On Thursday 03 March 2011 22:26:38 Ole Markus With wrote:
# Ole Markus With olemar...@gentoo.org (03 Mar 2011)
# Masked 30 days for removal.
# Fetch restrictions. Does not work with =dev-lang/php-5.3
dev-php5/ZendOptimizer
i dont run ZendOptimizer currently, but i have used it in the past to
Christian Faulhammer fa...@gentoo.org said:
Hi,
a security stabilisation for Chromium [1] wants Cups 1.4 stable. My
test requests on Planet Gentoo and via identi.ca revealed no real
blockers, although people report that they needed to readd their
printers in order to work. Does anybody
Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org said:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Diego E. Pettenò flamee...@gmail.com
wrote:
# Diego E. Pettenņ flamee...@gentoo.org (30 Aug 2010)
# on behalf of QA team
#
# Initial import in 2005 and never bumped; no users in tree;
What does 'no users in tree'
Or you just let a shell handle it. Does most of the things
automatically, has a pretty low memory and startup overhead, and it
tends to be quite human-readable.
... why would I want to remove a
stable
the biggest complaint about openrc is that its not in stable - go figure.
,
Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org said:
On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 08:57:45 Thilo Bangert wrote:
, efficient, known-good solution
that does what you'd expect it to do and replace it with a new
thingy that doesn't provide all the features, is harder to debug
etc. etc.? I just don't see
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org said:
Hi
The Treecleaners project introduced ( over a month ) and new page[1] to
track maintainer-needed packages. This page is automatically
generated. You can make use of this page to track packages that needs
your love instead of searching bugzilla or
The script is running daily at 4:15 AM (UTC) I think but it only
updates the page when needed.
Using pquery it finds all the maintainer-needed packages. Then it
compares this list to the yesterdays' one and decides if an update to
the page is necessary or not
perhaps you can add a
Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org said:
the front page of http://gentoo.org/ now links to a Google Calendar
(see side bar). this has been around for a while, but it seems it's
been more of an underground thing, so it's time to raise its
awareness.
like other aspects of Gentoo, all Gentoo
has somebody found a way to access the gentoo calendar at google via
anonymous caldav or a plain ics read only url? i'd like to add the
gentoo calendar to my favorite calendaring software.
the link from the Gentoo page shows you the Google calendar ID:
Alex Legler a...@gentoo.org said:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:01:42 +0200, Thilo Bangert bang...@gentoo.org
wrote:
Dear all,
can somebody summarize what the status is for one or more wikies for
gentoo - its users and/or its developers or whatever.
I can see this:
http
Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org said:
On 08/14/2010 10:29 AM, Markos Chandras wrote:
So do I. Fixing your package and you don't even bother to send a
*ready to go* patch upstream seems like a bit rude to me as well.
Perhaps, we do have a complete different point of view in this one.
So you want me to force everyone to update the package just to respect
the LDFLAGS.
yes. IIRC it has been stated on this list before, that a change which
changes the resulting binary always needs to be done in a revbump.
Why, since until recently, nobody gave a crap about this
kind of QA
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org said:
On 7 August 2010 02:18, Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote:
The thing you're ignoring out of this g55 idiocy is that people don't
particularly seem to want it. There has been an extremely vocal
subgroup of paludis/exherbo devs pushing for it while
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org said:
On 9 August 2010 14:29, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote:
sure would be nice if someone picked up the installer again ...
No, it wouldn't. Best leave that dead and buried.
Could you explain why you think so?
Cheers,
Ben
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1) I assume most people who are crazy enough to 'install gentoo on
thousands of machines' use some kind of image based installation
process and not a color-by-numbers install vis-a-vis the handbook?
Has anyone written a Gentoo installer that is not image based?
