[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-04 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:28:58 +0200 Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 03/03/13 19:24, Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:42:56 +0100 > > hasufell wrote: > > > >> What do we have useflags for in gentoo? > > > > Not for conditional patching, that's for sure. > > Yet that is exactly what IUSE=va

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/03/13 19:24, Ryan Hill wrote: On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:42:56 +0100 hasufell wrote: What do we have useflags for in gentoo? Not for conditional patching, that's for sure. Yet that is exactly what IUSE=vanilla is designed for... ;-)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/03/13 16:42, hasufell wrote: On 03/03/2013 08:11 AM, Alec Warner wrote: There was a big ole' chat on #gentoo-dev regarding this. My understanding of the summary is that the nvidia-driver Gentoo team only supports kernels that nvidia themselves (upstream) support. The Kernels > 3.4 are not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2013 12:24 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:42:56 +0100 hasufell > wrote: > >> What do we have useflags for in gentoo? > > Not for conditional patching, that's for sure. > >> add a "unsupported-kernels" useflag, mask it, add a

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/03/13 09:11, Alec Warner wrote: [...] My understanding of the summary is that the nvidia-driver Gentoo team only supports kernels that nvidia themselves (upstream) support. The Kernels > 3.4 are not supported by upstream, so they are also not supported in Gentoo. [...] There is a fear as we

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:05:28 +0100 hasufell wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/03/2013 06:24 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:42:56 +0100 hasufell > > wrote: > > > >> What do we have useflags for in gentoo? > > > > Not for conditional patching, t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2013 06:24 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:42:56 +0100 hasufell > wrote: > >> What do we have useflags for in gentoo? > > Not for conditional patching, that's for sure. > That simply diverges from reality. # qgrep epatch |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Ryan Hill schrieb: > On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:42:56 +0100 > hasufell wrote: > >> What do we have useflags for in gentoo? > > Not for conditional patching, that's for sure. USE="vanilla" already controls conditional patching for around two dozen packages. >> add a "unsupported-kernels" useflag, mas

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Carlos Silva
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 23:11:44 -0800 > Alec Warner wrote: > > > I do not find their stance wholly unreasonable. They offered to point > > users at an overlay, if someone was willing to maintain the patches > > there (in lieu of user_patches.) The e

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 23:11:44 -0800 Alec Warner wrote: > I do not find their stance wholly unreasonable. They offered to point > users at an overlay, if someone was willing to maintain the patches > there (in lieu of user_patches.) The end result is that if users apply > the patches, they will get

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:42:56 +0100 hasufell wrote: > What do we have useflags for in gentoo? Not for conditional patching, that's for sure. > add a "unsupported-kernels" useflag, mask it, add a clear statement in > the masking reason and be done If the description of the flag you're adding cou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Alec Warner
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Carlos Silva wrote: > On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:42 PM, hasufell wrote: >> >> What do we have useflags for in gentoo? >> >> add a "unsupported-kernels" useflag, mask it, add a clear statement in >> the masking reason and be done > > > Not a bad solution, still, I, as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Carlos Silva
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:42 PM, hasufell wrote: > What do we have useflags for in gentoo? > > add a "unsupported-kernels" useflag, mask it, add a clear statement in > the masking reason and be done > Not a bad solution, still, I, as a user, don't think making the compilation work with a specific

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread hasufell
On 03/03/2013 08:11 AM, Alec Warner wrote: > > There was a big ole' chat on #gentoo-dev regarding this. My > understanding of the summary is that the nvidia-driver Gentoo team > only supports kernels that nvidia themselves (upstream) support. The > Kernels > 3.4 are not supported by upstream, so t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 23:11:44 -0800 Alec Warner wrote: > My understanding of the summary is that the nvidia-driver Gentoo team > only supports kernels that nvidia themselves (upstream) support. The > Kernels > 3.4 are not supported by upstream, so they are also not > supported in Gentoo. There is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-02 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/03/13 09:11, Alec Warner wrote: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/03/13 18:02, Doug Goldstein (cardoe) wrote: cardoe 13/03/02 16:02:57 Modified: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog Log: Revert non-maintainer changes per bug #4

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-02 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 02/03/13 18:02, Doug Goldstein (cardoe) wrote: >> >> cardoe 13/03/02 16:02:57 >> >>Modified: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog >>Log: >>Revert non-maintainer changes per bug #447566. >> >>(Portage ve

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-02 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/03/13 18:02, Doug Goldstein (cardoe) wrote: cardoe 13/03/02 16:02:57 Modified: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog Log: Revert non-maintainer changes per bug #447566. (Portage version: 2.1.11.52/cvs/Linux x86_64, signed Manifest commit with key D7DFA8D318F