Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-19 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 09/19/2016 10:00 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Kristian Fiskerstrand schrieb: >>> Why are those ebuilds not live? If upstream doesn't do real releases and >>> can't even be bothered to tag the commit that marks a release, then why >>> are you (or someone else) doing all this work?

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-19 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:51:37 -0700 Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 09/14/2016 06:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:45:58 -0400 > > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > >> On 09/14/2016 01:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>> > >>> We had a review

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-19 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Kristian Fiskerstrand schrieb: Why are those ebuilds not live? If upstream doesn't do real releases and can't even be bothered to tag the commit that marks a release, then why are you (or someone else) doing all this work? The snapshot scripts could be replaced by a live ebuild and upstream can

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-19 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 09/19/2016 09:51 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 09/14/2016 06:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:45:58 -0400 >> Michael Orlitzky wrote: .. >> > Why are those ebuilds not live? If upstream doesn't do real releases and > can't even be bothered to tag the

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-19 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/14/2016 06:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:45:58 -0400 > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> On 09/14/2016 01:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> >>> We had a review of such files before the git conversion: >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/550434 >>> >>> Especially,

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 14/09/16 12:20 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:41:54 +0200 > Alexis Ballier wrote: > >> >> So, to sum it up, I have to: >> - Open a browser, go to github (*) >> - Find out latest commit hash, copy it >> - (*) Copy the ebuild, setting a 8 digit version

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Kent Fredric
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:41:54 +0200 Alexis Ballier wrote: > > So, to sum it up, I have to: > - Open a browser, go to github (*) > - Find out latest commit hash, copy it > - (*) Copy the ebuild, setting a 8 digit version representing the date > - Open an editor > - Edit

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:04:20 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 09/14/2016 09:50 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > > that might be better, but how do you map date / $PV to commit ? > > > > Well, for that last one, I just looked down the list of commits and > found the last

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:55:06 +0100 James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:53:18 +0100 > James Le Cuirot wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200 > > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > > > > But seriously, once you've googled

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Kent Fredric
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:55:06 +0100 James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:53:18 +0100 > James Le Cuirot wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200 > > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > [...] > [...] > > > > You can't.

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:38:45 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 09/14/2016 09:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > > Guess you never had to maintain packages whose releases are only > > snapshots. They're trivial but it's a waste of time to re-assemble > > all the bits every

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/14/2016 09:50 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > that might be better, but how do you map date / $PV to commit ? > Well, for that last one, I just looked down the list of commits and found the last one that happened before the date of the snapshot. But, if you're creating a new snapshot, it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:53:18 +0100 James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200 > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > > But seriously, once you've googled the repo, you might notice that > > > it's hosted at github, and that you don't need to

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200 Alexis Ballier wrote: > > But seriously, once you've googled the repo, you might notice that > > it's hosted at github, and that you don't need to create your own > > snapshot tarballs any more. Want a snapshot from 20150423? Try, > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/14/2016 09:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > Guess you never had to maintain packages whose releases are only > snapshots. They're trivial but it's a waste of time to re-assemble all > the bits every couple of months when you want to make a snapshot. > > Questions one needs to answer: > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:45:58 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 09/14/2016 01:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > We had a review of such files before the git conversion: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/550434 > > > > Especially, there's a list of "maintainer scripts" in comment

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/14/2016 01:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > We had a review of such files before the git conversion: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/550434 > > Especially, there's a list of "maintainer scripts" in comment #13. > At the time, we didn't do anything about them. There are very few of > such files

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-13 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> * scripts in FILESDIR: In some packages i found scripts which >> doesn't get used by the ebuild, but is probably used for generating >> patches/tarballs. Should i file a bugs about them as i though the >> FILESDIR should be only used for

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-13 Thread Kent Fredric
On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:49:22 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Patches: > > * Wildcard patching: Usually i use my "patchtest" script for finding > > obsolete patches and while it still finds lots of false > > positives i also saw a rather odd patching style: Patching via

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/13/2016 02:57 PM, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > > * Redirection: There are quite a few pages which aren't exactly offline, > but only forward the request to the current homepage. (like most > of the gentoo project pages). I haven't touch them yet, but i > would like to

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-13 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/13/2016 11:57 AM, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > Hello Gentoo-Team, > > For some time now I'm trying to help improve the gentoo tree. I've > started with fixing some HOMEPAGE variables in ebuilds and now removing > obsolete patches from packages. > Usually (especially with obsolete

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-13 Thread M. J. Everitt
On 13/09/16 19:57, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > Hello Gentoo-Team, > > For some time now I'm trying to help improve the gentoo tree. I've > started with fixing some HOMEPAGE variables in ebuilds and now removing > obsolete patches from packages. > Usually (especially with obsolete patches)