1.5) There is a hidden
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org said:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 06:31:52PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
It seems like few of our fellow developers don't know how to track
down
packages that don't respect LDFLAGS. Adding
Christian Faulhammer fa...@gentoo.org said:
Hi,
please avoid having stabilisation requests
like http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327877, blocking a
security bug. That way, architecture teams may not see the severity
directly and it slips, leaving users with vulnerable versions longer
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org said:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:15:32PM +0200, Auke Booij wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org
wrote:
What? I am talking about exotic arches and I didn't say to drop to
entire stable tree. Just to shrink it in
Domen Kožar do...@dev.si said:
This should probably be updated:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml#flash
Thanks for noticing this. Everybodies input makes Gentoo a great place to
be!
Now, if you want that extra chocolate chip cookie, please head over to
This thread belongs to gentoo-project.
perhaps its time to reduce the number of mailinglists again. IMHO it
doesnt hurt to have this thread on gentoo-dev and the volume of messages
and their tone here has been sufficiently normal to again allow for more
subjects.
just my 2 cents
kind regards
Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org said:
Hello
Let my explain the problem and my suggestion to handle it better (at
least from my point of view) with an example:
Sometime ago I bumped bluez version from 4.39-r2 to 4.60, with that
bump, a new and *optional* RDEPEND on sys-libs/libcap-ng was
Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org said:
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:11:45 +0200
Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote:
What do you think about doing the following change in
/usr/portage/profiles/targets/developer/make.defaults:
replace test with test-fail-continue to make it just less
you make valid points regarding the overall improvement of the handling of
test suites. I am not opposed to something like that being done...
it still seems like there is agreement around the fact that something
needs to be done about src_test. currently you cant run a system which
generally
Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org said:
On 2/21/10 5:08 AM, Ryan Hill wrote:
I have one simple request. When you make a non-trivial change to an
ebuild - a patch, a version bump, anything that can effect the
behaviour of the package - please run the test suite.
Yeah, on my dev box
Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.org said:
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:32:10PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote:
On 02/15/2010 11:21 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
This is my last blocker for getting MySQL 5.1 series into ~arch
status.
itle: MySQL 5.1 unmasking
Author: Robin H.
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org said:
2010-02-06 17:54:10 Mark Loeser napisał(a):
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org said:
2010-02-05 17:40:00 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis napisał(a):
I consider filing bugs for not adjusted packages
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org said:
I think we have a bigger problem with packages that have a maintainer,
at least nominally, but said maintainer does not actually maintain the
package anymore.
full ack. i was thinking that maybe we need an 'easy-fix' team, which can
do all the easy fixes,
Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com said:
I realise this is a lost cause, but... Repositories are databases, so
/var/db/ is your friend.
i like it. Closely followed by /var/lib/layman...
wikipedia says in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
/var/lib/
Sebastian Pipping [snip] said:
[snip]
i chose maintainer-wanted to indicate that co-maintainers and
non-maintainer-bumps are welcome. what valid means can i use to send
such a message, instead?
i dont know of any. i generally assume all packages are looking for more
maintainers, but that
Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org said:
On Sunday 17 January 2010 15:20:46 Thilo Bangert wrote:
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org said:
I think we have a bigger problem with packages that have a
maintainer, at least nominally, but said maintainer does not
actually maintain the package
Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org said:
[snip]
Feel free to
CC me on bugs related to this package if you find any more pressing
issues.
the standard way of indicating such an interest is to add yourself to
metadata.xml.
kind regards
Thilo
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Thomas Sachau to...@gentoo.org said:
On 12/11/2009 10:30 PM, Hanno Böck wrote:
Am Freitag 11 Dezember 2009 schrieb Christian Faulhammer:
George Shapovalov (george) geo...@gentoo.org:
Modified: use.local.desc
Log:
added local flags for new version of net-fs/coda
Hi all,
similarly to the metadata.xml check, the following is a list of small
problems related to the project metadata as found in the gentoo CVS
repository.
research: Unknown developer: bradlyatc
research: Retired devloper: blubber
desktop-util: Retired devloper:
Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org said:
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:20:36 +0100
Thilo Bangert bang...@gentoo.org wrote:
Hi all,
similarly to the metadata.xml check, the following is a list of small
problems related to the project metadata as found in the gentoo CVS
repository
Welcome to this years edition of the metadata check.
