[gentoo-dev] Re: Switchup-mode and boottime selector? Was: eselect init

2013-05-28 Thread Duncan
t-system choice permanent, plus another to remount ro again before either reboot or handing off to the chosen init-system, as deemed appropriate. These would be issues likely to need addressed by all/most init-switcher scripts, so a common solution is reasonable. Of course if the individual scri

[gentoo-dev] Re: Switchup-mode and boottime selector? Was: eselect init

2013-05-29 Thread Duncan
to an eselect module again. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: eselect init

2013-06-02 Thread Duncan
he alternative should we have need of it, so let this be a thanks from all of us. It's projects like yours, someone seeing a need and addressing it for themselves, then simply making that work available for use by others, that form the "grassroots" of FLOSS. =:^) -- Duncan - List

[gentoo-dev] Re: last rite of dev-python/elixir

2013-06-06 Thread Duncan
ncluding that it's no longer available to build in the first place), that's an entirely different matter, but then there should be a reference to such bugs in the announcement/mask, and there was no such reference in this case. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "

[gentoo-dev] Re: app-dict team needs help

2013-06-08 Thread Duncan
Dennis Lan (dlan) posted on Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:11:13 +0800 as excerpted: >

[gentoo-dev] Re: TLDR: rant in support of overlays (was: Re: Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays)

2013-06-13 Thread Duncan
ential devs away. Once it's git, that problem too will disappear, and there will be less pressure to split off overlays than there is now. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrites: rox-base/rox-clib, sys-firmware/iwl3945-ucode, rox-extra/downloadmanager, sys-cluster/mpi-dotnet, media-tv/livestation, dev-lang/boo, gnome-extra/contacts, net-im/qutecom,

2013-06-16 Thread Duncan
packages that they'd have otherwise caught in the last-rites announcement. That request made, thanks for helping to de-cruft the tree. I'm glad someone's putting in the effort. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a mas

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrites: rox-base/rox-clib, sys-firmware/iwl3945-ucode, rox-extra/downloadmanager, sys-cluster/mpi-dotnet, media-tv/livestation, dev-lang/boo, gnome-extra/contacts, net-im/qutecom,

2013-06-16 Thread Duncan
Pacho Ramos posted on Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:19:26 +0200 as excerpted: > El dom, 16-06-2013 a las 12:42 +0000, Duncan escribió: >> Pacho Ramos posted on Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:37:50 +0200 as excerpted: >> >> [Snipped as my comment refers to the subject] >> >> Coul

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2013-06-16 Thread Duncan
, etc- update and revdep-rebuild/depclean, runs ~1 hour, often less, sometimes more if there's a new mozilla-overlay firefox build or something in addition to the kde-libs long-build update. [3] Also relevant, 16 gigs RAM, PORTAGETMPDIR on tmpfs. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Calling die in a subshell

2013-06-18 Thread Duncan
se enough sounding/spelling to, to make sense as having the same original root (which wikipedia traces to late Latin from ancient Greek). http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/te%C3%B2ric -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Temporary DevRel actions for CoC violations

2013-06-20 Thread Duncan
that my sensitivity needs reset. I'm worried about the latter, and an example or two (anyone who believes they might have been out of line care to post a link/apology?) might help me with that reset, or clarify that the triggers haven't been happening here, but in IRC or on the blog

[gentoo-dev] Re: eselect init

2013-06-22 Thread Duncan
worrying about it, because even responsible sysadmins fat-finger things, or simply forget about them, once in awhile. THAT's our REAL weakness, and we know it all too well! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Request for testing: plasma-active

2013-06-22 Thread Duncan
ve to look for something else, if it's avoidable. (razor-qt? enlightenment? Something else?) Not that I expect it to change any decisions, but now you know the pain it's causing here, at least. And I'd certainly be delighted if you /do/ reconsider. Otherwise... well, maybe t

[gentoo-dev] Re: Request for testing: plasma-active

2013-06-23 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:15:45 -0400 as excerpted: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> Semantic-desktop: Just so you guys know[...] I'm **VERY** >> not happy with the 4.11 changes... > > I believe this was

