Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: binhost

2021-02-13 Thread Zac Medico
On 2/10/21 11:11 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:57 PM Andreas K. Hüttel > wrote: >> >> * what portage features are still needed or need improvements (e.g. binpkg >> signing and verification) >> * how should hosting look like > > Some ideas for portage enhancements: > > 1.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: binhost

2021-02-13 Thread Zac Medico
On 2/13/21 4:37 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 2/11/21 1:17 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >> On Wed, 2021-02-10 at 19:51 +0100, Lars Wendler wrote: >>> On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:57:48 +0200 Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: >>> Hi all, I'm announcing a new project here - "binhost" "The Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: binhost

2021-02-13 Thread Zac Medico
On 2/11/21 1:17 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 2021-02-10 at 19:51 +0100, Lars Wendler wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:57:48 +0200 Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm announcing a new project here - "binhost" >>> >>> "The Gentoo Binhost project aims to provide readily

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: binhost

2021-02-13 Thread Zac Medico
On 2/10/21 10:51 AM, Lars Wendler wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:57:48 +0200 Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm announcing a new project here - "binhost" >> >> "The Gentoo Binhost project aims to provide readily installable, >> precompiled packages for a subset of configurations,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make 'man' global USE flag from currently local

2021-02-13 Thread Adam Feldman
On 2/13/21 6:16 AM, Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > Il Sab 13 Feb 2021, 02:19 Aisha Tammy ha scritto: > > Hi all, >    I am proposing to make the `man` USE flag into a global one. > Currently it is used by ~45 packages most of which have the same > description 'Build and install man

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: binhost

2021-02-13 Thread m1027
dilfridge: > Hi all, > > I'm announcing a new project here - "binhost" > > "The Gentoo Binhost project aims to provide readily installable, precompiled > packages for a subset of configurations, via central binary package hosting. > Currently we are still in the conceptual planning stage. "

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make 'man' global USE flag from currently local

2021-02-13 Thread m1027
toralf: > On 2/13/21 12:16 PM, Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > > > > IMO manpages should be installed unconditionally and the useflag dropped > > I'd like to disagree - IIRC there're packages with a ridiculous large > and expensive dep tree just to build their man pages. Agreed. That's saying a

[gentoo-dev] Last-rites: app-misc/slmon, dev-db/4store

2021-02-13 Thread Jakov Smolić
# Jakov Smolic (2021-02-13) # Fails to build with gcc-10, stuck on EAPI 5, dead upstream # multiple reported bugs, not touched by maintainer in years. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #762904 dev-db/4store # Jakov Smolic (2021-02-13) # Fails to build with gcc-10, no maintainer, last release in 2004,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make 'man' global USE flag from currently local

2021-02-13 Thread Ionen Wolkens
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 12:26:51PM +0100, Toralf Förster wrote: > On 2/13/21 12:16 PM, Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > > > > IMO manpages should be installed unconditionally and the useflag dropped > I'd like to disagree - IIRC there're packages with a ridiculous large > and expensive dep tree just

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make 'man' global USE flag from currently local

2021-02-13 Thread Toralf Förster
On 2/13/21 12:16 PM, Alessandro Barbieri wrote: IMO manpages should be installed unconditionally and the useflag dropped I'd like to disagree - IIRC there're packages with a ridiculous large and expensive dep tree just to build their man pages. -- Toralf PGP 23217DA7 9B888F45

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make 'man' global USE flag from currently local

2021-02-13 Thread Alessandro Barbieri
Il Sab 13 Feb 2021, 02:19 Aisha Tammy ha scritto: > Hi all, >I am proposing to make the `man` USE flag into a global one. > Currently it is used by ~45 packages most of which have the same > description 'Build and install man pages': > https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/man > Hopefully no

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: binhost

2021-02-13 Thread Michael Jones
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:58 AM Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm announcing a new project here - "binhost" > > "The Gentoo Binhost project aims to provide readily installable, > precompiled > packages for a subset of configurations, via central binary package > hosting. > Currently we

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: binhost

2021-02-13 Thread Aisha Tammy
Maybe as starter, if some people have any public binhosts available, some volunteers can try using those to build a (test) system to check how it fares? I have two public binhosts available (with very limited set of packages and very specific CPUs and very weak servers, so please don't crash