Todays fingerpointing
herd without email: secure-tunneling
herd without email: middle-east
app-admin/eselect-audicle herd empty
app-admin/eselect-chuck herd empty
app-admin/eselect-miniaudicle herd
Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org said:
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Thilo Bangert wrote:
Welcome to this years edition of the metadata check.
[...]
You will find the complete log at [1].
Hmm, eselect is not known:
| unknown maintainer: esel...@gentoo.org
But it's in good company
Hans de Graaff gra...@gentoo.org said:
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 12:56 +0100, Thilo Bangert wrote:
Welcome to this years edition of the metadata check.
dev-util/cucumber herd missing
Fixed, but this is really a bug in metadata.dtd, which specifies
!ELEMENT pkgmetadata
BTW: About a third of the Manifests are signed [1].
if we really want to get there, maybe repoman should give a _small_
warning, starting now.
i dont sign my commits and have seen how my commits removed signatures of
others. i am not proud of it - but given that these are apparently never
Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org said:
[good stuff]
i share this sentiment. lets stay an open community and encourage
learning.
if somebody improves a package then that is a good thing. even if it could
be improved even more.
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[snip]
I understand PMS/paludis wishing to duck the vars existance to make it
go away, but I don't think it's a tenuable approach- as you yourself
said above, in trying to do this cleanup you recognized that sometimes
there was no alternative.
yes - however, there not being an alternative at
Victor Ostorga vosto...@gentoo.org said:
Lately I have stepeed into bug 216461 init systems in sys-apps as well
as in sys-process and even app-admin and was about to moving
sys-process/minit to sys/apps-minit , but stepped into bug 190982
move sys-process/{minit,runit} and app-admin/jinit to
FYI
-- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --
Subject: monkeyd-0.9.2-r1.ebuild
Date: Monday 20 April 2009
From: Michael Sterrett mr_bon...@gentoo.org
To: bang...@gentoo.org
use-based deps are undefined behavior on virtuals. So, in
monkeyd-0.9.2-r1, please fix up the
Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org said:
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Petteri Rätybetelge...@gentoo.org
wrote:
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
This seems like something that should be added to the ebuild/end
quiz.
Ebuild quiz:
19. What is the procedure for
glep55: See GLEP55. To summarize: The eapi is put into the file name so
that the package manager knows the EAPI (and thus how to handle this
file format). While it simplifies the eapi discovery this comes at a
high price as there is no reliable way to find and validate all ebuilds.
i
Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org said:
Ryan Hill wrote:
I'm tired of playing, as I'm sure you are. So please,
let's be quiet now, and let the big people talk.
This is a public list designed to facilitate discussion of gentoo
software development. Anybody with something constructive to
Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org said:
AllenJB wrote:
All that's going to happen is Gentoo will have many many buggy and
out of date packages in the MAIN TREE. Exactly where they shouldn't
be. You claim quality won't be sacrificed, but I simply can't see
this without any attempt to solve
a list cleaned for obvious false positives leaves the following 44 affected
packages.
i have treated ebuilds which mention FEATURES in an ewarn or einfo as
false positives although they probably should be fixed as well.
most of these have do one of the following (or a variant thereof)
hasq
Fabian Groffen grob...@gentoo.org said:
On 11-05-2009 11:26:46 +0200, Thilo Bangert wrote:
FEATURE-misuse.txt was generated by
$ find -name '*.ebuild' | xargs grep -nH FEATURES
FEATURES-misuse.txt and sifting through the false positives.
