Re: [gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION size

2009-05-17 Thread Petteri Räty
Mounir Lamouri wrote: > Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> The devmanual also says "Where possible, try to keep lines no wider >> than 80 positions." which would limit DESCRIPTION to 66 characters. >> >> These are guidelines, not strict rules. Keep it shorter if it's >> reasonably possible. >> > Even guid

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Files owned by multiple slots

2009-05-17 Thread Petteri Räty
Sven wrote: > Gilles Dartiguelongue gentoo.org> writes: so this wrapper could be installed in a separate eselect sort of package ? >>> How exactly can this be done? If a gem creates five executables, would >>> this mean that this gem comes in six ebuilds? >> well given the next answer,

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI Changes

2009-05-17 Thread Petteri Räty
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 2009 02:31:45 +0300 > Petteri Räty wrote: >>> On the other hand you also have to make sure you have a stable >>> portage for a time long enough so mostly everyone has it installed. >>> Otherwise you could break users

Re: [gentoo-dev] blocking mixed versions of split QT libraries

2009-05-18 Thread Petteri Räty
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 2009 13:04:27 +0300 > Alex Alexander wrote: >> Unfortunately we've got reports from paludis users stating that they >> can't update QT from qting-edge anymore. > > Paludis treats blocks as strong, the way Portage used to and the way > PMS defined them until

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-doc/afsdoc (Jun 1 2009)

2009-05-20 Thread Petteri Räty
Ryan Hill wrote: > Masked this a couple weeks ago but forgot to announce it: > > - old old old docs for the AFS file system, which get installed with > net-fs/openafs USE=doc anyways > - not touched since 2005 > - unmaintained > > Was this posted to -dev-announce as I see nothing there? Regard

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Support Everywhere

2009-05-20 Thread Petteri Räty
Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 18:43, Petteri Räty wrote: >> Jesús Guerrero wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> This is a request for comments on a new project, >>> namely "Gentoo Support Everywhere". >>> >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gse/ >>> >>> >> New projects must be announced

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Support Everywhere

2009-05-20 Thread Petteri Räty
Jesús Guerrero wrote: > Hello, > > This is a request for comments on a new project, > namely "Gentoo Support Everywhere". > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gse/ > New projects must be announced via gentoo-dev-announce and I haven't see a mail although project pages exist. Also I don't see how t

Re: [gentoo-dev] RfC: News item for Baselayout 2 stabilisation

2009-05-20 Thread Petteri Räty
> A lot has changed from Baselayout version 1.x to 2.0.0, so all users > should take a look at the upgrade guide found at > >http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml > > to not break their systems. You will likely see an update of > sys-apps/baselayout in the near future: After

Re: [gentoo-dev] RfC: News item for Baselayout 2 stabilisation

2009-05-20 Thread Petteri Räty
Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > there is no set date, but I want to post a GLEP 42 news item before the > actual stabilisation. Maybe other channels like the web page can carry > that news then, too. Please comment the attached news item. > Vapier wanted to know, if it is possible that th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RfC: News item for Baselayout 2 stabilisation

2009-05-22 Thread Petteri Räty
Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > Petteri Räty : >>> there is no set date, but I want to post a GLEP 42 news item before >>> the actual stabilisation. Maybe other channels like the web page >>> can carry that news then, too. Please comment the attached

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-22 Thread Petteri Räty
William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > I need some opinions about accessibility on our release media. > > I am requesting that we add the following to all of our release media > for amd64 and x86: > > app-accessibility/espeak (with portaudio in use so it supports alsa) > app-accessibility/espeakup > ap

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-24 Thread Petteri Räty
Andrew Gaffney wrote: > On 05/24/2009 05:32 AM, Roy Bamford wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 2009.05.24 02:44, William Hubbs wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Random reply to thread >>> William Hubbs >>> gentoo accessibility team lead >>> willi...@gentoo.org >>> >> >> Put al

