[gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The first release candidate was announced roughly 12 hours ago. And fitting the Gentoo you know as up to the minute, so far beyond the bleeding edge that it's wearing a Band-Aid before it starts to bleed, comes the complete package in Portage -- all

[gentoo-dev] Unmasking dev-db/mysql-5

2005-10-20 Thread Francesco R.
Alle 16:06, lunedì 17 ottobre 2005, Francesco R. ha scritto: mysql-4.1.14 has been added to the tree on 29 Aug 2005, should be time to stabilize the 4.1 branch of mysql. MySQL 4.1 is (keyworded) stable for amd64 and x86 . Going through step 2 now, unmasking MySQL 5.0 . As a security measure

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Simon Strandman
Donnie Berkholz skrev: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The first release candidate was announced roughly 12 hours ago. And fitting the Gentoo you know as up to the minute, so far beyond the bleeding edge that it's wearing a Band-Aid before it starts to bleed, comes the complete

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo/MIPS SGI LiveCD RC5 release

2005-10-20 Thread Jeffrey Forman
Kumba wrote: Initially, this can be found in my dev directory here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/releases/livecd-rc5/ But it will soon be up onto the mirrors under the experimental/mips folder. I have grabbed the files from kumba's home directory on dev and placed them in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 00:11 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The first release candidate was announced roughly 12 hours ago. And fitting the Gentoo you know as up to the minute, so far beyond the bleeding edge that it's wearing a Band-Aid before it

[gentoo-dev] Re: modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Duncan
Simon Strandman posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:37:42 +0200: Donnie Berkholz skrev: The first release candidate was announced roughly 12 hours ago. And fitting the Gentoo you know as up to the minute, so far beyond the bleeding edge that it's wearing a

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 20 October 2005 09:11, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Metabuilds should be forthcoming shortly. I'd appreciate input on http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/metabuilds.txt and in particular from people on the GNOME and KDE teams. KDE doesn't have any special requirements. It doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Olivier Crête
On Thu, 2005-20-10 at 15:26 +0200, Dan Armak wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 09:11, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Metabuilds should be forthcoming shortly. I'd appreciate input on http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/metabuilds.txt and in particular from people on the GNOME and KDE teams.

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Ben Skeggs
Am Donnerstag, den 20.10.2005, 00:11 -0700 schrieb Donnie Berkholz: Thanks to the dedicated work of Joshua Baergen and me, you've got just what you asked for -- newer X than even money can buy. Pound on it, test it, break it, and file bugs. Let us know how it works. I had some issues updating

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 20 October 2005 14:26, Dan Armak wrote: To keep the current behaviour, the kde metaebuild (and gnome and the other WMs) would have to depend on xorg-x11, which strictly speaking is unnecessary. Opinions? How can we educate the users to manually 'emerge xorg-x11'? Personally I'm in

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Herbie Hopkins
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 01:46 +1100, Ben Skeggs wrote: The only issue I've encountered so far is that XKB appears to be completely broken for me. I can't quite track down why at this stage. bug 109926 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Luca Barbato
Dan Armak wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 09:11, Donnie Berkholz wrote: To keep the current behaviour, the kde metaebuild (and gnome and the other WMs) would have to depend on xorg-x11, which strictly speaking is unnecessary. Opinions? How can we educate the users to manually 'emerge

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 20 October 2005 17:23, Mike Williams wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 14:26, Dan Armak wrote: To keep the current behaviour, the kde metaebuild (and gnome and the other WMs) would have to depend on xorg-x11, which strictly speaking is unnecessary. Opinions? How can we educate

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 20 October 2005 17:28, Luca Barbato wrote: Dan Armak wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 09:11, Donnie Berkholz wrote: To keep the current behaviour, the kde metaebuild (and gnome and the other WMs) would have to depend on xorg-x11, which strictly speaking is unnecessary.

