RE: [gentoo-dev] Adding support to metadata.xml to mark longdescriptions as outdated

2005-10-19 Thread Eric Brown
I think someone in the documentation herd (Xavier Neys?) has a system for this in place for regular documents, but it's probably not used for metadata files yet. -Original Message- From: Petteri Räty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:59 PM To: gentoo-dev@list

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Eric Brown
I think Brian is right, we should stick to being constructive. Let's start an enterprise project on Gentoo.org Goals: 1) provide documentation on existing tools and practices for business/enterprise users. 2) try to enhance the set of tools to build a comprehensive framewor

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Eric Brown
>On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:04 -0400, Eric Brown wrote: >> >> Interesting thread. I have used Gentoo in enterprise situations very >> successfully, and I think the whole QA/live-tree argument is moot. In >> an enterprise environment, you might have a backup/tes

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Eric Brown
Interesting thread. I have used Gentoo in enterprise situations very successfully, and I think the whole QA/live-tree argument is moot. In an enterprise environment, you might have a backup/testing machine to run your updates on first before they went live. You also wouldn't run new packages u

RE: [gentoo-dev] init script guidelines

2005-07-19 Thread Eric Brown
Not everyone can patch them, more people would be capable of writing half-baked hacks that resolve most of the issues. Anyway I guess the new baselayout sounds promising here. > My point is that Snort and Apache are not alone in this, so I suppose > quite a few upstream developers just disagree w

RE: [gentoo-dev] init script guidelines

2005-07-19 Thread Eric Brown
A few responses: (Please forgive the lack of normal formatting) 1) To Chris Gianelloni I really do agree that it's silly for a daemon to lie about it's initialization status. However, after actually haven taken some of these issues upstream (in particular Apache 1.3). I realized that the upstre

[gentoo-dev] init script guidelines

2005-07-19 Thread Eric Brown
Services that use Gentoo init scripts often report a status of [started] or[OK] even though they fail to start.  The most recent bug like this that I'vefound is with snort.  If you have a bad rule, snort will initialize, therc-scripts will give it an [OK] status, and then it will die once it