Have you checked if eclasses use it as well?
nope
Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com said:
On Tue, 5 May 2009 21:19:49 +0300
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
We surely need more developers. Otherwise we ll end up maintaining
100x500 each one. Just look at the numbers ( total packages/total
ACTIVE developers ). So
Olivier Huber oli.hu...@gmail.com said:
Hi,
2009/5/4 Thomas Sachau to...@gentoo.org
[snip]
For those, who can work with IRC and are interested in working with
ebuilds, there is already an option:
Join #gentoo-dev-help or even better #gentoo-sunrise and read the
documentation from
There's a crapload of stuff in the tree doing
things like this and worse with FEATURES.
there is roughly 150 packages using FEATURES (including a number of false
positives). see the list below...
FEATURES variable is used in the tree
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174335
Welcome
Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org said:
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote:
Thilo Bangert bang...@gentoo.org posted
200905101051.43926.bang...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Sun, 10
May
2009 10:51:38 +0200:
also, i feel voting for bugs
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org said:
Thilo Bangert wrote:
Welcome to Gentoo.
nice attitude...
i am sure that'll make the problem go away :-(
What do you expect? He's an exherbo dev, only here to criticize Gentoo
and gloat over its perceived failings.
and what exactly are _you_
'guess'. Like how you have to guess what use flags are really being
used for the package in question, because it doesn't tell you?
i'd like to ask the developers of package managers to standardize this.
having packagmanager --info be the same no matter who you like best is
incredibly usefull.
Santiago M. Mola coldw...@gentoo.org said:
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Thomas Sachau to...@gentoo.org wrote:
Hi folks,
i would like to hear about other opinions about real multilib support
within our tree and package managers. From what i know, there are
mainly 2 different ideas:
Serkan Kaba ser...@gentoo.org said:
Thilo Bangert yazmış:
i doesnt make sense to introduce EAPI=2 into ebuilds, if we dont
expect to have en EAPI=2 capable package manager stable within a
reasonable timeframe.
2.1.6 is stable and supports EAPI2
thats pretty cool. thanks...
Peter Alfredsen loki_...@gentoo.org said:
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:41:58 +0100
Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org wrote:
A general question, that just popped into my head when i was reading
this: if i touch a ebuild which has EAPI=0, should i bump it to
EAPI=2?
Only if you take the time to read
one thing that could perhaps speed up gentoo is specifying at what point
or what steps are required before it is ok to step on others toes.
we have the QAcanfix keyword, for bugs where QA threatens to just fix
the bug if the maintainer doesn't react timely... but it appears to be the
tree
Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org said:
On 19:06 Wed 11 Mar , Thilo Bangert wrote:
the presumption seems to be, that as a dev one has to be
available via IRC. it has long been my feeling that Gentoo as a
project could realize more of its potential by better integrating
I think that summarizing IRC is insane.
and there is no need for it either. as stated elsewhere much of what is
going on on IRC is 'goofing off' - for which IRC is excellent. (heck - i
should goof off more often :-)
i dont mind the day-to-day work stuff going on on IRC exclusively - but
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org said:
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 14:15:36 Thilo Bangert wrote:
Bugs aren't a good way to keep in touch with developers, that's
what irc is for.
while i dont necessarily think, that bugzi is the best way to stay in
contact with me, it surely
Bugs aren't a good way to keep in touch with developers, that's what
irc is for.
while i dont necessarily think, that bugzi is the best way to stay in
contact with me, it surely is a better way than IRC - on which i am close
to never.
the presumption seems to be, that as a dev one has to be
Thanks Petteri,
1) Status quo
- does not allow changing inherit
- bash version in global scope
- global scope in general is quite locked down
lets move on!
2) EAPI in file extension
- Allows changing global scope and the internal format of the ebuild
a) .ebuild-eapi
-
Thomas Anderson gentoofa...@gentoo.org said:
Hi Everyone,
This is a note that in the council meeting on 02/12/2009 the
function 'prepalldocs' is banned for use in ebuilds with EAPIs 0 1
and 2. If you want some functionality from this function, please
propose a new function or
Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org said:
On 05:10 Sun 14 Dec , Petteri Räty wrote:
I added support for filing stable requests directly from my stable
candidate RSS feed.
