Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 16 June 2006 05:03, Mike Frysinger wrote: > nss is glibc-only, so such a solution would be inadequate Actually this is one of the strange and rare cases that's not only glibc's. FreeBSD can use nss too :) -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Al

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Forums Staff : NeddySeagoon

2006-06-16 Thread George Prowse
On 15/06/06, Curtis Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shyam Mani wrote:> Hi everyone,>> Please take a moment to welcome our latest addition to the Forums gang,> Roy Bamford aka NeddySeagoon.Thanks for volunteering your time Roy, we will all benefit from your extensive knowledge and your patience wi

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-06-16 Thread Duncan
Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:39:35 -0400: > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 19:18 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote: >> Hi Kevin, >> >> On 6/15/06, Kevin F. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I read the "should" as >> > implying that a

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 21:36 -0400, Mike Kelly wrote: > Hi, > > As part of my original plans for my GLEP27 implementation, I was > going to have my scripts automatically add the users requested by a > package (for example, the cron user), to all the passwd backends > listsed in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-16 Thread Grant Goodyear
Mike Kelly wrote: [Thu Jun 15 2006, 08:36:25PM CDT] > As part of my original plans for my GLEP27 implementation, I was > going to have my scripts automatically add the users requested by a > package (for example, the cron user), to all the passwd backends > listsed in /etc/nsswitch.conf. However, i

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-16 Thread Mike Kelly
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:16:52 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 16 June 2006 05:03, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > nss is glibc-only, so such a solution would be inadequate > Actually this is one of the strange and rare cases that's not only > glibc's. FreeBSD can

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 08:42 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Mike Kelly wrote: [Thu Jun 15 2006, 08:36:25PM CDT] > > As part of my original plans for my GLEP27 implementation, I was > > going to have my scripts automatically add the users requested by a > > package (for example, the cron user), to al

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo UK 2006 Conference: London, July 8th

2006-06-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, A quick note for those who have not heard about it already: We are hosting a users-and-developers conference in Central London on July 8th. Anyone interested in Gentoo is welcome to attend. The day will consist of presentations and sessions run by Gentoo developers, plus one or two from

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-16 Thread paul kölle
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Most things *should* not to *anything* if the account exists in > mysql/ldap/nis/etc as the account is already present. Right, i.e. use NSS for the query and *don't* use hacks like grepping /etc/passwd. > It's just the > case of it *not* existing that causes the real pr

[gentoo-dev] using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-16 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i just wanted to ask, if the is an eclass or something else, that enables me to temporarly select a certain gcc-version? or perhaps just finding the path to the gcc and g++ executables of a specific gcc-versions (like gcc-3.*)? some software, like qemu and others, are simply not compatible wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-16 Thread brettholcomb
What about gcc-config - will that work? > > From: Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/06/16 Fri PM 03:10:08 EDT > To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-dev] using specific gcc-version in ebuild > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 16 June 2006 15:10, Sven Köhler wrote: > i just wanted to ask, if the is an eclass or something else, that > enables me to temporarly select a certain gcc-version? or perhaps just > finding the path to the gcc and g++ executables of a specific > gcc-versions (like gcc-3.*)? no, there isn

Re: [gentoo-dev] using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-16 Thread Joshua Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Forcing a change in your gcc version for compiling is less then optimal. I don't believe the eclass has anything in it that will help in what you are trying to do. I would probably do a pkg_setup with a check for the version of gcc if it isn't a 3.* ve

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-16 Thread brettholcomb
Yeah, I missed the context! I was not thinking about an ebuild. > > From: Joshua Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/06/16 Fri PM 03:31:32 EDT > To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] using specific gcc-version in ebuild > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash:

[gentoo-dev] Announce: Distro independent OSS QM Project

2006-06-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm maintaining patches with fixes for dozens of packages for quite some time. These patches are needed since releases are often quite broken (ie. crosscompiling doesn't work) or there are other things which make sysop's or distro maintainer's life evrything but easy. Most of the

[gentoo-dev] Re: using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-16 Thread Sven Köhler
>> some software, like qemu and others, are simply not compatible with gcc >> 4.x and they will not become compatible due to severe conceptional issues. > > then they stay broken ... add a warning to the ebuild if `gcc-major-version` > is "4" (see toolchain-funcs.eclass) Hmm, but ... there is t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-16 Thread Arek (James Potts)
Sven Köhler wrote: some software, like qemu and others, are simply not compatible with gcc 4.x and they will not become compatible due to severe conceptional issues. then they stay broken ... add a warning to the ebuild if `gcc-major-version` is "4" (see toolchain-funcs.eclass) Hmm

Re: [gentoo-dev] using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-16 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:30:06 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 16 June 2006 15:10, Sven Köhler wrote: > > some software, like qemu and others, are simply not compatible with > > gcc 4.x and they will not become compatible due to severe > > conceptional issues. > > then t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

2006-06-16 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 00:26 -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: > Alec Warner wrote: > > So apparently they suck, anyone have a new shiny idea on how to group > > packages and maintaining developers? How exactly does one go about maintaining our developers? ;) > I suggest we create a murder of develope

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

2006-06-16 Thread Kumba
Alec Warner wrote: So apparently they suck, anyone have a new shiny idea on how to group packages and maintaining developers? Sure -- take the current herds implementation, and rename it to 'gaggle'! Then we can call things the base-system gaggle, the toolchain gaggle, etc... Even metadata.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Project Sunrise -- Proposal

2006-06-16 Thread Ryan Hill
Marius Mauch wrote: > Functional changes, bugfixes, etc. Let people use common sense there. > The intention is simply that people watching the bug don't have to track > the overlay as well to get notifications of important changes (like a > bugfix that prevented them from using the ebuild previous

[gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc

2006-06-16 Thread Thomas Cort
What is the proper quoting style for using epatch? In the tree there are about 3 different styles... epatch ${FILESDIR}/some-fix.patch # used by 7326 ebuilds epatch "${FILESDIR}"/some-fix.patch# used by 3092 ebuilds epatch "${FILESDIR}/some-fix.patch"# used by

Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc

2006-06-16 Thread Alin Nastac
Thomas Cort wrote: > What is the proper quoting style for using epatch? In the tree there > are about 3 different styles... > > epatch ${FILESDIR}/some-fix.patch # used by 7326 ebuilds > epatch "${FILESDIR}"/some-fix.patch# used by 3092 ebuilds > epatch "${FILESDIR}/some-

Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc

2006-06-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Thomas Cort wrote: > What is the proper quoting style for using epatch? In the tree there > are about 3 different styles... > > epatch ${FILESDIR}/some-fix.patch # used by 7326 ebuilds > epatch "${FILESDIR}"/some-fix.patch# used by 3092 ebuilds > epatch "${FILESDIR}/some

[gentoo-dev] Re: variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc

2006-06-16 Thread Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Thomas Cort wrote: What is the proper quoting style for using epatch? In the tree there are about 3 different styles... epatch ${FILESDIR}/some-fix.patch # used by 7326 ebuilds epatch "${FILESDIR}"/some-fix.patch# used by 3092 ebuilds epatch

Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc

2006-06-16 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 12:35:30AM -0400, Thomas Cort wrote: > What is the proper quoting style for using epatch? In the tree there > are about 3 different styles... > > epatch ${FILESDIR}/some-fix.patch # used by 7326 ebuilds > epatch "${FILESDIR}"/some-fix.patch# used by 309

Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc

2006-06-16 Thread Drake Wyrm
Thomas Cort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the proper quoting style for using epatch? In the tree there > are about 3 different styles... > What is the proper quoting style for defining the S variable? In the > tree there are about 3 different styles... It might be prudent to quote the varia

Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc

2006-06-16 Thread Drake Wyrm
Harald van D??k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any is fine, there is no word splitting or wildcard expansion in > shell variable assignments. $ foo="bar * baz" $ wombat=$foo $ echo $wombat bar somedir somefile baz -- ^ ^

Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc

2006-06-16 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:31:27PM -0700, Drake Wyrm wrote: > Harald van D??k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any is fine, there is no word splitting or wildcard expansion in > > shell variable assignments. > > $ foo="bar * baz" > $ wombat=$foo > $ echo $wombat > bar somedir somefile baz The w