Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-11 Thread Rafael Goncalves Martins
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > This is a general call for developers to join the portage development > team. > > aka: Recruiting Drive > > If you have some "Good" python and/or bash skills and want/need to or > already know portage's internals. WE NEED YOU! > > We have seve

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage

2014-01-11 Thread Kent Fredric
On 12 January 2014 08:16, Kent Fredric wrote: > diff <( grep cpan > /var/paludis/repositories/perl-git/profiles/thirdpartymirrors ) <( grep > cpan /usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors ) > Oh... also, there's a wide variety of location specific CPAN mirrors available that are location-speci

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage

2014-01-11 Thread Kent Fredric
On 10 January 2014 17:58, Michał Górny wrote: > > Just to be clear, what is the exact use case for this? I can't think > of a really good reason to manipulate mirror lists in subsequent repos. > For Perl, in ::gentoo , its considered not too optimal to have backpan listed as a mirror, and its un

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Check for and report read-only filesystems

2014-01-11 Thread Chris Reffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/11/2014 12:09 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 22:07 -0500, Chris Reffett wrote: >> Hi all, Attached is a patch to test if Portage is going to write >> to a read-only filesystem and print out the list of filesystems >> that need to