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2013-06-24 Thread Duncan
Tom Wijsman posted on Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:24:27 +0200 as excerpted: > On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:33:53 + (UTC) > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> TL;DR: SSDs help. =:^) > > TL;DR: SSDs help, but they don't solve the underlying problem. =:-( Well,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2013-06-24 Thread Duncan
Tom Wijsman posted on Tue, 25 Jun 2013 01:18:07 +0200 as excerpted: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:27:19 + (UTC) > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> Throwing hardware at the problem is usable now. > > If you have the money; yes, that's an option. > &

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: fortran-2.eclass - Support for bin package system without compiler

2013-07-18 Thread Duncan
will be removed". --- [1] deprecate/deprecation online references: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deprecate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation http://www.thefreedictionary.com/deprecate http://www.google.com/search?q=define:deprecate -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs

[gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread Duncan
ing like this? In-tree-but-masked is at least available for those who want it, without having to load an overlay, but I don't see that discussed at all, here. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program,

[gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-22 Thread Duncan
ay or even full removal (I've never used the package and don't have that level of interest). My question was real: Given the context discussing reasons for removal but an intention to continue making it available in an overlay, I simply wondered why the in-tree p.mask option that

[gentoo-dev] Re: revbumping ebuilds after USE dependency changes

2013-07-28 Thread Duncan
clared in the database, or they'd be declared dependencies not automagic dependencies. (By the same token, it should catch dependencies for independently compiled and installed packages that are obviously not in the database except possibly via package.provided, as well. =:^) But I do belie

[gentoo-dev] Re: revbumping ebuilds after USE dependency changes

2013-07-29 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Mon, 29 Jul 2013 01:04:09 -0700 as excerpted: > On 07/28/2013 05:39 PM, Duncan wrote: >> [D]epclean now does [an elf-based dynamic deps scan] and will refuse to >> remove a package [if that turns up a dependency], asking you to >> rebuild the depending pa

[gentoo-dev] Re: bertini license

2013-07-30 Thread Duncan
e ebuild to be sure? IOW, are we basically treating it as we would an ebuild for a proprietary binary, except here it does happen to be building from source, but with NO changes at all? If that's the case, then I see no problems with it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: s/disk space/drive space

2013-07-30 Thread Duncan
eve they purchased it rather than developing it "in-house"), superseding "Doublespace". For people familiar with that, "drive space" has unwanted and possibly trademarked associations. OTOH, the "free space" or "space available" suggestions I saw

[gentoo-dev] Re: Base profile changes should be announced/discussed on this list.

2013-07-31 Thread Duncan
either there or in the stage3 that really needs the flag on. As you mention, having the actual package on the install medium remains useful, but that's an entirely separate question from what the USE flag default should be. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: check-reqs* vs CFLAGS=-g

2013-08-01 Thread Duncan
heads-up. I didn't realize -g/debug added THAT much! For sure I'll have to keep that in mind if I ever decide to build llvm with debug... and the general rule in mind for building anything else with debug. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping static libs support from cryptsetup and lvm2

2013-08-02 Thread Duncan
kmod package.provided, and USE=btrfs plus adding it to the module config. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping static libs support from cryptsetup and lvm2

2013-08-03 Thread Duncan
Mike Gilbert posted on Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:32:10 -0400 as excerpted: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> Steven J. Long posted... >>> you only really need an initramfs if [...] >> >> Or, unfortunately, for root on mult-dev

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] OpenRc-0.12 is coming soon

2013-08-03 Thread Duncan
-tracing pretty much blind and that's no fun at all! So openrc- ends up being the perfect fit, here. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] OpenRc-0.12 is coming soon

2013-08-03 Thread Duncan
Sven Vermeulen posted on Sat, 03 Aug 2013 18:51:02 + as excerpted: > On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 04:44:52PM +0000, Duncan wrote: >> I run openrc- because I guess my configuration's unusual enough to >> trigger bugs once in awhile, and from experience once I do, it's

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] OpenRc-0.12 is coming soon

