[gentoo-dev] Re: Linux 2.6.28 stable plans
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:23:56 +, Daniel Drake wrote: 3. Who's brave enough to put ext4 on / ? :) Works fine on both of my machines, thanks to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250829 cheers -h
[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:38:56 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: Marius Mauch wrote: Maybe the best solution is to drop the non-prefixed versions of 'world' and 'system' completely Deprecating the old syntax sounds like a sensible action to get people shifted onto the new system. I imagine it would work very similarly to emerge info at the moment? Speaking purely as a user, from a usability perspective it's a horrible idea. Don't make me remember special things. To me there is no discernible difference between system and @system, except that I have to remember to prefix the latter over and over again. Different things need different names. Doesn't portage have more pressing problems? In the last 6 years of using Gentoo I cannot remember a single instance where the difference between system and world even mattered to me from an operational point of view. Holger
[gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilizing CUPS 1.3
Hi Timo On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:56:17 +0200, Timo Gurr wrote: Hello fellow developers, CUPS 1.3 has been in the tree for quite some time now and has matured to a degree where it should be ready to go stable. [...] If there's anything I might oversee please speak up. I'm not a dev but my last attempt at using 1.3.x was not successful because of a change in (more strict AFAIU) input handling. Other distros were bitten by this as well: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5080 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/203944 (find many more by googling for cups Unsupported character set). Do you happen to know if this is solved in recent versions? My understanding is that changing samba's unix charset to something else would fix this, but that is not feasible for me at this point. If there is any other way I'd love to hear about it. :) thank you Holger -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-dev] Re: glibc-2.7 stabilization
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:02:17 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: some heads up here glibc-2.7 has sat in ~arch for much longer than i would have liked. the only real issue holding it back is nscd. i never use this thing myself, but on some arches (like ppc), it's known to eat your cpu like a dirty C-globbler (where C is short for CPU). on other arches, it's known to just cream itself for fun and then promptly exit. Interesting - I saw nscd dying every so often with 2.6 (x86) but at least for me that seems to have stopped since 2.7. Not sure what I'm doing wrong :) On slower systems it certainly makes a noticeable difference. -h -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-dev] Guidance needed for an Erlang ebuild
Hi, I'm not an official Gentoo dev but I play one in my overlay. For bug #192278 - an ebuild for the very cool RabbitMQ message broker - I'm looking for someone with experience in writing Erlang package ebuilds; I have a few questions regarding fs layout and stuff, so that my contributed ebuild can go into portage. I figure that's faster than me posting an attempt into bugzilla and then not getting any feedback :) would love to hear from someone - Holger PS: dear Gentoo devs: I 3 you all. Thanks for Gentoo. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-dev] Re: Bye Gentoo!
On Thu, 31 May 2007 22:44:45 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Juergen.Schinker wrote: Bryan Østergaard schrieb: It's with a bit of sadness but also a bit of relief that I'm finally retiring from Gentoo. Aj! kloeri! No! i want you to stay, you are important for Gentoo but what can I do Bribe him! Make him use RedHat Enterprise! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Some sync control
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:12:21 +, Steve Long wrote: 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 issues at one time as possible, and for that reason I favour GIT over SVN. noob alert I'm looking for a distributed SCM atm, and have come down to git, bzr, svn or arch. (darcs looks nice but adds haskell dependency.) As others have said, svn is centralized, and the working models of distributed and centralized systems differ greatly. Process is a very important factor for such a decision. That being said, mercurial (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/) was not yet mentioned but might be a good choice because just like portage it is written in python (with C core for performance). There's a Google TechTalk video about it: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7724296011317502612 -h -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
