Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Foundation Elections

2008-01-30 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: Hello fellow devs, users and Gentoo community. ... We ask all Foundation members and current devs to check if they are in the correct lists and to confirm their details. In particular, devs should check if they don't lack a join date in the ldap record[10].

Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-01-30 Thread Philip Webb
080128 Mike Frysinger wrote: now that the mktemp binary has been moved out of debianutils and integrated straight into coreutils, perhaps it's time to ask how important this package is to everyone. current debianutils is part of system and provides: - installkernel - run-parts - tempfile

Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-01-30 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Jan 30, 2008 6:35 PM, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'equery d debianutils' gives me app-admin/sysklogd-1.4.2_pre20061230 (sys-apps/debianutils) app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3-r1 (userland_GNU? sys-apps/debianutils) sys-apps/mktemp-1.5 (=sys-apps/debianutils-2.16.2) The 2nd cb

Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-01-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 12:35 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: 'equery d debianutils' gives me app-admin/sysklogd-1.4.2_pre20061230 (sys-apps/debianutils) app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3-r1 (userland_GNU? sys-apps/debianutils) sys-apps/mktemp-1.5 (=sys-apps/debianutils-2.16.2) The 2nd cb

Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-01-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 10:32 -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote: That nothing that you've said counters the package not being needed in the system target. In fact, the packages that you list all explicitly depend on debianutils, so they wouldn't break if we removed it from system. The problem is

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-30 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Chris Gianelloni wrote: I think throwing up an announcement today/tomorrow for Thursday/Friday should be sufficient for this sort of a change, as it won't affect any user who has a version of portage released in the past ~1.5 years. So, since it seems nobody objected it, time for the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:05:26AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: I think throwing up an announcement today/tomorrow for Thursday/Friday should be sufficient for this sort of a change, as it won't affect any user who has a version of portage released in the past ~1.5

[gentoo-dev] How to get more involved?

2008-01-30 Thread Mateusz Mierzwinski
Hi! I just want to know how to get more involved into Gentoo development? I'm student, programmer with C/C++/PHP and SQL knowledge (IPC, Shared Memory, Fifo's and pipes programming, threads, mutexes, fork's and demonization). I've started my own project (http://www.matheos.org) called

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-30 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Jan 31, 2008 12:32 AM, Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:05:26AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: I think throwing up an announcement today/tomorrow for Thursday/Friday should be sufficient for this sort of a change, as it won't

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 00:45 +0100, Santiago M. Mola wrote: On Jan 31, 2008 12:32 AM, Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:05:26AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: I think throwing up an announcement today/tomorrow for Thursday/Friday

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to get more involved?

2008-01-30 Thread Torsten Rehn
On Thursday 31 January 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: What should I do to make ebuilds and upload it to main portage mirror? Take a look at the Gentoo docs on writing[1] and contributing[2] ebuilds. If you've got any further questions, try the gentoo-dev-help mailing list or the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 04:14:48PM -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote: It really is best done in the tree first, so everything is correct for the snapshot. We didn't have much issue last time because we push manifest1_obsolete into the snapshot, so digests are removed, anyway, but I'd *really*

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to get more involved?

2008-01-30 Thread Alec Warner
On 1/30/08, Torsten Rehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 31 January 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: What should I do to make ebuilds and upload it to main portage mirror? Take a look at the Gentoo docs on writing[1] and contributing[2] ebuilds. If you've got any further questions, try

[gentoo-dev] looking for a mentor

2008-01-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I've been talking with jsin about becoming a dev, specifically to help with SynCE. I'm working on ebuilds for a major update, which are mostly done, except for a couple of niggling problems. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178807 http://www.synce.org/moin/IainBuchanan jsin is a