2013-08-03 Thread Duncan
William Hubbs posted on Sat, 03 Aug 2013 11:57:20 -0500 as excerpted: > On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 04:44:52PM +0000, Duncan wrote: >> Running the ~arch release version, OTOH, doesn't appear to >> significantly reduce the incidence of bugs compared to live-git, but >> the

[gentoo-dev] Re: renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-04 Thread Duncan
Michael Orlitzky posted on Sun, 04 Aug 2013 18:01:40 -0400 as excerpted: > Since it was pulled out of openrc, the name "netrc" also suggests > itself. I like it, if it's not taken elsewhere and will thus cause problems. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML

[gentoo-dev] Re: renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-04 Thread Duncan
Michael Orlitzky posted on Sun, 04 Aug 2013 18:30:33 -0400 as excerpted: > On 08/04/2013 06:20 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 10:15:35PM +0000, Duncan wrote: >>> Michael Orlitzky posted on Sun, 04 Aug 2013 18:01:40 -0400 as >>> excerpted: >>&

[gentoo-dev] Re: renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-06 Thread Duncan
and have always been called the "rc" system, i think we should > be safe using it) Hmm... sounds like something the NSA could love if there's ever a remotely exploitable vuln. Remote-control-net indeed! =:^( Never-the less, it's still reasonable even if I like the net-rc ide

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-07 Thread Duncan
eam gnome's forcing it. Were that the case, semantic-desktop wouldn't be forced by gentoo/kde in kde 4.11, where upstream still offers the same options they did in 4.10, where gentoo/kde offered the option as well. Meanwhile, I guess I know what the kde-sunset users felt like now...

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Duncan
Daniel Campbell posted on Thu, 08 Aug 2013 01:26:47 -0500 as excerpted: > [Duncan wrote...] >> Gentoo/gnome is simply working with what upstream gnome gives them, >> which for gentoo/gnome users now means a choice between gnome with >> systemd and if no systemd, no gn

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Thu, 08 Aug 2013 08:27:58 + as excerpted: > Daniel Campbell posted on Thu, 08 Aug 2013 01:26:47 -0500 as excerpted: > >> [Duncan wrote...] Ooopps! That too... WAS intended to be sent privately. I goofed! Sorry everyone! (Note to self, change the followu

[gentoo-dev] Re: [typo] Re: Re: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo's progress.

2013-08-10 Thread Duncan
nger mix > and match) it makes sense to wrap those into a profile or some sort of > configuration that ensures they get what they need, by default ++ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: GLEP rap (Prefix/libc)

2013-08-12 Thread Duncan
eywords. Arch specific profiles WILL HAVE features/rap as A parent and WILL APPEAR AS default/linux/${ARCH}/13.0/rap (Future tense "will", rewording.) Meanwhile, thanks both to you and to everyone working on prefix in all its forms, RAP (which sounds really good to me; I can envisi

[gentoo-dev] Re: Sets in the tree

2013-08-14 Thread Duncan
able between PMs would definitely be useful, but it's definitely not mandatory, and in fact, given that doesn't appear to be doable in anything approaching a practical timeframe, forcing to wait until that occurred would indeed seem to be letting the impossible perfect be the enemy o

[gentoo-dev] Re: git-r3: initial draft for review [v2]

2013-09-03 Thread Duncan
or a tool to 'uncruft' > logs from escape sequences since many people actually benefit from them. ++ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: escape sequences in logs

2013-09-03 Thread Duncan
. Actually, presuming there's already a python implementation to parallel that perl one, it's possible the only thing that would need changed would be portage's default logging command. Pythonistas? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree progra

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: escape sequences in logs

2013-09-03 Thread Duncan
Ulrich Mueller posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:01:28 +0200 as excerpted: > [Please check your e-mail agent. The "References:" header in your > posting was broken.] Thanks. Upstream is aware of the bug but hasn't patched it yet. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML

[gentoo-dev] Re: Can we have process names and stdout / stderr indication to more efficiently parse build logs?

