[gentoo-dev] Ruby keywording

2012-03-06 Thread Thomas Kahle
ld the ruby team add ~x86 themselves after testing on ~amd64, or are there compelling reasons to not do this? Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ruby keywording

2012-03-07 Thread Thomas Kahle
nyway, > and this approach allows a double checking. Also, since this means I'll > start committing from the leaves of the depgraph, this ensures no > package has broken deps between commits (with the exception of circular > deps of course). > > A. > -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] A script/binary that iterates over arguments and spits out different variants?

2012-11-08 Thread Thomas Kahle
o many packages in one run. The scripts are created using templates, so in principle it should be pretty flexible. I agree, it sucks a little, but contributions are welcome. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] app-portage/tatt: completely broken?

2016-05-26 Thread Thomas Kahle
t; pages such as [1]. I'm not following IRC, please use bugzilla or the issue tracker here https://github.com/tom111/tatt to report bugs. Cheers, Thomas > Does anyone successfully use tatt? Are there alternatives to scripting > this boring keywording procedure? > > [1] https:/

Re: [gentoo-dev] app-portage/tatt: completely broken?

2016-05-26 Thread Thomas Kahle
remove mentions of it from > pages such as [1]. > > Does anyone successfully use tatt? Are there alternatives to scripting > this boring keywording procedure? > > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Arch_testing_guide#tatt > -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: games-strategy/freeorion

2016-10-16 Thread Thomas Kahle
hed. - bump to 0.4.6: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596680 The bump is the only open bug. Please just take it or e-mail me (or both) if you are interested. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2016-11-25 Thread Thomas Kahle
merged the two packages: https://github.com/google/googletest The next and only thing on the agenda is to bump and unify the two ebuilds to version 1.8.0 which was released in August. Anyone? Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2016-11-27 Thread Thomas Kahle
e you could open bugs / contact the maintainers of the packages that depend on gtest/gmock. As you say, this is not really a package a distribution should ship. Cheers, Thomas > > > br, > Mathy -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement

2016-12-31 Thread Thomas Kahle
-mathematics/topcom sci-mathematics/gimps sci-mathematics/xmds sci-mathematics/Macaulay2 sci-misc/flashdot www-apps/tt-rss Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement

2017-01-01 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 01/01/2017 00:00, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 22:54:28 +0100 > Thomas Kahle wrote: > >> I will retire > > Sorry to hear that. :( > >> app-text/tesseract > > I maintain media-libs/leptonica, which is primarily in the tree because > of

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due to retirement

2017-01-01 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 01/01/2017 10:48, David Seifert wrote: > On Sat, 2016-12-31 at 22:54 +0100, Thomas Kahle wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I will retire, so here are my remaining packages. Feel free to >> e-mail me any questions re this. sci-math is in CC because there >> are quite a f

Re: Why lastrite when it works? (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement)

2017-01-04 Thread Thomas Kahle
ic situation. > The minimum conditions to lastrite something should be not actively > maintained _and_ with open bugs that either compromise security or > affect normal usage subject to the condition that it is not still used > by users. I do not think at this point in time Gentoo devs have any mean > to know the popularity of different packages, but that would be a must > to take proper decision as far as retiring packages goes. > > -- Just a random Gentoo user. > -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-03 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 13:11 Sat 02 Feb 2013, Pacho Ramos wrote: > app-emulation/vov > app-text/rtf2html > net-misc/directvnc Those will be maintained by Dennis (dlan) Lan and I will proxy. I updated metadata.xml. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-06 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 13:46 Sun 03 Feb 2013, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Due matsuu lack of time the following packages are up for grabs: > dev-cpp/gtest I'll take this one. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Should we list sys-apps/sed in DEPEND

2013-02-19 Thread Thomas Kahle
... if it is used in the ebuild? It is a system package here on amd64, but is it everywhere? Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays

2013-06-29 Thread Thomas Kahle
belongs in overlays. Making it main tree fit is just not worth the effort. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] dev-cpp/gtest

2013-06-30 Thread Thomas Kahle
l/open kde-misc/socket media-libs/audiofile media-libs/chromaprint sci-libs/flann sci-libs/trilinos sys-apps/paludis Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] bertini license

2013-07-29 Thread Thomas Kahle
ource code on the mirrors. The ebuild is sci-mathematics/bertini which I'll add soon. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle Bertini(TM) version 1.4 Authors: D.J. Bates, J.D. Hauenstein, A.J. Sommese, C.W. Wampler http:/