[gentoo-dev] New feature for python eclass for review

2009-05-25 Thread Petteri Räty
I wrote support to the python eclass to make sure python version used to install has support for needed use flags. With current EAPIs I can't think of a way to do this without a pkg_setup check but feel free to surprise me. Regards, Petteri Index: python.eclass

Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding Gentoo CDs and accessibility sizes

2009-05-25 Thread Petteri Räty
Andrew Gaffney wrote: > On 05/25/2009 07:44 PM, Keith Hinton wrote: >> Hello, >> I'm afraidd I'm not seeing the size issues. Adding Speech to a >> LiveCD should not effect the operations of the minimal installation >> CDs that much. >> However, one thing I would suggest is to please be aware of t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-geosciences/osm2mp

2009-05-26 Thread Petteri Räty
Hanno Böck wrote: > osm2mp was a tool needed for conversion of openstreetmap maps into an > intermediate format, which could be used for further conversion into garmin > maps with mkgmap. > > Latest versions of mkgmap accept osm files as an input, osm2mp is not > maintained and imho not of any

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-analyzer/ns and net-analyzer/nam

2009-05-26 Thread Petteri Räty
Federico Ferri wrote: > # Federico Ferri (26 May 2008) > # Deprecated cause depending on unmaintained dev-tcltk/otcl. > # Everything being moved to 'abandonware' overlay. > # Possible replacement: net-misc/gns3 (sunrise overlay) > # Going for removal in ~30 days if no one objects. > # removal bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-05-26 Thread Petteri Räty
lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: > So, "::" vs "@" apart, is it something that is worth looking and > implementing in future EAPIs? > I don't see the main tree referring to other repositories any time soon so this is not a pressing issue. But as said earlier this makes sense for /etc/portage stuff s

Re: [gentoo-dev] New feature for python eclass for review

2009-05-27 Thread Petteri Räty
Petteri Räty wrote: > I wrote support to the python eclass to make sure python version used to > install has support for needed use flags. With current EAPIs I can't > think of a way to do this without a pkg_setup check but feel free to > surprise me. > > Regards, >

[gentoo-dev] New variables to control python.eclass

2009-05-27 Thread Petteri Räty
If you need python compiled with certain use flags, there's now better support for checking those in the python eclass. The variables are: PYTHON_USE_WITH PYTHON_USE_WITH_OR PYTHON_USE_WITH_OPT For details on usage re-emerge eclass-manpages and see man python.eclass. Regards, Petteri signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Patch to remove JAVA_PKG_VNEED support from java-utils-2.eclass

2009-05-31 Thread Petteri Räty
Alistair Bush wrote: > This patch removes the functionality within java-utils-2.eclass to > record and pass to java-config old style virtuals. > This functionality is not utilized within any repo that I know about and > is _most probably_ horribly broken anyway. > > _ALL_ ebuilds that are using th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2009/2010 - Nominations are now open

2009-06-01 Thread Petteri Räty
t the nominations by nominating Mart Raudsepp > (leio), Petteri Räty (betelgeuse), and Luca Barbato (lu_zero) [all of > them are CCed] > Another year of following overly long GLEP threads, who would refuse? Any way consider me as running again. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jun 11th, 2009 Council Meeting Format

2009-06-02 Thread Petteri Räty
Doug Goldstein wrote: > All, > > The current council meetings have gotten completely out of hand for > weeks meetings have become nothing more then a continuation of the > senseless bicker-fest that have become the e-mail threads on GLEP54, > GLEP55, and EAPI-3 without any real progress or sense c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal?

2009-06-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Ulrich Mueller wrote: > In last week's council meeting a policy for removal of old eclasses > has been defined: > , > | The council voted that to remove eclasses devs should take the > | following steps: > |1) Deprecate eclasses. > |2) Removal of all functionality relating to installing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal?