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Ben Skeggs
Am Donnerstag, den 20.10.2005, 16:28 +0100 schrieb Herbie Hopkins: On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 01:46 +1100, Ben Skeggs wrote: The only issue I've encountered so far is that XKB appears to be completely broken for me. I can't quite track down why at this stage. bug 109926 Thanks! That got rid

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: ebuilds linked to kernel upgrade

2005-10-20 Thread John Mylchreest
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 17:31 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Actually, genkernel does have the --callback option, which runs an external command before finalizing the build. We use it for building external modules and packages that require a configured kernel when building the releases, but I

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Armak wrote: | KDE doesn't have any special requirements. It doesn't use any kind of X11 | build tool (what is there other than imake?). It does use some X apps like | xmessage, xset etc. After you commit your metaebuilds we'll update the deps |

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Armak wrote: | On Thursday 20 October 2005 09:11, Donnie Berkholz wrote: | |Metabuilds should be forthcoming shortly. I'd appreciate input on |http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/metabuilds.txt and in |particular from people on the GNOME

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Armak wrote: | On Thursday 20 October 2005 17:28, Luca Barbato wrote: |a useflag could solve the issue as well a all inclusive metaebuild for X. | | To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default flag, i.e. | 'noxserver'. I know some

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Matthijs van der Vleuten
On 10/20/05, Dan Armak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default flag, i.e. 'noxserver'. I know some people are strongly against nofoo flags. What about an off-by-default 'xserver' flag? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:37, Donnie Berkholz wrote: I'd prefer that people don't come to depend on metabuilds at all. OK, we can do this. See http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/porting_to_modular_x_howto.txt. That file says there won't be any x11-related virtuals anymore. Are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: ebuilds linked to kernel upgrade

2005-10-20 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:19 +0100, John Mylchreest wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 17:31 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Actually, genkernel does have the --callback option, which runs an external command before finalizing the build. We use it for building external modules and packages that

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:58, Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote: On 10/20/05, Dan Armak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default flag, i.e. 'noxserver'. I know some people are strongly against nofoo flags. What about an off-by-default 'xserver'

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Armak wrote: | On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:37, Donnie Berkholz wrote: | |I'd prefer that people don't come to depend on metabuilds at all. | | OK, we can do this. | | |See

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:43, Donnie Berkholz wrote: - gpg control packet Dan Armak wrote: | On Thursday 20 October 2005 17:28, Luca Barbato wrote: |a useflag could solve the issue as well a all inclusive metaebuild for X. | | To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Armak wrote: | On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:43, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |Or, you could just activate it in the base profile. | | True. I forget - why can't we solve the problem of all nofoo USE flags this | way? Or is the (remaining) problem

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:25, Dan Armak wrote: True. I forget - why can't we solve the problem of all nofoo USE flags this way? Or is the (remaining) problem only with local flags? Too many people using -* (due to auto flags) so that will break for most of them. It's one of the reasons we

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: | On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:25, Dan Armak wrote: | |True. I forget - why can't we solve the problem of all nofoo USE flags this |way? Or is the (remaining) problem only with local flags? | | Too many people using

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 20/10/2005 21:16:47, Dan Armak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:58, Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote: On 10/20/05, Dan Armak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default flag, i.e. 'noxserver'. I know some people are strongly

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 20/10/2005 21:16:47, Dan Armak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:58, Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote: On 10/20/05, Dan Armak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default flag, i.e. 'noxserver'. I know some people are strongly

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Dan Armak
Your mua or some gateway has inserted really ugly linebreaks in the text you quoted. I tried to make it prettier. On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:17, Donnie Berkholz wrote: I'm not aware of any. The only similar thing I'm aware of is a few incredibly broken packages that require Xvfb at build

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:35:39 +0200 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:25, Dan Armak wrote: | True. I forget - why can't we solve the problem of all nofoo USE | flags this way? Or is the (remaining) problem only with local flags? | Too many people

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:48, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On 20/10/2005 21:16:47, Dan Armak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:58, Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote: On 10/20/05, Dan Armak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To solve this issue it would have to be an

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:42, Donnie Berkholz wrote: I think you're missing the context. He's saying we solve the nofoo problem by adding foo to profiles instead, not by adding nofoo. Exactly Add foo to profiles, users sets -* to remove the use.defaults flags, then the user has no foo :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Owen
On 10/20/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add foo to profiles, users sets -* to remove the use.defaults flags, then the user has no foo :) Which is exactly as it should be. If someone is going to use -*, then they should learn to live with the consequences. Even I, as a

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: | On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:42, Donnie Berkholz wrote: | |I think you're missing the context. He's saying we solve the nofoo |problem by adding foo to profiles instead, not by adding nofoo. | | Exactly | | Add

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 20 October 2005 23:06, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Selected arbitrarily by the x11 team based on requirement, common use and prettiness factor. Probably font-misc-misc, font-bh-ttf, font-adobe-utopia-type1 and maybe some others that are brought to my attention. Nnn! No Type1

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Alec Joseph Warner
Dan Armak wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:48, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On 20/10/2005 21:16:47, Dan Armak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:58, Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote: On 10/20/05, Dan Armak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To solve this issue it would have to

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: | On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 12:17 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |Selected arbitrarily by the x11 team based on requirement, common use |and prettiness factor. Probably font-misc-misc, font-bh-ttf, |font-adobe-utopia-type1 and

[gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Petteri Räty
Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags. Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags by default in a way that would not cruft the base profiles for every local use flag.

