Proposal, create snapshots of portage as squashfs iso, to be used in place
of /usr/portage directory.
prior art: see #1
Already working here: one central server which keep the portage full tree
and that after a sync create portage.sqsh a squashfs 4.0 iso.
Advantages are mainly:
- cleaner root
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.orgwrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:17:55PM +0200, Francesco R wrote:
Proposal, create snapshots of portage as squashfs iso, to be used in
place of /usr/portage directory.
To all of these suggestions, I'd like to point out
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:55:00 +1200
Alistair Bush ali_b...@gentoo.org wrote:
Stabilization of Python 3.1.* will be requested at the beginning of
november. There was a suggestion to create a news item which would
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Alistair Bush ali_b...@gentoo.org wrote:
Someone here want people install paludis? because when I've switched to
python 3.0 just out of curiosity, it broke totally that python written
package manager who is portage.
So another package manager was needed
2010/5/11 Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk
George Prowse george.pro...@gmail.com writes:
I have run revdep-rebuild about 30 times and I still can't fix
it. revdep-rebuild does not fix it and libpng needs to have some
serious action before it goes stable because I booted into, basically
why not make a temporary copy of the files with appropriate permission,
send a message the application the user originally opened to diff the files,
then apply the user modified file and cleanup the $tmpdir?
This would leave the user the possibility to choose whatever application she
want to do
Grant Goodyear wrote:
Dear all,
After quite some time merely being an infra dev, lcars has
finally taken the leap and gained commit access to the tree. He's
going to be officially taking over sendmail and supporting other
packages that infra uses, so please feel free to start shoveling bugs
Anthony Gorecki wrote:
On Sunday, June 26, 2005 9:28 pm, Zac Medico wrote:
Have you checked the DBI error status? See the parts about $DBI::err,
$DBI::errstr, and RaiseError here:
In all cases, DBI::err() returns undefined, indicating no error. It's quite
perplexing.
Maybe we
Francesco R wrote:
[snip]
s/
# example:
###MY_VER_RANGE 4.0 4.0.16
###MY_VER_RANGE 4.1 4.1.4
###MY_VER_RANGE 5.0
# if a patch contains these three lines then:
# all version = 4.0 but 4.0.16,
# all version = 4.1 but 4.0.16,
# all version = 5.0 will be affected by this patch
/
example
but not last, thankyou - nice intro document
Francesco R.
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Eric Brown wrote:
Services that use Gentoo init scripts often report a status of [started] or
[OK] even though they fail to start. The most recent bug like this that I've
found is with snort. If you have a bad rule, snort will initialize, the
rc-scripts will give it an [OK]
Roy Marples wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 12:42 -0400, Eric Brown wrote:
The real problem is not that the daemons don't return errors, but that our
init
scripts do not make reasonable attempts to verify service startup. If a
Gentoo
init script claims that a service started, it should make
:
---
mysql-3.23.58-r1
mysql-4.0.22
mysql-4.0.22-r2
mysql-4.0.24
mysql-4.0.25-r2
mysql-4.1.13-r1 (masked)
mysql-5.0.9_beta-r2 (masked)
mysql-5.0.10_beta (masked)
If you have some particular reason for keeping any of them drop me
a note on/off list.
Best regards
Francesco R
Luca Barbato wrote:
Christian Parpart wrote:
Using the minimal useflag for this - IMHO - is a misuse of the idea of
minimal semantically - as I do understand minimal in a way like don't
overbloat me with patches and other feature additions-alike.
minimal is about keeping the package
Lance Albertson wrote:
Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:28 am, Christian Parpart wrote:
Do we have a general accepted gentoo policy for this?
general policy is to not split packages (and i agree with this ...)
bind and bind-tools is split ;) Why is it
It's dead upstream and the ebuild need to be rewritten from scratch.
Unless there is some volenterous it will be sadly removed 2005-08-29
See bugs 77539,93725
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:43:54 -0400 Dan Meltzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| putty pretends to be an xterm and dies at xtermcontrol --get-bg... I
| can test other things if you need.. just give me some idea :)
Thanks. The other useful one is to see whether it does 256 colours
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 01:03 -0500, Brian Harring wrote:
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 03:42:25AM -0500, Brian Harring wrote:
Hola all.
Straight to the point, I'm proposing that the following files-
arch.list
categories
use.desc
use.local.desc
package.mask
updates
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Is this also a good time to note that the amd64 and x86 could
*easily* be covered under the same keyword? We cover a large
variety of mips machines/userlands under one keyword, with
differences much more significant then that between x86 and
Stephen P. Becker wrote:
Is this also a good time to note that the amd64 and x86 could
*easily* be covered under the same keyword? We cover a large
variety of mips machines/userlands under one keyword, with
differences much more significant then that between x86 and amd64.
Sorry I
Please notice that MySQL-5.0 has been erroneously unmasked for few hours
but it will return under the package.mask cover at next rsync.
