Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread Chris Gianelloni
. Using stage1 assumes that you know what you are doing. That's not a problem for me. So excuse me that i wanted gentoo-installation to be more simple. It is quite simple. The documentation is quite extensive on installing from a stage3 tarball. How much simpler can you get? ;] -- Chris Gianelloni

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread Chris Gianelloni
this release is out the door. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 17:50 -0600, MIkey wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: You're reading it wrong. The bootstrap USE flag is set during bootstrap, not the build USE flag. This means libstdc++-v3 (or gcc 3.3) is required at the bootstrap level. The reason that libstdc++-v3 My mistake

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X

2006-01-24 Thread Chris Gianelloni
of packages. We are definitely agreeable to getting some help with this, as we don't want to be the cause of holding back modular X in any way. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-dev] Conversion from kernel-mod.eclass to linux-mod/linux-info

2006-01-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:45 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote: AFAIK, cryptsetup should be pulled in favor of cryptsetup-luks. I think everything uses luks now rather then cryptsetup. We're still using cryptsetup on the InstallCD/LiveCD. Should we switch? What's the differences? -- Chris

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
about herds that are a project? Simply throw in a redirect under the herd name to the project name? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 07:49 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 03:40 +, Mark Stewart wrote: Please contact me if you are interested. I am interested in hearing more. Stupid Reply-To munging... Anyway, I'll let you guys know if there's anything actually worth hearing

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 19: Gentoo Stable Portage Tree -- ideas

2006-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 18:11 -0500, Olivier Crete wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-01 at 09:39 -0800, Brian Harring wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:05:49AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 09:00 +, Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 06/01/06, Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 19: Gentoo Stable Portage Tree -- ideas

2006-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
, it will not use the package and will compile from source. We use this every day in Release Engineering with catalyst. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 19: Gentoo Stable Portage Tree -- ideas

2006-01-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
. I don't disagree with you entirely, but there's nothing stopping us from *also* producing a Gentoo Enterprise Linux distribution. Like I said, I'll post my proposal, modified to fit the times, of course, as soon as I get a chance (it'll take a while to write back up). -- Chris Gianelloni Release

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 19: Gentoo Stable Portage Tree -- ideas

2006-01-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 09:27 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 02:36 -0700, Duncan wrote: OTOH, it's entirely possible a Gentoo /based/ enterprise distribution may emerge at some point. IMO, however, there's enough conflict with what makes Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 19: Gentoo Stable Portage Tree -- ideas

2006-01-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
there can't be a frozen tree within the context of Gentoo or as a separate project, of course. Exactly. I'm finishing up my proofreading and spell-checking and should be sending out my little idea within the hour. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 19:57 -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:58:57AM +, Kurt Lieber wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:17:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Gentoo is not a distribution of Linux. Gentoo is not anything more than a loosely bound group

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
they want. I'm sorry, but screw that. You guys are more than welcome to go apply at Red Hat or Novell. Hey, I hear SCO is still distributing Linux, too. They'll gladly give you the mission statements and direction that you so desire. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
that might not be the overall direction where we are heading? Dude, pass the pipe. I want some of what you're smoking. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
, everything goes as planned. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:22 +, Kurt Lieber wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 07:51:39AM -0500 or thereabouts, Chris Gianelloni wrote: This is what I don't get. So what if Gentoo is an amoeba? Does it really matter? Would you rather that we dropped Gentoo/ALT, Hardened, Embedded

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 15:51 +, Kurt Lieber wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:07:14AM -0500 or thereabouts, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Sounds like you'd rather take Gentoo back a few years to the days before Hardened/Embedded/Alt. I guess we really should just be Gentoo Linux and ignore

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 09:42 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: Really, I don't have any vision for Gentoo and I like it that way. Amazing words to come from Gentoo's release manager. We might as well call our releases 'maintenance updates' then if thats the case. Why

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: regular project updates

2006-01-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
on this and forgot to send it out. I was planning on posting it also on the Release Engineering page, but need to turn it into GuideXML first. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux Status Report for Release Engineering: Jan 3rd 2006

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
to in our Gentoo blog? I dare you to say something about how Genesi sucks and your Pegasos is a piece of junk... :P -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

2006-01-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
of simply RSYNC_EXCLUDEing the ChangeLog by default would be a much better solution. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

