[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Long
Natanael Copa wrote: > > What you didn't need to be a gentoo dev to be a package maintainer? Lets > say anyone could be marked as maintainer in an ebuild. When there is a > bug, the package maintainer fixes the bug and submits an updated > ebuild/patch whatever. This person has no commit access. >

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Last rites for $package ...

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Long
>> Or you haven't talked to me or Beandog at all; since he has been >> working on this a while (now with upgraded tools!). > > what i'd like to see is a system, to which one would give a package name, > which then handles the removal (almost) automatically. > > that way devs would have an easier

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: RFC: Last rites for $package ...

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Long
Alec Warner wrote: > Steve Long wrote: >> This sounds like an excellent idea. Do the `upgraded tools' already >> automate this process? > > The 'upgraded tools' was in regards to the GPNL project; since Beandog > was using portageq to import metadata into

[gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November

2006-11-03 Thread Steve Long
Mike Frysinger wrote: > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even > vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole > Gentoo dev list to see. > I appreciate that many will be against this idea, but I'd still like to discuss it: a binary repository for gen

[gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November

2006-11-07 Thread Steve Long
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > From all of the large Gentoo deployments I've done (one of which > exceeded 200 machines), you're approaching this the wrong way. > ... Thanks for the concise and clear explanation. It's the first time I've read a description of how Gentoo might be used on an entreprise le

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November

2006-11-07 Thread Steve Long
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 03 November 2006 03:47, Steve Long wrote: >> If gentoo is still serious about enterprise adoption > > Gentoo as an entire whole is not really "serious" about anything > I thought you were serious about being a great project.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November

2006-11-07 Thread Steve Long
[I'm separating the ABI issue into the thread below from Marius Mauch] Stuart Herbert wrote: > I'm interested in providing binary packages for updating > systems, yes - systems that are running seeds. Whether they're > provided through Gentoo or not hasn't yet been discussed at all. We > need to

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November

2006-11-07 Thread Steve Long
Marius Mauch wrote: >> Sure. Presumably you test packages with standard C-flags as users are >> advised to before bug-reporting? Other than USE flags what else would >> make your packages unsuitable for others? If it's only USE flags, >> then at least the pkg is a start- if others want different se

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November

2006-11-09 Thread Steve Long
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 22:47, Steve Long wrote: >> I understand the ABI changes at major compiler upgrades, especially for >> C++. Is this such a problem for C? > > i think you misread his e-mail > > regardless, stable ABIs guarantee

[gentoo-dev] Versioning the tree

2006-11-27 Thread Steve Long
Hi, There was a discussion a few weeks back about stopping system b0rkage; a possible sol'n had been previously discussed on the fora, ie having the tree in svn for easier branching. I understand from the recent ANNOUNCE by Robin Johnson that svn access is now available, as well as anonymous CVS

[gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-27 Thread Steve Long
> In any event, what I'd like to raise is the issue of having a > (semi-)official version of gentoo that lags behind the cutting-edge distro > for stability. Is this feasible? > > Apologies if this is already being discussed elsewhere. > I appreciate that there is GLEP 19 according to earlier dis

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-28 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > I have a script which already does several things: > > #1. grabs "best_visible" for stable on each arch > #2. repeat for each SLOT > #3. purge unnecessary files from FILESDIR > #4. strip to only "stable" profiles from profiles.desc > #5. purge unnecessary USE from use.lo

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > It would be much better to simply use what we currently have, > though. Honestly, I was pursuing this with Infra a few months back, and > have since dropped it, due to time constraints. I plan on picking it > back up, as I said, so I don't know what is necessary at this

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Long
>> There'll always be GLSA's to respond to. That's another issue that >> needs to be handled w/ a slow-moving tree. Are you going to restrict >> changes in the slow-moving tree only to changes against a GLSA? > > That's what we've said. > I don't have a problem with this at all. The slow-moving

[gentoo-dev] Can we have some manners, please?

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Long
Just a general point: I think people are being a bit harsh on Stuart in this thread. I'm picking up on Chris's post as I'm interested in the releng-related stuff, but this isn't exclusively about his responses. Stuart Herbert wrote: > On 11/29/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm

[gentoo-dev] Re: ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Long
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> What, you really think that Donnie doesn't know how the X licence >> handling situation breaks GLEP 23? Just how exactly is ACCEPT_LICENSE >> usable when you have this? > > [ cropped groups of similar license combinations ] > > Pretty usable, whe

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 07:22 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: >> Steve Long wrote: >> > The only question I have, which Stuart also >> > mentioned, is whether all security updates go thru the GLSA process. >> >> Are you asking if al

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Now, we can definitely use help in testing the snapshot. We're going to > be announcing a new round of "Release Testers" for 2007.0 once we get > ramped up into the release cycle. I am going to be working with the > rest of the Release Engineering team to try to come up

[gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Long
Duncan wrote: > Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:23:09 > +: > >> Excellent; pkgcore really sounds great- is there any possibility that >> it'll become the new portage? > > Possibil

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 05:29:22 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Donnie already stated he'd take a patch, so throw the patch his > | direction if you want things changed. > > "If you don't want it to be broken, fix it yourself" is hardly a viable > QA poli

[gentoo-dev] Re: net-firewall/ipp2p maintainer needed

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Long
Jakub Moc wrote: > > net-firewall/ipp2p ebuild is outdated and useless w/ 2.6.17+ kernels > (Bug 141700). It needs a bump to 0.8.2 and some active maintainer, > eradicator apparently doesn't care. > > Please, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141700 if you are > interested in maintaini

[gentoo-dev] Re: Update from User Relations wrt User Representatives.

2006-12-05 Thread Steve Long
Mauricio Lima Pilla wrote: > As I've stated in the forums [1], I don't think that picking somebody that > was not elected for the chair is a good practice. If you have found that > the way elections were conducted did not produce a good result, maybe you > should at least change your project descr

[gentoo-dev] Re: Portage feature addition

2006-12-05 Thread Steve Long
Ned Ludd wrote: > > cd $(portageq envvar PORTDIR)/virtual/ > mkdir mike > cd mike > echo 'echo OWNED at phase $EBUILD_PHASE' > mike-0.0.ebuild > emerge -pv mike > Just checking; commands run there are run as root, right? Are they run in a chroot jail? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add ALSA_CARDS to USE_EXPAND

2006-12-06 Thread Steve Long
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Friday 01 December 2006 14:01, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> That's not really a reason not to do it for ALSA_CARDS, since it's so >> easy in this particular case... > Uh, no. > Because the cards supported changes from release to release. > > Although yes from on

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Stricter --newuse settings

2006-12-06 Thread Steve Long
Marius Mauch wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:34:57 + (UTC) > Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], >> excerpted below, on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:36:53 -0500: >> >> > Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> >> >> >> Duncan wrote: >> >>> whatever USE

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Portage feature addition

2006-12-08 Thread Steve Long
Ned Ludd wrote: >> Just checking; commands run there are run as root, right? > > Most often yes they would be preformed as the root user, unless the user > of portage is in the portage group and has write access to the tree. > >> Are they run in a chroot jail? > > umm nope. > Cheers for the ans

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-11 Thread Steve Long
Stephen Bennett wrote: >> It's seems to be needed sometimes b/c it does change the order of >> generated deplist(emerge -e world). AFAIK some packages dep on zlib >> b/c of that. > > If you don't know about the unwritten yet near universal exception > clause then you shouldn't be invoking it. > C

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-11 Thread Steve Long
Stephen Bennett wrote: > Steve Long wrote: >> Could you spell out that exception clause, please? > It doesn't translate well into words, but we'll go with something like > "Unless you know exactly why the rule is there, understand fully the > implications of

[gentoo-dev] Proxy maintainers

2006-12-17 Thread Steve Long
Bryan Østergaard wrote: > Thanks, I believe many users (and devs) will be happy to see improved > policies regarding package removals. I'm also personally very much > looking forward to an official Proxy Maintainers project -proxy > maintaining is one of the things I've been advertising in my own s

[gentoo-dev] Re: anybody wants app-misc/nomad-tool?

2006-12-17 Thread Steve Long
George Shapovalov wrote: > Masked, as per previous announement. Nobody stepped up, so this is now on > track for removal. > I read the original post, and you seemed quite keen on keeping it in; have you posted to the user rep forum to see if you can p-maintain it for a user or group of users? --

[gentoo-dev] Re: SAMBA needs a maintainer

2006-12-17 Thread Steve Long
Doug Goldstein wrote: > I'll give some of the issues a look over Monday if you ping me about it > jakub. But I don't want to maintain it. I'll proxy maintain it for a > user and help them out if they need. > Alec Warner wrote: > > If there are any interested users, I am willing to proxy-maintain

