[gentoo-dev] Re: News item review: SquashDelta syncing support
Brian Dolbec dol...@gentoo.org wrote: Martin Vaeth mar...@mvath.de wrote: However, currently this does not play nicely with squashdelta: You have to undo the mounting of squashdelta and have to use different command (e.g. squashmount) afterwards. No, that is not correct [...] 2) /etc/portage/repo.postsync.d I know about this hook, but this is not what I meant. What I meant is the possibility to *replace* the automatic mounting of portage by a different command (for instance, a possibility to *avoid* that portage mounts/umounts automatically but expects this to happens in this hook). I give reasons for this below. (This discussion belongs actually to portage-devel mailing list or to some bug, but now I feel the necessity to clarify the misunderstanding.) It is not only inefficient and hackish (with possible problems in case of unexpected situations like a SIGINT or other signal at a bad time) if two programs/scripts fight about mounts and undo each others' mounts. It also causes severe difficulties in connection with overlayfs/aufs/...: With these filesystems, you must create two (in case of overlayfs even three) auxiliary directories, and in this situation, it might be natural to choose these as temporary direcories (e.g. generated in /tmp with unique names); to understand the following explanation note also that two of these directories (the squash filesystem and the overlay filesystem) should normally always be mounted/umounted together. Now if portage umounts only the overlay directory, the information about the temporary directory names is lost (leaving possibly quite a bit data in /tmp undeleted forever), and the second necessary umount does not happen and is hard to do later on: It prevents the space of the old squash file from actually being freed (and this mount is hard to find later on: It is a mount of a deleted file on an unknown temporary directory. Of course, one could try to find this mount by some heuristic, but this is extremely hackish, and the heuristic might find some other squash file which the user has mounted similarly for some other reason.) In case of the mentioned squashmount tool, the situation is better, because squashmount is rather complex and e.g. stores/manages the names of temporary directories independently. However, users might also want to use less sophisticated tools than squashmount (and also squashmount has no easy solution for random remounts of the mount points it manages, because it is almost impossible to write a generic such solution.) In any case, it is rather hackisch to write a lot of additional code to undo an actually undesired umounting+mounting: The clean solution appears to be to not do the undesired (in this situation) umounting+mounting in the first place but to execute *only* the actually desired (u)mount command(s) instead.
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 2/2] man: Document repoman --straight-to-stable
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This change is probably big enough to warrant a copyright header update. So I pushed one. I also updated two other manpage copyright headers that were extensively modified in March. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVWxbUAAoJENQqWdRUGk8BG78QAMtcvfvwFSfLnlcTk1Ui1Fc3 QedIjPpS2k1W3/RoDPJc7/Su3YJyw0aS3oPd8i44Ic7aWWinZry4kMQF1R6zizxv 6n6xnTe1KC01d8WskNhn3LFo43+Fr9odKK75WkAqFi5u/Igxp2rXXZoLjfR/c+4e F74Tf8NcDAYrstp7bupHqoXXMsStyC1A1AvAQWC/JKO+geBkUEGPHRYXoM6U2pod p8/OlRAdeqX/1L7qWhFRJzSGmOoKqyepw65HeUvHMjKjh3BtHhow2BSh763IWEfe 3KrSg8iys9pCMmC6aD5sWwpDJc/xO0AhEzmAPBSDx9PWqLkYWsQhQxmoFG12JCRZ 1U0k+I0bZTO5A7RKYFEfGgpvP9PaszJwwG/BftnVinVyAjsFfEAIl12yGzPD6bHm ZWjYq/U0/DcwSiTXtg8fv51wldhX5fiY2J90GFdfmrYvqR+6IUjG8ZbhpBJcPq0E Jz+YkqloGRJ1Ds1t0gAnlMkpv8Eam43/hHuRFD9Qo7sNMvQ3+9ypI0reuiVyT/6s tNWv51eIC7psZrh8Cvrz0RSFacw+d3p02E1kU+j9VDmbnMAjdeIg7GulXv0AWwGa Y9C/DkzRG18Ek/wLKZLS0/DwRDReV+Zqt9lSgHIuq3f6WFTg81r8H8h4uxNTMxx9 0bzc2A3OcxQSyKagCXJ2 =SLsk -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs
Hi all, Due to lack of time I can't no longer maintain the following package: * net-irc/inspircd Feel free to take it. I'll assign it to maintainer-needed in the following days. Last version (2.0.20) was released a week ago, so it would need a version bump if grabbed. Thanks in advance. Regards.
