Re: [gentoo-dev] April Council meeting summary

2007-04-13 Thread galevsky
Very good job. 2007/4/13, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: here is a summary of this month's meeting. people seem to think that the CoC is set in stone now when in reality it is not ... feel free to hilite anything you feel wasnt addressed in the previous discussion or anything new you've th

[gentoo-dev] app-admin/{user,web}min needs a maintainer

2007-04-13 Thread Raúl Porcel
beu has retired, and this is a widely used package. If any dev is using this and want to maintain it, please feel free to take it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-dev] start-stop-daemon changes in baselayout-2

2007-04-13 Thread Roy Marples
Hi fellow devs start-stop-daemon binary in baselayout-2 will require the use of the --name or --pidfile argument in --start if the binary in question changes it's process name. This also applies to any interpreted daemon, such as ddclient or amavisd which are perl programs. This is because accord

Re: [gentoo-dev] app-admin/{user,web}min needs a maintainer

2007-04-13 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Friday 13 April 2007 11:22, Raúl Porcel wrote: > beu has retired, and this is a widely used package. > > If any dev is using this and want to maintain it, please feel free to > take it. And take care of the security issue on bug #168878 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168878 -- Sune K

[gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Roy Marples
Hi List bsaelayout-2.0.0_alpha2 will ship without any volume support for things like LVM, RAID, etc. We only ship the hooks right now, but we won't ship those any more as we can't seem it get it right. If you care about such things, then you need to pester the maintainer of said package to write

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:41:01 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:11:47 -0700 > Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Either way, EAPI=1 *should* have a bit more then just slot deps in my > > opinion; very least it needs discussion to discern what folks

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 April 2007, Marius Mauch wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * src_test always called except if RESTRICT=test > > I don't think this would fit into EAPI, to me it's an implementation > detail of the package manager, or why should the ebuild care about it? hmm, i'd

[gentoo-dev] disabling old linux baggage

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
i plan on adding old-linux to use.force in the linux-2.4 profiles and converting the "no-old-linux" USE flag to that ... that way things like module-init-tools from now on will only support linux-2.6+ any comments ? -mike pgpreBOGaB1uH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Benjamin Smee (strerror)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 April 2007 12:41:43 Roy Marples wrote: > If you care about such things, then you need to pester the maintainer > of said package to write an init script for it that has the following > dependency I'll look into it, any idea when you are g

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 April 2007, Benjamin Smee (strerror) wrote: > On Friday 13 April 2007 12:41:43 Roy Marples wrote: > > If you care about such things, then you need to pester the maintainer > > of said package to write an init script for it that has the following > > dependency > > I'll look into it, an

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New metastructure proposal

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:32 +0200, Alexandre Buisse wrote: > as everyone probably noticed, there is a current atmosphere of sinking ship, > with quite a lot of people leaving and many agreeing that gentoo is no fun > working on anymore. Before it's too late, I'd like to propose a big > reformation

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:21:16 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:41:01 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Remove automatic directory making for do* > > No It masks all kinds of programming screwups. doblah should make a blah, not make a bla

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:24:25 +0100 Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Either way, EAPI=1 *should* have a bit more then just slot deps in > >> my opinion; very least it needs discussion to discern what folks > >> want. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Remove automatic directory making for do* > > > > No > > It masks all kinds of programming screwups. doblah should make a blah, > not make a blah and poss

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New metastructure proposal

2007-04-13 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 19:26 +0530, Andrew Cowie wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:32 +0200, Alexandre Buisse wrote: > > as everyone probably noticed, there is a current atmosphere of sinking ship, > > with quite a lot of people leaving and many agreeing that gentoo is no fun > > working on anymore.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Either way, EAPI=1 *should* have a bit more then just slot deps in > > >> my opinion; very least it needs discussion to discern wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:11:07 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Except there are. Hence why we want EAPI 1 in the short term, not > > several years from now. The stuff that will take longer can go into > > a later EAPI. > > this is really up to the portage team to drive If they i

