Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there a tool to manage USE flags? (use-config?)

2006-10-26 Thread m h
Donnie- thanks for the suggestion (guess I need to look through app-portage before I post next time). I'll check out these tools (though they are written in perl. I was thinking about using python) -matt On 10/26/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: m h wrote: Other than a text

[gentoo-dev] Is there a tool to manage USE flags? (use-config?)

2006-10-26 Thread m h
Other than a text editor? I'd like to have a tool that can add USE flags on a per package or global level. (I'm doing this in some build scripts and would prefer just to have a tool, rather than sed or some other shell hackery). I couldn't find anything via a quick search on google. Here's my

[gentoo-portage-dev] Is there a tool to manage USE flags? (use-config?)

2006-10-26 Thread m h
Other than a text editor? I'd like to have a tool that can add USE flags on a per package or global level. (I'm doing this in some build scripts and would prefer just to have a tool, rather than sed or some other shell hackery). I couldn't find anything via a quick search on google. Here's my

[gentoo-dev] Sowing the seeds of a warconfig tool

2006-08-04 Thread m h
Hey folks- (Shamelessly copied from my blog[1] )... I'm working on an open source tool for managing war files called warconfig (warconfig is/should be to wars as webappconfig is to php apps). We have a need for this at work. I have a pretty detailed write up here [2]. Warconfig is a tool for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sowing the seeds of a warconfig tool

2006-08-04 Thread m h
On 8/4/06, Renat Lumpau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 01:48:50AM -0600, m h wrote: Hey folks- (Shamelessly copied from my blog[1] )... I'm working on an open source tool for managing war files called warconfig (warconfig is/should be to wars as webappconfig is to php

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sowing the seeds of a warconfig tool

2006-08-04 Thread m h
Have you looked at Cargo? http://cargo.codehaus.org/ I figured I'd get this question. i briefly played with cargo. (In fact I'm planning on asking the cargo people for feedback as week). Perhaps if one are interested in manipulating wars from ant/maven, cargo is the way to go. But

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Re: Refactoring of emerge code

2006-05-09 Thread m h
On 5/9/06, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: m h posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 08 May 2006 21:38:49 -0700: hat is the status of my patches? I'm assumming that they are rejected... I'm curious the know the reason. If the plan is to migrate to a new improved version

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Refactoring of emerge code

2006-05-08 Thread m h
is going to be around for a while, why the objection to cleaning up the code? Not meaning to fan any flames here. I'm not on IRC 24-7, so I probably miss a lot of the action. thanks matt On 5/2/06, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a stab at pre10... The order of application is the order

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Refactoring of emerge code

2006-05-02 Thread m h
feedback is welcome. -matt On 5/1/06, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on the recent Stabilizing portage 2.1 thread, should I provide patches based on pre9 or pre10? thanks matt On 4/30/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: m h wrote: OK will do that. Since, I'm not a patching pro

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Refactoring of emerge code

2006-05-01 Thread m h
Based on the recent Stabilizing portage 2.1 thread, should I provide patches based on pre9 or pre10? thanks matt On 4/30/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: m h wrote: OK will do that. Since, I'm not a patching pro, can you suggest a good way of creating a series of patches

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Refactoring of emerge code

2006-04-30 Thread m h
with the revamp of Global vars in one commit, and then the re-arrangement in the other. m h wrote: Yes, I can break it up, but it will probably be 3 one line changes and one big 1000 line change. The 1000 line change is pretty straightforward. The only real code changes per se are removing any

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Refactoring of emerge code

2006-04-29 Thread m h
Upon further testing, I'm updating a line in the patch On 4/28/06, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks- I'm submitting a patch of a refactoring of the emerge code in 2.1_pre9-r5. This patch adds no features per se. But I believe it makes the code much more readable. This only addresses

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Refactoring of emerge code

2006-04-29 Thread m h
to figure out what/when/where happened m h wrote: Upon further testing, I'm updating a line in the patch On 4/28/06, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks- I'm submitting a patch of a refactoring of the emerge code in 2.1_pre9-r5. This patch adds no features per se. But I believe it makes

