Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Was: Getting Important Updates To Users)

2005-11-05 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Saturday 05 November 2005 06:08, Jason Stubbs wrote: > Why does `emerge --changelog` not suffice for package-specific news? >From a user/sys.admin point of view let me give you an example; I maintain quite a lot Gentoo-systems. For me it's impossible to read _every_ changelog for minor releas

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stepping aside...

2005-12-23 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Friday 23 December 2005 16:44, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > Hi all > > It is with deep regret that I want to inform you about my decision to step > down from the position of Gentoo Documentation lead. I just want to say thank you very much for the outstanding work you (and the rest of the GDP-team)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2006-12-24 23:59 UTC

2006-12-26 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 02:04, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed > from the tree, for the week ending 2006-12-24 23h59 UTC. > > Removals: > x11-misc/emerald-themes 2006-12-20 01:00:59 tsunam > > Additions:

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 stablisation plans

2007-07-23 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Saturday 21 July 2007 16:36:03 Roy Marples wrote: > This is just a heads up for getting baselayout-2 stable. Next week I > plan to put baselayout-2.0.0_rc1 into the tree without any keywords and > it will be removed from package.mask (keeping the current alphas masked > though). Arch teams w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo could become certified for IBM Server Hardware

2005-05-04 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 11:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > i just returned from a meeting with IBM which was about getting > support for Gentoo Linux (hardware and software). The people from IBM > told me that it's possible for Gentoo to become officially supported > on IBM server hardwa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo could become certified for IBM Server Hardware

2005-05-04 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Thursday 05 May 2005 01:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > For us to support LSB: > > * We'd have to use RPM instead of portage That's not correct, quote from LSB: "The distribution itself may use a different packaging format for its own packages, and of course it may use any available mechanism for

Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs is dead, let's move on

2005-07-08 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Thursday 07 July 2005 00:46, Greg KH wrote: > Ok, now that devfs is removed from the 2.6 kernel tree[1], I think it's > time to start to revisit some of the /dev naming rules that we currently > are living with[2]. > > To start with, the 061 version of udev offers a big memory savings if > you u

Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs is dead, let's move on

2005-07-08 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Saturday 09 July 2005 00:25, Greg KH wrote: > > I.o.w. is it still necessary to have RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" as a > > default or can we move to a pure udev system and change the default to > > "no". > > I've been running my boxes successfully with "no" since the option > showed up just fine :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs is dead, let's move on

2005-07-08 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Saturday 09 July 2005 01:35, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > I think people is under a misconception about this option and ... you > really only need to enable this for a driver that is not sysfs aware > (nvidia comes to mind - any others?) nvidia is also sysfs-aware and /dev-entries are created with

Re: [gentoo-dev] New MySQL doc

2005-07-12 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 06:38, Chris White wrote: > Here's the initial devspace draft of the new MySQL draft I've been working > on: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html > > Comments, etc are welcome. This is a very good guide! Thanks a lot!! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devconference archives

2005-08-15 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Monday 15 August 2005 05:25, Corey Shields wrote: > Archive links for the complete morning and afternoon sessions are at > http://devconference.gentoo.org > -Corey Hi Corey (and IU), Thanks a lot! Is it possible to download the media-files instead of streaming? This makes it a lot easier to

Re: [gentoo-dev] dts useflag

2005-08-17 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Thursday 18 August 2005 05:29, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > maillog: 18/08/2005-03:03:40(+0200): Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò types > > media-video/mplayer:dts - Enables libdts (5.1 surround sound audio) support > > I'll commit this tomorrow, when I'll be sure it's ok after an awake > > check. If no

Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-21 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Friday 21 October 2005 04:56, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:49 pm, Dan Meltzer wrote: > > Why single out this one? ones system will not break irreperbly > > without a cxx compiler, it'll just cause a another recompile to get it > > to work after breakage if the person i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-30 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Sunday 30 October 2005 10:06, Wernfried Haas wrote: > 4) Forums. We have the News and Announcements box on the forums and we >will set sticky threads upon request. In fact we even stick threads >and posts announcements if we encounter something worth mentioning >in our opinion. Since

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

2005-11-02 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 02:29, Brian Harring wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:16:35PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > | How will it handle GLSAs then? [1] > > > > gentoolkit != portage. > > Correct. Course, also incorrect. A plan for handling GLSA's from portage (emerge --security) wa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > > Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 13.06 +0100, Sebastian Pipping ha > scritto: > > > > If anyone considers masking glibc 2.13 for now: please take my vote. > > It should have been masked _beforehand_, masking it now is going to > cause mo