Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] OT: Screen bragging. Was: [PROPOSAL] Don't split user visible messages across multiple lines

2017-03-20 Thread Paul Varner
On 03/17/2017 03:51 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 06:58:23 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: Brian Dolbec posted on Thu, 16 Mar 2017 01:08:30 -0700 as excerpted: We could also increase the max. line length to something like 120 or 130. I think more people should

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] gentoolkit.git repository reorganized

2015-10-22 Thread Paul Varner
On 10/21/2015 11:48 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 22 Oct 2015 00:45, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On 21 Oct 2015 16:35, Paul Varner wrote: >>> On 10/20/2015 03:34 AM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: >>>> On 15/10/15 19:42, Paul Varner wrote: >>>>> Over the l

[gentoo-portage-dev] gentoolkit.git repository reorganized

2015-10-15 Thread Paul Varner
All: Due to historical reasons the gentoolkit git repository was organized with two branches, gentoolkit and gentoolkit-dev with master effectively being an empty branch. This was confusing to contributers and with git did not make a lot of sense. Over the last couple of days, I have done the

[gentoo-portage-dev] Tools-Portage Lead

2015-10-13 Thread Paul Varner
All: I inherited the tools-portage lead position on 12/1/2008 when genone retired from Gentoo, and have been the lead since that time. Reading GLEP-39, it is not clear to me if a sub-project needs to have their leads elected or not. Anyhow, I'm asking the following: 1. Do we want to elect a

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Package description index file format for faster emerge search actions

2014-10-15 Thread Paul Varner
On 10/14/14 02:40, Zac Medico wrote: Hi, As we all know, emerge --search/--searchdesc actions are embarrassingly slow (from most users' perspectives, anyway), especially in comparison to external tools like eix and esearch. Wouldn't it be nice if the performance of emerge's search

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCHES] Remove --autounmask, rename --autounmask-write to --autounmask

2013-11-21 Thread Paul Varner
On 11/21/13 03:21, Alexander Berntsen wrote: After talking to zmedico privately, and raising the issue and discussing it with people in bug #481578[0], I implemented the behaviour described in a comment[1] on said bug. I sent this to zmedico almost two months ago, but it doesn't look like

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] tools-portage packages

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Varner
Based upon all of the responses, this is the list of completely unmaintained packages managed by tools-portage. If no one objects, I will send this list to gentoo-dev in a few days asking for maintainers or they will be last rited. app-portage/deltup app-portage/epm

[gentoo-portage-dev] tools-portage packages

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Varner
-manpages [gentoo] vap...@gentoo.org -- Actively maintained by Mike. * app-portage/elogv [gentoo] fuzzy...@gentoo.org (Paul Varner) sp...@gentoo.org (Sebastian Pipping) -- Being maintained more by Sebastian than myself. * app-portage/elogviewer [gentoo] fuzzy...@gentoo.org (Paul Varner

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] equery displays warnings about masked deps, even when those deps are deeper than --depth specification

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 15:40 +0200, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: is this a bug? As the gentoolkit maintainer, I would say that it is a bug. Which version of gentoolkit do you have installed? Regards, Paul

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] REVDEP-REBUILD and emerge default options

2009-10-26 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 20:04 +0200, Arthur D. wrote: I am very much against allowing EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in revdep-rebuild since I went through hell trying to support it when it was first added as a feature to portage and I really don't want to go through that again. Paul, there's good

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] RFC: new virtual metadata variable to list combined deps

2006-10-27 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 18:50 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: So now I was wondering a) if I'm the only one who finds this feature useful and b) if adding it at the dbapi level (in dbapi.aux_get) would be considered a good idea, so it could be used by other tools? Not sure if it would fit better in

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] glsa-check wrong

2006-07-09 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 19:34 +0200, Radoslaw Stachowiak wrote: glsa-check returns errorlevels 255 which results in shell being unable to parse it (anything greater 255 is 0). I've opened Bug #139804 to track this. Regards, Paul -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] making permission/ownership retention consistent

2006-07-06 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 02:20 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: personally i think that we should be retaining the permissions of the file as is instead of resetting it, but i wont fight too hard in either direction ... we just need the behavior to be consistent I agree with retaining permissions

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage-2.1 and gentoolkit-0.2.2

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Varner
improved. On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 14:49 -0500, Paul Varner wrote: If portage-2.1 is requested to be marked stable before then, we need to also make the same request for gentoolkit, so that we don't break it. I don't think that we need to fast track marking gentoolkit-0.2.2 stable at this point

[gentoo-portage-dev] portage-2.1 and gentoolkit-0.2.2

2006-05-31 Thread Paul Varner
Just a reminder that due to the changes in portage-2.1, that it breaks gentoolkit-0.2.1 which is the current stable version. I have placed gentoolkit-0.2.2 in the tree which works with portage-2.1 and opened bug #135068 http://bugs.gentoo.org/135068 I have not added the arch teams to the bug

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage-2.1_pre5

2006-02-22 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 20:07 -0500, Alec Warner wrote: Your testing is appreciated. The only thing that I have noted so far is that every emerge command is printing ** before it does anything else. For example: # emerge -pv portage ** These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage-2.1_pre5

2006-02-22 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 20:07 -0500, Alec Warner wrote: Your testing is appreciated. I'll file a bug for this one, once I investigate further. 'genlop -t' doesn't get along with it very well. # genlop -t screen * app-misc/screen snip Thu Dec 15 23:10:28 2005 app-misc/screen-4.0.2-r4

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage-2.1_pre5

2006-02-22 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 18:35 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: After you've updated to the new ebuild (with patch), run `sed -i 's/ Emerging/ emerge/g' /var/log/emerge.log` and genlop should work correctly again. Did all of the above and everything is looking good. Thanks for the quick response

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge-webrsync patch

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:04 +0100, Johannes Fahrenkrug wrote: I put a nice -n 19 in front of the tar, rsync and emerge metadata commands because normally calling emerge-webrsync renders my box unusable for 15 to 20 minutes. You still notice a difference when using nice but everything seems

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge-webrsync patch

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 17:38 +0100, Johannes Fahrenkrug wrote: Good point. Is this patch better? Or should it rather be _exactly_ as it is in revdep-rebuild? I personally would do it the same way as revdep-rebuild since that causes the entire script and anything it calls to be run at the value

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] ECONF_EXTRA handling: bug 38618

2005-10-07 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 16:03 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: It allows for users to override ebuild defined configure options, potentially shooting themselves in the foot, but in the same token they can already shoot themselves in the foot via EXTRA_ECONF... Since EXTRA_ECONF is all about letting

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: gentoolkit: Make portage.config object a global object

2005-09-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 19:00 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 06:55:44PM -0500, Paul Varner wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 18:34 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: Updated patch to add a semaphore to control access to the global portage.config object. Unless anyone sees any