On 03/28/2011 08:51 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> # Samuli Suominen (28 Mar 2011)
> # Masked for QA.
> # Not installable for almost an year now wrt bugs #326613,
> # #284921, #315411, #316515. Other minor bugs, #336126.
> # Removal in 30 days.
> sci-libs/openfoam-kernel
> sci-libs/openfoam-meta
> s
# Samuli Suominen (28 Mar 2011)
# Masked for QA.
# Not installable for almost an year now wrt bugs #326613,
# #284921, #315411, #316515. Other minor bugs, #336126.
# Removal in 30 days.
sci-libs/openfoam-kernel
sci-libs/openfoam-meta
sci-libs/openfoam-solvers
sci-libs/openfoam-utilities
sci-libs/o
On 03/25/2011 14:30, Mike Frysinger wrote:
for people who dont have a key yet:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=6
for people interested, bugs to get repoman extended to make the gpg
process smoother:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/360459
http://bugs.gentoo.org/36046
On 17:34 Sun 27 Mar , Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 02:55:14 +0530
> Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> > If we launch gstats *today*, it'll take us at least a long time before
> > we get decent numbers, and even after that, those numbers will be
> > biased towards those people who are really
On 02:39 Mon 28 Mar , Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> Where did this come from? My entire argument was based around the fact
> that unmaintained packages that may or may not be broken fundamentally
> constitute a *bad* experience for the user. If we cannot guarantee
> that bugs for a package will be
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed
from the tree, for the week ending 2011-03-27 23h59 UTC.
Removals:
net-im/silc-plugin 2011-03-21 15:07:36 signals
media-libs/libdjconsole 2011-03-22 18:18:36 ssuominen
x11-misc/talik
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:12:10AM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> 3) Rely on an existing key list somewhere distributed in portage; the list
> file with the key id's (not the keys themselves) is signed with a master key.
> Is a mediocre and potentially insecure workaround.
> Pros: you can exac
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:12:10AM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> 3) Rely on an existing key list somewhere distributed in portage; the list
...
> Cons: Mainly that the key id is a pretty short hash afaik.(Any
> better-informed
> people around?)
You can use the long-format key IDs if you wan
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:04:56 -0500
Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> > this is especially important for the people doing arch keywording
> > since they make a ton of commits. i'm looking at you armin76.
>
> One thing I don't get amidst this whole conversation is why I should
> sign a Manifest file when
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 02:55:14 +0530
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> The current problem is burnt-out or semi-active devs who commit
> occasionally, but aren't able to help with any herd-related work
> because they're out of touch. As such, their presence in the team
> gives a false indication of strengt
> KDE really needs to step up and get KDE 4.6.x stabilization bug open,
> and this non-issue would become moot ;-)
True, we'd also have a new stable KDE rather sooner than later. It's only
limited fun if upstream considers your stable version dead. :|
4.6.0 looked OK for a .0 release, some regre
On 03/24/2011 04:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
this is especially important for the people doing arch keywording
since they make a ton of commits. i'm looking at you armin76.
One thing I don't get amidst this whole conversation is why I should
sign a Manifest file when committing KEYWORDS or
On 03/28/2011 12:32 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Rémi Cardona wrote:
>> Le 27/03/2011 10:36, Samuli Suominen a écrit :
>>> Also, both udisks and upower now have blockers for sys-apps/hal to
>>> prevent overlapping features.
>>
>> I know you want to kill HAL with a ve
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Colleen Josephson wrote:
> I had a question related to the amd64 minimal livecd.
> I was not sure of the appropriate mailing list, so please forgive & redirect
> if this is the wrong one.
you probably want the gentoo-catalyst mailing list
-mike
I had a question related to the amd64 minimal livecd.
I was not sure of the appropriate mailing list, so please forgive & redirect
if this is the wrong one.
What exactly is happening at the "Unpacking firmware" stage of the boot
process?
Is there a way to find out exactly what firmware is being lo
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Le 27/03/2011 10:36, Samuli Suominen a écrit :
>> Also, both udisks and upower now have blockers for sys-apps/hal to
>> prevent overlapping features.
>
> I know you want to kill HAL with a vengeance. I don't disagree with the
> ultimate goal bu
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:25 AM, David Abbott wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Christopher Head wrote:
>>
>> --- metadata.xml 22 Mar 2009 02:35:03 - 1.5
>> +++ metadata.xml 27 Mar 2011 20:46:54 -
>> @
Am 27.03.2011 22:44, schrieb Rich Freeman:
> We shouldn't be punishing people for not becoming developers. I don't
> want to use a distro that throws up warning messages every few months
> because some package I've been using had its developer retire, and I'm
> a developer. If it breaks and I car
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Alec Warner wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> Sure, that's the history. But what made sense back then doesn't make
>> sense now. Back then we didn't have 600+ packages that no one
>> maintains, and whose bugs go almost entirely u
Le 27/03/2011 10:36, Samuli Suominen a écrit :
> Also, both udisks and upower now have blockers for sys-apps/hal to
> prevent overlapping features.
Samuli,
I know you want to kill HAL with a vengeance. I don't disagree with the
ultimate goal but I think you've gone too far.
HAL and u{power,disks
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> It's really simple:
>>
>> (a) If the package has plenty of users, there should be no problems
>> finding a maintainer or a proxy-maintainer.
>
> Uh, I guess that's why we are flooded
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Christopher Head wrote:
>
> --- metadata.xml 22 Mar 2009 02:35:03 - 1.5
> +++ metadata.xml 27 Mar 2011 20:46:54 -
> @@ -3,7 +3,13 @@
>
> no-herd
>
> - maintainer-nee...
Am 27.03.2011 22:47, schrieb Nirbheek Chauhan:
> --- metadata.xml 22 Mar 2009 02:35:03 - 1.5
> +++ metadata.xml 27 Mar 2011 20:46:54 -
> @@ -3,7 +3,13 @@
>
>no-herd
>
> -maintainer-nee...@gentoo.org
> + Christopher Head
> + hea...@gentoo.org
That sho
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Christopher Head wrote:
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> On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:30:16 -0500
> Jeremy Olexa wrote:
>
>> The tree has 679 m-n packages.
>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml
>
> I want to proxy-ma
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> It's really simple:
>
> (a) If the package has plenty of users, there should be no problems
> finding a maintainer or a proxy-maintainer.
Uh, I guess that's why we are flooded with people wanting to be
devs... There are lots of high-use
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On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:30:16 -0500
Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> The tree has 679 m-n packages.
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml
I want to proxy-maintain app-misc/pwsafe. It hasn't been updated in six
years, but it stil
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Alec Warner wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan
>> wrote:
>>> Just start removing old[1] maintainer-needed packages. If people
>>> complain, tell them to start maintaining it. If
# Diego E. Pettenò (27 Mar 2011)
# Last release in 2006, nobody looking after it.
# Pending removal on 2011-04-27
app-text/ssddiff
# Diego E. Pettenò (27 Mar 2011)
# Abandoned project of mine. Nothing really use it.
# Pending removal on 2011-04-27
app-text/mxml2man
# Diego E. Pettenò (27 Mar 2
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Alec Warner wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> Just start removing old[1] maintainer-needed packages. If people
>> complain, tell them to start maintaining it. If they continue to
>> complain, ignore them. As tree-cleaner, you ha
On 03/04/2011 11:33 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
Hello all, This email is to solicit concerns or thoughts about removing
the .lzma portage snapshots.
The facts:
- Starting on 2011-03-03, I enabled .xz compression on snapshots that
Gentoo makes available[1].
- On 2011-01-05, Mike added[2] .xz support
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
>> On 03/27/2011 02:47 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>>> If you prohibit people from doing that, they'll just commit it
>>> normally, and then remove themselves a week later.
>>
>> Why do
On 03/27/2011 09:08 AM, René 'Necoro' Neumann wrote:
If you cannot find someone else as a maintainer and someone is willing
to proxy me, I'd take dev-vcs/stgit: I use it on a daily basis (though
% cvs di
Index: metadata.xml
===
R
On Mar 27, 2011 11:01 AM, "Tomáš Chvátal" wrote:
> And how exactly you want to track the level of failure for the package?
> Since nobody is watching them already we usually don't know how much
> they fail until somebody tries to emerge them from dev team or notify QA
> by adding as CC to bug...
On 27/03/11 16:50, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:34 AM, justin wrote:
>> So I need one last hint, how to correct following correctly?
>>
>>
>> #if defined (HAVE64) && !defined(AJ_MACOSXLF) && !defined(AJ_HPUXLF) &&
>> !defined(AJ_FreeBSDLF) && !defined(AJ_AIXLF)
>>struct di
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:09:09 +0530
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 01:17:46PM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> >> I propose that we should be more aggressive about package.masking (for
> >> removal) all maintainer-nee
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:05:20 +0530
Armaan wrote:
> ABOUT ME:
> i know about
>
> [...]
>
> I have a personality of a creative explorer, i always seek knowledge.
Then I suggest you take a guide on caps lock use.
--
Best regards,
Michał Górny
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Dne 27.3.2011 15:44, Rich Freeman napsal(a):
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
>> On 03/27/2011 02:47 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
On 03/26/2011 12:52 AM, Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote:
>>> I propose that we should be more agg
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Armaan wrote:
> i am syed armani and i am willing to participate in the gentoo development
> process via GSOC-2011
> i am a computer science student, 3rd year at DCE,NCR,INDIA
gentoo-...@gentoo.org is the mailing list for GSoC
-mike
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:34 AM, justin wrote:
> So I need one last hint, how to correct following correctly?
>
>
> #if defined (HAVE64) && !defined(AJ_MACOSXLF) && !defined(AJ_HPUXLF) &&
> !defined(AJ_FreeBSDLF) && !defined(AJ_AIXLF)
> struct dirent64 *dp;
> #else
> struct dirent *dp;
> #en
hello friends,
i am syed armani and i am willing to participate in the gentoo development
process via GSOC-2011
i am a computer science student, 3rd year at DCE,NCR,INDIA
i want to work in Virtual Machine Builder (website or desktop client)project:
i have already tried its basic things..i create
So I need one last hint, how to correct following correctly?
#if defined (HAVE64) && !defined(AJ_MACOSXLF) && !defined(AJ_HPUXLF) &&
!defined(AJ_FreeBSDLF) && !defined(AJ_AIXLF)
struct dirent64 *dp;
#else
struct dirent *dp;
#endif
#if defined (HAVE64) && !defined(AJ_MACOSXLF) && !defined
# Samuli Suominen (27 Mar 2011)
# Orphaned library with bad habit of spreading around the system from
libtool's
# files. Not used by anything in tree. If you have problems after removal,
# look into using lafilefixer or revdep-rebuild.
# Removal in 30 days.
dev-libs/eggdbus
Am 27.03.2011 15:30, schrieb Jeremy Olexa:
> The tree has 679 m-n packages.
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml
If you cannot find someone else as a maintainer and someone is willing
to proxy me, I'd take dev-vcs/stgit: I use it on a daily basis (though
only to ma
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn schrieb:
Samuli Suominen schrieb:
Also, both udisks and upower now have blockers for sys-apps/hal to
prevent overlapping features.
The result of this is that KDE and Gnome are now not installable at the
same time on a stable system.
Ah sorry, I was wrong. KDE and
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> On 03/27/2011 02:47 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>>> On 03/26/2011 12:52 AM, Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote:
>> I propose that we should be more aggressive about package.masking (for
>> removal) all maintainer-needed packages from the tree by do
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> On 03/27/2011 02:47 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> If you prohibit people from doing that, they'll just commit it
>> normally, and then remove themselves a week later.
>
> Why does anyone need to *add* a package that is maintainer-needed? This
On 03/27/2011 02:47 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
On 03/26/2011 12:52 AM, Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote:
Index: metadata.xml
===
http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd";>
no-h
Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb:
I propose that we should be more aggressive about package.masking (for
removal) all maintainer-needed packages from the tree by doing that
one month after they become maintainer-needed. If someone doesn't
volunteer to take care of it, it probably wasn't important anyway.
Samuli Suominen schrieb:
Also, both udisks and upower now have blockers for sys-apps/hal to
prevent overlapping features.
The result of this is that KDE and Gnome are now not installable at the
same time on a stable system.
Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote:
>> Is there any article that elaborate my question?
>> My aim is to explain, why Gentoo is much more agile then
>> any other binary distribution when hopping between arches.
>> Lets say we st
FEATURES=digest results in a scary warning and a possibly dangerous
re-generation of manifests at the beginning of every emerge:
* The FEATURES=digest setting can prevent corruption from being noticed.
* The `repoman manifest` command is the preferred way to generate
* manifests and it is capab
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On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 01:17:46PM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
>> > Can this practice of adding m-n packages to gentoo-x86 be stopped? If you
>> > add it, take responsibility for
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 01:17:46PM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> > On 03/26/2011 12:52 AM, Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote:
> >
> >> Index: metadata.xml
> >> ===
> >>
> >> http
USE="hal" is masked in base/use.mask, but unmasked for kde-base/solid
and app-cdr/k3b in base/package.use.mask pending on KDE 4.6.x stabilization.
This is preparation for dropping the uncompressed usb.ids file from
sys-apps/usbutils, which HAL relies on.
Also, both udisks and upower now have bloc
libjpeg-turbo stabilization is happening for amd64/x86 at
http://bugs.gentoo.org/360715
- the gentoo-x86 has been converted to virtual/jpeg to support this.
- we have no bugs reported against the package.
- libjpeg-turbo is default in virtual/jpeg
so just heads up.
# Samuli Suominen (27 Mar 2011)
# Last packages with hardcoded sys-apps/hal depend.
# Upstream has either stopped development, or it's too slow.
# Bugs 313425, 358935 and finally 313389.
# Removal in 30 days.
app-crypt/luks-tools
media-video/thoggen
sys-auth/pam_usb
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> On 03/26/2011 12:52 AM, Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote:
>
>> Index: metadata.xml
>> ===
>>
>> http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd";>
>>
>> no-herd
>>
>> maintainer-nee...@
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