Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib amd64 news item for review

2015-03-15 Thread Alex Xu
On 15/03/15 10:11 AM, Michał Górny wrote: In case of issues, blockers especially, the users users are recommended looks OK otherwise. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib amd64 news item for review

2015-03-15 Thread Ben de Groot
On 15 March 2015 at 22:43, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, everyone. Here's the first draft of news item for gx86-multilib. I tried to cover all the important aspects. Please review and let me know what you think. Title: True multilib

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] custom profiles?

2015-03-15 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
On Sat, 2015-03-14 at 14:02 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: On 03/14/2015 12:30 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: On Sat, 2015-03-14 at 11:57 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: On 03/14/2015 11:41 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: On Sat, 2015-03-14 at 11:08 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: On 03/14/2015 09:12 AM,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-15 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 14 March 2015 at 23:30, Manuel Rüger mr...@gentoo.org wrote: iirc most deb and rpm based distributions use main for their central repository, so +1 for gentoo-main. Add me for gentoo-main too. Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes https://blog.flameeyes.eu/

Re: [gentoo-dev] find -delete safe to use?

2015-03-15 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:42:35 +0100 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: Thanks, that's very definitive. Still curious how it fits with the findutils ebuild though. program_prefix=$(usex userland_GNU '' g) econf \ --program-prefix=${program_prefix} Not sure if this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-15 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/15/2015 02:07 AM, Michał Górny wrote: The name simply must be 'gentoo'. Agreed: it should match repo_name. As for the namespace, proj/ makes most sense of the current namespaces. I agree with this too, but I don't care if we namespace it or make it top-level.

[gentoo-dev] Multilib going live for stable amd64 on 2015-03-29

2015-03-15 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, everyone. I would like to gladly announce that the gx86-multilib project has finally reached the level of maturity allowing us to aim for stable amd64. The few blockers left can be fixed with a single commit at the time of the switch, so we'd like to set up the final date as 2015-03-29,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 15-03-2015 11:20:45 +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: If we want a separate repo/ namespace, we would probably need to consider moving other repositories there -- at least the official ones. Of course, it would be a nice

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Instead of trying to emphasize it's the main repository, we ought to drop the notion of 'main repository'. That was the goal of all changes in Portage, so stop trying to regress for the sake of good ol' times. But, if the

[gentoo-dev] multilib amd64 news item for review

2015-03-15 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, everyone. Here's the first draft of news item for gx86-multilib. I tried to cover all the important aspects. Please review and let me know what you think. Title: True multilib support on amd64 Author: Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2015-01-28 Revision: 1

Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib amd64 news item for review

2015-03-15 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, everyone. Here's the first draft of news item for gx86-multilib. I tried to cover all the important aspects. Please review and let me know what you think. Title: True multilib support on amd64 Author: Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib amd64 news item for review

2015-03-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Michał Górny wrote: Starting with 2015-03-29, we are enabling the true multilib support on amd64 and masking the old emul-linux-x86 package sets for removal. This change provides I'm not a native

Re: [gentoo-dev] find -delete safe to use?

2015-03-15 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015, James Le Cuirot wrote: I've long considered the -delete argument to find to be widely supported enough that using it in ebuilds should not be a problem. Indeed, a grep of the tree shows that it is frequently used, even in eclasses. I've just noticed that the man page

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-15 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Michał Górny wrote: As for the namespace, proj/ makes most sense of the current namespaces. So on gitweb.gentoo.org our main tree would be listed amongst some 200 other proj repositories, between proj/gentoo-wiki-tyrian.git and proj/proj/gentoolkit.git. I think it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-15 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: If we want a separate repo/ namespace, we would probably need to consider moving other repositories there -- at least the official ones. Of course, it would be a nice result, having everything hosted on git.g.o as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-15 Thread Kent Fredric
On 15 March 2015 at 21:54, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: . In that vain, gentoo-base could also work? I like this idea. I was initially toying with gentoo-overlay because it was more specific than repo but it didn't float well because the model was wrong. gentoo-base however kinda

