Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-05-27 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 16:38 -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: There are about 9 plugins for monkeyd similar to apache which can be turned on/off by a configure switch. It makes sense to follow the same logic as apache here. Indeed it does. Particularly if it avoids a non-obvious USE-flag that

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean

2013-04-06 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 20:08 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: What are your thoughts? Sensible document. Can we have it on the agenda for the council meeting please. It looks suitable for a yes/no vote, and I expect some guidance from the wider developer community in how they respond on the list.

[gentoo-dev] Preliminary agenda -- Council meeting 2013-02-12

2013-02-05 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
Good evening, Please note the preliminary agenda for the February 12 council meeting, to be held at 20:00 UTC. If you are appointing a proxy to attend in your stead, please make this known at least two hours before the meeting starts. 1) Roll call. 2) Open bug(s) with council involvement. For

Re: [gentoo-dev] Switching order of packages in virtual/pkgconfig

2013-01-01 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Tue, 2013-01-01 at 16:01 -0500, Jeff Horelick wrote: dev-util/pkgconf has less external dependencies, is lighter and is faster than dev-util/pkgconfig while being now 100% compatible That sounds like a clear win. If it has survived the tinderboxing there likely isn't much to hold you back.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2013-01-08

2012-12-29 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 21:05 -0600, Ben Kohler wrote: This seems like a great time to deprecate remove the unmaintained server profile target, as has been previously discussed. Is this doable or is that another issue to be tackled another day? I would not attach it to this bill just before

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-27 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 15:14 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: Go bring up the suggestion that the kernel should support direct booting on lkml And be pointed at EFI_STUB functionality. Next? Regards, Tony V. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2013-01-08

2012-12-26 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
Good afternoon, In less than two weeks, on Tuesday January the 8th, the council will meet again. Now is the time to prepare raise items that you feel should be put to a vote. Please reply to this e-mail with any suggested agenda items. Even if you have raised the issue on a mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript --libdir=/lib

2012-12-26 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 22:01 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: Actually, since ulm pointed out in another thread that the council has not mandated that we support separate /usr without an initramfs, I am re-considering this. So now that the /usr-merge steamroller can not break systems through udev,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help on adapting cman init scripts to kernels with things built in instead of modules

2012-12-02 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Sun, 2012-12-02 at 23:10 +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote: Arch team people think that this should be handled before but... how should it be handled? I agree with the arch teams here. You can do something as mundane as: if [ -e /proc/modules ]; then COMPLICATED MODULE MADNESS fi Regards, Tony

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

2012-07-12 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 21:09 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: Maybe Tony mismerged your changes into his? Thank you for your trust in me. cvs commit -m completed non-interactively, without notification of conflict or request to merge. Regards, Tony V. signature.asc Description: This is a

[gentoo-dev] RFC: VOICEMAIL_STORAGE as a USE_EXPAND for net-misc/asterisk

2012-06-13 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
Good evening, As per bug #421037, there is a demand to make multiple voicemail storage backends switchable within the ebuild. The USE_EXPAND mechanism would automatically provide an explanation of the selections being made (as opposed to overloading USE=odbc in what seems to me a non-obvious

Re: [gentoo-dev] -Werror unwanted?

2012-05-15 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On 14/05/12 16:44, hasufell wrote: However, I don't see references to ebuild policy (in devmanual or howtos) how to handle Werror. As can be judged by the title of my patches on the subject, I consider -Werror to be short-sighted at best and idiotic at worst. The next GCC version, which will

Re: [gentoo-dev] busybox[sep-usr] support for mounting /usr w/out hassle

2012-04-30 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On 30/04/12 05:31, William Hubbs wrote: Correction here; as far as I know the council did not mandate separate /usr without initramfs. They just said that separate /usr is a supported configuration. Separate /usr is a supported configuration, which blocks the armwaving about oh just use an

Re: [gentoo-dev] = udev-182 tracker

2012-04-11 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 14:53 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: Does this answer any fears about trying to force an untimely stabilization? It certainly helps me sleep at night, yes. Any... inconveniences forced on me have to be fixed over 40 times. Regards, Tony V. signature.asc Description: This

Re: [gentoo-dev] python.eclass EAPI 4 support, this gets really annoying

2011-10-14 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 22:53 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: dev-vcs/git needs python eclasses to have EAPI4 so REQUIRED_USE can be used to solve bug #353657. Similar problems in dev-vcs/subversion... Regards, Tony V. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest signing

2011-09-29 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On 29/09/11 16:02, Anthony G. Basile wrote: Is there any chance that we can agree to reject unsigned manifests? Possibly a question for the Council to adjudicate? I am happy to back a mandatory signing policy for the main gentoo-x86 tree. This is a simple yes or no question that the council

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] How do we handle stabilisations of not-exactly-maintained packages

2011-09-20 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 23:18 +0200, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Well it would be something like priority based queue with maximum 60 points value. Each update after the month in main tree would get 0 points for stabilisation, any-developer / maintainer would be able to add up to 40 points to any

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-emulation/dynamips/files: dynamips-0.2.8_rc2-makefile.patch

2010-10-17 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 16:48 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: Should be right after CC instead Okay, rediffed, compile-tested committed. Will do the same for recent commit on irda-utils. Regards, Tony V. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Going inactive

2010-09-28 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 19:53 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: I've been too busy with other things to work on Gentoo for quite some time and this isn't going to change now that I've just picked up new study and work commitments. You will be missed Daniel. It was always pleasant working with you.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Two herds (and four extra?)

2010-07-21 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 13:34 +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote: This is madness, people. Two herds and four separately mentioned developers? This is madness. THIS IS HARDENED. Why don't you join a herd? Go on, it's fun and you don't have to be alone! This was originally done because we were

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy for late/slow stabilizations

2010-06-27 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 18:04 +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: As many of you have already noticed, there are some arches that are quite slow on stabilizations. This leads to deprecated stabilizations e.g a package is stabilized after 60 days which makes that version of the specific package

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy for late/slow stabilizations

2010-06-27 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 17:45 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: If possible I think we should try to keep stable keywords. So how can we help? I'm not sure how I could help e.g. PPC - I don't have any hardware I can test on, and I'm not aware of remotely accessible dev boxen. There are options, an

[gentoo-dev] Manifesto for council election

2010-06-19 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
with your vote and not in this mailing list. Regards, Tony Chainsaw Vroon 1: https://www.linx.net/about/index.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2010/2011 - Nominations are now open

2010-06-05 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Thu, 2010-06-05 at 16:36 +0200, Alex Legler wrote: Chainsaw, Fauli and sping please. Thank you Alex. I accept. Regards, Tony V. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 16:16 +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: So the attendance to council meetings is enough to prove that a member is active? 0_o Yes, since council meetings are where the crucial voting happens. Council members that fail to show up to meetings are not generating the output we

Re: [gentoo-dev] g15 and freevo up for grabs

2010-01-18 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:29 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: I use the above, and will take them. Please do feel free to take g15daemon friends as well, I've not been able to provide them with the attention they deserve. media-plugins/audacious-g15-spectrum I'd rather just get this upstream

[gentoo-dev] Revival: media-sound/ogg2mp3

2009-06-18 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 11:03 -0700, James Ausmus wrote: I might be interested in taking maintainership of this +*ogg2mp3-0.5.1 (18 Jun 2009) + + 18 Jun 2009; chain...@gentoo.org -ogg2mp3-0.5.ebuild, + +ogg2mp3-0.5.1.ebuild, metadata.xml: + First release from new maintainer James Ausmus,

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-sound/ogg2mp3

2009-06-17 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
# Tony Vroon chain...@gentoo.org (17 Jun 2009) # Dead homepage, upstream vows not to maintain it anymore. No sense packaging abandoned software. # Removal: July 17, 2009 media-sound/ogg2mp3 For bug #274123. Should you wish to rescue it, you will take sole maintainership and become upstream,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-sound/ogg2mp3

2009-06-17 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 11:03 -0700, James Ausmus wrote: I might be interested in taking maintainership of this Please let me know when the homepage and repository are ready. You would have to apply the 'prevent endian swapping' patch and roll a new tarball. Regards, Tony V. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding Nipper license to the tree

2009-06-15 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 00:58 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: So I'll leave the source version out of the tree, but I'd like thoughts on using RPM as a solution? Also I don't know whether an exception could be made for Gentoo, but equally I don't know how to phrase one of them either (Gentoo Foundation

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding Nipper license to the tree

2009-06-14 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 21:28 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: but I thought I should ask what the best course of action would be here? If it were my ebuild, I would not add the updates under the new, draconic license and either fork the GPL'd code or mask the package for removal. You can not in any way

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in app-mobilephone/smstools: ChangeLog smstools-2.2.20.ebuild

2008-10-31 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 17:18 +0100, Torsten Veller wrote: Remember pkg_preinst is called after src_install. Right, I'll change that back. It got in my way during unpack cycles. BTW: ROOT should be respected in pkg_postinst too. I'll add that. Regards, Tony V. signature.asc Description: This

Re: [gentoo-dev] RTL8187B don't work on 2.6.26, but worked on 2.6.24

2008-08-31 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 13:37 +0200, Mateusz A. Mierzwiński wrote: Hi, I just want to know, what happen with 2.6.26 kernel sources? I've installed (compiled and copy all KO's to kernel modules directory, run init script loading modules) of RTL-8187B Wireless Card but error occured: This

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2008-08-18 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
Good afternoon fellow developers, There are three ebuilds that I used to maintain that I no longer have the hardware for. I'm hoping that one of you could give them some love. Do assign the bugs to yourself, and please drop me from the relevant metadata.xml once you do. They are:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2008-08-18 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 15:14 -0400, Olivier Crête wrote: I have a thinkpad with the right hardware, so I can take this one, did you already pimp out your other thinkpad packages? I don't recall of other thinkpad packages that are still mine, but if you see my name on them, they're all yours.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-03 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 01:16 +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote: 1) How do you feel when you receive an early version bump request? If it is for software where I am also upstream (Audacious for example), it does tend to annoy me when people try their utmost to file bug reports before I commit my ebuild.