Re: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES to cut the excess in portage

2006-11-05 Thread Brian Jackson
Look into INSTALL_MASK. --Brian Jackson On Nov 5, 2006, at 12:02 PM, John Jawed wrote: Two patches which allow a user to bypass files created with doman and dodoc in FEATURES: FEATURES="noman nodoc" emerge -av foo http://jawed.name/dev/gentoo/nodoc.patch http://jawed.name/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Developer retirement

2006-10-16 Thread Brian Jackson
Or better yet, get the hint that someone was making fun of you for bitching about someone else's top posting when you replied to the wrong list. --Iggy On Oct 16, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Jakub Moc wrote: Andrej Kacian napsal(a): Fix your mail client, and don't lay the b

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42?

2006-10-11 Thread Brian Jackson
On Oct 11, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Zac Medico wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stuart Herbert wrote: Whatever happened to the work to implement GLEP 42? Is there anyone actively working on this atm? It's been on my todo list, but I haven't gotten around to it yet due to othe

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints

2006-01-07 Thread Brian Jackson
You could handle it the way the baselayout ebuild does. --Iggy Stefaan wrote: Hi! I'm having an issue with the openafs-ebuild, and I don't see a solution for the moment. I wondered if someone on the list would: Prerequisite: The ebuild needs to create the /afs directory, and remove that same

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Say no to static libraries!

2005-09-23 Thread Brian Jackson
Ervin Nemeth wrote: I've got no full solution. The EXTRA_ECONF way works only for automake packages. Using INSTALL_MASK='*.a' makes me really, really terrified if I think about sys-devel/gcc. /Ervin Solar had a nifty per package INSTALL_MASK in his bashrc at one point I think. --Iggy -

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE="minimal" for kernel sources

2005-09-08 Thread Brian Jackson
At one time we had a problem with gentoo sources having way too many use flags and patches which lead to there being an incalculable number of ways that gentoo -sources could turn out. It was a pita to maintain. A pita to troubleshoot. There were weird bugs that we couldn't reproduce easily. Bas

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild design issue regarding some {I need the lib and api only}-DEPENDs

2005-08-18 Thread Brian Jackson
Use INSTALL_MASK to keep /usr/bin/mysqld or whatever from getting installed. We aren't generally in the habit of splitting packages into a bunch of different ebuilds. There are exceptions, but --Iggy Christian Parpart wrote: Hi all, well, regarding the request on bug 88490 [1] (and my ow

Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting build deps out from depends

2005-07-05 Thread Brian Jackson
Martin Schlemmer wrote: >> >>Big picture here: >>* BDEPEND does nothing now, so don't worry about it if you don't want to >>* in the future it will make other things possible >>* give the man problems you see with the proposal, not just tell him that >>portage doesn't handle it right now... I thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting build deps out from depends

2005-07-05 Thread Brian Jackson
Martin Schlemmer wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 15:59 -0700, Drake Wyrm wrote: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 01 July 2005 12:25 pm, Brian D. Harring wrote: Currently, we pretty much leave out the big dogs of build depends from ebuilds- basically we rely on the profile to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread Brian Jackson
If someone removes something that belongs to me, software patents or not, I'll be asking for removal of (at the very least) their cvs access. If not, I'll be asking for their total removal from the project. You can have all the views you want on the world. I do. This is a technical project, not you

Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting one source package into many binaries

2005-06-17 Thread Brian Jackson
Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:50:47 -0300 Rafael Espíndola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has someone worked on changing ebuild so that it could create many binary packages from one source? And that's it. Sorry for the long email, writing it made me think of a

Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting one source package into many binaries

2005-06-16 Thread Brian Jackson
Rafael Espíndola wrote: I am using Gentoo to build some small systems. While things like the minimal useflag is a joy, the monolithic nature of most gentoo packages is a headache. Kde has been spit and libstdc++ can be installed without gcc but there are many other packages that don't have this

Re: [gentoo-dev] intention for kde-themes eclass

2005-06-13 Thread Brian Jackson
Chris White wrote: > Here's the nitty gritty: > > -- > BACKGROUND > -- > > kde-look.org is a site that hosts various kde themes to change the look and > feel of the kde desktop. > > - > REASONING > - > > An eclass such as this would be benificial to users that w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywording, for the umpteenth time

2005-05-20 Thread Brian Jackson
Jason Wever wrote: > > From my perspective, if a package maintainer asks for testing and the > ability to keyword (i.e. Spanky asking me if it was OK to bump binutils > to 2.16, to which I said yes) then that is fine. However adding or > changing keywords in an ebuild for which you cannot test (

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Brian Jackson
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: >Another useflag-related question. > >Currently, the encode useflag is defined as follow: > >encode - Adds support for MEncoder or LaME encoder, wherever applicable > >this is a loose definition which is quite useless for medium user, as it's >used also in a non-c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Using OpenAFS volumes as storage for various portage directories

2005-05-09 Thread Brian Jackson
Kevin wrote: > > >Does anyone have any thoughts to share on: > >a) general advisability of this (seems like a good thing to me---lots of >savings on space across machines, oafs has a good authentication system in >kerberos, seems better to me than running a local rsync server alone and also >be

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-06 Thread Brian Jackson
Brian Harring wrote: >On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > >>On Thu, 5 May 2005 03:48:49 -0500 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>wrote: >>| > Ok, here's the main issue. Simply changing prefix isn't enough to >>| > automatically make every package in the tree wor

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Jackson
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 21:48 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: > > > If you want some package manager > > for your solaris/x86 box(just an example!), go talk to the people that > > do openembedded. > > Clarify why portage, which _does_ function as a secondary pkg manager > (collision-protect wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Jackson
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 20:58 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Brian Jackson wrote: > > Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > > > > > >>Hi ebuild devs, > >> > >>Here's a glep draft now for

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Jackson
Michael Haubenwallner wrote: >Hi ebuild devs, > >Here's a glep draft now for (a part of) the long-term portage-goal >"act as a secondary package manager" ... > >Comments welcome, > haubi > > It's fancy, but what about ROOT? You don't like it just because you'd have /usr/local/usr/bin/foo? --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel Sources on the DISTFILES mirrors

2005-04-25 Thread Brian Jackson
You know about the local mirror type in /etc/portage/mirrors right? Well, that file could probably be used by you in many ways. Check it out. --Iggy Carlos Silva wrote: >Hi guys, >since the change of the eclass kernel-2 to make it use the subversion >kernel patches that we no longer keep the ker

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-www/apache testing request (marking stable anytime soon)

2005-04-10 Thread Brian Jackson
How about not breaking apache? I was a little beyond pissed when I had to sit there for 2 hours trying to figure out why my apache was broken, and who was going to get put on my list of being kicked in the junk. Just for some stupid config file changes. I find it very hard to believe you guys could