2009-06-07 Thread Petteri Räty
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > Petteri Räty wrote: >> Ulrich Mueller wrote: > ... >>> A quick scan shows that the following eclasses were deprecated more >>> than three years ago, and are used by no ebuild in the tree: >>> >>>2002-05-25 in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

2009-06-12 Thread Petteri Räty
Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > To count into the same bucket we use global identifiers for the > "products" that fall out of a package. Gentoo package "dev-util/git" > can produce product "cpe://a:git:git", Debian's "git-core" can, too. > That string before is a CPE URI [1], a concept close to pack

Re: [gentoo-dev] Detecting Baselayout2/OpenRC from init.d scripts (summary of debate and plans from bug 270646)

2009-06-12 Thread Petteri Räty
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Hi folks, > > This is a summary of how to detect Baselayout-2/OpenRC from within > init.d scripts. We raised it in January, without any actual final > agreement: > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_5959bcfaf3ba566c551823039643f5c5.xml > How about we don't do run

Re: [gentoo-dev] Screenshot contest 2009

2009-06-13 Thread Petteri Räty
Markos Chandras wrote: > Hello fellow devs, > > Back in 2007 , a screenshot contest took place[1]. How about running a second > one this year? > > As a quick draft, the following rules may apply > > 1) Users can submit only one screenshot > 2) The deadline will be the 30th of July 2009 > 3) Dev

Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

2009-06-13 Thread Petteri Räty
Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Petteri Räty wrote: >> Sebastian Pipping wrote: >>> To count into the same bucket we use global identifiers for the >>> "products" that fall out of a package. Gentoo package "dev-util/git" >>> can produce product &

Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

2009-06-13 Thread Petteri Räty
Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Petteri Räty wrote: >> I mean making metadata.xml the authoritative source for mapping CPE to >> Gentoo packages. I don't want to see the situation when adding new >> packages to the tree would need some mapping being done in an external >>

Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

2009-06-15 Thread Petteri Räty
Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > > Can I have a few more voices on this?: Would you clearly feel more > comfortable and motivated to contribute to PackageMap if it works > at your distro's source package? > You are somewhat missing the point. My point is that most developers probably don't want to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit

2009-06-15 Thread Petteri Räty
Mounir Lamouri wrote: > > So, where are we right now ? > The planning says "every basic features should be done June 15th". > Actually, I still have to do 2 features : list update candidates and do > update. Every other basic features (install, remove, sync, details, dep, > reverse-dep, groups, ..

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Council meeting summary for meeting on June 11, 2009

2009-06-20 Thread Petteri Räty
Denis Dupeyron wrote: >> probably belongs in -project. > > Not even in -project, it simply wasn't public mailing-list material. > For those who haven't understood yet, the -dev and -project mailing > lists are not for keeping us informed of your random thought of the > day or lamenting about > why

Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

2009-06-20 Thread Petteri Räty
Sebastian Pipping wrote: > I start to understand the real benefits of moving a larger > part of the maintenance down to the distro level as you proposed. > > Okay, let's add support for CPEs at distro package level > and sync up and down with the central packagemap database. > Please contact me fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Illegal news item name

2009-06-20 Thread Petteri Räty
Dale wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: >> Vlastimil Babka wrote: >>> The question is what to do now, rename it? Users will then see it again, >>> and I don't know if there are even worse consequences. >> AFAIK, seeing it again is the worst that will happen. The cvs -> >> rsync script will ensure that the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 25

2009-06-22 Thread Petteri Räty
Thomas Anderson wrote: > (This is late because I was traveling and dev-zero is/was on devaway.) > > This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd & 4th > Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > irc.freenode.net) ! > > If you have something you'd

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-25 Thread Petteri Räty
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ciaran McCreesh > wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:20:09 +0530 >> Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >>> Allowing him to proxy in a council meeting is both disallowed >>> (non-gentoo devs cannot be on the council) >> Please point to the rule that sa

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eselect news item for X11 on alphas

