Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: package.mask or package.mask.d

2009-08-23 Thread Dale
Duncan wrote: > William Hubbs posted on Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:52:54 -0500 as excerpted: > > >> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 08:39:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> >>> We also need to consider whether people even want it done exactly the >>> way Portage does it now. Some developers have expres

Re: [gentoo-dev] New 10.0 LiveDVD release enhancements

2009-08-23 Thread Alexey Shvetsov
Hi all! Also i think it wil be good idea to include parted into liveDVD since its only tool that support gpt partition tables =) 2009/8/23 James Homuth : > -Original Message- > From: Samuli Suominen [mailto:ssuomi...@gentoo.org] > Sent: August 22, 2009 10:47 AM > To: gentoo-dev@lists.gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: package.mask or package.mask.d

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Dale wrote: > > While I like your example, if this were to happen and a couple other > things has been updated, like for example expat a while back and other > similar update nightmares, wouldn't a reinstall be easier and most > likely recommended anyway? I have seen this recommended and even made

[gentoo-dev] Major problems in the tree in the last month

2009-08-23 Thread Torsten Veller
* Andrew D Kirch : > This should really be a non-issue. I just spent 2 days dealing with > being 3.5 weeks out of date. To help us improve the user experience, what were the problems that cost you two days?

Re: [gentoo-dev] New 10.0 LiveDVD release enhancements

2009-08-23 Thread Chip Parker
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Alexey Shvetsov wrote: > Hi all! > > Also i think it wil be good idea to include parted into liveDVD since > its only tool that support gpt partition tables =) > +1 On this one. Since parted comes with partprobe, which is really nice when you want to change the pa

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo stats server/client @ 2009-08-22

2009-08-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/22/2009 07:30 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: [...] Distribution-specific No data, yet That "No data, yet" indicates you're not running the correct version of the Smolt client. Either that's a plain 1.3.x release or the "master" branch from my repo, not the "gentoo" one. Have you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Major problems in the tree in the last month

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Torsten Veller wrote: > * Andrew D Kirch : > >> This should really be a non-issue. I just spent 2 days dealing with >> being 3.5 weeks out of date. >> > > To help us improve the user experience, what were the problems that > cost you two days? > > The major problem was getting caught

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Make 10.0 profiles EAPI-2 'compliant'

2009-08-23 Thread David Leverton
On Sunday 23 August 2009 03:39:52 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > /etc/make.profile is by default a symlink to appropriate profile directory > in ${PORTDIR}/profiles. Again, a detail of how Portage is configured. PMS only covers profiles that are in repositories - it's up to the pac

[gentoo-dev] Re: package.mask or package.mask.d

2009-08-23 Thread Duncan
Andrew D Kirch posted on Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:05:03 -0400 as excerpted: > Dale wrote: >> >> While I like your example, if this were to happen and a couple other >> things has been updated, like for example expat a while back and other >> similar update nightmares, wouldn't a reinstall be easier and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: package.mask or package.mask.d

2009-08-23 Thread Dale
Duncan wrote: > Andrew D Kirch posted on Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:05:03 -0400 as excerpted: > > >> Dale wrote: >> >>> While I like your example, if this were to happen and a couple other >>> things has been updated, like for example expat a while back and other >>> similar update nightmares, wou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: package.mask or package.mask.d

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Dale wrote: > > I'm just not sure that portage should be s backward compatible as it > appears to be now. > Dale, It really doesn't have to, unless you're not running portage... in which case we have to wait on all package managers to implement every major feature change the others want.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Major problems in the tree in the last month

2009-08-23 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew D Kirch wrote: > Torsten Veller wrote: >> * Andrew D Kirch : >> >>> This should really be a non-issue. I just spent 2 days dealing with >>> being 3.5 weeks out of date. >>> >> To help us improve the user experience, what were the proble

[gentoo-dev] Post-GSoC project document

2009-08-23 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, My Google Summer of Code project was about writing a portage backend for PackageKit. Before beginning the work we knew it will not be easy. So I tried to write the backend as much complete as possible and I did a few changes to portage to help that. But this work helped me to see all the featu

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 3 and "nonfatal die"

2009-08-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:48:56 +0200 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > > There was a change in wording to better convey the original intent. > > There was no change in behaviour. > > There was a change in behavior of 'nonfatal > eclass_function_which_sometimes_calls_die'. No there wasn'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Make 10.0 profiles EAPI-2 'compliant'

2009-08-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 22 August 2009, Chip Parker wrote: > 2009/8/21 Robert Buchholz : > > On Saturday 22 August 2009, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > >> It's true, but being able to modularize profile may outweights the > >> need to be strict-with-the-book here - it's a matter of usefulness. I > >> think it shoul

Re: [gentoo-dev] New 10.0 LiveDVD release enhancements

2009-08-23 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 23/08/2009 11:02, Chip Parker a écrit : On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Alexey Shvetsov wrote: Hi all! Also i think it wil be good idea to include parted into liveDVD since its only tool that support gpt partition tables =) +1 On this one. Since parted comes with partprobe, which is re

Re: [gentoo-dev] New 10.0 LiveDVD release enhancements

2009-08-23 Thread likewhoa
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 18:40 +0200, Rémi Cardona wrote: > Le 23/08/2009 11:02, Chip Parker a écrit : > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Alexey Shvetsov wrote: > >> Hi all! > >> > >> Also i think it wil be good idea to include parted into liveDVD since > >> its only tool that support gpt partitio

[gentoo-dev] profiles/info_pkgs

2009-08-23 Thread Ulrich Mueller
... still contains the following entries: app-admin/eselect-compiler dev-util/confcache Both packages were punted about two years ago, so maybe it's time to clean up? Ulrich

Re: [gentoo-dev] Major problems in the tree in the last month

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > Andrew D Kirch wrote: > > Torsten Veller wrote: > >> * Andrew D Kirch : > >> > >>> This should really be a non-issue. I just spent 2 days dealing with > >>> being 3.5 weeks out of date. > >>> > >> To help us improve the user experience, what were the pro

[gentoo-dev] FYI: use-based deps on virtuals

2009-08-23 Thread Thilo Bangert
FYI -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: monkeyd-0.9.2-r1.ebuild Date: Monday 20 April 2009 From: Michael Sterrett To: bang...@gentoo.org use-based deps are undefined behavior on virtuals. So, in monkeyd-0.9.2-r1, please fix up the virtual/httpd-php[cgi] dep. Thanks. ---

Re: [gentoo-dev] profiles/info_pkgs

2009-08-23 Thread David Leverton
On Sunday 23 August 2009 18:28:46 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > ... still contains the following entries: > >app-admin/eselect-compiler >dev-util/confcache > > Both packages were punted about two years ago, so maybe it's time to > clean up? > > Ulrich confcache is still available in masterdriver

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo stats server/client @ 2009-08-22

2009-08-23 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Seems to work OK now and I just submitted my data to smolt.hardwork.org. Great to hear, thank you. Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo stats server/client @ 2009-08-22

2009-08-23 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > [..] since [smoltGui] doesn't take a --server parameter [..] Fixed/added. http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=smolt-gentoo.git;a=commitdiff;h=707e98bd454ae416bec7870296ed108549275ecc Sebastian

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2009-08-23 23h59 UTC

2009-08-23 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2009-08-23 23h59 UTC. Removals: net-libs/xyssl 2009-08-18 12:39:03 tommy dev-python/cjkcodecs2009-08-19 01:28:43 arfrever sys-apps/ddcxinfo