Re: [gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 85 bugs

On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 14:00:04 -0800 (PST) Alex Alexander wrote: > To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 > > Thanks! Errant thought: It may be useful for the tool that you use to generate this mail to embed a list of bug summaries, in the hope it will

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 16:05:50 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > Putting increased requirements on the maintainers may be demotivating, and > create other problems. New profile added they are not aware of. Now they have > to go add IUSE defaults etc. There are a fair

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 85 bugs

Our bug queue has 85 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

On Sunday, February 5, 2017 7:14:45 AM EST Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 12:44:38 -0500 > > "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > > The question to ask is who do you want to create more work for? > > People maintaining packages, or people maintaining profiles. > > I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 12:44:38 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > The question to ask is who do you want to create more work for? > People maintaining packages, or people maintaining profiles. I would probably say "yes" to both of those, because the main objective here is

[gentoo-dev] Re: Requirements for UID/GID management

Christopher Head wrote: > > Are you sure that said utility isn't simply chown --from=? As usual, I just checked the POSIX standard and not the GNU extensions before posting ;) I did now a quick audit of the coreutils-8.25 source: It seems to be safely implemented in the way I

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] emerge: make emerge --sync print messages from SyncRepos.auto_sync()

Emerge will only display messages if --quiet is not set. The word 'emaint' has been removed from two messages to avoid confusion. --- pym/_emerge/actions.py | 7 +-- pym/portage/emaint/modules/sync/sync.py | 7 +++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

On Saturday, February 4, 2017 9:57:01 AM EST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 02/03/2017 08:07 PM, Patrick McLean wrote: > > I think the current policy of "maintainer's discretion" is probably the > > only reasonable way to approach IUSE defaults... > > > > Leaving the IUSE defaults up to the

[gentoo-dev] Local git commit hooks

Does anyone have existing collections of git hooks they use locally on portage to prevent themselves making dumb mistakes? For example, one I just discovered I made back in December was I accidentally keyworded a package for arches I don't have while doing an edit, and I'd imagine the cause was

[gentoo-dev] sys-fs/e4rat up for grabs

I am not using it for ages, feel free to take it if you want, thanks!

[gentoo-dev] sys-apps/preload up for grabs

I am not using it for ages.. feel free to take it if you want

[gentoo-dev] net-print/cndrvcups-lb and net-print/cndrvcups-common-lb up for grabs

I am not interested on then anymore... then, feel free to take them if you want Thanks

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Requirements for UID/GID management

On 02/04/2017 03:50 AM, Christopher Head wrote: >> >> Not a bad idea... we chould ship that safe-chown utility, and then >> tell users how to use it to fix their UIDs. The draft that I wrote up >> was for the "fixed UID with random fallback" model, but said utility >> could still be useful for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

On 02/03/2017 08:07 PM, Patrick McLean wrote: > > I think the current policy of "maintainer's discretion" is probably the > only reasonable way to approach IUSE defaults... > > Leaving the IUSE defaults up to the maintainer allows said maintainer > to select what they consider reasonable

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3] llvm.eclass: An eclass to handle dependencies on slotted LLVM

Introduce an eclass to support dependencies building against slotted LLVM. It provides a function to find the newest installed LLVM version that is not newer than the max supported slot, and a trivial pkg_setup() implementation that adds executable directory of this install to PATH. This ensures

Re: [gentoo-dev] REQUIRED_USE, global USE flags, user-friendliness...

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 1:40 AM, Christopher Head wrote: > > Why? It’s just another dependency. Why does DEPEND="dev-libs/bar" work > so beautifully but DEPEND="dev-libs/bar[baz]" work so horribly? If I > haven’t explicitly said I want baz, and I haven’t explicitly said I > *don’t*

[gentoo-dev] sys-power/bbswitch up for grabs

I am not interested on this package anymore... then, feel free to take it Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] sys-apps/portage: add native-extensions USE flag (bug 571444)

W dniu 01.02.2017, śro o godzinie 20∶46 -0500, użytkownik Michael Orlitzky napisał: > On 02/01/2017 04:03 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > > SLOT="0" > > > -IUSE="build doc epydoc +ipc linguas_ru selinux xattr" > > > +IUSE="build doc epydoc +ipc linguas_ru native-extensions selinux > > > xattr" > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Requirements for UID/GID management

On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 14:29:04 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > However, it is no rocket science to write a race-free chown command > > in C: Just open the file and use stat() and fchown() to be sure to > > change only files from the "correct" user. > > > > Since this works on