Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting out arm keywords

2014-07-12 Thread Ruud Koolen
On Wednesday 09 July 2014 03:48:40 Matthew Thode wrote: arm has a historical problem with stabilization, while keywording doesn't require access to all arm sub-arches the problem with the stabilization slowness causes running a full ~arm to become hard. By that I mean that if someone keywords

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Ruud Koolen
On Tuesday 14 January 2014 22:37:19 William Hubbs wrote: I think we need a global policy that either helps keep the stable tree up to date or reverts an architecture to ~ over time if the arch team can't keep up. As a compromise solution for minor archs, it would be nice if there were a

[gentoo-dev] New globally masked prefix USE flag

2013-11-25 Thread Ruud Koolen
Ohai, As part of the RAP project[1], a version of Gentoo Prefix that uses its own libc rather than relying on the host version, prefix needs some new profiles serving this variant. While this is entirely inconsequential for most packages, there are a handful of ebuilds that need to distinguish

Re: [IDEA] Enumerate solutions for blockers, to avoid tedious manual work. (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Releng breakage with respect to move from dev-python/python-exec to dev-lang/python-exec)

2013-11-04 Thread Ruud Koolen
On Sunday 03 November 2013 13:10:57 Tom Wijsman wrote: Let's say I have the blocker: dev-python/python-exec-1 is blocking dev-lang/python-exec-0.3.1 We could have it additionally say something like: To resolve this blocker, you can run one of the following commands:

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 2/3] Based GLOBAL_CONFIG_PATH and DEPCACHE_PATH on portage prefix

2013-06-17 Thread Ruud Koolen
The GLOBAL_CONFIG_PATH constants and DEPCACHE_PATH constants should be relative to the installation prefix of portage itself, not the installation prefix of packages it is installing. --- pym/_emerge/actions.py |6 --- pym/portage/_sets/__init__.py

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 3/3] Pick up EPREFIX environment variable

2013-06-17 Thread Ruud Koolen
This adds support for picking up the EPREFIX config setting from the EPREFIX environment variable. An emerge --prefix option is added to specify it, analogous to --root and --config-root options. --- pym/_emerge/actions.py |3 ++- pym/_emerge/main.py |7