Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-19 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 21:23 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:17:56 +0100 Patrick Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I've only tried svn with the cvs2svn script. | Importing with history took ~8h on a 500Mhz box (which surprised me | because I had heard it takes days). Doing

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-18 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 09:57 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: You are encouraged to reply to this thread saying I agree with ciaranm that repository IDs should not be allowed to contain spaces. No problem at all there (smile): spaces in names are A Bad Thing for Unix, as they conflict with the

[gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance

2005-12-15 Thread Patrick Lauer
Hi all, I was wondering if there are any sane ways to optimize the performance of a Gentoo system. Overoptimization (the well known -O9 -fomgomg CFLAGS etc.) tends to make things unstable, which is of course not what we want. The easy way out would be buying faster hardware, but that is usually

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance

2005-12-15 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:43 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: having more than one disk or a lot of memory add very interesting addition, read raid 0 (stripe) or tmpfs for working data that does'nt need a backup fex: $PORTIR, /var/tmp ... tmpfs has miserable performance when larger than RAM iirc -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Misquoted in the GWN

2005-11-28 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 17:54 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:48:01 +0100 Henrik Brix Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | A friend of mine just alerted me to the fact, that I am featured in | this weeks Gentoo Weekly News. Odd, I thought, noone had asked me | anything

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

2005-11-25 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:14 +, kang wrote: Now people can also use NCSA Mosaic. It's valid as long as you can run it. But a browser with vulns, unsupported by the vendor, with a broken CSS, I think you do not have to support it. Well of course, if you like it just do it ;) Hmmm.. I think

Re: [gentoo-dev] Interactive emerge

2005-10-03 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 19:39 +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 23:15:37 +0900 Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does it seem like it is time for RESTRICT=interactive. Such ebuilds | would refuse to emerge if stdout is not a tty. If only there was

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolution - GTK Useflag Situation

2005-09-18 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 17:10 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: I have a different solution that should, no doubt, satisfy both sides: We fork Gentoo. Create a new distro, called GenOne. That has been done, it has become sentient and applied for developer status. You can reach it at [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

2005-09-16 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 22:34 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: There is a difference between using package.mask and ~arch for ebuilds. The use of ~arch denotes an ebuild requires testing. The use of package.mask denotes that the application or library itself is deemed unstable. | Second: a)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug 80905

2005-09-13 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:01 +0300, Ivan Yosifov wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:52 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: are running vesafb-tng and have =1GB RAM then try turning off vesafb-tng Why ? Because of known bugs I'd guess? -- Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:04 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: Added by Grant Goodyear : glep40: Standardizing arch keywording across all archs Added by Brian Harring : glep33: Eclass Restructure/Redesign glep37: Virtuals Deprecation I'd like to see the following items added: glep 15: script

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 15:53 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: Patrick Lauer wrote: [Mon Sep 12 2005, 03:08:53PM CDT] I'd like to see the following items added: glep 15: script repository (working prototype has existed for some time) I'm not quite sure what you're adding. GLEP 15 was approved

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles

2005-08-29 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:59 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: As I understood it, they were implemented to reduce the amount of work necessary in maintaining them. As it was back then, it required changes to an extremely large number of profiles every time a change was made to the default USE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bugzilla handling for maintainer-wanted things

2005-08-21 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 19:42 -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote: [snip] What I see with Gentoo is this 'cathedral' being built where only those folks who have been 'approved' or 'blessed' as being l33t enough are allowed to review the code and actually cause a positive change when some bug is found.

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags groups

2005-07-21 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 18:13 -0300, Herbert Fischer wrote: I see that the USE flags list is very big today but I don't know if it's growing too fast. So, I may think that someday Gentoo will need some mechanism to facilitate USE flags configuration.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-embedded] Interactive command

2005-07-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:13 -0400, Kristian Benoit wrote: What I want is emerge busybox uclibc vanilla-sources nano. Should unpack only the 3 first packages, show me busybox menuconfig, uclibc menuconfig and vanilla-sources menuconfig and only then perform the rest of the installation as usual

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-05 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 06:13 +0100, twofourtysix wrote: Mostly, I was hoping that all those people who seem more than happy to advocate something with *words* would be prepared to back them up with *actions*. I think it's a shame that Gentoo is prepared to encourage people to pester their

Re: [gentoo-dev] app-admin/mbr.. what to do...

2005-06-16 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 01:41 +0900, Chris White wrote: I just saw a bug report flow by for app-admin/mbr and looked for maintainers. I found this: ChangeLog: 1 manson, 1 woodchip from jeeves. Now, I think those people are retired, or I need to get out more (or both). So what to do with

Re: [gentoo-dev] app-admin/mbr.. what to do...

2005-06-16 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 11:13 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten wrote: On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:53, Patrick Lauer wrote: Maybe someone with some scripting skillz could create a list of all orphaned packages? (no metadata.xml, no active maintainer, ...) I've learned with first-person

Re: [gentoo-dev] chriswhite herd(?) status update

2005-06-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 20:24 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:49:28 +0900 Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a minor note, I was thinking of maybe a somewhat small comprehensive list of major problems and ways to solve them. I know we do have bugzilla, but bugzilla

[gentoo-dev] Requests for status updates

2005-06-13 Thread Patrick Lauer
Hi all, the last global status update was in January when most top-level projects posted a short overview of their progress and their rough roadmap to the -dev mailinglist. I'd like to ask all top-level projects (and all subprojects that want to) to present a short overview of what happened since

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:22 +0100, Paul Waring wrote: On 6/8/05, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Polls are open for the metastructure reform vote. All Gentoo developers are eligible to vote. Any particular reason why Gentoo users are not allowed to have a say? Because, if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 08:59 -0700, Jim Northrup wrote: might I suggest not kicking #gentoo-dev visitors who ask for voice to speak to the devs without a 'rtfm go get a gentoo job' smokescreen ? I hope this was only a misunderstanding / miscommunication. #g-dev is already quite crowded and not a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New category proposal

2005-05-12 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 23:58 +0100, Stroller wrote: On May 11, 2005, at 8:10 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * Unique ID strings for packages, zynot style. Messy as hell though, DEPEND=foo/bar {12379812AD7382164BD87678652438FC65E43A2} doesn't have the same kind of ring to it... Maybe I'm

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