Re: [gentoo-dev] svn.overlays migration/downtime

2008-10-12 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:05:47PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:50:40AM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > At some point over this weekend (we haven't pinned an exact time yet, > > details to follow), there's going to be a ~5-minute outage of overla

[gentoo-dev] RFC: fox.eclass update

2008-10-12 Thread Matti Bickel
Hi folks, While fixing bug #240060 I touched fox.eclass. In the process, I updated the eclass to * use versionator * cut support for fox-1.0 (loong outdated) * cut support for fox-1.5 * use eautomake instead of =automake-1.4* * use emake instead of make * use elog instead

[gentoo-dev] System packages in (R)DEPEND?

2008-10-12 Thread Thomas Sachau
I see packages like bison, flex, perl or sed in the system set. And i also see ebuilds depending on them. I also heard from Peter Volkov (pva) that there where discussions about removing different packages from the system set. So now my question is: Should we depend on all system packages? Shoul

[gentoo-dev] Re: System packages in (R)DEPEND?

2008-10-12 Thread Duncan
Thomas Sachau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:04:21 +0200: > I see packages like bison, flex, perl or sed in the system set. And i > also see ebuilds depending on them. I also heard from Peter Volkov (pva) > that there where discussions about

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-10-12 23h59 UTC

2008-10-12 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-10-12 23h59 UTC. Removals: dev-tex/vntex 2008-10-06 19:53:29 aballier media-sound/gogo2008-10-08 16:08:15 mr_bones_ www-apps/xrms

[gentoo-dev] Re: Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-12 Thread Steve Long
Peter Volkov wrote: > Robert Buchholz ?: >> Thilo Bangert wrote: >> > HOMEPAGE="http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/"; >> >> Why not use our package site for this, i.e. >> HOMEPAGE="http://packages.gentoo.org/package/${CAT}/${PN}"; > > This is not homepage. HOMEPAGE should point t

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-10-12 Thread Steve Long
Ryan Hill wrote: > Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ryan Hill wrote: >> > Though I'm still not sure what happens when a package is in two >> > unrelated sets.. >> > >> > @gnome: >> >RDEPEND=">=gnome-extra/gnome-screensaver-2.22.2" >> > >> > @xfce4: >> >RDEPEND="gnome-extra/gnome-

[gentoo-dev] Re: bzr.eclass into Portage

2008-10-12 Thread Steve Long
Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Mon, 06 Oct 2008, Jorge Manuel B S Vicetto wrote: > >> No objections here, just a question. Do you know if the issue with the >> lp:// sources has been fixed in bzr? > No objections, a minor point wrt bash: EBZR_OPTIONS="${EBZR_OPTIONS:-}" (and similar variants) d

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-lang/python: ChangeLog python-2.6.ebuild python-2.5.2-r6.ebuild

2008-10-12 Thread Steve Long
Thomas Sachau wrote: > what about this: > insinto /usr/share/doc/${P}/examples Is there any chance we can start using correctly quoted filenames across the board? [EMAIL PROTECTED] NB: I'm raising this as a talking-point, not pushing it as an agenda, so please don't reply if discussion doesn't

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms

2008-10-12 Thread Steve Long
Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Fabian Groffen wrote: > >> Most notably, in Prefix all keywords are full GLEP53 style, which >> results in e.g. amd64-linux. We did this on purpose, because in Prefix >> we don't necessarily are on Gentoo Linux. We also chose to expand fbsd, >> nbsd and obsd to their long

[gentoo-dev] Re: bzr.eclass into Portage

2008-10-12 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Steve Long wrote: > No objections, a minor point wrt bash: > EBZR_OPTIONS="${EBZR_OPTIONS:-}" (and similar variants) > doesn't do anything (beyond waste lex and yacc time.) It does something, namely assigns an empty string if the variable was undefined before. ;-) git.