Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe die by default and doins, doman, dodoc warn initially

2006-07-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:41:26 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > if these use doins/man/doc then the should probably check them | > before installing: | > [ -f ${doc} ] && dodoc ${doc} | | dodoc of 30 files of which some might not exists take less runtime | than 30 chec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe die by default and doins, doman, dodoc warn initially

2006-07-12 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 13 July 2006 02:26, Daniel Black wrote: > 4. FEATURES="noauto" ebuild {package}.ebuild install FEATURES=noauto has broken at least two times in different ways with portage 2.1 pre-releases. Same as broke FEATURES=digest and FEATURES=autoaddcvs or whatever that was. I won't rely on th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe die by default and doins, doman, dodoc warn initially

2006-07-12 Thread Daniel Black
On Thursday 13 July 2006 07:36, Steve Dibb wrote: > Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:11:01PM +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > >> Uh... Sorry but it's pretty hard to imagine something more annoying than > >> an ebuild that dies after a couple of hours compile just because > >> ups

Re: [gentoo-dev] Linux World Expo

2006-07-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 10 July 2006 14:38, Joshua Jackson wrote: > So who's planning on going? Basically I'd like to know who's planning > on going. I'm still undecided about it honestly, and if I go it'd only > be for a few days. Its also probably a good way to find a roomate to > make the cost of rooms a bit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-misc/ssh

2006-07-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 09:37, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On 7/11/06, Gustavo Felisberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm removing net-misc/ssh from the tree as Tectia no longer provides a > > "free" version of they're ssh client and server. The last update to this > > package was one year and half

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:46:32 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | It couldn't, but this change isn't being made with a bump. We haven't | been assured those doing the change right now are going to test every | package using doman, dodoc, etc.. Packages will probably start failing | le

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-12 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 14:36, Steve Dibb wrote: > Well, it could happen while testing an ebuild. :) I'd be pretty ticked > if I were testing Qt and I didn't realize they did change the doc files > around before doing a test run. > > Besides that though, imho, a simple function with a boolean re

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:11:01PM +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: >> Uh... Sorry but it's pretty hard to imagine something more annoying than >> an ebuild that dies after a couple of hours compile just because >> upstream decided to rename Changelog.txt to ChangeLog.txt and n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-12 Thread Steve Dibb
Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:11:01PM +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: Uh... Sorry but it's pretty hard to imagine something more annoying than an ebuild that dies after a couple of hours compile just because upstream decided to rename Changelog.txt to ChangeLog.txt and noone

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: xpdf status

2006-07-12 Thread Emanuele Giaquinta
Stefan Schweizer wrote: > > Though if someone is willing to maintain a vanilla xpdf ebuild I'd have no > > complaints. Genstef? > > > I have no complaints either. If there is exg doing the security bumps and > taking care of the upstream version I am supporting it. I would have no problem in doin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-12 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 23:21, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > How could that slip through the initial testing of the ebuild > performed by the developer doing the version bump? I think that is the point, during testing. If I'm testing the version bump of something that takes 2 hours to build, I'l

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-12 Thread Aron Griffis
Jakub Moc wrote: [Wed Jul 12 2006, 05:11:01PM EDT] > Uh... Sorry but it's pretty hard to imagine something more annoying > than an ebuild that dies after a couple of hours compile just > because upstream decided to rename Changelog.txt to ChangeLog.txt > and noone noticed during version bump, or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:11:01 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Stefan Schweizer wrote: | > Jason Stubbs called for consistency .. i.e making doman and dodoc | > also die when nothing the file does not exist. A simple workaround | > in case an ebuild is broken: [ -f xxx ] && dodoc xxx |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-12 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:11:01PM +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > Uh... Sorry but it's pretty hard to imagine something more annoying than > an ebuild that dies after a couple of hours compile just because > upstream decided to rename Changelog.txt to ChangeLog.txt and noone > noticed during version bu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-12 Thread Jakub Moc
Stefan Schweizer wrote: > Jason Stubbs called for consistency .. i.e making doman and dodoc also die > when nothing the file does not exist. A simple workaround in case an ebuild > is broken: [ -f xxx ] && dodoc xxx Uh... Sorry but it's pretty hard to imagine something more annoying than an ebuild

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-12 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Aron Griffis wrote: > Stefan Schweizer wrote: [Wed Jul 12 2006, 01:37:44PM EDT] >> This came up in Bug 138792 [dobin etc. should automatically die on >> failure] > > Since do* would become functions in this case, you'll have to fix the > few ebuilds that use them on the RHS of xargs. > > gre

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] Incomplete IUSE for useflags in {,R,P}DEPEND, SRC_URI etc...

2006-07-12 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2006 15:36 schrieb Jakub Moc: > Danny van Dyk wrote: > > Wrt the pcmcia thing, well not really ebuilds' fault, see > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122868 Yeah, genstef is working on it. > There are already bugs filed for some of the rest, please go fix them > ;) > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defining the Tree: a proto-GLEP.

