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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
owser of any kind. You really need to check your facts before posting. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ctually have links in the base profile iirc, either way, the > example of where this breaks down is headless servers... There are no web browsers in the base profile, the stages, nor in the "system" target for any architecture or project. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Str

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
s/handbook/txt/install.txt No web browser, so can you please quit beating this dead horse. It isn't even funny anymore. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
surely lose. What is it for SPARC again? 4MB for both kernel + initrd? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
emerge/enews. Right. This is the entire point that Stuart was making from the beginning. The *only* thing that we can guarantee users will look at when doing updates is portage itself. Anything else is ancillary to the tree. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 A

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ect the user to have a web browser, broadband, or Internet access of any kind to perform an installation. Using the installation documents as an example of "requiring a web browser" is asinine. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
really not our fault when the user base doesn't read what is sitting in front of them, plainly on the screen. Thank you for proving my point. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:05 -0500, Nathan L. Adams wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 20:36 -0500, Nathan L. Adams wrote: > > > >>So you installed your server without reading *any* docum

Re: [gentoo-dev] useful profiles.desc

2005-11-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ny other > issues preventing this from becoming a reality? There should be no issues anymore. I was planning on doing this myself at some point. Are you wanting to do this, or should I? Also, what are the valid "status" entries? Is it just dev and stable? -- Chris Gianelloni Release En

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
packages installed. > > Don't worry I'll shut up now as there is clearly no interest for a bit > > broader thinking. > > I find your thinking anything but broad on this topic. *cough* Pot. This is kettle. *grin* -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
I'd prefer the news reader have both read and delete options. I also think we would need a searchable archive of all news items. I'd really prefer it was a web page, rather than trying to search a mailing list archive. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
> (easily accessible by all devs, though not necessarily in a direct way) > and should be replicated to as many channels as possible (the website > being one of them). How about gentoo/news in CVS? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
news *only* delivered by portage. By your own admission, you want to reach 100% of the users. The only effective way to do this is to essentially carpet bomb the information into several mediums, all containing the *same* information. Think about how advertising works. The idea is to put your &quo

[gentoo-dev] Bug Wrangling Event?

2005-11-11 Thread Chris White
r two day event, but that I won't know unless I get interest ;). Let me know what you all think and I'll go from there. PLEASE REPLY OFF LIST Thanks :) Chris White pgpmrTgrCSTBL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 00:57 +, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 18:22 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > It seems to be your own quest to have the news *only* > > delivered by portage. > > I thought I'd been very clear in the email that you've rep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
a message, it is gone. This means an external news reader (enews anyone?) that basically has the capability to read, skip, or delete these news items. I think this would be pretty simple to get done and covers the problem of messages being read or unread. Of course, this is all just an idea, so fe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
o that folks can begin implementing > other user-view delivery methods relatively quickly. Should that be done, > portage will probably end up being last to implement it's part, but by the > time it does, the other outlet methods will likely be decently on the way, > and chance

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
bash) for accessing and updating news items. I'd > prefer the latter but I get the impression that most prefer the former. I believe that we have been under the impression that you guys preferred to keep this out of portage as much as possible. I think an API built into portage

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 22:34 +, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 10:26 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > If users are interested in non-critical information, there's already a > > mechanism in place for them to get such things. They can join the > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files?

2005-11-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ted. > So what's the general opinion about this? Having all these different > files makes it harder to add config changes, not by much but noticably, > so personally I'd like to get rid of them, but if there is a good > reason for them to stay I can live with that. Without

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files?

2005-11-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ses where it does not. While I agree that it shouldn't be required to have CHOST in make.conf, it *is* currently a requirement, and has been for as long as I can remember. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files?

2005-11-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
urprising us when we're in the middle of release building. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files?

2005-11-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 20:01 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:52:28PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 20:19 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > Was just about to finally commit the elog related config stuff into > > > make

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files?

2005-11-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 03:30 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:54:01 -0500 > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 20:26 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > > On Tuesday 15 November 2005 20:19,

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-20 Thread Chris Gianelloni
re is already a place for this stuff. > Maybe we should add the ability to filter news based on some sort of > geographical setting too? That'd be a reasonable thing to add to the > GLEP I think. It really sounds like you are wanting to make this proposal way too complex, but I'

Re: [gentoo-dev] opinion on how to improve the website redesign

2005-11-21 Thread Chris Gianelloni
I don't get where people think it is "ricer" though. Perhaps you guys forget what a meta-distribution is and the "infinite possibilities" that it presents to the user. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Ge

RE: [gentoo-dev] Frozen Bacula??

