@devs,
If your blog is being aggregated on Planet Gentoo / Universe, it's time to send
us a copy of your smiling face. I'm putting out a request for some
hackergotchis. Really, you don't want just a few of us to have all the fun, do you?
Basically, I want to get some bobble heads up on the
Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:11:01PM +0200, Jakub Moc wrote:
Uh... Sorry but it's pretty hard to imagine something more annoying than
an ebuild that dies after a couple of hours compile just because
upstream decided to rename Changelog.txt to ChangeLog.txt and noone
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
I'd say no bugs, 30 days, passes internal tests, being run by users =
stablise, for the majority of packages (obviously, there may be some
exceptions...).
Luckily, you're not making the call. ;]
The majority of packages are also the ones that need more extensive
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
Why can't emerge just print out an fat warning if its going to
downgrade ? Would save people from much, much trouble.
# emerge -pv =coreutils-5.2.1-r7
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild UD]
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
BTW: how do you enforce an minimum gtk1 version ?
You know, a lot of these questions of yours could be answered clearly if
you look at the ebuild documentation and developer manuals.
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ is a good start. :)
Steve
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So, I'm curious -- did anyone ever come to a decision what to do on the
matter? The list traffic seems to be dying down. Maybe I just missed
the final decision email.
Not that it really matters, but here's my 2 cents:
If its a pita to maintain, hard mask everything and just say sorry, no
Chris White wrote:
On Thursday 31 August 2006 07:24, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
I think that cairo, logrotate, openexr, udev and vnc USE flags should be
global. These are now local USE flags.
Gotta say why along with that.
Local use flags:
cairo: 15
logrotate: 8
I've just package.masked media-video/lve and media-video/klvemkdvd which will be
removed in 30 days unless someone offers to maintain them.
See bug #145200 for more info.
Steve
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John Mylchreest wrote:
Hi Guys,
I've been very slack about announcing some of our new guys recently, and
not least Javier Villavicencio.
Javier, known on IRC as The_Paya, joined us to work on all aspects
Gentoo/FreeBSD plus anything else he can throw his skills at! Coming
from Argentina he has
I finally got off my butt and added a small tweak to the feeds for
Planet Gentoo, and now you get to see the hackergotchis in your RSS
reader as well.
Which brings me to my next point -- hardly anyone on planet has one.
Send one in! It doesn't have to be a headshot either, an avatar will do
I just removed these no longer valid entries from package.mask since the
packages have been removed from the tree:
=net-dns/dnsmasq-2.21
=app-editors/vim-core-7.0_alpha*
=app-editors/vim-7.0_alpha*
=app-editors/gvim-7.0_alpha*
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Planet Gentoo's backend got upgraded today, so if anyone notices any weird
funkies, please let me know.
Thanks for beta-testing. :)
Steve
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Stuart Herbert wrote:
Besides, I'm sure we'll delay our own progress whilst we figure out
how to make seeds work well ;-) I think folks are getting carried
away here! Let's get stuff working first, eh?
I think its also worth mentioning that the whole thing is also currently
in *planning*
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
An solution could be an database of packages scheduled for
removal. But this database has to be maintained. And it doesn't
seem that there's someone who's interested in doing this extra work.
Well, there is bugzilla. Just track any bugs with [EMAIL PROTECTED] in
# Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org (3 Aug 2008)
# Unmaintained. Masked for removal wrt #233394.
# Open security bugs #208566, #215006 and #231836.
media-video/mplayer-bin
Steve
I had an idea for some new fields to go in metadata.xml. Not sure if we
would need a GLEP for this or not? Anyway, what do you guys think:
Two things I can think of adding that would be useful:
- ChangeLog URL
- Bug Tracker
I know I hate hunting down the two of them, and both of them could
# Steve Dibb bean...@gentoo.org (5 Nov 2008)
# Mask realplayer, real codecs for security, upstream issues, bug 245662
# http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713051.html
media-video/realplayer
On 06/03/2010 04:36 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
For the record, media-optical herd is currently without any devs and
also the mail alias in d.g.o is empty so nobody is really reading the
bugmail.