2009-06-30 Thread Petteri Räty
Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > >> As for my news item, what I'm not entirely sure about are the >> Displa-If- headers (What I'm aiming for is to reach people who have >> installed *either* xorg-x11 (and thus -server) or just xorg-server >> on any alpha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New eselect news item for kdeprefix

2009-07-01 Thread Petteri Räty
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:00:35 +0300 > Theo Chatzimichos wrote: >> On Wednesday 01 July 2009 16:25:11 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:45:29 +0300 >>> >>> Theo Chatzimichos wrote: Display-If-Installed: kde-base/kdelibs >>> Really? Anyone who has any vers

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-11 Thread Petteri Räty
On 11.03.2012 04:53, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:27 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> here is the udev 181 unmasking news item. >> >> If all goes well, this will be committed to the tree on 3/14 UTC. > > I guess this might be OK for unstable, but before this goes stable we > really

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-11 Thread Petteri Räty
On 11.3.2012 17.33, Zac Medico wrote: > On 03/11/2012 04:03 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: >> The Display-If-Installed atom shows the news item to stable users once >> it's committed. I am not sure at what point does Portage show it when >> the atom is >= so we might

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-11 Thread Petteri Räty
On 11.3.2012 23.43, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:28:19PM +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: >> On 11.3.2012 17.33, Zac Medico wrote: >>> On 03/11/2012 04:03 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: >>>> The Display-If-Installed atom shows the news item to stable users

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-13 Thread Petteri Räty
On 12.3.2012 1.15, William Hubbs wrote: >> >> How do you plan to handle notifying stable users if you go with > I was thinking of another news item once we are ready to go stable. > > What do you think? > > William > We could reuse the same news item if we now release it as >= and then releas

Re: [gentoo-dev] About validate_desktop_entries in eutils.eclass

2012-04-29 Thread Petteri Räty
On 15.04.2012 17:12, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El dom, 15-04-2012 a las 16:02 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: >> On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:59:50 +0200 >> Pacho Ramos wrote: >> >>> I am unsure about validate_desktop_entries() utility. It's currently >>> provided by eutils.eclass and only called by net-firewa

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds!

2012-05-23 Thread Petteri Räty
On 22.5.2012 8.53, Michał Górny wrote: >>> >> Excuse me but the way this change was handled is a bit depressing. >> First, the ebuilds should have been fixed to inherit eutils and then >> remove eutils from autotools. Now, a bunch of ebuilds are broken out >> of nowhere. I don't believe this issue

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] A news item covering PYTHON_TARGETS

2012-10-29 Thread Petteri Räty
On 29.10.2012 18:15, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> > > Good idea to inform users. > > Is there a way to have this news item go away, say after a year or so? > Every time I do a fresh install, I get hit with a couple of > "perpetual" news items, and it is a little annoying. > News items were designed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Merging the devrel handbook into the devmanual

2012-11-01 Thread Petteri Räty
On 31.10.2012 14.39, Michael Palimaka wrote: > Hi all, > > In bug #304435[1], hwoarang suggested merging the devrel handbook[2] > into the devmanual[3]. > > As the project has grown, so has the amount - and dispersion - of > development information. I believe consolidation of this information > i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright issues (Was: udev-ng?)

2012-11-19 Thread Petteri Räty
On 19.11.2012 18.33, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: >> Anthony G. Basile wrote: >>> The answer appears to be that a file is the unit >> >> I personally consider it to be smaller; a number of lines within >> a file, or even a single line, all depending on

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread Petteri Räty
On 18.11.2012 6.28, Greg KH wrote: > > Also, you can not assign copyright to a third party, unless you have a > copyright assignment form. Do the developers doing this work have such > a form assigned? And in what country and state is that form valid for? > Different countries, and states, have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright issues (Was: udev-ng?)

2012-11-19 Thread Petteri Räty
On 19.11.2012 19.02, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 07:41:54AM -0500, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> Thank you for these responses because they did help me understand >> copyright/left better. I appreciate your expertise in the matter >> and would hope I can draw on it again in the future,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: net-proxy/paros, net-misc/ups-monitor, app-emulation/mol, net-wireless/fsam7400, net-wireless/acx, net-wireless/acx-firmware, net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-modules, net-wirele

2012-11-30 Thread Petteri Räty
On 24.11.2012 23.12, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > # Pacho Ramos (24 Nov 2012) > # Doesn't build against recent kernels (#247898), all its supported > # devices are not supported by latest kernels. Removal in a month. > net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-modules > net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-utils > net-wireles

Re: [gentoo-dev] January stabilization candidates

2013-01-22 Thread Petteri Räty
On 13.1.2013 0.49, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > Please review attached automatically generated stabilization candidates > for January. > > I don't want to annoy people with automatically filed bugs, and at the > same time I also received lots of positive feedback about the effort to > keep the sta

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

2013-06-20 Thread Petteri Räty
On 20.6.2013 14.01, Matthew Thode wrote: > On 06/20/2013 03:39 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> The final outcome I would love to see is that everybody eventually >> graduates from kindergarten :-) >> And perhaps introduce a "culture-fit" score in the recruiting, >> mentoring process. >> > As an emplo

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

2013-06-20 Thread Petteri Räty
On 20.6.2013 16.07, Matthew Thode wrote: > On 06/20/2013 07:49 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: >> On 20.6.2013 14.01, Matthew Thode wrote: >>> On 06/20/2013 03:39 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >>>> The final outcome I would love to see is that everybody eventually &g

[gentoo-dev] RFC: cleaning away old news items

2013-11-24 Thread Petteri Räty
Hi everyone, when doing a fresh installation I noticed that during I get to see many old news items. There used to be a problem with Portage so no news items could be removed. I think that has now been fixed for years so we should be able to do this without problems. How about we start by cleaning

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News item: GCC 4.8.3 defaults to -fstack-protector

2014-06-10 Thread Petteri Räty
On 10.6.2014 5.31, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 18:16:02 -0600 > Ryan Hill wrote: > >> Beginning with GCC 4.8.3, Stack Smashing Protection (SSP) will be >> enabled by default.[..] > > .. on supported architectures. > > > Right? > I would rather make news items architecture spec

[gentoo-dev] net-wireless/package.masked pending removal

2006-06-24 Thread Petteri Räty
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75674#c8 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48686#c1 Copied from second link: > I have announced the end-of-life for this package on gentoo-dev and > gentoo-user, as: > > 1) It only compiles against gtk+-1.2, which is highly outdated. > 2) It only compi

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-wireless/gtkskan package.masked pending removal

2006-06-24 Thread Petteri Räty
Petteri Räty wrote: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75674#c8 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48686#c1 > > Copied from second link: > >> I have announced the end-of-life for this package on gentoo-dev and >> gentoo-user, as: >> >> 1) It o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing gnophone from tree

2006-06-25 Thread Petteri Räty
Gustavo Felisberto wrote: > Gnophone is upstream dead. Does not build in amd64 (and probably other arches) > failling on configure. > > I'm going to give this two weeks an then remove it if no one offers to solve > this problems. (There is no open bug so one should contact me directly) > What is

[gentoo-dev] last ritest for dev-java/saxon-bin

2006-07-30 Thread Petteri Räty
the from sources version. Regards, Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Reminder about the need to revision bump virtual providers when migrating to new style virtuals

2006-08-20 Thread Petteri Räty
When migrating to new style virtuals you must revision bump everything providing the new style virtual to get rid of the PROVIDE files in /var/db/pkg. ./app-admin/gamin-0.1.7/PROVIDE:virtual/fam If you do not do this, Portage considers the virtual installed without actually looking at the new sty

