Re: [gentoo-dev] udev distro vs upstream choices

2012-12-17 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 17/12/12 06:02, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/12/12 09:55 PM, William Hubbs wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:35:44PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 12/15/2012 10:03 PM, William Hubbs wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 07:10:22PM -0500, Richard

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev distro vs upstream choices

2012-12-17 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:55:57 -0600 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:35:44PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 12/15/2012 10:03 PM, William Hubbs wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 07:10:22PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 12/15/2012 06:02 PM, William Hubbs wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Markos Chandras
On 17 December 2012 00:10, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 12/16/12 14:04, Markos Chandras wrote: On 16 December 2012 16:57, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: Inspired by the number of packages being unmaintained -- why not use some of that bug bounty money to fix up

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:10:06 -0500 Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: Parts of this docs are outdated but this does not matter. Get involved, fix bugs, help people and someone will ask you to join. Or look for a mentor. If your recruitment process is fix bugs for years and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Markos Chandras
On 16 December 2012 19:14, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: People still think of Gentoo as a ricer distro that's broken all the time, when in reality, it's one of the most stable. Well that's not entirely true but that's a different issue What's not really true? That it's the

[gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Hi lads, lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from users. Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles default enabled and add -g to default cflags. Currently it is only enabled

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 11:11, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles default enabled and add -g to default cflags. Currently it is only enabled in the developer profile. Why, somebody

[gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Currently we put portage into /usr/portage and all related stuff is to be in the subfolders there (distfiles, binpkg). I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to make world and config files to be put

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 11:19, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to make world and config files to be put elsewhere :P). I would say let's work on that so that portage can keep them

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2012/12/17 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu: On 17/12/2012 11:11, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles default enabled and add -g to default cflags. Currently it is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2012/12/17 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu: On 17/12/2012 11:19, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to make world and config files to be put elsewhere :P). I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:23:00 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 17/12/2012 11:19, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to make world and config

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Sven Eden
Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2012, 11:11:38 schrieb Tomáš Chvátal: Hi lads, lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from users. Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles default

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Ben de Groot
On 17 December 2012 18:26, Tomáš Chvátal tomas.chva...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/12/17 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu: On 17/12/2012 11:11, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite few of us are using it) how about making it to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Ben de Groot
On 17 December 2012 18:27, Tomáš Chvátal tomas.chva...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/12/17 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu: On 17/12/2012 11:19, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

2012-12-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 03:17:05PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 12/15/2012 02:33 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:58:43 -0500 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 07:07:09PM +0100, Micha?? G??rny wrote Waaait, what? Did something change lately or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 11:33, Sven Eden wrote: on my system I have set up everything with splitdebug enabled. My CFLAGS use - march=native, -O2 and -ggdb. That's -ggdb that increases the size. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Markos Chandras
On 16 December 2012 18:53, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: 1. Even MediaWiki (wiki.gentoo.org) looks better than www.gentoo.org. That's impressive-bad. People still think of Gentoo as a ricer distro that's broken all the time, when in reality, it's one of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 11:26, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I silently hope they copy the default cflags to their make.conf and then set march and add more stuff, rather than starting from scratch. Also we can pop-up newsitem asking them to put it into cflags ;-) They don't, they use those coming from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:11 +0100, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Hi lads, lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from users. Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles default

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2012/12/17 Sven Eden sven.e...@gmx.de: Hello Tomáš, on my system I have set up everything with splitdebug enabled. My CFLAGS use - march=native, -O2 and -ggdb. And this is the result: (Yes, I have a dedictated partition for that.) ~ $ LC_ALL=C df -h /usr/lib/debug/. Filesystem Size

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2012/12/17 Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org: The bigger problem is not disk space but memory usage at link time. Try building something like *-webkit-* or firefox with debugging CFLAGS on a machine with limited memory. That ain't problem, we acutally can patch in those packages to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2012/12/17 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org: Please don't. For most users this is a waste of resources. On first look it seems like waste of resources. On second hand it makes stuff easy wrt bugreports provided by users. And believe me when I say most upstreams are pissed by gentoo reports because

