Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] First (experimental) 17.1 profiles news item for review (v2)

2017-12-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Matthew Thode wrote: > On 17-12-21 08:34:31, Michał Górny wrote: >> W dniu czw, 21.12.2017 o godzinie 05∶29 +, użytkownik Duncan >> napisał: >> > Michał Górny posted on Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:40:27 +0100 as excerpted: >> > >> > In all this I don't see an answer to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] First (experimental) 17.1 profiles news item for review (v2)

2017-12-22 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 11:28 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Reading the bug (506276), it seems to me it's all about /supporting/ > symlink=no, discussing migration scripts to make it possible to migrate > existing installations, etc, not /mandating/ it. > > I don't see anything suggest

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-nds/portmap, mail-client/drac

2017-12-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
# Mike Gilbert (23 Dec 2017) # Fails to build without glibc rpc support, bug 630670. # Use net-nds/rpcbind instead. # Removal in 30 days. net-nds/rpcbind # Mike Gilbert (23 Dec 2017) # Fails to build without glibc rpc support, bug 641154. # Dead upstream. # Removal in 30 days. mail-client/drac

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-nds/portmap, mail-client/drac

2017-12-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > # Mike Gilbert (23 Dec 2017) > # Fails to build without glibc rpc support, bug 630670. > # Use net-nds/rpcbind instead. > # Removal in 30 days. > net-nds/rpcbind Oops, I meant to mask net-nds/portmap here. Fixed in the repo.

[gentoo-dev] RFC: News: systemd sysv-utils blocker resolution

2017-12-24 Thread Mike Gilbert
Hi all, There has been a bit of confusion over a change I made recently. I would like to publish a news item before the relevant version of systemd is marked stable. Any suggestions are welcome. -- Title: systemd sysv-utils blocker resolution Author: Mike Gilbert Posted: -??-?? Revision

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News: systemd sysv-utils blocker resolution

2017-12-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 11:22:50PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: >> You might want to mention that alternatively, uninstalling >> openrc&sysvinit&netifrc on a systemd profile system is fine to do >> these days, despite the warning. > If

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News: systemd sysv-utils blocker resolution

2017-12-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > You might want to mention that alternatively, uninstalling > openrc&sysvinit&netifrc on a systemd profile system is fine to do > these days, despite the warning. I have added the following text after the third paragraph. Let me know if

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: vmware-bundle.eclass

2017-12-30 Thread Mike Gilbert
vmwware-bundle.eclass is unused since the vmware ebuilds were removed from the gentoo repository. The eclass will be removed in 30 days. A copy of the eclass has already been added to the vmware repository. https://bugs.gentoo.org/642710

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] skel.ebuild: Update comments for inherit, SLOT, KEYWORDS.

2017-12-31 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Ulrich Müller wrote: > @@ -63,8 +63,7 @@ SLOT="0" > # For binary packages, use -* and then list the archs the bin package > # exists for. If the package was for an x86 binary package, then > # KEYWORDS would be set like this: KEYWORDS="-* x86" > -# DO NOT USE K

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] preserve-libs.eclass: Split off preserve_old_lib from eutils.

2018-01-04 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:23 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > I have seen this is only used by: > app-arch/xz-utils > dev-libs/gmp > dev-libs/libpcre > dev-libs/mpc > dev-libs/mpfr > net-nds/openldap > sys-libs/gdbm > sys-libs/ncurses > sys-libs/readline > sys-process/audit > > Maybe we could deprecate it

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ${PYTHON_COMPAT_ADD} in addition to ${PYTHON_COMPAT_OVERRIDE}

2018-01-15 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Francesco Riosa wrote: > > In late 2015 ${PYTHON_COMPAT_OVERRIDE} has been standardized and added > to all python eclasses, it's useful for developers that want test and > mark the package for newer versions of python. > > However (unless I'm missing something) PY

Re: [gentoo-dev] version/slot locked dependencies in eclasses like autotools.eclass and vala.eclass

2018-01-22 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 11:57 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/21/2018 11:24 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >> >> Some eclasses like autotools.eclass and vala.eclass generate >> version/slot locked dependencies that cause the dependencies of >> inheriting ebuilds to change when the versions in the eclas

