Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles

2018-07-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 9:47 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 07/20/2018 07:55 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > While I agree that setting USE=-udev isn't the same as leaving it to > > package defaults, you further claim that setting this globally causes > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles

2018-07-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 9:17 AM M. J. Everitt wrote: > > The hierarchy method is indeed flawed, it would be better to have > something akin to USE flags for profiles (PROFLAGS?) .. so that you > could mingle different aspects without replicating sections of the > 'tree' to get the common configura

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles

2018-07-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 9:05 AM wrote: > > I’m not sure I was clear enough in what 13.0 would mean : basically, its > current content would be > delegated to common, and 13.0 would keep only things needed to have minimal > breakages/conflicts. > And we would keep the current directory-like inher

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles

2018-07-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 8:39 AM wrote: > > > Why not introducing a new level in the hierarchy ? Something like "common" > could be fit. > > default/linux/amd64/13.0 > default/linux/amd64/13.0/common > default/linux/amd64/13.0/common/desktop > default/linux/amd64/13.0/common/developer > ... > > By

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles

2018-07-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 1:58 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 07/20/2018 01:06 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > >> > >> * They can't be undone. It's next to impossible for me to undo > >> USE=udev when set in a profile that is inherited by all others. > > > > You set USE=-udev in your make.conf.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles

2018-07-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 9:42 PM Andrew Savchenko wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:51:17 -0500 Ben Kohler wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to propose adding USE=udev to our linux profiles (in > > profiles/default/linux/make.defaults probably). This flag is already > > enabled on desktop profile

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree (was: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-07-29)

2018-07-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:30 AM Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > >>>>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 5:55 AM Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >> Also, there is that strange requirement that the > >> file hierarch

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree (was: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-07-29)

2018-07-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 5:55 AM Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > "Pertains to one specific host" doesn't seem to apply to the Gentoo > repository though. Sure it does. The state of the package repository on a Gentoo host doesn't affect any other host. Sure, that state is synced from someplace that man

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

2018-07-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 3:47 PM Brian Dolbec wrote: > > So, "portage" should not be a directory name in the new default path. > Well, in my examples I proposed it as that is the software that created the path, but then again in the spirit of PMS portage isn't the only PM. So: /var/lib/repos/gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

2018-07-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 3:34 PM konsolebox wrote: > > I have /var/lib/gentoo/portage defined in repos.conf/gentoo.conf. > Regardless of the base directory location, I might suggest a path dedicated to repositories, of which the main gentoo repo is just an initial one, and overlays could be placed

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

2018-07-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:16 PM William Hubbs wrote: > > That is the other part of this debate, some are saying /var/lib, and > others are saying /var/db. > > It turns out that /var/db is much more common than I thought it was > (it exists in all *bsd variants at least), so that could be an arg

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

2018-07-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 6:11 PM Richard Yao wrote: > > Is it a violation of the FHS? /usr is for readonly data and the portage tree > is generally readonly, except when being updated. The same is true of > everything else in /usr. > It is application metadata. It belongs in /var. No other pac

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

2018-07-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:34 PM Richard Yao wrote: > > On my system, /usr/portage is a separate mountpoint. There is no need to have > on,h top level directories be separate mountpoints. It makes sense to follow FHS. Sure, I can work around poor designs by sticking mount points all over the pla

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

2018-07-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:36 AM Raymond Jennings wrote: > > I do think it would be a wise idea to "grandfather" the current layout > for awhile. > I don't see why we would ever stop supporting it, at least in general. Maybe if some day somebody had a solution for a read-only /usr with signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Requiring gentoo.git committers to use their @gentoo.org address

2018-07-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:14 AM kuzetsa wrote: > > Authorship was brought up by: [ Mart Raudsepp ] > > It's germane, and wanting clarity doesn't hurt: Sure, and it was answered by mgorny 17 hours before your post, pointing to the original email which did in fact specifically reference the commi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Requiring gentoo.git committers to use their @gentoo.org address

2018-07-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 9:38 AM kuzetsa wrote: > > I think authorship is a good point / distinction, Mart. > > Authorship was never shown in dev-timeline for addresses > which aren't @gentoo.org anyway. That's a separate issue, > so this policy change shouldn't affect proxy-maint? > Might I sugge