In case you want to join it...
Added myself back.
Steve
On 06/03/2010 08:12 AM, Steve Dibb wrote:
On 06/03/2010 04:36 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
For the record, media-optical herd is currently without any devs and
also the mail alias in d.g.o is empty so nobody is really reading the
bugmail.
In case you want to join it...
Added myself back
On 06/16/2010 04:47 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
Pawel,
On 06/16/10 18:39, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
I have searched a few places for rules on tone,
I believe one can't solve this problem by using rules.
any ideas what could help?
Well, I'm all about practical ideas,
Arturo Garcia wrote:
And, I won't give up. I am very patient and packages.gentoo.org WILL come
back to life one way or another. Even if it has to be rewritten.
Personally, I don't see the problem of someone else picking up the pieces,
rewriting it, and going to town with it. The source
The little lame use flag has started showing up more in local use flags,
and all for the same purpose, MP3 support using LAME libraries. I vote
we move it into a global use flag. Any objections, let me know.
$ quse -D lame
local:lame:media-libs/libquicktime: Support LAME mp3 encoding
Mart Raudsepp wrote:
On T, 2007-10-09 at 21:03 -0600, Steve Dibb wrote:
The little lame use flag has started showing up more in local use flags,
and all for the same purpose, MP3 support using LAME libraries. I vote
we move it into a global use flag. Any objections, let me know.
$ quse -D
Dawid Węgliński wrote:
Dnia 09-10-2007, wto o godzinie 20:56 -0600, Steve Dibb napisał(a):
# Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] (11 Aug 2007)
# Old, unmaintained, pending removal
www-client/planet
punted
Anything to use instead?
Well, anyone can ressurect the ebuild if they want.
Besides
Okay, this is my first attempt at writing an eclass, so comments are
welcome.
First of all, here's the background. Sword modules are currently lumped
together in one general package (sword-modules), when it would be
simpler and easier to track them by having them as individual packages,
Steve Dibb wrote:
Who's going to help?
*volunteers*
Er, that was meant as an action, not a noun. :)
Steve
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Grant Goodyear wrote:
Google has been hinting not-so-subtlely that there's going to be
a 2008 Google Summer of Code. I expect that if we want to participate,
we're going to have to have our ducks in a row by March, if not
earlier.
So, does Gentoo want to participate this year?
Yes
If so,
Steve Dibb wrote:
Okay, this is my first attempt at writing an eclass, so comments are
welcome.
Okay, haven't heard anything back on this, everyone I've talked to
personally seems to think it's good to go. I've been busy with work
which is why I haven't pursued it further, but I'll
punted from tree,
media-sound/jmax
see bug 73490
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Christian Faulhammer wrote:
What we propose is proper testing and keywording by anyone
around...not just team members.
I agree... our main problem is manpower -- people actually working on
the stable bugs. I've tried to do it myself a few times, but each time
it just burns me out to the
Fabio Erculiani wrote:
media-libs/x264-svn - dev-lang/yasm
dev-libs/lzo - dev-lang/nasm
sys-apps/attr - sys-devel/autoconf
*snip*
Some of those aren't broken, and I just fixed a few media ones in the
tree, but that list is similiar to what I was asking for earlier, and a
good way to
I've taken over maintainership of webmin, usermin, and already assigned
the bugs to me. Thanks to armin76 for recent security bumps.
That's all.
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@arches and anyone else who wants to listen in,
I'm dropping stable keywords on alsa-driver 1.0.14 for a couple of
reasons. One, since I'm maintaining it, I'm offering only limited
support, and there are no plans to stable any of the other versions.
Secondly, ALSA herd doesn't support it,
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400
Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package
metadata. It does not address any future ideas that others may have
had or suggested. It merely gives developers the necessary
Any objections to moving MP4 from a local to a global USE flag. For the
record, MP4 is a multimedia container to store multiple audio/video
formats in.