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 11:54, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: That ain't problem, we acutally can patch in those packages to strip the debug by default and add there useflag to not strip those for those really needing it. No. USE=debug is for _something else_ entirely. And I'm going to kick hard whoever tries to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread justin
On 17/12/12 11:23, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 17/12/2012 11:19, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to make world and config files to be put elsewhere :P). I would say

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Luca Barbato
On 12/17/12 11:30 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:23:00 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 17/12/2012 11:19, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

2012-12-17 Thread Luca Barbato
On 12/17/12 11:40 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: So systemd still works with a separate /usr and you're continuing to spread misinformation. Demonstrating such behaviour while complaining about the behaviour of upstream is IMO very ironic. No it does not, try by yourself please ^^ (or just issue and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 12:06, justin wrote: fetch-restricted files are to be considered critical here. Do we want to force the user to keep them twice? So an additional location which is not a cache? Of course PORTAGE_RO_DISTDIRS and friends are nice here, but they are not part of a default setup. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 17/12/2012 11:42, Diego Elio Pettenò ha scritto: On 17/12/2012 11:33, Sven Eden wrote: on my system I have set up everything with splitdebug enabled. My CFLAGS use - march=native, -O2 and -ggdb. That's -ggdb that increases the size. In short FEATURES=compressdebug should be stable and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 12:37, viv...@gmail.com wrote: In short FEATURES=compressdebug should be stable and default before you (gentoo) decide for something like this. As mentioned somewhere else in this thread some packages are on the unbeareable side when compiled with debug information, those

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: I would say let's work on that so that portage can keep them there. Although I'm more for /var/cache/portage myself, as both distfiles and tree can be re-generated. +1. Cheers, Dirkjan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Markos Chandras
On 17 December 2012 09:40, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:10:06 -0500 Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: Parts of this docs are outdated but this does not matter. Get involved, fix bugs, help people and someone will ask you to join. Or look for a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Tomáš Chvátal tomas.chva...@gmail.com wrote: I silently hope they copy the default cflags to their make.conf and then set march and add more stuff, rather than starting from scratch. Also we can pop-up newsitem asking them to put it into cflags ;-) You might

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Markos Chandras
On 17 December 2012 10:11, Tomáš Chvátal tomas.chva...@gmail.com wrote: Hi lads, lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from users. Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite few of us are using it) how about making it to default

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Derek Dai
+1 /var/cache Derek Dai On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:23:00 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 17/12/2012 11:19, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Markos Chandras
On 17 December 2012 10:30, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:23:00 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 17/12/2012 11:19, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for /var/portage/ (not /var/lib

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Outsource it to someone who has the knowledge and interest in doing this. The foundation has the funds to support it, and none of us actually have the time to invest in a complete webpage redesign. If we have funds

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread George Shapovalov
On Monday 17 December 2012 11:19:20 Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to make world and config files to be put elsewhere :P). Finally! And, while we are at it, lets more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Sven Eden
Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2012, 11:47:24 schrieb Tomáš Chvátal: 2012/12/17 Sven Eden sven.e...@gmx.de: Hello Tomáš, on my system I have set up everything with splitdebug enabled. My CFLAGS use - march=native, -O2 and -ggdb. And this is the result: (Yes, I have a dedictated partition for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Philipp Riegger
On 17.12.2012 11:23, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 17/12/2012 11:19, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to make world and config files to be put elsewhere :P). I would say

