Re: [gentoo-dev] package.use in profiles and IUSE defaults

2009-03-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
s? > > > > Ulrich > > > > > Correct. Assuming the user has an EAPI=1 capable package manager, which at > this point in time they really should. If they don't, then they won't be able to install emacs anyway since all its ebuilds have EAPI 1. -- Thanks, Donnie

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Overlay Layout support.

2009-03-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 19:18 Mon 02 Mar , Alistair Bush wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> Combine this with package.mask. To me, experimental means masked. > > Experimental within java means a lot of things, or at least it should. > Anything from user contributed and non-dev qa'd t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: perl-module.eclass -- review - 2

2009-03-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
}" -type f -not -name '*.so' | while read f ; do > if file "${f}" | grep -q -i " text" ; then > if grep -q "${D}" "${f}" ; then ewarn "QA: File contains a temporary path > ${f}" ; fi >

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Overlay Layout support.

2009-03-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
sked. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpLHb6tIrr5j.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for February 26

2009-02-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 11:19 Thu 26 Feb , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 23:12 Tue 24 Feb , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > GLEP 54: handling code from SCMs better > > --- > > > > Some discussion on list. Luca, can you sum up the state of things? >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for February 26

2009-02-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:12 Tue 24 Feb , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Here's the preliminary agenda. I'm running a bit behind on -dev, so > it's a little out of date re GLEPs 54/55. People including lu_zero, > cardoe, dev-zero, and tanderson should fill us in on things below that > t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for February 26

2009-02-24 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:26 Sun 22 Feb , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd & 4th > Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > irc.freenode.net) ! > > If you have something you'd wish for us to cha

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for February 26

2009-02-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
t must be notified at least 14 days before the meeting itself. For more info on the Gentoo Council, feel free to browse our homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgp2CA5U68AmQ.pgp Descrip

Re: [gentoo-dev] prepalldocs is now banned

2009-02-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
il would better be sent in private, if at all. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpaCCa0sTCGe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] prepalldocs is now banned

2009-02-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
reak much else that's yet undiscovered. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259491 -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpkwtop3hp7g.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Time to remove app-shells/bash-completion-config

2009-02-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
..@web.de : 2008-07-31 00:41:39 --- Created an attachment (id=161784) Replacement for the current eselect completion script -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpKX1tIbc30V.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] bzr.eclass

2009-02-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
gt; +EBZR_DIFF_CMD="bzr diff" > + ${EBZR_DIFF_CMD} | diffstat Why does this need to happen? Please add a comment. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpZMN9UThynW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcement of The G Palmtop Environment ebuilds

2009-02-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 11:24 Tue 03 Feb , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > We currently provide an eclass and ebuilds arranged by top level > > categories following upstream categorization. Explicitly gpe.eclass and > > top level gpe-base gpe-net gpe-pim gpe-games gpe-utils gpe-media > > gpe-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcement of The G Palmtop Environment ebuilds

2009-02-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
to finally starting moving step-by-step the GPE suite into the > portage tree - starting with the eclass and toplevel categories. What are the stats on package count per category? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpGk3csfK399.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] PR Project Activity Issues

2009-02-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:35 Sat 31 Jan , Alec Warner wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Donnie Berkholz > wrote: > > Yes, it would be a good idea to put expectations wherever people find > > our contact info. Here's roughly what they are: One other thing. Media requests w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Advice regarding backporting to Gentoo from Tin Hat.

2009-01-31 Thread Donnie Berkholz
o hear from you! Have you seen the 'docache' kernel parameter? It used to stick the LiveCD into RAM -- I haven't used it lately but I assume it's still around. I'd think it would be straightforward to apply the same feature to an installed Gentoo sys

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2009-01-30 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ystem-config-users dev-libs/alchemist dev-python/pycups dev-python/pyxf86config dev-python/rhpl dev-python/rhpxl net-dns/bind-dns-keygen sys-apps/hwdata-redhat sys-apps/kudzu sys-apps/usermode sys-libs/libuser sys-libs/system-config-base -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog:

Re: [gentoo-dev] PR Project Activity Issues

2009-01-30 Thread Donnie Berkholz
x27;t go to the entire developer community as if the sky has fallen. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgp7Kl9RpJ2jw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] PR Project Activity Issues

2009-01-30 Thread Donnie Berkholz
sponse time. These generally get batched and done at extended intervals. 4. If it is a user support request, no estimated response time. Occasionally someone will respond to say that we don't do support at pr@ and point at appropriate places like forums, lists, IRC. -- Thanks,

