Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduction?

2005-04-27 Thread Jeff Walter
Mike Frysinger wrote: care to post this ebuild somewhere ? we've talked about how we wish we could do something fun with the lcd in #gentoo-mips before, so this might be a nice start :) And here's the point where I brace myself for all the criticism about my first ebuild. I'll take it all in t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduction?

2005-04-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 28 April 2005 12:57 am, Jeff Walter wrote: > I'm building a bit more of interface which handles button presses and such > (forgot your root password?). The framework is built using Perl, but the > actual calls to set LCD text and query button status are handled via some > hacked up cod

Re: [gentoo-dev] How well supported is collision-protect?

2005-04-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 28 April 2005 12:52 am, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Also thinking about again begin using "maketest" you mean "test" ... maketest was renamed a while ago ;) -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduction?

2005-04-27 Thread Jeff Walter
Mike Frysinger wrote: if you're writing an interface which does something cool (like allows you to read / handle the button presses with menus and crap), then i hope you're doing something lower level than perl as a backend that way it can be used with other applications (can you say GLI with a LCD

Re: [gentoo-dev] How well supported is collision-protect?

2005-04-27 Thread Rumen Yotov
Chris Gianelloni wrote: >On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:14 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > > >>Uh, I did not expect such a response. I personally have a whole bunch of >>collisions on my system, most of which man pages. >> >>http://gg3.net/~chutz/gentoo/collisions >> >>I'll see to report them. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduction?

2005-04-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 11:55 pm, Jeff Walter wrote: > I'm also working on a front panel interface that is extensible via Perl > modules what are you trying to do exactly ? if you just want to do splash-type info, then you should try using 'lcdsplash' which i developed on my mipsel Qube/RaQ2

[gentoo-dev] Introduction?

2005-04-27 Thread Jeff Walter
Hey everyone, I've somewhat taken it upon myself to get Gentoo running on the newer Cobalt RaQ's, Qube's, and XTR's. I currently have the kernel patch compiling clean (save 3 warnings) under gcc-3.4.3. I'm also working on a front panel interface that is extensible via Perl modules. Right now

Re: [gentoo-dev] How well supported is collision-protect?

2005-04-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:14 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > Uh, I did not expect such a response. I personally have a whole bunch of > collisions on my system, most of which man pages. > > http://gg3.net/~chutz/gentoo/collisions > > I'll see to report them. My suggestion: Make sure that you've

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT - Finding Linux dev resources

2005-04-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 15:35 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been in talks with a group of folks interested in starting a new > Linux/Debian based company. This new company to be successful will need the > ability to pull off the following: You're going Debian based and you're asking here?

Re: [gentoo-dev] How well supported is collision-protect?

2005-04-27 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marius Mauch wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:37:10 -0400 > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On Wednesday 27 April 2005 08:29 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote: >> >>>- How well is it expected to work? >> >>it's expected to work just fine > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] How well supported is collision-protect?

2005-04-27 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:37:10 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 April 2005 08:29 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > > - How well is it expected to work? > > it's expected to work just fine Most of the time. However, sometimes there are some issues (the xorg move, perl mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] How well supported is collision-protect?

2005-04-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 09:14 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > Uh, I did not expect such a response. I personally have a whole bunch of > collisions on my system, most of which man pages. > > http://gg3.net/~chutz/gentoo/collisions > > I'll see to report them. make sure they arent already fixed ...

Re: [gentoo-dev] How well supported is collision-protect?

2005-04-27 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 27/04/2005-20:37:10(-0400): Mike Frysinger types > On Wednesday 27 April 2005 08:29 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > > - How well is it expected to work? > > it's expected to work just fine > > > - Do you guys expect bug reports about packages with conflicting > > targets, with possible pa

Re: [gentoo-dev] How well supported is collision-protect?

2005-04-27 Thread Hasan Khalil
On Apr 27, 2005, at 20:29, Georgi Georgiev wrote: - How well is it expected to work? We on Mac OS X use it (on our default profiles) to avoid overwriting Apple-provided files and, so far, it's worked great. -- Hasan Khalil eBuild and Porting Co-Lead Gentoo for Mac OS X -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-dev] How well supported is collision-protect?

2005-04-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 08:29 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > - How well is it expected to work? it's expected to work just fine > - Do you guys expect bug reports about packages with conflicting > targets, with possible patches, etc? yes -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] How well supported is collision-protect?

2005-04-27 Thread Georgi Georgiev
On a note, similar to the one about /usr/X11R6, I'd like to ask about collision-protect. - How well is it expected to work? - Do you guys expect bug reports about packages with conflicting targets, with possible patches, etc? -- *> Georgi Georgiev *> You have a will that can be influenced

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT - Finding Linux dev resources

2005-04-27 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 04:20:57PM -0600, Ryan wrote: > Oh yea, and expect to get LOTS of wise cracks such as this below. Just > ignore those. Avoiding getting into whether or not greg is right, it's way OT and doesn't belong on this ml. Off the wall of the forums would be a better location to

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT - Finding Linux dev resources

2005-04-27 Thread Aron Griffis
Guys, The email from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is fishing for developers. It has nothing to do with Gentoo, in fact Debian was mentioned in the email. It's purely using the gentoo-dev ML to reach a list of potential candidates. Please don't respond to the email on-list. Regards, Aron -- Aron Griffi

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT - Finding Linux dev resources

2005-04-27 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 04:20:57PM -0600, Ryan wrote: > Oh yea, and expect to get LOTS of wise cracks such as this below. Just > ignore those. I was not just trying to make a joke, I was serious. If you do not understand how to attract open source developers, or even where they are located at, t

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT - Finding Linux dev resources

2005-04-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:20:57 -0600 Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Oh yea, and expect to get LOTS of wise cracks such as this below. | Just ignore those. You might also find people who top post. Ignore them, they don't have anything useful to say. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, F

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT - Finding Linux dev resources

2005-04-27 Thread Ryan
Oh yea, and expect to get LOTS of wise cracks such as this below.  Just ignore those. Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:35:25PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my questions: 1) How / where do I find and recruit top notch Linux kernel, application and game develope

[gentoo-dev] alpha co-lead

2005-04-27 Thread Aron Griffis
Hi guys, Kloeri (Bryan Ãstergaard) has been doing the lion's share of development and maintenance for Gentoo/Alpha for at least the past year, including building our livecds. Neither of us really wants to be the sole Alpha lead, so this email is announcing that Kloeri and I are now co-leading the

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT - Finding Linux dev resources

2005-04-27 Thread info
Great Ideas! Thanks for the info. I had not thought of the slashdot route. I realize this will be a long slow process and we feel confident that we can raise enough capital to pull it off. Mostly we'll be looking for paid staff with some volunteer augmentation. I suspect we'll want to go with th

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT - Finding Linux dev resources

2005-04-27 Thread Ryan
The old fashion way. Press releases but in the electronic form. One site that comes to mind, slashdot.org. There is no better way to recruit than to advertise on the sites that these people look at. Another would definatly be distrowatch.org. This is where all things concerning distros can be

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT - Finding Linux dev resources

2005-04-27 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:35:25PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's my questions: > > 1) How / where do I find and recruit top notch Linux kernel, application and > game developers? > > 2) How would we best go about soliciting open source developers to help us > out > and what's the be

[gentoo-dev] OT - Finding Linux dev resources

2005-04-27 Thread info
All; First let me apologize if this is the wrong thread to post this request. If I'm out of line let me know (preferrably without flaming me) I've been in talks with a group of folks interested in starting a new Linux/Debian based company. This new company to be successful will need the abilit

Re: [gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

2005-04-27 Thread Brian Harring
Slightly shorter variant... python -c $' import portage, time from itertools import chain, imap target=long(time.strftime("%s",time.gmtime())) - 24*60*60 pdb=portage.portdb for cpv in chain(*imap(pdb.cp_list, pdb.cp_all())): flagged=False try:mtime, eclasses = pdb.aux_get(cpv,[

Re: [gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

2005-04-27 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:02:27PM +0200, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Brian Harring wrote: > > >>>[snip] > >>> > >>> > >>Why you could not use ctime/mtime ? Isn't possible to make a check like > >>you do now but only on a filtered by "mtime" list of ebuild ? > >>A command like this > >># find .

Re: [gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

2005-04-27 Thread Francesco Riosa
Brian Harring wrote: >>>[snip] >>> >>> >>Why you could not use ctime/mtime ? Isn't possible to make a check like >>you do now but only on a filtered by "mtime" list of ebuild ? >>A command like this >># find . -name "*.ebuild" -and -mtime "-7" -or -ctime "-7" >> >> >Actually... nope. :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

2005-04-27 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:17:46PM +0200, Francesco Riosa wrote: > marduk wrote: > > >On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:09:38 -0700, "Imran Sher Rafique" > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > >>I hope this doesn't come across as too much of a rant. > >> > >>Summary > >>--- > >>Is it accepted practice

Re: [gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

2005-04-27 Thread Francesco Riosa
marduk wrote: >On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:09:38 -0700, "Imran Sher Rafique" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >>I hope this doesn't come across as too much of a rant. >> >>Summary >>--- >>Is it accepted practice to allow for changes in an ebuild without >>changing the >>ebuild version number? >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

2005-04-27 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:53:04AM -0700, marduk wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:09:38 -0700, "Imran Sher Rafique" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I hope this doesn't come across as too much of a rant. > > > > Summary > > --- > > Is it accepted practice to allow for changes in an ebuild wit

Re: [gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

2005-04-27 Thread marduk
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:09:38 -0700, "Imran Sher Rafique" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I hope this doesn't come across as too much of a rant. > > Summary > --- > Is it accepted practice to allow for changes in an ebuild without > changing the > ebuild version number? Unfortunately yes ;-). Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel-mod.eclass deprecation and effected ebuilds

2005-04-27 Thread Alastair Tse
On 25 Apr 2005, at 15:51, John Mylchreest wrote: media-video/qc-usb/qc-usb-0.6.0.ebuild Old ebuild, removing from portage. Latest stable uses linux-mod. Thanks, -- Alastair (liquidx) Tse Gentoo Developer. [Python, Bluetooth, PDA, CJK, Dicts] [web] http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/ -- gentoo-dev@gento

[gentoo-dev] Re: why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

2005-04-27 Thread Imran Sher Rafique
Yikes - seems my original mail was truncated due to a '.' on a line by itself. This is what I meant to say ... Regards, Imran Sher Rafique Imran Sher Rafique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed Apr 27, 2005 at 06:09:38AM -0700: > I hope this doesn't come across as too much of a rant. > > S

Re: [gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

2005-04-27 Thread Caleb Tennis
> Is it accepted practice to allow for changes in an ebuild without changing > the ebuild version number? It's a bad practice, but it also saves the end user from having to re-emerge packages which have minor changes in them that may or may not affect them. > Background > -- > After emer

Re: [gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

2005-04-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 09:09 am, Imran Sher Rafique wrote: > Is it accepted practice to allow for changes in an ebuild without changing > the ebuild version number? yes & no ... read the developer policy doc for full details :p http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/ -mike -- gentoo-de

[gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

2005-04-27 Thread Imran Sher Rafique
I hope this doesn't come across as too much of a rant. Summary --- Is it accepted practice to allow for changes in an ebuild without changing the ebuild version number? Background -- After emerging the latest stable ruby (1.8.2-r1), I found that ruby could not find some of its module

[gentoo-dev] Looking for Printing developers

2005-04-27 Thread HeinrichWendel
Hi, Gentoo is looking for new developers maintaining Printing related stuff. If you have experience with CUPS, Ghostscript, gimp-print. xpdf,(...) and Gentoo you may be the right guy for the printing herd. Also take a look at [1]. If you are interested please send a short mail with some back