[gentoo-dev] Guidance needed for an Erlang ebuild

2007-12-15 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Hi, I'm not an official Gentoo dev but I play one in my overlay. For bug #192278 - an ebuild for the very cool RabbitMQ message broker - I'm looking for someone with experience in writing Erlang package ebuilds; I have a few questions regarding fs layout and stuff, so that my contributed ebuild

[gentoo-dev] Re: glibc-2.7 stabilization

2008-04-10 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:02:17 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: some heads up here glibc-2.7 has sat in ~arch for much longer than i would have liked. the only real issue holding it back is nscd. i never use this thing myself, but on some arches (like ppc), it's known to eat your cpu like a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilizing CUPS 1.3

2008-04-26 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Hi Timo On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:56:17 +0200, Timo Gurr wrote: Hello fellow developers, CUPS 1.3 has been in the tree for quite some time now and has matured to a degree where it should be ready to go stable. [...] If there's anything I might oversee please speak up. I'm not a dev but my

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2

2008-09-10 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:38:56 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: Marius Mauch wrote: Maybe the best solution is to drop the non-prefixed versions of 'world' and 'system' completely Deprecating the old syntax sounds like a sensible action to get people shifted onto the new system. I imagine it

[gentoo-dev] Re: Linux 2.6.28 stable plans

2008-12-25 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:23:56 +, Daniel Drake wrote: 3. Who's brave enough to put ext4 on / ? :) Works fine on both of my machines, thanks to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250829 cheers -h

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-17 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:12:21 +, Steve Long wrote: Robin H. Johnson wrote: My personal view (not infra) on it, is that I'm mostly negative about changing VCS at all - I would prefer not to change, because the status quo works very well as it is. If a change is going to be made, it should

[gentoo-dev] Re: Bye Gentoo!

2007-06-01 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 31 May 2007 22:44:45 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Juergen.Schinker wrote: Bryan Østergaard schrieb: It's with a bit of sadness but also a bit of relief that I'm finally retiring from Gentoo. Aj! kloeri! No! i want you to stay, you are important for Gentoo but what can