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-17 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > That one pulls us back into the lack of distinction between "stuff > needed when compiling against this library" and "stuff this library > needs to run". > Wouldn't your c-toolchain or a compiler eg for PERL or Java do? > | or by using meta-packages. > > DEPEND="virtual/

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-17 Thread Steve Long
Ryan Hill wrote: > Cool, that's exactly what I was looking for. > > thanks ;d Yeah me too, thanks for a straight reply! ;) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-17 Thread Steve Long
Alec Warner wrote: > Jason Stubbs wrote: >> >> >> There's ways to manage this complexity, such as putting the dependencies >> into autotools' RDEPEND (if it can be considered correct) or by using >> meta-packages. However, your point is against requiring that packages >> _must_ specify all syste

[gentoo-dev] Proposal for IRC channel/ user forum

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Long
antarus posted recently to the user reps forum asking for feedback on how to solve user experience glitches like the recent xmms removal. (I do *not* want to discuss that thanks ;) The thread is at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-516142.html richfish came up with the simplest solution to the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal for IRC channel/ user forum

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Long
Dan Meltzer wrote: > I don't think that officially supported ebuilds that are officially > unsupported is a good idea. If they were officially supported then > they would in effect never be removed, just simply placed somewhere > else. It seems to me that this should be a third party project if >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Proxy maintainers

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Long
Christian Heim wrote: > That would have been antarus (Alec), current treecleaner/proxy-maint lead. > Thanks, astinus pointed me in the right direction of getting the right herd to mail to. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: anybody wants app-misc/nomad-tool?

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Long
George Shapovalov wrote: > ?, 18. ??? 2006 08:19, Steve Long ?? : >> George Shapovalov wrote: >> > Masked, as per previous announement. Nobody stepped up, so this is now >> > on track for removal. >> >> I read the original post, and

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:28:25 +0000 Steve Long wrote: > | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | > That one pulls us back into the lack of distinction between "stuff > | > needed when compiling against this library" and "stuff this library > | >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2006-12-17 23:59 UTC

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 11:38 -0500, Alec Warner wrote: >> The only reason the contact and date are there is because the code for >> removals and additions is basically the same (A or D tells me which one >> it is) and all that info is available in the CVS history file. The

[gentoo-dev] Re: portage idea - auto embed user patches

2006-12-21 Thread Steve Long
Alec Warner wrote: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/bashrc > > At the bottom of solar's bashrc you will find some lines dealing with > AUTOPATCH, I don't see the bashrc.autopatch in his dev space, but you > can probably request it from him. > Would it be possible to post that to this list? Then we'

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: portage idea - auto embed user patches

2006-12-27 Thread Steve Long
Edward Catmur wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 21:47 -0600, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: >> Steve Long wrote: >> > Alec Warner wrote: >> >> http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/bashrc >> >> >> >> At the bottom of solar's bashrc you will fi

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-29 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Steve Long wrote: > | How serious an issue is it in terms of deps on sys pkgs? > > Very. It means we can't realistically handle packages that, by using > autotools, depend upon the fifty odd system packages that are used by > autotools-generated co

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2007-01-01 Thread Steve Long
Alec Warner wrote: >>> The tricky part then is figuring out whether something doesn't dep upon >>> c-compiler because it doesn't need one or because the ebuilds haven't >>> been updated. >>> >> I'm out of my depth here- I can't see where that would be a problem? >> > > Er, his point being that if

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2007-01-01 Thread Steve Long
Robert Buchholz wrote: > A problem package would be one that does not need a C compiler. It can't > be distinguished from the one which was not yet changed to depend on C. > > The problem here is that one can not say when the whole tree is updated > to the new standard, because for the packages wh

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Robert Buchholz wrote: > Steve Long wrote: >> Robert Buchholz wrote: >>> The problem here is that one can not say when the whole tree is updated >>> to the new standard, because for the packages which were not touched, it >>> could mean that they needed no ch

[gentoo-dev] Re: GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Paul de Vrieze wrote: > I know that I'm a bit late on this, but to me the "version 2 or later" is > a license by itself. Let's call it GPL-RENEW and let the file have > contents like: > "This package is licensed with the version x or later clause for the GPL." > > The LICENSE would then be: > LICE

[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal of new global useflag: avahi

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Markus Ullmann wrote: > % cat /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc | grep -i ":avahi" > gnome-base/gnome-vfs:avahi - Support for avahi mdns daemon. > gnome-extra/gnome-games:avahi - Support for avahi mdns daemon. > kde-base/kdelibs:avahi - Support for avahi mdns daemon. > media-sound/mt-daapd:avahi

