Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of auto-use in portage-2.0.54

2005-11-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 27 November 2005 01:48, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 05:12:45PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > > As I said earlier, we'd like to get rid of the nasty auto-use feature, > > including the support for the USE_ORDER variable. Right now we intend > > this for 2.0.54 (mig

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 25/11/2005 11:46:54, Marius Mauch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Except that no{man,info,doc} are on the to-die list anyway. When you say 'to-die' do you mean completely removed, or do you mean replaced with {man,info,doc} (i.e. removing inverted logic)? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 26/11/2005 13:55:25, Ned Ludd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 19:30 +0100, Bruno wrote: > > > What's the advantage of splitting out the debug info to some extra > > location instead of leaving it in the original binary (maybe smaller > > foot-print in memory while the debug

[gentoo-dev] Re: last rites for avifile, vcr, zphoto, drip, divx4linux, quicktime4linux

2005-11-27 Thread Duncan
Luca Barbato posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:55:14 +0100: > Luca Barbato wrote: > [snip] > > avifile will be removed tomorrow since mlt and mlt++ (required by jahshaka > as avifile replacement) will be released tomorrow. > > If you are maintaining or using on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 10:53 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > On 26/11/2005 13:55:25, Ned Ludd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 19:30 +0100, Bruno wrote: > > > > > What's the advantage of splitting out the debug info to some extra > > > location instead of leaving it in the origi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 13:20 -0600, R Hill wrote: > Ned Ludd wrote: > > Good afternoon, > > > > probably in portage-2.0.54 a patch will be added to emit split debug > > info. Having a split debug allows us to retain all the advantages of > > stripping executables while gaining the ability to proper

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 23:42 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > Ned Ludd wrote: > > Good afternoon, > > > > Would you be willing to give up space in $ROOT/usr/lib/debug for ELF > > executables by default in order to aid in better debugging by or do we > > want to only emit it when a FEATURE= is defined.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 27 November 2005 00:10, Luca Barbato wrote: > It's great! > Make it a FEATURE default on for common profiles. +1, and it would be better if the FEATURES, instead of removing the generated files, would disable the building of them completely, mainly because "work" systems with limited CP

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:46 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:49:23 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | Hi everybody, a little question that I'd like to be answered (so that > > | we can make it a sort of rule). > > | H

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Ivan Yosifov
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:24 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 13:20 -0600, R Hill wrote: > > Ned Ludd wrote: > > > Good afternoon, > > > > > > probably in portage-2.0.54 a patch will be added to emit split debug > > > info. Having a split debug allows us to retain all the advantages o

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:58 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:46 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:49:23 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > | Hi everybody, a little question that I'd like to be an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 15:09 +0200, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:24 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 13:20 -0600, R Hill wrote: > > > Ned Ludd wrote: > > > > Good afternoon, > > > > > > > > probably in portage-2.0.54 a patch will be added to emit split debug > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 15:09 +0200, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:24 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 13:20 -0600, R Hill wrote: > > > Ned Ludd wrote: > > > > Good afternoon, > > > > > > > > probably in portage-2.0.54 a patch will be added to emit split debug > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 27 November 2005 22:09, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:58 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:46 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > Except that no{man,info,doc} are on the to-die list anyway. > > > > They are very valuable features and quite easy to use without m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Dan Meltzer
On 11/27/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 27 November 2005 00:10, Luca Barbato wrote: > > It's great! > > Make it a FEATURE default on for common profiles. > +1, and it would be better if the FEATURES, instead of removing the generated > files, would disable the

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Jakub Moc
27.11.2005, 15:39:48, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Sunday 27 November 2005 22:09, Ned Ludd wrote: >> On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:58 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: >> > On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:46 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: >> > > Except that no{man,info,doc} are on the to-die list anyway. >> > >> > They are ver

