Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-10-04 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/04/2010 12:50 AM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > > On 09/30/2010 09:36 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> as I've only recently "graduated to developer", I've got a question about >> this. Diego, your request makes perfect sense to me. But, so far I always >> thought "Python, portage, and gc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-10-04 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/04/2010 08:45 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > Am I the only one who is waiting for a Portage 2.2 unmask on ~arch? > It's taking months if not years ;-) Well, portage-2.1.9.x is essentially the same codebase as "portage-2.2". If you look at the 2.1.9 branch, you can see that it diverges and at t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-10-04 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Am I the only one who is waiting for a Portage 2.2 unmask on ~arch? It's taking months if not years ;-) -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-10-04 Thread Richard Freeman
On 10/04/2010 03:50 AM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > So - would it make sense to split repoman into its own ebuild? ++ I always did wonder why the two have been part of the same project. Repoman updates could probably be stabilized more quickly with so much worry about impact on users at large.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-10-04 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On 09/30/2010 09:36 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > as I've only recently "graduated to developer", I've got a question about > this. Diego, your request makes perfect sense to me. But, so far I always > thought "Python, portage, and gcc are the things that I really need to rely > on, so whatev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Petteri Räty
On 09/30/2010 06:25 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 09/30/2010 12:41 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >> As another dev who generally runs stable (except things that I hack >> on), another question: is it actually possible, as Diego seems to >> suggest, to have two portages installed? > > You can run portage

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 30-09-2010 a las 08:19 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: > If we don't find any really annoying regressions in portage-2.1.9.12 > then that release will be stabilized about 30 days from now. We > haven't been finding many regressions lately [1], so there's a > reasonable probability of this relea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/30/2010 12:41 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > As another dev who generally runs stable (except things that I hack > on), another question: is it actually possible, as Diego seems to > suggest, to have two portages installed? You can run portage directly from a checkout if you export modified ve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/30/2010 01:09 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > And I would also ask, Where a portage-2.1.9 version will be stabilized? > > Thanks a lot for the info :-) If we don't find any really annoying regressions in portage-2.1.9.12 then that release will be stabilized about 30 days from now. We haven't been

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Alex Alexander
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 09:36:44AM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Hi, > > as I've only recently "graduated to developer", I've got a question about > this. Diego, your request makes perfect sense to me. But, so far I always > thought "Python, portage, and gcc are the things that I really ne

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 30-09-2010 a las 10:09 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: > And I would also ask, Where a portage-2.1.9 version will be stabilized? > > Thanks a lot for the info :-) Where -> When signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 30-09-2010 a las 09:41 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman escribió: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 09:36, Andreas K. Huettel > wrote: > > What is the general opinion on this? > > Do you (developers) all use ~arch portage? > > How big is the risk? > > As another dev who generally runs stable (except thing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 09:36, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > What is the general opinion on this? > Do you (developers) all use ~arch portage? > How big is the risk? As another dev who generally runs stable (except things that I hack on), another question: is it actually possible, as Diego seems to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:36:44 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > How big is the risk? Portage was broken several times but it's always easy to fix. If you're lazy, keep working .tbz2 nearby and unpack it to / whenever necessary. If you're not, you can always run portage from the unpacked sources

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hi, as I've only recently "graduated to developer", I've got a question about this. Diego, your request makes perfect sense to me. But, so far I always thought "Python, portage, and gcc are the things that I really need to rely on, so whatever I do, I'll keep those stable." (My development ma

[gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-29 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Hi all, I would like to beg all developers to keep around a copy of latest Portage (2.1.9 or even 2.2) to use for committing to main tree. Reason being that if we add more errors to be reported, using the old stable version will still ignore the error cases, and allow broken ebuilds to pass throug