Re: [gentoo-dev] bertini license

2013-08-04 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 07/29/2013 02:58 PM, Thomas Kahle wrote: > Hi, > > I just added the license 'bertini' to the non-free group. Bertini is a > math software distributed in source form but with restriction on > redistribution (no fee is allowed, no modifications may be > redisitribute

Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps

2013-09-29 Thread Thomas Kahle
s is the business of the maintainer > or the dev who requested stabilization. Huh. This must be new. When I was still arch-testing, reverse deps were checked. app-portage/tatt (which is sort of maintainer-needed now) has support for these tests too. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle si

[gentoo-dev] Last rite: dev-games/gigi

2013-10-09 Thread Thomas Kahle
# Thomas Kahle (09 Oct 2013) # Masked for removal in 30 days. Game library with # no consumers and dead upstream. games-strategy/freeorion # now uses a modified internal version of this and it makes # no sense to keep the unbundled version around. dev-games/gigi -- Thomas Kahle

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy-level discussion for minimum versions on dependencies

2013-11-10 Thread Thomas Kahle
allow breakage when updating old systems I've also dropped minimum version requirements in the past. I wonder if there a performance hit? If every package in the tree specified min versions of all its dependencies, would resolution of emerge -avuDN world take longer? (It does take a couple of minutes already on my aging laptop...) Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package removal without proper last-riting

2013-11-11 Thread Thomas Kahle
-rite so seldom that I forgot that they go to dev-announce. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-13 Thread Thomas Kahle
ime until 'emerge -avUDN world' comes back with a proposal has grown to several minutes where it was few seconds when I started with Gentoo. There has been a lot of effort to make revdep-rebuild unessecary, but now that it is mostly implemented, I don't know if it was worth t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-13 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 11/13/2013 03:30 PM, Duncan wrote: > Rich Freeman posted on Wed, 13 Nov 2013 08:37:51 -0500 as excerpted: > >> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Thomas Kahle wrote: >>> On 11/13/2013 12:39 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >>>> On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:28:02 +00

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: New project: Licenses

2013-11-25 Thread Thomas Kahle
binaries in stages and media." > >> For the time being, it will be listed as a top-level project. >> (There were some ideas that Licenses could be a subproject of >> another TLP, but so far this hasn't worked out.) > >> Ulrich > > > It should be

[gentoo-dev] systemd's EnvironmentFile

2014-03-07 Thread Thomas Kahle
etc/conf.d/, e.g. net-firewall/shorewall6/files/4.5.18-r1/shorewall6.systemd:EnvironmentFile=/etc/shorewall6 net-firewall/shorewall6/files/4.5.19/shorewall6.systemd:EnvironmentFile=/etc/conf.d/shorewall6 Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Descriptio

[gentoo-dev] Protecting config files of webapps

2014-04-02 Thread Thomas Kahle
user can be informed with einfo but needs to do it herself c) This is a bug in webapp-config c) seems strange to me, but a user has reported this in bug 496788 and it was closed as a duplicate implying c). Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-dev] Protecting config files of webapps

2014-04-04 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 04/04/14 15:34, Matthew Summers wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Thomas Kahle wrote: >> Hi, >> >> www-apps/tt-rss is configured through a file config.php sitting >> in its install directory. At the moment the file is overwritten >> when upgr

Re: [gentoo-dev] The state and future of the OpenRC project

2014-06-09 Thread Thomas Kahle
n turn would be necessary before moving them to the main tree. From what I can tell it has nothing to do with bugzilla vs. github. For me personally bugzilla + a git tree (which is the situation we have for overlays anyway) is fine. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/

Re: [gentoo-dev] The state and future of the OpenRC project

2014-06-10 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 09.06.2014 23:45, hasufell wrote: > Thomas Kahle: >> then they stay in the overlay >> because people feel it is not worth the effort to fix the QA >> issues which in turn would be necessary before moving them to the >> main tree. >> > > Probably because n

[gentoo-dev] Using LINGUAS

2014-07-20 Thread Thomas Kahle
both packages anyway. Maybe an einfo is sufficient to inform the user it? Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Using LINGUAS

2014-07-21 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 21/07/14 21:03, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:23:46 +0900 > Thomas Kahle wrote: > >> the OCR software tesseract has many different plugins for >> language packs used for OCR for different languages. The ebuild >> uses the LINGUAS variable to pass t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Using LINGUAS