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:53:38 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It masks all kinds of programming screwups. doblah should make a > > blah, not make a blah and possibly make a directory. > > name one dosym's old behaviour prevented a broken Vim release (upstream screwed up a Makef

Re: [gentoo-dev] April Council meeting summary

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:45:13 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PMS: > - should be up and running on Gentoo infra by next meeting What is the justification for making this change? It's already inconvenient enough having to have someone else make bugzilla changes for me on PMS

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Jakub Moc
Mike Frysinger napsal(a): * Remove automatic directory making for do* >>> No >> It masks all kinds of programming screwups. doblah should make a blah, >> not make a blah and possibly make a directory. > > name one > > you're proposing we suddenly bloat all of our src_install functions for no

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:36:33 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Frysinger napsal(a): > * Remove automatic directory making for do* > >>> No > >> It masks all kinds of programming screwups. doblah should make a > >> blah, not make a blah and possibly make a directory. > > > > na

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Except there are. Hence why we want EAPI 1 in the short term, not > > > several years from now. The stuff that will take longer can go into > > > a later EAPI. > > > > this is really up to the portage

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It masks all kinds of programming screwups. doblah should make a > > > blah, not make a blah and possibly make a directory. > > > > name one > > dosym's old behaviour prevented a broken Vim release (up

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 4/13/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ha, it wont even be leaving package.mask soonish, so i doubt you have any stable worries i wonder how hard we want to ride this though ... target 2007.1 ? It's mid-April and 2007.0 is still nowhere in sight, so the idea that there will be a

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > What? No it wouldn't. It would ensure that bugs were caught during the > src_install phase rather than after a package has been installed. What kind of bugs exactly? The ones *created* by this behavior change? I'd rather not create such bugs for starters, because it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 April 2007, Alex Tarkovsky wrote: > On 4/13/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ha, it wont even be leaving package.mask soonish, so i doubt you have any > > stable worries > > > > i wonder how hard we want to ride this though ... target 2007.1 ? > > It's mid-April and 20

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:22:24 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > > What? No it wouldn't. It would ensure that bugs were caught during > > the src_install phase rather than after a package has been > > installed. > > What kind of bugs exactly? The ones *created

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:52:16 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > you're proposing we suddenly bloat all of our src_install > > > functions for no gain at all ... sounds like a no brainer to me > > > > No, I'm proposing that functions not have strange side effects. > > the behavio

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 4/13/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007, Alex Tarkovsky wrote: > It's mid-April and 2007.0 is still nowhere in sight you're clearly not part of the release process Can you tell us the release date then? I didn't think so. :) --Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 11:23 -0500, Alex Tarkovsky wrote: > It's mid-April and 2007.0 is still nowhere in sight, so the idea that > there will be a 2007.1 is looking increasingly unrealistic. Please > don't make baselayout-2's unmasking contingent on that. I guess I should just delete all this 2007

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 April 2007, Alex Tarkovsky wrote: > On 4/13/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 13 April 2007, Alex Tarkovsky wrote: > > > It's mid-April and 2007.0 is still nowhere in sight > > > > you're clearly not part of the release process > > Can you tell us the release

Re: [gentoo-dev] April Council meeting summary

2007-04-13 Thread Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:45:13 -0400 > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> PMS: >> - should be up and running on Gentoo infra by next meeting >> > > What is the justification for making this change? It's already > inconvenient enough having to have som

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > You're missing the point. > > As of a year or so ago, dosym will succeed even if the dosym target > directory doesn't exist, and even if it means creating arbitrary > directories. Some other utilities, such as dohard for example, will > fail under otherwise identical c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: April Council meeting summary

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:58:52 +0100 Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> PMS: > >> - should be up and running on Gentoo infra by next meeting > > > > What is the justification for making this change? It's already > > incon

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Petteri Räty
Jakub Moc kirjoitti: > > Well of course it's the users who will see it, see above. It's not like > that we would have 100 volunteers around to drop everything they have in > their hands a go spend days on changing ebuilds that are not broken just > because of this idea. > > We are talking about

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:06:42 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Err, your suggestion was: > > * Remove automatic directory making for do* Because I was giving a one line summary, rather than a description of the full change. The full description has been discussed elsewhere several time

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: April Council meeting summary

2007-04-13 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > If someone can provide a good reason for changing to a system that's > more work, I'll change. If there isn't a good reason, I won't. Maybe if you actually read the council log, you'd see the reason? yeah, it's indeed there, believe me. -- Best regards, Jakub Moc

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:02:00 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 13 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > These fail: > > > > cp somefile dirdoesnotexist/ > > mv somefile dirdoesnotexist/ > > ln -s somefile dirdoesnotexist/ > > dohard somefile dirdoesnotexist/ > > mkdir dir

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: April Council meeting summary

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:20:46 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > > If someone can provide a good reason for changing to a system that's > > more work, I'll change. If there isn't a good reason, I won't. > > Maybe if you actually read the council log, you'd see

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 April 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 11:23 -0500, Alex Tarkovsky wrote: > > It's mid-April and 2007.0 is still nowhere in sight, so the idea that > > there will be a 2007.1 is looking increasingly unrealistic. Please > > don't make baselayout-2's unmasking contin

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > you're proposing we suddenly bloat all of our src_install >> > > functions for no gain at all How big a bloat is it? Surely it's a coupla lines in the eclasses? Cos the behaviour is inconsistent, as Ciaran pointed out. >> >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: April Council meeting summary

2007-04-13 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:20:46 +0200 > Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): >>> If someone can provide a good reason for changing to a system that's >>> more work, I'll change. If there isn't a good reason, I won't. >> Maybe if you actually r

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Petteri Räty
Alex Tarkovsky kirjoitti: > > So I promise to get myself a clue just as soon as you've changed your > policies to be more inclusive and less hostile towards users. Deal? :) > The thing is that your comment was probably perceived as a negative comment about our releases being late or something like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: April Council meeting summary

2007-04-13 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 07:20:46PM +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > > If someone can provide a good reason for changing to a system that's > > more work, I'll change. If there isn't a good reason, I won't. > > Maybe if you actually read the council log, you'd see the reason?

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 13 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > These fail: > > > > > > cp somefile dirdoesnotexist/ > > > mv somefile dirdoesnotexist/ > > > ln -s somefile dirdoesnotexist/ > > > dohard somefile d

Re: [gentoo-dev] disabling old linux baggage

2007-04-13 Thread Christian Heim
On Friday 13 April 2007 14:42:41 Mike Frysinger wrote: > i plan on adding old-linux to use.force in the linux-2.4 profiles and > converting the "no-old-linux" USE flag to that ... that way things like > module-init-tools from now on will only support linux-2.6+ > > any comments ? > -mike Go ahead,

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Matthias Langer
> > > The arch teams have been pushing for this for a long time. They're > > > trying to get this enforced, but are having limited success because > > > there's no way for FEATURES=test to become widely used that won't > > > lead to broken user systems. Moving src_test to be always on in > > > fut

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Joshua Jackson
> > The arch teams have been pushing for this for a long time. They're > trying to get this enforced, but are having limited success because > there's no way for FEATURES=test to become widely used that won't lead > to broken user systems. Moving src_test to be always on in future EAPIs > is an e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: April Council meeting summary

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:43:51 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [16:49] infra won't give any access to non-devs that needs > SSH keys. > > Isn't that hard to find I'd say? That's not a reason for moving. That's a reason for not using infra. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Descrip

2007.0 release (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc))

2007-04-13 Thread Thilo Bangert
Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm simply amazed at the level of complete and total bullshit that some > people spout off on this list without bothering to check facts or take > 3 seconds to talk to the people in the know. If you don't know what > you're talking about, rather than op

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:16:14 -0700 Joshua Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erm, no I have not at all (speaking as a project lead for x86). Test > is not viable for a lot of reason as being on by default. One that I > can come up with off the top of my head is php. The test suite for it > makes