Re: [gentoo-dev] more packages up for grabs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/19/2015 06:40 AM, Francesco Riosa wrote: Il 18/05/2015 23:13, Tim Harder ha scritto: * media-gfx/darktable * media-gfx/dcraw * media-gfx/gmic * media-gfx/rawtherapee * media-plugins/gimp-gmic nobody for these? they are rather important for anyone who does photo on linux. What does gimp-gmic do? I maintain a set of brushes and presets for GIMP for pixel art; is it related to that at all? ~zlg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVW+7sAAoJEAEkDpRQOeFwD7QP/3vLOErOaQPpmZlI848pE6yw JCj0kph10Yhet4yliUdVaebCTyaeN2iUI0YZi9W71oOTy/QH0ZmPi84uw4xXcyWF fg/5TF0tc8chSLwHyyTUl0S3fK1ssGwUD8cyfUqQPZ8BljG4PecVWafdy0kGiHle GRMGlFa22uRUywEhyBeMNkTSGUCJOUvo92lNHTmXVuSedMdigRXUvTiLCn2EaWzV PqwlkasibsrgoRedBXccUfkTmRPA9vtnlG7OLhQCpKSo1YsrgcvzOfCXgIpniXkw MOCHf1uEox4MXiVqSWY6rjA4lLk4qLOei7ypyg78HIYmSfccYF5EC7sbYtmtGe9E KKynutxSwgJvDpIlxEuW9wpBiFl+KtzrKwoi0WOvtoYVdvIpz6KQ5TxDM+CHTZ34 bQTDLlrYtXvnUmi2LqtzduhtzxgHcNPzkELab4wIBZQXA9q64av4+PtEqoQsVQQo wMEfo9gu2McpLY5iNHb74lFlTtiFGDd2yiIU+BgFwo8KthBFm9w+kcHAiZmXPjIR iu+jKEYrWcSaBQiFjTgz/fi0IwON9cYnFbYTWmCnINQxuuuvkPhmbfcH2ZWW+NSH yzECgfxrjZgO/KNwUf2EgIQpvtEHxNVgU5sQyNrCri7A181txsdmuLRWiDnXa4s5 ixhc5M5sxR9yfDZjFYq5 =QNDD -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: LINGUAS usage
On 18/05/15 19:11, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Mon, 18 May 2015 18:25:35 +0200 Justin (jlec) j...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, I am in trouble about he meaning of LINGUAS in a certain context. The program supports a) different interface languages and b) different languages for the content text, like hyphenation, localized loremipsum and so. If you are setting LINGUAS=fr_FR en_GB fi, what do you expect to see in the end? a, b or a+b honouring LINGUAS? I'd say a+b, with a) selectable by classical LC_* or LANG variables and b) selectable by some interface probably. that's what is done for texlive: LINGUAS pulls related packages that install localized docs when applicable but also give you support for hyphenations co; however, no default is changed and you still have to ask for babel to get proper hyphenations when compiling your .tex. Thanks for the input. That solution was also what I had in mind. Justin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] more packages up for grabs
On 2015-05-18 17:13, Tim Harder wrote: * app-misc/solaar I can do this one. I've used it to handle my peripherals. - Aaron signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] more packages up for grabs
Il 18/05/2015 23:13, Tim Harder ha scritto: * media-gfx/darktable * media-gfx/dcraw * media-gfx/gmic * media-gfx/rawtherapee * media-plugins/gimp-gmic nobody for these? they are rather important for anyone who does photo on linux.
Re: [gentoo-dev] more packages up for grabs
On 2015-05-19 09:40, Francesco Riosa wrote: Il 18/05/2015 23:13, Tim Harder ha scritto: * media-gfx/darktable * media-gfx/dcraw * media-gfx/gmic * media-gfx/rawtherapee * media-plugins/gimp-gmic nobody for these? they are rather important for anyone who does photo on linux. Note that those were dropped to the graphics herd, i.e. I and other people will probably poke them from time to time... just expect some probable lag in version bumps. Tim signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] more packages up for grabs
Monday 18 May 2015 17:13:41, Tim Harder wrote : Here are some packages that I've dropped (or will drop) myself as primary maintainer from. Many of them (e.g. protobuf*) could really use some more collaborative non-maintainer update method but no one has gotten around to finalizing, documenting, and implementing the required metadata.xml changes yet as far as I know. * app-misc/pfm * www-client/links * www-misc/urlwatch If you have questions about any of them feel free to drop me a line. Thanks, Tim Hey Tim I'd love to pick these up. In particular links: always been fond of it. :) Cheers, Patrice pgp3G_Kfuhleh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] more packages up for grabs
On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 03:40:31 PM Francesco Riosa wrote: Il 18/05/2015 23:13, Tim Harder ha scritto: * media-gfx/darktable * media-gfx/dcraw * media-gfx/gmic * media-gfx/rawtherapee * media-plugins/gimp-gmic nobody for these? they are rather important for anyone who does photo on linux. So why don't you take them?