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: kernel-2.eclass toolchain.eclass

2009-01-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ss toolchain.eclass ^^^ > Log: > fix typo in libtool script munging pointed out by Dmitry Karasik #256636 > - chown -R root:0 * > + chown -R root:0 * >& /dev/null -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberk

Re: [gentoo-dev] PR Project Activity Issues

2009-01-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
lose a few PR bugs, and we'll talk then. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpv39auqgejI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] slot deps in package.mask and profiles

2009-01-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
tp://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_930f58fcebcbbcbe523c001f2c825179.xml"; I haven't finished & posted last month's summary <http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/20081211-summary.txt> yet because of a long holiday vacation and lots of work deadlines after returning. I'll

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for January 22

2009-01-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 18:23 Thu 22 Jan , Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Discuss on-list before meeting > > --- > > - Council meta stuff (-council) > > - Can the size change? Minimum? Maximum? > > - Should we have 2-

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for January 22

2009-01-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 17:02 Thu 22 Jan , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:56:23 -0800 > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Can this be fixed by adding bash dependencies to things using new > > features? As long as we keep them out of the build path of bash, > > things ought to w

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for January 22

2009-01-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
t of the build path of bash, things ought to work. Then we could add a repoman check for new features, if we wanted. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpwr1JwKnCMC.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sci-chemistry/gromacs: gromacs-3.3.3.ebuild gromacs-4.0.3.ebuild ChangeLog gromacs-4.0.ebuild gromacs-3.3.1-r1.ebuild gromacs-4.0.2.ebuild

2009-01-21 Thread Donnie Berkholz
goes for lapack. > if ( use double-precision && use single-precision ); then -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpGkq7Fcn4aO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for January 22

2009-01-21 Thread Donnie Berkholz
makes it hard for other projects relying on Gentoo to do some > things without being able to *know* what version of bash is allowed. Which projects relying on Gentoo are having a hard time? It's helpful to know the impact of a problem when deciding what to do about it. -- Thanks

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

2009-01-21 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 07:23 Thu 08 Jan , Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > Does anyone have additional topics for the Jan 22 meeting? > > Could you cover the PMS/documentation issue of bug 250077? Or, if you > prefer to generalise

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for January 22

2009-01-21 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 15:35 Wed 21 Jan , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > This is your one-day friendly reminder ! The monthly Gentoo Council > meeting is tomorrow in #gentoo-council on irc.freenode.net. See the > channel topic for the exact time (but it's probably 2000 UTC). > > If you're su

[gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for January 22

2009-01-21 Thread Donnie Berkholz
p, then show up anyways and watch your Council monkeys dance for you. For more info on the Gentoo Council, feel free to browse our homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgp0spUsIpKyy.pgp D

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-cpp/sptk: ChangeLog sptk-3.5.8.9.ebuild

2009-01-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
${D}"/usr/share/doc/${PF} > if use doc; then > rm -fr "${D}/usr/share/doc/${PF}/latex" > cp -rf "${S}/pictures" "${D}/usr/share/doc/${PF}" > fi Does this need a prepalldocs or does that happen automatically? I'm not on a Gentoo system atm to check. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpebLYKvs4LB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Detecting Baselayout2/openrc - no-symlink profiles leading to breakage

2009-01-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
mountpoints. How about using the version in /etc/gentoo-release? comet $ cat /etc/gentoo-release Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0 -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgp0QhD6uOP6N.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass: go-mono.eclass

2009-01-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
PV%_pre*}" != "${PV}" ]] > then > GO_MONO_P="${P%_pre*}" > SRC_URI="${PRE_URI}/${PN}/${GO_MONO_P} -> ${P}.tar.bz2" > S="${WORKDIR}/${GO_MONO_P}" > else > GO_MONO_P=${P} > SRC_URI="http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2"; > fi How about GO_MONO_P=${P%_[a-z]*} -- doesn't that work in all cases? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpCXilkgHzf0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] index2.xml: What needs to be done to get this live?

2009-01-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
il asking the identical question 6 days ago. Asking more times doesn't change the answer, it just wastes more of my time responding instead of doing. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpWfuSuzxOE7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLI Officially Deprecated

2009-01-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 15:23 Wed 14 Jan , Ben de Groot wrote: > Also, will we have an announcement on the www.gentoo.org frontpage? This > seems to me an important enough issue to inform our users about. Yeah, I'll get something up. I've got a few pending now. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Be

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLI Officially Deprecated

2009-01-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ing one is using Gentoo to learn, so they should be doing everything by hand instead of having an opportunity to skip the handbook. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpkqtInMbddK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: package.mask

2009-01-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
switch. Think days not weeks. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpEDwTiHQbg4.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2009-01-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
e to all council elections. (This could be another false person, or a separate ballot or something.) Does anyone have additional topics for the Jan 22 meeting? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpazhukKtr7D.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gzip-dict

2008-12-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
s additional dependency on > app-text/dictd package (to compress dictionary data dictzip program is > required). Is that some huge package that takes an unreasonable amount of time to build or space to install? If not, this doesn't seem like a very meaningful choice to me. -- Than

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic filing of stable requests

2008-12-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
trictions -- for example, I may be willing to have xorg-server 1.5.x go stable but not 1.4.x. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpfnABrokvvK.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2008-12-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
c34d8efbc0d31ab28c517403dc83f62.xml These things, plus updates on the bugs council@ is CC'd on, will compose our agenda. FWIW, I'm fine with all 3 of the above. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpBiYHU6tuDi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-12-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
tional to its popularity. Try a specialized topic outside of computers, and there may well be errors that only an expert will catch -- others will just be deceived. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpVthBP3nkdD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-12-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
f it's not "official" it says gentoo and people will associate it with their Gentoo experience regardless of whether we host it. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpTJ8aNJkR7r.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds

2008-12-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ioned a few pros from the maintainer side, the arch team ones are pretty easy to come up with. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgppmEnIvSt8K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds

2008-12-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
possible to avoid unnecessary discussions. I'd rather say people need to figure out common sense so we don't need to document hundreds of pages of every tiny detail. It seems like the vast majority of people don't have a problem with figuring this stuff out. -- Thanks, Donnie

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Saving package emerge output (einfo, elog, ewarn, etc.) somewhere official

2008-12-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
y to improve the situation. Based on the rarity of me seeing this reported as a problem, I'm inclined to think it says more about this user than about our system. I don't think it's our responsibility to put documentation everywhere someone might conceivably look for information. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: add a compiler-version entry to pkg db

2008-12-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:35 Tue 09 Dec , Federico Ferri wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > As I mentioned on IRC, I think this isn't a very general use case > > (given the existence of --resume, --keep-going, etc.) so code to > > accomplish it > > the point was not resuming m

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-text/antixls: ChangeLog antixls-0.3b.ebuild

2008-12-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-text/antixls/antixls-0.3b.ebuild?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain > src_install() { > mv "${DISTDIR}/${P}.perl" ${PN} > dobin ${PN} You probably want to die if these fail. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: add a compiler-version entry to pkg db

2008-12-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ps what you really wanted was a way to save the resume list across multiple emerges? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpMHDY75zXCf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for flag-o-matic.eclass (append-ldflags)

2008-12-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
fl /usr/portage/eclass/flag-o-matic.eclass export CFLAGS=$(test-flags-CC ${CFLAGS}) export CXXFLAGS=$(test-flags-CXX ${CXXFLAGS}) export FFLAGS=$(test-flags-F77 ${FFLAGS}) export FCFLAGS=$(test-flags-FC ${FCFLAGS}) -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgp6M0nR59bhQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics: xf86-input-synaptics-0.99.2-r1.ebuild ChangeLog

2008-12-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
t the comments upstream? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpXTGplT5cWL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] app-admin/eselect needs YOUR help

2008-12-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 14:46 Sun 07 Dec , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 23:44:40 -0800 > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hadn't heard of it before, thanks for the ref. What was the reason > > for forking the codebase? It gets pretty annoying to c

Re: [gentoo-dev] app-admin/eselect needs YOUR help

2008-12-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
't heard of it before, thanks for the ref. What was the reason for forking the codebase? It gets pretty annoying to copy across useful changes, especially while eselect is stuck in svn. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpYcXFF8XTYN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

2008-11-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
the council should do? How about what Gentoo should do? How would you make it happen? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpPJdEbFcZoF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: gtk-sharp-module.eclass

2008-11-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
whether a > > > > certain item is in a list. > > > > > > I disagree. > > > > You do? Why do you think it's better than 'has'? > > Did I say that? I said that I disagree that it's a really strange > strategy. Consider "

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: gtk-sharp-module.eclass

2008-11-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 09:42 Wed 26 Nov , Peter Alfredsen wrote: > On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > # Make selecting components configurable. > > > epatch ${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}-configurable.diff > > > > This seems like something you might want optiona

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Some support for Sunrise Overlay :-)

2008-11-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
me, interactive collaboration. You can't have a rapid back-and-forth by email, because everyone checks their email at most once per minute and generally far less often. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpUmSOVApO0k.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: gtk-sharp-module.eclass

2008-11-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
nces of $S, $D etc. > LANG=C emake -j1 || die "emake failed" Worth a comment about parallel make being broken, with a reference to the upstream bug. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgp3wc4oPTtmf.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Nominations open for 1 council slot

2008-11-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-council mailing list and reply to this email, ensuring it's sent there. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpnOhmuMkzca.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs

2008-11-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 11:27 Mon 17 Nov , Doug Goldstein wrote: > dev-util/cvs2svn > > If anyone wants it, please have at it. I haven't used it in 2 years. This is the tool I've been using for git conversions, FWIW, so I'll maintain it as long as it's relevant there. -- Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass

2008-11-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
rivate field). Perhaps writing a .la to .pc converter would be a worthwhile endeavor. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpLDuhbD3onh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass

2008-11-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ore ebuilds if we want to globally avoid libtool archives. Have a FEATURES flag that is not on by default but is enabled by the developer profile, and I bet you'd find whatever needs a RESTRICT that we don't already know about pretty quick. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpIGjVU6BRSq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass

2008-11-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 17:24 Wed 12 Nov , Peter Alfredsen wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > And for people who want to build things statically. > > That's true, but we generally don't want to do that, so that's fine. > If needed for a package, w

Re: [gentoo-dev] [v4] Planning for automatic assignment computation of bugs

2008-11-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
he one requiring minimal effort on the wrangler's part. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpbqFn3Ih2t7.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2008-11-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 13:56 Mon 10 Nov , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 05:30 Sat 01 Nov , Mike Frysinger wrote: > > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even > > vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole > > Gentoo dev list to see. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass

2008-11-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 18:34 Sun 09 Nov , Peter Alfredsen wrote: > "I've been told" that .la files are really only needed on non-ELF > systems and with plugin systems that use dlopen. And for people who want to build things statically. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Ge

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

2008-11-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
reply to this email. This is the only way to guarantee they will be considered for the agenda. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgp91PrmS8SqA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed change to base.eclass: EAPI-2 support

2008-11-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 20:49 Sun 02 Nov , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 00:08 Mon 03 Nov , Peter Alfredsen wrote: > > +case "${EAPI}" in > > + 2) > > + EXPORT_FUNCTIONS src_unpack src_prepare src_configure > > src_compile src_install > > + ;;

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed change to base.eclass: EAPI-2 support

2008-11-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
_unpack src_compile src_install > + ;; > +esac > + This eclass needs to do the same thing as the other eclasses that got EAPI=2 patches and default EAPI to 0 when it's not defined, everywhere where it tests the value of EAPI. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gent

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-apps/ccsm: metadata.xml ChangeLog ccsm-0.7.8.ebuild

2008-10-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
t; ./setup.py build --prefix=/usr > } > > src_install() { > ./setup.py install --root="${D}" --prefix=/usr > } -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpApmzgDYXTU.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Council meeting summary for 23 October 2008

2008-10-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Hi all, Here is the summary from Thursday's council meeting. The complete log will show up at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ shortly. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com Roll call = betelgeuse here cardoe

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for October 23

2008-10-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
t must be notified at least 14 days before the meeting itself. For more info on the Gentoo Council, feel free to browse our homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpT0evRxp1Ge.pgp Descrip

Re: [gentoo-dev] virtualx eclass

2008-10-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
initially) the default will be "X". Which means the default is the same > as what we've got today. If it's set to an empty string, it'll always be > required. Otherwise, it will use the supplied USE flag. I'm not sure whether this would work, but one idea would be to handle dependencies depending on what's in IUSE of the ebuild inheriting. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgphn3ksNxYpD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilize ebuilds which use EAPIs only supported by ~arch PMs

2008-10-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
to the EAPI=0 ebuild - Stabilize portage quickly -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpPRRDlntCoO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI change: Call ebuild functions from trusted working directory

2008-10-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 20:20 Mon 13 Oct , Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > On Monday, 13. October 2008 19:42:21 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Since EAPI=0 isn't actually approved yet, council wouldn't vote > > either. As it's a draft standard, this would be resolved amongst > > packag

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI change: Call ebuild functions from trusted working directory

2008-10-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
s to EAPI=0, they wouldn't be voted on. Since EAPI=0 isn't actually approved yet, council wouldn't vote either. As it's a draft standard, this would be resolved amongst package-manager developers and PMS editors. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Devel

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: fox.eclass update

2008-10-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 13:56 Mon 13 Oct , Petteri Räty wrote: > Could you also send a diff next time. Or this time, even. +1 on that. One easy thing to do is move what comments exist to the eclass-manpages format. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.

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

2008-10-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
holding up our open bugs. I intend to work on bug #237381 ("Document appeals process"). -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpbsv5KhcH7z.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Council meeting summaries for August & September

2008-09-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
rg instead of irc.freenode.net. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpHNWr9xMcZC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
appropriate ARCH flags > for all of the 2008.0 profiles. Does this seem reasonable? Yes, and don't the arch profiles already have base as a parent? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgphffCk99RNw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for September 25

2008-09-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 08:56 Tue 23 Sep , Zac Medico wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote > > on, let us know! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whol

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for September 25

2008-09-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:13 Mon 22 Sep , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote > on, let us know! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev > list to see. Here's what I've got so far -- - Approving EAPI=2 - The

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for September 25

2008-09-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
list must be notified at least 14 days before the meeting itself. For more info on the Gentoo Council, feel free to browse our homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpysTAkIY2zm.pgp De

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2

2008-09-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
PI (perhaps in the same appendix): approved, draft, or in progress. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgp2dusNrPP73.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
versioning system that doesn't suck? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpjiTNfarWGJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
milar to how upstream handles it. The SLOT still allows for useful dependencies, and people installing "any icedtea" will automatically get the newest one without having to somehow choose which of multiple package names is right. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpV3rntfApq0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for September

2008-09-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
meetings posted. My wife & I just had a baby last week and things have been hectic around here for a while. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com Roll call = betelgeuse dberkholz dertobi123 halcy0n jokey lu_zer

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

2008-09-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
is that we document our appeals process. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpU3grP1Jk2X.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile

2008-09-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:13 Mon 08 Sep , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:33:50 -0700 > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12:46 Sun 07 Sep , Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > > > I personally agree with several others who have replied to this > > &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile

2008-09-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ngs about ebuilds is that they're very natural to write in most cases, if you can manage to build the program by hand. Raising this barrier of entry for questionable benefit seems like a bad idea. We don't need to make it any harder to begin contributing to Gentoo. -- Thanks, Donn

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
hat really > matters is whether or not the majority of people see it as a useful > extension. I'm not writing new ebuilds from scratch or changing SRC_URI of existing ebuilds so often (especially those with this particular requirement) that there's any meaningful barrier to using ar

Re: [gentoo-dev] global USE flag overrides in metadata.xml (bug 235708)

2008-09-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
nk? Yes, an override is OK iff it remains consistent with the global description. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpQ1qSVxXJys.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] LXDE project

2008-09-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
dback is welcome! Great, thanks! For future reference, please get in touch with me to talk about new desktop subprojects. Let me know whether there's anything I can do as desktop lead to make your work easier. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkh

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 28 (today)

2008-08-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
There's a council meeting in an hour and a half. Here's an agenda, it's all leftovers from last meeting. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com There are no new topics. EAPI 2 approval hasn't yet been r

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=live (instead of PROPERTIES=live-sources or RESTRICT=live)

2008-08-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
do multiple things on the back end? If there's actually reasons for these things to be very narrow, I'd like to see easily usable meta-properties that let people easily say something like "I've got a live CVS ebuild" without specifying 20 different PROPERTIES.

Re: [gentoo-dev] License Interpretation

2008-08-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
of licenses are the same. That means if we're enabling & encouraging our users to infringe copyrights or patents by providing ebuilds that do so, we may be guilty of the same. IANAL and all that. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpFC5Pj8xsVs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP 56] metadata.xml USE flag descriptions [Clarifications]

2008-08-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
x27;t end up saving anything at all once you have a consistency check anyway. Halcy0n also mentioned that this gets really annoying when USE flags inherited from eclasses change. You'd need to edit every metadata.xml of all inheriting packages. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 03:01 Thu 14 Aug , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Here's a rough agenda. I'll hash it out a bit more a few hours in > advance of the meeting. Basically, council members haven't responded to > these items on the mailing list, and that's what needs to happen. For a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 03:01 Thu 14 Aug , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 23:17 Thu 31 Jul , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd/4th > > Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > > irc.freenode.net) !

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:17 Thu 31 Jul , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd/4th > Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > irc.freenode.net) ! > > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about,

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