2014-07-21 Thread Thomas Kahle
Hi, On 21/07/14 21:42, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-07-21, o godz. 13:23:46 > Thomas Kahle napisał(a): > >> the OCR software tesseract has many different plugins for >> language packs used for OCR for different languages. The ebuild >> uses the LINGUAS variable

Re: [gentoo-dev] A constructive reommendation on stablity improvemt

2014-08-11 Thread Thomas Kahle
in the industry. Is Mozilla getting anything useful out of their automatic crash reports? Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] A constructive reommendation on stablity improvemt

2014-08-11 Thread Thomas Kahle
ntation that has already addressed many of > the concerns that your proposal would need to address from the ground > up. Absolutely! -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] REQUIRED_USE="test" vs. repoman

2014-11-08 Thread Thomas Kahle
ed with -f, because I think repoman is wrong. Any opinions? Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] REQUIRED_USE="test" vs. repoman

2014-11-09 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 08/11/14 20:49, Thomas Kahle wrote: > it seems to be a quasi-standard in the tree to use REQUIRED_USE > if the tests of some package need USE flags. However, repoman > complains: > > REQUIRED_USE.syntax 1 >media-libs/leptonica/leptonica-1.71-r1.ebuild: REQU

Re: [gentoo-dev] Wondering if a news item is needed for NM update

2014-11-30 Thread Thomas Kahle
nager version is installed." > > What do you think? :/ I think ewarn is fine. NM seems not widespread enough to inform everybody about this. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Ebuild Writing

2008-01-21 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, i'm not sure if this is the right place for my question, if not, please tell me the right one. I'm trying to write an ebuild for a math software called polymake. It uses a non-autotools, makefile and perl based configuration mechanism. This t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild Writing

2008-01-22 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again Thanks for your comments, I will try dev-help next time. I will submit (fully automated version) to bugzilla tonight if it works on all the machines i find here... - -tom Thomas Kahle wrote: > Hi all, > > i'm not sure if thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add more local USE flags

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Kahle
> use.local.desc is automatically generated from metadata.xml files, so > it's the same thing And this will soon be properly documented: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309963 -- Thomas Kahle The fundamental theorem of algebra is open source. Like any other mathemati

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add more local USE flags

2010-03-19 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 03/19/2010 02:06 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 18 March 2010 09:17:43 Thomas Kahle wrote: >>> use.local.desc is automatically generated from metadata.xml files, so >>> it's the same thing >> >> And this will soon be properly documented: >> h

Re: [gentoo-dev] bug-wranglers queue is large

2010-03-23 Thread Thomas Kahle
gt; how to successfully guide people towards Gentoo development. I recently was introduced to x86 arch testing by fauli. I thought I could also help bug wrangling. Currently I am waiting for my extended bugzilla rights http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309967 . Regards Thomas -- Thomas Kahle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] New license: nauty

2010-10-21 Thread Thomas Kahle
. - Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle pgpuCj6SdfCFU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-text/pdfsandwich: metadata.xml pdfsandwich-0.0.2.ebuild ChangeLog

2010-10-22 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 19:44 Fri 22 Oct , Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > "Thomas Kahle (tomka)" : > > tomka 10/10/22 15:11:40 > > > > Added:metadata.xml pdfsandwich-0.0.2.ebuild > > ChangeLog Log: > > new ebuild: app-text/pdfs

Re: [gentoo-dev] New license: nauty

2010-10-22 Thread Thomas Kahle
use a copy of the license to be installed in a file # location compliant with the license, The nauty license *does* restrict the cost of redistribution. So what is it? An EULA? Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle pgp35TjfOhoTP.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] fat binaries

2010-11-14 Thread Thomas Kahle
can build fat binaries ? If yes, -) How to name the USE flag? Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ pgpdXEPAZkc8R.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: fat binaries

2010-11-14 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 00:30 Mon 15 Nov , Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Il giorno dom, 14/11/2010 alle 22.03 +0100, Thomas Kahle ha scritto: > > I have a package (sci-libs/mpir) whose configure supports building of > > fat binaries with both x86 and amd64 assembler in the binary. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer notes in metadata.xml?