[gentoo-dev] Question on SLOTting libraries

2006-04-05 Thread m h
Hi all- I've googled and RTFM for SLOTS which from what I can tell is this paragraph: With Portage different versions of a single package can coexist on a system. While other distributions tend to name their package to those versions (like freetype and freetype2) Portage uses a technology called

Re: [gentoo-dev] When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-04-04 Thread m h
If we had an official place where people could complain about ebuilds not being stabilized, then I have a feeling most developers would avoid it like the plague. Stuff like this is along the same lines as the bump it!!!eleventy-one11!11 bugs which get filed the minute there is a new release

[gentoo-dev] When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-04-03 Thread m h
Subject says it all. This isn't meant as flamebait. I'm running stable on my laptop and unstable on my desktop. It seems like most KDE release get better over time, so I'm just wondering what the process is with KDE? thanks -matt -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-04-03 Thread m h
On 4/3/06, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 April 2006 01:05, m h wrote: This isn't meant as flamebait. I'm running stable on my laptop and unstable on my desktop. It seems like most KDE release get better over time, so I'm just wondering what the process

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open

2006-03-20 Thread m h
I'm not a gentoo dev (just a satisfied user), but I lurk on this list. I was at PyCon last month. I would estimate that about 40% of the people there ran linux on their laptops. The most popular distros were gentoo and ubuntu. (Not this is not a scientific study, just my observations from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open

2006-03-20 Thread m h
George- Not sure if you have seen this or not. Check out Conary [1] from rPath. Think of it as Rpm+Ebuild+Distributed. It's done by some people who used to be at Redhat and in one of the whitepapers, they specifically mention portage/ebuild. -matt 1 - http://wiki.conary.com/FrontPage On

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] ebuild path/to/ebuild rpm does not work, spec files aren't generated

2005-10-26 Thread m h
Hmmm, then I must be missing where the spec file gets generated, because there is no code in ebuild.py that does it... On 10/26/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: m h wrote: I'm trying to run ebuild path/to/ebuild rpm and it's failing because there is no .spec file from which to build

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Questions about CVS locations and GID...

2005-10-05 Thread m h
/). If anyone can elaborate on the efforts going on in that arena, I'm all ears. matt On 10/5/05, Alec Joseph Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: m h wrote: Hey Folks- I'm working on trying to get prefixed installs working. (As such, I'm using some code kindly modified by Michael Haubenwallner

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Questions about CVS locations and GID...

2005-10-05 Thread m h
On 10/5/05, Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:48:03PM -0700, m h wrote: On 10/5/05, Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yay, time for another flame war (just what I'd love to spend my time on). Sorry, I'm really not trying to kindle any flames here

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Questions about CVS locations and GID...

2005-10-05 Thread m h
Thanks for the warning Alec. Since I already have very limited knowledge of the internals, I figure this will be a good trial by fire (learn sort of the portage internals and issues with prefixed installs). If it works, perhaps I will be able to devote more time to it and do more than a simple

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] status of prefixed portage (or portage as a secondary package manager)?

2005-09-09 Thread m h
Michael- Thanks for your reply. Is it possible to put your complete steps along with links to custom code you've done in the gentoo wiki? I'd very much like to try and replicate what you have done. thanks againOn 9/9/05, Michael Haubenwallner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Matt,m h wrote: Hi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Comparing Openpkg with portage

2005-09-08 Thread m h
Thanks for the response, I guess I'll post to the osx mailing list, but really my issue isn't about osx per se, but taking the osx portage port and making it run on any posix system (solaris, osx, flavors of linux etc) in a sandboxed environment. I've read through the developer documentation and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Comparing Openpkg with portage

2005-09-08 Thread m h
), but would like to collaborate with others interested in this. I'm not very familiar with the inner workings of portage (just a happy gentoo user since 2002), but I am comfortable with bash and python and have read the developers documentation. Thoughts, comments?On 9/8/05, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[gentoo-dev] Comparing Openpkg with portage

2005-09-07 Thread m h
Hello- I'm investigating the similarities between portage and openpkg. More specifically I was wondering if it is possible to take portage and install in on top of an existing linux installation in its own sandbox (similar to what openpkg does). I've done some googling and found the documentation