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

2018-07-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 5:34 PM Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > > I'd mostly argue any such change should only affect new systems > ++ If a user wants to migrate it is pretty easy to do. Update the setting and do an mv, or don't do an mv in which case it will just regenerate. I think /var/db/pkg

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

2018-07-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 4:13 PM Michał Górny wrote: > > W dniu pon, 09.07.2018 o godzinie 15∶11 -0500, użytkownik William Hubbs > napisał: > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 08:43:31PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > sys-apps/portage-mgorny has already done that. The defaults locations > > > have been c

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

2018-07-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 2:11 PM Johannes Huber wrote: > > Am 09.07.2018 um 20:05 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 1:40 PM Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >> > >>>>>>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, William Hubbs wrote: > >> > >>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

2018-07-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 1:40 PM Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, William Hubbs wrote: > > > is there a tracker for when the portage tree can be moved out of > > /usr/portage by default? > > > If not, what is the status of us being able to do this? > > Please remind me, what was t

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree

2018-07-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 1:26 PM Alec Warner wrote: > > The former is probably 3 times easier than the latter. > - Get testers to move their tree and report issues[0]. > - Change the stage3 defaults to be the new location. > - Explicitly do nothing else. > > New installs will get the new location

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage rsync hardlink support

2018-07-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 5:50 PM Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > > Does Portage not call attention to critical updates? > > It used to make a special statement for a new stable Portage and strongly > recommended that it be emerged first. It should probably do the same for > openpgp-keys-gentoo-release.

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage rsync hardlink support

2018-07-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 2:31 PM Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > > On 07/08/2018 08:10 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Again, the current portage support for git verification doesn't check > > any developer keys. > > right, so why would it be material for a news item improvi

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage rsync hardlink support

2018-07-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 1:50 PM Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > > On 07/08/2018 07:34 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > The patch is to do the verification before > > checking it out so that if it fails the tree is left in a > > last-known-good state (at least as seen by

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage rsync hardlink support

2018-07-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 9:02 AM Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > > On 07/08/2018 08:53 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Is safe git syncing implemented already? If not, maybe finish it first and > > cover both with a single news item. Git is going to be more efficient here, > > so people may want to lea

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: why are we still distributing the portage tree via rsync?

2018-07-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 12:41 PM Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > > I would expect as much. But my primary argument would be key management > related, it is simply impossible to present a raw copy of our repo to > end-users and have them verify each commit > While related, I think that the questio

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: why are we still distributing the portage tree via rsync?

2018-07-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 12:34 PM William Hubbs wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 11:40:53AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:32 AM Brian Dolbec wrote: > > > 2) we have a large infrastructure of rsync mirrors, which we do not for > > > git.

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: why are we still distributing the portage tree via rsync?

2018-07-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 12:22 PM Matt Turner wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:38 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > > 4. by default git tends to accumulate history, which can eat up disk > > space. I imagine this could be automatically trimmed if users wanted, > > though du

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: why are we still distributing the portage tree via rsync?

2018-07-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:32 AM Brian Dolbec wrote: > > 1) it is still the most bandwidth economical means of distributing the > tree Is this true? If I do two syncs 10min apart, I have to imagine that less data will get transferred for git. Certianly there will be less disk IO. I think the ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: why are we still distributing the portage tree via rsync?

2018-07-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:22 AM William Hubbs wrote: > > Mostly because of the recent "trustless infrastructure" thread, I am > wondering why we are still distributing the portage tree primarily > via rsync instead of git? > > Can someone educate me on that, and is it worth considering moving away

Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustless Infrastructure

2018-07-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 2:23 PM Alec Warner wrote: > > We might reduce the complexity here by saying things like: > > "We have N trust levels" > I snipped most of your text because I didn't really see a natural way to include only some of it, though this really pertains to most of it, and I didn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustless Infrastructure

2018-07-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 1:50 PM Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 7:41 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > > To be fair, this is relying quite a bit on the last dev doing a commit > > to be checking his own tree, though that would certainly be helped if > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustless Infrastructure

2018-07-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 1:23 PM Matthias Maier wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018, at 12:01 CDT, "Jason A. Donenfeld" > wrote: > > > Aren't git signatures done over the full commit objects? Meaning you'd > > need the entire tree of metadata and thus all commits in order to > > verify? Or do you se

Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustless Infrastructure

2018-07-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 12:43 PM Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > There's a lot of text there, and rather than trying to parse all of > that, I'll just reiterate a primary important design goal that might > be overlooked: > > - End to end signatures from the developer to the user. > > This means that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustless Infrastructure

2018-07-02 Thread Rich Freeman
Overall I very much like the concept, but I might propose a few tweaks (just quoting the stuff that might benefit from adjustment): On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:36 AM Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > - Sign every file in the portage tree so that it has a corresponding > .asc. Repoman will need support

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fw: "Please let's talk if spamming everyone pointlessly is really needed."

2018-06-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 5:55 PM R0b0t1 wrote: > > Unless Mr. Roovers has admitted to some sort of conspiracy I don't > think it wise to accuse him of participating in one. > Uh, nobody has accused anybody of participating in a conspiracy here. -- Rich

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multiversion ebuilds

2018-05-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:44 AM Gerion Entrup wrote: > The VERSIONS approach does not break the old mechanism. So if a patch > needs to be applied, the multiversion ebuild (that contains other versions > as well, say foobar.ebuild with VERSIONS="1.0 1.1 1.2") can just be copied, > renamed with t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multiversion ebuilds

2018-05-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 8:20 AM Gerion Entrup wrote: > Different version keywording can be done as before: > ``` > if [[ ${PV} == "3.1" ]] ; then > KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86" > else > KEYWORDS="amd64 x86" > fi > ``` From a readability standpoint I could see this getting out of ha

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

2018-04-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 2:18 PM Zac Medico wrote: > Actually, if things like sys-apps/s6 or sys-process/runit remain as > choices for virtual/init, this isn't going to solve the problem of > sys-apps/sysvinit being removed by emerge --depclean. In fact, if > virtual/init is not in the system set,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Mailing list moderation and community openness

2018-03-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 2:33 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> Fred is a community member. Fred consistently harasses and trolls new >> contributors in private. > > Sure, it's a problem. But not a problem which can be solved by > closing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Mailing list moderation and community openness

2018-03-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:55 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> Ultimately the leaders just want Fred gone so that new contributors >> aren't getting driven away. They can't explain that because then they >> cre

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Mailing list moderation and community openness

2018-03-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 12:12 PM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: >>> >>> It is about openness vs. isolation. >> >> I'm pretty sure most developers, myself included, want to welcome

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Mailing list moderation and community openness

2018-03-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > > It is the general attitude: Does Gentoo welcome contributions > or want to make their developers live in an ivory tower? > > It is about openness vs. isolation. > I'm pretty sure most developers, myself included, want to welcome contributio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailing list moderation and community openness

2018-03-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:38 PM, kuzetsa wrote: > > I think this may be a misunderstanding? no? there might be some mailing > list jargon term: "moderation" which I was unaware of: > Historically moderation meant having list traffic held prior to distribution for approval from a moderator. > I'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailing list moderation and community openness

2018-03-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 9:19 PM, kuzetsa wrote: > On 03/20/2018 08:08 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> >> Actually, I think it is more of a technical constraint. It is >> basically impossible to blacklist somebody on a mailing list, since >> all they need to do

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

2018-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 5:01 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:02:20 +0100 > Michał Górny wrote: > >> ...except that it is also used to say 'this is experimental version, >> unmask at will' and Portage wants to unmask stuff for you anyway. Well, >> I mean the default configuration

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

2018-03-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 6:59 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, Roy Bamford wrote: > >> games-emulation/sdlmame is masked. I have a higher version in my >> overlay than the one in the tree and it gets masked too. >> Its not a problem to me as I know how to manage it. Its just u

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailing list moderation and community openness

2018-03-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 4:30 AM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > On 22/03/18 07:31, Benda Xu wrote: >> We might be able to require GPG signed email to make a post. > Almost definitely. > > But before bikeshedding that, it would be advisable to find out whether > it would be a good idea in the first pl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailing list moderation and community openness

2018-03-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:55 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > > I can't tell, and I suspect other people can't either. > This is the crux of the issue. Decisions involving people issues are made behind closed doors, which means that others are not free to confirm for themselves whether those actions are cor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailing list moderation and community openness

2018-03-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 1:36 AM, Eray Aslan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:28:48AM -0500, Matthew Thode wrote: >> While I personally do no agree with mailing list moderation infra has >> been tasked with moving forward on it. > > That was a somewhat tongue-in-cheek comment but not wholly. Yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailing list moderation and community openness

2018-03-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:54 PM, Benda Xu wrote: > William Hubbs writes: > >> I do feel that this decision reflects badly on us as a community and >> should be reversed immediately. The proper way to deal with people who >> have bad behavior is to deal with them individually and not put a >> rest

Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailing list moderation and community openness

2018-03-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > On gentoo-dev list: k_f > points out that this should have been talked about during previous > discussion periods... > > It was discussed "to death" over and over, and many argued against it > till they were blue in the face. Indeed, it w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: How to deal with git sources?

2018-03-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 1:21 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > I am in the same camp as Martin and James. I would rather see the issues > fixed for the specific packages involved than us try to host tarballs > for every package that doesn't create them. > ++ If github didn't already provide a solutio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Integrating Portage with other package managers

2018-03-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 3:11 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Alec Warner wrote: >> The containers are nominally stateless, so there is less chance of 'gunk' >> building up and surprising me later. It also makes the lifecycle simpler. >> >> Obviously its somewhat harder for sta

Re: [gentoo-dev] Integrating Portage with other package managers

2018-03-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Alec Warner wrote: > > In contrast with disposable containers: > > Automated build process for my containers. > > If there is a bug in the build, I can throw my buggy containers away and > build new ones. > > Containers are encouraged to be stateless, so logging in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Functional portage with namespace (Was: Integrating Portage with other package managers)

2018-03-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 9:11 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > > Sadly interest in the patches seems to have waned. The functionality > is not exactly duplicated in containers, but they do make it easier to > find changes. > Well, the idea with containers wouldn't be to monitor anything, but instead to ensure t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Functional portage with namespace (Was: Integrating Portage with other package managers)

2018-03-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 7:46 PM, Benda Xu wrote: > Rich Freeman writes: > >> If you have util-linux installed then try running (as any user - you >> don't have to be root): unshare -i -m -n -p -u -C -f --mount-proc -U >> -r /bin/bash >> >> Congrats. Yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Integrating Portage with other package managers

2018-03-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 4:00 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> If you have util-linux installed then try running (as any user - you >> don't have to be root): >> unshare -i -m -n -p -u -C -f --mount-proc -U -r /bin/bash >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Integrating Portage with other package managers

2018-03-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 11:44 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: > > I think I was equating containers to Docker as well. My point was > instead of trying to manage dependencies, containers allow people to > shove everything into an empty root with no conflicts. The > enthusiastic blog post seems to restate this. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proliferation of IUSE=static-libs in Gentoo

2018-03-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > So, developers, please *stop adding USE=static-libs* to random libraries > that have no reason whatever to be statically linked to. And by that I > mean a good reason, not creeping featurism, not 'user asked for it', not > 'this broken packa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Integrating Portage with other package managers

2018-03-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 3:55 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Alec Warner wrote: >> >> Because containers are awesome and are way easier to use. >> > > I think you missed my point: Why are they easier to use? > I suspect that he was equating "containers" with "Docker," which bo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Integrating Portage with other package managers

2018-03-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Perl/g-cpan is a project is in a > similar space and basically reads perl CPAN metadata to generate stub > ebuilds. > Portage tracks these stub ebuilds (and so for example, it tracks what these > cpan pack

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is removing old EAPIs worth the churn?

2018-03-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Alec Warner wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Matt Turner wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 4:17 PM, A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is removing old EAPIs worth the churn?

2018-03-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Is it worth the effort? Yes, see below. > Is it a high priority task? No. > It sounds like all that has been done is to log a tracker and create some bugs. That is hardly a major burden on anybody. If it nudges people to bump the EAP

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: council members and appeals

2018-02-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > At least for QA this is quite an oversimplified description of the > team's role. Quoting GLEP 48, first bullet point of the specification: > "The QA team's purpose is to provide cross-team assistance in keeping > the tree in a good state.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: council members and appeals

2018-02-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 3:53 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Dean Stephens schrieb: > >>> Suppose that the council decides to accept an appeal from comrel. Is it >>> a conflict of interest for a member of the council who is also a member >>> of comrel to vote in the appeal? If it isn't,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] systemd's DynamicUser= in .service files

