Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: x32 fun pants

2011/12/12 Mike Frysinger : > On Monday 12 December 2011 09:47:44 Francesco Riosa wrote: >> 2011/12/11 Mike Frysinger : >> > On Saturday 10 December 2011 20:36:52 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: >> >> Mike Gilbert schrieb: >> >> > I think it is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: x32 fun pants

2011/12/11 Mike Frysinger : > On Saturday 10 December 2011 20:36:52 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: >> Mike Gilbert schrieb: >> > I think it is around 2.2 GB on amd64 with debug stuff (-ggdb). Under >> > half that without the debug. >> > >> > I'm pretty sure there gentoo users on x86 that are a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building hardened gcc specs always, just not enabling them by default

[...] > > Well, in my opinion we could get rid of virtualbox anyway (p.mask it > everywhere), I think it has been tainted in the kernel as crap. > > please do the same for x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers and x11-drivers/ati-drivers

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011/8/1 Michał Górny : > On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 13:30:37 +0200 > Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > >> * Pacho Ramos schrieb am 01.08.11 um 13:19 Uhr: >> > Having /usr/portage on a different partition will still be >> > supported if I understood correctly (at least, it still works fine >> > for me even having

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: recent change in wxwidgets.eclass potentially breaks packages

2011/7/17 Ryan Hill : > On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:19:31 +0200 > justin wrote: > >> On 17/07/11 11:16, Michał Górny wrote: >> > On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:05:39 +0200 >> > justin wrote: >> > >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> the following change has some bad effects on packages in the tree. I >> >> found it with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular texlive eclasses up for review

Roy Marples ha scritto: > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 13:17 +0200, Alexis Ballier wrote: > >>> if [ "${f/config/}" != "${f}" ] >>> Should be >>> if [ "${f#*config*}" != "${f}" ] >>> Should be if [ "${f#*config}" != "${f}" ] the 2nd asterisk is not needed, symmetry apart >> changed that one,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

Bryan Østergaard ha scritto: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:00:12PM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: Bryan Østergaard ha scritto: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:46:32AM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto: It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker archs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

Bryan Østergaard ha scritto: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:46:32AM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto: It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker archs cluttering up the tree and making maintainers' work harder. Clearly, something needs to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

As other have pointed out these statistics are not rappresentative of how mips is stopping developers to do work on their packages. Also as stated in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163795 Stephen Becker alias "geoman" has promised us all to retire soon, so the situation can only become w

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

Wernfried Haas ha scritto: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:45:30PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Ooh, an ad hominem! Is that the name of paludis' bug reporting tool? lol, anyway stop this thread, Roy stated that the installed cfg files will be managed via use flags that would satisfy everyone.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

Roy Marples ha scritto: On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:47:33 -0500 Patrick McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So this means that you are planning to stop development of the current baselayout in favor of baselayout-ng? No. baselayout will get all the nice features that baselayout-ng will get, except t

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

Patrick McLean ha scritto: Roy Marples wrote: Welcome to baselayout-ng which will be a virtual and will not require bash. So this means that you are planning to stop development of the current baselayout in favor of baselayout-ng? We still need something that is "array like" for want of a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash

Roy Marples ha scritto: Hi List As some of you may be aware, I've started work on baselayout-2 which is basically re-tooling it in C. One of the side goals is to eliminate the need for using bash. You'll be pleased to know that it's working well enough to boot Gentoo/FreeBSD. [...] what about

[gentoo-dev] so long and thanks for all the bugs

bug is http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90392 Thanks to all for the great time. -- Francesco Riosa aka vivo -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql updates

Going into maintenance mode until 2007.1.8, only bugs introduced by latest changes will be fixed. Pondering a general revision bump of dev/db/mysql* tomorrow to fix/show breakage. cheers -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] mysql updates

Since I'm retiring on 2006-01-08 I've spent some time trying to leave a more manageable situation for the other part of mysql-team. The user visible changes are mostly that test should always work and for crazy 5.1 users a "pbxt" that enable build of an external storage engine. Developer side st

[gentoo-dev] Re: [treequake] virtual/mysql addition

it should be done now -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] [treequake] virtual/mysql addition

Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 23-11-2006 00:12:45 +0000, Francesco Riosa wrote with possible deletions: >> Also if you are the maintainer of one of the mentioned [5] packages >> please avoid version bumps until tomorrow when I'll apply the changes to >> the tree (

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] [treequake] virtual/mysql addition

After irc conversation also "dev-db/mysql-client" will NOT be added, we stick with USE="minimal". The default for the "virtual/mysql" will be "dev-db/mysql-community" -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] bugstest.gentoo.org - public beta for the new Gentoo BugZilla - please test!

Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Thanks to kingtaco, myself, ramereth, solar, jforman and cshields for > all playing a part of getting this together so far! Dudes you are all great, may I add thanks to Jakub too, since I bet he is one of the best sponsor ;) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

Alin Nastac ha scritto: > For Thunderbird, when I say I want to > send mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED], the same address will go also in the > Return-Path. Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 has it in two places, a) account settings, b) you can change it for every message you send using the drop down on the left side

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

Roy Marples ha scritto: > > [[ $( && echo "Yay, I matched ^/dev/root " > > I challenge you to get an exact match of /dev/root being on the first line > using the == operator and/or quoting. > Remember, /dev/root/foo and /dev/foo /dev/root must not match either. mounts=( $(

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

Roy Marples wrote: [snip that change the meaning of the message ;] Ideas are welcome :) need to jump net.lo in symlink tests fex as tested below: for f in ${ROOT}etc/init.d/net.*; do [[ "${f}" == "${ROOT}etc/init.d/net.lo" || -L ${f} ]] && continue echo einfo "WARNING: You have older n

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: persistence of eclasses for installed packages

Zac Medico ha scritto: > Petteri Räty wrote: >> Zac Medico kirjoitti: >>> What do people think about these two approaches? Personally, I >>> would prefer approach #2 for the sake of simplicity and >>> maintainability. The sooner that we start storing eclasses.tbz2 for >>> each installed package,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees

Francesco Riosa ha scritto: [...] > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149626 > I'm going to die then, scheduled on 2006-11-05 > If keywording without archs support is only gambling I'll go that route > [...] Worried that this can cause a flameware I already upd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees

Jason Wever ha scritto: > Hi All, > > Apparently its been too long since I've sent one of these out, as people > are starting to slip up and break the tree again. > > Please triple check what you want to commit and verify that you don't do > any of the following (which are punishable by death): >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there a tool to manage USE flags? (use-config?)

Joshua Nichols ha scritto: > m h wrote: [...] Joshua please do not cross post /me run fast and far -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing the metastructure

Simon Stelling ha scritto: > Mike Frysinger wrote: >> (how do you measure the degree of a change ?) > > By the number of inflammatory mails it causes within the timeframe of > two weekdays. Quite obvious, isn't it? ;) > No also by who/howmany start the biggest number of inflammatory mails ... but

Re: [gentoo-dev] mirroring distfiles/patches on patches.gentoo.org

e people whining or stopping mirror for this. With reiserfs 3 becoming obsolete and reiser 4 with an uncertain future this may become un-acceptable. Also I'm offering again, some space and bandwidth in germany , the box is already controlled by two devs (one being me) regards, Francesco Riosa -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RC_STRICT_NET_CHECKING or the net dependency

Roy Marples ha scritto: [...] > > Seriously though, poeple should only use baselayout features that found in > stable baselyout. It took over a year for 1.12 to finally go stable - even > then there were quite a few hiccups. 1.13 should be no different as we now > have direct support for FreeBS

Re: [gentoo-dev] RC_STRICT_NET_CHECKING or the net dependency

Roy Marples ha scritto: > On Sunday 22 October 2006 19:47, Luca Longinotti wrote: >> Hmmm from how I understood it, basically you cannot provide something >> that already exists (so if there is a mysql init script, you can't >> provide mysql in another init-script), but you can make up some fancy >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RC_STRICT_NET_CHECKING or the net dependency

Roy Marples ha scritto: > On Sunday 22 October 2006 13:01, Francesco Riosa wrote: >> This is a nice thing for mysql since it can use two init scripts "mysql" >> and "mysqlmanager". Both provide "mysql". > > You cannot provide something that alr

Re: [gentoo-dev] RC_STRICT_NET_CHECKING or the net dependency

Roy Marples ha scritto: > Hi List > [...] > > baselayout-1.13 now handles multiple provides. That means that you have can 3 > or more services that provide "logger" and baselayout will pick the right one > based on what's running, then what's run the runlevel and finally > alphabetical order.

Re: [gentoo-dev] new arch, WAS: support for i386

Roy Bamford ha scritto: > On 2006.10.21 09:02, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> we're going to have to cut off support for i386 targets starting with >> glibc-2.6 ... the upstream plans are to require TLS and i386 does not >> have >> the atomic instructions required to support it >> >> some other implicati

Re: [gentoo-dev] Toys for arch / release people

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [...] > I remain, Sirs, your most humble and obedient servant, ^^^ LOL -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Required Features for $package_manager to Aid... Development!