2005-11-21 Thread Chris Lee
ome confusion over maintainer transition for this package at one time but we have worked it out. As for 1.38.[01], I will have it committed to portage when I have some time in the near future, but please be aware that it will spend some time in ~arch just like every other pacakge. Thanks, Chris -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
. Infact, even the handbook > makes no refference of it. This takes Gentoo another step closer to other > distros like Ubuntu. > > A dissapointed user, > Varun Dhussa > India > > - End forwarded message - -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
configured kernel. Now, on the topic of the tarballs. Give me one example of something that you can do with a stage1 or stage2 tarball that you cannot with a stage3 tarball. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ot; complaints > whenever we change something for the better. Exactly. It sounds like we are letting ourselves be swayed by a few heated words from someone who is obviously shooting for a reaction. If we give in, the terrorists have won. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 16:26 +0100, Marc Hildebrand wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > [..] > > Now, on the topic of the tarballs. > > > > Give me one example of something that you can do with a stage1 or stage2 > > tarball that you cannot with a stage3 tarball. &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 16:26 +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:10:14AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Personally, I would like to see stage1 and stage2 go away completely. > > They serve no real purpose anymore after the changes we have made to th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ook has already reduced the number of errors being reported by new users to me. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
> If you need help, please ask for it and at least try and get some of > that load off of you so that we don't take things out of gentoo simply > because of the lack of time. I did. I got exactly *0* responses. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 17:15 +0100, Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:48:06AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > > Give me one example of something that you can do with a stage1 or stage2 > > > > tarball that you cannot with a stage3 tarball. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 11:19 -0500, Thomas Kirchner wrote: > * On Nov 22 10:15, Chris Gianelloni (gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > > It isn't pretty much anymore. It *is* exactly the same. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're going to attempt to get the s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
t back in or split off into it's own stage1.xml doc. I've already agreed that I have no problem with an additional document that instructs on these advanced concepts. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signatur

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 11:15 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:54 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: > > > >>>As I am now not only the Release Engineering lead, but also the x86 > >>>Release Coordinator, I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 23:10 +0530, Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Tuesday 22 Nov 2005 10:09 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > *sigh* > > > > Another "Gentoo is about choice" argument. Can I ask you something? > > Where does it say that Gentoo is about choice? I see lo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 12:03 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Tue Nov 22 2005, 09:15:27AM CST] > > > Well, if we could educate the users that stage2 tarballs are totally > > > pointless, and that running bootstrap.sh followed by emerge -e system &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
hich they did. These problems have been resolved by making the stages fuller. However, in doing so, we reduced the legitimate need for having these stages to almost nothing. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ybody is just up in arms over a knee-jerk reaction to not reading carefully. What it boils down to is either not knowing the facts, or trolling/flaming. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 21:16 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: > 22.11.2005, 20:57:15, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > The idea was to move out the stage1/stage2 docs to somewhere else. Then > > create some sort of "Advanced Installation Topics" guide or something, to > > l

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
elease Engineering. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
r "system" and is now wanting kernel sources, or has pulled in a MTA or cron daemon that wasn't the one they wanted. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Re[4]: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 22:36 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: > 22.11.2005, 21:58:50, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > >> That FAQ section has nothing in common with the original stage1 docs. > >> Sorry, > >> installing stage3 to remove all the use flags cruft subsequently,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask?

2005-11-22 Thread Chris White
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 11:18, Luis F. Araujo wrote: > Hello everyone, > > A few days ago i glanced over package.mask , and i was surprised > about how many non-existent ebuild/packages entries are there. er: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105016 Chris White pgpOq

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
nced Installation Topics" type guide that will not only give information on the lower stages, but also how to make a "stage1 install" from a stage3 tarball. It will likely also cover things like Hardened, provided they want it that way. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering

[gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ally good reason not to do so, I think I'll probably do it after the Thanksgiving holiday. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 19:30 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Wednesday 23 November 2005 19:15, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > I'd be willing to make all the changes to the tree to facilitate this, > > and unless someone has a really good reason not to do so

Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 12:52 -0600, Brian Harring wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:15:52PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > OK. I've been looking at some of these issues we've been having, and > > I've been thinking of moving enewuser, egetent, and enewgroup

Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 11:40 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > | These packages do not need shadow (though the system might, but that's > | outside my scope) once they are installed, only to insta

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
into paradise! Interesting commentary on our culture! What the hell does this have to do with Gentoo development? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-24 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 03:44 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:15:52PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > OK. I've been looking at some of these issues we've been having, and > > I've been thinking of moving enewuser, egetent, and enewgroup

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multi hash support in portage - status

2005-11-24 Thread Chris Gianelloni
a guess I'd say 4 months > till stable (but really, that's just a guess, see the 2.1 fiasko). I think I would rather see the multi-hash support now, rather than later, as it seems to be something our users are asking about and it seems like all the work is really there for an implem

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multi hash support in portage - status

2005-11-24 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ge, as you said. They would need to create a symlink from /etc/make.profile to /usr/portage/profiles/obsolete/$arch, then they would need to emerge --oneshot sandbox portage. After that, they can upgrade to a supported profile. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Arc

[gentoo-dev] apache2 default for 2006.0

2005-11-24 Thread Chris Gianelloni
heard any good objections by November 30th, I'll make the change. This will *not* be retroactive to any previous release profiles. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-25 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 19:34 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 08:54:41AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 03:44 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:15:52PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-25 Thread Chris Gianelloni
e weeks for catalyst 2.0, which is current in pre-release testing and is masked. Fell free to unmask it and play with it, as it works fine. We are just wanting to iron out the last few bugs before releasing it, so feel free to bang away on it and report any problems that you find. -- Chri

Re: [gentoo-dev] festival use flag

2005-11-26 Thread Chris White
festival and festival lite (festival and flite), which somewhat do the same thing with regards to tts. In fact, this is somewhat needed for kde-base/kttsd to work properly, as it needs the appropriate tts daemon to provide its services. Chris White pgpvg9zXOOFCN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of auto-use in portage-2.0.54

2005-11-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
E=udev in those profiles? I think it should be set in default-linux. This means it would need to be use.mask'd on any 2.4 profiles. The real issue here is what happens to anyone that uses both 2.4 and 2.6 from the same profile? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic

Re: [gentoo-dev] Addition of DVB_CARDS to USE_EXPAND

2005-11-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware ebuild. What will the ebuild do if DVB_CARDS is not set? Please make it download/install them all. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
verything c++ > related on the system. Except the binary apps that you don't have the source to be able to recompile. So now we're right back where we were, aren't we? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
t it to a specific profile, it really makes it a pain in the ass, especially for two versions that are almost compatible, as opposed to the profiles that we have done in the past where we were going from things like gcc2 to gcc3, that were not very compatible, at all. -- Chris Gianelloni Release

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 15:03 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:50:34AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 09:51 +0100, Gregorio Guidi wrote: > > > Every user _must_ be instructed to run > > > 'revdep-rebuild --soname li

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 10:42 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 15:03 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:50:34AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 09:51 +0100, Gregorio Guidi wrote: > > > > Every us

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 18:37 +0100, Andreas Proschofsky wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 16:04 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:52:11AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > broken /usr/lib32/openoffice/program/gconfbe1.uno.so (requires > > > li

Re: [gentoo-dev] apache2 default for 2006.0

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 23:19 +, Stuart Herbert wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 09:16 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > I'd like to add the apache2 USE flag to 2006.0's profile. This would > > not resolve bug #95140, but would keep users from hitting

Re: [gentoo-dev] apache2 default for 2006.0

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 16:34 -0800, Michael Stewart (vericgar) wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > I'd like to add the apache2 USE flag to 2006.0's profile. This would > > not resolve bug #95140, but would keep users from hitting it by default. > > With apache being

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
a profile is we *already have* people on 2005.0 and 2005.1 profiles running gcc 3.4, so it means causing a much more disruptive upgrade for all ~x86 users, or anyone who has merged gcc 3.4 explicitly already. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Addition of DVB_CARDS to USE_EXPAND

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 07:01 +0100, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > On Monday 28 November 2005 22:37, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 21:53 +0100, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > If nobody objects I will add DVB_CARDS to USE_EXAPAN

Re: [gentoo-dev] apache2 default for 2006.0

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 12:53 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Wednesday 30 November 2005 01:11, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 23:19 +, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 09:16 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] apache2 default for 2006.0

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 09:22 -0500, Michael Cummings wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Here's the deal. We have a new user that installs Gentoo. After > > installing Gentoo, he tries to "emerge nagios" and it dies on building > > apache over a bug that ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
tree. > > Plus, your solution does not work retroactively to repair > > issues with the 2005.0, 2005.1, or 2005.1-r1 stages, while mine does. > > tell users to stop using stage[12], you're already going that route :p That still will not fix the issue. -- Chris Gianellon

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
, my thanks to those who do the volunteer work. Well, the "advantages" are simple. Upstream no longer supports 3.3 anymore. They barely support 3.4, but having some support from upstream is better than none. This means 3.3 will be relegated to a legacy version and likely won't be up

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-12-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ing as how I have been on the receiving end of this border-line harassment for making a change that doesn't hurt anything, I don't want anyone on my team to make the same mistake. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] vendors.gentoo.org

2005-12-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
I don't see that happening at . > > uhh, what ? dev.gentoo.org is a redirect to www.gentoo.org > > other wise it just hosts users' home dirs ... i dont see what the > redesign has to do with either Well, that and anyone that uses the XSL, etc form their dev directory *will* get