Currently we have 4 ebuilds using it, all for the same description.
Steve
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Josh Saddler wrote:
Steve Dibb wrote:
Any objections to moving MP4 from a local to a global USE flag. For
the record, MP4 is a multimedia container to store multiple
audio/video formats in.
Currently we have 4 ebuilds using it, all for the same description.
4 doesn't sound quite worthy
Okay, this is something that I've wondered about for a while, but need
to ask -- what is the best way (do we even have a policy) for using
package.use.mask in profiles?
A couple of specific questions:
If I need to mask a use flag because of use flag dependencies that won't
work on a
Peter Volkov wrote:
В В�к, 30/11/2008 в 14:50 +0100, Tobias Scherbaum пишет:
In most (nearly all?) cases a HOMEPAGE change does also affect older versions.
Does someone have an example where older versions stay at an old homepage
and newer versions moved to a new homepage?
Yes. This
Richard Freeman wrote:
I still don't see why we need to be encoding metadata in filenames. PERL
doesn't care what a file extension is, python doesn't care, bzip2
doesn't care, tar doesn't care, gzip doesn't care, and even ld-linux.so
doesn't care. I'm sure that in at least some of these cases
# Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] (04 Sep 2006)
# lve and klvemkdvd are unmaintained, see bug #145200
# masked before being punted (treecleaner)
media-video/lve
media-video/klvemkdvd
Punted
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Was previously masked anyway, now flagged for removal
# Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] (4 Oct 2006)
# masking media-video/jahshaka for treecleaners, bug(s) 150116
# Pending removal Nov 4th
media-video/jahshaka
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Natanael Copa wrote:
That leaves me with the conclution that its best to just continue to run
my own local portage tree and submit bugreports once in a while and hope
for the best, just like I have always been doing.
No matter what community you decide to participate in (Gentoo, local,
church,
Donnie Berkholz wrote:
Tim Yamin wrote:
Lately however, the fun and the motivation just hasn't been there
for the reasons I've outlined above; it's finally taken its toll, and
I believe the time to move onto new projects and ventures has finally
come for me.
I would like to wish all of you
If no one objects, I'd like to add an mplayer global USE flag to replace all the
local ones. 5 ebuilds use it right now for all the same purpose, and I'm going
to need one on mythvideo as well.
Steve
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Donnie Berkholz wrote:
m h wrote:
Other than a text editor?
I'd like to have a tool that can add USE flags on a per package or
global level. (I'm doing this in some build scripts and would prefer
just to have a tool, rather than sed or some other shell hackery).
Probably enhancing
m h wrote:
use-config --add --component sys-devel/gcc --flag fortran
(adds the fortran USE flag to package.use for gcc)
A --remove would remove the fortran USE flag, and --unset would put
-fortran instead. A --global would update make.conf instead of
package.use.
Add to make.conf:
flagedit
I forgot to send out an email yesterday, this has been p.masked for
treecleaner removal.
See bug 65923 for all the gory details.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65923
To quote jakub, It either doesn't emerge, or doesn't work, has no
maintainer, this bug has been sitting here for
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:33:26 +0100 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a):
| | What on earth are you talking about here? And why almost 6 months
| | is not enough for someone to respond on a bug with a simple
| | we'll only support newer versions
# Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] (4 Oct 2006)
# masking media-video/jahshaka for treecleaners, bug(s) 150116
# Pending removal Nov 4th
media-video/jahshaka
Gone from the tree.
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Okay, doing some QA work with my new scripts, found a few ebuilds with local USE
flags that do not have an entry in use.local.desc. Bad, bad!
For some of the missing use flags (net, avahi, libnotify), I recommend moving
them into global USE flags, and will unless someone objects.
multislot
With my new little database, I ran a query to get the count of local use flags
that are being used, to see which ones can be candidates for moving to a global
USE flag instead. Here's the query results:
http://wonkabar.org/~steve/gentoo/use_local_count.txt
I've gone through some of them and
arfrever wrote:
I suggest changing name of libao USE flag back to ao.
This flag was recently (Yesterday 22:08:44 UTC - 22:12:08 UTC) globalized and
its name was changed, but ebuilds still use older name.
Whoops, that was a slip on my part.
Fixed in CVS.
Steve
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In cleaning up the USE flags, I've found some global ones that have been
orphaned.
dba - Enables dbm-compatible layers
dio - Adds direct i/o support
gb - Adds support for Gnome Basic to gnumeric
ingres - Adds support for Ingres database
msession - Adds support for msession daemon
If no one
Robin H. Johnson wrote:
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 08:53:10PM -0700, Steve Dibb wrote:
dba - Enables dbm-compatible layers
dio - Adds direct i/o support
ingres - Adds support for Ingres database
msession - Adds support for msession daemon
These are still in use! See the php eclasses!
Alright
Hi guys,
There are more than a few packages with missing metadata.xml in the
portage tree. I've setup my funky little QA website to report on which
ones fall in that category, and here is the list right here:
http://spaceparanoids.org/gentoo/gpnl/qa.php?q=metadata
I've spent the morning
# Deprecated: upstream dead, unsupported, doesn't compile anymore.
# Pending removal Dec 26
# See #146571
net-p2p/gtkhx
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# Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] (14 Oct 2006)
# masking media-radio/xastir for treecleaners, bug(s) 109695
# Pending removal 14th November 2006
media-radio/xastir
# Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] (14 Oct 2006)
# masking media-libs/gltt for treecleaners, bug(s) 145969
# Pending removal 14th
# Upstream wants it dead, we want it dead, it's time to die.
# Pending removal Dec 26 2006, bug 156373
media-libs/jpeg-mmx
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# Diego Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (18 August 2005)
# Toxine needs to be verified with upstream for a few issues.
media-video/toxine
Se ha ido. Chau.
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media-video/xmovie bug 100848 (masked for almost a year)
media-gfx/alg 156623 (upstream request to remove)
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# Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] (23 Oct 2006)
# Masked pending removal on Nov 23. Use games-fps/tremulous instead.
games-fps/quake3-tremulous
# Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] (25 Oct 2006)
# Masked pending removal on 25 Nov 2006. See bug #134621
net-www/netscape-plugger
# Donnie Berkholz
games-server/hlstats - removed per games herd request
media-libs/jpeg-mmx - masked by vapier
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Christel Dahlskjaer wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 14:36 -0800, Chris White wrote:
Scale5X announcement just hit my inbox, so away we go. Scale 5X will be
taking place at:
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1005
The Westin Los Angeles Airport from
media-video/dxr2-driver has been removed from the tree
See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153365
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@devs,
I'd like to propose a new herd: religion. The herd would take care of the Bible
and religious software along with any genealogy programs in the tree, which
there actually are a few of. Sword, gnomesword, sword modules, bibletime,
gramps would all fall under the responsibilty of the
Wordpress has had a few security issues lately, so I'm dropping all stable
keywords on affected arches (amd64, hppa, ppc, sparc, x86).
See security bugs 163817, 168449, 168529.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Feel free to add it to your package.keywords file
in /etc/portage if you want to keep
# Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] (8 Mar 2006)
# dead upstream, requires xmms to build
# p.masking for treecleaners
media-sound/DBMix
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Any objections to globalizing the 'gs' use flag on support for ghostscript?
$ euse -i gs
global use flags (searching: gs)
no matching entries found
local use flags (searching: gs)
Michael Krelin wrote:
If you're feeling ambitious, it might be more appropriate to change that
use flag to ``ps: Add support for postscript'' so that it describes the
functionality rather than the package providing that functionality.
Isn't less ambiguous 'postscript' even better?
I was
I've been putting this of for a long time, but the planet software was finally
upgraded.
Lemme know if you have any problems with feeds or what not.
http://planet.gentoo.org/
http://planet.gentoo.org/universe/
Thanks,
Steve
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On 20/04/07, Joshua Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rob C wrote:
On 19/04/07, *Christian Faulhammer* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On the issue of QA, I think enabling
Hi all,
[CC'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] as requested by GLEP amendment from March 8th, 2007]
A subset of council members decided today that multiple version suffixes
are illegal in the tree pending further notice. This decission can be
appealed at the next Council meeting. If there is sufficient
Dawid Węgliński wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Hi there
As a fresh developer i would like to introduce you all new subproject I
have just started. It is Gentoo Artwork Project. Its official webpage is
under [1]. Project consists of two members so far, so this is why we
The idea came up a few months ago about creating a 'religion' herd. I finally
got around to following through, and with robbat2's help, created the 'theology'
herd.
The basic description is to take care of packages relating to religion,
genealogy and humanities in general.
Anyone is of
Apparently, sqlite needs a maintainer (see bug 176942). If no one objects, I'll
take care of it... anything I should know before hand?
Thanks guys
Steve
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Hi everybody,
the following list of packages uses a invalid herd tag in its
metadata.xml. Invalid in the sense of 'could-not-be-found-in-herds.xml'
FWIW, I've been providing similar results on a daily basis for some time
now at GPNL (Gentoo Packages that Need Lovin) website:
Thilo Bangert wrote:
Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Thilo Bangert wrote:
All packages with herdmaintainer-needed/herd will be moved to
herdno-herd/herd.
maintainer-needed is different from no-herd. no-herd is valid when a
dev is maintaining a pkg outside of a herd. no-herd is not
# Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] (8 Mar 2007)
# dead upstream, requires xmms to build
# p.masking for treecleaners
media-sound/DBMix
punted
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Christian Heim wrote:
Here's the first bunch of packages sadly up for grabs, due to maintainers
retiring ..
desktop-wm:
- x11-wm/icewm (bcowan)
I've had this one for awhile.
Steve
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On 07/13/2010 01:32 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:25:51 + (UTC), Kacper Kowalik (xarthisius)
xarthis...@gentoo.org wrote:
if use doc; then
insinto /usr/share/doc/${PF}
doins doc/*.pdf || die
An open question to all:
On 07/14/2010 05:27 PM, Paul Arthur wrote:
On 2010-07-14, William Hubbswilli...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:48:25PM +0200, Thomas Beierlein wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:27:47 -0500 William Hubbs
willi...@gentoo.org wrote: =20
All, =20 I have recently noticed that our
On 07/31/2010 12:51 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Saturday, July 31, 2010 14:27:14 Jacob Godserv wrote:
Honestly not sure what convention is for naming, but I found this
recently, and thought I might throw it out there:
~ $ euse -i lame
[+ C ] lame - Prefer using LAME libraries for MP3
On 08/30/10 08:20, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 16:14, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
It seems to me that people paying less and less attention to devaway
system[1]. As you may see yourselves, few of the entries are 2-3 year old.
This
either means that these
On 06/21/2011 08:40 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
2011/6/21 Michał Górnymgo...@gentoo.org:
Hello,
As we discussed for a while, the media-sound/ category has grown very
large and it may be a good idea to split it.
Right now, it contains audio players, editing software, converters,
sound
It's time to give opus its own global USE flag. 15 ebuilds use it locally for
the same thing, and I've got another ebuild in the works to add it.
Current usage:
local:opus:media-libs/mediastreamer: Enable opus codec support
local:opus:media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta: Enable Opus audio codec
# Steve Dibb <bean...@gentoo.org> (22 Feb 2018)
# Very old project of mine, hasn't worked in years, no plans to
# support, and media-video/mpv can provide resume playback by default.
# Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #648568
media-video/mplayer-resume
# Steve Dibb <bean...@gentoo.org> (22 Feb 2018)
# Dead upstream, long since replaced by libaacs for functionality.
# Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #648560
media-video/aacskeys
# Steve Dibb <bean...@gentoo.org> (22 Feb 2018)
# Dead upstream, never really used, libdvdread and libdvdnav provide
# DVD access.
# Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #648566
media-libs/libdvdplay
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