[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite app-text/chmsee. Semi-lastrite libopensync-plugin-google-calendar.

2012-05-02 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:17:55 +0200 Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 According to upstreams homepage [1], the current tagged v1.99.09 does support xulrunner 11.0. @dirtyepic: Any chance to bump the version in portage? I can take a look

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-26 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:03:18 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/25/2012 09:44 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: Yeah the whole idea here was to make user patches available without ebuild modifications or eclass dependence. Using the apply_user_patches_here approach [1] that Ciaran

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/adobe-flash: metadata.xml adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-04-26 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:06:45 -0300 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:15:34 -0400 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Christian Ruppert id...@gentoo.org wrote: I haven't followed the prev. conversation but what's wrong

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/adobe-flash: metadata.xml adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-04-26 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:00:04 +0200 Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:04:08 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: especially for an instruction set that every system has supported for over a decade. Er, some of my teenage systems run desktops just fine

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:41:39 +0100 David Leverton levert...@googlemail.com wrote: The point I was trying to get at was that it seems a bit heavyweight to rely on a whole eclass for a minor use-case, as well as a bit error-prone to expect people to remember it every time, but maybe that's

[gentoo-dev] Re: epatch_user usage

2012-04-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:45:36 -0500 Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org wrote: So I've just had one reservation when using epatch_user for allowing users to apply patches. And that's figuring out when to run eautoreconf. I don't necessarily want to run it unconditionally but sometimes users have

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/adobe-flash: metadata.xml adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-04-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:12:46 + (UTC) Jim Ramsay (lack) l...@gentoo.org wrote: 24 Apr 2012; Jim Ramsay jim_ram...@gentoo.org adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild, metadata.xml: On darkside's suggestion, providing a USE flag (IUSE=+sse2check) that can be turned off to allow binpkg users to

[gentoo-dev] Re: About adding a way to check for bugs referring to no longer existing packages in the tree

2012-04-15 Thread Ryan Hill
From time to time I see old bug reports that are still wrongly opened and referring to old packages no longer in the tree. Would be possible to add a way to periodically check for bugs referring in summary to obsolete packages and, then, allow us to have a cleaner bug list? How

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-15 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:35:40 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/15/2012 01:16 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: Right now we have support in some packages for user patches - those being patches dropped into /etc/portage/patches/pkgname/ - which are automatically applied. Because

[gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available

2012-04-15 Thread Ryan Hill
Right now we have support in some packages for user patches - those being patches dropped into /etc/portage/patches/pkgname/ - which are automatically applied. Because this feature is implemented by epatch_user() in eutils.eclass, it is only available for ebuilds that inherit eutils and

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-15 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:53:04 +0800 Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/15/12 16:16, Ryan Hill wrote: Right now we have support in some packages for user patches - those being patches dropped into /etc/portage/patches/pkgname/ - which are automatically applied. Because

[gentoo-dev] Re: About adding a way to check for bugs referring to no longer existing packages in the tree

2012-04-15 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:00:45 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Also, the idea is to simply generate a list with possible obsolete bug reports, closing would still be done manually after checking for false positives ;) Ah, okay. I thought you wanted something automatically closing

[gentoo-dev] Re: About how to handle wxGTK based packages with gnome profiles

2012-04-15 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:59:11 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: OK then to enable wxwidgets in desktop profile? Yes. -- fonts, gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: About how to handle wxGTK based packages with gnome profiles

2012-04-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:21:20 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: OK, looks like I misunderstood how wxwidgets work and most opinions point to enable wxwidgets by default in gnome profiles, ok with that solution? As I mentioned in the bug I'd like it default for desktop. There's nothing

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due mrness retirement

2012-04-07 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:02:17 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: dev-util/dialogblocks dev-util/helpblocks wxwidgets will take these. -- fonts, gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due bass retirement

2012-04-07 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:09:39 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El lun, 19-03-2012 a las 21:20 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:34:22 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El dom, 18-03-2012 a las 23:56 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-video/ffmpeg: ffmpeg-0.10.2.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-03-20 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:05:46 -0300 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: imho it doesnt hurt anyone to have fine-grained control what could be discussed is to put these into a use expand variable, to better distinguish between important useflags and less important ones is that what

