Re: [gentoo-dev] proposal for consistency between {RUBY,PYTHON,PHP}_TARGETS

2012-11-24 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 24/11/2012 10:19, Peter Stuge wrote: Diego, remember the original point. It is obvious that a common syntax is more coherent and thus easier for the world to understand. Having that would be a good thing. It

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-irc/xchat

2012-11-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Lars Wendler wrote: I also planned to release a news through the portage news system as soon as I lastrite xchat so people know how to move over to hexchat. As I never did this before

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning tree of outdated packages

2012-12-13 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Jory A. Pratt anar...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/13/2012 12:48 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: But there is one big ass but. We have some packages that were stabilised last time few year back and they provide multiple

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning tree of outdated packages

2012-12-13 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:07 AM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 05:57:16PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: I am sure that some people find it very handy to have old gcc ebuilds around. It might come in handy for testing. Testhing what? Maybe to see if my code

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: change of the default value for EHG_REVISION (mercurial.eclass)

2012-12-18 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Christoph Junghans ott...@gentoo.org wrote: With nelchael's retirement I (with backup from djc) will take over the maintenance of mercurial.eclass. As one of the first things I would like to change the default value of EHG_REVISION. EHG_REVISION defines the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-19 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 12/19/2012 02:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:56:44 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenņ flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: Just mv /usr/portage /var/portage ? FFS no. Among other things, as many said before, we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Drop the Perl Modules Guideline?

2012-12-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Torsten Veller t...@gentoo.org wrote: Let's discuss the specific guideline for Perl modules. It's as follows: ,- http://devrel.gentoo.org/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2chap=1#doc_chap2_sect2 | Perl | | New Perl modules are to be added to portage only when one

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:03 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:00:09AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Tony Chainsaw Vroon chain...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 22:01 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: Actually, since

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Alexander Berntsen alexan...@plaimi.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 All packages should have local descriptions of what the bindist USE-flag specifically does. This should be a policy when writing ebuilds that include it. ... I

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/pypy:1.8

2013-01-02 Thread Mike Gilbert
# Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org (03 Jan 2013) # No longer maintained upstream. # Please upgrade to PyPy 1.9 or 2.0. # Removal in 30 days. dev-python/pypy:1.8 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] About *ECLASS_ONCE_* stuff at top of some eclasses but not others

2013-01-02 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 1/2/2013 6:41 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: What is the purpose of this stuff: if [[ ${___ECLASS_ONCE_EUTILS} != recur -_+^+_- spank ]] ; then ___ECLASS_ONCE_EUTILS=recur -_+^+_- spank and similar in some eclasses (like eutils, multilib) but not others (like python-single-r1 that I was looking

Re: [gentoo-dev] About *ECLASS_ONCE_* stuff at top of some eclasses but not others

2013-01-02 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 1/2/2013 6:54 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On 1/2/2013 6:41 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: What is the purpose of this stuff: if [[ ${___ECLASS_ONCE_EUTILS} != recur -_+^+_- spank ]] ; then ___ECLASS_ONCE_EUTILS=recur -_+^+_- spank and similar in some eclasses (like eutils, multilib) but not others

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Tobias Klausmann klaus...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi! On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Greg KH wrote: So anyone who relies on network names right now to be deterministic, and you have more than one network device in your system, should seriously reconsider how they are naming

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: 2 - the only difference between server profiles and the base profile is USE=+snmp and maybe one other flag USE=-perl -python snmp truetype xml As

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2013-01-20 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 01/20/2013 05:30 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: Due swegener focusing in less packages until he has more time: x11-misc/x11vnc - maybe net-libs/libvncserver could be interested in this Yeah, I picked it up. As always, anyone is free to co-maintain if they like. signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL, making CONFIG_CHECKS fatal by default

2013-01-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 01/21/2013 10:38 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: I'm raising this patch because of the recent spate of bugs with the latest udev that now fails to boot your system if CONFIG_DEVTMPFS is not available in your kernel. Bugs: 408947, 409393, 437320, 453074 CONFIG_CHECK has not been fatal