For those that don't read planet Gentoo the feed can be found here:
http://gentoo.petteriraty.eu/stable.rss
Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:32:44PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote:
What if my herd email address is different from my bugzie address?
Can I have both in herds.xml? What if my herd address *isn't* a
bugzie account, will the world end?
I don't know any
# Thilo Bangert [EMAIL PROTECTED] (12 Oct 2008)
# Masked for removal in 30 days (see bug #240371)
# useless meta ebuild - never fully developed
net-mail/qmail-vmailmgr
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Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 03:44:20 -0700
Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Either we need special cases to declare that it no longer has a
homepage, or we need to allow the empty HOMEPAGE.
HOMEPAGE=( )
Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi folks,
I'm doing some research on our usages of the $Header$ keyword in our
main CVS repo.
The primary use-case that has been publicly stated before was for users
to be able to identify to developers what version of a given ebuild
they were
C. Bergström [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Fabian Groffen wrote:
On 17-09-2008 10:41:07 +0200, C. Bergström wrote:
By the way, I'm against this stuff. I rather see a PATH solution
involved. Portage already has a DEFAULT_PATH, and if someone
refuses to install patch, one could always use a
Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hello everyone,
Given the vast number of possible choices to consider when defining
new PROPERTIES values [1], perhaps we should create a ballot and
hold a vote on definitions that people have submitted. I suppose
that voters would be able to vote yes or no
Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Please do NOT use out-of-office, vacation or any other auto-responders
on the lists. It's bad list etiquette.
decent vacation mail software ignores mail marked with a 'Precedence:
bulk' header, as mailing list mail usually is (including mails sent by
net-misc/ntp
This is rather basic, isn't it ? It keeps your clock accurate.
Is there any alternative ?
net-misc/openntpd - by the OpenBSD folks...
http://openntpd.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNTPD
regards
Thilo
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Please think things through before asking to have pkgcore's bugs
'fixed' via specification next time...
maybe my english language skills or social interaction qualities are
failing me, but i find the above sentence highly offensive.
am i too thin skinned for gentoo-dev?
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end up copying the ebuild from the tree into our overlay and fix.
great! where is it? does it have a webvc or trac interface?
thanks
Thilo
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But I
sincerely think the main goal of Summer of Code is to allow new people
to enter the scene of Free Software, to understand how Free Software
projects work and so on.
it's not just what you sincerely think! I most certainly think, you have
a valid point.
from
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi.
As we've stated before and is listed on the election page[1], the
voting period lasts from 00:00.00 UTC February 14th (Thursday) to
23:59.59 UTC February 28th (Thursday). Thus, there's little less than
48 hours to cast your vote.
At the
Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:01:16PM +0100, Thilo Bangert wrote:
Noteworthy errors
===
herd without email: comm-fax
Proxy maintainer without gentoo association 15
Two specific feature requests:
1. Check that every
Welcome to the third edition of the irregular metadata.xml check.
Noteworthy errors
===
herd without email: comm-fax
herd without email: dev-tools
herd without email: haskell
herd without email: common-lisp
herd without email: secure-tunneling
herd without email:
hip hip hurray for the old fart(s)
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Jeroen Roovers [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:10:58 +0100
Thilo Bangert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the idea is really great
[...]
now this needs to be [...] made mandatory for all ebuilds.
Uh, what?
Why? If the idea is that great, then why does it need
On the subject of Squid, it would be extremely useful if it could
ignore some headers and respect others in figuring out if the page is
already in the cache, without stripping the headers from the request
(it is doable with Apache's mod_cache), so that two requests with only
a slightly
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:06:46 +0100
Christian Faulhammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that would need to be decided:
LICENSE=GPL-2
Would that require an = prefix? To simplify things, we could say
that *only* the postfix [] form
While planet is a good medium to share ideas and get contributors,
seems to me like we need a more official way to discuss this kind of
'global' ideas before make them real. Or at least drop a note on
-dev-announce explaining the new feature and telling devs and users
this is now officially
Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
It seems that not everybody loves the new DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL
header at the top of every bugzie email as much as robbat2 does.