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread justin
On 17/12/12 12:17, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 17/12/2012 12:06, justin wrote: fetch-restricted files are to be considered critical here. Do we want to force the user to keep them twice? So an additional location which is not a cache? Of course PORTAGE_RO_DISTDIRS and friends are nice here,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Michał Górny wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:23:00 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: I would say let's work on that so that portage can keep them there. Although I'm more for /var/cache/portage myself, as both distfiles and tree can be re-generated.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 13:42, Ulrich Mueller wrote: If we change the location, can we then move distfiles to some place outside of the tree? Something like: /var/cache/portage /var/cache/distfiles What I do on my systems is /var/cache/portage/tree /var/cache/portage/distfiles -- Diego Elio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 13:39, justin wrote: I am more thinking about packages which are not as easy accessible as JRE. There are a couple sci packages which are distributed on request by mail other inconvenient methods. Sometimes even not by your own, but by your PI or other seniors. And even sometimes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

2012-12-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 12/17/2012 05:40 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 03:17:05PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 12/15/2012 02:33 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:58:43 -0500 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 07:07:09PM +0100, Micha?? G??rny wrote

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Montag, den 17.12.2012, 11:19 +0100 schrieb Tomáš Chvátal: Currently we put portage into /usr/portage and all related stuff is to be in the subfolders there (distfiles, binpkg). I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

2012-12-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:09:08PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: On 12/17/12 11:40 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: So systemd still works with a separate /usr and you're continuing to spread misinformation. Demonstrating such behaviour while complaining about the behaviour of upstream is IMO very ironic.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:19:20 +0100 Tomáš Chvátal tomas.chva...@gmail.com wrote: The only reason why we have this currently in usr is that bsd ports put their stuff in there and I suppose Daniel just did the same. +1 on /var/cache. Agreed. Bonus points if we consider suggesting to move it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Kacper Kowalik
On 12/17/2012 11:11 AM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Hi lads, lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from users. All trouble can be saved by asking user to recompile package with relevant flags on bug report, resolving the bug as NEEDINFO. Instead of forcing everybody out

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 14:40, Kevin Chadwick wrote: /var sounds right but if /usr is still huge it may annoy some (like apt can) with smaller drives who now need lots of free space for new programs in both /usr and /var. Of course there is LVM. Changing our defaults is unlikely to force users to change

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: So it's probably a user exercise? It already is a user exercise. A stage3 doesn't even contain the /usr/portage directory - you manually create it per the handbook (or more likely let tar/etc do it for you. I also

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Kacper Kowalik xarthis...@gentoo.org wrote: All trouble can be saved by asking user to recompile package with relevant flags on bug report, resolving the bug as NEEDINFO. Instead of forcing everybody out there using Gentoo to have additional XGb for debug,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 14:49, Rich Freeman wrote: I'd also suggest at least considering how paludis handles this. They just have a directory containing config file per repository, with a priority setting. The portage tree is just another overlay, which is a good way to handle it. The sync mechanism

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Outsource it to someone who has the knowledge and interest in doing this. The foundation has the funds to support it, and none of us actually have the time to invest in a complete webpage redesign. Before we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: So please stop giving this stupid suggestion, which causes enough grief as it is without being repeated once again. Uh, sure, insofar as it is possible to stop doing something that you've done exactly once... :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

2012-12-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 12/17/2012 08:25 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:09:08PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: On 12/17/12 11:40 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: So systemd still works with a separate /usr and you're continuing to spread misinformation. Demonstrating such behaviour while complaining about

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 15:20, Rich Freeman wrote: Uh, sure, insofar as it is possible to stop doing something that you've done exactly once... :) In general, I've heard the same suggestion touted too many times already. It's this kind of misinformation and cargo culting that often causes `strip-flags`

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2012, 11:23:00 schrieb Diego Elio Pettenò: On 17/12/2012 11:19, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to make world and config files to be put

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 15:49, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: What about setups where portage tree is mounted via NFS to reduce traffic and disk space? Since nothing in Gentoo and/or other distributions _enforces_ FHS, you're allowed to do as you prefer FHS states[1] that /var/cache is *locally*