Alec Warner wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: >> On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 21:19 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: >>> Elfyn McBratney wrote: >>> I've been inspired by the local/global USE flag threads recently posted by Doug (Cardoe), and it got me to thinking... I've recently joined the pkgcore d

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

[...] >> >> $ cd gentoo-x86/*/foo > > This works better: > > $ cd gentoo-x86/*/foo/ > > This avoids the case where a file by the same name exists (for > example, in licenses/). may be $ cd gentoo-x86/*-*/foo/ ? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing

Nick Devito wrote: > It wouldn't be a hard task to accomplish (to put the sources on the > mirrors), since *most* of the source is already on the mirrors in some > form or another. We could make an option when downloading the livecd to > either download ones with the sources included, or without, a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Future developer

Paul de Vrieze wrote: > I'm proud to announce the arival of a future developer. His name is "Tom". He > arived last monday on 10:22 am (UTC+02). I and my wife will take care of > mentoring him to full developership ;-). > > In the meantime, he's got his own album on > http://www.cs.ru.nl/~pauldv

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to the way Java packages are built

I'm surprised from the lack of "Thanks a lot Java Team", so please let me have the honour to be the first on this ml ;-) The work done has been impressive, the number of package involved great, thanks _a_lot_ for all you did. Francesco R. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Signing everything, for fun and for profit

Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 20/05/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the clarification. That scheme looks fine. The master > manifest will add about ~700k to the tree, but since it can be rsynced > the actual bandwidth usage day to day should be reasonable. > rsync option for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 00:55 -0400, Curtis Napier wrote: Grant Goodyear wrote: Curtis Napier wrote: [Tue May 09 2006, 09:49:27PM CDT] Larry our wonderful mascot is from a font collection that we DO NOT OWN THE COPYRIGHT TOO. Our esteemed ex-architect STOLE Larry. Legally

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer wanted for sys-auth/pam_mysql

. pam-mysql 0.7RC1 added to the tree, the package now belong to the "mysql" herd, still need to look in depth at the patches "pam_mysql-0.6_md5_openssl.patch" and "pam_mysql-0.6_md5_sasl2.patch", these, temporary have _not_ been applyed. rgds, Francesco Riosa -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Having fun with compression

Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 06:30:23PM +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> We have ~15k .tar.gz in distfiles. ~6500 .tar.bz2, ~2000 others. >> A short run over 477 distfiles spanning 833M gave me 586M of .tar.bz2 - >> roughly 30% more efficient! >> A comparison run with 7zip gave m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ati driver

e hai menzionato. English speaking ppl, sorry for the italian. - Francesco Riosa -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTed MySQL or not?

Ramon van Alteren wrote: No dev but +1 from me. I liked slotted mysql a lot and use it extensively. It has helped us tremendously during our upgrade path and I would be very sad to see it go. Public opinion is just that, public opinion, doesn't neccesarily mean something went wrong. FWIW,

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTed MySQL or not?

Luca Longinotti wrote: > As the title says, what would you prefer for the future of MySQL in Gentoo? > Please take a moment to read > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-438557.html and vote (and > eventually comment on it). > Thanks! http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125599 deprecation o

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Alfredo Tupone (Tupone)

Kito wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2006, at 1:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi all. >> >> Alfredo has joined the Gentoo team to help with the games herd. I'm sure >> he'll have a fun time "testing" all those games :) >> >> Alfredo writes about himself: >> "I live in Rome, Italy. > > > Italians, I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles

Michael Renner wrote: > Introducing an additional directory hierarchy should fix this, and is > the common solution for this problem for various projects, be it debian > [1], cpan [2], slackware [3], etc. > > > One migration scenario for a better future: > > Create subdirectories named after th

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTed MySQL or not?

d version. [1] Yes. 12% [ 12 ] No. 75% [ 72 ] No preference. 11% [ 11 ] Best regards, Francesco Riosa -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Translation questions [was: Re: [gentoo-dev] I want to help, but I don't know where]

Rafael Bugajewski wrote: > Mark Kowarsky wrote: > >> If you want to help >> http://www.securesystem.info/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=3&postId=104 >> contains a good summary of what and how you can help out :). > > Thanks for the nice link. I read some stuff and now I know that the first > ste

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Fwd: Re: official branding ( gentoo )]

