Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-28 Thread William Hubbs
This is getting really long, so I'm going to remove more things I'm not answering directly. On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 07:31:02PM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: > > The problem is, there's a chicken-and-egg problem in the scenario where > > / and /usr are on separate partitions, and this is why a number

Re: [gentoo-dev] developing a separate repo spec

2021-03-28 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, Tim Harder wrote: > Is there any interest these days in developing and maintaining a > separate repo spec [1]? Among other uses, it would help in describing > standardized repo features related to metadata/layout.conf settings > allowing devs to reference a single, canon

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] xorg-3.eclass: strip -fno-plt from *FLAGS

2021-03-28 Thread Matt Turner
From: Niklāvs Koļesņikovs <89q1r1...@relay.firefox.com> As discussed in #778494, the GCC flag -fno-plt will break lazy binding, which appears to still be necessary for Xorg. Stripping the offending flag out is the next best solution for reliable user experience on Gentoo. Closes: https://bugs.gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-28 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 3/28/2021 05:25, James Le Cuirot wrote:> On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:40:52 -0400 Joshua Kinard > wrote: > >> On 3/27/2021 18:16, James Le Cuirot wrote: >>> On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 17:43:34 -0400 Joshua Kinard >>> wrote: >>> I kinda wish the Linux kernel had an ability to partially boot, init

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-28 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 3/28/2021 16:05, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 10:51:11PM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: >> On 3/27/2021 20:32, William Hubbs wrote: >>> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 05:43:34PM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: On 3/23/2021 07:31, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 6:54 PM

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: x11-misc/piedock

2021-03-28 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all the following packages are up for grabs after dropping desktop-misc: x11-misc/piedock https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-misc/piedock It does not compile and needs patches. Upstream is informed too. We will have to last rite, if it is not fixed soon. I send in CC to Lars, who co

[gentoo-dev] developing a separate repo spec

2021-03-28 Thread Tim Harder
Hi all, Is there any interest these days in developing and maintaining a separate repo spec [1]? Among other uses, it would help in describing standardized repo features related to metadata/layout.conf settings allowing devs to reference a single, canonical source in order to support repo/profiles

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-28 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 10:51:11PM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 3/27/2021 20:32, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 05:43:34PM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: > >> On 3/23/2021 07:31, Rich Freeman wrote: > >>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 6:54 PM Andreas K. Huettel > >>> wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools.eclass: eclassdoc, cosmetic changes, drop old EAPIs

2021-03-28 Thread Sam James
 > On 28 Mar 2021, at 13:46, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >  >>> On Sun, 28 Mar 2021, David Seifert wrote: >> This is just bringing it in line with the rest of the eclass. You know, >> consistency. > > If that's the goal then the patch should update all occurences, though. Well, that was defi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools.eclass: eclassdoc, cosmetic changes, drop old EAPIs

2021-03-28 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sun, 28 Mar 2021, David Seifert wrote: > This is just bringing it in line with the rest of the eclass. You know, > consistency. If that's the goal then the patch should update all occurences, though. Especially those where usage is inconsistent within the same line. signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools.eclass: eclassdoc, cosmetic changes, drop old EAPIs

2021-03-28 Thread Michał Górny
Hi, Thank you for doing this. LGTM modulo a few nits below. On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 22:21 +, Sam James wrote: > - if [[ ${EBUILD_PHASE} != "unpack" && ${EBUILD_PHASE} != "prepare" ]]; > then > - ewarn "QA Warning: running $1 in ${EBUILD_PHASE} phase" > + if [[ ${EBUILD_PHA

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools.eclass: eclassdoc, cosmetic changes, drop old EAPIs

2021-03-28 Thread David Seifert
On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 22:21 +, Sam James wrote: > (Relatively) significant changes: > * inherit eutils for < EAPI 7 for eqawarn > * mark WANT_AUTO*, AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND as @PRE_INHERIT > * convert phase test to EBUILD_PHASE_FUNC > * drop support for < EAPI 5 LGTM

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools.eclass: eclassdoc, cosmetic changes, drop old EAPIs

2021-03-28 Thread David Seifert
On Sun, 2021-03-28 at 10:13 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Sam James wrote: >   > > -if [[ -z ${_AUTOTOOLS_ECLASS} ]]; then > > +if [[ -z ${_AUTOTOOLS_ECLASS} ]] ; then > > This just adds unnecessary noise to the git history. We don't have any > policy on whitespace

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-28 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:40:52 -0400 Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 3/27/2021 18:16, James Le Cuirot wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 17:43:34 -0400 > > Joshua Kinard wrote: > > > >> I kinda wish the Linux kernel had an ability to partially boot, init the > >> networking subsystem, then fetch an initr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools.eclass: eclassdoc, cosmetic changes, drop old EAPIs

2021-03-28 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Sam James wrote: > -if [[ -z ${_AUTOTOOLS_ECLASS} ]]; then > +if [[ -z ${_AUTOTOOLS_ECLASS} ]] ; then This just adds unnecessary noise to the git history. We don't have any policy on whitespace before punctuation marks, but the examples in the Bash manual don't have wh