[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/jruby-1.6

2014-09-01 Thread Hans de Graaff
# Hans de Graaff (1 Sep 2014) # Mask jruby 1.6.x for removal in 30 days. This version is still based # on ruby 1.8. Many packages are no longer compatible with its # syntax, and security support for ruby 1.8 has stopped. This # incompatibility now has reached central packages like rubygems so we

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-needed@ packages need you!

2014-09-01 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-09-01, o godz. 17:44:04 Joshua Kinard napisał(a): > > app-arch/lzma > > Doesn't app-arch/xz-utils effectively deprecate this? Not exactly. You mean app-arch/lzma-utils that is gone already. app-arch/lzma is actually the original SDK from 7-Zip. Not sure if anyone needs it for anyth

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-needed@ packages need you!

2014-09-01 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 08/30/2014 07:46, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > Right now, we have 1262 packages assigned to maintainer-needed@. Only > a few of them have a large number of bugs, many have just version bump > requests. 953 packages have no bug open. > > Please consider adopting some of the packages, or at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing 'selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-*)' from DEPEND

2014-09-01 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:30:29 + Sven Vermeulen wrote: > [...] > > With this change, we implement the same end result (correctly labeled > files after installation) while removing the need for the DEPEND > dependency. After all, this was not a build-time dependency but a > "merge-time" one, wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: maintainer-needed@ packages need you!

2014-09-01 Thread Markos Chandras
On 09/01/2014 12:15 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On Sunday 31 August 2014 11:39:22 hasufell wrote: >> Martin Vaeth: >>> hasufell wrote: On 08/30/2014 02:35 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > For net-im/skype, Screw skype. >>> >>> Please don't. Not all communication partners are linux users

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified directory slash convention for EAPI6?

2014-09-01 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 08/31/2014 17:39, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, developers. > > The directory conventions in PMS are confusing developers for a long > time. Long story short, D, ED, ROOT and EROOT are supposed to contain > a trailing slash while remaining directory variables don't. This often > confuses develop

Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd + postgresql is non-obvious to me

2014-09-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > On 2014-08-22 14:07, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Aaron W. Swenson >> wrote: >> > On the whole, I'm displeased with the systemd alternative for >> > controlling PostgreSQL. It's significantly hampered and doesn

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unifying option passing conventions in the PMS

2014-09-01 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-09-01, o godz. 15:35:42 Ulrich Mueller napisał(a): > > On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, Michał Górny wrote: > > > 1. Options must precede positional parameters on the command-line. > > Interspersing options and positional parameters is not allowed. > > > 2. Each short option must be specified

Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd + postgresql is non-obvious to me

2014-09-01 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2014-09-01 11:09, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Aaron W. Swenson > wrote: > > On 2014-08-22 14:07, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Aaron W. Swenson > >> wrote: > >> > On the whole, I'm displeased with the systemd alternative for > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd + postgresql is non-obvious to me

2014-09-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > On 2014-08-22 14:07, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Aaron W. Swenson >> wrote: >> > On the whole, I'm displeased with the systemd alternative for >> > controlling PostgreSQL. It's significantly hampered and doesn

Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd + postgresql is non-obvious to me

2014-09-01 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On 2014-08-22 14:07, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Aaron W. Swenson > wrote: > > On the whole, I'm displeased with the systemd alternative for > > controlling PostgreSQL. It's significantly hampered and doesn't allow > > as much flexibility as the initscript. The major is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unifying option passing conventions in the PMS

2014-09-01 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, Michał Górny wrote: > 1. Options must precede positional parameters on the command-line. > Interspersing options and positional parameters is not allowed. > 2. Each short option must be specified as a separate parameter. > Specifying multiple short options in one paramet

[gentoo-dev] Re: Unifying option passing conventions in the PMS

2014-09-01 Thread Duncan
Michał Górny posted on Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:52:49 +0200 as excerpted: > That said, I suggest the following basic rules: > 5. Helpers should define both short and long variants for each option > they provide. > Explanation and rationale; > (5) This is pretty much a open field for dicussion. > If

Re: [gentoo-dev] readme.gentoo.eclass: expand variables when a file is used instead of setting DOC_CONTENTS in ebuild

2014-09-01 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-08-31, o godz. 14:14:20 Pacho Ramos napisał(a): > This tries to solve: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519682 > > Looks to do the job but maybe there are shorter or saner ways of doing > it There are no sane ways of doing this. For a sane alternative, take a look at python_g

Re: [gentoo-dev] readme.gentoo.eclass: expand variables when a file is used instead of setting DOC_CONTENTS in ebuild

2014-09-01 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 01 Sep 2014, Pacho Ramos wrote: > What about > while read; do eval echo "$REPLY"; done < > "${FILESDIR}/README.gentoo-${SLOT%/*}" > "${T}"/README.gentoo || die > ? I'd say that any solution using eval should be avoided, because in addition to variable expansion it does a lot of oth

[gentoo-dev] Unifying option passing conventions in the PMS

2014-09-01 Thread Michał Górny
Hello again, developers. Don't worry, this is the last e-mail I was planning to send :). Currently, PMS doesn't have any convention for option passing. In particular, we have: a. has_version and best_version having long '--host-root' (no parameters). b. dodoc, doheader, doins have short '-r' opt

Re: [gentoo-dev] readme.gentoo.eclass: expand variables when a file is used instead of setting DOC_CONTENTS in ebuild

2014-09-01 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 31-08-2014 a las 14:29 +0200, Ulrich Mueller escribió: > > On Sun, 31 Aug 2014, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > This tries to solve: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519682 > > - cp "${FILESDIR}/README.gentoo-${SLOT%/*}" "${T}"/README.gentoo > || die > + e

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information.

2014-09-01 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 09/01/14 02:24, Fabian Groffen wrote: On 30-08-2014 16:02:51 -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: ... During that meeting, the council focused on NEEDED.ELF.2 which is recorded by portage, but not paludis. Linkage information is generated during package builds, is expensive to recalculate and is

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-9999 (and upcoming 217) no longer has userspace firmware loader (will need Linux 3.7 for firmware's to be loaded)

2014-09-01 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 08/31/14 23:30, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 01/09/14 03:37, Patrick Lauer wrote: On Sunday 31 August 2014 17:13:49 Samuli Suominen wrote: Trying to raise awareness: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=be2ea723b1d023b3d385d 3b791ee4607cbfb20ca What are the effects for end-