Re: [gentoo-dev] Thoughts about broken package handling

2011-06-26 Thread Stuart Longland
On 06/26/11 15:44, Benedikt Böhm wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Stuart Longland redhat...@gentoo.org wrote: - revdep-rebuild (handles packages broken by soname changes, etc) solved by preserved-libs in portage-2.2 Hmmm, except that portage-2.2 isn't stable yet... indeed it isn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Thoughts about broken package handling

2011-06-26 Thread Stuart Longland
tackle ABI breakage of other packages? Sounds like the SLOT variable could get quite unwieldy where several SLOT-ed packages contribute to a package. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer

[gentoo-dev] Thoughts about broken package handling

2011-06-25 Thread Stuart Longland
an irritation for me for quite some time. Thoughts, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-12 Thread Stuart Longland
-5.12 for this release as I had some quirky issues with it in the seed stage... the biggest issue at the time was gcc-4.4.4 not being built correctly by gcc-4.1.1... I could address Perl later. (In fact, I will in the next release.) Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL

Re: [gentoo-dev] Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-11 Thread Stuart Longland
and stable, than bleeding edge and constantly falling over. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' I haven't lost my mind

Re: [gentoo-dev] LibreOffice project: request for contributors and mentoring

2010-11-11 Thread Stuart Longland
with icedtea6.) It also needs _lots_ of RAM and disk space ... not a plentiful resource on MIPS. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-11 Thread Stuart Longland
... so I may as well do that using n32 from the outset. My O2 can remain o32 for now since it was the one still standing after all this time. The others, the userland is broken/stale to the point of uselessness. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Gentoo Wiki Project

2010-04-05 Thread Stuart Longland
these days (which is why I've been very inactive on the MIPS and Mozilla fronts) but I could look help out with the moderation. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' http

Re: [gentoo-dev] X11 on Lemote Fulong (Loongson 2E) -- 'lm2e' local USE flag RFC

2008-08-02 Thread Stuart Longland
Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 13:23 Thu 31 Jul , Stuart Longland wrote: An alternative however, I'd like to propose is the addition of a 'lm2e' local USE flag to the affected ebuilds Stuart, I'm glad to hear you've made progress on this and gotten things working! As soon as you get

[gentoo-dev] X11 on Lemote Fulong (Loongson 2E) -- 'lm2e' local USE flag RFC

2008-07-30 Thread Stuart Longland
this done possibly next weekend. At the moment, zhenghe (one of the boxes here) has been reformatted, I'm setting up Gentoo 2008.0 on it, so I'll be testing everything as I go. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Of Mips and Devs [Was: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January]

2008-01-10 Thread Stuart Longland
some new big-endian stages based on the 2007.1-dev profile? If so, could I get access to the SWARM? (I could do it on my O2, but I think the SWARM will easily outperform it.) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems)

2007-03-27 Thread Stuart Longland
be a mistake in my opinion -- a lot has changed behind the scenes that users may not necessarily be aware of. I do not see this as being a significant problem. Certainly, the focus should be on the quality of the distribution; not quantity of features. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter

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

2007-03-06 Thread Stuart Longland
to cool off before picking up the thread again. I think in such flamewars, it's *everyone* that needs to cool off, not just those who start them. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-06 Thread Stuart Longland
package in the tree, IMHO would be a waste of effort unless there are a significant number of users actually using _every_ package in the tree. -- _ Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter) / _ \ ______ __| |__ __ __ Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA feedback

2005-07-23 Thread Stuart Longland
existed. If anyone's interested (in particular, arch teams) in the code for the above site, I'm happy to distribute it -- just needs PHP and MySQL. -- _ Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter) / _ \ ______ __| |__ __ __ Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-05 Thread Stuart Longland
Anthony Gorecki wrote: On Monday, July 04, 2005 10:14 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: Why stop there? Why not extend it to hardware manufacturers that make heavy use of patents? Good luck finding a decent video card for that lovely desktop of yours. :-) I'm still holding out hope that the open

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-05 Thread Stuart Longland
source. So your suggestion is neither practical, nor does it help the patent case in any way shape or form. -- _ Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter) / _ \ ______ __| |__ __ __ Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Looking for a dev-web mentor

2005-06-05 Thread Stuart Longland
, -- _ Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter) / _ \ ______ __| |__ __ __ Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs - (_) \ / \ ; \(__ __)/ \ / \Developer \// O _| / /\ \ | | | /\ | /\ | / / \ /__| / \ \ | | | \/ | \/ | (___/ \/|_; |_| \_/ \__/ \__/ http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Stuart Longland (Redhatter)

2005-05-27 Thread Stuart Longland
Duncan wrote: _ Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter) /\ ______ __| |__ __ __ Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs - ( ) \ / \ ; \(__ __)/ \ / \Developer \// O

Re: [gentoo-dev] root:root and fbsd

2005-05-22 Thread Stuart Longland
no root group, instead wheel group has GID=0. Why not just use `chmod -R 0:0 ${D}`? That should have the desired effect? -- +-+ | Stuart Longland -oOo- http://stuartl.longlandclan.hopto.org | | Atomic Linux Project -oOo-http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

2005-05-02 Thread Stuart Longland
the updated packages should be backward compatable, they may not be. Anyway, wouldn't security updates include the core system, rather than just things like Apache? -- +-+ | Stuart Longland -oOo- http://stuartl.longlandclan.hopto.org | | Atomic

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT - Finding Linux dev resources

2005-04-28 Thread Stuart Longland
send HTML emails. *Ohh... I'm too elite for text/plain* -- +-+ | Stuart Longland -oOo- http://stuartl.longlandclan.hopto.org | | Atomic Linux Project -oOo-http://atomicl.berlios.de