Re: [gentoo-dev] New AT

2005-06-30 Thread Homer Parker
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 01:54 -0400, Joseph Jezak wrote: > > Now that I have "minions" (note the plural), it's time to take over > the > world! MUAHAHA. lol > Congrats nixnut, and thanks hparker! :) No problem.. just don't work them /too/ hard ;) -- Homer Parker Gentoo/AMD64 Ar

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Brent Baude (ranger)

2005-06-30 Thread Omkhar Arasaratnam
Tom Martin wrote: >Hi list, > >Brent lives in Rochester, Minnesota, in the US. There he fills his days >working for the IBM Corporation as a Team LEad and Linux Consultant, >where his primary responsibility is to help people port hteir >applications to Linux running on the IBM POWER4, POWER5, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] New AT

2005-06-30 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Homer Parker wrote: > It seems the PPC peeps have done it again, it's with great pleasure > that I announce their newest AT, nixnut. Please give him a warm welcome > to the team. I know JoseJX said he had plenty of work for him, so he > might be

Re: [gentoo-dev] New AT

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Curtis Napier
--- Homer Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems the PPC peeps have done it again, it's with great pleasure > that I announce their newest AT, nixnut. Please give him a warm > welcome > to the team. I know JoseJX said he had plenty of work for him, so he > might be hard to find ;) >

[gentoo-dev] New AT

2005-06-30 Thread Homer Parker
It seems the PPC peeps have done it again, it's with great pleasure that I announce their newest AT, nixnut. Please give him a warm welcome to the team. I know JoseJX said he had plenty of work for him, so he might be hard to find ;) -- Homer Parker Gentoo/AMD64 Arch Tester Operational L

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE 3.4.1 keyworded stable on x86, amd64

2005-06-30 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:07:19AM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: > If you're using monolithic ebuilds (this include all 3.3.x ebuilds) consider > moving to the split ones: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml Don't forget to read the KDE Configuration HOWTO which also helps you a bit on c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Updating the list of non-SPARC herd devs keywording for SPARC

2005-06-30 Thread Kumba
Chris Gianelloni wrote: Arches: MIPS (I just got an Indy and a Challenge S, haven't loaded them up yet) Drop us a note if/when you get these running. If you're up for helping us out on releng stuff, I can provide oodles of info (and ideas) on how we have to do Netboots and my random forays

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:38:32 -0400 Aron Griffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it's more visible, but it doesn't stop the emerge. I > just put DEPEND="$(die)" into an ebuild to test. Something that "works" better (ie., "makes portage stop during metadata caching") is to put a non-zero return

[gentoo-dev] Bugday reminder

2005-06-30 Thread Bryan Oestergaard
Hi all! Next Bugday is saturday July 2. 2005. As usual it will be held in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net. I hope to see lots of participants and that we can solve lots of bugs as usual :) Regards, Bryan Østergaard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Aron Griffis
Dan Armak wrote:[Thu Jun 30 2005, 05:11:10PM EDT] > Instead of 'exit 1', qt_min_version should use die. I use that in > deprange and it does work inside $DEPEND. Well, it's more visible, but it doesn't stop the emerge. I just put DEPEND="$(die)" into an ebuild to test. Here is what happe

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Brent Baude (ranger)

2005-06-30 Thread Tom Martin
Hi list, Brent lives in Rochester, Minnesota, in the US. There he fills his days working for the IBM Corporation as a Team LEad and Linux Consultant, where his primary responsibility is to help people port hteir applications to Linux running on the IBM POWER4, POWER5, and JS20 platforms. While he

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Olivier Crete
On Thu, 2005-30-06 at 15:09 -0500, Caleb Tennis wrote: > On Thursday 30 June 2005 03:01 pm, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > > It seems that portage evaluates disjonction left to right and > > stops on the first match it founds. Thus, if you want want it to > > choose the best matching version,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 30 June 2005 23:36, Aron Griffis wrote: > Dan Armak wrote: [Thu Jun 30 2005, 04:06:03PM EDT] > > > Because the function takes a parameter - the minimal version > > required from which to start the list in the ||. > > Makes sense. > > > Any everyone who thinks functions inside $DEPE

