Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 April 2007, Luca Barbato wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > * Remove automatic directory making for do* > > Why? hmm guess i should have read each item ... this is not something we want to do and i dont recall anyone ever mentioning this change in behavior -mike pgpJHP7H0V6k1.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-12 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > * Remove automatic directory making for do* Why? lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-dev] April Council meeting summary

2007-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
any of the problems it proposes to - a large majority of developers and users prefer the single tree development style that Gentoo has versus many smaller trees full log at the normal place: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20070412.txt -mike pgpNz5XSBwIAO.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/jdbc3-postgresql

2007-04-12 Thread Petteri Räty
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "jdbc3-postgresql" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-java/jdbc3-postgresql-7.3-r1 (masked by: package.mask) # Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (13 Apr 2007) # Use dev-java/jdbc-postgresql instead

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Foundation Mentor

2007-04-12 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hiya Arockiasamy, Thank you for your email and congratulations on being selected for Summer of Code this year. I'm Christel, one of the SoC administrators for Gentoo. I will be e-mailing all accepted students over the next few hours with information. Until then, take care and I am sure we will

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2007-04-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 17:04 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Instead, why not look into reducing the amount of traffic on -core? Actually, the amount of traffic on -core these days has been pretty minimal. In some weeks, the only messages setn are my GWN proofreading requests. Sure, there are sti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2007-04-12 Thread Jim Ramsay
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > If something's supposed to be transparent, it shouldn't be on -core. > And, conversely, if something's on -core, it's not supposed to be > transparent. Opening up -core just makes it harder to handle those > rare cases where things really are required to be restricted. I a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2007-04-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:54:23 -0600 Jim Ramsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I personally prefer the first option here, but others think full > public transparency would be nice, and after ${time_period} most of > the info on -core isn't nearly as 'sensitive' as it is when first > posted. If somethi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2007-04-12 Thread Jim Ramsay
Torsten Veller wrote: > * Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 15:20 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > another one i had mentioned earlier: > > > - a time frame on moving gentoo-core to public archives ... two > > > years ? > > > > I object and hope this is never done. > > Me

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2007-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 April 2007, Torsten Veller wrote: > * Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 15:20 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > another one i had mentioned earlier: > > > - a time frame on moving gentoo-core to public archives ... two years > > > ? > > > > I object and hope t

[gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2007-04-12 Thread Torsten Veller
* Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 15:20 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > another one i had mentioned earlier: > > - a time frame on moving gentoo-core to public archives ... two years ? > > I object and hope this is never done. Me too. What is the motivation for this chang

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Jeff Walter
Mike Frysinger wrote: i'm not going to fix just the path issue, i'm going to do em both in one sweep -mike Well, you won't find me complaining. ;-) -- Jeff Walter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 April 2007, Jeff Walter wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > this package has always sucked ... it needs to be punted for the newer > > one at http://dmitry.butskoy.name/traceroute > > Well, that's a separate subject all together. I'm just talking about > placement of the binary. i'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 April 2007, Timothy Redaelli wrote: > You should (also) fix net-misc/iputils for /usr/sbin/traceroute6 yes > maybe it's better to create a dedicate ebuild for traceroute6? no -mike pgphDuLQKdIMc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Jeff Walter
Rob C wrote: Although Jonathan is correct in pointing out that you can modify the search path, this is not really a valid response... Traceroute is heavily used by many people and therefore I don't think its reasonable to place it somewhere in the file system that a typical user does not have

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Jeff Walter
Mike Frysinger wrote: this package has always sucked ... it needs to be punted for the newer one at http://dmitry.butskoy.name/traceroute -mike :-) Well, that's a separate subject all together. I'm just talking about placement of the binary. -- Jeff Walter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Mike Frysinger ha scritto: > On Thursday 12 April 2007, Jeff Walter wrote: >> I can understand traceroute being setuid, but why put it in /usr/sbin so >> only root sees it? If we only want root to run it, it doesn't need to be >> setuid. It just doesn't make sense for a setuid application to only

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 April 2007, Jeff Walter wrote: > I can understand traceroute being setuid, but why put it in /usr/sbin so > only root sees it? If we only want root to run it, it doesn't need to be > setuid. It just doesn't make sense for a setuid application to only be > directly available to root

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-fs/ext2resize out like a trout

2007-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 April 2007, Timothy Redaelli wrote: > Mike Frysinger ha scritto: > > e2fsprogs has integrated resize2fs now so no point in keeping around the > > old unmaintained ext2resize -> punt > > You should package.mask it for one month it is in package.mask -mike pgp9eum8UJ1ja.pgp Descript

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Rob C
On 12/04/07, Jonathan Adamczewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeff Walter wrote: > > I can understand traceroute being setuid, but why put it in /usr/sbin > so only root sees it? Huh? Just add /usr/sbin to your PATH. $ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin $ traceroute Version 1.4a12 Usage: traceroute

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
On 4/12/07, Jonathan Adamczewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeff Walter wrote: > > I can understand traceroute being setuid, but why put it in /usr/sbin > so only root sees it? That is not a clean solution. Do we have to presume that traceroute has to be used like ifconfig, or is it the real

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Jonathan Adamczewski
Jeff Walter wrote: I can understand traceroute being setuid, but why put it in /usr/sbin so only root sees it? Huh? Just add /usr/sbin to your PATH. $ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin $ traceroute Version 1.4a12 Usage: traceroute [-dFInrvx] [-g gateway] [-i iface] [-f first_ttl] [-m max_

[gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Jeff Walter
I just emerge'd traceroute, dropped back to my normal user, and it didn't run. So, I checked the emerge messages and saw this: * >>> SetUID: [chmod go-r] /var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/traceroute-1.4_p12-r5/image//usr/sbin/traceroute ... [ ok ] ---

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-fs/ext2resize out like a trout

2007-04-12 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Mike Frysinger ha scritto: > e2fsprogs has integrated resize2fs now so no point in keeping around the old > unmaintained ext2resize -> punt You should package.mask it for one month -- Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli - http://dev.gentoo.org/~drizzt/ FreeSBIE Developer, Gentoo Developer, GUFI Staff The

[gentoo-dev] Introducing the proctors

2007-04-12 Thread Wernfried Haas
Hi everyone, Recently the Code of Conduct was established, and it's about time to present the initial team of people working on getting things done: Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) Joshua Jackson (tsunam) and myself. We are currently in the process of bringing in some more people to gain a team that i