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 20 October 2005 23:47, Petteri Räty wrote: Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags. Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags by default in a way that

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Alec Warner
Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:35, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Too many people using -* (due to auto flags) so that will break for most of them. So we have the three things we should deprecate in a single thread: a) no* flags b) auto flags c) -* and -foo for all

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 20 October 2005 05:47 pm, Petteri Räty wrote: Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags. Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags by default in a way that

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Alec Warner
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 05:47 pm, Petteri Räty wrote: Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags. Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags by

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:03 pm, Alec Warner wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 05:47 pm, Petteri Räty wrote: Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags. Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask file? This

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Dave Nebinger
i still dont see how this addresses the nocxx / USE=-* noFOO is used because FOO is on by default, and noFOO turns it off. AutoUSE is the same way, package bar is included in the buildplan and to have sane defaults, certain flags are turned on. that was a great explanation however

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:19 pm, Dave Nebinger wrote: i still dont see how this addresses the nocxx / USE=-* noFOO is used because FOO is on by default, and noFOO turns it off. AutoUSE is the same way, package bar is included in the buildplan and to have sane defaults, certain

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 22:26 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:19 pm, Dave Nebinger wrote: i still dont see how this addresses the nocxx / USE=-* noFOO is used because FOO is on by default, and noFOO turns it off. AutoUSE is the same way, package bar is

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:34 pm, Spider (D.m.D. Lj.) wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 22:26 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:19 pm, Dave Nebinger wrote: i still dont see how this addresses the nocxx / USE=-* noFOO is used because FOO is on by default,

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Alec Warner
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:03 pm, Alec Warner wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 05:47 pm, Petteri Räty wrote: Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags. Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Dan Meltzer
On 10/20/05, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:34 pm, Spider (D.m.D. Lj.) wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 22:26 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:19 pm, Dave Nebinger wrote: i still dont see how this addresses the nocxx /

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:47 pm, Alec Warner wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:03 pm, Alec Warner wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 05:47 pm, Petteri Räty wrote: Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags.

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:49 pm, Dan Meltzer wrote: On 10/20/05, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:34 pm, Spider (D.m.D. Lj.) wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 22:26 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:19 pm, Dave Nebinger

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Dave Nebinger
there is nothing hard about USE=-* cxx but while most here want to say 'fuck the users' (and i'm inclined to agree), i'd rather not field those bugs/questions/etc... The average gentoo newbie is not going to know anything about -* in /etc/make.conf. Mostly it's folks that have been around

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Thursday 20 October 2005 11:09 pm, Dave Nebinger wrote: So basically if only 'experienced', yet misguided, folks are using '-*', then the only bugs to come up from this would be ABKB bugs, leaving them with egg on their face for messing with '-*' in the first place. Before anyone asks, ABKB

RE: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-20 Thread Chris Lee
Before anyone asks, ABKB is help-desk lingo for A**hole Behind Key Board. I always preferred that to the id10t error (idiot). See also: PEBKAC Thanks, Chris -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] pre/post phase hooks for users

2005-10-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 15 October 2005 07:05, Brian Harring wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 05:02:02PM -0500, Brian Harring wrote: Jason, your thoughts on this 53 wise? Bleh, pardon, meant .54 for inclussion Just to be sure it's clear to everybody (although I think Brian knows already), my job is not

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] pre/post phase hooks for users

2005-10-20 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:37:07PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 15 October 2005 07:05, Brian Harring wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 05:02:02PM -0500, Brian Harring wrote: Jason, your thoughts on this 53 wise? Bleh, pardon, meant .54 for inclussion Just to be sure it's clear

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] pre/post phase hooks for users

2005-10-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 21 October 2005 08:07, Brian Harring wrote: Bash hooks would exist in 3.0; they're user specific hooks only, hence the bit about java being an evil exception till 3.0 comes to town. I intend to lock down the pre/post hooks prior to ebuild sourcing under ebd, so ebuilds/eclasses