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL, making CONFIG_CHECKS fatal by default

2013-01-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 01/21/2013 10:38 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: CONFIG_CHECK has not been fatal for some years now, because there turned out to be some cases where it cannot detect what the system really has [1], or what is returned is wrong [2]. However, while this is has been superb in helping those

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item for udev 197-r3 upgrade (yes, I know, it's late)

2013-01-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Felix Kuperjans fe...@desaster-games.com wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: please review this news item, seems we need one after all Hello Samuli, /dev/root is no longer available in this udev version, so people who put this in their /etc/fstab might end up with

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item for udev 197-r3 upgrade (yes, I know, it's late)

2013-01-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: fstab is not consulted for mounting the root filesystem, so it doesn't really matter what you have in there. Either the kernel mounts it based

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-doc/abs-guide: metadata.xml ChangeLog

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:27:20 + (UTC) Tim Harder (radhermit) radher...@gentoo.org wrote: radhermit13/01/27 22:27:20 Modified: metadata.xml ChangeLog Log: Remove redundant maintainer from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-doc/abs-guide: metadata.xml ChangeLog

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:16:56 -0500 Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: If you have some kind of problem with this, I suggest you change the default output of metagen. Seems to work just fine here. What options

Re: [gentoo-dev] The /run migration

2013-02-06 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/02/13 09:53 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: On 6 February 2013 14:18, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: So, *my* systems do have /var/run - /run , which means at

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-wireless/irda-utils: irda-utils-0.9.18-r3.ebuild irda-utils-0.9.18-r4.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-02-10 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 10/02/13 05:08, Mike Gilbert (floppym) wrote: floppym 13/02/10 03:08:22 - insinto /etc/udev/rules.d + insinto /lib/udev/rules.d The udevdir is dynamic, not static, so: inherit udev insinto

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-16 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Rick \Zero Chaos\ Farina wrote: Huh? Savedconfig isn't a solution for the license issue. If he doesn't agree to the license he can use savedconfig to not install those firmware packages. Yes, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-16 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: Look into the WHENCE file and be horrified. Taking just the first ten items (of a total 114): Unknown license (3 times) GPL, but without source (3 times) All rights reserved BSD, without source Right for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building against /usr/src/linux and linux-info.eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Anthony G. Basile bas...@opensource.dyc.edu wrote: Hi everyone, This issue has come up in a few bugs so I want to bounce it off the community. When building packages that need a configured kernel source tree, many ebuilds inherit linux-info to find

Re: [gentoo-dev] Evaluating a new malloc()

2013-02-26 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: Unless a significant issue is found in jemalloc itself, I do not see any reason to continue using glibc's ptmalloc over jemalloc. As far as I know, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Facebook and others are using jemalloc, so I expect that no

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-03 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org wrote: One of the reasons people volunteer in open source projects is to scratch their personal itch. When that itch develops into a festering, gangrenous limb it becomes time to amputate it. That is what I am doing with my

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: patch systemd.eclass to use pkg-config if available

2013-03-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:18 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: All, systemd, like udev, stores directory paths in a way that they can be queried from pkg-config. However, the systemd.eclass currently does not use this ability. The following patch models the systemd eclass after

[gentoo-dev] sgml herd has no maintainers (again)

2013-03-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
I just dropped myself due to lack of interest. If anyone cares for any of the packages please take them over.

Re: [gentoo-dev] libpng 1.6 upgrade and subslotting (and misuse of subslotting when there is also normal slotting)

2013-04-05 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: libpng 1.6 is in portage, but temporarily without KEYWORDS, pending on testign and this conversion, help would be much appericiated with converting the tree to use automatic rebuilds for the upgrade Because there is

Re: [gentoo-dev] libpng 1.6 upgrade and subslotting (and misuse of subslotting when there is also normal slotting)

2013-04-06 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:18:22 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: Revbump -- very important in this case, as the slot-operator dep (iirc) does not take effect to allow sub-slot-triggered until after a