[gentoo-dev] Re: 2007.0 release

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Thilo Bangert wrote: Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: I'm simply amazed at the level of complete and total bullshit that some people spout off on this list without bothering to check facts or take 3 seconds to talk to the people in the know. If you don't know what you're talking about

[gentoo-dev] Re: 2007.0 release

2007-04-13 Thread Jakub Moc
Thilo Bangert napsal(a): > this seems to come up more often than you like. is this the release > tracker bug? > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156814 > > kind regards > Thilo Yeah. It's restricted to developers only, though, so not much useful for users. :) -- Best regards, Jakub M

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> Why exactly does EAPI=1 need to be rushed? > > Because the tree needed the functionality in question several years ago. > >> I thought the whole point of 0 was allowing a base, so that new stuff >> could be developed while guaranteeing certain behaviour. What's the >> hu

[gentoo-dev] Empty DEPEND strings in virtuals

2007-04-13 Thread Petteri Räty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/portage/virtual $ grep 'DEPEND=""' -r . | wc -l 97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/portage/virtual $ find -name "*.ebuild" | wc -l 102 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/portage/virtual $ find -name "*.ebuild" | xargs grep -L 'DEPEND=""' | xargs grep DEPEND ./pmake/pmake-0.ebuild:RDEPEND="!user

Re: 2007.0 release (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc))

2007-04-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 20:23 +0200, Thilo Bangert wrote: > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I'm simply amazed at the level of complete and total bullshit that some > > people spout off on this list without bothering to check facts or take > > 3 seconds to talk to the people in the know

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:17:32 +0100 Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Except there are. Hence why we want EAPI 1 in the short term, not > > several years from now. The stuff that will take longer can go into > > a later EAPI. > > > Man here we go again: I spend a lot of time helping and bei

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2007.0 release

2007-04-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 20:40 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > Thilo Bangert napsal(a): > > this seems to come up more often than you like. is this the release > > tracker bug? > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156814 > > > > kind regards > > Thilo > > > Yeah. It's restricted to developers only

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Joshua Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Erm, no I have not at all (speaking as a project lead for x86). Test > > is not viable for a lot of reason as being on by default. One that I > > can come up with off the top of my head is php. The test

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Jeffrey Gardner
Alex Tarkovsky wrote: > Can you tell us the release date then? > > I didn't think so. :) > > --Alex Dickish messages like this one might possibly earn you some "cold shoulder" or "hostility" from people who work very hard for you... -- Jeffrey Gardner Gentoo Developer Public PGP Key ID: 4A5D8F

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2007.0 release

2007-04-13 Thread Jakub Moc
Chris Gianelloni napsal(a): > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 20:40 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: >> Thilo Bangert napsal(a): >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156814 >> Yeah. It's restricted to developers only, though, so not much useful for >> users. :) > > Yeah, I did that because we had users adding

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 4/13/07, Jeffrey Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alex Tarkovsky wrote: > Can you tell us the release date then? > > I didn't think so. :) > > --Alex Dickish messages like this one might possibly earn you some "cold shoulder" or "hostility" from people who work very hard for you... 1) It'

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > If a test suite isn't viable, the ebuild should be RESTRICTing test > anyway. > That means ALL the media applications, almost all the toolchain applications, most languages and a couple of other items I don't touch. I don't think it shoud be part of the spec even if y

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:06:44 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If a test suite isn't viable, the ebuild should be RESTRICTing test > > anyway. > > which doesnt apply here ... some packages have ridiculous awesome > coverage for their source code and take much longer to run than e

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Jan Kundrát
Alex Tarkovsky wrote: > 2) Why must some Gentoo devs like yourself and Mr. Gianelloni reply > with expletives to things you disagree with? It's no wonder you need > proctors; unwarranted escalation and invective seems to come so > naturally here. Oh come on. Your mail wasn't based on actual facts,

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:29:29 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > If a test suite isn't viable, the ebuild should be RESTRICTing test > > anyway. > > That means ALL the media applications, almost all the toolchain > applications, most languages and a couple of

