Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 4.7 unmasking

2013-02-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > Though people that use -ffast-math / -fLTO / -fuse-linker-plugin should > be on their own, thus I drop -ffast-math because it breaks my browser; > but that doesn't mean that those ricer flags should stop stabilization. If we're talking about f

Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 4.7 unmasking

2013-02-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 25/02/2013 22:32, Rich Freeman wrote: >> That isn't the same as saying that we can just break it in cases where >> it actually is appropriate. Calculating scroll bar movement is >> exactly the sort o

Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 4.7 unmasking

2013-02-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Of course dealing with flags _per functions_ is not possible, as flags > apply at the very least to a translation unit... A translation unit can contain a single function, or a bunch of functions that you want to apply the flag to. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 4.7 unmasking

2013-02-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 25/02/13 23:21, Rich Freeman wrote: >> My point was just that: >> 1. No, the fact that entire packages fail to build/operate using >> -ffast-math is not a valid bug. > > From your email the message was the opp

Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 4.7 unmasking

2013-02-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > No, an example of _how building a whole package with -ffast-math_ was > brought up, and you turned it into "something that it should apply to" > (which is false, and stupid to say). Perhaps this is part of the issue then. I didn't not

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

2013-02-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Alec Warner wrote: > I see a *HUGE* reason. glibc ships with ptmalloc. If you think they > should use jemalloc, talk to them. Don't just do it in Gentoo. Certainly I think it would be far more productive to talk to the glibc maintainers first. However, nothing p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-libs/confuse: confuse-2.7.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > > To me it's obvious that he did it because it made something easier > for him. By breaking the Gentoo rule he got something done. Rules exist for a reason. If we're bending them because we're accomplishing the goal of the rules in a better wa

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New category for LeechCraft

2013-03-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > > I'm just saying that I wouldn't want to create a category for ten > packages. If we're talking ~100 I'm fine with it. Can't say I'm likely to be a leechcraft user, but the original proposal indicated they were up to 60 now, and had at

[gentoo-dev] Re: Forming Gentoo Policy - Copyright Assignment and Attribution

2013-03-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mar 11, 2013 6:22 PM, "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 02:19:55PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 04:51:17PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > If you have any concerns/objections to the policy which was outlined, &

[gentoo-dev] Re: Forming Gentoo Policy - Copyright Assignment and Attribution

2013-03-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > No change intended. This is what happens when you send a thirty second > follow-up to a policy formed over two weeks, and then step away to eat... So, clarification now that I'm back at a keyboard... DCO is mandatory, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Forming Gentoo Policy - Copyright Assignment and Attribution

2013-03-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. März 2013, 00:12:43 schrieb Rich Freeman: >> So, clarification now that I'm back at a keyboard... >> >> DCO is mandatory, and is simply a declaration that the committer has >> checked

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform

2013-03-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:13 PM, James Cloos wrote: > Again, that is an irresponsible mistake. It is better to just leave it > as is than to kick it. Dropping important packages can only harm the > community and is never welcome. Is this package working in the typical case? That is, when you a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform

2013-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:40 PM, James Cloos wrote: >>>>>> "RF" == Rich Freeman writes: > > RF> Is this package working in the typical case? That is, when you aren't > RF> intentionally trying to buffer-overflow it or otherwise break it? >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New install isos needed

2013-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > I've wondered for years why gentoo invests all that effort into creating > its own install media, when there's many dedicated projects out there > whose whole purpose is live install/rescue media. Tend to agree. I'd focus mor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform

2013-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > So per https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462366#c4, the package > now has a new maintainer so it will not be removed. > See? This is what I call a good solution instead of going around and > constantly saying "Ohhh bad bad Gentoo remo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform

2013-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > The process for rescuing a package is documented here[1] and > it takes about 15'' of google searching to find it. > I think that something a bit more elaborate with links to the relevant pages (proxy-maint, etc) that is more user-oriented

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform

2013-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > I don't mind adding that link to every package mask. Do note thought > that this is not the only way for a package to be rescued (assuming it > can be rescued). Providing fixes without becoming the maintainer is > also a viable solution, wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform

2013-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > > I find the become-a-dev threshold significant so yes, something stops it.. > So, my personal feeling is that /some/ packages get pulled a little earlier than strictly necessary. However, the fact is that when a package gets treecleaned it i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform

2013-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > You don't seem to recognize the quite significant psychological > impact of you having already made the decision, compared to, say, > having an actually inclusive package removal process. I was going to post something along these lines, but I'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform

2013-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > A per-ebuild bug metric would be cool. A kind of health indicator > for individual ebuilds, alerting users when some of our installed > ebuilds go yellow, so that we have perhaps on the order of six > months before the package goes red, at whic

Re: Installing KDE (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New install isos needed)

2013-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > We (as the kde team) are modifying the profiles/targets/desktop/kde settings > so if you pick a kde profile you can immediately emerge kde without further > fiddling with useflags. That will be ideal, but I was more concerned with the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform

2013-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > The number of open bugs doesn't really matter, it's what those bugs > are that matters -- security bugs, sure, are of a higher priority and > can be fairly easily detected in bugzilla. Well, our current treecleaner policy seems to be that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform

2013-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 03/24/2013 09:40 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: >> Markos Chandras wrote: >>> The masks are sort of announcements as you have 30 days to revert that >>> decision. >> >> You don't seem to recognize the quite significant psychological >> impact of y

Re: [gentoo-dev] New install isos needed

2013-03-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > Thing is that SRCD does a lot more things than our mini ISO does. > As a result, keeping it going on half a dozen architectures is > more work than maintaining our arguably very simple images. There > is a reason why we abandoned making th

Re: [gentoo-dev] kdump

2013-03-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Justin wrote: > > if someone is interested in implementing any infrastructure for a more > advanced usage of kdump for gentoo, please contact me. > I've blogged a bit about this and wrote the wiki page. However, the last time I actually tried to use kdump it wasn

Re: [gentoo-dev] kdump

2013-03-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Justin wrote: > During the version bump today, I saw that fedora is providing lots of > script and services for it. So I thought someone might be interested and > port that to gentoo. > I've given it thought, but I'm not quite at the point where I'd want to take t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Not really. Every time I modified anything in there, it just took a few udev > versions and suddenly I was flooded with deprecation warnings a la "things > work different now, find out on your own how to fix it..." Not to mention at lea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > What do you have there? We cover bunch of those in pkg_postinst of udev > already. After a bunch of cleanup (after which I have yet to detect any problems), I have: 70-persistent-cd.rules 70-persistent-net.rules 80-net-name-slot.rules ki

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > Those 70-* and 80-* are in udev pkg_postinst, this news item, everywhere... > can all 3 be deleted if you haven't modified them yourself. > > So that leaves one... local.rules... dunno about that. I'm curious. Excellent, sounds good then

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > In my mind, the message says "either remove 70-* and setup 80-*" or your > system will end up broken. The other bit is that modifying symlinks in /etc/init.d is only mentioned in passing. That is a VERY important step unless your new nam

Re: [gentoo-dev] licensing query : Splice

2013-03-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > I've never seen this before in 10 years using Gentoo. > Has anyone verified that Splice's licence is compatible with Gentoo ? What do you mean by "compatible with Gentoo?" Gentoo is not a party to the distribution or use of splice, so why w

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-p2p/deluge needs a maintainer

2013-03-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > Hi, > > net-p2p/deluge has open bugs for years[1] and I don't see anybody from > the net-p2p herd > to actually maintain it. It would be nice to find a new dedicated > maintainer for it. If a user is interested in helping us maintain it, >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About net-p2p herd status

2013-04-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > The herd currently maintains 58[1] packages and a number of them are > being co-maintained by other people. > I don't think the herd is active and my opinion is to move > high-profile packages, such as deluge, qbittorrent, rb_littorrent an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About net-p2p herd status