1. if everybody hates it (full ack btw), why not remove it globally?
2. why doesn't bugzi receive mail (anymore?)?
kind
i am all for the 'trivial' review. as i am not on the commit list,
however, i can't tell whether this acutally helps.
do people fix the stuff that is pointed out to them?
also, perhaps the more common ones should additionally be converted to
repoman tests, if that is feasable.
kind regards
Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Tuesday 10 July 2007, William Hubbs wrote:
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:26:19PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
As for IUSE defaults... There were objections against that feature
on the grounds that it's unnecessary and increased maintenance. Do
I want a gentoo-kindergarten list, where useless discussions like this
(sub)thread can be directed to.
kids, grow up!
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Step 2 - Metadata.xml contains only a herd
--
1. Take the herd element, and look up the herd in herds.xml to convert
to an email address. This email address must be a valid bugzilla
account.
2. This email is treated as an implicit maintainer
Hi all,
welcome to the second issue of the irregular metadata.xml check.
Did you know that only 16% of all packages in the tree do not belong to
any herd (ie. herdno-herd/herd). Nevertheless, as no-herd is not a
nice place to be, perhaps your herd can adopt a package or two. If you
get really
Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:49:43PM +0200, Thilo Bangert wrote:
Also, many ebuilds put the herds email address as an additional
maintainer. This is simply redundant and unless complaints are
raised, all herd maintainer tags will be removed
Hi all,
welcome to the IMC - irregular metdata.xml check, issue 1.
As can be seen from the statistcis below, the herd tags have been fixed.
Thanks to those who have helped with the cleanup.
Whats next?
==
The current policy in the devmanual demands a maintainer tag -
nevertheless half
It isn't different. That's the problem. If you have two packages
with the same name, you have the same problem.
On that note I would hope the vim/vi peeps would rename.
app-vim/ant
and app-vim/sudo
IMHO app-vim/ant should really be app-vim/vim-ant or something other
than just ant.
or
Markus Ullmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[usefull DWS snipped]
you rock!
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Hi again,
Thilo Bangert [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The metadata cleanup continues...
A list of 427 packages found at
http://dev.gentoo.org/~bangert/herd-metadata-check.log
do not have the required herd tag in their metadata.xml[1].
some of these have herd tags afterall - albeit empty
the packages in the attached list have no metadata.xml.
all fixed. however with the following metadata.xml:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd;
pkgmetadata
herdno-herd/herd
/pkgmetadata
as no maintainer implies maintainer-needed
Can you re-run this with a fully up to date tree?
sure
app-emulation/hercules invalid herd: herds390/herd
sys-apps/cpint invalid herd: herds390/herd
sys-apps/lkcdutils invalid herd: herds390/herd
sys-apps/s390-oco
Hi everybody,
the following list of packages uses a invalid herd tag in its
metadata.xml. Invalid in the sense of 'could-not-be-found-in-herds.xml'
Most of them appear to be simple mis-spellings or minor misunderstandings.
Others may lack an entry in herds.xml (s390?).
AFAICT most packages
Hi everybody,
the packages in the attached list have no metadata.xml.
The following basic metadata.xml will be added to each package in about 24
hours. Speak up to stop the insanity.
Thanks.
kind regards
Thilo
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM
The metadata cleanup continues...
A list of 427 packages found at
http://dev.gentoo.org/~bangert/herd-metadata-check.log
do not have the required herd tag in their metadata.xml[1].
Is it reasonable to simply add the herdno-herd/herd or should perhaps
the policy be relaxed, such
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