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due bass retirement

2012-03-20 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:34:22 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El dom, 18-03-2012 a las 23:56 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:25:58 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer: app-doc

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due bass retirement

2012-03-19 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:25:58 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer: app-doc/ebookmerge This is something bass wrote that grabs html manuals from http://htmlhelp.berlios.de (which doesn't exist anymore - it moved to

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-video/ffmpeg: ffmpeg-0.10.2.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-03-18 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:54:03 + (UTC) Alexis Ballier (aballier) aball...@gentoo.org wrote: aballier12/03/18 13:54:03 Modified: ChangeLog Added:ffmpeg-0.10.2.ebuild Log: version bump (Portage version: 2.2.0_alpha91/cvs/Linux x86_64)

[gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-12 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:34:37 + Sven Vermeulen sw...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:49:11AM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: We should really have some documentation on how to create a minimal initramfs that mounts /usr (if we don't already, I haven't looked). I've never needed

[gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-12 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:08:47 + Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.org wrote: The quickest initramfs, assuming that ALL kernel modules you need to boot are already compiled into your kernel: genkernel --install --no-ramdisk-modules initramfs Plus optionally, If you know you don't need any

[gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:27:06 -0600 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: An initramfs which does this is created by =sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25 or =sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be sure any initramfs you create pre-mounts /usr. We should really have

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2012-03-05 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:17:12 + Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: app-text/chm2pdf I maintain a bunch of chm stuff, so I'll help with this. sys-apps/cpuid Got it. -- fonts, gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-24 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:03:13 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: I don't know if this has been discussed before but, what issues are preventing us from unmasking gcc-4.6 (and think on a near stabilization

[gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-21 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:26:38 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El lun, 20-02-2012 a las 20:02 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:17:30 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 02/20/2012 05:03 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages/build systems not honoring LINGUAS and a sane solution

2012-02-20 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:58:06 +0100 Piotr Szymaniak szar...@grubelek.pl wrote: localepurge will be removed from portage [1]. As I was (/am) heavy user of it I found it funny that linguas takes care of the proper locale installation [2]. Maybe it should, but there's some major failure in lots

[gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-20 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: I don't know if this has been discussed before but, what issues are preventing us from unmasking gcc-4.6 (and think on a near stabilization)? I have read hardmask message but it simply explains that it's masked for

[gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-20 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:30:40 -0500 Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 19:03 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: Grub is the only blocker. I don't want to unmask something that makes people's systems unbootable. I'm also out of ideas and open to suggestions

[gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-20 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:17:30 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 02/20/2012 05:03 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: I don't know if this has been discussed before but, what issues are preventing us from unmasking gcc

[gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-20 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:37:39 -0500 Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: Ryan, I took a look at the problem cited in your bug report. I suggest compiling sys-boot/grub with CFLAGS=-O0 -ggdb3, attaching gdb to grub-install and then watching what happens in the debugger. If you compare

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global use flag: ayatana

2012-02-14 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:47:01 + Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Post the description so we can bikeshed it to death. You got me. I did not post it on purpose to avoid all the bikeshedding for no reason. The flag is now global so the description is: ;) ayatana - Build in

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global use flag: ayatana

2012-02-13 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:44:41 + Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Just a heads up. There are more than 5 packages using the 'ayatana' use flag so I will add it to global use flags in 48 hours. Post the description so we can bikeshed it to death. -- fonts, gcc-porting toolchain,

[gentoo-dev] Re: The following USE changes are necessary to proceed - Why?

2012-02-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:50:39 -0800 Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: #required by net-libs/gnutls-2.12.16[nettle], required by gnutls (argument) =dev-libs/nettle-2.4 gmp I've been tripped up by this in the past. Can we change

[gentoo-dev] Re: The following USE changes are necessary to proceed - Why?

2012-02-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:20:30 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 02/10/2012 06:17 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:50:39 -0800 Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: #required by net-libs/gnutls-2.12.16

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping localepurge

2012-01-30 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:58:30 -0500 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: A question about LINGUAS settings, or the documentation thereof. The URL you pointed to says LINGUAS should then contain a space separated list of two-letter codes, stating which languages are allowed.. But emerge

[gentoo-dev] Keeping older versions around

2012-01-28 Thread Ryan Hill
I've run into this three times today, so I'm a little grumpy. When you bump to a new ~arch version, please consider keeping at least one previous ~arch version around, so if people run into major issues they can at lease try the previously installed version to determine if it's your package at

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sci-electronics/gtkwave: ChangeLog gtkwave-3.3.28.ebuild

2012-01-08 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 16:22:24 + (UTC) Thomas Beierlein (tomjbe) tom...@gentoo.org wrote: tomjbe 12/01/08 16:22:24 Modified: ChangeLog Added:gtkwave-3.3.28.ebuild Log: Strip flags (bug #377935). Version bump. Drop old unstable versions Please

[gentoo-dev] GCC 4.6 status

2012-01-03 Thread Ryan Hill
A bunch of users have been emailing me asking when 4.6 will be unmasked. I really want to get it out the door already but we have a (IMO) substantial blocker. A small number of users have reported that grub built with 4.6 fails to boot their systems. See the last half of bug #360513 for

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2011-12-31 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:59:47 -0600 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: Udev, kmod (which is a replacement for module-init-tools which will be needed by =udev-176), systemd, and soon others, are advocating a major change to the locations where binaries and libraries are stored on linux

[gentoo-dev] Re: {bi,multi}arch support for all x86/amd64/ppc/sparc systems

2011-12-07 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 02:12:37 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: 2) What about grub-2, and while we're on it, is a switch to that expected any time soon, and/or is there a grub-static-2 in the wings? With the grub-1 gpt patches (and hopefully btrfs support at some point) I'm not

[gentoo-dev] Re: So now that we have --quiet-build as default, can we talk about a forced LC_ALL=C again?

2011-12-04 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 07:51:09 +0100 Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 00:51:17 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: How many times have you needed to request build logs in english since the last time you brought this up? How many times have you had

[gentoo-dev] Re: So now that we have --quiet-build as default, can we talk about a forced LC_ALL=C again?

2011-12-04 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:58:06 +0100 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: I too think it is sufficient to have LC_MESSAGES=C in the default make.conf (or somewhere else where the user can easily change it), with a comment to leave it like this for build.log when reporting

[gentoo-dev] Re: So now that we have --quiet-build as default, can we talk about a forced LC_ALL=C again?

2011-12-03 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 04:50:00 +0100 Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: Subject says it all. More and more bug attachments appear that have been generated with non-English locales, and it's a nuisance for both bug reporters and bug wranglers to request/provide the sane alternative that every

[gentoo-dev] Re: filter-mfpmath: has Gentoo out grown it ?

2011-12-02 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:36:16 -0500 Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: I've never thought of -mfpmath=sse as a ricer flag. If anything, it should make floating point calculations more consistent. Not really. It's it's extremely target processor dependent and generally the defaults are the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: =wxGTK-2.6* and =wxpython-2.6*

2011-11-13 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:33:40 +0200 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: # Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org (12 Nov 2011) # Masked for removal in 30 days wrt bug 330683. Use at least 2.8. =dev-python/wxpython-2.6* =dev-python/wxpython-docs-2.6* =x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6* Thanks again.

[gentoo-dev] Re: conversion of USE=nocxx to USE=cxx

2011-11-13 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:42:39 -0500 Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: www-client/google-chrome has RDEPEND==sys-devel/gcc-4.4.0[-nocxx] to ensure that we have a recent version of libstdc++. We basically need to match Ubuntu LTS since that is what Google builds with. E. -- fonts,

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.6 unmasking

2011-11-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:22:17 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: 4.6.2 is now in the tree. It will be unmasked next weekend. Yeah I'm a tease. Looks like we have enough issues that I want to do another patchset. We also have showstopper bugs in grub:0 and libmpeg2 that need looking

[gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:56:22 -0500 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2011 20:39:11 Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2011 19:09:28 Luca Barbato wrote: That could be done, but I'd advise to make sure our users know that the could have a

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] enable verbose build whenever it's possible

2011-11-05 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:58:00 +0100 Kacper Kowalik xarthis...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask that we enable verbose building by default. I have cmake-utils.eclass in mind, because it's dead easy there, but there's a lot of packages that support things like make V=1 or make VERBOSE=1

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] enable verbose build whenever it's possible

2011-11-05 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 21:00:32 +0100 Maciej Mrozowski reave...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen too many bugs reports today that gave me cute, colorful build.logs and almost no information about underlaying bug... That's usually because users sometimes attach only relevant parts of build log

