[gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread Philipp Riegger
Good morning, I want to talk about improved binary package support for Gentoo. About 1-2 months ago there already was a discussion about this on gentoo-soc@ and on bugzilla [1]. If I remember correctly, there were no devs involved in the discussion, so I thought I'll post my thoughts here. I know

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread lxnay
This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage => Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and apidocs. http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=entropy.git;a=summary -- Fabio Erculiani signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread Alex Legler
On So, 2009-05-24 at 20:04 +0200, lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: > [...] > >> app-admin/equo (sabayon overlay -- Entropy Framework client) supports > >> the postfix "@repository" to let users force the installation of a > >> package from a specific repository. > > > > @ is used by Portage for sets.

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-25 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Sunday 24 of May 2009 01:14:57 Andrew Gaffney wrote: > On 05/23/2009 05:56 PM, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > > William Hubbs wrote: > >> [snip] > >> My question for the group is, how do you feel about speech software > >> being on our minimal cd as well as our live cd? > > > > I agree, it should be in

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread lxnay
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Alex Legler wrote: On So, 2009-05-24 at 20:04 +0200, lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: [...] >> app-admin/equo (sabayon overlay -- Entropy Framework client) supports >> the postfix "@repository" to let users force the installation of a >> package from a specific r

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread AllenJB
lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Alex Legler wrote: On So, 2009-05-24 at 20:04 +0200, lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: [...] >> app-admin/equo (sabayon overlay -- Entropy Framework client) supports >> the postfix "@repository" to let users force the installation of

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread Ben de Groot
lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: > This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage => > Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and > apidocs. > http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=entropy.git;a=summary > Only problem with entropy is that it doesn't work nice

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread Dale
AllenJB wrote: > > As a side note, I think I've read somewhere that it may in the future > be possible to specify sets in package.* (which I assume would be done > using the @set-name syntax), but can't remember where off-hand. This > may have just been a suggestion, but if it ever is implemented,

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread lxnay
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage => Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and apidocs. http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=entropy.git;a=summary Only

[gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-25 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Doug Goldstein : > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Christian Faulhammer > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to collect some things we need to do before Baselayout 2 > > and OpenRC can go stable.  Up to now I have: > > > > * eselect 1.1 stable (current RC3) for the support in the rc module > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread Ben de Groot
lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: > > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: >>> This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage => >>> Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and >>> apidocs. >>> http:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Saturday 23 May 2009, Roy Marples wrote: > Basically as Doug said, each OpenRC version comes with a few big > chances. Well not massive as in "your box will break now", but just a > different spin on how things should work. OpenRC-0.5 will have the > biggest re-spin to date - net.lo (net.eth0 et

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Monday 25 May 2009, lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Alex Legler wrote: > > On So, 2009-05-24 at 20:04 +0200, lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: > >> [...] > >> > >> >> app-admin/equo (sabayon overlay -- Entropy Framework client) > >> >> supports the postfix "@reposit

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread lxnay
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage => Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out s

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread Josh Saddler
lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: > Adding "@overlay" atoms/deps postfix support could really make life > easier, especially because forcing specific atoms in *DEPEND hoping > that these will be always pulled in from the same overlay is not > something reliable, as you already know. No. This is a terr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-25 Thread Roy Marples
Robert Buchholz wrote: > On Saturday 23 May 2009, Roy Marples wrote: >> Basically as Doug said, each OpenRC version comes with a few big >> chances. Well not massive as in "your box will break now", but just a >> different spin on how things should work. OpenRC-0.5 will have the >> biggest re-spin

[gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

2009-05-25 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Roy Marples : > If there is a real drive to make OpenRC stable then I suggest that I > roll openrc-0.5.0 out sometime this week and try to roll rc events > into 0.6.0, the embedded stubs into 0.7.0 and we'll go from there. Sounds fine to me. I don't want to press anything, just some kind of

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread Ben de Groot
lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: > This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over > Portage => > Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and > apidocs. > http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=entropy.git;a=summary

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread Ben de Groot
Robert Buchholz wrote: > # emerge --update lsof @system > > versus > > # emerge --update l...@system > > would have completely different meanings. This is what I would dislike > about the '@' character. I'm ok with :: though. I agree the :: looks like the better option here. > If we use repo_

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Monday 25 May 2009, Ben de Groot wrote: > Robert Buchholz wrote: > > If we use repo_name as the overlay identifier, we must rethink how > > layman-global.txt is currently handled. Many overlays in there have > > that file missing, and some have different identifiers than what > > layman displays

[gentoo-dev] New feature for python eclass for review

2009-05-25 Thread Petteri Räty
I wrote support to the python eclass to make sure python version used to install has support for needed use flags. With current EAPIs I can't think of a way to do this without a pkg_setup check but feel free to surprise me. Regards, Petteri Index: python.eclass

Gentoo Security Project Summary -- was Re: [gentoo-dev] Project summaries

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Buchholz
Gentoo Security Project Summary Short Summary: The Security Team is up and running, but we are dealing with numerous tasks and a high load in daily maintenance. Fresh blood is not only appreciated, but needed to continue the luxury of Security Support we currently have. We have too many open bugs,

[gentoo-dev] Re: better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread Duncan
lx...@sabayonlinux.org posted fv50wm3klntqyetcw4uyaxe124vaj_fire...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Mon, 25 May 2009 12:16:06 +0200: > This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage => > Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and > apidocs. h

[gentoo-dev] Regarding Gentoo CDs and accessibility sizes

2009-05-25 Thread Keith Hinton
Hello, I'm afraidd I'm not seeing the size issues. Adding Speech to a LiveCD should not effect the operations of the minimal installation CDs that much. However, one thing I would suggest is to please be aware of two things: 1. Make sure that some boot prompt exists for users to activate the Live

Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding Gentoo CDs and accessibility sizes

2009-05-25 Thread Andrew Gaffney
On 05/25/2009 07:44 PM, Keith Hinton wrote: Hello, I'm afraidd I'm not seeing the size issues. Adding Speech to a LiveCD should not effect the operations of the minimal installation CDs that much. However, one thing I would suggest is to please be aware of two things: 1. Make sure that some boo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding Gentoo CDs and accessibility sizes

2009-05-25 Thread Petteri Räty
Andrew Gaffney wrote: > On 05/25/2009 07:44 PM, Keith Hinton wrote: >> Hello, >> I'm afraidd I'm not seeing the size issues. Adding Speech to a >> LiveCD should not effect the operations of the minimal installation >> CDs that much. >> However, one thing I would suggest is to please be aware of t