2010-12-01 Thread Thomas Kahle
y start. If I do normal build tests first and then find they have been in vain when running repoman, then I wasted cycles for the build tests. I'm unsure if this would apply to your original example, though. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ pgpLzMX8YZxDF.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] static use flag

2010-12-16 Thread Thomas Kahle
the dep chain. Seems like out of pm's control? Has this been discussed on gentoo-dev earlier? Being new to devhood, I'm looking for references. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ pgpuOxOCFcPfe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/wicd (+deps) needs new maintainer

2010-12-20 Thread Thomas Kahle
ys. Cheers, Thomas > Many open bugs that could use fixing, upstream is slow to make new > releases. The person responsible for wicd, gets the following list: > > x11-misc/ktsuss > dev-python/python-iwscan > dev-python/python-wpactrl > net-misc/wicd > > -Jeremy > --

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/wicd (+deps) needs new maintainer

2010-12-20 Thread Thomas Kahle
y from my side. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ pgpzhyIDyYiqb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defining S= from ebuild phase, src_unpack() ?

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Kahle
be a topic, would you consider a github.eclass useful at some point? Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ pgpp51NeteucW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Quantity of open bugs

2011-03-11 Thread Thomas Kahle
signed dev to highlight it's still a relevant issue > to them, or even to supply a solution against the current tree. > > It could be an ongoing policy, in which case, users who care about > them can keep bugs alive simply by posting useful updates to the bug, > de

[gentoo-dev] validity of manifest signing key

2011-03-25 Thread Thomas Kahle
Hi, it says here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml#doc_chap2 that the validity should be <6 month. What is the protocol when the expiry date is approaching? -) Extend expiry date and upload again? -) Create new key (and sign with ?? ) ? Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle h

Re: [gentoo-dev] developer profile, FEATURES=digest

2011-03-28 Thread Thomas Kahle
st" from the line above. I've been > running with the developer profile and -digest in /etc/make.conf, and > everything is working fine. +1. I disabled it on the first day and never had any issues. Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ pgpuNQH4hhG5G.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-cpp/libthrowable and app-portage/gatt

2011-04-17 Thread Thomas Kahle
ortage/gatt > > V-Li > > -- > Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode > > http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ pgpsrlwpN4Sr5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] More bugzilla restrictions should be applied to normal users

2011-05-20 Thread Thomas Kahle
DHP7f9UaBR4WO8vDvXHHceHkJ8ovHxofm6l1UQ6DsqUh > oPKLTk2D9tD3fZPf0oVYyZWgFdbdx/glz8VRDqzQylhWhyDB/VuetTCEf0IEl61f > BiBQ7Z4wka5TsmBNDIla3xJosZQOfwVvry4javxSRvCbYZntdpEeSsKDTSb4tjt0 > 5dI/evC3sool0oUAuxxOE+sX4a8fpl5qAvIIjXFZhOCDrPaWBQe50VxNMNGOTmu2 > 8sSgz6GmoFFMcizPGxP6PKEzFh4rDmT724ZUZ1tj0vARcyQcpq0jLnBIQFWhq/vh > 7aFArhK+xBA6EIrSm3UUkcBGP+rUVmDo1vs6vl4FeZDY2/epvQGPHR+NLZVliHTE > M9jrwnJuGSFPVjtriYVmTExkRTH/dDYZd5adkOASSvptpH6/5z056r6g4eBpoqmv > Ttutf3QCSGFXseHLFZLq > =3hVB > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ pgpC0ugi50VNa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] arch teams and better tools

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Kahle
nally try to be agnostic. I do security bugs first, and then work on the oldest bug. > Then the developer can quickly process the list of bugs, and decide what > he's going to test. And then we can have tools for batch-testing, > batch-committing, and so on. Some of them already exist

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2011-06-12 Thread Thomas Kahle
an eye on them myself. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ pgpjdhtkQeDU8.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] More signing problems

2011-07-14 Thread Thomas Kahle
st of the time, but fails sometimes. I don't know how to trigger the behaviour. Any ideas? Cheers Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ pgpVZ4fOZrfgR.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] package graveyard

2011-08-17 Thread Thomas Kahle
mehow retained after the removal. Then you can get a fully working package while fixing only one bug. Searching through mailing list archives with automatted removal mails would be my hack, what would be yours? Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoostats, SoC 2011

2011-08-24 Thread Thomas Kahle
heir turnout rates, that'd be great. > Apart from that, I like the entire project, and am curious about its > results. +1 It has come up several times that getting usage statistics would motivate developers. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoostats, SoC 2011