Re: [gentoo-dev] libpng 1.6 upgrade and subslotting (and misuse of subslotting when there is also normal slotting)

2013-04-06 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 11:02:14 -0400 Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:18:22 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius

[gentoo-dev] Python 2.7.4, 3.2.4, 3.3.1 updates

2013-04-07 Thread Mike Gilbert
I will be adding these versions to the tree over the next few days, initially masked. The 2.7 and 3.2 bumps should be nothing major, but better safe then sorry. Please give them a try if you have time. We should be able to unmask these pretty quickly. One question for the community: Does anyone

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automagic pax-mark

2013-04-07 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello All, After recent changes in dev-lang/v8 and related ebuilds, the pax-mark call no longer has a || die. This means that the resulting binaries may have PT_PAX, XATTR_PAX, both or neither markings

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 2.7.4, 3.2.4, 3.3.1 updates

2013-04-07 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:14 PM, heroxbd hero...@gentoo.org wrote: Dear Mike, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org writes: This seems like a good opportunity to add slot operator deps and remove some prefix workarounds. We can keep an old ebuild around to facilitate upgrades if we need to. What

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automagic pax-mark

2013-04-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Michael Haubenwallner ha...@gentoo.org wrote: Actually I've wondered if it would make more sense to default to PAX_MARKINGS=none, and have the hardened profiles (or the user in make.conf) set a different value. That makes some sense to me. The downside is

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc: pt_chown setuid going away by default

2013-04-12 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su wrote: On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: i don't know what you mean. if the ebuild detects devpts being mounted and the mount is incorrect, it will die. if you don't have devpts mounted at

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH eutils] Support recursive operation in edos2unix.

2013-04-13 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: The edos2unix is quite useful when handling DOS-sourced packages. But since it's a bash function, you can't reasonably use it from within find invocation. And often you hit packages which are all flooded with CRLFs that

Re: [gentoo-dev] RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@gmx.de wrote: The most annoying fact is, that none of this would have been necessary with portage 2.2, but maybe we have to wait for 2.1.11.500 before 2.2 gets

Re: [gentoo-dev] RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 05/01/2013 07:46 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@gmx.de wrote: The most annoying fact

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-02 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:05 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 04:26:06PM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: bootloader configuration under grub1 for instance, was quite straight-forward. Now with grub-2, its quite convoluted, for me at least. I haven't looked at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-02 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: If you manually write your own configuration for GRUB2, it is no more convoluted than for GRUB Legacy. If you use grub-mkconfig to generate

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND is not an IUSE replacement [was: New USE_EXPAND: CLAWS_MAIL_PLUGINS]

2013-05-03 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:08 PM, René Neumann li...@necoro.eu wrote: Am 03.05.2013 22:20, schrieb Zac Medico: Is it worth changing? Nope. What's worth changing is the excessive use of USE_EXPAND for no reason (your described usecase makes sense for reasonable USE_EXPAND stuff like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 8 May 2013 23:39, Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: It looks like there is some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Fabio Erculiani schrieb: Or perhaps all these man pages, I don't need man pages locally but still most ebuilds do install them. What do we do? Users who don't want them set FEATURES=noman. Let's be

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH FIXED] Introduce edefault() as a friendly default sub-phase wrapper.

2013-05-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Fixed naming the proper default sub-phase and declaring 'edefault' in python_prepare_all(). --- I think I prefer to explicitly name the function I want to call, so I don't really see any great benefit here. I'm not strongly

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: devmanual moved to github

2013-05-12 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: However, the write access removed because of potential conflicts between g.o.g.o and github. If you can guarantee me that people will not mess things up and not commit only to one of the to remotes, then we can enable

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-22 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 05/22/2013 08:21 AM, Luca Barbato wrote: check the FEATURES variable and be surprise =) (from man make.conf) nodoc Do not install doc files (/usr/share/doc). noinfo Do not install info

[gentoo-dev] Usage of dev-utils/ninja in ebuilds

2013-05-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
For those unaware, dev-util/ninja is a make-replacement created by one of the Chromium guys at Google. Its focus is on making incremental builds of large software faster. In the latest chromium ebuild (chromium-29.0.1516.3), we are using ninja instead of make. ninja auto-detects the number of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usage of dev-utils/ninja in ebuilds

