Re: [gentoo-dev] recent glibc commit breaks boost on sparc64

2016-09-10 Thread Jeroen Roovers 
On Thu, 08 Sep 2016 18:49:06 -0400
alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote:

> Please submit a full bug report,
> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
> See  for instructions.

See what happened there?


Kind regards,
 jer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/subsurface

2016-09-10 Thread Raymond Jennings 
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Kent Fredric  wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 21:59:10 -0700
> Raymond Jennings  wrote:
>
> > +1.  Any package whose upstream says "don't build this yourself" is
> hostile
> > to open source principles.
>
> That's also an open invitation to fork ;)
>

Oh believe me if I had the time and interest I would do so.  Unfortunately
I don't know anything about subsurface and I have other things going on.

[gentoo-dev] [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: dev-libs/vrb

2016-09-10 Thread Patrice Clement 
# Patrice Clement  (10 Sep 2016)
# Upstream dead. This package tries very hard to outsmart autotools and
# reinvent the wheel by coming up with its own configure script. A complete
# disaster resulting in a gigantic wave of QA errors.
# Masked for removal in 30 days.
dev-libs/vrb

-- 
Patrice Clement
Gentoo Linux developer
http://www.gentoo.org


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[gentoo-dev] Re: Request to update nvidia-drivers to version nvidia-drivers-370.28

2016-09-10 Thread Meino . Cramer 

Hi,

thank you for including the new nvidia-drivers quickly!
Everything is working fine again!

Best regards,
Meino



meino.cra...@gmx.de  [16-09-09 05:28]:
> Hi,
> 
> Linux kernel < 4.7.0 cannot be compiled with nvidia-drivers newer than 
> 367.35-r1.
> Linux kernel >= 4.70 cannot be compiled with nvidia-drivers older than 370.23.
> 
> According to this
> http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Sicherheitsforscher-kapern-HTTP-Verbindungen-von-Linux-3292257.html
> Linux kernels < 4.7.0 are affected by a security bug.
> 
> Unfortunately nvidia-drivers 370.23 has a bug too: Blender (and may be
> other similiar programs) crash when accessing certain funtionality
> of that driver.
> 
> I reported that bug here:
> https://developer.blender.org/T49113
> 
> Due to that a bug was reported to nvidia and they accepted and fixed
> that bug with nvidia dirvers 370.23, which became already available.
> 
> Without that driver all Blender users have to stick with a Linux
> kernel with a security problem or have to quit using Blender...
> 
> Would it be possible to integrate the newest nvidia-driver 370.28 into
> Gentoo so that users of Blender and similiar programs could happily
> switch to Linux kernel >=4.7.0 (4.7.3) ?
> 
> Thank you very much for your help and understanding for a Blender
> freak ! :))
> 
> Best regards,
> Meino