2013-09-03 Thread Duncan
onable luck simply searching/grepping for "error" here. Sure, a lot of packages build *error* files of some sort and they're normally false-positives, but it does cut down the search space considerably, and there's usually only a couple such false-positives to worry about

[gentoo-dev] Re: Can we have process names and stdout / stderr indication to more efficiently parse build logs? (was: Re: rfc: escape sequences in logs)

2013-09-04 Thread Duncan
ink I'd trust it, for the same reason I don't trust the NSA doing similar things under "just trust us" pretenses. Would YOU? (Granted, our implementation would presumably be open, something the NSA most certainly is NOT, but still...) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. N

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH git-r3] Support 'smart' choice of '--depth' for 'git fetch' command.

2013-09-06 Thread Duncan
asional bisection to make shallow clones something I don't want to even /think/ about. If I put the magic incantation in make.conf now, I won't have to worry about it when packages start switching over. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has

[gentoo-dev] Re: bash-completion-2.1-r1

2013-09-09 Thread Duncan
to pay for the "trivial" amount of space taken by such files, particularly so when people who /really/ care about it already have the install-mask solution available. However, that totally skirts another problem as well. If one user on a system wants completion and another doesn&#x

[gentoo-dev] Re: Improve the security of the default profile

2013-09-10 Thread Duncan
hat becomes the default, so letting them know about it with a news item should help avoid at least /some/ of the resulting bugs from such a default-change. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: [Bug 483274] app-text/poppler-0.22.5 Please stabilize

2013-09-16 Thread Duncan
er, 1.2.3 => 1.7.3, as well. Is that still a trivial change? Altho I'm not sure whether kensington changed the version number in his example deliberately, or if that was just a typo, but never-the-less, as posted, the version number changed too, and at least to me, that's not th

[gentoo-dev] Re: News item: m68k, s390, and sh are dropping stable keywords

2013-09-19 Thread Duncan
e first paragraph. Talking about which... perhaps making it a general practice to make the first sentence/paragraph either "notice only", or "user action required", would be a good idea? Maybe even promote it to a general header ("Action status: Notice only", "Action status: Action required" ?), so readers/tools that wish to can sort by it? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: FEATURES="binchecks strip" for plain file packages e.g. latex, perl, python

2013-09-20 Thread Duncan
he packages in question means it's not hurting anything, and attempting to optimize it out is likely to be far more trouble than its worth. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: FEATURES="binchecks strip" for plain file packages e.g. latex, perl, python

2013-09-21 Thread Duncan
Michael Palimaka posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2013 23:27:07 +1000 as excerpted: > On 21/09/2013 10:49, Duncan wrote: >> In addition to what the others have said, FEATURES= ?? AFAIK, FEATURES >> is PM-implementation-specific and not part of PMS. It's not something >> ebuilds/

[gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: initramfs required on Linux systems with separate /usr

2013-09-26 Thread Duncan
ifference for gentooers this time, as it's gentoo that's no longer going to be running interference between upstream and gentoo users in this regard, and that's what has in fact been keeping it working for many gentooers to this point. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No H

[gentoo-dev] rfc: read-only root Was: rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-14 Thread Duncan
ustness dramatically, likely saving a number of users the headache of having to recover a screwed up root, simply because it was mounted writable and didn't happen to be in a consistent state when the system crashed. (Arguably that should be a (sub-)thread of its own, thus the retitled s

[gentoo-dev] Re: Broken ebuilds

2013-10-15 Thread Duncan
nes required by the license and thus the law would be included. And once it's setup, there's actually little reason to limit it to GPLed packages or to three years. Just make read-only access to that repo as public as access to our normal sources, and we should be good to go... it'

[gentoo-dev] Re: Adding large files to the mirrors?