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 23:39 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Sunday 27 November 2005 22:09, Ned Ludd wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:58 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:46 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > > Except that no{man,info,doc} are on the to-die list anyway. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 27 November 2005 15:39, Dan Meltzer wrote: > Err, maybe I am incorrect, but isn't it more "work" to ungenerate them > (using strip) then to just not install them? Their creation in-line of a binary is probably a simpler work (for the disk) than having to split them out, but I might be wr

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 27 November 2005 15:39, Jason Stubbs wrote: > Core packages or not, they are all broken. When the requirement came up, > the respective maintainers should have spoken up so that a proper solution > could be found. When are the quick hacks going to stop? :| Is my mail enough as a speak-up

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 09:39 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: > On 11/27/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 00:10, Luca Barbato wrote: > > > It's great! > > > Make it a FEATURE default on for common profiles. > > +1, and it would be better if the FEATURE

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 27 November 2005 23:50, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Sunday 27 November 2005 15:39, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > Core packages or not, they are all broken. When the requirement came up, > > the respective maintainers should have spoken up so that a proper > > solution could be found.

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 27 November 2005 23:43, Jakub Moc wrote: > 27.11.2005, 15:39:48, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 22:09, Ned Ludd wrote: > >> On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:58 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > >> > On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:46 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > >> > > Except that no{man,info

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Tavis Ormandy
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:50:30PM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > I'm in favor of it enabled per default but I'd like to know what you > think and why. (advantages of on/off by default etc..) > This should definitely be enabled by default, we dont need to enable debugging information for this to be use

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 08:40 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 15:09 +0200, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > > And one more thing. For proper debugging, don't I need the source to be > > present ? > > -g3 -ggdb embeds the source code in the debug info so I don't see the > point. It doesn't; at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Dan Meltzer
Random thought May be completely off base. Could this debug info be NFS shared? assuming like computers, or would it be different on each computer. On 11/27/05, Tavis Ormandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:50:30PM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > I'm in favor of it enabled

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 09:39 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: > On 11/27/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 00:10, Luca Barbato wrote: > > > It's great! > > > Make it a FEATURE default on for common profiles. > > +1, and it would be better if the FEATURE

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 27 November 2005 23:50, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Sunday 27 November 2005 15:39, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > Core packages or not, they are all broken. When the requirement came up, > > the respective maintainers should have spoken up so that a proper > > solution could be found.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 15:22 +, Edward Catmur wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 08:40 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 15:09 +0200, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > > > And one more thing. For proper debugging, don't I need the source to be > > > present ? > > > > -g3 -ggdb embeds the source

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 28 November 2005 00:05, Jason Stubbs wrote: > 3) FEATURES="noman" is dropped in favour of USE="man" or USE="manpages" > > In light of the above requirements and the fact that dyn_* will likely be > moved into the tree down the track, #3 seems to be the best in my mind. > Similarly, it wou

[gentoo-dev] Are there valid uses for repoman --ignore-other-arches?

2005-11-27 Thread Petteri Räty
--ignore-other-arches Instructs repoman to ignore arches that are not relevent to the committing arch. REPORT/FIX issues you work around. Are there any valid uses for this switch or can it be deprecated? From a QA point of view this seems like a very bad option. Regards, Petteri signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 00:48 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Monday 28 November 2005 00:05, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > 3) FEATURES="noman" is dropped in favour of USE="man" or USE="manpages" > > > > In light of the above requirements and the fact that dyn_* will likely be > > moved into the tree down t

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:12:32AM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 00:48 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > On Monday 28 November 2005 00:05, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > 3) FEATURES="noman" is dropped in favour of USE="man" or USE="manpages" > > > > > > In light of the above requirements a

[gentoo-dev] Masking of [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3.x and related packages

2005-11-27 Thread Olivier Fisette
Hi, It has been a while since the [EMAIL PROTECTED] project has moved to a BOINC-based client. Thanks to Marcus Hanwell (cryos), we have working ebuilds for BOINC and the new [EMAIL PROTECTED] client (4.x) in the tree. The "classic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3.x service has now been discontinued (and

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 27 November 2005 17:12, Ned Ludd wrote: > USE=(man|info|doc) wont quite work. > While they could have an advantage that you can use them to control > depend strings the doc use flag has already been heavily used for other > things which everybody surely wont want. As vapier said, doc usef

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 16:28 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:12:32AM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 00:48 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > On Monday 28 November 2005 00:05, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > > 3) FEATURES="noman" is dropped in favour of USE="man" o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are there valid uses for repoman --ignore-other-arches?

2005-11-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 06:08:53PM +0200, Petteri R??ty wrote: > --ignore-other-arches Instructs repoman to ignore arches that are not > relevent to the committing arch. REPORT/FIX issues you work around. > > Are there any valid uses for this switch or can it be deprecated? From a > QA point of v

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 10:44 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 15:22 +, Edward Catmur wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 08:40 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 15:09 +0200, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > > > > And one more thing. For proper debugging, don't I need the source

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are there valid uses for repoman --ignore-other-arches?

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 18:08 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > --ignore-other-arches Instructs repoman to ignore arches that are not > relevent to the committing arch. REPORT/FIX issues you work around. > > Are there any valid uses for this switch or can it be deprecated? From a > QA point of view this

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:39:48 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Core packages or not, they are all broken. When the requirement came | up, the respective maintainers should have spoken up so that a proper | solution could be found. When are the quick hacks going to stop? :| A proper s

Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 27 November 2005 17:49, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > A proper solution requires Portage changes. Unfortunately, for some > packages waiting a year or more to fix something isn't an option. Maybe not, if we just make man and info two useflags enabled by default in all profiles and change one-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer's guides?

2005-11-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 24 November 2005 12:31, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > What I'm waiting for now are comments if someone has ideas where to put > guides that does not belong directly to an existant project. And if someone > wants to join the effort of documenting maintenance process for his > packag

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Mark Loeser
Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I really can't give an accurate example. Halcyon who has been testing it > merged world and he was yeilded with 18M of debug info (I have no idea > how many packages he has). Just for the sake of reference, this was with 95 packages and CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pent

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer's guides?

2005-11-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: | Possible solutions I thought of: | | 1) have every herd controlled by a project This should be the goal already, and all herds should be looking to either join or create a project, in conjunction with other herds.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Olivier Crête
On Sun, 2005-27-11 at 13:03 -0500, Mark Loeser wrote: > Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I really can't give an accurate example. Halcyon who has been testing it > > merged world and he was yeilded with 18M of debug info (I have no idea > > how many packages he has). > > Just for the sake of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer's guides?

2005-11-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 27 November 2005 20:27, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > This should be the goal already, and all herds should be looking to > either join or create a project, in conjunction with other herds. Okay that probably goes fine for most of the cases, there are still non-herded ebuilds but that's a sid

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Ivan Yosifov
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 11:55 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 10:44 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 15:22 +, Edward Catmur wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 08:40 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 15:09 +0200, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > > > > > And o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 23:01 +0200, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 11:55 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 10:44 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 15:22 +, Edward Catmur wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 08:40 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > > > > On Su

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 12:50 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > Good afternoon, > > probably in portage-2.0.54 a patch will be added to emit split debug > info. Having a split debug allows us to retain all the advantages of > stripping executables while gaining the ability to properly debug > executables in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 27/11/2005-13:54:33(+0100): Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò types > On Sunday 27 November 2005 00:10, Luca Barbato wrote: > > It's great! > > Make it a FEATURE default on for common profiles. > +1, and it would be better if the FEATURES, instead of removing the generated > files, would disable

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:18 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > maillog: 27/11/2005-13:54:33(+0100): Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò types > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 00:10, Luca Barbato wrote: > > > It's great! > > > Make it a FEATURE default on for common profiles. > > +1, and it would be better if the