2018-02-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 6:46 PM, Georgy Yakovlev wrote: > > What I'm asking for is your opinion if it's something that should be used in > gentoo or should I try to avoid it if possible, especially if a static user is > alredy present in the system. > If the systemd behavior is to just fall back

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

2018-02-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:25 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 02/08/2018 06:12 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> >> There is no bug here. The problem, as I said before in this thread, is >> that what goes in *sbin is arbitrary, and as Rich said, if you are >> relying on the path to prevent a non-root use

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

2018-02-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 5:17 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > > > On 08/02/18 22:13, William Hubbs wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 03:55:02PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> However, there are plenty of examples of commands that normal users >>> may run from sbin. Moving these commands often causes prob

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps

2018-01-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 01/24/2018 12:15 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 01/23/2018 07:40 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: Did you come up with a solution how to handle eclass-generated dependency changes then? >>> >>> No. >>> >>> Bug #641346 was f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps

2018-01-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 7:40 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 01/22/2018 09:28 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> Am Montag, 22. Januar 2018, 08:01:08 CET schrieb Zac Medico: >>> >>> According to Gentoo policy, future ebuild dependency changes need to be >>> accompanied by a revision bump in order t

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

2018-01-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:57 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > W dniu nie, 21.01.2018 o godzinie 20∶24 -0800, użytkownik Zac Medico > >> Should we tell users to use the emerge --changed-deps=y option? Maybe >> make --changed-deps=y a default setting? > > No. The idea is that not all dependency changes ne

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Tom H wrote: > > Gentoo's singling itself itself out as less receptive to its users > simply because some its developers are too Trumpian to resist arguing > with people who criticize their work or Gentoo. > Wouldn't it be a bit exclusionary to require prospective

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Maybe this is a discussion for -project, then? > Getting these kinds of non-technical discussions off of -dev is most of the point of this. The purpose of this list is discussion of things like eclass changes, fixing bugs, and so on. It is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 6:27 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 10/01/18 23:20, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:28 PM, Roy Bamford wrote: >>> Being somwhat old and cynical, I'm seeing signs of history >>> repeating itself. >>> >>> Doe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:28 PM, Roy Bamford wrote: > > Being somwhat old and cynical, I'm seeing signs of history > repeating itself. > > Does being 'struck off' the list in this way apply to devs, including > Council and comrel members? > It would seem that this question is already answered: ht

Re: [gentoo-dev] Masking 4.12

2017-12-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 3:49 AM, Toralf Förster wrote: > On 12/30/2017 07:52 AM, Alice Ferrazzi wrote: >> Hello, >> >> We recently dropped the stable keywords for 4.14, >> but 4.12 (the next stable in gentoo-sources) is no more >> maintained from upstream. >> >> The last update that 4.12 got from

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

2017-12-26 Thread Rich Freeman
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. > Does this still cause a warning? I thought that openrc/sysvinit were no

Re: [gentoo-dev] The problem of unmaintained packages in Gentoo

2017-12-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 6:01 AM, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > On 2017-12-21 01:35, William Hubbs wrote: >> ~arch *will* have breakages from time to time, sometimes major >> breakages, until they are masked or fixed. We are not supposed to leave >> major breakages there, but ~arch is definitely not

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] New policy: 'files' directory must not be larger than 32 KiB

2017-12-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:42 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:00:16 -0500 > "Aaron W. Swenson" wrote: > >> However, what alternative do we have to throwing the patches up in a >> devspace? > > mirror://gentoo, aka /space/distfiles-local/ > That isn't a great option. This has b

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] New policy: 'files' directory must not be larger than 32 KiB

2017-12-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:33 AM, Francesco Riosa wrote: > > On 12/18/17 14:01, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> Whether we remove all files/ or the entire package dir from the repo, >> I'd suggest that this become more standardized if we wanted to go down >> one o

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] New policy: 'files' directory must not be larger than 32 KiB

2017-12-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Francesco Riosa wrote: > > It would be interesting instead to evaluate ways to remove _all_ files/ dirs > from the tree, keeping ebuilds separated from data. Arguably you could go a step further and not distribute even the ebuilds except on demand. Just have an i