The MySQL herd is pleased to announce that Mysql 4.1 has been unmasked
today and is now marked unstable.
Hope that it's possible to stabilize it soon, here there
Maurice van der Pot wrote:
Is this path going to be published somewhere or is this mail it?
Not from me atm, I feel very bad at writing anglish documentation. An
eventual reader sure feel worst.
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:08:06PM +0200, Francesco R wrote:
cmd# ebuild /var/db/pkg/dev-db
Michael Kohl wrote:
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:24:46 +0200
Maurice van der Pot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this path going to be published somewhere or is this mail it?
As Francesco said he won't publish a guide somewhere and I think MySQl
is a widely used package, I decided to write up a
Martin Schlemmer wrote:
[...]
Just use bash's built-in read function:
-
local password newpasswd
# Read the password into $password
read -sp Please enter password: password
# Just echo a newline so that next output start on new line
echo
[...]
Or something to that regards.
In Cvs,
Jason Wever wrote:
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Francesco R wrote:
Please notice that MySQL-5.0 has been erroneously unmasked for few
hours
but it will return under the package.mask cover at next rsync.
The MySQL herd is pleased to announce that Mysql 4.1 has been unmasked
today and is now
Jason Stubbs wrote:
On Monday 12 September 2005 00:05, Francesco R wrote:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~vivo/doc/mysql-update.html
With step 2, you should probably mention the issues that can arise with
non-ASCII data in char fields. The character set really needs to specified
in the dump
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:46:25 +0200 Francesco R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Is there any particular reason that the utf8 use flag was
| re-introduced rather than using the unicode use flag like everything
| else does (and was standardized on)?
|
| Because it does not Adds
The ready to cut ebuild at the bottom print it's environment (variable
and functions) to a bunch of files into /var/tmp/fakebuild/.
May be useful for who want to have a look at what and when is
avaible during the various emerge phases (but not limited to).
usage:
# env -i \
Brian Harring wrote:
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 11:07:13PM +0200, Francesco R wrote:
The ready to cut ebuild at the bottom print it's environment (variable
and functions) to a bunch of files into /var/tmp/fakebuild/.
May be useful for who want to have a look at what and when is
avaible during
mysql-4.1.14 has been added to the tree on 29 Aug 2005, should be time
to stabilize the 4.1 branch of mysql.
ARCH teams, robbat2, php-herd, thoughts ?
If no one is versus I'll stabilize 4.1.14 for x86 and amd64 tomorrow
(with dev-perl/DBD-mysql-2.9007), then mysql-5.0 will be unmasked.
Furter
Alle 16:06, lunedì 17 ottobre 2005, Francesco R. ha scritto:
mysql-4.1.14 has been added to the tree on 29 Aug 2005, should be
time to stabilize the 4.1 branch of mysql.
has been reported on GWN, thanks gui
[snip]
If no one is versus I'll stabilize 4.1.14 for x86 and amd64
tomorrow
Alle 16:06, lunedì 17 ottobre 2005, Francesco R. ha scritto:
mysql-4.1.14 has been added to the tree on 29 Aug 2005, should be
time to stabilize the 4.1 branch of mysql.
MySQL 4.1 is (keyworded) stable for amd64 and x86 .
Going through step 2 now, unmasking MySQL 5.0 .
As a security measure
There are these ebuilds in cvs from few minutes:
mysql-4.0.26-r30.ebuild
mysql-4.1.15-r30.ebuild
mysql-5.0.15-r30.ebuild
these ones contain a starting point ebuild to make a slotted mysql
installation.
The motivations that push this choice are both developement and user
side. Making a long
Alle 20:16, mercoledì 16 novembre 2005, Mike Frysinger el ga butta:
|On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 07:48:56PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten??
wrote:
| On Wednesday 16 November 2005 19:34, Julien Allanos (dju`) wrote:
| So, what are the substitutes?
|
| win32codecs and realplayer-10.0.0.6 ?
|
--- ChangeLog extract
19 Nov 2005; Francesco Riosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] +files/mysql-slot.conf.d,
+files/mysql-slot.rc6:
These two are born for slotted MySQL, however they work as is on normal
MySQL
installations too. (require my_print_defaults)
Features added or changed
- Not using mysqld_safe
/usr/lib{64}
# for i in libmysqlclient.so libmysqlclient_r.so ; do \
for j in .15 .15.0 .15.0.0 ; do \
echo ln -s /usr/lib/${i}.15.0.0 ${i}${j} \
; done \
; done
# chown -R mysql:mysql /var/run/mysqld/
Regards,
Francesco R.
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Problem fixed, going to readd ~amd64 now, sync again in 30 min.
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2010/7/19 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:23:36 +0200
Maciej Mrozowski reave...@gmail.com wrote:
status quo should be challenged occasionally.
