[gentoo-dev] Re: binary packages and striping

2006-03-08 Thread MIkey
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > skype, blackdown-jdk, rar, opera, openoffice-bin, they are all stripped by > upstream, but passes through portage's prepstrip, so they get stripped > again and the missing debug info is tried to be copied in /usr/lib/debug. Might want to skip stripping gentoo-s

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-06 Thread MIkey
Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Take a look at the options offered by a custom /etc/portage/bashrc. One > can do almost anything there. You can have it read in configuration files > and whatever. The documentation is kindof lacking, but most portage > features could actually be removed in favour of a cust

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-05 Thread MIkey
Ferris McCormick wrote: > I hesitate to raise my head again, but why not use > FEATURES='-noman' emerge ... > > (FEATURES='-noman -noinfo -nodoc' USE='doc' emerge ... > for that matter.)? > > I use that sort of thing for, say, > FEATURES='-distcc ccache' MAKEOPTS='-j2'emerge ... > on some specif

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-05 Thread MIkey
Mike Frysinger wrote: >> Heh heh, same place as FEATURES="noinfo noman nodoc" ;) > > not really ... those are documented in make.conf > -mike I have a nasty habit of always looking at make.conf.example instead of the man page. Plus, er, uh, I used FEATURES="noman" ;) Yeah, thats my story and I

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-05 Thread MIkey
Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > Then you should use INSTALL_MASK, not a USE flag. >> >> Please excuse my ignorance, but where is INSTALL_MASK documented? > > nowhere of consequence > -mike Heh heh, same place as FEATURES="noinfo noman nodoc" ;) Let me ask it this way. Please excuse my ignorance, bu

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-04 Thread MIkey
Ferris McCormick wrote: > I misinterpreted what you wrote. I thought you meant "physically included > in the package," not "installed from a binary package." I just completely > read what looks like a reasonable request and turned it into nonsense > without thinking about it, I guess. I am not

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-04 Thread MIkey
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:04:11 -0600 MIkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | At my job we aim to eventually rid ourselves completely of MS > | products on several thousand (local and remote) desktops and replace > | them with some sort of thin linux client

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-04 Thread MIkey
Ferris McCormick wrote: >> I >> would also like to have them excluded from binary packages. >> > > That can't be right can it? You mean, like openoffice-bin, or like the > ones you build yourself? I know that I often build on one system, install > on several, and when I do that, I really want

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-04 Thread MIkey
Stuart Herbert wrote: > Another point of view are servers, where there's simply no need to > have docs installed on each and every box in a rack. There's no need > to install what a user doesn't need, and having doc and example USE > flags more widely supported means that Gentoo does a better job

[gentoo-dev] Portage staging question

2006-02-13 Thread Mikey
I am contemplating the migration of all of my source code management from a hacked up in-house system to subversion. I currently use overlays to house ebuilds and install the actual packages on my target systems. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, I would like to implement as much as possible

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-28 Thread Mikey
On Saturday 28 January 2006 12:39, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > On second thought, never mind :) I am not sure what you are trying to > > point out here in the first place. > > He is trying (quite successfully) to show that you are full of shit. In this particular case, I might have to agree wit

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-28 Thread MIkey
Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Using this flags on a freshly compiled stage3 (from a stage1, just running > emerge system without setting useflags) I get no blockers at all, when > setting the useflags at the point that system has been recompiled. > > Depclean does suggest removing a number of packages

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-28 Thread MIkey
Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Using this flags on a freshly compiled stage3 (from a stage1, just running > emerge system without setting useflags) I get no blockers at all, when > setting the useflags at the point that system has been recompiled. Are you suggesting that on fresh installs, after editing

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-27 Thread MIkey
Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Would you mind sharing the useflags you mean, and which packages you want > to build? It might be bugs in the packages involved. My standard USE flags for building a lamp server. No X, no cruft. USE="-X -alsa -apm -arts -avi -cups -doc -eds -emboss -gnome -gpm -gstreamer

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-27 Thread MIkey
Paul de Vrieze wrote: > The ebuilds are not done in that way, the problem is portage's inability > to handle this. There is no way ebuilds could solve this problem except > not having the dependency. What is needed to solve it is merge perl > without ssl support, merge openssl, merge perl with ssl