[gentoo-dev] Re: ChangeLog in eclass dir (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-02 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 01:11:46 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Dear all, 1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? In my personal opinion this is missing there, if only for historical reasons... Should we still start one? as there was only positive

[gentoo-dev] Re: ChangeLog in eclass dir (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-02 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 01:41:29 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 01:42:44 Ryan Hill wrote: On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 01:11:46 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: as there was only positive feedback to this suggestion, I'll create

[gentoo-dev] Re: Old changelogs / eclass dir

2011-10-31 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:39:39 + Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/31/2011 05:45 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:46:30 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Dear all, two small

[gentoo-dev] Re: hardened glibc and gcc dependencies

2011-10-30 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:24:12 +0200 Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org wrote: On 28.10.2011 2.50, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 01:47, Ryan Hill wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:03:12 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: So, I honestly see no reason why toolchain should not start

[gentoo-dev] Re: Old changelogs / eclass dir

2011-10-30 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:46:30 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Dear all, two small suggestions regarding ChangeLogs: 1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? In my personal opinion this is missing there, if only for historical reasons... Should we still

[gentoo-dev] Re: hardened glibc and gcc dependencies

2011-10-27 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:03:12 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org wrote: So, I honestly see no reason why toolchain should not start using EAPI 2. I await your patch to toolchain.eclass. :P -- fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense toolchain,

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: sed script redundancy

2011-10-27 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 20 May 2011 17:39:22 +0200 Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: for a while now I've been wondering if all those sed scripts in all those ebuilds are really effective. To find out, I've tried a couple of angles on a sed hook that basically dissects the sed command line provided,

[gentoo-dev] Re: [Council] ChangeLog generation within Gentoo

2011-10-26 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:33:56 +0200 Bruno bonbon...@internet.lu wrote: Is there some guideline about old entries in the ChangeLog? Over the past months ChangeLogs represent a big part of the tree, some of them being pretty big and going back many changes (hundreds of them) and years (even

[gentoo-dev] Re: Building hardened gcc specs always, just not enabling them by default

2011-10-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:26:01 +0200 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: On 10/24/11 12:58 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: Well not totally on their own, they'd report it and we'd have to see what we want to do on an ad hoc basis. Fair enough, that's why I suggested to make the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Moving more hardening features to default?

2011-10-20 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:40:43 -0400 Anthony G. Basile bluen...@gentoo.org wrote: USE=hardened refers to only toolchain hardening. The problems there are mostly packages which break with PIE because they (ab)use assembly. Things like virtualbox and some codecs. This can become a thorny mess.

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: news item for png15

2011-10-15 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:17:17 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: Ocne you have identified the broken files, you can either delete them, ^ edit them in place and replace png14 with png15, or re-emerge the packages Otherwise good. -- fonts, gcc-porting, it

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: news item for png15

2011-10-13 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:01:50 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: Title: Upgrade to libpng15 Author: Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2011-10-14 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: media-libs/libpng-1.5 After

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: news item for png15

2011-10-13 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:01:50 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: Title: Upgrade to libpng15 Author: Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2011-10-14 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: media-libs/libpng-1.5 After

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:52:42 +0100 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Seems like none of you ever bothered to read the bug about pngcrush and what was discussed there. It is getting a little bit of a habit to escalate minor problems to flames in Gentoo. So feel free to write/say/do

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:09:21 +0100 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/11/11 04:00, Ryan Hill wrote: On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:33:15 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: It's not like fastened lastriting hasn't

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:41:21 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: Isn't this the same situation with gcc stabilizations? Once the timeframe for fixing broken packages with e.g gcc-4.5 is passed, the remaining broken packages will be gone. Absolutely not. They aren't even masked

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation

2011-10-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:33:07 + Sven Vermeulen sw...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi guys There is some FUD regarding GCC upgrades and I don't have the proper knowledge to write a correct document on GCC upgrades. As you are currently aware, we have a GCC upgrade guide [1], but it has seen its last

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:41:15 +0100 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/08/11 22:45, Matt Turner wrote: On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 10/08/2011 02:19 PM, Matt Turner wrote:

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:33:15 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: It's not like fastened lastriting hasn't happened before. I question your motives in picking this particular one. It's not like I expected cookies for the time I've put into this porting effort, but not this attack

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation

2011-10-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:27:04 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: The problem generally occurs when I decided I've waited long enough for a long released upstream gcc (4.x.1 and often 4.x.2 are released already!) to get unmasked even to ~arch. Of course, having been thru this

[gentoo-dev] Re: Candidates for global USE flags

2011-10-01 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:19:26 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: 17 tools 9 utils tools, and utils, what's the difference? perhaps pick one and unify them into global USE flag Saying what? Install optional tools or utilities. That's pretty useless as far as

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.6 unmasking

2011-09-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:10:13 +0200 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@gentoo.org wrote: Il giorno ven, 23/09/2011 alle 20.38 -0600, Ryan Hill ha scritto: If you have any issues with 4.6 itself or patches you need applied, now is the time to speak up. There should be already a bug open about

[gentoo-dev] GCC 4.6 unmasking

2011-09-23 Thread Ryan Hill
Now that I finally have some time for Gentoo.I'd like to get GCC 4.6 unmasked sometime in the next month. Thanks to everyone but me, we only have a few bugs remaining on the tracker. None of them I consider critical except maybe mplayer (I'd like someone from media-video to look at applying that

[gentoo-dev] Re: removing ebuilds

2011-07-31 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 05:29:52 -0400 Michael Sterrett mr_bon...@gentoo.org wrote: Just as a reminder - you can't break the stable tree by removing ebuilds even if there's a big scary security bug. Well it wasn't done on purpose. I restored the latest stable ebuild until the arch teams do

[gentoo-dev] Re: recent change in wxwidgets.eclass potentially breaks packages

2011-07-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:19:31 +0200 justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: On 17/07/11 11:16, Michał Górny wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:05:39 +0200 justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi all, the following change has some bad effects on packages in the tree. I found it with a package having this

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/nspluginwrapper: ChangeLog nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r1.ebuild nspluginwrapper-1.3.0.ebuild

2011-07-12 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:00:41 + (UTC) Patrick McLean (chutzpah) chutz...@gentoo.org wrote: chutzpah11/07/11 15:00:41 Modified: ChangeLog Added:nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r1.ebuild Removed: nspluginwrapper-1.3.0.ebuild Log: Revision

[gentoo-dev] Re: Disabling locale at emerge output

2011-04-28 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:00:23 +0200 Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:10:55 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: See, you're thinking primarily in terms of bugzilla. Like the only reason someone would want to see this stuff is to paste it to a bug

[gentoo-dev] Re: Disabling locale at emerge output

2011-04-27 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:02:37 +0200 Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:05:03 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: You want to force English on all our users because you can't be bothered to ask a reporter to repost an error message using LC_ALL=C

[gentoo-dev] Re: Disabling locale at emerge output

2011-04-27 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:26:02 +0200 Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:47:46 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: Are you saying you are setting up the tree-wide project that automatically translates LC_MESSAGES? Round of applause! Nope, but I am

[gentoo-dev] Re: Disabling locale at emerge output

2011-04-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:31:30 +0200 Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am quite getting annoyed by bugzilla attached outputs in various interesting languages like Portugalese or French. I can read Russian so that is at least bit ok

[gentoo-dev] Re: Disabling locale at emerge output

2011-04-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:57:06 +0200 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Alternatively, portage could alert the user to submit bug reports only with a C or English locale if a different one is detected. +1 -- fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites - app-text/gnochm

2011-04-23 Thread Ryan Hill
Masked for removal in 30 days. The last release was 2007 and there better alternatives for every toolkit (chmsee (gtk), kchmviewer (qt), xchm (wxGTK)). -- fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.6.0

2011-04-03 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 05:50:32 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Ryan Hill posted on Sat, 02 Apr 2011 22:11:12 -0600 as excerpted: You may also want to test your packages with the new -Ofast option to be sure it doesn't have any hardcoded assumptions about -O flags

[gentoo-dev] GCC 4.6.0

2011-04-02 Thread Ryan Hill
I just added 4.6.0 to the tree. We probably won't be unmasking it any time soon (after 4.6.1 for sure), but please start testing your packages now so we can get things rolling. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html For general testing you may want to add the gcc-porting overlay to avoid known

