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

2008-01-31 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi folks, Just a heads up - I have done the digest removal now, and regenerated every Manifest file. The manifest1_obsolete file is in place accordingly. I did NOT however implement the digest-* block, specifically so that I can try and find what developers have subtree checkouts, and query them

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

2008-01-31 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: P.S. I think I killed CIA.vc, because it was working before I touched 37k files in the tree, and it broke soon after I started. They need to scale better! Yes, they break several times a day. P.P.S. For disk saving, jokey's numbers are roughly 90Mb

[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: distutils.eclass

2008-01-31 Thread Ali Polatel
Donnie Berkholz yazmış: On 22:19 Wed 23 Jan , Ali Polatel (hawking) wrote: hawking 08/01/23 22:19:05 Modified: distutils.eclass Log: Fixed ROOT usage for distutils_pkg_postinst failing when ROOT ends with slash @@ -99,11 +99,14 @@

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

2008-01-31 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 01:38 +0100, Torsten Rehn 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

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

2008-01-31 Thread Natanael Copa
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 12:35 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: 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

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-plugins/gkrellm-bfm

2008-01-31 Thread Jim Ramsay
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Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code

2008-01-31 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 29-01-2008 12:24:56 -0800, Alec Warner wrote: To give a short answer, its a combination of projects suggested by developer and projects submitted by the students. They get reviewed by the User Rel/SOC Staff and put into an order of projects to submit to Google. They then decide which

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code

2008-01-31 Thread Alec Warner
On 1/31/08, Fabian Groffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29-01-2008 12:24:56 -0800, Alec Warner wrote: To give a short answer, its a combination of projects suggested by developer and projects submitted by the students. They get reviewed by the User Rel/SOC Staff and put into an order of

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code

2008-01-31 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 31-01-2008 12:40:33 -0800, Alec Warner wrote: Is there a place were devs can just throw in 'ideas'? I have a couple in mind, so it would be great if there was a place where interested students can go to see all ideas and pick one they like. I would prefer students come up with their

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

2008-01-31 Thread Davide Cendron
Il Thursday 31 January 2008 02:00:36 Robin H. Johnson ha scritto: 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

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

2008-01-31 Thread Jan Kundrát
Davide Cendron wrote: Ok, so we're just blocking on the docs guys. Well, to the best of my knowledge, nobody asked us to fix stuff. Preferred way would be filing a bug to the docs-team that says hey, we're gonna deprecate all digests, could you please fix your crap so that it doesn't recommend

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

2008-01-31 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:57:01PM +0100, Jan Kundr?t wrote: Davide Cendron wrote: Ok, so we're just blocking on the docs guys. Well, to the best of my knowledge, nobody asked us to fix stuff. ... Also note that docs team is responsible for files that are under http://www.gentoo.org/doc/ and

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

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 31 January 2008, Natanael Copa wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 12:35 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] looking for a mentor

2008-01-31 Thread Petteri Räty
Iain Buchanan kirjoitti: jsin is a bit busy (and not at 6 months yet) so he can't mentor me, although he still offers help as time permits. I would therefore like to see if anyone wants to volunteer their mentoring prowess to get me to developer status :) I presume no-one has yet contacted

Re: [gentoo-dev] looking for a mentor

2008-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 03:33 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: Iain Buchanan kirjoitti: jsin is a bit busy (and not at 6 months yet) so he can't mentor me, although he still offers help as time permits. I would therefore like to see if anyone wants to volunteer their mentoring prowess to get

Re: [gentoo-dev] looking for a mentor

2008-01-31 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Friday, 01. February 2008 02:58:48 Iain Buchanan wrote: actually I had philantrop offer (many thanks, will get back to you ASAP) and 2 or 3 comments on IRC (thanks also :) I got your mail and I'll catch you on IRC this weekend. :-) I was going to reply when I'd said OK to philantrop, and