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Ignoring the religious debate for a sec, can I just ask how this is being done? I thought an exit from a subshell took out the parent too, so I'm curious. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:26:03 -0500 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | > On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:28:05 +0200 Petteri Räty > | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | Well I was under the impression from zmedico that it completely > | > |

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > At the top level, we set an environment variable to the pid of the main > ebuild process. Then we install a signal trap handler, which, thanks to > how bash works, is allowed to exit the main process. Then we make die > first try to signal that trap handler, via kill (hence

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Then agriffis invented the original die, along with assert (which no-one > seems to use these days...). It avoided the quoting and environment > problems with try, and it was good. However, it doesn't work inside > subshells, which is only a mild annoyance so long as you kn

[gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] transition system loggers to 'adm' user/group

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 12:46, Mike Doty wrote: >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > how do people feel about transitioning the Gentoo standard system >> > logger >> > from running as root/root to adm/adm ? the latest version of sysklogd >> > includes some patches so that it ca

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:23 +0000 Steve Long > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | > At the top level, we set an environment variable to the pid of the > | > main ebuild process. Then we install a signal trap handler, whic

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Long
Robert Buchholz wrote: >>> But I had the impression the idea was discarded anyway. So I should >>> focus my thoughts somewhere else :-) >> Please focus your thoughts wherever you wish. I gotta ask tho; what idea? >> I thought we were just talking about excess dependencies in the tree. > > I someho

[gentoo-dev] Re: metadatabase (was: Dependencies on system packages)

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Long
Ryan Hill wrote: > I just use a local db to keep track of stuff like this, but haven't > thought of a way to turn this into a service and i don't think it's > really doable. I think you'd need an entry for every ebuild in portage, > times the number of archs, times an unlimited number of arbitrary

[gentoo-dev] Re: metadatabase

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Long
Ryan Hill wrote: > Robert Buchholz wrote: >> I don't want to sound negative and I like the idea a lot, but two things >> are on my mind about this: >> >> It should also sync with changes in the tree, like package removals, >> additions and package moves. > > For sure. > >> When you're talking ab

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Long
Paul de Vrieze wrote: > My idea for the second way is basically to make the life of tools easier. > It would make explicit that someone accepting GPL-3, but not GPL-2 would > be able to accept a GPL-2 and later license. > Ah, I see what I'm missing- you're saying a tool could just check for the sp

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Long
Having read the other thread, I have to agree that the N+ approach is better, as you could have GPL3+ as well with simple parsing. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] transition system loggers to 'adm' user/group

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Long
Steve Long wrote: >> maybe, but no one has this as the default behavior, so ... >> -mike > > Yeah, but it's still a good idea, as others have discussed. > Just wanted to apologise for my rudeness there- after all it was your proposal in the first place. Just been a b

[gentoo-dev] dodoc default?

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Long
is it possible for dodoc to do a `make doc' (or whatever the standard is) if called without any filenames? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Long
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > I think a specific version should be specified only if something > breaks with latest, > thus it should be the default. ++ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: PORTAGE_BINHOST Madness

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Long
Alec Warner wrote: > Talk to solar about binhost, I know he has a better implementation lying > around; it's a matter of finalizing it ;) solar: where is it on your site? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo/FreeBSD: license problems require a development pause

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Long
if u need help with the clean room stuff, give me a shout. when i meet a coder i really respect, i tell them i'm a clean-room engineer. only then. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: dodoc default?

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Long
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 00:13, Steve Long wrote: >> is it possible for dodoc to do a `make doc' (or whatever the standard is) > > there is no such standard > -mike well are there any general usage examples? i've just had to amend an ebuild so

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dodoc default?

2007-01-07 Thread Steve Long
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 02:38, Steve Long wrote: >> well are there any general usage examples? > > dodoc README I deserved that ;) Let me more precise: are there any other general examples of make targets for docs? >> After all, if enough gentoo pkg

[gentoo-dev] Re: dodoc default?