Re: [gentoo-dev] AMD64 Arch Testers needed urgently

2017-12-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > On 2017-12-14 13:58, Kent Fredric wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:58:05 +0100 >> Slightly modified suggestion: >> >> Add a flag called "autostabilize" with [unset], [y], [n] >> >> Default is 'unset', and if found unset after a given time,

Re: [gentoo-dev] AMD64 Arch Testers needed urgently

2017-12-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 5:39 AM, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > > But well, for the beginning we don't need the perfect solution. We can > start with an easy mode and blacklist most packages. So devs interested > can remove their packages from blacklist. And like said, build bot would > still handle

Re: [gentoo-dev] AMD64 Arch Testers needed urgently

2017-12-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > It seems that we've started lacking arch testers for AMD64 architecture. > At this moment, there are already 159 bugs in amd64 backlog, and there > is no noticeable progress. New stabilization requests are usually > handled much faster by x8

Re: That's all folks. (Re: OT Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists)

2017-12-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 11:31 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > > Well, let's consider the order of events here: > ... > This looks awfully clear to me. >... > I'm not focused on the ban, or whether it was deserved. That's exactly what you've done here. You've connected a bunch of dots that you can se

Re: That's all folks. (Re: OT Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists)

2017-12-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > > Other developers are required to subscribe to -dev, and are > expected to follow it so they stay informed. Developers are not required to subscribe to -dev. > If they missed something covered on the list, they are directed to the > archi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists

2017-12-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:22 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> And what would you do when somebody repeatedly sexually harasses other >> members of the community in private after being told to stop, and then >> acts as i

Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists

2017-12-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 12/05/2017 11:41 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >> On 12/05/2017 11:37 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> Honestly, I'm not really a big fan of even on-topic posts from people >>> who have caused a lot of

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists

2017-12-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 12/05/2017 11:37 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> Honestly, I'm not really a big fan of even on-topic posts from people >> who have caused a lot of harm to others in private. I'm not sure >> which is t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists

2017-12-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:46 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 17:25:21 -0500 > Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand >> wrote: >> > On 12/05/2017 11:12 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> > >> >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists

2017-12-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > > The difference would be that you, in your first example, can demonstrate > some actual abuse. In the latter case you're talking about differences > of opinions of how things are run, which quickly turns into censorship. > I don't se

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists

2017-12-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 12/05/2017 11:12 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >>> I think the plan to split mailing lists serves as a way to insulate >>> developers from the effects

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists

2017-12-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > > I think the plan to split mailing lists serves as a way to insulate > developers from the effects of their decisions. Anyone with an > incongenial tone will have their voice bit revoked and their mail will > be dropped or rejected. And wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] We Are All wltjr On This Blessed Day

2017-12-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:46 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. > wrote: >> On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:26:26 -0800 >> Matt Turner wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:52 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. >>> wrote: >>> > That being said, that people find it ac

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists

2017-12-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > > With gentoo being a non-profit organization, an alternative way to > view it could be the trade-off of seeing developers / maintainers / > staff leave It isn't just the risk of leaving, but the risk of them never joining in the first place.

Re: [gentoo-dev] NEWS item for games destabling

2017-11-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:15 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 27/11/17 18:44, Christopher Head wrote: >> For those of us who run mostly stable systems, there is one question I don’t >> know a good answer to. >> >> If I add a specific version of a game to package.accept_keywords, I will get >> that

Re: [gentoo-dev] NEWS item for games destabling

2017-11-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:46:02 +0100 > David Seifert wrote: > >> games in Gentoo are not part of crucial Tier 1 packages. > > It's the first time I hear the term. How "crucial Tier 1 packages" are > defined? Is there a link explaining

Re: [gentoo-dev] manifest-hashes changing to 'BLAKE2B SHA512' on 2017-11-21

2017-11-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 3:21 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > The council has no power > over Trustees, and Trustees do have legal power over all of Gentoo. Sure, just keep in mind that legally Gentoo is basically nothing but a name and a logo. The Trustees could ask the community to stop u

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest2 hashes, take n+1-th: 3 hashes for the tie-breaker case

2017-10-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 4:21 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > On 24/10/2017 06:11, Michał Górny wrote: >> W dniu wto, 24.10.2017 o godzinie 06∶04 +0200, użytkownik Michał Górny >> napisał: >>> Three hashes don't give any noticeable advantage. If we want a diverse >>> construct, we take SHA3. SHA3 is

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