Re: [gentoo-dev] merging man page documentation into eclasses

2007-06-10 Thread Andrew Ross
Mike Frysinger wrote: > keeping documentation of functions in a separate file (man pages in this > case) > has obvious bit rot problems written all over it, so i'd like to merge the > documentation into the respective eclasses so that the man pages can be > automatically generated +1 Of cours

Re: [gentoo-dev] dont use `which` in ebuilds

2007-03-12 Thread Andrew Ross
Ned Ludd wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 19:15 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Monday 12 March 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> instead, since we require bash for our ebuilds, use the builtin `type -p` >> `type -p` is almost a complete drop in replacement for which ... it does not >> work on bas

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Christian Marie (pingu)

2006-12-19 Thread Andrew Ross
Petteri Räty wrote: > It's my pleasure to introduce to you Christian "pingu" Marie. > He hails from down under. He's living in Australia Does this mean we have an Australian conspiracy starting up? :-) Cheers Andrew signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Linking to Gentoo-wiki from www.gentoo.org

2006-10-03 Thread Andrew Ross
Daniel Ostrow wrote: > Gentoo-wiki does not now nor will it ever get linked to from official > Gentoo media, documentation, or anything else within the www.gentoo.org > namespace... Really? http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060424-newsletter.xml http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/devguide

[gentoo-dev] Linking to Gentoo-wiki from www.gentoo.org

2006-10-03 Thread Andrew Ross
Daniel Ostrow wrote: > Gentoo-wiki does not now nor will it ever get linked to from official > Gentoo media, documentation, or anything else within the www.gentoo.org > namespace... Really? http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060424-newsletter.xml http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/devguide

[gentoo-dev] Delay in approval of new developers

2006-09-22 Thread Andrew Ross
Peter wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:01:02 -0400, Mike Pagano wrote: >> Maybe a recruiting drive to help with the maintenance. A typical >> business brings on new blood and assigns them just that role to free up >> more senior developers for more complicated projects. >> >> New developers should

Re: [gentoo-dev] Group limit for NFS exported file systems

2006-08-24 Thread Andrew Ross
Robert Szentmihalyi wrote: > is there a group limit for NFS exported file systems in recent > kernels? One if my users cannot access directories that belong to a > group he actually _is_ a member of. That, however, is true only when > accessing them over NFS. On the local file system, everything i

[gentoo-dev] Dealing with /var/cache on unmerge

2006-06-09 Thread Andrew Ross
Apologies if this has been addressed previously, but my searches of the Gentoo website, devmanual, forums, and mailing list archives didn't turn up anything definitive. Is there any sort of policy covering how an ebuild should deal with /var/cache during unmerge? The devmanual pages for pkg_