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-15 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-03-14, o godz. 22:25:56 Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.org napisał(a): This is a mostly inconsequential issue, but the Git migration provides us a chance to make a clean break... The repository of our ebuilds and the name of the CVS module have been called gentoo-x86 since the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-15 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
gentoo makes a lot of sense to me. gentoo-main works, as well. Anything with ebuilds doesn't make as much as sense to me, since it also contains profiles, eclasses, etc. In that vain, gentoo-base could also work? I don't really get the need for this whole namespacing thing, so I'd prefer to do

Re: [gentoo-dev] find -delete safe to use?

2015-03-15 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 10:25:38 +0100 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 14 Mar 2015, James Le Cuirot wrote: I've long considered the -delete argument to find to be widely supported enough that using it in ebuilds should not be a problem. Indeed, a grep of the tree shows that it

Re: [gentoo-dev] find -delete safe to use?

2015-03-15 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, James Le Cuirot wrote: Thanks, that's very definitive. Still curious how it fits with the findutils ebuild though. program_prefix=$(usex userland_GNU '' g) econf \ --program-prefix=${program_prefix} Not sure if this answers your question, but find is defined as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-15 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote: Outside the context of Portage, repo can mean any git repository of any kind, not merely a portage-usable repository. Yeah, or an RPM repo, or a Mercurial repo... repo as a term is way overloaded, so use it with care

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-video/mplayer2 media-video/smplayer2

2015-03-15 Thread Ben de Groot
# Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org (15 Mar 2015) # These projects have been abandoned upstream. Most mplayer2 devs have moved # on to media-video/mpv, and users are suggested to do the same. We have # media-video/baka-mplayer and media-video/smplayer available as Qt-based GUIs. # See bugs 452484,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-15 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015, Andreas K Huettel wrote: Questions: 0. What names for the tree/repository. gentoo (it's also the repo_name) portage doesn't make sense, everything else is too long or potentially confusing... Definitely, it should be gentoo. Without portage, x86, or any other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-15 Thread Johannes Huber
Am Samstag, 14. März 2015, 22:25:56 schrieb Robin H. Johnson: This is a mostly inconsequential issue, but the Git migration provides us a chance to make a clean break... The repository of our ebuilds and the name of the CVS module have been called gentoo-x86 since the start of Gentoo,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multilib going live for stable amd64 on 2015-03-29

2015-03-15 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 03/15/15 09:20, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, everyone. If possible, please give the no-emul-linux-x86 sub-profiles some more testing. Please note that you will likely want to ensure that you are using the newest Portage version available before the upgrade, and you may need to unmerge the

[gentoo-dev] Re: multilib amd64 news item for review

2015-03-15 Thread Duncan
Ben de Groot posted on Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:25:08 +0800 as excerpted: I would also say that 'true' is incorrect, as the emul packages were also truly multilib, just implemented in a different way. Maybe 'eclass-based' is more specific and less opinionated? Gentoo style build-from-sources? --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-15 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 March 2015 at 06:34, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: imho, Questions: 0. What names for the tree/repository. gentoo (it's also the repo_name) Our repo is already named gentoo, so this

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2015-03-15 23:59 UTC

2015-03-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2015-03-15 23:59 UTC. Removals: media-libs/sdl-flic 2015-03-09 16:56:27 mr_bones_ app-crypt/pinentry-qt 2015-03-10 20:27:34 k_f

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage and Update Security

2015-03-15 Thread Vladimir Diaz
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Vladimir Diaz vladimir.v.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am a developer in the Secure Systems Lab at NYU. Our lab has collaborated with popular software update systems in the open-source

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage and Update Security

2015-03-15 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 18:27:06 -0400 Vladimir Diaz vladimir.v.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Vladimir Diaz vladimir.v.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am a developer in the Secure Systems Lab