2007-01-08 Thread Steve Long
Alec Warner wrote: > dodoc's purpose is to install files into ${D}/usr/share/doc/${PF} > > If you want to build the docs for a package, examine the build system > for a doc target and run it. > > I don't see any reason to give a simple tool (dodoc) another thing to do. Agreed. -- gentoo-dev@ge

[gentoo-dev] Re: Somewhat OT - Making a suggestion for games-emulation/tuxnes

2007-01-08 Thread Steve Long
Well done for making the patch, and there's nothing at all wrong in asking IMO. Not sure if we needed the whole story ;) but that's minor. Besides what Alec Warner said, you should also try adding the patch to the ebuild in a local overlay. Please find out elsewhere in gentoo how to do this. (foru

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: PORTAGE_BINHOST Madness

2007-01-08 Thread Steve Long
Ned Ludd wrote: >> solar: where is it on your site? > > Tip: If you want me to respond to something that directed to me > it's best to CC: me directly as it's easy to miss threads on high > volume lists. > Understood. (I don't use email client for news, but I'll fwd in future.) > I use the qmerg

[gentoo-dev] Re: dodoc default?

2007-01-08 Thread Steve Long
Just like to apologise for wittering on the list, especially over the last fortnight. Things have been a bit stressed. Sorry. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-14 Thread Steve Long
Daniel Drake wrote: > Construction of a dynamic website for tracking kernel security issues. > There are too many of them and too many kernels to do this through the > normal GLSA process, and currently users are kept in the dark about > fixed security issues. Who put's up the "fixed security issue

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Long
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > My personal view (not infra) on it, is that I'm mostly negative about > changing VCS at all - I would prefer not to change, because the status > quo works very well as it is. If a change is going to be made, it should > be taken as a chance to resolve as many different iss

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Long
Thanks for the info; git does seem to have issues, going by the `GLEP'. bzr looks nice, but I don't know enough about it. From what i've read on the ml and the website it will reach 1.0 in ~March, but has issues eg with cross-platform development and diff/ commit. svn seems the most mature of the

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-18 Thread Steve Long
Thanks for all the comments about the different SCM systems. I'm a bit confused about all the portage tree stuff. Since a couple of us were discussing a QA db on this list, I've been working on a script to pull the info from the /usr/portage/ hierarchy. There's just under 25,000 ebuilds, which are

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-19 Thread Steve Long
i appreciate that source control is needed to maintain files over a period of time and to roll back changes. does that happen with ebuilds? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-19 Thread Steve Long
Side point: i am now aware that there is a better way to do this (pkgcore cache/template.py and sql_template.py) thanks to ferringb. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: GIT vs? SVN (was: Re: Re: [RFC] Some sync control)

2007-01-27 Thread Steve Long
Ned Ludd wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 23:37 +0100, Markus Ullmann wrote: >> So to avoid thread hijacking, starting a new one. > > What exactly is this thread you are starting about? Just letting us know > you did some random testing? > I think this is a reference to news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wher

[gentoo-dev] DB vs SCM (was Re: [RFC] Some sync control)

2007-01-27 Thread Steve Long
Hi, Since this is a different question which got buried in the other discussion, I appreciate it should be a new thread: I'm a bit confused about all the portage tree stuff. There's just under 25,000 ebuilds, which are maintained by about 100 devs (not sure of exact number, taken from a forum p

[gentoo-dev] Re: DB vs SCM (was Re: [RFC] Some sync control)

2007-01-29 Thread Steve Long
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > The idea of restricting access to specific parts of gentoo-x86 has come > up many times. It doesn't fix anything and actually makes some things > worse. Committers still have access to wherever they can commit, so they > can work whatever evil they want there without needin

[gentoo-dev] Re: DB vs SCM (was Re: [RFC] Some sync control)

2007-01-29 Thread Steve Long
Marius Mauch wrote: >> I'm a bit confused about all the portage tree stuff. There's just >> under 25,000 ebuilds, which are maintained by about 100 devs (not >> sure of exact number, taken from a forum post.) I guess what I'm >> asking is why this isn't just a database. > > Please define "database

[gentoo-dev] Re: DB vs SCM (was Re: [RFC] Some sync control)

2007-01-29 Thread Steve Long
Petteri Räty wrote: >> Please note, I'm not talking about applications like portage or pkgcore, >> just the ebuild text files, which I understand have one maintainer? > > Many ebuilds are in maintained by a bunch of people via herds. > That's not really an issue for a db app. >> I appreciate that

[gentoo-dev] Re: Suggestion

2007-02-14 Thread Steve Long
> On 2/8/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:38:08 +0100 Jose San Leandro >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> | A friend of mine and myself are willing to develop some tools to help >> | ebuild development. >> >> All the common cases should be handled by default fun

[gentoo-dev] Re: Network configuration and bash

2007-02-14 Thread Steve Long
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Michael Hanselmann wrote: >> XML! Actually, no. For me, libconfig[1] turned out to be very easy to >> work with. Its config file format is easy to write by hand and the >> parser resides in the library. >> [1] http://www.hyperrealm.co

