[gentoo-dev] Adding a program to portage, powstatd to be exact.

2007-01-07 Thread Dale
Hi, I have been trying to do this with other programs. It seems every time I turn around though it is not working like it should. I used powstatd back when I was using Mandrake. It is really small, easy to set up, and it works very well. I recently found out that nut does not work like I thoug

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Michael Sullivan wrote: I would like to help with coding/debugging packages for Gentoo. I have some programming experience on a very small scale. I have an Associates of Computer Science from a small community college, and I've never had a job working for a software company. You spode of "good

Re: [gentoo-dev] Somewhat OT - Making a suggestion for games-emulation/tuxnes

2007-01-07 Thread Alec Warner
Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Anyway, for people like me who have the X flag enabled and might > accidentally hit the escape key and lose their progress in the game, I > downloaded the source code of tuxnes-0.75 and commented out all the code > segments responsible for that ESC/"quit tuxnes" behavio

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Alec Warner
Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 22:56 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:52:04 -0600 Michael Sullivan >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> | > I have been doing most recruits lately. There has always been a >> | > steady flow of good people wanting to become devs so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Somewhat OT - Making a suggestion for games-emulation/tuxnes

2007-01-07 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Michael Sullivan wrote: I hope this is the right place for this, or at least the right place to No, not really. write/edit ebuilds yet. Do I even submit them to Gentoo's bugzilla, or should I paddle upstream with them? What should I do? This isn't a bug so much as a behavior that you just

[gentoo-dev] Somewhat OT - Making a suggestion for games-emulation/tuxnes

2007-01-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
I hope this is the right place for this, or at least the right place to start. Feel free to flame me if it's not. This question relates to submitting a patch for a Gentoo package. I was running tuxnes-0.75 today. I was playing Final Fantasy 3, which is AFAIK not yet released in the USA (and als

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Luca Barbato
Michael Sullivan wrote: I mean where do I start improving my skills? I've looked at source code from Gentoo packages that was written in C (I know the basics of C) and it made no sense to me. I found the experience quite overwhelming. Is there a place I can start training myself to work on b

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 22:56 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:52:04 -0600 Michael Sullivan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > I have been doing most recruits lately. There has always been a > | > steady flow of good people wanting to become devs so that is not a > | > problem.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

2007-01-07 Thread Bryan Østergaard
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:14:26PM +0100, Ivan Sakhalin wrote: > Dear friends and fellow Gentooists, > > > While the politics around these cases make rational discussion quite > difficult > it is obvious even to outsiders that this is not in the spirit of the > original Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-www/mod_bwshare

2007-01-07 Thread Christian Heim
On Sunday, 07. January. 2007 23:09, Christian Heim wrote: > Dear people (those who care), I just masked net-www/mod_bwshare. > > UPSTREAM modified their webserver, which makes it impossible for wget to > fetch the tarball (while fetching manually still works). Another reason for this is, that the

[gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Raúl Porcel (armin76)

2007-01-07 Thread Ryan Hill
Petteri Räty wrote: > It's my pleasure to introduce to you Raúl "armin76" Porcel. He is > joining us to put maintainer-wanted stuff to the tree and remove stuff > via treecleaners. The teams he targets now are net-p2p, mozilla and > treecleaners. Welcome, Raúl! --

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Seemant Kulleen
> I would like to help with coding/debugging packages for Gentoo. I have > some programming experience on a very small scale. I have an Associates > of Computer Science from a small community college, and I've never had a > job working for a software company. You spode of "good enough skills";

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-www/mod_injection

2007-01-07 Thread Christian Heim
Dear people (those who care), I just masked net-www/mod_injection. This package has a dead UPSTREAM and there are currently better alternatives in the tree. traffic- or IP-based filtering - use www-apache/mod_cband for any other filtering - use net-www/mod_security It is fading away s

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Petteri Räty
Michael Sullivan kirjoitti: >> I have been doing most recruits lately. There has always been a steady >> flow of good people wanting to become devs so that is not a problem. The >> biggest problem is having enough people interested in guiding new people >> and making sure they have good enough skil

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:52:04 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > I have been doing most recruits lately. There has always been a | > steady flow of good people wanting to become devs so that is not a | > problem. The biggest problem is having enough people interested in | > guidin

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-apache/mod_depends

2007-01-07 Thread Christian Heim
Dear people (those who care), I just masked www-apache/mod_depends. This package has a dead UPSTREAM and www-apache/mod_umask is the official successor. It is fading away sometime in February. -- Christian Heim GPG key ID: 9A9F68E6 Fingerprint: AEC4 87B8 32B8 4922 B3A9 DF79 CAE3 556F 9A9F 68

OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
> I have been doing most recruits lately. There has always been a steady > flow of good people wanting to become devs so that is not a problem. The > biggest problem is having enough people interested in guiding new people > and making sure they have good enough skills. I would like to help with c

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-www/mod_bwshare

2007-01-07 Thread Christian Heim
Dear people (those who care), I just masked net-www/mod_bwshare. UPSTREAM modified their webserver, which makes it impossible for wget to fetch the tarball (while fetching manually still works). There are currently those other alternatives in the tree: for apache1: net-www/mod_bandwidth for a

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Raúl Porcel (ar min76)

2007-01-07 Thread Josh Saddler
Petteri Räty wrote: > It's my pleasure to introduce to you Raúl "armin76" Porcel. He is > joining us to put maintainer-wanted stuff to the tree and remove stuff > via treecleaners. The teams he targets now are net-p2p, mozilla and > treecleaners. > > He hails from Barcelona, Spain. His hobbies and

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dodoc default?

2007-01-07 Thread Steve Long
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 02:38, Steve Long wrote: >> well are there any general usage examples? > > dodoc README I deserved that ;) Let me more precise: are there any other general examples of make targets for docs? >> After all, if enough gentoo pkgs do it, it'll become

[gentoo-dev] Lat rites: net-www/mod_fastcgi

2007-01-07 Thread Christian Heim
I just masked net-www/mod_fastcgi (while helping out the apache herd). www-apache/mod_fcgid is a successor of mod_fastcgi, is faster and more stable. It is fading away sometime in February. -- Christian Heim GPG key ID: 9A9F68E6 Fingerprint: AEC4 87B8 32B8 4922 B3A9 DF79 CAE3 556F 9A9F 68E6

[gentoo-dev] Treecleaner removal: net-analyzer/tcpick

2007-01-07 Thread Christian Heim
# masking the following packages for treecleaners and bugs # Pending removal Dec 04th 2006: # #117662 - media-libs/janus # #125491 - net-analyzer/tcpick media-libs/janus net-analyzer/tcpick net-analyzer/tcpick has been removed from the tree on 06 January 2007 and the mask on media-libs/janus got

Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

2007-01-07 Thread Petteri Räty
Ivan Sakhalin kirjoitti: >- Reduce the rules so that things can be done without a week of > discussion for every small idea I have yet to see people refuse written code that has no technical problems so instead of talking about how to implement stuff, go out there and write it instead. >

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Raúl Porcel (armin76)

2007-01-07 Thread Petteri Räty
It's my pleasure to introduce to you Raúl "armin76" Porcel. He is joining us to put maintainer-wanted stuff to the tree and remove stuff via treecleaners. The teams he targets now are net-p2p, mozilla and treecleaners. He hails from Barcelona, Spain. His hobbies and interests are walking, fixing t

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.19 going stable in 1 week

2007-01-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Rémi Cardona wrote: About that bug, has anyone filed anything for it in Gentoo or is it the kind of bug that creeps up anywhere and can look like something else is responsible for it? Now that the problem is understood, it can be reproduced trivially on any kernel and can easily result in fil

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.19 going stable in 1 week

2007-01-07 Thread Rémi Cardona
Daniel Drake wrote: > Actually, 1 week is the best-case scenario, since we have a couple of > minor regressions which need fixing. Additional pressure comes from the > mmap shared page corruption fix, a significant bug which has existed for > at least 3 years. Unfortunately the fix has not been bac

Re: [gentoo-dev] dodoc default?

2007-01-07 Thread Alec Warner
Steve Long wrote: > is it possible for dodoc to do a `make doc' (or whatever the standard is) if > called without any filenames? > > dodoc's purpose is to install files into ${D}/usr/share/doc/${PF} If you want to build the docs for a package, examine the build system for a doc target and run i

[gentoo-dev] 2.6.19 going stable in 1 week

2007-01-07 Thread Daniel Drake
I will be asking the x86 and amd64 arch teams to mark the latest revision of gentoo-sources-2.6.19 stable in 1 weeks time (Jan 14th). This is a 1 week advance warning to maintainers of external kernel modules which are still broken in the stable tree -- fix them, or file new bugs asking for ne

Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] bugs.gentoo.org migration - completed! -THANKYOU

2007-01-07 Thread Seemant Kulleen
I was amazed this morning when I clicked on a bug link in my email, and then clicked over to the browser. The bug page had (gasp!) *already loaded*!! That's amazing, I've never seen our bugzilla do that ever. Thanks infra, corey and GNi -- Seemant Kulleen Developer, Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-de

Re: [gentoo-dev] A reminder about elog/einfo usage

2007-01-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 07 January 2007 11:26, Thilo Bangert wrote: > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Just a heads up that in the coming weeks I'll start checking packages > > that still use einfo for important messages and convert them to elog if > > appropriate. > > whats the policy? when do i use e

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-07 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 1/7/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 06 January 2007 13:32, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:23, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > why not just get rid of the idea of "latest" ? is there a scenario where > > autotools would be inherited but not

Re: [gentoo-dev] A reminder about elog/einfo usage

2007-01-07 Thread Thilo Bangert
Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Just a heads up that in the coming weeks I'll start checking packages > that still use einfo for important messages and convert them to elog if > appropriate. whats the policy? when do i use einfo and when elog? the dev handbook states for einfo: In

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites: app-crypt/cli-crypt

2007-01-07 Thread Charlie Shepherd
Masked at request of rbu's request, on behalf of treecleaners. # Charlie Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (07 Jan 2007) # Pending removal 06 Feb 2007 # Deprecated in favour of its successor app-admin/pwcrypt, # which is already in the tree app-crypt/cli-crypt -- -Charlie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mai

Re: [gentoo-dev] bugs.gentoo.org migration - completed! -THANKYOU

2007-01-07 Thread Daniel Black
> Thanks to myself, kingtaco, ramereth, solar, jforman and cshields for > all playing a part of getting this together so far! > > A special thank you to our sponsor GNi (gni.com) for the hardware. > I hear there will be an article on them in an upcoming GWN. Thankyou all, You've spent many hours

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: dodoc default?

2007-01-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 07 January 2007 02:38, Steve Long wrote: > well are there any general usage examples? dodoc README > After all, if enough gentoo pkgs do it, it'll become a de-facto standard ;) the only way that'd happen is if autotools integrated it as a default target -mike pgpbQUWPybUQt.pgp Descri