[gentoo-dev] net-im/sim contains icons/sounds in source tarball with unclear licensing.

2007-03-26 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
Hello. I found the following bug in debian bugzilla: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386570 Is this an issue for gentoo? Should I repackage tarball(/convince upstream to repackage) and exclude this icons sounds from tarball? Or may be RESTRICT fetch it enough to solve the

[gentoo-dev] Resolve build time default editor dependency. (was: How get ebuild provider virtual/category.)

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
Hello. Anatoly raised really important concern and currently I've started to think about fix. One possible solution requires virtual/editor to suite glep 37 and thus affects many packages. So... wondering why this change was not done I'd like to discuss the problem on the list. Problem: There

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolve build time default editor dependency. (was: How get ebuild provider virtual/category.)

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On 2006-11-12 at 04:34 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: why not modify sudo to not filter the EDITOR env var then there is no more problem Considering that this is the only situation where environment is dropped... yes this fixes sudo problem. The other possible solution is: #!/bin/bash export

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolve build time default editor dependency. (was: How get ebuild provider virtual/category.)

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 05:26 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: then we end up with having to maintain a list of safe EDITORs and dealing with people who want to edit their own favorite editor the sudo file has the ability to specify editor's, so why not tell people to change their sudo config file

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolve build time default editor dependency. (was: How get ebuild provider virtual/category.)

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 05:54 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: in the example usages you cited, people where using `sudo` to just avoid running `su -` first ... in other words, their sudo was unlimited ... updating the sudoers file to allow EDITOR via env_keep would work fine for them in that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolve build time default editor dependency. (was: How get ebuild provider virtual/category.)

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 11:06 +, Tavis Ormandy wrote: You can set `Defaults env_keep=EDITOR` in your sudoers file if you want, or what I do is `Defaults:%wheel !env_reset`, to allow users in group wheel to use sudo without the environment being scrubbed. Of course I know about that. And I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolve build time default editor dependency. (was: How get ebuild provider virtual/category.)

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 12:15 +, Tavis Ormandy wrote: The only `hardcoded` editor is the fallback editor for visudo And this is the problem I'm talking about. I do not see any reasons to keep this not working fallback. There are parts of code that just do not work in Gentoo. which can be

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Anonymous CVS and SVN now available

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On behalf of Russian translators team members I'd like to say thank you for your work guys! This greatly simplifies translators work to translate and keep translations updated. This also allows to create Russian website synchronized with gentoo.org also with Russian specific additions. Thank you

Re: [gentoo-dev] How get ebuild provider virtual/category.

2006-11-09 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On 2006-11-10 at 12:24 +0500, Anatoly Shipitsin wrote: It's app-admin/sudo and sys-process/fcron. This packages use virtual/editor but by default set nano as default editor. I'm don't know how get provider category virtual/editor. But equery view it as first package. Any ideas ? Please,

[gentoo-dev] linking with ld or gcc?

2006-11-05 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
Hello. Short question: What shall we use to link libraries/programs: gcc or ld? Why? A bit longer story: I have a problem during linking of wepattack on amd64 systems. Linking stage issues warning: $ x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ld -o wepattack wepattack.o rc4.o wepfilter.o log.o modes.o misc.o

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] fixing up portage implicit RDEPEND behavior

2006-11-03 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On 2006-11-03 at 00:43 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Also, some ebuilds will loose some implicit RDEPEND that they current get from eclasses. Why? I suppose more logical solution is to adjoin DEPEND from ebuild and RDEPEND from eclass. Peter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

[gentoo-dev] How to move packages?

2006-10-26 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
Hello. One of packages I maintain changed its name. What shall be done, so users of the package were aware about package name change and upgraded flawlessly? Thank you, Peter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection

2006-09-13 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On 2006-09-11 at 20:30 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * If no existing file with the intended target name exists, or if the existing file has identical content to the file to be installed, the file to be installed is installed as normal. Just one poor

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] i18n project

2006-06-11 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Вск, 2006-06-11 at 02:16 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:11:50 +0200 Jan Kundrát [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b) Localization of Gentoo-developed applications (portage, gentoolkit,...) including their manpages I don't really like this one. Documentation, sure, but for the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification

2006-06-08 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Чтв, 2006-06-08 at 21:20 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: It's not a normal overlay as I see it. You've promoted it to be an official overlay. The difference is huge in my opinion. IMO such overlay should be official! Why not to keep all (partially) broken ebuilds in one place? This is the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification

2006-06-08 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Чтв, 2006-06-08 at 21:20 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: It's not a normal overlay as I see it. You've promoted it to be an official overlay. The difference is huge in my opinion. IMO such overlay should be official! Why not to keep all (partially) broken ebuilds in one place? This is the

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA subproject, TreeCleaners

2006-06-06 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Втр, 2006-06-06 at 00:17 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: That's why we use a SCM for managing the ebuilds: the removed ebuilds are still found via cvs commands and on sources.gentoo.org But how can I search for removed ebuild in cvs? Is there any quick way for such things? Peter.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: tcsh vs. csh, removal of the latter

2006-01-28 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Срд, 2006-01-25 at 20:57 +0100, Grobian wrote: Are there any objections to removing csh from the tree? If there are no problems with csh removal before Feb 1st 2006, then I will starting from that date work on getting csh removed by masking it, blocking tcsh and csh, and request for

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

2006-01-02 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Вск, 2006-01-01 at 21:35 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: We have currently 10371 ChangeLog files, 25 MB totally . 1365 == 13% with size = 4096 B, 12 MB totally rsync from emerge --sync has --whole-file between its options, that mean transfer the whole file if changed. 2) rotate