Re: [gentoo-dev] How to support C++11 in libraries?

2013-12-20 Thread Sven Eden
dd > a new virtual function to a base class in .) This is why C++11 > support is still labelled "experimental", because it would be worse to claim > it's stable and then have to break the ABI. So basically C++11 <-> C++03 is no problem at all (unless you *export* ce

[gentoo-dev] New package "eid-viewer", is app-misc ok?

2014-03-08 Thread Sven Vermeulen
er doesn't seem to perform anything cryptographic-related. So - is app-misc ok? Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Namespace for users created for packages

2014-03-26 Thread Sven Vermeulen
; So the question is, what would you think about such a policy in Gentoo? I'm in favor. It shouldn't be used as *the* check to make sure that an account is a functional (non-interactive/daemon) account (for that there is also the user id range and so on) but for visibility it's definitely worth persuing. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles?

2014-05-30 Thread Sven Vermeulen
;s still goes well. The last Dracut generated initramfs also failed on SELinux systems, but that isn't something that cannot be worked around... Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multilib dependencies need to have >= on least version having EAPI=5 or multilib support

2014-06-19 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:13:12AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Hi, developers and users. [...] > Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions, please do > not hesitate to ask. Hi Michał Thank you for your endless effort to get Gentoo to this stage (and further). Wkr,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-22 Thread Sven Vermeulen
hould be focused on trying to think about how to >standardize a way for distinguish between revision bumps needing full >rebuild or only VDB updates :| As someone who regularly adds in dependencies without bumping (adding USE=selinux dependencies to the proper SELinux policy) because that would

[gentoo-dev] Removing 'selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-*)' from DEPEND

2014-08-29 Thread Sven Vermeulen
themselves (for functional and other reasons) and the bugs (with tracker) allow developers to not forget this. Is this a good approach to take? Happy to hear your thoughts on this, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing 'selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-*)' from DEPEND

2014-11-01 Thread Sven Vermeulen
s is to remove the USE="selinux" specific dependency to a sec-policy/selinux-* package from the DEPEND variable. So something like: DEPEND=" foo - bar - selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-bez )" + bar" If I am allowed to do this change without revbumping, I can just stop making massive bug reports and do the change(s) myself... Someone? Pretty-please? Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing 'selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-*)' from DEPEND

2014-11-01 Thread Sven Vermeulen
myself... > > You should have emphasized that the dependency will still be > in RDEPEND. As I said with QA hat on, such a change is fine since it > affects build-time dependencies only. People who installed the package > already are not affected. Thanks. I'll do the necessary updates tomorrow then (without revbump) and invalidate the bug reports I already made. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen

[gentoo-dev] GLEP ?? - Gentoo Knowledge Base

2006-06-21 Thread Sven Vermeulen
hnologies that we can use for the KB (we're all lazy). Each time a good candidate is found, we can put the topics in it and test it. For more discussion on this, please use the gentoo-kbase mailinglist. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen PS I've tried to get it on the gmane lists but apparently

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Köhler
> This came up in Bug 138792 [dobin etc. should automatically die on failure] > It needs more discussion on the mailing lists. > Some excerpts from the bug: The proposal from Paul Bredbury: > "Hi, I propose that the following ebuild commands themselves *die* on > failure, because the vast majority

[gentoo-dev] I'm "frilled" to present to you, a new Gentoo developer

2006-07-25 Thread Sven Vermeulen
sed, he mentioned his first computer (TRS-80) in his introduction, but I wasn't impressed. The older their computer, the older their mind. Look paps, no hands! Anyway, he loves books and movies too - as well as a good beer. If you ever find the time, come over to Belgium and I'll show y

[gentoo-dev] Re: Make FEATURES=test the default

2006-08-05 Thread Sven Köhler
> I'd like to suggest we make FEATURES=test (and therefore USE=test) the > default behaviour, rather than the opt-in we currently have. Far too > many packages fail their test phase. I have a related question, but first a comment: I like the idea, that packages run their self-tests before they g