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Manifest2 format

2005-12-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
er SRC_URI? 1 less byte? Why not just SRC? Is there a reason why it must have URI when it isn't one? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting your apps ported to modular X

2005-12-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
app's in the list by replacing yours with it, then running 'emerge -ep > world'. Nevermind that last email since you sent out your world. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for DirectFB maintainers

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
body else on the team is > taking care of it, so if someone uses it, it would be good if it stepped > up... Umm... !meta DirectFB wolf31o2-work: Package: dev-libs/DirectFB Herd: games Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What are you talking about? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 08/12/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another package is taking a long long way that goes out of portage. > I'm running out of openings for these mails, you know? > > Alternative dvd-ripping software is present in portage, starting from mencoder > and its frontends, an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Textrels in packages policy

2005-12-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
by "override", but here's a crazy idea ... ask > upstream to fix the issues. for example, we just reported executable > stacks with the ut2004 game and Ryan of epicgames was so kind as to > fix it up for us. some upstream peeps dont even know about these sort >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Textrels in packages policy

2005-12-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
by "override", but here's a crazy idea ... ask > upstream to fix the issues. for example, we just reported executable > stacks with the ut2004 game and Ryan of epicgames was so kind as to > fix it up for us. some upstream peeps dont even know about these sort > of things

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gee, wouldn't it be nice (security bugs)...

2005-12-14 Thread Chris White
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 20:00, Michael Cummings wrote: er.. why not just do an advanced query for all bugs assigned / cc'ed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] How that doesn't accomplish the same thing... > Just a thought as i try to recall where i left that can of coffee, > ~mcummi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gee, wouldn't it be nice (security bugs)...

2005-12-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 02:37 +0900, Chris White wrote: > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 20:00, Michael Cummings wrote: > > er.. why not just do an advanced query for all bugs assigned / cc'ed to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] How that doesn't accomplish the same thing... Because

Re: [gentoo-dev] UPGRADE ANNOUNCEMENT bugs.gentoo.org

2005-12-14 Thread Chris White
On Thursday 15 December 2005 04:30, Simon Stelling wrote: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/flame.html Moved it: http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/docs/flame.html pgpuIK8UTgdbu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance

2005-12-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
As for benchmarks, I think the issue is it depends entirely on usage. Having something that is 30% faster on paper isn't very useful if you never do it the way the benchmark does. I wish I had more numbers/examples here, but there isn't really much in the way of decent benchmarks published

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-19 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 19/12/05, Peter Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or maybe not, I dunno. The point being I don't think we should immediately > write off > any of the distributed SCMs without pondering how they might make a > difference or be usable. It would be very useful for people who aren't devs b

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.14 stabilization

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Gianelloni
n't exactly the best plan for this. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.14 stabilization

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 13:13 +, Roy Marples wrote: > On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12:49, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:36 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > since we have baselayout-1.12.x in ~arch, the new stable candidate > > > (1.11.14)

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.14 stabilization

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:26 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:49:37AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:36 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > since we have baselayout-1.12.x in ~arch, the new stable candidate > > > (1.1

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.14 stabilization

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:45 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:30:56AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 13:13 +, Roy Marples wrote: > > > On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12:49, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] making dodoc and dohtml die when they fail and stricter is on

2005-12-25 Thread Chris White
we're also having the situation of missing other important documentation as well. This all should be checked the first time a package is imported/version bumped for consistancy. > I'd rather not see the change. Chris White pgpPl3WvLt9yi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Gianelloni
user, since everyone will want something different. Perhaps allowing for longer USE descriptions would work? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Gianelloni
and around we go. Why can't both RDEPEND on the other? This works perfectly fine for many packages in the tree. A circular dependency isn't a bad thing if they're both in RDEPEND, it is when they're both in DEPEND that causes an issue. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering -

Re: [gentoo-dev] What to do with GCC 4 related bugs?

2006-01-02 Thread Chris White
r should I write one > report for each package? The policy is pretty much if it doesn't compile, you get to fix it. If you have a patch then report it to bugzilla. > Thanx... > > Dirk Chris White pgp7Rg3vk1v02.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for dev-libs/btparse

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 31/12/05, Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's > - broken Works for me, and I can't see any bugs in bugzilla? > - dead upstream Not true, mailing list is active, last post Dec 27th, and the author responds to emails. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
sers. I wouldn't have a problem with seeing ChangeLog in a default RSYNC_EXCLUDES with a nice comment explaining how to get the ChangeLog files. This way we are removing the problem by default, educating users, and still not removing any data or options for our users and developers. -- Chris Gian

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