14 03:43 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: Where I work uses pkgcore[1], but not the areas which are generally beneficial to the whole community. (We use it as part

[gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:15:37PM +0700, C. Bergström wrote: On 01/13/14 03:43 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: Realistically, we have to keep updating them both in parallel. pkgcore needs to be brought up to portage-level functionality, Yeah but it already outshines under the hood: all you're

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/01/14 12:02, Steven J. Long wrote: Yeah but it already outshines under the hood: all you're talking about is EAPI and radhermit is working on it; I'm sure he and dol-sen would be happy for more help as well, so long as it's supportive.

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag 13 Januar 2014, 13:28:13 schrieb Alexander Berntsen: Updating both in parallel isn't hard: once pkgcore is up to EAPI-5, EAPI-6 isn't that much work (mostly bash afair.) So far, I dont know of any work on the exact EAPI-6 feature set yet. We should maybe open a new thread on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Andreas K Huettel wrote: So far, I dont know of any work on the exact EAPI-6 feature set yet. We should maybe open a new thread on that, *if* there is already something. I've started collecting things already some months ago:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:39:17 +0700 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: Drive-by trolling comment but I wish the effort to keep porkage alive would have instead been directed towards pkgcore. If we still have users left by the time pkgcore is finished... Moving the work efforts from

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: Long term the API to pkgcore could be beneficial, but again I'm not sure it's a game changer for users. Long term, we should have an independent API backend that tools can query; not rewrite our tools every time

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-13 Thread Peter Stuge
Tom Wijsman wrote: So, yes, we need more people on pkgcore; no, we can't just leave Portage behind, as it still is the beating heart of Gentoo for now. I guess the point is that it might continue beating long enough mostly on its own. //Peter pgp_E4oOCUrAm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: At the end of the day we have one codebase which is engineered and another which has evolved. Too broad generalization, too much assumption; both can be held as meaning nothing compared to what engineered and

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/01/14 09:46 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: Long term the API to pkgcore could be beneficial, but again I'm not sure it's a game changer for users. Long term, we

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:31:56 +0100 Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: Portage can still take *minutes* to calculate the merge queue of a pkg with all its deps satisfied. Half a minute if you disable backtracking which you don't need. :) Ironically, launching the same emerge command

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:02:10 + Steven J. Long sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Yeah but it already outshines under the hood: all you're talking about is EAPI and radhermit is working on it; pkgcore's response to EAPI 6 is something to hold your breath for. I'm sure he and dol-sen would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:50:44 +0100 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Andreas K Huettel wrote: So far, I dont know of any work on the exact EAPI-6 feature set yet. We should maybe open a new thread on that, *if* there is already something. I've started

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:56:13 -0500 Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/01/14 09:46 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:46:12 +0100 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Tom Wijsman wrote: So, yes, we need more people on pkgcore; no, we can't just leave Portage behind, as it still is the beating heart of Gentoo for now. I guess the point is that it might continue beating long enough

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Luis Ressel
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:58:13 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:31:56 +0100 Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: Portage can still take *minutes* to calculate the merge queue of a pkg with all its deps satisfied. Half a minute if you disable

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:38:59 +0100 Luis Ressel ara...@aixah.de wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:58:13 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: Half a minute if you disable backtracking which you don't need. :) Which sadly also means that some updates get skipped silently. (Those which

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-13 Thread Alec Warner
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:46:12 +0100 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Tom Wijsman wrote: So, yes, we need more people on pkgcore; no, we can't just leave Portage behind, as it still is the beating heart of Gentoo for

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Alec Warner
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Luis Ressel ara...@aixah.de wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:58:13 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:31:56 +0100 Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: Portage can still take *minutes* to calculate the merge queue of a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Luis Ressel
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:46:08 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:38:59 +0100 Luis Ressel ara...@aixah.de wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:58:13 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: Half a minute if you disable backtracking which you don't need. :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] This is not meant to imply that portage is always fast; there are plenty of other modules (such as the aforementioned backtracking) that can take a long time to find solutions. That is partially why you see Tomwij

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:15:37PM +0700, C. Bergström wrote: At the end of the day we have one codebase which is engineered and another which has evolved. I'll take an evolved codebase over engineered anyday. You do realize that is exactly why Linux has succeeded, right? The kernel has

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: I've started collecting things already some months ago: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Future_EAPI/EAPI_6_tentative_features Just for reference: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174380 According to [1] there are besides the tracker a 78 bugs

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:42:00AM +0700, C. Bergström wrote: On 01/14/14 12:37 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:15:37PM +0700, C. Bergström wrote: At the end of the day we have one codebase which is engineered and another which has evolved. I'll take an evolved codebase over

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread C. Bergström
On 01/14/14 12:37 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:15:37PM +0700, C. Bergström wrote: At the end of the day we have one codebase which is engineered and another which has evolved. I'll take an evolved codebase over engineered anyday. You do realize that is exactly why Linux has

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:46:08 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: Rebuilds don't cause a different solution in the graph afaik; so, I wouldn't see how that would form a big problem. I also think this would still be covered by preserved-rebuild and/or revdep-rebuild afterwards. There

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 15:46 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: Long term the API to pkgcore could be beneficial, but again I'm not sure it's a game changer for users. Long term, we should have an independent API