2006-01-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
wouldn't have a problem with this, and it would still be benificial. The only question left to be answered is how much space would actually be saved to make this extra load on CVS worth it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
teeth to get things done in a timely manner. We also need enforcement of some sort to ensure projects are active and reporting information on their status. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.14 stabilization

2006-01-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
fixed so we can have a stable version of 1.11.14 in the tree. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Catalyst{,2} and 2006.0

2006-01-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
in asking how to use the application while we're busy trying to get a release out the door. If you want catalyst help or just to discuss catalyst, please join the gentoo-catalyst mailing list. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Catalyst{,2} and 2006.0

2006-01-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
you can get your hands on from a bootstrap. Make sure the same works from a 2005.1 (or 2005.1-r1) stage3 to build a stage1 tarball. Those two places are where we hit the majority of our bugs during a release. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
we are removing the problem by default, educating users, and still not removing any data or options for our users and developers. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Gianelloni
for longer USE descriptions would work? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Gianelloni
both RDEPEND on the other? This works perfectly fine for many packages in the tree. A circular dependency isn't a bad thing if they're both in RDEPEND, it is when they're both in DEPEND that causes an issue. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.14 stabilization

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Gianelloni
for this. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.14 stabilization

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 13:13 +, Roy Marples wrote: On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12:49, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:36 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: since we have baselayout-1.12.x in ~arch, the new stable candidate (1.11.14) isnt getting much air time ... can

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.14 stabilization

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:26 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:49:37AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:36 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: since we have baselayout-1.12.x in ~arch, the new stable candidate (1.11.14) isnt getting much air time

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.14 stabilization

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:45 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:30:56AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 13:13 +, Roy Marples wrote: On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12:49, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:36 +, Mike Frysinger

Re: [gentoo-dev] Textrels in packages policy

2005-12-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
, it is not fixed yet. Ryan is aware of the issue, but it was not fixed in the latest version. There was an error on my part that made me think it was fixed. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-dev] Textrels in packages policy

2005-12-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
that back again. This is resolved on amd64, but not on x86. There's 2 binaries. This also explains why I didn't see the error and closed the bug, I'm on amd64, whereas the bug reporter is on x86. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gee, wouldn't it be nice (security bugs)...

2005-12-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
via his email client, which was what he was requesting. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for DirectFB maintainers

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
care of it, so if someone uses it, it would be good if it stepped up... Umm... wolf31o2-work !meta DirectFB jeeves wolf31o2-work: Package: dev-libs/DirectFB Herd: games Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What are you talking about? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting your apps ported to modular X

2005-12-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
world'. Nevermind that last email since you sent out your world. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-12-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
for making a change that doesn't hurt anything, I don't want anyone on my team to make the same mistake. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
on 2005.0 and 2005.1 profiles running gcc 3.4, so it means causing a much more disruptive upgrade for all ~x86 users, or anyone who has merged gcc 3.4 explicitly already. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Addition of DVB_CARDS to USE_EXPAND

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 07:01 +0100, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: On Monday 28 November 2005 22:37, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 21:53 +0100, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: Hi! If nobody objects I will add DVB_CARDS to USE_EXAPAND on next saturday (2005/12/03

Re: [gentoo-dev] apache2 default for 2006.0

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 09:22 -0500, Michael Cummings wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: Here's the deal. We have a new user that installs Gentoo. After installing Gentoo, he tries to emerge nagios and it dies on building apache over a bug that has been known for some time and still isn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
with the 2005.0, 2005.1, or 2005.1-r1 stages, while mine does. tell users to stop using stage[12], you're already going that route :p That still will not fix the issue. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
. They barely support 3.4, but having some support from upstream is better than none. This means 3.3 will be relegated to a legacy version and likely won't be updated except for security bugs. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
apparently solves a problem but in fact does not solve anything, the only solution is to recompile everything c++ related on the system. Except the binary apps that you don't have the source to be able to recompile. So now we're right back where we were, aren't we? -- Chris Gianelloni Release

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
that are almost compatible, as opposed to the profiles that we have done in the past where we were going from things like gcc2 to gcc3, that were not very compatible, at all. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 15:03 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:50:34AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 09:51 +0100, Gregorio Guidi wrote: Every user _must_ be instructed to run 'revdep-rebuild --soname libstdc++.so.5', if a system contains