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Network configuration and bash

2007-02-15 Thread Steve Long
> All very nice, but our init scripts and config files for them should be > POSIX shell compliant. > > If we move our network configuration to something other then shell then > I guess we could look at this. > You're right, it's totally OT, my bad. I just thought the minor discussion of standardi

[gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs)

2007-02-20 Thread Steve Long
Stephen P. Becker wrote: > All of that said, how about we clear up all of the misinformation about > how arch keywording really works, how deps get wrongly dropped, and then > explain why mips has generally fallen behind. This isn't an excuse, > but is merely a statement of facts which describe th

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Long
Brian Harring wrote: > Offhand, if the council (majority, no offense meant but not just > one council member who is also a paludis dev) is happy with the state > of things and timelines, then I'll gladly retract the request. > Is this the case; are the majority of the council happy? -- gentoo-de

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | Are you really saying that you won't be releasing this information > | until such time as *Paludis* meets it, even though portage/pkgcore > | may not? Isn't the *point* of this spec to try to bring everyone on > | the same page? > > I'm saying that until there is an inde

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-25 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 04:13 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> | and Gianelloni for the infrastructure. >> >> And what on earth do infrastructure have to do with a package manager >> specification? > > Especially considering that I am not an infrastructure guy. I'll be >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-25 Thread Steve Long
Andrej Kacian wrote: > As for the poisonous atmosphere - I don't know, I feel very good among the > developers, and am still enjoying working on the tree just like on the day > I joined. Don't let few loud flamers ruin your day. > Thanks for that Andrej. Makes me feel much better :) -- gentoo-d

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-26 Thread Steve Long
Stephen Bennett wrote: > On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:51:51 + > Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The PMS will presumably be the definitive statement of what should >> happen for *all* gentoo PMs, and it so happens that the people who >> are doing it are mos

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-27 Thread Steve Long
Marius Mauch wrote: >> And that still leaves the issue of EAPI 0 being the preexisting >> implementation. What exactly is so wrong with that? > > Which implementation exactly? Portage isn't frozen, the behavioris more > less constantly changing. Another issue are the things that just work by > acc

[gentoo-dev] Re: Little respect towards Daniel please

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Long
Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > Maybe if Ciaran recognized his past faults, begged pardon and promised > to be kinder from now and on, everything would be easier for everyone, > everything would calm down. > I share your dream ;) > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:15:36 -0500 "William

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why this nonsense has to continue (Was: Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 06:59:02 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> > as evidenced by >> > every previous time you've gotten involved with anything I've done, >> > and given how badly you tried to screw up GLEP 42 and how much of >> > my time you wasted doing s

[gentoo-dev] Re: Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Long
Petteri Räty wrote: > I wonder if this thread would have been like this if deadline was called > timetable in the original mail. I asked for access to PMS and got it so > I don't see any problem it being in any way too secret. > Yay! A positive post! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > The EAPI=0 document was supposed to be a QA project. What it is now, I > have no idea. While the current PMS project is not what we asked for > and *is* outside the scope of Gentoo That's interesting to note. > , due to our wishing to still *have* > a specification of

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Little respect towards Daniel please

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:33:31 + Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:17:54 + >> Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > What, and make everyone move the development discussion elsewhere? >> > Have you noticed how little developmen

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Little respect towards Daniel please

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Long
Harald van D?k wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:25:31PM +0000, Steve Long wrote: >> > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> >> What kind of response do you think anyone else would have received had >> >> they started repeatedly attacking a project when they didn

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Little respect towards Daniel please

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Long
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear list, > > Why not simply naming the "formal logic rules" for the "official venue > where developers (and ex-developers and users) can talk out their > disagreements" to be: > 1. Anyone who is impolite get's kicked off. > 2. Anyone who repeatedly and seemingly on pu

[gentoo-dev] Ebuild syntax highlighting

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Long
Hi all, There was a brief discussion a coupla weeks about getting better syntax highlighting and context help for ebuilds. Well, sorry can't help with the second yet, but I hacked together a syntax highlighting file for katepart (as used in kwrite and kate of course ;) based on the BASH one. You

[gentoo-dev] Re: How others handle bad behaviour on mailinglists

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Long
Bryan Østergaard wrote: > Gentoo has an etiquette policy as well at > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=2 > for interested people. > > One thing worth noting is that we've just decided that the policy needs > to be updated so hopefully we'll see a new/expanded

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