Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.4 - call for testers

2016-10-01 Thread Dan Douglas
> I am against it as well. The purpose of this testing is to eventually > move to bash-4.4 being stable and replacing bash-4.3, so slotting it > would make that more complex later. Only true for users that have no interest in testing. Irrelevant for anyone that needs to test for backwards

Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.4 - call for testers

2016-10-01 Thread Dan Douglas
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > Maybe you could do some horrible QA Violation like USE=multislot > which changes the slot from :0 and adds the -suffix at the same time. > > But I still don't think its a useful or good idea. Really? Why is this a problem?

[gentoo-dev] LLVM-3.9 news item for review

2016-10-01 Thread Michał Górny
Please review the inlined news item. I'd like to publish it when LLVM-3.9 is unmasked. -- Title: LLVM 3.9 with LLVM_TARGETS Author: Michał Górny Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2016-..-.. Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

[gentoo-dev] merging pull requests

2016-10-01 Thread William Hubbs
All, this is a friendly reminder. If you are merging pull requests from Github into the tree, please remember to follow Gentoo ebuild maintenance policy [1]. In short, if you are not the maintainer of the ebuild or a member of a project listed in metadata.xml, you are only allowed to make

[gentoo-dev] Re: LLVM-3.9 news item for review

2016-10-01 Thread Luca Barbato
On 01/10/16 10:10, Michał Górny wrote: > explicitly selecting all targets. The item seems fine.

Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.4 - call for testers

2016-10-01 Thread konsolebox
On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Dan Douglas wrote: > I'd be perfectly happy requiring bundled readline when USE="readline" > for bash versions incompatible with the installed readline, I guess that's another good way to solve the readline issue (when it comes to bash). But

Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.4 - call for testers

2016-10-01 Thread konsolebox
On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sat, 1 Oct 2016 01:49:56 +0800 > konsolebox wrote: > >> It would be nice to have some eselect command to >> easily switch from one version of Bash to another; probably something >> close to how it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.4 - call for testers

2016-10-01 Thread konsolebox
I should also add that testing newer versions of bash becomes more risky sometimes, since bash would sometimes need a newer version of readline (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-09/msg00020.html). Rebuilding or installing a newer version of readline would cause some other

Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.4 - call for testers

2016-10-01 Thread Dan Douglas
On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 10:40 AM, konsolebox wrote: > I should also add that testing newer versions of bash becomes more > risky sometimes, since bash would sometimes need a newer version of > readline (see >

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCH] locks: use fcntl.flock if fcntl.lockf is broken (bug 595146)

2016-10-01 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/01/2016 09:30 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Sat, 1 Oct 2016 17:08:46 -0700 > Zac Medico wrote: > >> On 09/25/2016 11:44 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >>> This is needed for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), as well as >>> older versions of PyPy. >>> >>> X-Gentoo-bug: 595146 >>>

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCH] locks: use fcntl.flock if fcntl.lockf is broken (bug 595146)

2016-10-01 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sat, 1 Oct 2016 17:08:46 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > On 09/25/2016 11:44 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > > This is needed for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), as well as > > older versions of PyPy. > > > > X-Gentoo-bug: 595146 > > X-Gentoo-bug-url:

[gentoo-dev] Last rite dev-libs/dbxml

2016-10-01 Thread David Seifert
David Seifert (18 Sep 2016) Masked for failing to build with GCC 6, still using ancient distutils.eclass, tightly coupled to dev-libs/xqilla-2.2*. Purged by Debian and Fedora more than 5 years ago. Mask for removal in 30 days. Bug #594236

[gentoo-dev] Last-rite net-libs/socket++

2016-10-01 Thread David Seifert
David Seifert (01 Oct 2016) Masked for failing to build with C++11, ancient codebase, dead upstream, no updates in 5 years. No revdeps. Mask for removal in 30 days. Bug #595754

Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.4 - call for testers

2016-10-01 Thread Dan Douglas
One note - it may be useful to install `BASH_LOADABLES_PATH=/usr/lib/bash` to the global env.d environment when USE=plugins, now that bash has this feature. It doesn't enable anything by default but just informs bash that it can look for loadables in that location. (ins)ormaaj@smorgbox ~ $

Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.4 - call for testers

2016-10-01 Thread Dan Douglas
On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Dan Douglas wrote: > One note - it may be useful to install `BASH_LOADABLES_PATH=/usr/lib/bash` > to the global env.d environment when USE=plugins, now that bash has > this feature. It doesn't enable anything by default but just informs bash that

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCH] locks: use fcntl.flock if fcntl.lockf is broken (bug 595146)

2016-10-01 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/25/2016 11:44 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > This is needed for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), as well as > older versions of PyPy. > > X-Gentoo-bug: 595146 > X-Gentoo-bug-url: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595146 > --- > pym/portage/locks.py | 59 >