2013-04-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > 1. Get more people to join these herds (devs, future recruits, ...) >and set up project, leads and proper organization. This is the least >confusing approach; since the same work is done but just by more >people, which tackles the co

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-apps/texinfo vs @system

2013-04-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > people seem happy with this, so i'll have the release team do a test build and > see how it goes. ++ If any of the system packages are going to pull in texinfo then it really should have a use flag for the perl-requiring parts. Otherwise w

Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-3.1 stable

2013-04-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > but what's the problem with keeping it and not breaking older > upgrade paths? > This whole discussion seems a bit academic. Somebody pointed out that we have a version of bash we might not need any longer. If by some miracle the bash main

Re: [gentoo-dev] How shall we name the EAPI 6 patch applying function?

2013-04-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:06:31 +0200 > hasufell wrote: >> That is not possible without the agreement of the eclass maintainers. >> So you cannot just "ban" an eclass. > > QA certainly can, and should. Or failing that, the Council can step in.

[gentoo-dev] Re: news item -- baselayout-1.x deprecation final warning

2013-04-07 Thread Rich Freeman
(apologies to those who got this twice - my MUA used a from address that the list likely rejected instead of using the correct one which I actually did select - Google needs to fix their GMail Android app) On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 3:36 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > We have continued support for base

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

2013-04-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > tl;dr: make sure your /dev/pts is mounted correctly w/gid=5 or bad things will > happen and it's (probably) all your fault So, who is this directed to? If this is to anybody who uses Gentoo, then at best this should be a place to hash out

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-print/cups/files: cups-1.5.0-systemd-socket-2.patch

2013-04-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > ^ This will likely cause the patch not to apply, at least with older patch > versions > You should be able to delete this section of the patch to avoid the CVS tag > polluting it The CVS tags will also create issues during the git migratio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary package dependencies for sub-slot-less EAPIs

2013-04-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:25 PM, W. Trevor King wrote: > In other words, “Why force folks to do this if there is no benefit?”. > This is understandable, but I think the broken binary packages [1] are > enough of a visible benefit. I certainly agree. As I bump my own packages I'll certainly be l

Re: [gentoo-dev] new eclass: systemd-next.eclass

2013-04-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 3:43 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > I am sending this out for review so we can commit it to the tree > when we commit our alternate systemd ebuild in a few days. This will be > set up so that users can choose which systemd package they want to > install, and it will default to

Re: [gentoo-dev] new eclass: systemd-next.eclass

2013-04-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 4:57 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > It is not an upstream fork, it is a configuration/installation > approach that follows upstream's recommendations for install locations. > It also allows the user more choices wrt which parts of systemd are > built or installed and allows mor

[gentoo-dev] Opportunities to use slot operators

2013-04-14 Thread Rich Freeman
For whoever is interested I tossed together a script to identify packages that would immediately benefit from slot operator dependencies but which are not doing so. The list can be found at: http://dev.gentoo.org/~rich0/missedslotops.txt This was generated by: https://github.com/rich0/finddepslot

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opportunities to use slot operators

2013-04-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Christopher Schwan wrote: > Is it possible to check a local overlay? Specifying CPV for a single ebuild > works, but I wonder if its possible to parse an entire overlay at once. The script already checks all configured overlays as well as the main tree if you invo

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

2013-04-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > it's at times like this i wish we had a git repo. `git log -p -C -M` is great > at tracking this sort of stuff down. I don't want to hijack this thread, but I don't believe we have a tracker for the migration of docs / website / etc to git

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

2013-04-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Denis Dupeyron wrote: > But nobody owns anything in Gentoo. As a developer > you're not king of the hill but servant of the users. The only way to > make yourself more relevant is by doing a better job, not by barking > at the others to protect your territory. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT/NIT] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

2013-04-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > Er, you can't be seriously suggesting we will drop repoman checks with > the migration to git? I don't see how that would benefit anyone. > Interesting point. One thing to keep in mind with git is that commits don't affect the "central rep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT/NIT] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

2013-04-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: >>> Er, you can't be seriously suggesting we will drop repoman checks with >>> the migration to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT/NIT] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