[gentoo-dev] Re: net-misc/bcm4400 going away

2006-08-31 Thread Sven Köhler
> net-misc/bcm4400 is a kernel driver built as an external package through > portage. The codebase which this package use has been discontinued > upstream. The upstream replacement (which is not in Portage directly) is > simply a copy of the in-kernel b44 driver code. > > For this reason we are su

[gentoo-dev] 2006.1 server profile

2006-08-31 Thread Sven Köhler
(http://hadrened.gentoo.org). And at least to me, it seems to be the opposite of what has been announced. (Beside that, there is a spelling mistake: it should read hardened, not hadrened) Just my disappointed impression. Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] The Gentoo Project proudly presents *drums* anigel *applaud*

2006-09-04 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ife administers Unix systems. At least there's one sane property on this guy - he doesn't like the Perl language. And for that alone I disregard his mushroom incident... as long as he doesn't think he sees Larry fly. Sven Vermeulen -- The Gentoo Project <<< h

Re: [gentoo-dev] The Gentoo Project proudly presents *drums* anigel *applaud*

2006-09-04 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:43:23AM -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > Sven Vermeulen wrote: > > At least there's one sane property on this guy - he doesn't like the Perl > > language. And for that alone I disregard his mushroom incident... as long as > > he doesn'

[gentoo-dev] I'm concerned about a bug (#121142, imagemagick)

2006-09-05 Thread Sven Köhler
he moment and so on - but not enough time for just a comment? Greetings, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: I'm concerned about a bug (#121142, imagemagick)

2006-09-05 Thread Sven Köhler
ome developers to submit some patches upstream, so that future releases of ImageMagick are more Gentoo-friendly. Greetings, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why you use Gentoo [user]

2006-09-08 Thread Sven Köhler
ian of course. Then this great great baselayout! It's simply brilliant! And it's sooo easy to write your own ebuilds! No "./configure --prefix=/path/to/my_sofware"-mess anymore! I write my own ebuilds and the software i need gets installed like any other package. Greetings, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: media-gfx/imagemagick needs a temp maintainer

2006-09-14 Thread Sven Köhler
> the maintainer of media-gfx/imagemagick sekretarz is not responding to > bugmail > and the package has two open security bugs. > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143533 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144091 > > Anyone willing to help take care of this package please CC you

[gentoo-dev] Re: media-gfx/imagemagick needs a temp maintainer

2006-09-14 Thread Sven Köhler
>>> the maintainer of media-gfx/imagemagick sekretarz is not responding to >>> bugmail >>> and the package has two open security bugs. >>> >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143533 >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144091 >>> >>> Anyone willing to help take care of this package

[gentoo-dev] Re: media-gfx/imagemagick needs a temp maintainer

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Köhler
>> So before PerlMagick becomes independant of ImageMagick's configure, >> upstream must change a few things. >> > Has it changed that much recently? Because it *was* seperate for aeons > and aeons before this. Installing perlmagick via use flag is a recent > edition in the scheme of things. I'm s

[gentoo-dev] Re: media-gfx/imagemagick needs a temp maintainer

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Köhler
>> Have you ever looked into Makefile.PL in the past? Or have you even >> taken a look at the Makefile.PL.in is it existed? It shows that many of >> the "-l"-options are generated by configure. (Makefile.PL.in is template >> for configure - you surely know that) >> >> Or are we talking about some s

[gentoo-dev] Re: How default route should be set by pppd

2006-09-30 Thread Sven Köhler
> I discovered that ppp-2.4.4 set a default route without a gateway. It is > totally fine from IP routing point of view (the simple fact that route > is through the point-to-point link is enough to know the next hop), > except that openswan's %defaultroute need a default gateway in order to > work.