Re: [gentoo-dev] version/slot locked dependencies in eclasses like autotools.eclass and vala.eclass

2018-01-22 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/22/2018 11:37 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> >>> If the dependencies are to remain in the eclasses, then the eclasses >>> should get a new revision when those dependencies change. Afterwards, >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: baselayout 2.5 changes

2018-02-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:52 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > here is a proposed newsitem for baselayout 2.5. > > Let me know what you think, including whether these are newsitem-worthy > or not. Eliminating ROOTPATH seems like a significant change. Was this officially discussed somewhere that

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: handling the "uucp" group

2018-02-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:03 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > Hi all, > > I have noticed that in the latest versions of udev we are patching the > default upstream rules to accomodate our "uucp" group. > > I don't think it is a good idea to patch default rules, so, I want to > bring up possible fixes.

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: baselayout 2.5 changes

2018-02-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> Eliminating ROOTPATH seems like a significant change. Was this >> officially discussed somewhere that I missed? > >> I actually support the ch

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] flag-o-matic.eclass: treat "--param x" as a unit when testing flags

2018-04-13 Thread Mike Gilbert
For clang and gcc, --param consumes the next argument. Testing --param and its value separately is nonsensical. --- eclass/flag-o-matic.eclass | 33 +++-- eclass/tests/flag-o-matic.sh | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/eclass/f

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: virtual/init for init process

2018-04-26 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 3:20 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > Hi all, > > In the past, openrc has had a dependency on sysvvinit because it called > killall5. Since it doesn't do that any more, I have been asked to remove > the dependency [1]. Another advantage of doing this is that people will > be able

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: virtual/init for init process

2018-04-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:45 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:48:09AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: >> On 04/26/2018 11:34 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: >> > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:35:15 -0700 >> > Zac Medico wrote: >> > >> >> emerge --depclean, resulting in an unbootable system. Just

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: virtual/init for init process

2018-04-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:28 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:28:43PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:45 AM, William Hubbs wrote: >> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:48:09AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: >> >> On 04/26/201

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/7] Initial support for EAPI 7 for python-r1 suite

2018-05-03 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hi, > > Here are the initial EAPI 7 patches. Note that they do not provide > real cross support since we never did provide one. Looks ok to me.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Access to DRM render nodes from portage sandbox?

2018-05-09 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 11:51 PM, Dennis Schridde wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I see sandbox violations similar to "ACCESS DENIED: open_wr: /dev/dri/ >> renderD128" pop up for more and more packages, probably since OpenCL becomes >> used more widely.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly x11@ project status for May 2018

2018-05-12 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 4:49 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 1:38 PM, Matt Turner wrote: >> == Convert media-libs/mesa ebuild to build with Meson == >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/652762 >> >> Ebuild posted. Blocked on problems surrounding LLVM (this is the story of >> maintaining medi

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 67 is in, please update your metadata.dtd!

2016-01-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Luis Ressel wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:37:15 +0100 > Michał Górny wrote: > >> Hello, everyone. >> >> I've finished the GLEP 67 transition last night, and it officially >> applies to all metadata.xml files now. >> > > Great! > >> In order to have repoman appl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 67 is in, please update your metadata.dtd!

2016-01-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Luis Ressel wrote: >>> >>> I might be asking this for a second time, but why does repoman download >>> the metadata.dtd at all? If one fetches fr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 00/21] gen_usr_ldscript: migrate away from a sep-/usr by default

2016-03-31 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > To make forward progress on bug 417451, introduce a new sep-usr eclass > that will hold all logic related to having a separate /usr. For now, > this is just the gen_usr_ldscript function and a new USE=sep-usr flag. Seems like a decent idea

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: upgrading to Plasma 5

2016-04-03 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Michael Palimaka wrote: > Hi, > > KDE team intends to stabilise Plasma 5 shortly, so please review the > accompanying news items. Very exciting, nice work! > If you normally use KDM to launch Plasma, note that it is no longer > supported. > Upstream recommends x11

Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS headers in ebuilds

2016-04-03 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Does anyone still use the CVS $Id$ keywords that are in all ebuilds' > headers, or are they being expanded anywhere? Or is there any other > reason why they should be kept? > > In fact, the council had already voted to drop them in its 201410

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: upgrading to Plasma 5

2016-04-04 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:55 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Michael Palimaka posted on Mon, 04 Apr 2016 05:23:03 +1000 as excerpted: > >> The default in KDE 4 was KDM, with lightdm and sddm also supported. >> >> We included information about migrating away from KDM because it's no >> lon

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: eclass/

2016-04-16 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 4/16/16 3:27 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> On 4/16/16 3:05 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 19:01:02 + (UTC) >>> "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: >> >> Okay for review. Sorry for the wrap. >> >> diff --git a/eclass/ssl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: eclass/

2016-04-16 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> >> And I don't really see the point in the libressl USE flag in this >> case; I think that was only needed so the slot-operator would resolve >> correc

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/7] xorg-2.eclass: drop autotools-utils

2016-04-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
--- eclass/xorg-2.eclass | 73 +++- 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/eclass/xorg-2.eclass b/eclass/xorg-2.eclass index 437265a..f6cf1f9 100644 --- a/eclass/xorg-2.eclass +++ b/eclass/xorg-2.eclass @@ -43,12 +43,14 @@ fi

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/7] Dropping autotools-utils from xorg-2

2016-04-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
ot; eclass. If there is a strong feeling that this is too dangerous, I can alter my approach. I have build tested most packages using xorg-2, and only a few had issues. This patchset is also on github: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1289 Mike Gilbert (7): xorg-2.eclass: drop autotools-utils

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/7] x11-base/xorg-server: remove reference to AUTOTOOLS_BUILD_DIR

2016-04-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
Package-Manager: portage-2.2.28_p64 --- x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.12.4-r5.ebuild | 4 ++-- x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.12.4-r7.ebuild | 4 ++-- x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.15.2-r2.ebuild | 4 ++-- x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.15.2-r4.ebuild | 4 ++-- x11-base/xorg-serv

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 4/7] x11-proto/xcb-proto: drop autotools-utils

2016-04-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
Package-Manager: portage-2.2.28_p3 --- x11-proto/xcb-proto/xcb-proto-1.10.ebuild | 19 +-- x11-proto/xcb-proto/xcb-proto-1.11.ebuild | 19 +-- x11-proto/xcb-proto/xcb-proto-1.8-r3.ebuild | 19 +-- x11-proto/xcb-proto/xcb-proto-1.9-r1.ebuild | 19

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 3/7] x11-apps/intel-gpu-tools: remove reference to AUTOTOOLS_BUILD_DIR

2016-04-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
Package-Manager: portage-2.2.28_p64 --- x11-apps/intel-gpu-tools/intel-gpu-tools-1.10.ebuild| 16 x11-apps/intel-gpu-tools/intel-gpu-tools-1.11-r1.ebuild | 16 x11-apps/intel-gpu-tools/intel-gpu-tools-1.12.ebuild| 16 3 files changed, 24 i

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 5/7] x11-apps/xauth: drop autotools-utils

2016-04-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
Package-Manager: portage-2.2.28_p66 --- x11-apps/xauth/xauth-1.0.9-r1.ebuild | 7 --- x11-apps/xauth/xauth-1.0.9-r2.ebuild | 7 --- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/x11-apps/xauth/xauth-1.0.9-r1.ebuild b/x11-apps/xauth/xauth-1.0.9-r1.ebuild index ed1c75e..385

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 6/7] x11-libs/glamor: drop autotools-utils

2016-04-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
Package-Manager: portage-2.2.28_p66 --- x11-libs/glamor/glamor-0.6.0-r1.ebuild | 6 +++--- x11-libs/glamor/glamor-0.6.0.ebuild| 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/x11-libs/glamor/glamor-0.6.0-r1.ebuild b/x11-libs/glamor/glamor-0.6.0-r1.ebuild index 453e14

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 7/7] x11-libs/xpyb: set XORG_EAUTORECONF instead of AUTOTOOLS_AUTORECONF