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 10:42 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 15:03 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:50:34AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 09:51 +0100, Gregorio Guidi wrote: Every user _must_ be instructed to run

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 18:37 +0100, Andreas Proschofsky wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 16:04 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:52:11AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: broken /usr/lib32/openoffice/program/gconfbe1.uno.so (requires libORBit-2.so.0 libgconf-2.so.4

Re: [gentoo-dev] apache2 default for 2006.0

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 23:19 +, Stuart Herbert wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 09:16 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: I'd like to add the apache2 USE flag to 2006.0's profile. This would not resolve bug #95140, but would keep users from hitting it by default. With apache being

Re: [gentoo-dev] apache2 default for 2006.0

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 16:34 -0800, Michael Stewart (vericgar) wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: I'd like to add the apache2 USE flag to 2006.0's profile. This would not resolve bug #95140, but would keep users from hitting it by default. With apache being such a popular package, having

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of auto-use in portage-2.0.54

2005-11-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
it would need to be use.mask'd on any 2.4 profiles. The real issue here is what happens to anyone that uses both 2.4 and 2.6 from the same profile? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-dev] Addition of DVB_CARDS to USE_EXPAND

2005-11-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
. What will the ebuild do if DVB_CARDS is not set? Please make it download/install them all. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-25 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 19:34 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 08:54:41AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 03:44 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:15:52PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: OK. I've been looking at some

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-25 Thread Chris Gianelloni
, which is current in pre-release testing and is masked. Fell free to unmask it and play with it, as it works fine. We are just wanting to iron out the last few bugs before releasing it, so feel free to bang away on it and report any problems that you find. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering

Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-24 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 03:44 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:15:52PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: OK. I've been looking at some of these issues we've been having, and I've been thinking of moving enewuser, egetent, and enewgroup to their own eclass

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multi hash support in portage - status

2005-11-24 Thread Chris Gianelloni
, that's just a guess, see the 2.1 fiasko). I think I would rather see the multi-hash support now, rather than later, as it seems to be something our users are asking about and it seems like all the work is really there for an implementation sooner rather than later. -- Chris Gianelloni Release

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multi hash support in portage - status

2005-11-24 Thread Chris Gianelloni
/etc/make.profile to /usr/portage/profiles/obsolete/$arch, then they would need to emerge --oneshot sandbox portage. After that, they can upgrade to a supported profile. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc

[gentoo-dev] apache2 default for 2006.0

2005-11-24 Thread Chris Gianelloni
objections by November 30th, I'll make the change. This will *not* be retroactive to any previous release profiles. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
that will not only give information on the lower stages, but also how to make a stage1 install from a stage3 tarball. It will likely also cover things like Hardened, provided they want it that way. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer

[gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
not to do so, I think I'll probably do it after the Thanksgiving holiday. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 19:30 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Wednesday 23 November 2005 19:15, Chris Gianelloni wrote: I'd be willing to make all the changes to the tree to facilitate this, and unless someone has a really good reason not to do so, I think I'll probably do it after

Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 12:52 -0600, Brian Harring wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:15:52PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: OK. I've been looking at some of these issues we've been having, and I've been thinking of moving enewuser, egetent, and enewgroup to their own eclass

Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 11:40 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: | These packages do not need shadow (though the system might, but that's | outside my scope) once they are installed, only to install. However

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
culture! What the hell does this have to do with Gentoo development? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
was dissapointed to see that the stage 1 had been removed from gentoo 2005. Infact, even the handbook makes no refference of it. This takes Gentoo another step closer to other distros like Ubuntu. A dissapointed user, Varun Dhussa India - End forwarded message - -- Chris

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
with incompatibility. It is impossible to install something that requires a configured kernel before you have a configured kernel. Now, on the topic of the tarballs. Give me one example of something that you can do with a stage1 or stage2 tarball that you cannot with a stage3 tarball. -- Chris

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
who is obviously shooting for a reaction. If we give in, the terrorists have won. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 16:26 +0100, Marc Hildebrand wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: [..] Now, on the topic of the tarballs. Give me one example of something that you can do with a stage1 or stage2 tarball that you cannot with a stage3 tarball. Answer: Download it in less than 10

