Re: [gentoo-dev] GWN Comments

2006-06-19 Thread Marius Mauch
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:00:19 +0200 Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 07:37 -0400, Caleb Tennis wrote: > > I'd like to propose some form of ability to post user comments to > > GWN stories. I suppose a full blown CMS system would work, > (Ab)using a blog for that mig

[gentoo-dev] Planet Gentoo cleanup

2006-06-19 Thread Steve Dibb
Hi all, Just a quick little note to let you know -- I'm going to be cleaning up the planet gentoo config files for the next couple of days. There's more than a few blogs that are listed that are missing in action, so I'll be sending out e-mails to get updated blog RSS feeds or just ping you f

Re: [gentoo-dev] GWN Comments

2006-06-19 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tobias Klausmann wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Caleb Tennis wrote: >> I'd like to propose some form of ability to post user comments >> to GWN stories. I suppose a full blown CMS system would work, >> but for the ease of time I'm suggesting

Re: [gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database

2006-06-19 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:57 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > I'm currently working on infrastructure for an comprehensive and > detailed source database. > > It is not an replacement for freshmeat (which is good software > index for human users), but an strictly defined database of package > rele

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending Removal of $KV

2006-06-19 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05:00:41PM -0700, infowolfe wrote: > >Kernel headers being the virtual/linux-headers dependency that Georgi > >mentioned. `uname -r` works, but is annoying because you can't build > >for a kernel other than the one you're running. > Which only applies to kernel modules, not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to the way Java packages are built

2006-06-19 Thread Joshua Nichols
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joshua Nichols wrote: > = Background = > > As some might have noticed, Java 1.5 has been package.masked for some > time now. There are a number of issues introduced with 1.5 that have > kept it in package.mask. Please see the Java 1.5 FAQ [1] for more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending Removal of $KV

2006-06-19 Thread infowolfe
On 6/19/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Arek (James Potts) wrote: > If they don't actually build against the kernel, > couldn't/shouldn't they look at either kernel-headers or the output of > `uname -r`? Kernel headers being the virtual/linux-headers dependency that Georgi mentioned.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending Removal of $KV

2006-06-19 Thread Ryan Tandy
Arek (James Potts) wrote: If they don't actually build against the kernel, couldn't/shouldn't they look at either kernel-headers or the output of `uname -r`? Kernel headers being the virtual/linux-headers dependency that Georgi mentioned. `uname -r` works, but is annoying because you can't b

Re: [gentoo-dev] GWN Comments

2006-06-19 Thread George Prowse
On 19/06/06, Tobias Klausmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Caleb Tennis wrote: > I'd like to propose some form of ability to post user comments > to GWN stories. I suppose a full blown CMS system would work, > but for the ease of time I'm suggesting that perhaps we open u

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending Removal of $KV

2006-06-19 Thread Arek (James Potts)
Alec Warner wrote: Georgi Georgiev wrote: maillog: 19/06/2006-11:13:33(+): Alec Warner types Portage currently exports $KV as the current kernel version. We detect this by attempting to mess around with the things in /usr/src/linux (.config, make files, etc...) This is duplicating the

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Changes to the way Java packages are built

2006-06-19 Thread Bob Young
> Some here don't care. That's fine -- for them. It's a bit bigger > than that for me, but they don't ask me to run what is to me slaveryware, > and I won't ask them to give up what is to them "convenienceware". > I certaintly support your right to choose such a standard for yourself, however

Re: [gentoo-dev] GWN Comments

2006-06-19 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Caleb Tennis wrote: > I'd like to propose some form of ability to post user comments > to GWN stories. I suppose a full blown CMS system would work, > but for the ease of time I'm suggesting that perhaps we open up > a GWN section on the forums and post the text of the G

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending Removal of $KV

2006-06-19 Thread Alec Warner
Georgi Georgiev wrote: maillog: 19/06/2006-11:13:33(+): Alec Warner types Portage currently exports $KV as the current kernel version. We detect this by attempting to mess around with the things in /usr/src/linux (.config, make files, etc...) This is duplicating the superb efforts of th

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] i18n project

2006-06-19 Thread Flammie Pirinen
2006-06-19, Jan Kundrát sanoi, jotta: > Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > What about messages output by ebuilds? Are they also going to be > > translated? In that case, how? > > There's no way to provide localized output of einfo/... calls from > ebuild that I'm aware of. Suggestions are welcome :) Is

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Changes to the way Java packages are built

2006-06-19 Thread Duncan
Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:32:58 -0400: > May I ask, because I'm very confused, wtf is freedomware? > > I can only assume you mean oss/free java? As distinct from "freeware", and also known as Free or Libre Software, libre b

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] i18n project

2006-06-19 Thread Jan Kundrát
Paul de Vrieze wrote: > What about messages output by ebuilds? Are they also going to be > translated? In that case, how? There's no way to provide localized output of einfo/... calls from ebuild that I'm aware of. Suggestions are welcome :) Cheers, -jkt -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mo

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Changes to the way Java packages are built

2006-06-19 Thread Duncan
Joshua Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:46:37 -0500: > That being said... one of our users has been working on using GCJ to > this end: > > https://projects.gentooexperimental.org/expj/wiki/GCJ_as_a_JDK Thanks. > As for why this hasn

[gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database

2006-06-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm currently working on infrastructure for an comprehensive and detailed source database. It is not an replacement for freshmeat (which is good software index for human users), but an strictly defined database of package releases and assigned download URLs along with several meta-d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending Removal of $KV

2006-06-19 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 19/06/2006-11:13:33(+): Alec Warner types > Portage currently exports $KV as the current kernel version. We detect > this by attempting to mess around with the things in /usr/src/linux > (.config, make files, etc...) > > This is duplicating the superb efforts of the kernel team and

[gentoo-dev] Pending Removal of $KV

2006-06-19 Thread Alec Warner
Portage currently exports $KV as the current kernel version. We detect this by attempting to mess around with the things in /usr/src/linux (.config, make files, etc...) This is duplicating the superb efforts of the kernel team and of linux-info eclass. As such I would like to deprecate $KV i

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] i18n project

2006-06-19 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Sunday 11 June 2006 13:08, Jan Kundrát wrote: > Sure, translating GCC output is *not* good, but why don't provide > localized version of Portage messages like, for example, those when > Portage complains about unsatisfied dependency? What about messages output by ebuilds? Are they also going to

Re: [gentoo-dev] strict-aliasing rules, don't break them

2006-06-19 Thread Flammie Pirinen
2006-06-17, Harald van Dijk sanoi, jotta: > [F]orce LC_ALL=C to make > that work, unless you want to check for every translation of the > warning. You can also check against current locale’s translation of the warning using gettext(1) or such to extract it. -- Flammie, Gentoo Linux Documentation

Re: [gentoo-dev] GWN Comments

2006-06-19 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 07:37 -0400, Caleb Tennis wrote: > I'd like to propose some form of ability to post user comments to GWN > stories. I suppose a full blown CMS system would work, (Ab)using a blog for that might work > but for the ease > of time I'm suggesting that perhaps we open up a GWN s

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 (News) revisited

2006-06-19 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:19:10 +0100 Stephen Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since GLEP 42's original author and sponsor has left the project, I've > taken it over, and would like to have another go at getting it > implemented. OK, since noone has raised any significant issues with this, I'd

[gentoo-dev] GWN Comments

2006-06-19 Thread Caleb Tennis
I'd like to propose some form of ability to post user comments to GWN stories. I suppose a full blown CMS system would work, but for the ease of time I'm suggesting that perhaps we open up a GWN section on the forums and post the text of the GWN (or perhaps each section) in a new thread each week

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to the way Java packages are built

2006-06-19 Thread Joshua Nichols
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > First off - good work Java Team :) > > On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:39:06 -0500 > Joshua Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [...] Additionally, an environment >> variable, GENTOO_VM, can be used to specify the VM used at a give

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.15-r3 testing for stable

2006-06-19 Thread Philip Webb
060618 Dan Meltzer wrote: > On 6/18/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There is something not quite right about 'testing/stable' as it exists now >> -- no, repeat no, criticism of hardworking developers implied -- : >> might it help everyone if instead we had 'testing/desktop/server' ? >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to the way Java packages are built

2006-06-19 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
First off - good work Java Team :) On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:39:06 -0500 Joshua Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] Additionally, an environment > variable, GENTOO_VM, can be used to specify the VM used at a given > instance. GENTOO_VM should be the name of a VM located > in /usr/lib/jvm. So