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer - Vlastimil Babka

2006-09-09 Thread Petteri Räty
Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > Bordering with Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Poland you find the Czech > Republic, smack bang in the centre you find Prague, one of my all time > favourite places to go for a long weekend of cheap beer and much fun. > Beer isn't all that comes out of this place though,

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Jeffrey Gardner (je_fro)

2006-10-06 Thread Petteri Räty
It's my pleasure to introduce to you Jeffrey "je_fro" Gardner, the latest addition joining to help out with the scientific packages. He hails from Houston, Texas. He is currently a 3rd year graduate student at the University of Houston and already has a BS in biochemistry Because of that he somet

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Timothy Redaelli (drizzt)

2006-10-08 Thread Petteri Räty
zzt and give him the usual warm welcome. -- Petteri Räty (betelgeuse) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Jurek Bartuszek (jurek)

2006-10-21 Thread Petteri Räty
ved girlfriend, Kate. In my free time I take care of my two dogs, enjoy watching movies (action, drama and suspence ;D), listening to rock and electronic music (Rammstein and J.M.Jarre rule!) and travelling." So please welcome give jurek the usual warm welcome. -- Petteri Räty (betelgeuse)

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Piotr Jaroszyński (peper)

2006-10-22 Thread Petteri Räty
spent a part of the last summer at a windsurfing camp on Rhodes. Hopefully his time as a Gentoo developer won't be as windy as his hobbies. So please welcome give peper the usual warm welcome. -- Petteri Räty (betelgeuse) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Ryan Hill (dirtyepic)

2006-10-22 Thread Petteri Räty
Patrick McLean kirjoitti: > Petteri Räty wrote: >> He hails from a town that most can't pronounce correctly, namely >> Saskatchewan, Canada. He has an interesting day job. He writes about it > > Saskatchewan isn't a town, it's a province. > Damn, better

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: persistence of eclasses for installed packages

2006-11-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Zac Medico kirjoitti: > > What do people think about these two approaches? Personally, I > would prefer approach #2 for the sake of simplicity and > maintainability. The sooner that we start storing eclasses.tbz2 for > each installed package, the sooner that we will be able to have more > freedo

[gentoo-dev] New GDP developer: Dimitry Bradt

2006-11-04 Thread Petteri Räty
s hands dirty on the ebuild tree. He hails from Veurne, Belgium. He has studied Multimedia and web development technology and graduated a few years back. His hobbies include hacking into code, organising LAN parties, giving computer/Linux lessons and going out. So please give diox the usual warm welco

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Cédric Krier

2006-11-12 Thread Petteri Räty
iny company. He likes independent movies, music and comic strips (manga). During he his free time he also likes to go climbing. So please give cedk the usual warm welcome. -- Petteri Räty (betelgeuse) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] bugstest.gentoo.org - public beta for the new Gentoo BugZilla - please test!

2006-11-18 Thread Petteri Räty
gi?id=111507 My name should be Petteri Räty instead of Petteri R. Regards, Petteri Räty. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/udev/rules.d nightmare - orphaned files in /etc

2006-11-25 Thread Petteri Räty
Sven Köhler kirjoitti: > Hi, > > i had some orphaned files in /etc/udev/rules.d. Namely 40-fuse.rules and > 60-fuse.rules. > > The files were never removed, since they are protected - aren't they? > Yeah config protected files are never removed. That is the whole point of configuration file pr

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Alexander Gabert (pappy) returns from retirement

2006-11-25 Thread Petteri Räty
It is my pleasure to announce that Alexander "pappy" Gabert is returning from retirement to battle the hardened bugs. Retired sometime in 2004, he is now again interested in being blessed with a @gentoo.org email address. Nowadays he lives in Trier, Germany and is reaching his thirties. That's abo

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Alexander Gabert (pappy) returns from retirement

2006-11-25 Thread Petteri Räty
Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:01:50 +0200 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | So please welcome pappy back to the dev community with the usual > | rites. > > Welcome back. It's good to see that the restrictions upon developers > r

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add ALSA_CARDS to USE_EXPAND

2006-11-30 Thread Petteri Räty
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò kirjoitti: > On Thursday 30 November 2006 22:40, Marius Mauch wrote: >> Not if you take care of providing the proper defaults in >> make.defaults (the sample above should not be the default). > Forgot to say, if no ALSA_CARDS is set, the default is enabling everything > (

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Bugday lead!

2006-12-07 Thread Petteri Räty
Bryan Østergaard kirjoitti: > Hi all. > > It's a pleassure to announce Alexander Færøy (eroyf) as the new Bugday > lead. He's been working hard the last several months to improve the > Bugday project. I'm sure he'll be able to carry on the project and get > lots of new, exciting ideas rolling. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-misc/cidr

2006-12-16 Thread Petteri Räty
Elfyn McBratney kirjoitti: > Hullo list, > > Upstream for net-misc/cidr has disappeared (their homepage has been dead > for a long long time according to archive.org), and a cursory check on > the Internets doesn't yield a new home. Masked accordingly, pending > removal on 2006-12-25 - 14 days ti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] USE_EXPAND variable to choose ALSA PCM plugins

2006-12-16 Thread Petteri Räty
Ryan Hill kirjoitti: > > I don't think the average user, even the average Gentoo user, has any > idea what any of these plug-ins do, how they work, and which ones they > need. This is getting a bit too complicated. Is there any way to > install everything as we've always done but still provide s

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Christian Marie (pingu)

2006-12-18 Thread Petteri Räty
olutionsfirst.com.au), which is best described as providing commercial support for open source software. Although he is a youngster compared to some of us, he has been programming in his spare time for six years. So please give pingu the usual warm welcome. -- Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse) signa

Re: [gentoo-dev] USB disks - idea/question

2006-12-22 Thread Petteri Räty
Sven Köhler kirjoitti: > Hi, > > so as you plugin a USB-disk, the kernel will recognize it, and it will > be called sda, sdb, sdc or whatever ... > > I don't like that - why doesn't it get some more usefull device-name? > Some device name, that > a) indicates, that it is usb (for example put them

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Robert Buchholz (rbu)

2006-12-27 Thread Petteri Räty
read whenever I have time, mostly German authors or classics. I am addicted to espresso- and coffee drinks." So please give rbu the usual warm welcome. -- Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] dev-java/kunststoff-bin is no more

2006-12-27 Thread Petteri Räty
instead. Regards, Petteri Räty signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Packages for grabs

2007-01-01 Thread Petteri Räty
As arj is retiring (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51665) the following list of packages are still without a maintainer: dev-db/sqlite dev-db/sqliteodbc dev-util/archway dev-util/bazaar dev-util/tla If you dec

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] transition system loggers to 'adm' user/group

2007-01-01 Thread Petteri Räty
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò kirjoitti: > On Monday 01 January 2007 10:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> how do people feel about transitioning the Gentoo standard system logger >> from running as root/root to adm/adm ? the latest version of sysklogd >> includes some patches so that it can run as non-ro

[gentoo-dev] Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-01 Thread Petteri Räty
It already works in ~arch so will hit stable too sometime in the future. Regards, Petteri R=C3=A4ty signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-01 Thread Petteri Räty
Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:12:09 +0200 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | It already works in ~arch so will hit stable too sometime in the > | future. > > Better to say, you might soon be able to get away with it, but don't &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-01 Thread Petteri Räty
Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:28:10 +0200 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > | > On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:12:09 +0200 Petteri Räty > | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | It already works in ~arch

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog)

2007-01-01 Thread Petteri Räty
onal side he is married and has a little daughter. He likes soccer, taking trips on bikes and hiking. In his dark past he has contributed to the Mozilla Open Directory Project and learned how to code in a bunch of different programming languages. So please give fordfrog the usual froggy welcome.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dieing inside subshells will soon work