2013-04-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > Alternatively, we could enforce repoman checks on any commit or push > operation in master, and leave branches to their own devices. Of > course, I haven't seen (or looked for, tbh) how tree development will > be implemented/suggested to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT/NIT] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

2013-04-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > > 13. Gerrit's push to tree fails, since tree with changeset A isn't in > changeset B's ancestry. > Honestly, this is a problem with any use of repoman with git unless you let the server auto-merge trivial changes. Cvs tracks commits at the f

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:54 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > if we keep a dependency for a while, even behind something like > IUSE="+oldnet", when we drop it, people will still be hit if they do > emerge --depclean before they emerge gentoo-oldnet. > > Also, (although I don't really care about this mu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT/NIT] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

2013-04-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Alex Xu wrote: > Seems simple enough, as long as `repoman scan` runs quickly. > This is the key, because if a commit happens anywhere in your process, your push will fail. At first I thought you were suggesting a server-side hook. This essentially has the same p

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: > Hey, all! > > Just one question: why do you all talking about IUSE=+oldnet, but not > REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( net oldnet )" for example? It it isn't necessary for a system to have support for either oldnet or newnet. Sure, it is rar

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:27 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > I have just one question > > When "gentoo-oldscripts" is pulled from openrc > > WHAT will be the default network configuration method? "gentoo-oldscripts" The intent isn't to remove these scripts (unless for some reason you don't wan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should mirror restriction imply bindist restriction?

2013-04-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > The user is distinguishing right from wrong by setting things like > USE=bindist, portage simply doesn't seem to be respecting that in the > case of RESTRICT=bindist. I think what is missing is a clear set of definitions. USE=-bi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should mirror restriction imply bindist restriction?

2013-04-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > IUSE="bindist" tends to be for adjusting a particular package so that > it either is generic and CAN be binary-distributable, or will build as > upstream intended (with, for instance, upstream branding) and > therefore is not. Right? Cor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should mirror restriction imply bindist restriction?

2013-04-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > Based on Rich's suggestion my thought is have a new license group for > things which are ALWAYS binary restricted, accepted by default, but > removed from ACCEPT_LICENSE when USE=bindist. That is just what is > rolling around in m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Useflags: xsl vs xslt

2013-04-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:12:05 +0200 > Peter Stuge wrote: > >> Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: >> > The correct one should be xslt and that's it.. >> >> Can you please motivate your opinion? Saying "that's it" is quite hostile. > > Terse maybe. Blunt.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation?

2013-04-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > claiming breakage is a red herring. i'll wager that clarifying PMS to match > realistic intentions and the largest PM won't break a single package. > appending args over the econf args is asinine. If many packages actually break with the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation?

2013-04-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > What ultimately got approved by the Council, and what implementers > should be following, is the wording which ended up in PMS. > I can't speak for everywhere, but even in the highly regulated environment I work in, an error in a specifica

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation?

2013-04-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:42:22 +0200 > "viv...@gmail.com" wrote: >> Now, is it possible to alter the behaviour of paludis to act, still >> following the specs, in a way compatible with portage and which seem >> more logical to the majority o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation?

2013-04-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Another analogy would be that these people are human versions of the > kernel's trinity fuzz tester... Requirements generally are not intended to be defensible to fuzz testing, or completely determinate. Rather, they're inten

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

2013-04-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > The most annoying fact is, that none of this would have been necessary with > portage 2.2, but maybe we have to wait for 2.1.11.500 before 2.2 gets > stable... Actually, @preserved-rebuild is supported in the current stable portage. It jus

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

2013-04-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > I haven't ran revdep-rebuild for a year, you can set > FEATURES="preserve-libs" which will preserve any libs, once libs are > being preserved you can then get rid of them by doing an `emerge > @preserved-rebuild` whenever you feel like as oppos

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

2013-05-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > - genkernel needs to migrate to *udev (or as I did, provide a --udev > genkernel option), mdev is unable to properly activate LVM volumes and > LVM is actually working by miracle with openrc. Alternatively, we > should migrate to dracut. I'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation?