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-27 Thread MIkey
Paul de Vrieze wrote: > First of all, the object to be as fast as possible has been dropped as > main gentoo goal years ago. Stage 3 is indeed based on an old base. It > however starts you with a working system in which all assumptions made by > ebuilds about the system are true. This means one sh

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread MIkey
Jan Kundrát wrote: > Great, there was a bug. Yeah, there was. Please notice the word "was". > It means that it has been fixed and it isn't there anymore. So the > problem got fixed. It's over. Finito. Period. Why are you still talking > about it? Because Becker needed to be informed about it. I

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread MIkey
Jan Kundrát wrote: > MIkey wrote: >>>>A bug, again, that the stage1 installation method was immune to, >>> >>>How come? (I'm not familiar with toolchain.eclass at all.) Because the stage1 method bootstraps gcc/glibc and performs the minimum steps neede

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread MIkey
Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Which is precisely your problem. You are blindly eating your food > without contemplating the contents. Perhaps I am just contemplating a little deeper than you are. > >>> pre-existing install != installing from a fresh stage. First, running >>> bootstrap.sh with t

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread MIkey
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:06, MIkey wrote: >> Why should system packages (determined by your profile) be present in the >> world file on official stage1/3 tarballs? > > whether they are in the world file itself doesnt really matter > >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread MIkey
Jan Kundrát wrote: > MIkey wrote: >> A bug, again, that the stage1 installation method was immune to, > > How come? (I'm not familiar with toolchain.eclass at all.) Because the first pass of the bootstrap, that prepares a working gcc/glibc, uses the bootstrap USE flag and di

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread MIkey
Jan Kundrát wrote: > Have you noticed that I'm the reporter of this bug? Just FYI, bug > *wasn't* in the guide but in the underlying eclass/gcc-config causing > automatic switch to newly installed GCC during pkg_postinst. Just by a > coincidence the eclass was updated shortly after gcc/3.4 stabili

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread MIkey
Wernfried Haas wrote: > So you complain about a problem that is already fixed as if it still > exists? I really don't get it. That particular bug was fixed. Using a stage1/bootstrap approach for a fresh install is a _method_ of installing gentoo that is immune to that particular bug because it i

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread MIkey
Alec Warner wrote: > Maybe you think fixing a circular dep is easy, I know I do. But when > Joe Shmoe think it's OMG U63r 1337 to install gentoo using a stage1 > because it makes his system so awesomely fast ( hence, The Conrad > install on the forums, heh ;) ) and he has no ing clue how any

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread MIkey
Wernfried Haas wrote: > If compiling gcc once more is really such a waste of time, you should > consider switching to a binary distribution. ;-) It is not me claiming that using an installation method that compiles gcc three times makes sense. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread MIkey
Jan Kundrát wrote: > As the person who did the fixes for most of the bugs reported against > the GCC Upgrading Guide, I'd say that I'd remember about that "bug > reports on upgrading gcc"... Could you please refresh my memory by > providing bug numbers in Gentoo Bugzilla? Were such issues reported

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread MIkey
Dale wrote: > I thought that if you chose to do a stage 1 install you were on your > own. That was my understanding. If that is true, he is getting support > for something that is not supported, right? I'm not asking for support, I'm giving it. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread MIkey
Wernfried Haas wrote: > You already complained about that on the forums [1] in a rather > similar thread and yet you still haven't filed a bug report about Why I explained a couple of posts further down. I could not duplicate the problem either, I think it went away in 3.4.4-r1. I don't like po

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread MIkey
Paul de Vrieze wrote: > The "way around this" would be to change bootstrap.sh back to building a > minimal version of the current version that is then used to compile the > rest of the system, including the C library and gcc itself. Between this > however the original bootstrap compiler could be r

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread MIkey
Mike Frysinger wrote: >> >> Why should system packages (determined by your profile) be present in the >> official stage1/3 tarballs? > > do you even realize what you're asking ? > -mike Duh, let me clarify that: Why should system packages (determined by your profile) be present in the world fil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mikey
On Thursday 26 January 2006 08:16, Mike Frysinger spammed: > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 22:07, Mikey wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 20:53, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > Name one of those that isn't in 'system'. > > > > > > [EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mikey
On Thursday 26 January 2006 08:12, Chris Gianelloni spammed: > Something else that *everybody* seems to be missing is that the *first* > method in the GCC upgrading guide, which is the one that would apply > from a fresh-installed system, seems to be completely overlooked by all > the naysayers.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mikey
On Thursday 26 January 2006 08:06, Chris Gianelloni spammed: > > The difference in doing from stage1 instead of stage3 is you don't have > > to go through a gcc migration to prevent your build from being > > unusable. You also go through 1 gcc upgrade (gcc 3.3.5 -> gcc 3.4.4), > > not 3 (3.3.5 ->