2011-08-24 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 12:48 Wed 24 Aug 2011, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/24/11 12:31, Thomas Kahle wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 18:16 Tue 23 Aug 2011, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > >> there is one important aspect of your program that really needs to be > >> documented (

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoostats, SoC 2011

2011-08-24 Thread Thomas Kahle
e'd find a way).) Sorry, but NO. If you want you can make a big noise message that asks users to install the cron-job but opt-out is not an option here. -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] finding reverse dependencies for arch testing (and other purposes)

2011-09-21 Thread Thomas Kahle
welcome Pawel's tools and will shamelessly immitate it's best features. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] finding reverse dependencies for arch testing (and other purposes)

2011-09-21 Thread Thomas Kahle
so I wrote tatt. I assume that at some point people will find tatt too complicated and write yaatt (yet another ... ). In principle, this is what Pawel is doing. I think an ecosystem of different arch testing tools is really useful. Let's have a page in our docs where everybody can expla

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please don't use IUSE=static-libs unless really necessary

2011-09-21 Thread Thomas Kahle
iners do > > not get to choose "no one has asked for it and no one in the tree is > > using it thus my ebuild isnt going to". -mike > > Where is that policy? AFAIK the policy was to 'follow upstream' Really? For scientific libraries this means 'static onl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] How do we handle stabilisations of not-exactly-maintained packages

2011-09-21 Thread Thomas Kahle
in this case all the bugs need to be considered and we don't stable version 6, 7, ... in a timely manner. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] How do we handle stabilisations of not-exactly-maintained packages

2011-09-21 Thread Thomas Kahle
ing they'll remove the version number too. They'll push the security fixes (and just whatever they think enhances your browsing experience) directly to your computer. -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[gentoo-dev] last-rite app-misc/ktsuss

2011-09-25 Thread Thomas Kahle
Hi, upstream looks dead and there's a security bug open https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381115 This package can be repaced by gksu or kdesu. Two rdeps are net-misc/wicd, which I'm maintining and app-portage/portato which I bugged. # Thomas Kahle (25 Sep 2011) # Masked for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-13 Thread Thomas Kahle
oduced, thank you. I > always had sys-apps/hal and sys-apps/dbus in /etc/portage/package.mask > and my system continued to work just fine, thank you. Given the great > HAL fiasco, the fact that HAL has been incorporated into udev is yet one > more reason for dropping udev . https://

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-editors/emacs:21 and app-editors/emacs:22

2011-12-13 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 19:54 Tue 13 Dec 2011, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > # Ulrich Mueller (13 Dec 2011) > # SLOTs 21 and 22 of app-editors/emacs, corresponding to > # GNU Emacs versions 21.4 and 22.3. These versions were > # released in February 2005 and September 2008, respectively. > # Please upgrade to app-editors/em

[gentoo-dev] RFC: More versatile return codes for emerge

2012-01-25 Thread Thomas Kahle
Hi, I suggest that emerge could signal its various failures via return codes. That would be useful in automated archtesting: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400705 Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: More versatile return codes for emerge

2012-01-27 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 21:04 Wed 25 Jan 2012, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 1/25/12 10:23 AM, Thomas Kahle wrote: > > I suggest that emerge could signal its various failures via return > > codes. That would be useful in automated archtesting: > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/s

Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

2012-01-27 Thread Thomas Kahle
esting), and is a > lack of time checking manually what is the list of stable packages. Can be done easily with some eix scripting. app-portage/tatt has this implemented too. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Current Gentoo Git setup / man-in-the-middle attacks

2015-04-01 Thread Thomas Kahle
cted and most TLS > implementations). This is spreading FUD. -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Bugzilla config wrt games

2015-05-26 Thread Thomas Kahle
Given our games maintenance rules this seems wrong. Shouldn't games bugs be wrangled based on metadata like other bugs? I understand that changing this behaviour would create a lot of useless bugwrangling work... so maybe there is a different solution? Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http:/

Re: [gentoo-dev] git commit / push signing error

2015-08-11 Thread Thomas Kahle
rocess that is able to start pinentry-curses and type the passphrase. Keychain is one option for that. git --signed is not. The only thing that is diffent from your setup is that I use zsh. Looking at the scripts created by keychain this should be fine, though. If somebody knows how to configure pinentry curses correctly (in particular with respect to screen/multiplexing and long running sessions, that would be a great help (and wiki addition). Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature