Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev and /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday, September 16, 2011 06:06:35 PM Duncan wrote: > Joost Roeleveld posted on Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:36:27 +0200 as excerpted: > > I agree, I just used this example to explain that it shouldn't be > > necessary to force an initramfs on all users just because there is a > > small group who wants

[gentoo-dev] Re: x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Duncan
Markos Chandras posted on Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:25:07 +0300 as excerpted: >> that would be ideal, and drop "amd64" in the process: x86/x86_64/ >> -mike > > Ok so we will probably have the following multilib options > > * x86(ABI=x86_32{/lib}) + amd64(ABI=x86_64{lib64/}) + > x32(ABI=x32{/libx32})

Re: [gentoo-dev] A big thanks to Matt Turner for his hard work on Gentoo/MIPS

2011-09-16 Thread Stefan Behte
Hi, > Thanks Matt! Thanks, too! :) I've used MIPS before, and might set up an old octane again...so thanks for your effort! :) Greetings, Craig

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-16 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/15/2011 05:20 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > 2011-09-16 01:54:44 Brian Harring napisał(a): >> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 01:21:55AM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar >> Arahesis wrote: >>> 2011-09-15 09:55:08 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a): On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:35:21 +0200

Re: [gentoo-dev] new `usex` helper

2011-09-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 07:30:14AM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 02:06 Fri 16 Sep , Brian Harring wrote: > > Specious argument; the point of controllable stacking was to avoid the > > issue of overlay's forcing their eclasses upon gentoo-x86 ebuilds > > (which may not support those modif

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 15:09:52 Thomas Sachau wrote: > Mike Frysinger schrieb: > > On Friday, September 16, 2011 04:28:24 Stratos Psomadakis wrote: > >> Is a x86/amd64/x32 multilib profile just going to provide toolchain > >> support for x32 binaries (like x86 in a x86/amd64 multilib profile

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Thomas Sachau
Mike Frysinger schrieb: > On Friday, September 16, 2011 04:28:24 Stratos Psomadakis wrote: >> Is a x86/amd64/x32 multilib profile just going to provide toolchain >> support for x32 binaries (like x86 in a x86/amd64 multilib profile), or >> do we want a 'full' x32 profile, where every package is bui

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/16/11 20:32, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday, September 16, 2011 11:06:25 Markos Chandras wrote: >> On 09/16/11 10:58, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: >>> On 09/16/2011 10:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 Mike Frys

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 01:46:49 Duncan wrote: > Mike Frysinger posted on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:18:43 -0400 as excerpted: > > On Thursday, September 15, 2011 17:03:07 Michał Górny wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:33:48 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> > On Thursday, September 15, 2011 16:12:0

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
On 09/16/2011 06:06 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 09/16/11 10:58, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: > > On 09/16/2011 10:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 Mike Frysinger > >> wrote: > >> > PS why not merge all x86 abis into one keyword? because > x86_32 x86_64

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev and /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Duncan
Joost Roeleveld posted on Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:36:27 +0200 as excerpted: > I agree, I just used this example to explain that it shouldn't be > necessary to force an initramfs on all users just because there is a > small group who wants to have an extreme setup. Careful with the "extreme". As you

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:39:48 -0500 > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > >> On 11:36 Fri 16 Sep     , Michał Górny wrote: >> > The question is: where to store such a directory list? >> > >> > Keeping it inside project sources doesn't seem right as it wo

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 11:06:25 Markos Chandras wrote: > On 09/16/11 10:58, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: > > On 09/16/2011 10:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > PS why not merge all x86 abis into one keyword? because > x86_32 x86

Re: [gentoo-dev] new `usex` helper

2011-09-16 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:30:14 -0500 > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > >> > Realistically I assume you're taking the stance "EAPI gets in the >> > way, lets do away with it"- if so, well, out with it, and I'll >> > dredge up the old logs/complaints th

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:42:59 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday, September 16, 2011 11:14:28 Michał Górny wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:39:48 -0500 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > I don't want this in my repo. > > > > By *your* repo you mean dev overlay? Noone forces you to declare > > add

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 12:01:43 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday, September 16, 2011 10:06:07 Michał Górny wrote: > > But doesn't switching mean we're going to hit LFS PITA once again? > > LFS hasnt really been a pain in a long while. but it's something worth > raising on the x32 lists (w

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 04:28:24 Stratos Psomadakis wrote: > Is a x86/amd64/x32 multilib profile just going to provide toolchain > support for x32 binaries (like x86 in a x86/amd64 multilib profile), or > do we want a 'full' x32 profile, where every package is built by default > as x32 code?

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 10:06:07 Michał Górny wrote: > But doesn't switching mean we're going to hit LFS PITA once again? LFS hasnt really been a pain in a long while. but it's something worth raising on the x32 lists (which i'll do) since x32 has native 64bit support (uint64_t == %rax).

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 09:36:32 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > understanding is that it probably makes sense to switch to x32 no matter > what you're using now (x86 or amd64). x32 needs a 64bit processor, so x86 cant go away as it's the only ABI that can run on 32bit processors but for 64bit pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 11:14:28 Michał Górny wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:39:48 -0500 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > I don't want this in my repo. > > By *your* repo you mean dev overlay? Noone forces you to declare > additional paths. i think he meant maintaining masks for pkgs in his repo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:39:48 -0500 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 11:36 Fri 16 Sep , Michał Górny wrote: > > The question is: where to store such a directory list? > > > > Keeping it inside project sources doesn't seem right as it would > > require me to bump and re-release project every time

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/16/11 10:58, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: > On 09/16/2011 10:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 Mike Frysinger >> wrote: >> PS why not merge all x86 abis into one keyword? because x86_32 x86_64 x86_x32 are

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:36:32 -0500 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 15:34 Thu 15 Sep , Mike Frysinger wrote: > > ive converted my system over to x86/amd64/x32 multilib for funs. > > but i can see how some people wont want all three all the time. so > > the question is how we want to make this ava

Re: [gentoo-dev] new `usex` helper

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:30:14 -0500 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Realistically I assume you're taking the stance "EAPI gets in the > > way, lets do away with it"- if so, well, out with it, and I'll > > dredge up the old logs/complaints that lead to EAPI. > > I see EAPI as a nice thing for standardi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev and /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > It may be that this is already sorted on the gnome side, or that all this > talk of gnome-os is simply hot-air, but like I said, I'm a kde user, so I > wouldn't know, tho I'm concerned about its implications for the rest of >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH autotools-utils 1/9] Fix handling whitespace in filenames when looking for .la files.

2011-09-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 21:53 Tue 13 Sep , Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > > 2011/9/13 Michał Górny : > >> --- > >>  eclass/autotools-utils.eclass |    2 +- > >>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > > I don't think sending 9 patches is very use

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 11:36 Fri 16 Sep , Michał Górny wrote: > The question is: where to store such a directory list? > > Keeping it inside project sources doesn't seem right as it would > require me to bump and re-release project every time a directory is > added. Keeping it in separate package which would ne

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 15:34 Thu 15 Sep , Mike Frysinger wrote: > ive converted my system over to x86/amd64/x32 multilib for funs. but i can > see how some people wont want all three all the time. so the question is how > we want to make this available to users at the release/profile level. > > background: x3

Re: [gentoo-dev] new `usex` helper

2011-09-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 02:06 Fri 16 Sep , Brian Harring wrote: > Specious argument; the point of controllable stacking was to avoid the > issue of overlay's forcing their eclasses upon gentoo-x86 ebuilds > (which may not support those modified eclasses) via the old > PORTDIR_OVERLAY behaviour. This is why mult

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, I'm working on a tiny project called install-mask[1] which is supposedly a simple tool to enable/disable INSTALL_MASK. One of its features would be a common list of named locations where users may really want to consider INSTALL_MASK-ing; in a way similar to USE flags (or even instead of r

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle dependencies on protocol headers?

2011-09-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:08:36AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:54:47 +0200 > Micha?? G??rny wrote: > > > This is a build-against dependency, and it's best expressed either > > > by its own BADEPEND, or (because it's apparently now possible, and > > > because otherwise we

Re: [gentoo-dev] new `usex` helper

2011-09-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:00:19PM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 17:29 Wed 14 Sep , Brian Harring wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 02:16:41PM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > On 19:14 Tue 13 Sep , Brian Harring wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:02:28PM -0500, Donnie Berkho

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:18:27 PM Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:00:47PM +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > > See below on the existing udev retry queue that is hiding many of > > > the > > > issues from you. This hidden issues are also negatively affecting > > > boot

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
On 09/15/2011 10:34 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > ive converted my system over to x86/amd64/x32 multilib for funs. but i can > see how some people wont want all three all the time. so the question is how > we want to make this available to users at the release/profile level. > > background: x32 i

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle dependencies on protocol headers?

2011-09-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:54:47 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > > This is a build-against dependency, and it's best expressed either > > by its own BADEPEND, or (because it's apparently now possible, and > > because otherwise we'd end up with six or seven *DEPEND variables) > > by switching to something

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:58:01 +0300 Stratos Psomadakis wrote: > On 09/16/2011 10:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 > > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > >>> PS why not merge all x86 abis into one keyword? because x86_32 > >>> x86_64 x86_x32 are only abis of x86. Also we

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
On 09/16/2011 10:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>> PS why not merge all x86 abis into one keyword? because x86_32 >>> x86_64 x86_x32 are only abis of x86. Also we dont have different >>> keywords for different mips abis (64bit and 32bit o

Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > PS why not merge all x86 abis into one keyword? because x86_32 > > x86_64 x86_x32 are only abis of x86. Also we dont have different > > keywords for different mips abis (64bit and 32bit ones) > > that'd be nice :) Seems even acceptabl

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle dependencies on protocol headers?

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:25:29 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:32:49 -0400 > Matt Turner wrote: > > Often packages depending on X11 libraries will also have to specify > > the X11 libraries' proto packages in DEPEND. This is because the X11 > > library itself #includes files

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:25:12AM +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > I've found that dracut is pretty auto-magic by default and the config file > > doesn't generally need tampering. Most of the options are to NOT load > > modules or to minimize the initramfs size by figuring out what modules are >

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 08:32:17 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > Will the ebuild automatically add all the different modules into the > > /etc/dracut.conf ? > > Please note, I am asking these questions to put my mind at ease and > > hope