2013-05-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 05/25/2013 03:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: From an user perspective I was wondering if ninja in the Portage tree makes use of this faster incremental builds feature. Should I expect faster builds when trying this out? No, you will not see any significant speed increase because we always

Re: [gentoo-dev] Going against co-maintainer's wishes (ref. bug 412697)

2013-05-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Anthony G. Basile bluen...@gentoo.org wrote: Can I ask the systemd people to design a working solution for opting out? I can't support this initiative without such a solution and I would be happy to work with the systemd people to reach it, ie I'll test. What

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Usage of dev-utils/ninja in ebuilds

2013-05-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2013 14:48:30 -0400 Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm wondering if we should create a more global function for calling ninja in a consistent way. Maybe we should introduce a NINJAOPTS variable

Re: [gentoo-dev] PSA: python-r1.eclass, python-single-r1.eclass, and REQUIRED_USE

2013-05-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Jonathan Callen a...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 A quick reminder for anyone using python-r1.eclass or python-single-r1.eclass: These eclasses provide a ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} variable that should be included in

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/dulwich: dulwich-0.9.0-r1.ebuild dulwich-0.8.7-r1.ebuild ChangeLog dulwich-0.9.0.ebuild dulwich-0.8.7.ebuild

2013-06-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 06/08/2013 09:20 AM, Ian Delaney (idella4) wrote: idella4 13/06/08 13:20:59 Modified: dulwich-0.8.7-r1.ebuild ChangeLog Added:dulwich-0.9.0-r1.ebuild Removed: dulwich-0.9.0.ebuild dulwich-0.8.7.ebuild Log: revbump, migrate -

[gentoo-dev] Calling die in a subshell

2013-06-15 Thread Mike Gilbert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The devmanual warns that calling die in a subshell does not work. http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/error-handling/index.html This warning has been obsolete for some time; modern versions of Portage handle die in a subshell just fine. In

Re: [gentoo-dev] Calling die in a subshell

2013-06-15 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: Are there any objections to removing this warning from the devmanual? PMS doesn't guarantee that die works correctly in a subshell: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/5/pms.html#x1-12800011.3.3 So the devmanual agrees with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Calling die in a subshell

2013-06-15 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:24:13 +0200 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: What does it take to change future specifications to guarantee this? You can have it from EAPI 6 onwards. What's holding this from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Calling die in a subshell

2013-06-15 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:56:00 -0400 Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: If we find that all known implementations of PMS/EAPI 4 have implemented a certain behavior, making a change to that version of PMS

Re: [gentoo-dev] Calling die in a subshell

2013-06-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 6/17/2013 4:10 PM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/15/13 19:02, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:56:00 -0400 Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: If we find that all known implementations

Re: [gentoo-dev] netsurf.eclass proposal

2013-06-19 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org wrote: On 06/19/2013 02:16 PM, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2013-06-19, o godz. 14:09:26 Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org napisał(a): - multilib builds and rename non-DEFAULT_ABI $bins to $bin.${ABI} And why exactly do you need

Re: [gentoo-dev] netsurf.eclass proposal

2013-06-20 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org wrote: On 06/19/2013 06:23 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: I'm all for having fun, but I think the intent was to keep the multilib-build eclass usage to a minimum. Sorry, I've missed that agreement, can you point me to it, please? Just

Re: [gentoo-dev] netsurf.eclass proposal

2013-06-20 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:56 AM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: On 06/20/2013 04:48 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org wrote: On 06/19/2013 06:23 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: I'm all for having fun, but I think the intent was to keep

Re: [gentoo-dev] vmware herd is empty

2013-06-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Am Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013, 14:20:38 schrieb Pacho Ramos: Will drop it in two weeks if nobody joins Thanks I've added myself to the vmware herd for now. However, I don't have much time and only really care