2013-10-16 Thread Duncan
ut non- trivial space requirements, and any way you look at it, 30 gigs of rainbow tables are both non-core and non-trivial, especially with the split package and no-mirror on the big package solution, so... Beyond that, I suppose it'd be a topic for the mirror list. -- Duncan - List repli

[gentoo-dev] Re: official games repository

2013-10-22 Thread Duncan
;> The way our current portage tree is set up basically forces us into an >> all-or-nothing security model for commit access - we don't have layers >> of integration testing to protect users from errors or abuses. >> >> Proxy maintainership is one way around this. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Releng breakage with respect to move from dev-python/python-exec to dev-lang/python-exec

2013-11-03 Thread Duncan
7;t been updated to cover sets or the @world form at all, so the handbook (part 2, Working with Gentoo, chapter 1, A Portage Introduction, doc_chapter 3, Maintaining Software) still uses the bare world form, and there appears to be no discussion of sets (presumably as a new "Portage Sets&qu

[gentoo-dev] Re: Official way to do rolling update (Was: Re: Releng breakage with respect to move from dev-python/python-exec to dev-lang/python-exec)

2013-11-04 Thread Duncan
c to lookup changelogs, ept* for tree, and eal for @smart-live- rebuild. Completing the set are eup (etc-update) and envup (env-update). I have a similar set, but starting with k* instead of e*, for automatic mainline kernel fetching, building, etc. There are git-kernel commands and tarball-kernel commands, tho I've not used the latter in a few years so it could well be bitrotted. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Official way to do rolling update (Was: Re: Releng breakage with respect to move from dev-python/python-exec to dev-lang/python-exec)

2013-11-04 Thread Duncan
Martin Vaeth posted on Mon, 04 Nov 2013 11:17:49 + as excerpted: > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> >> and the default is oneshot > > I would always recommend to put -1 into EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS; > you can still use --select if you really want a new packa

[gentoo-dev] Re: Official way to do rolling update (Was: Re: Releng breakage with respect to move from dev-python/python-exec to dev-lang/python-exec)

2013-11-04 Thread Duncan
x27;s fine, because it's uniquely custom designed for me! =:^) But what makes Unix/Linux/Gentoo great is that this same level of unique custom design is available and exposed to everyone, for their own use as they see fit. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Official way to do rolling update (Was: Re: Releng breakage with respect to move from dev-python/python-exec to dev-lang/python-exec)

2013-11-04 Thread Duncan
Michael Orlitzky posted on Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:23:17 -0500 as excerpted: > On 11/04/2013 04:46 PM, Duncan wrote: >> >> I imagine were emerge being written today, -1 /would/ be the default, >> and there'd be an option like --select to add to the @world file if >>

[gentoo-dev] Re: Policy-level discussion for minimum versions on dependencies

2013-11-06 Thread Duncan
x27;s thoughts. Meanwhile, I like that last subsentence. Maybe time for a new Gentoo slogan? Gentoo: Where doing things differently is the norm! Hey, Apple can "think different", we can "DO different!" =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree pro

[gentoo-dev] Re: friendly reminder wrt net virtual in init scripts

2013-11-06 Thread Duncan
statement uncommented, because > from my knowledge this is wrong/you are hiding important information > everyone should know about: Thanks. I was going to reply with something like this, but your reply was far better than mine would have been. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML

[gentoo-dev] OCSP Was: friendly reminder wrt net virtual in init scripts

2013-11-06 Thread Duncan
d the certs for their own sites into chrome as shipped itself, effectively hard-coding them, NOT as google handling its own OCSP requests, as OCSP cert stapling does. So now I'm wondering if I interpreted wrong then, or if there's actually two different things being referred to as certif

[gentoo-dev] Re: OCSP Was: friendly reminder wrt net virtual in init scripts

2013-11-07 Thread Duncan
Thomas D. posted on Thu, 07 Nov 2013 02:00:29 +0100 as excerpted: > Duncan wrote: >> Meanwhile, another question for Thomas. Is this "certificate stapling" >> the same thing google chrome is now doing for the google site, that >> enabled it to detect the (I think

[gentoo-dev] Re: Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-13 Thread Duncan
dependencies. And similarly, there WILL be more headaches with stuff like package.stable.use overrides, etc, because by domain definition, that sort of additional manual maintenance burden and responsibility comes with the mixed stable/~arch domain. But whether that's considered "un

[gentoo-dev] Re: Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Duncan
;s installation model already involves chroots, so bugs involving chroots in @system at least, by /definition/ involve the affected arch, and should be caught and worked out by releng as a result. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors

2013-11-15 Thread Duncan
r not. However, given the above 3a clause and gentoo's efforts to comply with it, I suppose the whole question of triviality becomes moot. > At least, that's my understanding of copyright. Likewise mine. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors

2013-11-15 Thread Duncan
is arguably similar, tho s// regex replacement can certainly be borderline, but for the triviality test.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Duncan
Ian Stakenvicius posted on Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:30:56 -0500 as excerpted: > On 15/11/13 06:08 AM, Duncan wrote: >> [2] 32-bit for amd64, but could be the reverse, 64-bit for x86, or >> either one for x86-32, or some other combination for other archs. > > Well, not really -- a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-16 Thread Duncan
r. AFAIK > multilib-portage can do this. I'm not sure about multlib-portage, but the chroot option certainly treats them as separate packages, each with its own config, because that's exactly what they are, there! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC

2013-12-11 Thread Duncan
e risk I took when unmasking that ebuild. Now I'd be rather more annoyed if the ebuild pulled a trick like I did in one of my own scripts a few years ago, such that I used the wrong variable name as the absolute prefix to a rm command run as root, and said mis-named variable ended up null... I w

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC

2013-12-13 Thread Duncan
ourse, with gentoo's inittab, init then simply calls rc, but if rc is called directly, how does init know to change its runlevel, as seen as if it were passed on its commandline in top, etc? And what about additional wait/once/respawn entries? How will init know to take care of them? -- Dunca

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC

2013-12-14 Thread Duncan
William Hubbs posted on Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:03:57 -0600 as excerpted: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:53:59PM +0000, Duncan wrote: >> William Hubbs posted on Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:23:07 -0600 as excerpted: >> >>> There are reasons to run the rc binary directly; this i

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global use flags: 3dnowext, mmxext, ssse3, sse4_1, avx, avx2

2013-12-16 Thread Duncan
rt of confusion. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Recommend cronie instead of vixie-cron in handbook?

2013-12-25 Thread Duncan
ctivated. I could try installing an audit tool and configure it to turn that off specifically, but meh, just set a syslog filter for it; the effect is the same either way. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Recommend cronie instead of vixie-cron in handbook?

2013-12-26 Thread Duncan
Daniel Campbell posted on Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:02:31 -0600 as excerpted: > On 12/25/2013 08:43 AM, Duncan wrote: >> >> I [replaced vixie-cron with cronie] too, a few days ago. >> >> TL;DR: Drop-in but for the log-spamming. =:^( >> >> While cronie itself wa

[gentoo-dev] Re: Portage QOS

2014-01-09 Thread Duncan
ow, gentoo needs to figure out how to get past that 250-350 developer threshold, and until/ unless we do, we'll "stagnate" in at least active developer numbers. IOW, it's primarily a social/organizational problem, not a technical problem, tho as with the kernel and bitkeeper a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Portage QOS

2014-01-10 Thread Duncan
ther gentoo users and devs, will find something else to replace it. But gentoo didn't die when zynot was saying those things (ultimately, zynot did), and pardon me for saying so, but I don't see it dieing now, when you're saying them. Instead, the risk of death is if we belief and follow them now, just as it was then. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Question, Portage QOS v3

2014-01-10 Thread Duncan
declared by council to be a defining guideline for in-tree ebuilds. And both those projects are originally/primarily exherbo authored/contributed. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Portage QOS

2014-01-10 Thread Duncan
heroxbd posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2014 07:36:57 +0900 as excerpted: > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> writes: > >> Meanwhile, you might try googling Zynot. That was one early, perhaps >> the first, Gentoo fork. >> >> I remember back in early 2004 > > Wow...