2016-04-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
Package-Manager: portage-2.2.28_p66 --- x11-libs/xpyb/xpyb-1.3.1-r2.ebuild | 4 ++-- x11-libs/xpyb/xpyb-1.3.1-r3.ebuild | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/x11-libs/xpyb/xpyb-1.3.1-r2.ebuild b/x11-libs/xpyb/xpyb-1.3.1-r2.ebuild index c563aa3..50243a4 100644 ---

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/7] xorg-2.eclass: drop autotools-utils

2016-04-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > > Sent from an iPhone, sorry for the HTML... > >> On Apr 17, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> >> @@ -487,10 +497,17 @@ xorg-2_src_configure() { >> xorg-2_src_compile() { &

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/7] Dropping autotools-utils from xorg-2

2016-04-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > >> On Apr 17, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> >> The xorg-2 eclass currently uses the deprecated autotools-utils and >> autotools-multilib eclasses, which are banned in EAPI 6. >> >> Thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/7] xorg-2.eclass: drop autotools-utils

2016-04-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > >> On Apr 17, 2016, at 10:45 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >>> >>> >>> Sent from an iPhone, sorry for the HTML... >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/7] Dropping autotools-utils from xorg-2

2016-04-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 10:37:35 -0400 > Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > >> > On Apr 17, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> > >> > The xorg-2 eclass currently uses the deprecated autotools-utils and >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re : Cannot see my eclass modifications

2016-05-03 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Farid BENAMROUCHE wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still searching for the reason why I'm not seeing my eclass > modifications... no luck so far. > > What can I do to debug portage's behavior? > > Thank you > > > En date de : Sam 30

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: ALLARCHES

2016-05-03 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > The solution is to have people with an actual interest in a specific > architecture determine whether stabilising a package is viable, and > taking sensible action, like dropping stable keywords where applicable. If these people do not actua

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: ALLARCHES

2016-05-04 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Matt Turner wrote: > Having built many stages for an "unstable" arch (mips) has taught me > one thing: it's awful being unstable-only. There's no end to the > compilation failures and other such headaches, none of which have > anything at all to do with the specifi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: ALLARCHES

2016-05-04 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Mike Gilbert wrote: >> "doing your job" > > Remember that everyone is a volunteer. I am referring to arch testing as a job, because it only really works if people treat it that way. If stabilization does not take plac

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] distutils-r1.eclass: Do not modify the HOME variable

2016-05-06 Thread Mike Gilbert
This was only necessary when we ran phases in parallel. Also, PMS says this variable should not be modified. --- eclass/distutils-r1.eclass | 6 -- 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass b/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass index 7965e91..497bed5 100644 --- a/eclass/di

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-writing/variables: better describe ROOT

2016-05-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
The current description of ROOT makes no sense and just confuses people. The new description is paraphrased from PMS. --- ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xm

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-writing/variables: better describe ROOT

2016-05-10 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > We have maybe 150 ebuilds in the tree using $ROOT in src_* functions. > Some are bugs, but many look OK to me. Do we really want to say "never" > do that? According to PMS, it is only legal in pkg functions. Can you point to an example

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-writing/variables: better describe ROOT

2016-05-10 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/10/2016 02:28 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >>> We have maybe 150 ebuilds in the tree using $ROOT in src_* functions. >>> Some are bugs, but many

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-writing/variables: better describe ROOT

2016-05-10 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> Anywhere that you need addpredict() it also seems reasonable. The >> v4l-dvb-saa716x ebuilds use "${ROOT}/usr/src/linux/" where EPREFIX would >> not be a good replacement. > > Nah, usually addpredict is dea

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-writing/variables: better describe ROOT

2016-05-10 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> Anywhere that you need addpredict() it also seems reasonable. The >>> v4l-dvb-saa716x ebuilds use "${ROOT}/usr/src/linux/" where EPREFIX would >>&

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-writing/variables: better describe ROOT

2016-05-10 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: >> I agree, repoman should be catching this stuff. >> > > Then Please contribute some test ebuilds for the gen-b0rk repo to test > repoman or any other Q/A apps with. If they fail to detect the test > ebuilds, it will give us something to use t

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] distutils-r1.eclass: Do not apply patches if DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL is used

2016-05-15 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Do not apply PATCHES and user patches (either via the EAPI 6 default or > pre-EAPI 5 code) when DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL is being used. In this case, > distutils functions are usually called conditionally, in a subdirectory, > while both PATCHES and

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-writing/variables: better describe ROOT

2016-05-15 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Göktürk Yüksek wrote: > Mike Gilbert: >> The current description of ROOT makes no sense and just confuses >> people. The new description is paraphrased from PMS. --- >> ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] new developers' keyword requests

2016-05-19 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > Perhaps it's a good idea to add a section to the devmanual about adding > new keywords to packages. > > Recruits in particular might benefit from some background on what > keywording means and when it should be done, especially before they

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/buildutils

2016-05-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
# Mike Gilbert (25 May 2016) # Causes build failures in unrelated packages due to invasive # monkey-patching of easy_install (dev-python/setuptools). # Remove this package in 30 days. # Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/575844 dev-python/buildutils

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: dev-python/buildutils

2016-05-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Mike Gilbert posted on Wed, 25 May 2016 11:52:46 -0400 as excerpted: > >> # Mike Gilbert (25 May 2016) >> # Causes build failures in unrelated packages due to invasive # >> monkey-patchi

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/3] distutils-r1.eclass: Move creation of .pydistutils.cfg to esetup.py

2016-05-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
Also remove .pydistutils.cfg from HOME before returning. This config should only be needed when we are invoking setup.py. The esetup.py wrapper provides a normalized way for doing this; if ebuilds call setup.py without the wrapper, they are now also responsible for setting the build directory if n

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 3/3] distutils-r1.eclass: Do not modify the HOME variable

2016-05-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
This was only necessary when we ran phases in parallel. Also, PMS says this variable should not be modified. --- eclass/distutils-r1.eclass | 6 -- 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass b/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass index 334ce73..c545290 100644 --- a/eclass/di

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] distutils-r1.eclass: Strip the trailing slash from D

2016-05-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
This just looks nicer in build logs. --- eclass/distutils-r1.eclass | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass b/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass index afd29ed..171762c 100644 --- a/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass +++ b/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass @@ -55

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Masterplan for solving LINGUAS problems

2016-05-31 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > How can I select different linguas for individual packages with this > approach? Why would you want to?

Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project

2016-06-07 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Sunrise was a great way to learn packaging for Gentoo. Reviews were *very* > strict in the past, resulting in better QA standards than the Gentoo main tree > - - and a definite frustration threshold that one had to overcome. With a > cou

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] 'Gentoo Linux' bugzilla component reorganization

2016-06-15 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Davide Pesavento wrote: > We could also have separate components for "keywording" vs > "stabilization", which would make the use of STABLEREQ/KEYWORDREQ > keywords obsolete at the same time. The STABLEREQ keyword would still be useful for security bugs, where the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] bugs.g.o: Merging UNCONFIRMED & CONFIRMED into NEW

2016-06-16 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Joshua Kinard wrote: > It'd be nice if, when replying in a comment, a flag > could be made available to automatically to state that "I've encountered this > issue, too", and once 2, 3, or 4 of those are logged, Bugzilla automatically > changes the state to CONFIRME

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] distutils-r1.eclass: reset XDG env vars

2016-06-22 Thread Mike Gilbert
Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/577704 --- eclass/distutils-r1.eclass | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass b/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass index c545290..fb0362c 100644 --- a/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass +++ b/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass @@ -80,7

Re: [gentoo-dev] Need design help/input for eclean-kernel

2016-06-30 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > So if you have some time, please reply to this thread with > a specific /boot layout that you think needs to be handled, with > as much helpful information as possible -- including possible > distinctive features and pitfalls. Standard "make

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/4] New no-lib-symlink profile for developers

2016-07-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > I've finally gotten around to wrapping up my multilib setup > in a profile, and providing necessary patches to system packages > to make it possible to use it without having to hack their mistaken > logic around. The baselayout and glibc chang