2006-07-12 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 01:00, Stephen Bennett wrote: > My current idea is to draw up a formal specification of what ebuilds > are allowed to do, and what to assume about the environment in which > they run, as well as defining the formats of everything under > profiles/, metadata.xml files, and ot

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] Incomplete IUSE for useflags in {,R,P}DEPEND, SRC_URI etc...

2006-07-12 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2006 17:00 schrieb Aron Griffis: > Danny van Dyk wrote: [Wed Jul 12 2006, 09:16:30AM EDT] > > > There are 505 ebuilds which are missing use flags in IUSE that they > > use in other places. Much of those 505 violations are a missing pcmcia flag, which i stopped to fix once i

Re: [gentoo-dev] xpdf status

2006-07-12 Thread Simon Stelling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I really would like to see back the upstream version, what do you think? I don't think anybody would mind you putting them into the tree again. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-12 Thread Aron Griffis
Stefan Schweizer wrote: [Wed Jul 12 2006, 01:37:44PM EDT] > This came up in Bug 138792 [dobin etc. should automatically die on failure] Since do* would become functions in this case, you'll have to fix the few ebuilds that use them on the RHS of xargs. grep -r --include \*.ebuild -E 'xargs d

Re: [gentoo-dev] xpdf status

2006-07-12 Thread Emanuele Giaquinta
Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: > On Wednesday 12 July 2006 16:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Guys, > > > > The xpdf version we have currently in the tree is a modified one that > > links to poppler, provided in IRC to genstef by an ubuntu developer (no, > > ubuntu does not use it); now, I can u

[gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-12 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Hi, This came up in Bug 138792 [dobin etc. should automatically die on failure] It needs more discussion on the mailing lists. Some excerpts from the bug: The proposal from Paul Bredbury: "Hi, I propose that the following ebuild commands themselves *die* on failure, because the vast majority of th

[gentoo-dev] Re: xpdf status

2006-07-12 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: > On Wednesday 12 July 2006 16:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I really would like to see back the upstream version, what do you think? > The reason for this was security I believe. xpdf code is embedded in lots > of other packages (see http://glsa.gentoo.org for so

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] Incomplete IUSE for useflags in {,R,P}DEPEND, SRC_URI etc...

2006-07-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:23:06 +0200 Matthias Schwarzott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | IUSE="" # don't put pcmcia here, rather in the ebuilds that actually | support pcmcia That's not legit. An eclass should list all USE flags that it itself uses. Similarly, an ebuild should list all USE flags that i

Re: [gentoo-dev] xpdf status

2006-07-12 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 16:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Guys, > > The xpdf version we have currently in the tree is a modified one that > links to poppler, provided in IRC to genstef by an ubuntu developer (no, > ubuntu does not use it); now, I can understand that having a single > point of fai

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] Incomplete IUSE for useflags in {,R,P}DEPEND, SRC_URI etc...

2006-07-12 Thread Aron Griffis
Danny van Dyk wrote: [Wed Jul 12 2006, 09:16:30AM EDT] > There are 505 ebuilds which are missing use flags in IUSE that they use > in other places. I once wrote a script (attached) to update IUSE automatically. To use it, simply: $ cd games-emulation/xmess $ fixiuse It reports what it changed

[gentoo-dev] xpdf status

2006-07-12 Thread exg
Guys, The xpdf version we have currently in the tree is a modified one that links to poppler, provided in IRC to genstef by an ubuntu developer (no, ubuntu does not use it); now, I can understand that having a single point of failure is desiderable, but I completely disagree when doing this implie

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] Incomplete IUSE for useflags in {,R,P}DEPEND, SRC_URI etc...

2006-07-12 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2006 15:23 schrieb Matthias Schwarzott: > On Wednesday 12 July 2006 15:16, Danny van Dyk wrote: > > Hi all, > While reading your list I have seen pcmcia often. e.g. on my ebuild > v4l-dvb-hg not supporting pcmcia as conditional. A bit digging showed > that linux-mod.eclass co

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] Incomplete IUSE for useflags in {,R,P}DEPEND, SRC_URI etc...

2006-07-12 Thread Jakub Moc
Danny van Dyk wrote: > Hi all, > > thanks to djm's efforts i was just able to scan the whole tree using > qualudis. For a start, i'll attach a list of QA violations on missing > entries in IUSE. As this is a minor change to the ebuilds, I'll go on > and fix all the listed ebuilds myself. > > T

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] Incomplete IUSE for useflags in {,R,P}DEPEND, SRC_URI etc...

2006-07-12 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 15:16, Danny van Dyk wrote: > Hi all, > > thanks to djm's efforts i was just able to scan the whole tree using > qualudis. For a start, i'll attach a list of QA violations on missing > entries in IUSE. As this is a minor change to the ebuilds, I'll go on > and fix all the

[gentoo-dev] Beware of the portage cache!

2006-07-12 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
Hi all. Just a quick reminder that you can only rely on static things in most top-level variables in ebuilds. See http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/portage-cache/index.html for details. For a "real world" example on how to break the cache see http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo