Re: [gentoo-dev] Recruitment process is moving back to quizzes

2012-07-14 Thread Ben de Groot
On 15 July 2012 04:46, Peter Stuge wrote: > Markos Chandras wrote: >> understand that quizzes is not an ideal way to "hire" people >> either, but they worked ok for all these years > > I don't know.. Subjectively I don't think they work ok at all, since > I still haven't finished them even after m

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer

2012-07-14 Thread Matthew Thode
On 07/14/2012 09:17 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Matthew Thode > wrote: >> On 07/14/2012 02:49 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: >>> sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer. This is the >>> "preferred" NSS LDAP by RHEL6. I just haven't been using it and >>> haven't b

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer

2012-07-14 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Matthew Thode wrote: > On 07/14/2012 02:49 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: >> sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer. This is the >> "preferred" NSS LDAP by RHEL6. I just haven't been using it and >> haven't been keeping up with releases. I'm only aware of two bu

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:57:41 -0400 as excerpted: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> BTW, any "gentooish" documentation out there on rootfs as tmpfs, with >> /etc and the like mounted on top of it, operationally ro, rw remounted >> for upd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > BTW, any "gentooish" documentation out there on rootfs as tmpfs, with > /etc and the like mounted on top of it, operationally ro, rw remounted > for updates? > > That's obviously going to take an initr*, which I've never really

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Duncan
Canek Peláez Valdés posted on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:29:19 -0500 as excerpted: > If your /usr is in the same partition as /, then udev and systemd > supports your configuration *without* an initramfs. I have it like that > in a couple of servers, and actually I only use an initramfs in my > laptop an

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer

2012-07-14 Thread Matthew Thode
On 07/14/2012 02:49 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: > sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer. This is the > "preferred" NSS LDAP by RHEL6. I just haven't been using it and > haven't been keeping up with releases. I'm only aware of two bugs: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287727 > ht

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Peter Stuge
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > An initramfs it's just now the only supported way (by udev and > systemd) to have a separated /usr partition. Yes sure. I considered separate partitions in the 90s, let's just say that I don't see the problem that many on the internet cry about. Using multiple filesys

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: [snip] > Anyone who tries to argue that initramfs would be good for me to > have on my systems should brace themselves for a mouthful of foul > swedish language coming their way! ;) I don't think anyone has argued it's "good" for anyone. An init

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Peter Stuge
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > Seeing all the trouble some people have taken to make their systems > work with mdev just to avoid having to use an initramfs, I really > wonder how much effort it would have taken the simple task of learning > one step more when updating kernels and switch to use an in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Recruitment process is moving back to quizzes

2012-07-14 Thread Peter Stuge
Hi, Markos Chandras wrote: > We (recruiters) decided to revert back to the quizzes for the > recruitment process. The web application does not work as we expected. I've been considering recruitment for many years and I made my first effort to prepare for recruitment about two years ago, but I hav

[gentoo-dev] sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer

2012-07-14 Thread Doug Goldstein
sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer. This is the "preferred" NSS LDAP by RHEL6. I just haven't been using it and haven't been keeping up with releases. I'm only aware of two bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287727 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234555 One is askin

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using array variables in qt4-r2.eclass

2012-07-14 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:29:59 +0200 Davide Pesavento wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Alexis Ballier > wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:26:58 +0200 > > Davide Pesavento wrote: > > > >> > [...] > >> >> + # backward compatibility for non-array variables > >> >> + if [[ -n ${DOCS}

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Duncan
Graham Murray posted on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:13:56 +0100 as excerpted: > "Walter Dnes" writes: > >> Do you realize this would effectively kill linux in the embedded >> device area? Udev, even without the systemd code, is simply to large >> for embedded devices. > > But surely most embedded de

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using array variables in qt4-r2.eclass

2012-07-14 Thread Davide Pesavento
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:26:58 +0200 > Davide Pesavento wrote: > >> > [...] >> >> + # backward compatibility for non-array variables >> >> + if [[ -n ${DOCS} ]] && [[ "$(declare -p DOCS 2>/dev/null >> >> 2>&1)" != "declare -a"* ]]; th

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-laptop/omnibook

2012-07-14 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # Markos Chandras (14 Jul 2012) # Does not work with recent kernels (#339758) # Does not build (#426542) # Removal in 30 days app-laptop/omnibook - -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE--

[gentoo-dev] Recruitment process is moving back to quizzes

2012-07-14 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dear Gentoo Community, If you are not a recruit, mentor, or wannabe mentor you may stop reading now. We (recruiters) decided to revert back to the quizzes for the recruitment process. The web application does not work as we expected. There are a fe