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Markos Chandras
On 17 December 2012 12:31, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Outsource it to someone who has the knowledge and interest in doing this. The foundation has the funds to support it, and none of us actually have the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2012, 15:56:11 schrieb Diego Elio Pettenò: On 17/12/2012 15:49, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: What about setups where portage tree is mounted via NFS to reduce traffic and disk space? Since nothing in Gentoo and/or other distributions _enforces_ FHS, you're allowed to do

[gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone, Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo Development next semester. I know two students will most likely go through the recruitment process, others may at least contribute. So its like GSoC but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/17/2012 05:30 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:23:00 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenòflamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 17/12/2012 11:19, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Markos Chandras
On 17 December 2012 14:08, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Outsource it to someone who has the knowledge and interest in doing this. The foundation has the funds to support it, and none of us actually have the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:23 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 17/12/2012 11:19, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I've always myself override these defaults in make.conf to point for /var/portage/ (not /var/lib because I never bothered enough how to make world and config files to be put elsewhere

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 13:47 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 17/12/2012 13:39, justin wrote: I am more thinking about packages which are not as easy accessible as JRE. There are a couple sci packages which are distributed on request by mail other inconvenient methods. Sometimes even not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 15:56 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 17/12/2012 15:49, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: What about setups where portage tree is mounted via NFS to reduce traffic and disk space? Since nothing in Gentoo and/or other distributions _enforces_ FHS, you're allowed to do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 16:51, Brian Dolbec wrote: then /var/repositories/ similar to my previous reply. It is very clear by the name what it's purpose is. Also name the portage tree dir gentoo like it's repo_name and all but one of the layman overlays available to install. Erm, why should we

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: Hi everyone, Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo Development next semester. I know two students will most

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 15:02 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 17/12/2012 14:49, Rich Freeman wrote: I'd also suggest at least considering how paludis handles this. They just have a directory containing config file per repository, with a priority setting. The portage tree is just another

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:56:11 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: Any other suggestions on where to place it? And please don't say /var/lib because that would usually be backed up. /var/db -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 12/17/12 2:11 AM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles default enabled and add -g to default cflags. Currently it is only enabled in the developer profile. Fully seconded.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 12/17/12 2:19 AM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: With respect to reality how stuff is done in the linux land all the variable data should be in /var so we should adjust and move it in there too. What would you think? Fully seconded. +1 to /var/cache/portage and having distfiles outside of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 12/17/12 7:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: So what should I teach? Here's what I've got off the top of my head: Please comment. If it gets systematized enough, it can be a guide to future devs too. Everything will be creative commons. I think it's worth to mention somewhere that although

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:37:27PM +0100, Sven Eden wrote 1) --- kde-base/kate - Compiled with -ggdb in CFLAGS: # sum=0; for file in $(equery f kde-base/kate | grep \.debug) ; do xSize=$(stat -c %s $file) ; sum=$((sum+xSize)) ; done ; echo $sum 32652140

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Luca Barbato
On 12/17/2012 02:55 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Kacper Kowalik xarthis...@gentoo.org wrote: All trouble can be saved by asking user to recompile package with relevant flags on bug report, resolving the bug as NEEDINFO. Instead of forcing everybody out there using

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/12/12 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: Hi everyone, Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo Development next semester. I know two students will most

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/17/2012 12:23 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/12/12 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: Hi everyone, 5. How to write ebuilds, ie the dev manual. How to work with cvs and git. 5.5: BUGS Very appropriate here to include somewhere

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2012.12.17 16:02, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: Hi everyone, Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo Development [snip] Can I take this course

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Anthony G. Basile bluen...@gentoo.org wrote: Please comment. If it gets systematized enough, it can be a guide to future devs too. Hi, what is the level of the students, what are the prerequisites (i.e., have they already seen some systems programming using

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Roy Bamford neddyseag...@gentoo.org wrote: On 2012.12.17 16:02, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: Hi everyone, Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably mention that I'm teaching a

