Re: [gentoo-dev] a #g-d first impression might represent process and metastructure

2005-06-09 Thread Paul Waring
On 6/9/05, Stephen P. Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Without hearing the other side of the story or seeing a transcript of > the conversation, it is hard to say whether whoever this was reacted > properly or not, however I would say they have a major stick up their > ass. Don't assume everybo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Waring
On 6/8/05, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Polls are open for the metastructure reform vote. All Gentoo developers are > eligible to vote. Any particular reason why Gentoo users are not allowed to have a say? Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql-4.1.12 call for testers

2005-05-17 Thread Paul Waring
On 5/17/05, Francesco Riosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't know if robbat2 need other testings but here it has been tested > only on x86, at the moment there are no other archs avaiable for testing. If ebuilds exist for PPC (there appears to be one for 4.1.8-r1) then I'll be able to test it on

Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql-4.1.12 call for testers

2005-05-17 Thread Paul Waring
On 5/17/05, Robin H. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MySQL-4.1.12 is in the tree (hard-masked), and I would like lots of early > testing. > MySQL-4.0.24-r2 is also in the tree (hard-masked) for testing, and contains > some of the improvements in the 4.1 ebuilds, like the new pkg_config, and t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange update world output

2005-05-16 Thread Paul Waring
On 5/16/05, Kevin F. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try "emerge -puDvt world", which will give you the list in an indented tree > format useful for determining what pulled in the packages you don't want. I think I've found out what the problem was by looking through all those, although the de

[gentoo-dev] Strange update world output

2005-05-16 Thread Paul Waring
I have a cron job on my system which runs emerge --sync && emerge -uDf world early in the hours of the morning, so that each day I can login, run emerge -uDp world and if I'm satisfied with what's about to be updated I can upgrade straight away without having to wait for time consuming syncs or dow

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Paul Waring
On 4/24/05, foser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not California here. You completely ignore the fact that some > people commit more than others and as such are more likely to trip over > such a rule anyway and the people who do commit a lot are usually the > same people you don't want to revoke

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Paul Waring
On 4/24/05, Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heh, comming from non-gentoo email address :-) I get just as annoyed if someone commits something straight to stable and it breaks something on my system. :) Paul -- Rogue Tory www.roguetory.org.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Paul Waring
On 4/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since keywording policy seems to be being ignored again... Don't *ever* > commit new ebuild revisions straight to stable, even if you think it's a > trivial fix. There are plenty of things that could go wrong even with > simple patches -- for