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Duncan
k settings pre-cleared as "safe" by gentoo devs, who in turn now get the ability to change what's in those safe settings (but not whether the user has them activated) as upstream moves things around, making formerly safe and effective values either no longer safe, or no longer eff

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Duncan
logs simply aren't detailed enough and it's too difficult to track down the bugs when they inevitably appear. Git log and if the commit log is interesting enough, git show , is far *FAR* better! =:^) Unfortunately, while it might have been useful for devs, git-r3 has sure been a h

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Duncan
usly and was done with kde with semantic-desktop, period, but fortunately that migration didn't have to happen either. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Duncan
ists all these no-stable packages, such that the PM can (perhaps optionally, I could imagine a setting in make.conf...) list all ~arch versions of those packages on an otherwise stable system as if they were stable, tho possibly marked in some way to indicate that this package isn't a st

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Hosting daily gx86 squashfs images and deltas

2014-01-17 Thread Duncan
t would be roughly an update every two weeks, or twice a month, at which point just downloading a new full squashfs would be easier, at about the same bandwidth. > What do you think? How does this, particularly the metadata cache, interact with overlays? That's /my/ big question. -- Duncan - L

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Hosting daily gx86 squashfs images and deltas

2014-01-17 Thread Duncan
Michał Górny posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:30:00 +0100 as excerpted: > Dnia 2014-01-17, o godz. 19:19:14 Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> > napisał(a): > >> Michał Górny posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:27:30 +0100 as excerpted: >> >> > 96Mpo

[gentoo-dev] Re: overlays.gentoo.org restoration & post-mortem

2014-01-18 Thread Duncan
-right, when I was seeing it below-top, left, on the gentoo homepage. Thanks. Nothing like a real crisis to school people in what was missing from their backups and emergency-preparedness planning. It's easy enough to say "why wasn't...?", from AFTER the fact. =:^\ -- Duncan

[gentoo-dev] Re: Regarding long delays on GLSA generation

2014-01-18 Thread Duncan
question, with now a reasonable answer. =:^) Thanks again. That's a vital bit of gentoo that got stuck for a bit, and I'm very appreciative that /someone/ is doing that hard and unglamorous work without a lot of thanks. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-24 Thread Duncan
But certainly, in a thought experiment, gentoo without the stable tree would be at least as useful as it is now, for some of us, were it not for the practical effect I mention above. --- [1] I remember that I tried with 2004.0, but didn't actually get switched until 2004.1, thus... early 20

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-26 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:59:19 -0500 as excerpted: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> I've often wondered just how much faster gentoo could move, and how >> much better we could keep up with upstream, if we weren

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-26 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:56:24 + as excerpted: > Tho AFAIK both Ubuntu and Fedora have an arm variants... Ugh! Incomplete editing! Me ungrammatical caveman! s/have an arm variants/have arm variants/ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-28 Thread Duncan
a biohazard the rest of the community is now threatened as well and something must be done, thus this thread. [OK, the analogy triggered my imagination and I went with it...] -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Duncan
action-wrap=Chart+This+List > > Notice how the graph goes down near the dates the threads were made; > although, if you would draw an average it would appear to be growing. Both those links give me this: Sorry, you aren't a member of the 'editbugs' group, and so you are n

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Duncan
s lacking with the supposedly stable keyworded version he'd be using now. The only other alternative I can see would be effectively forking the gentoo tree into an arm-overlay, where all those stale arm keyworded packages can live on, supported by the people, including or even explicitly users,

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Duncan
above link before repetitive use in the future, and at least make it a useful sentence, not simply the one word, because especially when repeated, that single one word really does look childish and tends to increase frustration and reduce the quality of the discussion.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-06 Thread Duncan
Tom Wijsman posted on Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:10:53 +0100 as excerpted: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:07:48 + (UTC) > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> Tom Wijsman posted on Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:58:22 +0100 as excerpted: >> >> > Can we do something ab

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-06 Thread Duncan
William Hubbs posted on Thu, 06 Feb 2014 12:26:08 -0600 as excerpted: > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.dgi?id=487332 s/dgi/cgi/ Try this one: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487332 -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Thank you

2014-02-19 Thread Duncan
f respect and appreciation for their work. Now, every time I install a package [...] I pause and think: "Thank you to the person who spent many hours configuring and building this application so that I didn’t have to." End quote. So here I am. Thanks! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Duncan
asn't complaining, as a user who doesn't yet have gtk3 installed and who hopes to convert all my installed gtk dependers to gtk3 at once and kill gtk2 at the same time I install gtk3 when the time comes, I do appreciate the new policy, as it'll be that much easier to track what

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