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mikey
On Thursday 26 January 2006 08:02, Chris Gianelloni spammed: > > > > RTFM - http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml > > Except that is for an *already installed* system. > > Again, you didn't take into account the simple thing called common > sense. If you're already going to be doing an "e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mikey
On Thursday 26 January 2006 08:06, Chris Gianelloni spammed: > On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 20:23 -0600, Mikey wrote: > > If you actually downloaded a "pristine" stage1 or a stage3 tarball you > > might notice that there are, in fact, packages already present in > > wor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-26 Thread Mikey
On Thursday 26 January 2006 00:14, Homer Parker spammed: > On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 21:06 -0600, Mikey wrote: > > Solutions? > > And how many have you tested and submitted patches for? Instead of just > complaining, be proactive and help with the problem you perceive is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread Mikey
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 20:53, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Name one of those that isn't in 'system'. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emvp -e system | grep -e gzip -e linux-headers -e > nano -e gettext -e glibc > [ebuild N] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.11-r3 0 kB Your point? My point was that t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread Mikey
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 20:40, Sven Köhler wrote: > Mike is telling me, that the 2006.0 tarballs will contain gcc-3.4. > Then he's telling me, that the problem, that Im trying to point out, is > going to vanish with the release of the 2006.0 tarballs. Well, yes, > until the next gcc-slot beco

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread Mikey
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 19:49, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > You aren't serious, are you? Did *you* read the fucking manual *and* > comprehend it? Methinks not...upgrading from 3.3 to 3.4 in a I didn't write the manual, so save your hubris for whoever did. I just followed its instructions,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread Mikey
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 19:13, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Ahh, so you were the idiot that ran those tests. Congratulations...you > needlessly did a --emptytree world after you had already done > --emptrytree system in order to bloat your results. RTFM - http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread Mikey
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 18:27, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > You didn't follow the Handbook. Your comments about compiling GCC 3 > times are completely unbased, since you ran not only an "emerge -e > system" (which is recommended) but then immediately, and needlessly, > followed it up with an "e

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread MIkey
Jan Kundrát wrote: > "What is most interesting to me about this discussion is the fact than > no one has bothered to offer any facts to back up these assertions." -- > author should read any of the wolf31o2's mails about this subject. I _have_ read his "mails" about it, had several exchanges with

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread MIkey
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > You're reading it wrong. The bootstrap USE flag is set during > bootstrap, not the build USE flag. This means libstdc++-v3 (or gcc 3.3) > is required at the bootstrap level. The reason that libstdc++-v3 My mistake, it is just portage that gets that build flag during b

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread MIkey
Jan Kundrát wrote: > Seems like a bit ranting to me. Why do you use unsupported installation > method if you want it simple? I don't know about Sven, but the reasons I prefer the "unsupported" installation method is all outlined here: http://badpenguins.com/gentoo-build-test/ -- gentoo-dev@gen

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread MIkey
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Which you won't have to deal with for long, 2006.0 is being worked on as > we speak. The basic jist of this is that what you are seeing is pretty > much expected behavior for bootstrapping using a stage with an older > GCC. The way I read it, the gcc-3.4.4-r1.ebuild inc

Re: [gentoo-dev] bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable

2006-01-25 Thread Mikey
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 10:38, Marius Mauch spammed: > that sounds rather unlikely, if gcc-3.4 was installed `emerge -e system` > would have rebuilt it, not the 3.3 version (unless there is a dep on > <3.4 in system). Does this have something to do with it? gcc-3.4.4-r1.ebuild: PDEPEND="||

[gentoo-dev] Re: coreutils: deprecated behavior not so deprecated

2006-01-24 Thread MIkey
Mike Frysinger wrote: > note: for those who think they can argue for support of these features to > be kept in Gentoo, you're barking up the wrong tree so dont waste your > time -mike So, um, when can we expect all hell to break loose? Just a quick check on my laptop: media-video/mjpegtools-1.8