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread hasufell
4. How to work with gnu autotools. Writing a build system. Writing a build system from scratch is actually not a requirement. However one should understand basics of the most popular build systems and probably have some advanced understaning of Makefiles and how flags work, where they should

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread hasufell
On 12/17/2012 07:11 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: Then convert to autotools, update dependencies. Do it all on GitHub, with a separate branch for converting to autotools. That's not really a common thing to do for ebuild development (neither converting nor writing from scratch). Actually you

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:32:03 -0500 Anthony G. Basile bluen...@gentoo.org wrote: 5. How to write ebuilds, ie the dev manual. How to work with cvs and git. An important thing to teach here is how to code to a spec vs how to code to an implementation. It's also something people should know in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2012.12.17 15:15, Markos Chandras wrote: On 17 December 2012 12:31, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Outsource it to someone who has the knowledge and interest in doing this. The foundation has the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

2012-12-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:29:26AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: As I said in an earlier email, Lennart Poettering claims that it does not work. We are discussing some of the things necessary to make it work. Just to repeat: In this thread it was claimed that a separate /usr is not supported by

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:02:24AM -0500, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: SNIP Can I take this course online? Will the lectures be recorded? I would second the idea of an online course if that is possible: I would even gladly do the beta testing of such an online course... ;) WKR Hinnerk

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

2012-12-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:29:26AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: As I said in an earlier email, Lennart Poettering claims that it does not work. We are discussing some of the things necessary to make it work. Just to repeat: In this thread it was claimed that a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:14:49 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I face funroll-loops references and worse almost every time I bring up Gentoo among a different group of Linux-familiar technical people. There are still *very* strong prejudices against Gentoo in most places Comparing

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:18 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: On 12/17/2012 07:11 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: Then convert to autotools, update dependencies. Do it all on GitHub, with a separate branch for converting to autotools. That's not really a common thing to do for ebuild

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Soliciting Feedback: Gentoo Copyright Assignments / Licensing

2012-12-17 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:07:59AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: Announcing once to -dev-announce due to the general importance of this topic to the community, but ALL replies should go to -nfp, or to trustees@ if you must, or to /dev/null if you shouldn't. Before I start, yes, the trustees

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

2012-12-17 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:03:40PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:29:26AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: As I said in an earlier email, Lennart Poettering claims that it does not work. We are discussing some of the things necessary to

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: Hi everyone, Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo Development next semester. I know two students will most likely go through the recruitment process,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Roy Bamford neddyseag...@gentoo.org wrote: Suppose the team in [1] above wrote the specification, who needs to agree it? The council, the trustees, the body of devs ... some combination of that list. All in all, producing an agreed specification for a website

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 17.12.2012 17:02, schrieb Rick Zero_Chaos Farina: On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: Hi everyone, Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo Development next semester. I know two students will

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Peter Stuge
Duncan wrote: Apparently, IRC is a hard requirement. At least the one final evaluation must be done on IRC. I understand why online communication is not everyone's prefered format. I guess that the IRC part of the recruitment is not very formal, I don't know as I haven't seen one, but in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Roy Bamford neddyseag...@gentoo.org wrote: Suppose the team in [1] above wrote the specification, who needs to agree it? I don't think the whole body of devs has to agree to it. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

2012-12-17 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:31:59PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:03:40PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:29:26AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: As I said in an earlier email, Lennart Poettering claims that it does

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/17/2012 01:11 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Anthony G. Basilebluen...@gentoo.org wrote: Please comment. If it gets systematized enough, it can be a guide to future devs too. Hi, what is the level of the students, what are the prerequisites (i.e., have they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

2012-12-17 Thread Luca Barbato
On 12/17/12 2:25 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:09:08PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: On 12/17/12 11:40 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: So systemd still works with a separate /usr and you're continuing to spread misinformation. Demonstrating such behaviour while complaining about the

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