# Piotr Karbowski (2022-03-25)
# Abandoned upstream, officialy limited to kernel 5.6,
# no longer builds with kernel >=5.14. Use kernel's
# CONFIG_USB_RTL8152 and CONFIG_USB_USBNET since 5.13.
# Removal on 2022-04-25.
net-misc/realtek-r8152
# Piotr Karbowski (2022-06-26)
# Abandoned upstream, depends on API that no longer exists.
# Removal on 2022-07-26.
dev-python/jikanpy
The net-dns/maradns is looking for a new maintainer.
Initially when I took it over I did some much needed refresh around the
fact that maradns is split into maradns, deadwood and duende, however
soon after that I stopped using maradns and failed to maintain the
package in a good shape.
There
# Piotr Karbowski (2022-09-25)
# No package in tree depends on dev-python/ssh2-python. Masked for removal.
# Removal on 2022-10-25.
dev-python/ssh2-python
Hi,
x11-terms/xterm is looking for a new home, feel free to grab it.
-- Piotr.
Hi,
The state for this very moment is that we can have many versions of llvm
around, however we can at most have only one ld.lld installed. Usually
matching the lowest version of clang installed.
THis leads to build failures if one attempts to build some (but not all)
software, Linux kernel
On 29/10/2022 18.22, Matt Turner wrote:
Have you seen these commits?
I did not, thanks. Seems like the solution. Is there a reason why llvm:N
do not pull in lld:N in that case?
-- Piotr.
On 29/10/2022 21.01, Matt Turner wrote:
lld isn't a dependency of llvm; it's the same reason why llvm:N
doesn't depend on clang:N.
That's fair. Still a bit of a bummer that we cannot guarantee a
frictionless support for clang-based kernels, in a sense that your
system could pull new update of
On 29/10/2022 22.35, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
On 29/10/2022 21.01, Matt Turner wrote:
lld isn't a dependency of llvm; it's the same reason why llvm:N
doesn't depend on clang:N.
That's fair. Still a bit of a bummer that we cannot guarantee a
frictionless support for clang
Hi,
On 06/11/2022 09.15, Michał Górny wrote:
On top of that, it seems that most of it still relies on proprietary
software and we have no clue how*exactly* it works, and it's really,
really hard to get a straight answer.
I never understood how it become socially acceptable in open source
pro
Hi,
On 23/11/2022 08.38, Michał Górny wrote:
Hello, everyone.
TL;DR: I'd like to add sys-meta/{cpio,sh,tar} to install and control
(via USE flags) /bin/{cpio,sh,tar} symlinks.
I am very much in favour to have a package that controls those symlinks.
What is not immediately clear to me is what
Hi,
net-ftp/proftpd is up for grabs.
There's a handful of bugs open for proftpd and pending version bump.
Dropped myself out of maintainers as rclone serve sftp has long replaced
proftpd's mod_sftp for me and it's been quite a while since I last time
used it, unfortunately I was the very only
Hi,
I'd like to touch base on the topic of pam_limits and the defaults that
we ended up with in Gentoo.
Currently on default system installation without any modification to
/etc/security/limits.{conf,d/*} user will end up with limit o 1024 of
file descriptors and 4096 limit of threads.
Mos
Hi,
On 11/12/2022 13.46, Sam James wrote:
You should still file a bug for two reasons:
1. Paper trail
2. sys-auth/pambase has another maintainer who*is* active :)
As for the question in your post, I'll have a think. Thanks!
I am not against creating a bug, I do see it however as inefficient
Hi,
On 12/12/2022 06.52, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
Please do file a bug tracking this proposal, and reference the
discussion thread.
On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 09:28:14AM +0100, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
What I'd like to do is to bump the limits.conf we ship with pam to
following
* hard
On 12/12/2022 23.06, Sam James wrote:
It's unusual to have discussion about a single package on the mailing lists. I
tend to keep an eye on PAM
bugs because I maintained pambase.
Bugs are the primary method of discussing changes to packages.
You really came strong on this one. I did explain w
Hi,
The net-misc/axel is up for grabs.
There are no open bugs and the in-tree version is the latest. To the
best of my knowledge there's nothing pending around axel to update or
fix I however no longer use it, perhaps someone else would like to take
it over. Dropped to m-n.
-- Piotr.