[gentoo-dev] KDE 3.4.1 keyworded stable on x86, amd64

2005-06-30 Thread Dan Armak
Hi all, We finally have a stable-keyworded KDE 3.4.x. Enjoy :-) If you're using monolithic ebuilds (this include all 3.3.x ebuilds) consider moving to the split ones: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml There are no explicit instructions for upgrading from the monolithic to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 30 June 2005 04:42 pm, Caleb Tennis wrote: > On Thursday 30 June 2005 03:36 pm, Aron Griffis wrote: > > See the problem? It didn't exit. That's what will happen if > > a function in DEPEND fails: nothing. Except that yours will currently > > stick this in DEPEND: > > > > !!! erro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Caleb Tennis
On Thursday 30 June 2005 03:36 pm, Aron Griffis wrote: > See the problem? It didn't exit. That's what will happen if > a function in DEPEND fails: nothing. Except that yours will currently > stick this in DEPEND: > > !!! error: qt_min_version called with invalid parameter: \"$1\", > plea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Aron Griffis
Dan Armak wrote:[Thu Jun 30 2005, 04:06:03PM EDT] > Because the function takes a parameter - the minimal version > required from which to start the list in the ||. Makes sense. > Any everyone who thinks functions inside $DEPEND are iffy should > look at deprange() and deprange-dual()... /

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Caleb Tennis
On Thursday 30 June 2005 03:01 pm, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > It seems that portage evaluates disjonction left to right and > stops on the first match it founds. Thus, if you want want it to > choose the best matching version, you should rather sort them in > decreasing order. (At least,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Caleb Tennis
On Thursday 30 June 2005 02:37 pm, Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- wrote: > Why use a function then? Why not just supply a variable in the eclass that > is put in the DEPEND? Because you need to be able to specify what the minimum version of Qt you want is. I suppose we could have 50 variables :

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:01:42 +0200 Thomas de Grenier de Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that portage evaluates disjonction left to right and > stops on the first match it founds. Sure, the above holds only for picking a package to install when the dep is not already satisfied. If a m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 30 June 2005 22:37, Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Caleb Tennis wrote: > > Understandable, but I don't know any other way to do it. The function > > does nothing more than return a list of ebuild versions to make the > > depend happy. It doesn't rely on any

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:33:04 -0500 Caleb Tennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $(qt_min_version 3.3) == "|| ( =x11-libs/qt-3.3.3 > =x11-libs/qt-3.3.3-r1 =x11-libs/qt-3.3.3-r2 > =x11-libs/qt-3.3.3-r3 =x11-libs/qt-3.3.4 ) > It seems that portage evaluates disjonction left to right and stops on th

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Caleb Tennis wrote: Understandable, but I don't know any other way to do it. The function does nothing more than return a list of ebuild versions to make the depend happy. It doesn't rely on anything dynamic. $(qt_min_version 3.3) == "|| ( =x11-libs/qt-3.3.3 =x11-libs/qt-3.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Caleb Tennis
On Thursday 30 June 2005 02:15 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: > it depends on the information that the function acts upon ... > > if the results depend on stuff that is installed (i.e. things in > /var/db/pkg) or env vars the user manipulates (like $SOME_FOO), then that's > bad ... if the results depend

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Caleb Tennis
On Thursday 30 June 2005 01:58 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > I'm no expert on portage, but running random functions in DEPEND sounds > like a bad idea. Understandable, but I don't know any other way to do it. The function does nothing more than return a list of ebuild versions to make the depend

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 30 June 2005 02:58 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Caleb Tennis wrote: > > DEPEND="$(qt_min_version 3.0)" > > or > > DEPEND="qt? ( $(qt_min_version 3.1.2-r2) )" > > > > And the eclass will expand out all Qt3 ebuilds which satisfy the > > statement. > > I'm no expert on portage, but running

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Caleb Tennis wrote: > DEPEND="$(qt_min_version 3.0)" > or > DEPEND="qt? ( $(qt_min_version 3.1.2-r2) )" > > And the eclass will expand out all Qt3 ebuilds which satisfy the statement. I'm no expert on portage, but running random functions in DEPEND

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove app-doc/ebook-*

2005-06-30 Thread Lance Albertson
>> Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote:[Thu Jun 30 2005, 12:40:21PM EDT] >> >> >>> Calculating dependencies - >>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-uitl/kdevelop". I thought we fixed this problem. -- Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager --- GPG Public

[gentoo-dev] RFC: qt.eclass

2005-06-30 Thread Caleb Tennis
(I'd like to hear your thoughts and comments on the matter below before I start the process of changing ebuilds to comply.) With Qt4 entering portage, we are going to start running into a dependency problem with ebuilds that do: DEPEND=">=x11-libs/qt-3.2" Because Qt4 satisfies this depend even

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove app-doc/ebook-*

2005-06-30 Thread Aron Griffis
Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote:[Thu Jun 30 2005, 01:07:35PM EDT] > I did spell it right: > > # emerge -pv ebook-binutils Ah sorry, I misunderstood the problem. Regards, Aron -- Aron Griffis Gentoo Linux Developer pgpk7wJATpoAz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove app-doc/ebook-*

2005-06-30 Thread Joseph Pingenot
>From Wolfgang Illmeyer on Thursday, 30 June, 2005: >already synced twice today, but the error didn't go away... Because of weird caching things that I don't understand (anyone from portage group want to explain?), you likely need to lobotomize portage as described in bug 8335: http://bugs.ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove app-doc/ebook-*

2005-06-30 Thread Wolfgang Illmeyer
I did spell it right: # emerge -pv ebook-binutils Aron Griffis wrote: Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote:[Thu Jun 30 2005, 12:40:21PM EDT] Calculating dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-uitl/kdevelop". Try spelling it right. -- Aron Griffis Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove app-doc/ebook-*

2005-06-30 Thread Aron Griffis
Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote:[Thu Jun 30 2005, 12:40:21PM EDT] > Calculating dependencies - > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-uitl/kdevelop". Try spelling it right. -- Aron Griffis Gentoo Linux Developer pgpFZNEoYXLLd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove app-doc/ebook-*

2005-06-30 Thread Wolfgang Illmeyer
already synced twice today, but the error didn't go away... Mark Loeser wrote: Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote: BTW: # emerge -pv ebook-binutils These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-uitl/kdevelop".

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove app-doc/ebook-*

2005-06-30 Thread Mark Loeser
Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote: > BTW: > > # emerge -pv ebook-binutils > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies - > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-uitl/kdevelop". > > I can't find no dev-uitl/kdevelop... somebody should put that into the > por

Re: [gentoo-dev] Updating the list of non-SPARC herd devs keywording for SPARC

2005-06-30 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:46:31 -0600 Jason Wever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > In the past, a few folks that aren't part of the SPARC herd had > communicated that they had the ability to actually test packages on > SPARC hardware and been giving the blessing of the SPARC team to > keywor

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove app-doc/ebook-*

2005-06-30 Thread Wolfgang Illmeyer
BTW: # emerge -pv ebook-binutils These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-uitl/kdevelop". I can't find no dev-uitl/kdevelop... somebody should put that into the portage tree ;) Wolfgang Mike Frysinger wrot

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove app-doc/ebook-*

2005-06-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 30 June 2005 08:31 am, José Alberto Suárez López wrote: > i think that all the ebook-* ebuilds must be removed. Is more easy to > dowload the ebooks from the official web. i dont see how downloading/unpacking/moving files around is easier than `emerge ebook-blah` do you have a reason

Re: [gentoo-dev] Updating the list of non-SPARC herd devs keywording for SPARC

2005-06-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 21:46 -0600, Jason Wever wrote: > Please contact me privately if you are missing from this list but have > notified the SPARC team in the past about an ability to keyword or if > you need to update what information is on the list. I am doing this on-list simply to make things

[gentoo-dev] remove app-doc/ebook-*

2005-06-30 Thread José Alberto Suárez López
Hi, i think that all the ebook-* ebuilds must be removed. Is more easy to dowload the ebooks from the official web. somebody want to maintain this ebuilds for a good reason? regards signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] New virtual: virtual/pcmcia

2005-06-30 Thread Ned Ludd
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:48 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 11:18 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > > For this to work, a new package called pcmciautils [1] will need to be > > added to portage. Therefore, a new virtual/pcmcia (which will default to > > sys-apps/pcmcia

Re: [gentoo-dev] New virtual: virtual/pcmcia

2005-06-30 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 11:18 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > For this to work, a new package called pcmciautils [1] will need to be > added to portage. Therefore, a new virtual/pcmcia (which will default to > sys-apps/pcmcia-cs in base/virtuals for now) will be added as well. ... and it is don