2013-05-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Er, we are. Following the spec is not a mistake. If there's a mistake, > it was made by the Council when they approved the wording. Both Portage and Paludis are following the spec. The spec isn't incorrect, it just doesn't fully describe t

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

2013-05-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > Not all the Gentoo users are as skilled as you (a developer). Having a > programmatic, bootloader agnostic way to swap /sbin/init is useful for > the reasons I explained. Yet I haven't read any solid reason not to do > that. Well, there is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages using -Werror

2013-05-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:15 AM, hasufell wrote: > We don't need that. We already get QA warnings for severe compiler > warnings with a note that it should be reported upstream. > > Turning them into errors does not improve anything. Yup - you can't really compare Gentoo build workflows with thos

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

2013-05-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Luca Barbato wrote: > Hopefully we might have a gsoc student volunteering to make a > runscript/lsb-script/systemd-unit compiler and a small abstraction so we > write a single init.d script and generate what's needed. > Probably we might even support pure-runit that

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

2013-05-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > In my opinion you should not be asking maintainers to add systemd > units to their packages. They most likely do not have systems on which > they can test these, and very few users would need them anyway. I > would think it is better to add th

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

2013-05-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > It would effectively need to be bumped every time any package added, > removed or changed a unit file requirement. Also every time a unit > file-bearing package is added or removed from tree. > > That would be one insanely hot package. Splittin

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units

2013-05-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:32 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > OpenRC can't support units directly; if this ever did happen it would > have to be a tool that converts units to init scripts. Or an init script skeleton that interprets a unit file. That seems like it shouldn't be too hard to write for a

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units

2013-05-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Ambroz Bizjak wrote: >> Init.d scripts are programs - they could probably do just about anything. > > They couldn't monitor a process and restart it when it crashes, as > specified by the restart options in the unit file. That is, without > significant modifications

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units

2013-05-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > You could be looking at someone trying to compromise your system through a > buffer overflow or similar vulnerability. If you enable automatic respawn > then congratulations, you just gave the attacker unlimited tries to guess >

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

2013-05-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:31:21PM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote > >> The overhead of the files' presence is trivial, and most users won't >> care. Those who do care have a trivial line to add in make.conf, and >> that is for the small number of p

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

2013-05-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > We should probably consider extending the INSTALL_MASK a bit. A good > idea would be to allow repositories to pre-define names > for INSTALL_MASK (alike USE flags) and allow portage to control them > over those names. We'd need a correspondin

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

2013-05-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > The other thing is those unit files really should come from upstream > and other distributions urge their developers to work with upstream [1] > Therefore I'd require an upstream bug for each unit that we add. Makes sense, though I wouldn

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

2013-05-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > Adopting a package to distribution specifics is perfectly valid. But > here it's about adding functionality to a package that wasn't there > before. The usual reaction in such situations is to tell users to bug > upstream about it first.

Re: [gentoo-dev] devmanual moved to github

2013-05-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > The devmanual git repository[1] moved to github[2]. No objections to mirroring it there, and accepting pull requests there. However, would an outright move be contrary to our social contract?: However, Gentoo will never depend upon a pie

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

2013-05-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > > > This is the kind of policies that kill user contributions. I am very > sad to witness this once again. > I have mixed feelings for this very reason. The concept of accepting contributions on github is an EXCELLENT one. The problem i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Imprecise dependency specification causing problems with cave

2013-05-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Taahir Ahmed wrote: > It should be noted that the first position (that the dependencies specified in > the ebuilds are not sufficient) is the position of cave's developers. I tend > to agree -- How is cave to know that there hasn't been a brekaing change in a > li

Re: [gentoo-dev] GitLab Feature-Set / Was: devmanual moved to github

2013-05-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 3:18 PM, wrote: > - It supports "Merge Requests", which are almost the same as PRs on Github, > which allows user contributions to be reviewed quite easily. So, out of curiosity I set this up on a VM and started playing with it. It seemed like the UI for merge requests