2007-01-02 Thread Petteri Räty
Mike Frysinger kirjoitti: > On Monday 01 January 2007 15:12, Petteri Räty wrote: >> It already works in ~arch so will hit stable too sometime in the future. > > until it completely works (versus just mostly works), why mention this ? > it'd > be better to cont

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Raúl Porcel (armin76)

2007-01-07 Thread Petteri Räty
walking, fixing things, formulas, cars and learning. He is experienced in networking and coding LAMP stuff. In his dark past the has scripted/coded mIRC stuff :) So please give armin76 the usual welcome. PS. He is not born in 1976. -- Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse) signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

2007-01-07 Thread Petteri Räty
Ivan Sakhalin kirjoitti: >- Reduce the rules so that things can be done without a week of > discussion for every small idea I have yet to see people refuse written code that has no technical problems so instead of talking about how to implement stuff, go out there and write it instead. >

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Petteri Räty
Michael Sullivan kirjoitti: >> I have been doing most recruits lately. There has always been a steady >> flow of good people wanting to become devs so that is not a problem. The >> biggest problem is having enough people interested in guiding new people >> and making sure they have good enough skil

[gentoo-dev] Timetable for removing digest-* files

2007-01-09 Thread Petteri Räty
As the Manifest 2 format makes the digest-* files unnecessary, does anyone have a timetable for removing the digest files? Would be great if we could make this one of the features of 2007.0. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Marijn Schouten (hkBst)

2007-01-10 Thread Petteri Räty
It's my pleasure to introduce to you Marijn "hkBst" Schouten. He is joining us to take care of the packages related to the weird programming language called scheme. He hails from Zeist, near Utrecht in the Netherlands. This is how he describes himself: "I'm working on my combined master thesis for

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-11 Thread Petteri Räty
Piotr Jaroszyński kirjoitti: > Hello, > > After yesterday epkgmove fun I thought that it would be nice to have some > control on when our cvstree is synced with mirrors. My first very basic idea > is just to put a block_sync file in the tree when smth big is going on, like > new kde version sta

[gentoo-dev] Changing licenses/BSD

2007-01-13 Thread Petteri Räty
Anyone oppose the attached patch for making the BSD license more readable? I just came across this way for writing it in one package and think it would be easier to understand this way. Regards, Petteri Index: BSD === RCS file: /var/c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing licenses/BSD

2007-01-14 Thread Petteri Räty
Roy Marples wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:44:24 +0200 > Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Anyone oppose the attached patch for making the BSD license more >> readable? I just came across this way for writing it in one package >> and think it would

Re: [gentoo-dev] ecompress heads up

2007-01-26 Thread Petteri Räty
Mike Frysinger wrote: > the new version of portage has customizable compression ... this is cool as > now people can do bzip/gzip/whatever > > the downside is that it breaks with packages that assume everything is > compressed with gzip ... so here is a list of common things ebuilds should > no

Re: [gentoo-dev] ecompress heads up

2007-01-26 Thread Petteri Räty
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 26 January 2007 14:03, Petteri Räty wrote: >> Wouldn't it be better to make doman gunzip and recompress until packages >> have been fixed. Now users are getting broken man pages with recent >> portage. https://bugs.gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/mozilla[-bin]

2007-01-27 Thread Petteri Räty
Raúl Porcel wrote: > # Raúl Porcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (27 Jan 2007) > # Masked for removal 26 Feb 2007, bug 135257, security issues > # Replaced by www-client/seamonkey[-bin] > www-client/mozilla > www-client/mozilla-bin > How about not breaking the tree? !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "www

Re: [gentoo-dev] DB vs SCM (was Re: [RFC] Some sync control)

2007-01-27 Thread Petteri Räty
Steve Long wrote: > Hi, > > Please note, I'm not talking about applications like portage or pkgcore, > just the ebuild text files, which I understand have one maintainer? > Many ebuilds are in maintained by a bunch of people via herds. > > I appreciate that source control is needed to maintain f

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