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:46:59 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: Long term the API to pkgcore could be beneficial, but again I'm not sure it's a game changer for users. Long term, we should have an

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:03:31 +0100 Luis Ressel ara...@aixah.de wrote: No, the problem wasn't that rebuilds weren't done (btw: this is not about @preserved-rebuilds, but about subslot dependencies), but that updates which would trigger such rebuilds are silently ignored. This happened to me

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:49:17 -0800 Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: The caching may not be of use, depending on your configuration. (For example, if you use a gentoo-x86 checkout as your main repo, you will probably want to run generate cache entries whenever you cvs up.) It is there to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:05:21 + Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:46:08 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: Rebuilds don't cause a different solution in the graph afaik; so, I wouldn't see how that would form a big problem. I also think

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:16:45 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:49:17 -0800 Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: The caching may not be of use, depending on your configuration. (For example, if you use a gentoo-x86 checkout as your main repo, you will

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:07:39 + Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:46:59 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: Long term the API to pkgcore could be

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:21:58 + Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:16:45 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:49:17 -0800 Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: The caching may not be of use, depending on your

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:27:36 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: Not an API. APIs are bad. What we should have is a good set of lightweight Unix-friendly command line tools. See, for example, the Scripting Commands section of man cave. It still is an API that way, just expressed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 11:02 Mon 13 Jan , Steven J. Long wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:15:37PM +0700, C. Bergström wrote: Realistically, we have to keep updating them both in parallel. pkgcore needs to be brought up to portage-level functionality, Yeah but it already outshines under the hood: all

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default USE changes for fortran and mudflap?

2014-01-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 01:53 Sun 12 Jan , Ryan Hill wrote: fortran: Do we want to keep enabling fortran by default? The majority of users will never get the urge to install a fortran package, and the fortran eclass handles those that do. I think it should be treated as all the other optional languages

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 19:59 Sat 11 Jan , Peter Stuge wrote: Duncan wrote: Michał Górny wrote: INSTALL_MASK=systemd bash-completion What are your thoughts? It seems like this will generally duplicate all -USE flags. Would it make sense to instead have a single setting which changes

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 01/13/2014 10:58 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:31:56 +0100 Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: Portage can still take *minutes* to calculate the merge queue of a pkg with all its deps satisfied. Half a minute if you disable backtracking which you don't need. :) Or

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:22:25 +0800 Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: On 01/13/2014 10:58 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:31:56 +0100 Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: Portage can still take *minutes* to calculate the merge queue of a pkg with all its deps

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default USE changes for fortran and mudflap?

2014-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 12 January 2014 02:53:47 Ryan Hill wrote: While I'm adding USE defaults to toolchain.eclass and moving them out of the profiles, I thought now would be a good time to review a couple default flag settings. mudflap: This is currently enabled by default but I'd like to disable it.

[gentoo-dev] pkgcore EAPI-6 (Was: OT: pkgcore bikeshed)

2014-01-13 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014, Alexander Berntsen wrote: Updating both in parallel isn't hard: once pkgcore is up to EAPI-5, EAPI-6 isn't that much work (mostly bash afair.) If it is trivial: show us the code. Ah that old canard. Tell you what: I hereby undertake to deliver everything currently

[gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:27:36 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: Not an API. APIs are bad. What we should have is a good set of lightweight Unix-friendly command line tools. See, for example, the Scripting Commands section of man cave.

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Check for and report read-only filesystems

2014-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 10 January 2014 22:07:52 Chris Reffett wrote: Attached is a patch to test if Portage is going to write to a read-only filesystem and print out the list of filesystems that need to be remounted RW. This leaves ${D} intact rather than having some files moved before hitting the RO

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] First draft of a portage pylint.

2014-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
people have been using pyflakes of late. not that i'm against adding this. we should have a wrapper script: $ cat pylint #!/bin/sh exec pylint --rcfile ${0%/*}/pylintrc $@ -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] [REV] Added support for variable expansion in source command. wrt bug #490896

2014-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
cnf/make.conf.example.source_test| 7 +++ cnf/make.conf.example.source_test_after | 8 i don't think test files belong in cnf/. keep them in the same dir as the test that uses them. -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Add repoman check to warn if src_prepare/src_configure are used in EAPI 0/1

2014-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 13 January 2014 19:08:30 creff...@gentoo.org wrote: From: Chris Reffett creff...@gentoo.org you might want to set ~/.gitconfig to have your name/email so that git sendemail uses the right info in the actual e-mail From: field + undefined_phases_re =

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Add repoman check to warn if src_prepare/src_configure are used in EAPI 0/1

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:50:44 -0500 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Monday 13 January 2014 19:08:30 creff...@gentoo.org wrote: From: Chris Reffett creff...@gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Add repoman check to warn if src_prepare/src_configure are used in EAPI 0/1

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v3] Added support for variable expansion in source command argument in make.conf

2014-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
seems reasonable, although i haven't used the shlex module myself before -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Add repoman check to warn if src_prepare/src_configure are used in EAPI 0/1

2014-01-13 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 23:59 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 13 January 2014 22:23:01 Tom Wijsman wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:50:44 -0500 Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 13 January 2014 19:08:30 creff...@gentoo.org wrote: From: Chris Reffett creff...@gentoo.org Subject: