Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-cdr/cdrdao: ChangeLog cdrdao-1.2.2-r3.ebuild

2009-05-11 Thread Thilo Bangert
a list cleaned for obvious false positives leaves the following 44 affected packages. i have treated ebuilds which mention FEATURES in an ewarn or einfo as false positives although they probably should be fixed as well. most of these have do one of the following (or a variant thereof) hasq test

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-cdr/cdrdao: ChangeLog cdrdao-1.2.2-r3.ebuild

2009-05-11 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 11-05-2009 11:26:46 +0200, Thilo Bangert wrote: > FEATURE-misuse.txt was generated by > $ find -name '*.ebuild' | xargs grep -nH FEATURES > FEATURES-misuse.txt > and sifting through the false positives. Have you checked if eclasses use it as well? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different leve

[gentoo-dev] Files owned by multiple slots

2009-05-11 Thread Sven Schwyn
Hi This question popped up while discussing how to deal with Ruby gems on Gentoo in a way that gives the user the freedom to choose Portage, RubyGems or both for gem management. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268857 Here's what it boils down to: If a Ruby gem ebuild is slotted, th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-cdr/cdrdao: ChangeLog cdrdao-1.2.2-r3.ebuild

2009-05-11 Thread Thilo Bangert
Fabian Groffen said: > On 11-05-2009 11:26:46 +0200, Thilo Bangert wrote: > > FEATURE-misuse.txt was generated by > > $ find -name '*.ebuild' | xargs grep -nH FEATURES > > > FEATURES-misuse.txt and sifting through the false positives. > > Have you checked if eclasses use it as well? nope - thanks

Re: [gentoo-dev] Files owned by multiple slots

2009-05-11 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Schwyn wrote: > Hi > > This question popped up while discussing how to deal with Ruby gems on > Gentoo in a way that gives the user the freedom to choose Portage, > RubyGems or both for gem management. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-cdr/cdrdao: ChangeLog cdrdao-1.2.2-r3.ebuild

2009-05-11 Thread Alistair Bush
> > You can't test FEATURES in an ebuild. It's portage-specific. > To 1) try and turn this thread into something a little more constructive and a little less childish; and 2) help improve the tree. I present one of the offending ebuilds dev-java/commons-io Without posting the whole file her

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] USE_EXPAND for qemu unified ebuild

2009-05-11 Thread Luca Barbato
We have a proposed unified qemu ebuild[1] in bugzilla that would let users have a per-target granularity thanks to Xake. I'm not sure if would be better have QEMU_TARGETS or separated USER_TARGETS and SOFTMMU_TARGETS. [1]http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267883 -- Luca Barbato Gentoo

[gentoo-dev] Re: Files owned by multiple slots

2009-05-11 Thread Sven Schwyn
Marijn wrote: Is it feasable to extend Portage to allow a file to be owned by several slots and remove it only once the last slot is uninstalled (aka: once the ebuild is completely uninstalled)? Do we have any guarantees that the file you want to share will be compatible with all gems that

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] USE_EXPAND for qemu unified ebuild

2009-05-11 Thread Duncan
Luca Barbato posted 4a082814.2050...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Mon, 11 May 2009 15:28:52 +0200: > I'm not sure if would be better have QEMU_TARGETS or separated > USER_TARGETS and SOFTMMU_TARGETS. Namespace pollution? QEMU_USER_TARGETS and QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS, maybe? Other than that, no

[gentoo-dev] rfc: pybugz option conflict

2009-05-11 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I have found an option conflict in pybugz, and I would like suggestions for naming one of the options. Currently we have two meanings for the --version option. optparse wants to use --version to display the version of the program, and we are us

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] USE_EXPAND for qemu unified ebuild

2009-05-11 Thread Luca Barbato
Duncan wrote: Namespace pollution? QEMU_USER_TARGETS and QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS, maybe? Right, anyway either one or two vars, anybody has a strong feeling towards one of them or against any of them? lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_z

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-11 Thread Sérgio Almeida
On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 18:56 -0400, Mark Loeser wrote: > Sérgio Almeida said: > > Abstract: > > > > Universal Select Tool is an utility to manage system configuration. > > This tool is similar to the unmaintained eselect utility of Gentoo or > > Exherbo's eclectic. The idea is to create a tool tha

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: pybugz command syntax

2009-05-11 Thread Christian Faulhammer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, William Hubbs : > I'm considering changing the pybugz command syntax to be something > similar to the way portage's syntax works. For example, "pybugz get" > would become "pybugz --get", "post" would become "--post", etc to > simplify the command

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: pybugz option conflict

2009-05-11 Thread Christian Faulhammer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, William Hubbs : > optparse wants to use --version to display the version of the program, > and we are using --version in the post command to set the version that > will be part of the bug. What do you think we could use for --version > in the pos

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: pybugz command syntax

2009-05-11 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:13:44PM +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > William Hubbs : > > I'm considering changing the pybugz command syntax to be something > > similar to the way portage'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Training points for users interested in helping out with ebuild development

2009-05-11 Thread George Prowse
Thilo Bangert wrote: to me, the above two contradictory viewpoints are the essence of the apparent and real decline in Gentoo activity. The two are just not compatible with each other and there is no clear guidance on to which of the two should be followed. in the one corner we have the 'Dani

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Training points for users interested in helping out with ebuild development

2009-05-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 11 May 2009 23:17:32 +0100 George Prowse wrote: > An equilibrium seems to have been reached which currently works. An equilibrium has been reached, agreed, but that it works is up for debate. There is a strong argument to be made that preserving the equilibrium will keep Gentoo the way it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Training points for users interested in helping out with ebuild development

2009-05-11 Thread George Prowse
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009 23:17:32 +0100 George Prowse wrote: An equilibrium seems to have been reached which currently works. An equilibrium has been reached, agreed, but that it works is up for debate. There is a strong argument to be made that preserving the equilibrium wi

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-cdr/cdrdao: ChangeLog cdrdao-1.2.2-r3.ebuild

2009-05-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 11 May 2009 23:29:10 +1200 Alistair Bush wrote: > I would assume it would be better to directly test whether the user is > root, than test that userpriv is set? AFAIK: if [[ ${EUID} -eq 0 ]]; then rootstuff else nonrootstuff fi But for tests that fail with userpriv just because the

Re: [gentoo-dev] An Introduction to Gentoo Prefix

2009-05-11 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Fabian Groffen wrote: > [snip] > As Prefix team, we feel that the current shape of the Gentoo Prefix > implementation is mature. That is, it has been proven to be useful for > a number of users/scenarios, and it has been able to work for a > substantial number of different systems, without having

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Training points for users interested in helping out with ebuild development

2009-05-11 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 00:31:36 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2009 23:17:32 +0100 > > George Prowse wrote: > > An equilibrium seems to have been reached which currently works. > > An equilibrium has been reached, agreed, but that it works is up for > debate. There is a strong argument to