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 16:26 +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:10:14AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Personally, I would like to see stage1 and stage2 go away completely. They serve no real purpose anymore after the changes we have made to the stages to include

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
to stay. stage2 has always been a bonus stage more or less added into the mix cuz it's a byproduct of stage building (pre catalyst days). Removing the stage1 and stage2 instructions from the Handbook has already reduced the number of errors being reported by new users to me. -- Chris Gianelloni

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
things out of gentoo simply because of the lack of time. I did. I got exactly *0* responses. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 17:15 +0100, Wernfried Haas wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:48:06AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Give me one example of something that you can do with a stage1 or stage2 tarball that you cannot with a stage3 tarball. Answer: Download it in less than 10

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 11:19 -0500, Thomas Kirchner wrote: * On Nov 22 10:15, Chris Gianelloni (gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: It isn't pretty much anymore. It *is* exactly the same. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're going to attempt to get the same result as a stage1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
into it's own stage1.xml doc. I've already agreed that I have no problem with an additional document that instructs on these advanced concepts. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 11:15 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:54 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: As I am now not only the Release Engineering lead, but also the x86 Release Coordinator, I am fielding nearly 100% of these issues. I DO NOT HAVE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 23:10 +0530, Abhay Kedia wrote: On Tuesday 22 Nov 2005 10:09 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: *sigh* Another Gentoo is about choice argument. Can I ask you something? Where does it say that Gentoo is about choice? I see lots of places that say that Gentoo allows you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 12:03 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Tue Nov 22 2005, 09:15:27AM CST] Well, if we could educate the users that stage2 tarballs are totally pointless, and that running bootstrap.sh followed by emerge -e system from a stage3 is pretty much

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
the facts, or trolling/flaming. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 21:16 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: 22.11.2005, 20:57:15, Chris Gianelloni wrote: The idea was to move out the stage1/stage2 docs to somewhere else. Then create some sort of Advanced Installation Topics guide or something, to list out the replacement procedures

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
they wanted. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Re[4]: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 22:36 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: 22.11.2005, 21:58:50, Chris Gianelloni wrote: That FAQ section has nothing in common with the original stage1 docs. Sorry, installing stage3 to remove all the use flags cruft subsequently, bootstrap and re-emerge the system

Re: [gentoo-dev] opinion on how to improve the website redesign

2005-11-21 Thread Chris Gianelloni
though. Perhaps you guys forget what a meta-distribution is and the infinite possibilities that it presents to the user. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-20 Thread Chris Gianelloni
setting too? That'd be a reasonable thing to add to the GLEP I think. It really sounds like you are wanting to make this proposal way too complex, but I'll wait for the actual GLEP text before making any more comments. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files?

2005-11-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 03:30 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:54:01 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 20:26 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Tuesday 15 November 2005 20:19, Marius Mauch wrote: From my POV those vars should

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files?

2005-11-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
these different files makes it harder to add config changes, not by much but noticably, so personally I'd like to get rid of them, but if there is a good reason for them to stay I can live with that. Without knowing which files these are, I cannot comment further. -- Chris Gianelloni Release

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files?

2005-11-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
a requirement, and has been for as long as I can remember. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files?

2005-11-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 20:01 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:52:28PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 20:19 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: Was just about to finally commit the elog related config stuff into make.conf just to notice (again

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 22:34 +, Stuart Herbert wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 10:26 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: If users are interested in non-critical information, there's already a mechanism in place for them to get such things. They can join the mailing lists. Do we not already

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
have been under the impression that you guys preferred to keep this out of portage as much as possible. I think an API built into portage *would* be the best method for this. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 00:57 +, Stuart Herbert wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 18:22 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: It seems to be your own quest to have the news *only* delivered by portage. I thought I'd been very clear in the email that you've replied to that I support making

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
?) that basically has the capability to read, skip, or delete these news items. I think this would be pretty simple to get done and covers the problem of messages being read or unread. Of course, this is all just an idea, so feel free to blow holes all in it. ;] -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
. *cough* Pot. This is kettle. *grin* -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
, rather than trying to search a mailing list archive. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
about gentoo/news in CVS? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
containing the *same* information. Think about how advertising works. The idea is to put your product, the news, in our case, in front of as many eyes as possible. This is best done by utilizing all of the media available to us. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
what is sitting in front of them, plainly on the screen. Thank you for proving my point. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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