Hi,
On 31/05/2023 13.43, Andrey Grozin wrote:
Hello *,
wxGTK:3.2-gtk3 is now stable. But there are 98 ebuilds depending on
wxGTK:3.0-gtk3 and only 22 ebuilds depending on wxGTK:3.2-gtk3 in the
tree. Probably, in a vast majority of cases 3.0 can be simply replaced
by 3.2 without any negative
Hi,
I'd like to discuss here the current state of elogind integration as a
whole, and the follow-up work that is now required, after I've put a
default on local USE flag +elogind on xorg-server while dropping default
suid flag in my commit yesterday.
The motivation on the changes was to follow up
Hi,
On 22/03/2019 21.43, Brian Evans wrote:
> What are the implications, if any, of using DMs which are not aware of
> {,e}logind? Do they work without modification?
My understanding is that such DMs, like lightdm, fork X as root anyway,
so there's no implication here, regardless if you have -el
Hi,
On 22/03/2019 21.47, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
> Therefore, not one single package, unless it hard-depends on exactly-one-of (
> elogind systemd ) should enable elogind by default at this time. Doing so now
> only makes people switch it off globally either before or after they are
> facin
Hi,
For time being the IUSE has been reverted to the old +suid, elogind is
now opt-in and not enabled by default. This preserves the old,
working-for-everyone-everywhere default flags.
-- Piotr.
pEpkey.asc
Description: application/pgp-keys
On 11/05/2019 18.00, Virgil Dupras wrote:
> Although I don't use it anymore because I find it too heavy for my
> needs, Ansible is generally seen as a good replacement.
FWIW Ansible does not seems that heavy when you realize that you can put
a exec bit on a playbook, set shebang to ansible-playboo
Hi,
On 29/09/2019 11.56, Michał Górny wrote:
> WDYT?
You mean using HTTPS-only mirrors in 3rdparty mirrors? I am on board
with that.
Ideally, we would switch all of Gentoo resources to HTTPS too. I had a
short discussion about it in #-infra where I was looking for distfiles
and stage3 snapshots
Hi,
I'd like to bring the topic of defining default policy to do changes to
packages within ::gentoo that one does not maintain.
This topic goes back from time to time on #gentoo-dev, and as I was
told, it was originally sent to gentoo-dev mailing list by robbat2 (I
failed to find this in archive
Hi,
On 18/12/2019 22.08, Michał Górny wrote:
> I know that's an unhappy idea but maybe it's time to include CMake
> in stage3. Then it would be just a matter of temporarily enabling
> bundled libs for stage builds, I guess.
Not sure what's unhappy about it, but I like the idea, it will be
painle
Title: Deprecation and removal of legacy X11 input drivers.
Author: Piotr Karbowski
Posted: 2020-04-02
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
Display-If-Installed: x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard
The Gentoo X11 Team is announcing the deprecation and
Hi,
Updated with what Ulm and Soup pointed out, while keeping the long
sentence, that even it's long, is still beneficial to have. Revision
bumped to 2, date bumped to tomorrow's.
--- news item below ---
Title: Deprecation of legacy X11 input drivers
Author: Piotr Karbowski
Posted:
Hi,
On 02/04/2020 17.26, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Updated with what Ulm and Soup pointed out, while keeping the long
> sentence, that even it's long, is still beneficial to have. Revision
> bumped to 2, date bumped to tomorrow's.
My apology, s/Soup/Soap/.
-
# Piotr Karbowski (2020-05-03)
# Obsolete input drivers, use x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput
# or x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev instead.
# Removal in 30 days.
x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard
x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
For more information see
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree
Hi,
For years the xorg-server in Gentoo was defaulting to be running with
suid, even those that does not really require it, like systemd users and
those who runs elogind still end up with X as uid 0 because of +suid
default.
Times has changed, we now have +elogind in desktop profile, xorg-server
Hi,
On 26/05/2020 00.34, Philip Webb wrote:
> I'ld rather you didn't.
You didn't provided any rationale for that. Running X as root is anti
pattern, especially nowadays when so little effort is required to not
have to run it as root.
You can either enable elogind, or you can enable suid if you w
Hi,
On 26/05/2020 09.23, Philip Webb wrote:
> 200526 Piotr Karbowski wrote:
>> On 26/05/2020 00.34, Philip Webb wrote:
>>> I'ld rather you didn't.
>> You didn't provided any rationale for that.
>
> I thought I did (smile).
>
>> Running X a
Hi,
On 27/05/2020 01.31, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> * dev-python/boto3
> * dev-python/botocore
Do you mind if I join you on those? I use them a lot, and I planned to
comaintain awscli since Patrick is the only one current maintainer of
those, boto3 is vital part of it too.
-- Piotr.
signature.asc
Hi,
Please find news item attached.
-- Piotr.
Title: xorg-server dropping default suid
Author: Piotr Karbowski
Posted: 2020-06-22
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: x11-base/xorg-server
The Gentoo X11 Team is announcing that starting with 15th of July,
the x11-base/xorg
Hi,
Re-sending news item inline.
###
Title: xorg-server dropping default suid
Author: Piotr Karbowski
Posted: 2020-06-22
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: x11-base/xorg-server
The Gentoo X11 Team is announcing that starting with 15th of July,
the x11-base/xorg-server
Hi,
On 22/06/2020 06.03, Philip Webb wrote:
[...]
> I don't want to use 'systemd', as I want to run a traditional UNIX version
> of Linux + KDE (or Fluxbox) for a simple single-user desktop system.
Then... don't use systemd? I officially give you my approval for that.
Read what you quoted in your
Title: xorg-server dropping default suid
Author: Piotr Karbowski
Posted: 2020-06-22
Revision: 2
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: x11-base/xorg-server
Starting 2020-07-15, x11-base/xorg-server will default to using the
logind interface instead of suid by default. resulting in better
Hi,
On 21/06/2020 22.27, Michał Górny wrote:
> No offense but it sounds a little chaotic to me.
Which is the reasons we do those reviews. Appreciate the suggestions,
just sent revision 2 as the response to the very first email in this
thread, please check how it looks now.
-- Piotr.
signature
On 29/06/2020 02.35, Aaron Bauman wrote:
> [...]
> net-dns/maradns
There's single python script that can work with Python3 (at least in new
version) that does that can just use any Python version.
I see that it did not got update for over a year, will take it over now and push
update tomorrow, th
Hi,
On 18/07/2020 15.09, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
> # Andreas Sturmlechner (2020-07-18)
> # Stuck on Python 2, depends on deprecated dev-python/pygtk, bug #708162.
> # Needs a maintainer and >=2.0.1 version bump. Masked for removal in 30 days.
> net-p2p/nicotine+
>
Will pick it up.
-- Piotr
Hi,
To summarize
- There's no known bugs in eudev that are not in udev
- There's no bug that would be fixed by switch from eudev to udev
- There's no new feature that would change eudev to udev bring
- Currently musl and glibc profiles uses common eudev, after change we
whould have musl profile u
On 11/08/2020 15.38, Joonas Niilola wrote:
>
> On 8/11/20 11:36 AM, Jaco Kroon wrote:
>> And I've already provided you one use case where udev doesn't work well
>> but eudev does. I've also mentioned some historic issues I believe
>> should already be fixed but which did bit me in systemd-udev wh
On 24/08/2020 13.57, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
> dev-libs/girara
> app-text/zathura-ps
> app-text/zathura-pdf-poppler
> app-text/zathura-pdf-mupdf
> app-text/zathura-djvu
> app-text/zathura-cb
> app-text/zathura
>
>
> Are for grabs now, I do not use them daily anymore. A separate active
> maintainer n
Hi,
The current state is that the Ansible in tree is not working due to fact
that it misses core modules.
I'd say 2.10.0 should be masked, as ~arch or stable arch, it does not
work, then revbump to use bundle package, not ansible-base. If
maintainer want to split it into ansible-base + separated
On 29/09/2020 14.26, Cuckoo's Calling wrote:
> You are so naive and I couldn't stop laughing.
I would appreciate it If you'd refrain from sending such messages to
mailing list, either go into details when you disagree with people or
don't reply at all. Those low level flexing is not welcome here.
On 29/09/2020 16.02, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> Cuckoo is a spam bot. The bot assumes the first response will be a user
> pointing out that the link is dangerous. So the bot's response is to
> respond back automatically with an aggressive denial in the hopes that
> more users will continue to
Hi,
On 25/11/2020 22.57, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
> systemd-tmpfiles does not depend on any systemd-isms, does not need dbus,
> and is just a drop-in replacement, the only step needed is to emerge the
> package.
> it's a simple single binary + manpage, binary links to libacl and couple other
> syste
Hi,
I've been maintaining sys-power/bbswitch in the recent times, however, I
no longer have any hardware where I can even test it. If anyone sees it
fit, feel free to grab it and join other maintainers there. I just
dropped myself out of metadata.xml.
Open bugs:
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/761370
-
Hi,
On 17/01/2021 16.57, Jonas Stein wrote:
> Dear all
>
> the following packages are up for grabs after dropping
> desktop-misc:
>
> x11-misc/gmrun
> https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-misc/gmrun
I will grab the gmrun.
-- Piotr.
Hi,
On 02/07/2021 11.15, Marek Szuba wrote:
> On 2021-07-02 10:12, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
>
>> app-misc/mc
>> dev-util/ltrace
>> media-fonts/terminus-font
>> media-libs/aalib
>
> Will attach myself to these four.
>
I will join you on the following:
net-ftp/proftpd
app-misc/mc
x11-misc/xclip
Hi,
On 10/10/2021 09.23, Joonas Niilola wrote:
> Hey,
>
> due to inactivity the following packages are now up for grabs:
> app-admin/calamares
> app-admin/profile-cleaner
> app-crypt/zulucrypt
> app-doc/zsh-lovers
> app-misc/screenfetch
> dev-cpp/websocketpp
> dev-libs/qtkeychain
> dev-vcs/gti
>
On 10/10/2021 15.54, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 10/10/2021 09.23, Joonas Niilola wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> due to inactivity the following packages are now up for grabs:
>> app-admin/calamares
>> app-admin/profile-cleaner
>> app-c
Happy to report that everything works fine with sys-libs/glibc-2.34-r1,
I have rebuilt whole @world (1300+ packages) without a single failure,
thought I did it without FEATURES=test.
I can sign off this glibc as good enough to go into ~arch.
-- Piotr.
Hi,
On 25/11/2021 16.50, Pacho Ramos wrote:
As a side note, maybe ebuild should add sanity checks (like those from glibc) to
prevent downgrades, otherwise people could still accidentally hit the issue
You might have valid use cases to downgrade mysql, if you are okay not
preserving data. I'd
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.34-r2.ebuild#L643
Would you see something like this on more ebuilds, postgres, mysql,
elasticsearch, or have proper FEATURE flag for it instead?
It's all cool and giggles until you realize that even such random
variable is n
# Piotr Karbowski (2021-12-19)
# No package depends on those bindings anymore.
# Removal in 30 days.
dev-python/pytaglib
Hi,
I'd like to get some insight how others see the concept of narrowing the
scope of USE flags in Gentoo.
Taking a quote from devmanual:
> USE flags are to control optional dependencies and settings which
the user may reasonably want to select.
I'd like to focus on the 'reasonably want'
Hi,
On 02/01/2022 01.03, Scott Ellis wrote:
Your `ipv6` USE flag hits home - I don't use IPv6, nor do I want to have
IPv6 support built into things (just another potential "thing" that I have
to secure, or errors/warnings I need to suppress since I run an IPv6-less
kernel).
If there needs to be
Hi,
On 03/01/2022 18.16, Alec Warner wrote:
I'm trying to understand your principles here. Like on what basis do
you remove or add flags (in general).
My principals is to end-user experience over exposing as much as
possible as USE flags.
A real life example
media-sound/deadbeef
The .mp3
Hi,
On 04/01/2022 18.03, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 12:31 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On Tue, 2022-01-04 at 03:38 +, Sam James wrote:
ACL is kind of similar to what Ionen said for PAM, i.e. sometimes
people may want to turn it off and it makes sense to expose
this option
Hi,
On 04/01/2022 18.35, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On Tue, 2022-01-04 at 12:03 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
I disagree with the claim that "most people" should disable ACL
support at build time. That just gives you partially functional tools.
The ACL behavior can generally be controlled using runt
On 04/01/2022 20.18, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On Tue, 2022-01-04 at 19:26 +0100, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
And none of which happens unless you intentionally trigger it.
...
Sure, acl and how chmod manipulate mask on ACL-enabled entities is not
very simple, but nothing will break by itself
On 18/01/2022 00.24, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
Hi,
I've been approached multiple times with that request, and a lot of
time I see new users completely destroyed by rust build time and disk
space requirements.
WDYT about switching order of rusts in a virtual?
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