Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] IMPORTANT: CVS/mastermirror downtime

2006-12-15 Thread Lance Albertson
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:36:51AM -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: >> So when the shit hits the fan, it *really* hits the fan... > > Ok folks, both machines are back! > > You can resume your commits. > > Many thanks to: > nnewton [of OSL] - for running between his workst

[gentoo-dev] Re: TreeCleaner Meeting

2006-12-15 Thread Alec Warner
Alec Warner wrote: I kind of dropped the ball on our meeting time, so I'll try and say 1800 UTC (6pm for you non-military types). It's in #gentoo-treecleaners (yes with an s!). We will be discussing a new (soon to be as understaffed as ourselves) project Proxy Maintainers, as well as new crit

[gentoo-dev] TreeCleaner Meeting

2006-12-15 Thread Alec Warner
I kind of dropped the ball on our meeting time, so I'll try and say 1800 UTC (6pm for you non-military types). It's in #gentoo-treecleaners (yes with an s!). We will be discussing a new (soon to be as understaffed as ourselves) project Proxy Maintainers, as well as new criteria for package re

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] IMPORTANT: CVS/mastermirror downtime

2006-12-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:36:51AM -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: > So when the shit hits the fan, it *really* hits the fan... Ok folks, both machines are back! You can resume your commits. Many thanks to: nnewton [of OSL] - for running between his workstation and the machines, switching

Re: [gentoo-dev] Big change ideea

2006-12-15 Thread Mike Kelly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marijn Schouten wrote: > 3) security. When installing a package, it only has write access to its > own directory. I'm guessing they do this with ACLs. > > So we have this cool package manager which supports 1) and 2), but not > 3) I think, and they ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Big change ideea

2006-12-15 Thread Patrick McLean
Marijn Schouten wrote: > My conclusion is that they have the simpler solution and also technical > superiority. If you think that GoboLinux has a superior package management solution to Gentoo or any other distro, than just use Gobo. Distribution choice is not an absolute "distro X is better than

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2006-12-10 23:59 UTC

2006-12-15 Thread Lars Weiler
* Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/12/15 07:33 -0500]: > Exactly how does it work? Does it just look for new ChangeLog files? Seems so. Because profiles/default-linux/ppc 2006-12-07 00:43:06 pylon is in the tree for ages, but I added a ChangeLog file last week. Regards, L

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] IMPORTANT: CVS/mastermirror downtime

2006-12-15 Thread Lance Albertson
Lance Albertson wrote: > I'm really sorry about this, but we'll just have to deal with it. Lets > hope this is all we need to do for tonight. So when the shit hits the fan, it *really* hits the fan... As of now, we still have both machines down. Lark is apparently having some odd login issues (I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Big change ideea

2006-12-15 Thread expose
Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > The primary motivation for GoboLinux seems to be to make > it easy to find which files go with which applications.  You already > have that information of course, in /var/db/pkg/.../CONTENTS. Michael Weyershäuser wrote: > Yes, if you come from windows the current scheme i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Big change ideea

2006-12-15 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marijn Schouten wrote: > Alexandru Mincu wrote: > Okay :) flame away > Please, not here. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Big change ideea

2006-12-15 Thread Marijn Schouten
Alexandru Mincu wrote: > Hi all, > I don't know if this has come up before so excuse me if I am repeating. > I recently stumbled upon the following Linux distribution: > http://www.gobolinux.org/ > They have an idea that Mac OS X implemented it when it first came out to > be more user friendly. > T

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2006-12-10 23:59 UTC

2006-12-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 17:23 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > (This is the first-ever report, feedback is appreciated. Thanks to > antarus for writing the core of the script. It tracks actions on > ChangeLog files in the CVS history file to see what happens in the tree. > This email will ideally go