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/4] New no-lib-symlink profile for developers

2016-07-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:33:54 -0400 > Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >> > I've finally gotten around to wrapping up my multilib setup >> > in a profile, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: migration from uclibc to uclibc-ng

2016-07-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 8:07 PM, wrote: > I don't know if this is on topic. Is it possible to backport 64-bit > date/time to uclibc-ng in 32-bit mode? 32-bit date runs between late > 1901 and early 2038. 2038 is not that far away. E.g. in a 32-bit VM... This seems pretty off-topic for this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Augmenting the CPU_FLAGS_X86 list and creating CPU_FLAGS_PPC + CPU_FLAGS_ARM

2016-08-01 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 5:08 PM, David Seifert wrote: > Dear friends, > while version bumping sci-libs/fftw, I've noticed our CPU_FLAGS_X86 > list could be expanded a bit: > > avx512 - introduced with Skylake and Knights Landing According to Wikipedia, "AVX-512 consists of multiple extensions not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Augmenting the CPU_FLAGS_X86 list and creating CPU_FLAGS_PPC + CPU_FLAGS_ARM

2016-08-02 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Also, how are they exposed in cpuinfo, do we have first patches > for cpuid2cpuflags? cpuid2cpuflags does not use /proc/cpuinfo since version 2. A patch adding detection for the various avx512 extensions has been merged upstream. https://gi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Patch for nvidia-drivers 367.35-r1 for kernels > 4.7.0

2016-08-05 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Natanael Olaiz wrote: > I know that. But the patch should be applied *only* for versions of kernels > 4.7+. So, I'm asking how is the policy for that. If you're asking for policy: The Gentoo packaging policy is not to do conditional patching. Instead, modify the pa

[gentoo-dev] Call for help: python3.5 testing

2016-08-07 Thread Mike Gilbert
Hi all, I would like to make a push to get python3.5 stable in the next few months. There are a couple things that need to happen first. 1. Add python3_5 to PYTHON_COMPAT for current ~arch packages. A list of packages that need to be tested and marked compatible with python3.5 is producted daily.

Re: [gentoo-dev] libpcre.so.3 - Compatibility with Debian

2016-08-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 00:10:53 +0100 > James Le Cuirot wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> We, like almost everyone else and presumably upstream, install PCRE 8 >> as libpcre.so.1. Debian, for reasons best known to themselves, install >> it as libpcre

Re: [gentoo-dev] libpcre.so.3 - Compatibility with Debian

2016-08-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > If you are going to commit such crap into Gentoo ignoring people more > knowledgeable than you, please spare us the effort and open a QA bug > against it requesting that you remove it immediately. Thank you. Feel > free to also request revokin

Re: [gentoo-dev] libpcre.so.3 - Compatibility with Debian

2016-08-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:07:27 -0400 > Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > >> but realistically this should be >> installed to /usr/$(get_libdir)/debiancompat/ or similar, and if you >> still don't want to wrap the apps that need it then also install an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: /etc/init.d/modules loading modules defined in files

2016-08-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > William Hubbs wrote: >> >> but I'm open to making the behaviour compatible >> with what systemd does > > Since openrc already supports tmpfiles.d, > support for modules-load.d would be natural. > In fact, this is already done for quite a whil

Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care

2016-08-24 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Lars Wendler wrote: > Please keep in mind to *not* use EAPI-6 for base-system packages yet, so > we can retain a somewhat stable upgrade path even for very old systems. What's the time frame for lifting that restriction? There are some key packages that base-sys

Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care

2016-08-24 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > General increase in the number of developers in base-system would not be > a bad outcome from this email either ;-). I am considering joining, if only to have some input and greater transparency on decision making. For example, I have no

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo

2016-08-24 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 08/24/2016 07:37 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> >> I imagine _someone_ out there wants it, otherwise we wouldn't be >> discussing it. > > The thread started out proposing it as a solution to a docker problem > that, it turns out, isn't a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo

2016-08-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Mike Gilbert posted on Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:49:42 -0400 as excerpted: > >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Michael Orlitzky >> wrote: >>> On 08/24/2016 07:37 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-28 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 08/28/2016 07:28 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: >> B. Backport just the changes needed for chromium to older ffmpeg > > Any chance of it being included upstream or would it be a downstream > carry for a long time? I haven't looked a

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-31 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:28:48 +0200 > "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > >> D. Patch chromium not to require newer ffmpeg > > > You can use the attached patch. Quick test on youtube showed it works. Nice! Testing this now.

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-31 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:28:48 +0200 >> "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: >> >>> D. Patch chromium not to require newer ffmpeg >> >> >

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: Python 3.3

2016-09-03 Thread Mike Gilbert
Python 3.3 will be removed from Gentoo in 30 days. dev-lang/python:3.3 will be available in the python overlay.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Eclasses and EAPI

2016-09-05 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 5:20 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 19:19:16 +0200 > Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > >> On 09/02/2016 07:17 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Alexis Ballier >> > wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 18:13:20 +0200 >> >> Kristian Fisker

Re: [gentoo-dev] Request to update nvidia-drivers to version nvidia-drivers-370.28

2016-09-09 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 11:28 PM, wrote: > Would it be possible to integrate the newest nvidia-driver 370.28 into > Gentoo so that users of Blender and similiar programs could happily > switch to Linux kernel >=4.7.0 (4.7.3) ? Please don't send version bump requests to this mailing list. You can

[gentoo-dev] New portage git sync behavior

2016-09-20 Thread Mike Gilbert
Portage 2.3.1 changes the default behavior for git repositories to sync with a depth of 1. If you are using a development tree with emerge --sync, you may want to override this in repos.conf by setting sync-depth = 0. If you have accidentally converted your development tree into a shallow reposito

Re: [gentoo-dev] For review: News item "Deprecation of sys-libs/uclibc and migration to sys-libs/uclibc-ng"

2016-09-24 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to commit the following news item in a couple of days. I'm > sending it as an attachment so hopefully it'll come across exactly as I > will commit it. > > Please review. Thanks. GLEP 42 says Title should be 50

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: the demise of grub:0

2016-10-04 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Dan Douglas wrote: > I'm not against removing grub1, but why are the only versions of grub > in the tree betas? They don't have a proper release cycle? The upstream grub maintainer has been too busy to work on a release. He has recently recruited some people to hel

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-05 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 17:46:29 +1300 > Kent Fredric wrote: > >> On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:34:11 -0500 >> William Hubbs wrote: >> >> > You don't have to use grub-mkconfig. You can write /boot/grub/grub.cfg >> > by hand if you want, and it appears tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Oct 8, 2016 10:33 AM, "Tom H" wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > > I have added an example grub.cfg to the gentoo repository. > > > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ec629c23a6e8cf6c18fa51d69ae1

Re: [gentoo-dev] New portage git sync behavior

2016-10-12 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:45 PM, konsolebox wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> Portage 2.3.1 changes the default behavior for git repositories to >> sync with a depth of 1. If you are using a development tree with >> emerge --sync, you may wan

Re: [gentoo-dev] New portage git sync behavior

2016-10-13 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:45 PM, konsolebox wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> Portage 2.3.1 changes the default behavior for git repositories to >>> sync with a depth of 1. If

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds

2016-10-14 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 1:05 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > Problem > 1. There does not seem to be any file name requirement for binary packages. > 2. There are binary packages that end in -bin, which is good. However it is > not clear if that is an upstream 3rd party binary. Or a binary made

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds

2016-10-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, M J Everitt wrote: > >> On 17/10/16 08:41, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >>> To be clear I would suggest at MOST 3, -bin, -ebin, and -sbin. >>> NO more. > >> I don't see what problem you are trying to solve. Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set

2016-10-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Nick Vinson wrote: > That definition definitely excludes automake and autoconf (arguably gcc > should also excluded, under that definition, so the wiki might not be > 100% correct). gcc provides libstdc++.so.6, which is a necessary runtime component on most syste

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > If you are not using /dev/disk/by-* paths in fstab, you do not need to take any action for this news item. > > If you are, it is very critical that you update fstab AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Your system will become unbootable in the future if you

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