Fixed autotools-utils.eclass, kde4-functions.eclass, virtuoso.eclass
case ${EAPI:-0} in
2|3|4)
2010/8/10 Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 07:05:11PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:16:24PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
obviously you only mean linux x86/amd64 dev profiles. i dont
2010/9/11 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org
On 9/11/10 11:03 AM, Jonathan Callen wrote:
Just as a proof-of-concept, here's one implementation of such a
function, allowing for an arbitrary number of arguments:
use_echo() {
while [[ $# -gt 1 ]]; do
if use $1;
2010/12/13 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:01:13 -0400
Sergio D. Rodríguez Inclan srinc...@gmail.com wrote:
El 12/12/2010 02:46 a.m., Ryan Hill escribió:
I think the fewer sources of magic USE flags the better. Maybe we
could
document how to figure out what
2011/2/9 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:52:55 +0100
Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote:
It seems that with glibc-2.13 there are some serious compatibility
issues. There are good warnings on the planet
(http://psykil.livejournal.com/340806.html), but not
2011/2/9 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:32:36 +0100
Francesco R viv...@gmail.com wrote:
Since the upgrade I do get portage emerging text files .sh, .conf and
such as file of the exact same size but filled of \0, luckily most
upgrade fails.
I've seen similar issue
2011/2/22 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org:
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Mike Frysinger wrote:
that might disallow it for binaries, but it doesnt disallow it from
being used in ebuilds. same situation as binary kernel drivers --
make
2011/6/11 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org:
On Saturday, June 11, 2011 16:24:00 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:58:43 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
So, effectively the QA team lead can appoint the people who elect
him. I'm not at all implying that Diego would abuse his
2011/7/3 Paul Arthur junk+use...@flowerysong.com:
On 2011-07-03, Jonathan Callen a...@gentoo.org wrote:
Peter Volkov wrote:
rm -rf ${D}/usr/share/doc/aria2
|| die
`rm -f` never fails -- if the target does not exist, then rm simply returns
true. (The only reason it would fail that I can
Il 16/10/2013 11:15, Mike Auty ha scritto:
Hiya,
[snip]
So downloading them manually is a pain (the larger tables aren't in a
single zip, they're split amongst 12 files for each table), and the
ebuild to do the downloading is already built. I'll include a
postinst note indicating that the
long story short
having a portage-20130126.tar.bz2 snapshot (before the EAPI 5 switch)
greatly simplified the upgrade of an old server on a client.
Why not keep a copy on the servers? I mean
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/
thanks,
Francesco Riosa
Il 14/11/2013 05:38, Johann Schmitz ha scritto:
long story short having a portage-20130126.tar.bz2 snapshot
(before the EAPI 5 switch) greatly simplified the upgrade of an
old server on a client.
Updating from old portage versions or
profiles isn't fun but it basically boils down to
Il 13/11/2013 20:12, Rich Freeman ha scritto:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Francesco R. viv...@gmail.com wrote:
long story short
having a portage-20130126.tar.bz2 snapshot (before the EAPI 5 switch)
greatly simplified the upgrade of an old server on a client.
Why not keep a copy
Il 16/12/2013 01:30, Matt Turner ha scritto:
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Andreas K. Huettel
dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote:
Am Montag, 16. Dezember 2013, 00:34:13 schrieb Matt Turner:
3dnow: Use the 3DNow! instruction set
3dnowext: Use the Enhanced 3DNow! instruction set
mmx: Use the MMX
Elaborating on the previous subject an idea come in mind,
avoid the $PORTDIR/metadata/cache sync, It's 80 MB, 2 files
So I've tryed the first python patch of my life, obviously it's also the
first portage one (subliminal message, take the result with care and
check it yourself)
how? the
Il 29/01/2014 17:33, Anthony G. Basile ha scritto:
On 01/27/2014 09:02 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/26/14 23:53, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
Hi everyone,
A while back, I wrote a python wrapper for install to preserve xattrs.
Its installed in LIBDIR/portage/bin/install.py. It is
On Saturday 21 January 2012 21:56:22 Markos Chandras wrote:
On 01/21/2012 06:01 PM, . wrote:
Hello there!
Is there a chance that Gentoo may become a free distro?
I'm so unhappy with the fact that there are some non-free packages
in the main tree. The main goal of the GNU project was
as subject says could gentoo change the policy and set an UTF-8 environment by
default?
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml how to do it very well but having it
already set could have the following two advantages:
1) well utf-8 is everywhere, even the linux weekly newsletter has it in 2012
re-adding the list, gmail still fool me some times.
2012/2/23 Kai-Uwe Behrmann k...@gmx.de:
Hello,
glad to read from you.
Am 23.02.12, 15:47 +0100 schrieb Francesco Riosa:
Hi,
my name is Francesco Riosa, I would be interested in a more
complete support of the oyranos color managment
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