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Hangouts

2013-06-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Pavlos Ratis daster...@gentoo.org wrote: Except from a camera and a microphone requirement is a Google account and www-client/google-talkplugin package which is already in the tree. Or a modern smartphone with the relevant app. Personally, I have neither a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update for bzr.eclass

2013-07-07 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi all, Find below a small update for bzr.eclass. Sometimes it is convenient to unpack the sources in a location different from ${WORKDIR}/${P}. The patch makes this configurable via a new EBZR_UNPACK_DIR variable. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/base: ChangeLog package.use.force

2013-07-19 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:05:35 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: So why are these features behind use flags? For compatibility with ${PYTHON_USEDEP}. Why not fix PYTHON_USEDEP? An alternative

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES=userpriv usersandbox by default?

2013-07-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Alex Xu alex_y...@yahoo.ca wrote: userpriv and usersandbox don't work in pypy because os.setgroups isn't implemented there. I had a go at it a while back, but the complete and utter lack of any documentation whatsoever... kinda threw me off. I don't think we

Re: [gentoo-dev] revbumping ebuilds after USE dependency changes

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Alex Alexander wi...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello, Please revbump an ebuild after changing its USE dependencies. Using net-p2p/transmission as an example, it used to depend on dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus] however, qtgui lost the dbus useflag, so the dependency

Re: [gentoo-dev] PHP_TARGETS vs PYTHON_TARGETS different grammar, why?

2013-07-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Leho Kraav l...@kraav.com wrote: php5-5 vs python2_7 Why, how did that happen? We had some discussion of this a while back. RUBY_TARGETS is yet another permutation with no version separator at all. As for why it happened: the eclasses involved were each

Re: [gentoo-dev] Odd git format-patch behavior

2013-07-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I figure this is half-on-topic for this list since I'm trying to prepare patch sets for a package. I'm getting fairly bizarre behavior from git format-patch - patches that don't apply, and patches numbered early in sequence

Re: [gentoo-dev] Odd git format-patch behavior

2013-07-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Final output is: can't find file to patch at input line 17 (messing with -p doesn't help, which will be obvious from a quick inspection of the file vs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Odd git format-patch behavior

2013-07-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I still find it odd that some are able to apply that patch. I just tried again with git 1.8.3.2 and got the same behavior. If others are getting a patch that applies then there is something bizarre going on. I get a

Re: [gentoo-dev] PHP_TARGETS vs PYTHON_TARGETS different grammar, why?

2013-07-31 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Ole Markus With olemar...@olemarkus.org wrote: I don't really care what the separator is. The reason I chose dash for separation major/minor version was simply to distinguish between the value and variable part of USE_EXPAND. Just seemed natural at the time. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to know packages providing files under some directory

2013-07-31 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El mié, 31-07-2013 a las 12:11 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: On 07/31/2013 12:03 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: I would like to know if there is any kind of DB to check for packages providing files under a directory. Does any exist?

Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd team consensus?

2013-08-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:29 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: I'll keep this short for now unless others here want to see the rest of my evidence, but What it boils down to is this. As a member of the systemd team, I have questioned the way we are doing things, multiple times. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd team consensus?

2013-08-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:03 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 02:44:09PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:29 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: I'll keep this short for now unless others here want to see the rest of my

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status. I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords

Re: [gentoo-dev] ruby_targets_ruby20 missing

2013-09-01 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ozzie src # emerge -vp ruby These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH systemd.eclass] Introduce systemd_install_serviced().

2013-09-10 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Nope. 'insinto' sets INSDESTTREE. Due to lack of proper scoping support in bash, we need to localize this variable to restore previous 'insinto' scope after leaving the function. Actually the only reason you are able

[gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

2013-09-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review. Title: GRUB2 migration Author: Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2013-09-22 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

2013-09-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: On 9/21/13 8:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review. Great news! Thanks for working

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

2013-09-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/21/2013 11:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

2013-09-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 09/21/2013 02:18 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. The grub postinst message links to http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start instead - and that wiki page has a link to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub2-migration.xml . IMHO it would

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

2013-09-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: On 9/21/13 8:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news item to hopefully prevent any

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Moving project pages to wiki.gentoo.org

2013-09-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 09/19/2013 01:10 PM, Alex Legler wrote: As discussed [1] on -dev a while ago, project pages will now be moving to wiki.gentoo.org. From now on, you must not create new documents or projects in CVS/on www.gentoo.org. Existing projects are asked to move the contents of their project pages

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: status of OpenRC's public API

2013-09-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:04 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:22:02PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 24/09/13 02:15 PM, William Hubbs wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 03:21:07PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: status of OpenRC's public API

2013-09-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:01 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 04:27:42PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:04 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:22:02PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/eapi-5-files: ChangeLog package.use.stable.mask

2013-09-26 Thread Mike Gilbert
-r3 which was removed + 04 Jul 2013 on stabilising xen-tools-4.2.2-r3.ebuild; see + Bug #484524 21 Sep 2013; Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org package.use.stable.mask: Stable-mask sys-boot/grub[libzfs] 1.25 profiles/eapi-5-files/package.use.stable.mask file : http

[gentoo-dev] python.eclass: export pkg_setup

2011-12-31 Thread Mike Gilbert
python.eclass currently exports the pkg_setup function under the following circumstances: EAPI 2, 3: When ${PYTHON_USE_WITH} or ${PYTHON_USE_WITH_OR} are defined. EAPI 4: Always exported. I would like to modify python.eclass to export pkg_setup unconditionally, rather than checking EAPI and

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michał Górny wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:14:52 +0100 Enrico Weigeltweig...@metux.de  wrote: * Micha?? Górnymgo...@gentoo.org  schrieb: Does working hard involve compiling even more packages statically? I guess, he means

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote:  - you're confusing the literal @system with implicit system deps I don't quite follow here. By implicit system deps, are you referring to the common sense set of essential packages that you have floating around in that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Can we get PIE on all SUID binaries by default, por favor?

2012-01-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld ja...@zx2c4.com wrote: That way, package maintainers could fix things up bit by bit, without having to burden you alone with tinderbox troubles. How do I go about testing with PIE/ASLR on my own box? Is it just some CFLAGS? A link to some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Can we get PIE on all SUID binaries by default, por favor?

2012-01-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld ja...@zx2c4.com wrote: To check for PIE, readelf -h /bin/su | grep Type If it says EXEC, no PIE. If it says DYN, yes PIE. I'm asking how does one enable PIE/ASLR, not how to check if it is enabled already.

[gentoo-dev] Understanding the LINGUAS variable and use-expand

2012-02-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
I just want to sanity-check my brain here. LINGUAS seems to be mainly a variable to control the behavior of gettext's autoconf code, installed as /usr/share/aclocal/po.m4. If LINGUAS is set to a list of language codes, the build system will only build/install MO files for those languages. If

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-shells/ksh

2012-02-10 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 02/10/2012 05:40 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: # Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org (10 Feb 2012) # Unmaintained. If you want it take and bump it # Bug #386339 app-shells/ksh I'll take a crack at this. I've been supporting a Windows application that used MKS Korn shell for a decade or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Import CeDILL-1.1 License into Portage Tree

2012-02-14 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: I would like to write an ebuild for some software that is CeDILL-1.1 licensed, but the license is not in the portage tree. The CeDILL-2 license is in the portage tree. If this is just going in an overlay, you can simply

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El lun, 20-02-2012 a las 20:02 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:17:30 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 02/20/2012 05:03

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC patch for subversion.eclass (bug 401737)

2012-02-22 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Matthew Summers quantumsumm...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: Le dimanche 19 février 2012 à 12:06 +0100, Justin a écrit : Hi, any objections against following patch for subversion.eclass?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Understanding the LINGUAS variable and use-expand

2012-02-24 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Mart Raudsepp l...@gentoo.org wrote: On K, 2012-02-08 at 11:32 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: I am considering simplifying www-client/chromium from the current mess based on the linguas USE flags to basically just this: if [[ ${LINGUAS} ]]; then   for x in *.pak

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