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: postgresql.eselect

2011-03-30 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:00:21 -0400 Aaron W. Swenson titanof...@gentoo.org wrote: As for the lib_dir(), I'm unsure if that's a good way to handle things. Or, if it's really the best way, even though it's ugly. There's nothing preventing me from making it a user configurable...it's just that at

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: postgresql.eselect

2011-03-29 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:05:01 -0400 Aaron W. Swenson titanof...@gentoo.org wrote: - Suppressing stdout of commands like do_action env update is fine, but why suppress stderr? Because 'ls' would complain that files didn't exist, such as lib*.dylib when on a Linux system. It doesn't

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/PyZilla: PyZilla-0.1.0.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml

2011-03-27 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:09:09 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 01:17:46PM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: I propose that we should be more aggressive about package.masking (for

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/PyZilla: PyZilla-0.1.0.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml

2011-03-27 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 02:55:14 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org wrote: The current problem is burnt-out or semi-active devs who commit occasionally, but aren't able to help with any herd-related work because they're out of touch. As such, their presence in the team gives a false

[gentoo-dev] Re: FEATURES=test, sys-devel/gcc ignored test failures

2011-03-22 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:09:46 +0100 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: On 3/21/11 11:02 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: It does to me, I use them all the time. ;) The important part is that we install the test results, which can then be used for regression testing when rolling patchsets

[gentoo-dev] Re: git-2.eclass final review

2011-03-22 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:08:53 -0400 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: rsync -rlpgo . ${EGIT_SOURCEDIR} \ this means you need to have DEPEND=net-misc/rsync. why not just use `cp -pPR` instead ? i vaguely recall rsync being slower than a straight cp too ... not much point of doing a

[gentoo-dev] Re: git-2.eclass final review

2011-03-22 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:41:27 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:08:53 -0400 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: rsync -rlpgo . ${EGIT_SOURCEDIR} \ this means you need to have DEPEND=net-misc/rsync. why not just use `cp -pPR` instead ? i

[gentoo-dev] Re: FEATURES=test, sys-devel/gcc ignored test failures

2011-03-21 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:07:33 +0100 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: sys-devel/gcc runs tests, but the results are ignored and I remember the tests fail most of the time. s/most/all Because the tests take long time to run and fail anyway (I understand it's non-trivial to fix

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-p2p/bittorrent

2011-03-15 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:27:21 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: # Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org (12 Mar 2011) # Mask net-p2p/bittorrent for removal 20110412 (#336166) # Dead upstream. Requires wxpython-2.6 which is being removed. # Doesn't build with python-2.6. Doesn't start. net

[gentoo-dev] Re: virtualx eclass possible issue

2011-03-12 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:37:28 +0100 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: Shouldn't that last line look more like this (notice $retval instead of $?): [[ $retval -ne 0 ]] die ${FUNCNAME}: the ${VIRTALX_COMMAND} failed. Sure looks like it to me. -- fonts, gcc-porting,

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-p2p/bittorrent

2011-03-11 Thread Ryan Hill
# Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org (12 Mar 2011) # Mask net-p2p/bittorrent for removal 20110412 (#336166) # Dead upstream. Requires wxpython-2.6 which is being removed. # Doesn't build with python-2.6. Doesn't start. net-p2p/bittorrent -- fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense

[gentoo-dev] Re: Bugzilla - New Default Status Workflow

2011-03-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:52:19 +0100 Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:06:54 +0100 Amadeusz Żołnowski aide...@gentoo.org wrote: Status = NEW Assignee = bug-wranglers - Status = UNCONFIRMED Status = NEW Assignee = [maintainer] - Status = CONFIRMED Who

[gentoo-dev] Re: Quantity of open bugs

2011-03-10 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:25:10 + Kevin F. Quinn m...@kevquinn.com wrote: I would guess these old untouched bugs aren't actually going to be touched, ever - a lot simply won't be relevant any more for one reason or another. All they're doing is cluttering up bugzilla. I never understand

[gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade

2011-02-14 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:37:27 -0300 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Have you thought about doing something like what was done for wxwidgets ? - an eselect module for out of portage builds - an eclass creating symlinks for libpng.pc/.so in $T and setting the correct -L flag for the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:24:14 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 14.23 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner ha scritto: But both that document as well as uncountable lines of source code are rather old. While the source code isn't that large a

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