Re: [gentoo-dev] GitLab Feature-Set / Was: devmanual moved to github

2013-05-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: >> Gerrit also requires letting the public push, but those pushes go >> to a contained area and each commit is isolated. > > Hm, how do you mean isolated? > > Gerrit introduces the convention to

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

2013-05-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:44 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > > If we are going to take this stance, should we consider removing all > packages from the tree that have their upstream on github? > Considering that we allow even outright proprietary software in portage which isn't distributed at all (

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

2013-05-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > And (and!) how does all this fit together with eudev? If the idea is > to either put logind in udev (thus, not creating a separate logind > ebuild), it means that eudev is already a dead end for GNOME users, > unless the eudev team is going

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

2013-05-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2013 17:10:03 +0200 > Luca Barbato wrote: > >> - those not using the latest glibc (and maybe uclibc) > > Did you test this? Are there more specific details regarding this? > Which version don't work? Is it known why? > >> - tho

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

2013-05-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2013 13:25:11 -0400 > Rich Freeman wrote: > >> In any case, there really isn't any "decision" to make here. > > Then for what purpose is this discussion still going on? > No comment

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

2013-05-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:18 PM, wrote: > Question... when Sun made OpenOffice depend on Java (also a Sun > product) did Gentoo developers run around suggesting that Java be made a > part of the core Gentoo base system? I don't think so. If a user wants > to run GNOME badly enough, he'll swit

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

2013-05-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > The decision was made long ago. Use flags are not the correct way to control > solely the installation of a few small files. This was really the heart of the discussion where the decision was made before. USE flags should control thing

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

2013-05-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > This is missing a reference URL or at least the ML thread subject; last > time I asked, I didn't got either and wasn't able to find this in a > reasonable amount of time. I find some irrelevant policy discussions > but nothing that indicates t

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

2013-05-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > Well, I have to at least thank you for turning this from just a typical Gentoo flame-war into a breeding ground for LWN Quote of the Week candidates. Rich

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:22 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: > On 05/21/13 23:38, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 15:38:44 schrieb Thomas Sachau: >>> And if a maintainer is not responding within 30 days, you can ping him >>> or, without a response, try to get a different mainta

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

2013-05-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > The amount of users misusing a knife or hammer is much lower than the > amount of users misusing INSTALL_MASK. Agreed. A typical user would almost never need to use INSTALL_MASK. If they're using it, they're probably doing something wrong. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs, the flipside

2013-05-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > Are the sources for the auto-stable etc. script posted somewhere? I > don't think i've actually seen a URL at all in this thread (or the one > from a couple of months ago).. By all means publish your script when done. That seems like

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

2013-05-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 26 May 2013 00:14:36 +0800 > Ben de Groot wrote: >> But if a co-maintainer pushes through a change that I oppose, then >> working together becomes quite difficult. In this case I opted to give >> up maintainership. > > Yet another st

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

2013-05-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > We are moving too quickly on bug #448882 ([Tracker] packages not providing > systemd units). We should come to better consensus on systemd integration > and we were getting there with the idea of INSTALL_MASK. I don't know that > it is a

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

2013-05-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Rich Freeman schrieb: >>> Yet another stand. No offense but I'm afraid it's quite childish of you. >>> I don't understand why you're so proud of it. It's a bit like 'Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reusing systemd unit file format / forking systemd (was: Going against co-maintainer's wishes (ref. bug 412697))

2013-05-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 26 May 2013 15:37, Michał Górny wrote: >> >> Considering the design of OpenRC itself, it wouldn't be *that hard*. >> Actually, a method similar to one used in oldnet would simply work. >> That is, symlinking init.d files to a common 'syste

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

2013-05-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 26 May 2013 15:23:44 +0800 > Ben de Groot wrote: >> >> Where is this policy documented? > > Nowhere, I think. I've seen it coming in the late thread, looked common > sense enough to me. > > If it is to be documented, I think we should

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