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Daniel Ostrow
> > > Er, no, I'm explaining why enforcing src_test for EAPI 1 will be > > > helpful for an awful lot of Gentoo developers. > > > > except that you back the tree into a corner that it cannot come out of > > Huh? Not at all. If a package can't use its test suite, the ebuild can > set RESTRICT=te

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Daniel Ostrow
> The *only* downside that I can see here is that by default the package > installation process gets a little longer. To get around this some > method of globally opting out of src_test should be provided to the end > user, however since it is an on by default feature someone at least has > *tried

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:40:53 +0200 Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So just get a beer and be cool, okay? It's friday, after all... No! No beer until my work shift ends! Then I'll join you. -- Andrej -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Friday 13 April 2007 21:55, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:40:53 +0200 > > Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So just get a beer and be cool, okay? It's friday, after all... > > No! No beer until my work shift ends! Then I'll join you. Your work shift ending? Hah you're a

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-lang/ruby-cvs

2007-04-13 Thread Hans de Graaff
dev-lang/ruby-cvs builds the latest Ruby 1.9.x version from CVS. Except... upstream has moved to SVN, so this ebuild no longer works. It's now masked and will be removed in 30 days. An initial ruby-svn ebuild can be found in https://bugs.gentoo.org/ show_bug.cgi?id=173817 and will hopefully be

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 12:17 -0700, Daniel Ostrow wrote: > > > > > > Er, no, I'm explaining why enforcing src_test for EAPI 1 will be > > > > helpful for an awful lot of Gentoo developers. > > > > > > except that you back the tree into a corner that it cannot come out of > > > > Huh? Not at all.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-lang/ruby-cvs

2007-04-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Hans de Graaff wrote: dev-lang/ruby-cvs builds the latest Ruby 1.9.x version from CVS. Except... upstream has moved to SVN, so this ebuild no longer works. It's now masked and will be removed in 30 days. Not sure there's any point to waiting the usual 30 days when the ebuild just can't work

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2007.0 release

2007-04-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 21:16 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > I'm not implying there's anything wrong w/ restricting the bug; just > that pointing users here to it won't get them very far. ;) *I* didn't point anyone to that bug, as I knew it was locked and wouldn't provide our users with much of anything

Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty DEPEND strings in virtuals

2007-04-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Petteri Räty wrote: > so only three virtual ebuilds have a DEPEND According to GLEP 37 [1], they should only define RDEPEND. The reason that only RDEPEND is needed is that a package that has a virtual dependency has freedom to include the virtual ato

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Doug Goldstein
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 13 April 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > >> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 11:23 -0500, Alex Tarkovsky wrote: >> >>> It's mid-April and 2007.0 is still nowhere in sight, so the idea that >>> there will be a 2007.1 is looking increasingly unrealistic. Please >>> don'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty DEPEND strings in virtuals

2007-04-13 Thread Petteri Räty
Zac Medico kirjoitti: > > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0037.html We should link this info to the devmanual. Opened a bug about this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174530 Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty DEPEND strings in virtuals

2007-04-13 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:50:50 +0300 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/portage/virtual $ grep 'DEPEND=""' -r . | wc -l > 97 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/portage/virtual $ find -name "*.ebuild" | wc -l > 102 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/portage/virtual $ find -name "*.ebuild

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:18:27 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:06:42 +0200 > Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Err, your suggestion was: > > > > * Remove automatic directory making for do* > > Because I was giving a one line summary, rather than a d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2007.0 release

2007-04-13 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 4/13/07, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 21:16 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > I'm not implying there's anything wrong w/ restricting the bug; just > that pointing users here to it won't get them very far. ;) *I* didn't point anyone to that bug, as I knew it was lo

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:02:29 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because I was giving a one line summary, rather than a description > > of the full change. The full description has been discussed > > elsewhere several times. > > I don't remember any discussion about this, so a more s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-lang/ruby-cvs

2007-04-13 Thread Doug Goldstein
Hans de Graaff wrote: > dev-lang/ruby-cvs builds the latest Ruby 1.9.x version from CVS. > Except... upstream has moved to SVN, so this ebuild no longer works. It's > now masked and will be removed in 30 days. > Is there any point in waiting 30 days? Since the ebuild just doesn't work because

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2007.0 release

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Alex Tarkovsky wrote: On 4/13/07, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 21:16 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > I'm not implying there's anything wrong w/ restricting the bug; just > that pointing users here to it won't get them very far. ;) *I* didn't point anyone to that b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-lang/ruby-cvs

2007-04-13 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Doug Goldstein wrote: Hans de Graaff wrote: dev-lang/ruby-cvs builds the latest Ruby 1.9.x version from CVS. Except... upstream has moved to SVN, so this ebuild no longer works. It's now masked and will be removed in 30 days. Is there any point in waiting 30 days? Since the ebuild j

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:33:09 +0100: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:06:44 -0400 > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > If a test suite isn't viable, the ebuild should be RESTRICTing test >> > anyway. >> >> which do

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 April 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:02:29 +0200 > > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Because I was giving a one line summary, rather than a description > > > of the full change. The full description has been discussed > > > elsewhere several times.

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 April 2007, Daniel Ostrow wrote: > 1). Even though src_test is not mandatory in the here and now any > package that provides a test suite that fails said tests has a bug. It > may not be a critical bug but it is in fact a bug. > > 2). The proper fix, again in the here and now, for said

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:06:44PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > which doesnt apply here ... some packages have ridiculous awesome coverage > for > their source code and take much longer to run than even compile the package Furthermore, there are packages with testcases where if you want them, y

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: dev-lang/ruby-cvs

2007-04-13 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:49:05 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Hans de Graaff wrote: >> dev-lang/ruby-cvs builds the latest Ruby 1.9.x version from CVS. >> Except... upstream has moved to SVN, so this ebuild no longer works. >> It's now masked and will be removed in 30 days. >> >> > Is there any po

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > What, you're saying they all ship with test suites that exist but don't > work? anything that takes more than 10m to test is broken from an user point of view: you want the application, not having it tested. I'd rather keep it in features since tests are _optional_, not n

[gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] RFC - Keywording scheme

2007-04-13 Thread Steve Long
Fabian Groffen wrote: > This GLEP has been laying around for some long time now in my gleps dir. > I nearly forgot about it. Anyway, feedback is appreciated. > Since it is "a keywording scheme that is compatible with the scheme that is currently in use" and fulfils all the requirements, it sounds

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: April Council meeting summary

2007-04-13 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> It's not such a big deal in practise is it? > > Yes, it is. It's a change in workflow, and it at least doubles the > amount of work for each commit. > do what? if it's so tricky write a script.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Saturday 14 April 2007 18:14:48 Luca Barbato wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > What, you're saying they all ship with test suites that exist but don't > > work? > > anything that takes more than 10m to test is broken from an user point > of view: you want the application, Indeed, but speaking

[gentoo-dev] Re: April Council meeting summary

2007-04-13 Thread Steve Long
Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote: > I'd say Ciaran has to have write access to any such repository, > as one of the main contributors. > Face it, he's never going to get write access to gentoo infra. The best gentoo can give him is access via spb, who has made it clear he'll simply be pulling in wh

[gentoo-dev] OT: was 2007.0 release

2007-04-13 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, Tempted by this recent thread, wanna just voice my thoughts. Can't there be some way (GWN, Bug, some general-purpose IRC channel etc.) on which users could at least be informed that work is under way to release 2007.0, with some kind of feedback. Releng could just choose to ignore it at all, bu

[gentoo-dev] Deps (was Re: Empty DEPEND strings in virtuals)

2007-04-13 Thread Steve Long
Petteri Räty wrote: > We should link this info to the devmanual. Yeah that was v. instructive. Since there's only 3 ebuilds left with the old syntax, the obvious question is: is there anything else holding up impl of the GLEP? Also, would the preferred syntax be open to usage in eg recommended de