Jory A. Pratt wrote: > Well that is it, your firefox will no longer say deerpark :) I will > commit the changes tomorrow morning. With the package currently maintained by me I'm constrained to _not_ modularize it because of linking issues between source files, still questionable but it's a questio

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Dev: zmedico (Zac Medico)

Brian Harring wrote: > Hola all- > > Well looky here, we've got another new portage dev to report- Zac > Medico (zmedico). Areas of focus thus far are general stable work, > and work on the rewrite (you can thank him and marienz for the test > framework work). > > Additionally, Zac is the mai

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multislot mysql

Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:19:18AM +0000, Francesco Riosa wrote: >> A good solution should be to add the "multislot" USE flag to the ebuild >> and let it to decide whenever make it slotted or not, sorry, this is not >> viable, yes it&#x

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multislot mysql

Carlos Silva wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 10:19 +0000, Francesco Riosa wrote: >> Ok, I've been realized that having a slotted mysql is not the dream of >> every end user ... or developer. >> >> Anyway I prefere too keep the possibility to do a similar install. &g

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] multislot mysql

Ok, I've been realized that having a slotted mysql is not the dream of every end user ... or developer. Anyway I prefere too keep the possibility to do a similar install. A good solution should be to add the "multislot" USE flag to the ebuild and let it to decide whenever make it slotted or not,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default Ebuild behaviour

Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:06:35 + "Benjamin Smee (strerror)" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> | On Tuesday 31 January 2006 15:47, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> | > For packages in the second group, not using a USE flag is silly. >> | >> | I take it

[gentoo-dev] slotted mysql ready for testing (~arch)

As the subject say, In less than 24 hours slotted mysql ebuilds will be unmasked, to point the finger they are: =dev-db/mysql-4.1.16-r30 =dev-db/mysql-5.0.18-r30 There is a migration guide [1] that explain some of the magic, thanks to the editors: Chris White, Jan Kundrát, Joshua Saddler to make

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make logrotate a global USE flag?

Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:58:52 -0800 > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You want people to recompile the whole package to get another >> text file installed? > > When would one recompile a package just for that? Only case i can > think of is when

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make logrotate a global USE flag?

Doug Goldstein wrote: > Marcelo Góes wrote: >> It seems there are some ebuilds with a logrotate USE flag: >> >> use.local.desc:34:app-backup/bacula:logrotate - Install support files >> for logrotate >> use.local.desc:550:mail-filter/dspam:logrotate - Install support files >> for logrotate >> use.lo

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

A. Khattri wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Wernfried Haas wrote: > >> - adding buildpkg to your FEATURES builds binary packages, which makes >> it faster to revert to older versions if the new one cause >> problems. > > You could also use quickpkg, i.e. write a script that interates through > w

Re: [gentoo-dev] guide/howto switching to slotted MySQL

Chris White wrote: > On Monday 23 January 2006 10:06, Francesco Riosa wrote: >> Here there is a guide on howto switch to the slotted versions of MySQL. >> It's a first draft and to be totally usable some repoman commit are needed. > > You're probably better

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds and USE flags

Rene Zbinden wrote: > I am writing an ebuild for a program written in perl. This program has > the dependency of gnuplot but with the png flag enabled. What is the > gentoo way to enable this USE Flag for gnuplot when I emerge my program. > There is no "active" way, you could only check if the fl

[gentoo-dev] guide/howto switching to slotted MySQL

same time slotted MySQL will acquire keywording actually owned by the removed counterparts. The stabling of MySQL 5.0 will be retarded from 2005-02-15 to 30 days after the slotted packages keywording. regards, Francesco R. MySQL, upgrade and switch to slotted guide Francesco Riosa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Parallizing ebuilds - 'trivial' ebuilds

>>> I would like to be able to limit the -jN when there is no distcc host >>> available or when compiling c++ code, otherwise my poor laptop is dead with >>> -j5 compiling pwlib when the network is down >> As far as I can tell distcc isn't smart enough for dynamic load balancing. >> One could

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

Lance Albertson wrote: > Aron Griffis wrote: >> Grant Goodyear wrote:[Tue Jan 10 2006, 11:09:15AM EST] >> >>> As an aside, it's ciarnanm has already put work in on developing an RST to >>> guidexml converter, so I wouldn't worry too much about RST not scaling. >> >> Could that be used dynam

Re: [gentoo-dev] [dRFC] slotted mysql ready

Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: > Francesco Riosa wrote: >> Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: [...] > > Now this is in my mind, a mind that looks for bugs and troubles before they come out. That's exactly what I'm looking for ;-) > > If mysql is slotted (and you said it it wil

Re: [gentoo-dev] [dRFC] slotted mysql ready

Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: [...] >> >> An eselect-mysql module has been prepared to create simlinks for the >> desired version of mysql making easy to switch between them (hopefully) >> >> The libraries (libmysqlclient & co) don't follow this logic and the >> higher version is always the default (simi

[gentoo-dev] [dRFC] slotted mysql ready

MYARRAY[3]:(-2)}" , is this acceptable? The intention is to made mysql-5.0.18-r30 stable on 2005-02-15 at maximum on the first archs. AFAIK I'm the only one who have seen this stuff until now, any comment, any suggestion is highly apreciated. Francesco Riosa -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql commercial

Jakub Moc wrote: [...] > Dunno what exactly "commercial" means here, it you mean official -bin, > there's some overlay and ebuilds in Bug 83424, there's also some weird [...] Please forget that one, it's broken, and the quantity and the size of the binary packages to download make an hell to maint

Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql commercial

Steve Rodgers wrote: It isn't very clear to what it needed here but I'll try to answer anyway > Hi does anyone have any experience of deploying mysql commercial build into a > gentoo platform? not me, but I use the gpl version for commercial scopes > > Several mysql dependencies such as php w

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 00:35 +0300, Peter Volkov (pva) wrote: >> On Вск, 2006-01-01 at 21:35 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: >>> We have currently 10371 ChangeLog files, > 25 MB totally . >>> 1365 == 13% with size >= 4096 B, 12 MB totally

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

Ok, last shoot, then let put this stuff to sleep. Description of the attachment at the end: Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 11:25 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: >>> I'm also for telling the users to rsync exclude the ChangeLogs if they >>> don't want them instead of getting rid of

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

Matti Bickel wrote: > Pawe?? Madej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As a common user with ADSL 256kbps all additional data downloaded via >> rsync causes longer wait for syncing. If I want to see a changelog i >> go to packages.gentoo.org and read it. As i got Gentoo for about 10 >> months I don't rem

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:35:34 +0100 Francesco Riosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | That said I can see only two ways to reduce the ChangeLog files (a > | centralized one is obviously not viable) > > 5) Anyone who really cares can use the excl

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

Grobian wrote: > On 01-01-2006 21:35:34 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote with possible deletions: >> The information contained in the ChangeLogs is essential, and it must be >> kept, but, force the users to download all that data it's not optimal. >> >> That said I can

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:35:34 +0100 > Francesco Riosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thoughts ? It's doable in some way ? > > Whatever way will get chosen, a full copy of every ChangeLog should be made > available somewhere (somewher

[gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

We have currently 10371 ChangeLog files, > 25 MB totally . 1365 == 13% with size >= 4096 B, 12 MB totally rsync from "emerge --sync" has "--whole-file" between its options, that mean transfer the whole file if changed. To make things worse the bigger ChangeLogs are (oh, surprise) those that chang

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Optimizing performance

Patrick Lauer wrote: > -user has the risk of many "use teh -fomglol flag, it si teh fast0r" ;-) > hardened doesn't have much to do with performance (although I'd be > interested what impact - if any - the different security features have!) fresh of typing (but worked on for few months) http://www.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance

le, latest problems where in 2.6.14, additionally no devs in gentoo are (will?) support it the patch for grub it's still not in place I think. > > Are there any application-specific tweaks (e.g. "use the prefork MPM > with apache2")? What is known to break things, what

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to date format of current GLEPs (was: GLEP 42 (Critical News Reporting) round five)

Olivier Crete wrote: > On Tue, 2005-13-12 at 21:09 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:53:45 -0500 Olivier Crete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> | Why not just modify GlEP 1 ? >> >> Going back and retroactively modifying standards is icky, and it >> *still* doesn't address the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates

Jason Stubbs wrote: [...] > As I said already, there will immediately be a bug asking for overlay > support. > Portage already supports multiple in a form whether anybody likes it or not. [...] BTW I love that feature ;-) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > GLEP: 42 > Title: Critical News Reporting +1 . -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates

Luca Barbato wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> >> * Anything involving XML. >> > > What about incidentally make the format yaml compatible? > > yaml.org Only if we (you?) are able to extract a considerably simpler subset of the specification, as is it's really overkill. > > /me runs where ?

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Manifest2 format

Marius Mauch wrote: > Hi, > > As promised here the GLEP for Manifest2 support: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0044.html > > This will NOT be voted upon the next council meeting on thursday ;) > > Marius > Really great that this has reached us, digest-* files are really annoying from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tests for eclasses

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >On Tue, 10 May 2005 22:19:27 -0500 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >| On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:54:33PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >| > Is there a standard way of handling testing for utility-type >| > eclasses? For versionator I currently have a >| > __versio

Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql-4.1.12 call for testers

Paul Waring wrote: >On 5/17/05, Robin H. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>MySQL-4.1.12 is in the tree (hard-masked), and I would like lots of early >>testing. >>MySQL-4.0.24-r2 is also in the tree (hard-masked) for testing, and contains >>some of the improvements in the 4.1 ebuilds, lik

Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql-4.1.12 call for testers

Lance Albertson wrote: >Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > > >>Many thanks to Francesco Riosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for his hard >>work in dealing with MySQL-4.1. He's joining Gentoo soon as a new developer to >>help maintain MySQL for the 4.1 and 5.0 series, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tests for eclasses

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >Is there a standard way of handling testing for utility-type eclasses? >For versionator I currently have a __versionator__test_blah function >included in the eclass (source versionator.eclass works, it doesn't have >any portage-specific code), but this is going to get a bit

Re: [gentoo-dev] have_NPTL proposal/question

Mike Frysinger wrote: >On Wednesday 11 May 2005 05:20 pm, Francesco Riosa wrote: > > >>what we have: >>At the moment have_NPTL is defined in eclass/eutils.eclass, it compile a >>small test program to check if glibc have nptl support. >> >> > >h

Re: [gentoo-dev] have_NPTL proposal/question

Mike Frysinger wrote: >On Wednesday 11 May 2005 07:26 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > >>On Wed, 11 May 2005 16:12:45 -0700 Donnie Berkholz >> >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>| Francesco Riosa wrote: >>| > case $(getconf GNU_LIBPTHRE

[gentoo-dev] have_NPTL proposal/question

intro: Having to patch a package to be installed with nptl I've tried this function (yes now I know it's wrong patch conditionally a package if not needed). Only few days later a user complain that the check failed (seem to remember on amd64) . what we have: At the moment have_NPTL is defined in e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unofficial Development Guide

there is a small typo in http://www.firedrop.org.uk/devmanual/eclass-writing/ [ Export Functions ] ... say we had fnord.eclass ECLASS="fnord" INHERITED="$INHERITED $ECLASS" EXPORT_FUNCTIONS src_compile foo_src_compile() { do_stuff || die } Then an ebuild could do this: inherit foo.eclass

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tests for eclasses

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >On Tue, 10 May 2005 21:54:33 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >| Is there a standard way of handling testing for utility-type eclasses? >| For versionator I currently have a __versionator__test_blah function >| included in the eclass (source versionator.ecl

Re: [gentoo-dev] duplicated USE flag (unicode & utf8)

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >On Tue, 3 May 2005 14:21:58 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >| as many know, i dont use unicode, so i'm a bit ignorant of it ... >| >| is there a good reason for having both a global 'unicode' USE flag and >| a bunch of local 'utf8' USE flags ? or should

Re: [gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

Brian Harring wrote: >>>[snip] >>> >>> >>Why you could not use ctime/mtime ? Isn't possible to make a check like >>you do now but only on a filtered by "mtime" list of ebuild ? >>A command like this >># find . -name "*.ebuild" -and -mtime "-7" -or -ctime "-7" >> >> >Actually... nope. :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

marduk wrote: >On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:09:38 -0700, "Imran Sher Rafique" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >>I hope this doesn't come across as too much of a rant. >> >>Summary >>--- >>Is it accepted practice to allow for changes in an ebuild without >>changing the >>ebuild version number? >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

>What I'd *like* to see is all new devs and any dev who has a history of >breaking things committing to a branch rather than the main tree, and >having their commits approved (merged) by their mentor / someone sane. > > Also if who approves is _not_ the mentor / sane a 4 eyes check is always a g

Re: [gentoo-dev] PHP5 Unstable ?

Jan Kundrát wrote: >Omer Cohen wrote: > > >>we're talking about one of the biggest OC communities. >> >> > > >...and the same community whose members write code like that described >in PHP's bug 31261 [1], which seems quite ugly, at least to me. > > >My point is that even if developers say t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a dedicated gentoo profile for commercial mysql support

what version of theese they certify and build in loco the stuff should be non plus ultra Best regards Francesco Riosa -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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