Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-18 Thread Markos Chandras
On 17 February 2013 22:46, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 02/17/2013 11:03 AM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: >> >> In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I have >> no >> interest) because they appears understaffed. >> >> Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-18 Thread Raúl Porcel
On 02/17/13 17:03, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I have no > interest) because they appears understaffed. > > Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, for SH since the dev- > machine[1] is a bit slow; well, I discovered w

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-18 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > Now, imho, we have 2 choice: > > 1)Support them with an iso or at least a manual if we can't do an handbook > 2)Lose the stable keyword and don't waste manpower anymore. > > What do you think about? I haven't seen many problems, except on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-18 Thread Sven Eden
Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2013, 14:08:06 schrieb Pacho Ramos: > Due pva lack of time the following packages are now up for grabs: > app-emulation/e-uae > app-emulation/uae AFAIK both are long dead. The current actively developed uae variant is PUAE, but I'd say it is not ready for a wider audience

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-18 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > He means that until you install the package with all firmware enabled you > don't > know what lines you need to put into the savedconfig file. I have posted a snippet previously — you basically search for "firmware=..." in kernel modules. It's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-18 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Ryan Hill schrieb: > He means that until you install the package with all firmware enabled you > don't > know what lines you need to put into the savedconfig file. > > Even after you do that it's hard to figure out what firmware files you > actually > need. I know I need iwl6000 firmware for Int

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-18 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 02/16/2013 08:08 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: Due pva lack of time the following packages are now up for grabs: net-firewall/xtables-addons (proxy maintained) net-misc/ipv6calc I can take care of these two. I use both. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-18 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le dimanche 17 février 2013 à 22:47 -0600, Ryan Hill a écrit : > Even after you do that it's hard to figure out what firmware files you > actually > need. I know I need iwl6000 firmware for Intel Ultimate-N 6300 wifi, but > linux-firmware contains: > > iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode > iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.uc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for nodejs apps - HOWTO?

2013-02-18 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le lundi 18 février 2013 à 01:39 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò a écrit : > On 18/02/2013 00:46, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > > rethinkdb is a young project and its build system is a 1.5k lines > > makefile horror. I wouldn't reintroduce stuff that isn't used in tree > > just for this. I, at least, am

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi all, I've been asked a couple of times in IRC and other mediums, about what GPG key settings etc to use. I would not not call these final yet, but should be fairly close to final. This was originally intended to be part of the tree-signing GLEP series, but was in one of the unpublished ones (G

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:27:46PM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > 2. root key & signing subkey of EITHER: > 2.1. DSA, 1024 or 2048 bits > 2.2. RSA, >=2048 bits > 3. Key expiry: 5 years. Clarification on reason: These key sizes are the largest supported by many smartcards. -- Robin Hugh Johnson

[gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/freecraft

2013-02-18 Thread Michael Sterrett
# Michael Sterrett (18 Feb 2013) # Quite dead. Use games-engines/stratagus instead. # Masked for removal on 20130320. games-strategy/freecraft

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Kent Fredric
It may be advantageous to have a gentoo wrapper script that calls GPG with recommended settings to make some tasks easier, > gentoo-gpg-create --recommended > EDITOR=vim gentoo-gpg-rotation --recommended --old=DEADBEEF and gentoo-gpg-rotation would make a templated key-expiry document , edited

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 04:36:08PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > It may be advantageous to have a gentoo wrapper script that calls GPG > with recommended settings to make some tasks easier, > > gentoo-gpg-create --recommended > > EDITOR=vim gentoo-gpg-rotation --recommended --old=DEADBEEF > and g

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:36:08 +1300 Kent Fredric wrote: > It may be advantageous to have a gentoo wrapper script that calls GPG > with recommended settings to make some tasks easier, > > > gentoo-gpg-create --recommended > > EDITOR=vim gentoo-gpg-rotation --recommended --old=DEADBEEF > > and g

[gentoo-dev] Re: The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-18 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:31:41 +0100 Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > I haven't seen many problems, except one point: that m68k seems to > have much the same level of activity as mips, and it would be nice if > we could drop it down in the little CC list on Bugzilla (to the > unstable arches part). s390 a

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 04:09 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 04:36:08PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > > It may be advantageous to have a gentoo wrapper script that calls GPG > > with recommended settings to make some tasks easier, > > > gentoo-gpg-create --recommended > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Eray Aslan
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:27:46PM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Bare minimum requirements: > -- [...] > 3. Key expiry: 5 years. I am assuming we are requiring a maximum of 5 years for key expiry. We might want to make it explicit. On first reading, it sounded like key

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-02-18 Thread Kent Fredric
> The key rotation as described in RiseUp best practices should be a very > rare occurrence. Each dev is going to run it at most once. > Some material I read recommended doing a key rotation every 6 months, which I did for a while until it got tiresome to perform the rotation. I believe the ratio