[gentoo-dev] Re: How default route should be set by pppd

2006-09-30 Thread Sven Köhler
> "default dev ppp0 scope link" instead "default via a.b.c.d dev ppp0". And? What the difference? For the P-t-P connection, there is not difference. There is only one destination, you can send the packets to: the ppp-server on the other side. Only for normal network-connections (eth0, ...), you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Linking to Gentoo-wiki from www.gentoo.org

2006-10-04 Thread Sven Vermeulen
n guides" and states "There is an unofficial Gentoo Wiki filled with guides written by several hundreds of users." I'm sure this can't be wrong... Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: X.Org 7.1 is Stable

2006-10-13 Thread Sven Köhler
> X.Org 7.1 has been released from its binary driver jail to the > (un?)stable masses! Does it build? Only on Tuesdays! Does it run? > Often! Will it damage your system? I like cheese! Hmm, xorg-server-1.1* is stable now, but xorg-x11-7.1 is not. Did you forget that ebuild? ;-) signature.a

[gentoo-dev] why is net.eth0 started, even though it's not in any runlevel?

2006-10-22 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, when i load the module for my network-card, then baselayout thinks, that it's a good idea to a) start net.eth0 even though it's not in any runlevel and b) start net.eth0 in runlevel boot. So that's something, that i don't really understand. I think, that the following behaviour would be more

[gentoo-dev] Re: why is net.eth0 started, even though it's not in any runlevel?

2006-10-22 Thread Sven Köhler
>> when i load the module for my network-card, then baselayout thinks, that >> it's a good idea to a) start net.eth0 even though it's not in any >> runlevel and b) start net.eth0 in runlevel boot. > > yes, the default behavior is to do hot/cold plugging That is not a problem. The problem is, that

[gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-06 Thread Sven Köhler
>> In 1.13, we've removed the variable from /etc/conf.d/rc and it's now forced >> to /lib/rcscripts/init.d which is safe as /lib is always on the same >> partition as /. > > From a filesystem usage point of view though, storing actively changing > state data on /lib is ugly. The tmpfs /lib/rcs

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

2006-11-25 Thread Sven Köhler
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? So that is _very_, _very_ unpractical, because the older your gentoo gets, the more of such orphaned files you get. Have you ever th

[gentoo-dev] udev coldplugging and /etc/init.d/modules

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Köhler
. Unfortunatly, the order of loading of modules defines the ordner of the network-interfaces (if you different types of network cards). So can you imagine, loading the modules before udev's coldplug happens? Greetings, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev coldplugging and /etc/init.d/modules

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Köhler
>> Unfortunatly, the order of loading of modules defines the ordner of >> the network-interfaces (if you different types of network cards). > > This is what udev's interface renaming capability is for. Define names > for your interfaces according to their MAC address, for example, and > all is goo

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev coldplugging and /etc/init.d/modules

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Köhler
> As others have said, look at using udev to name your network devices in > a persistant manner, it's the best solution. Yes, i agree. But i have thought about it, and i wonder, if it's going to work if: 1. udev loads the modules which results in a "natural order": saying eth0 and eth1 are used.

[gentoo-dev] USB disks - idea/question

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Köhler
er distribution doing it like that. So what do you think? - is it possible? - is it a good idea? - is it such a good idea, so that gentoo becomes the first distribution doing it? - is it a bad idea to differ from all the other distros out there? Thanks, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Köhler
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck schrieb: > On Saturday, 23 December 2006 2:40, Sven Köhler wrote: >> 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

[gentoo-dev] why? pciutils with zlib use-flag went stable on x86

2007-07-29 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, so today, pciutils-2.2.4-r3 went stable on x86. It's a known issue, that pciutils compiled with zlib use-flag turned on (which is default) doesn't work with the version of hal, which is currently stable on x86. So at the moment, hal-0.5.9-r1 is stable on x86. It went stable weeks or even mont

[gentoo-dev] Re: why? pciutils with zlib use-flag went stable on x86

2007-07-29 Thread Sven Köhler
>> Why did you provocate this breakage? >> This is not a good idea, IMHO. > > No. And many gave up getting this sensible again. > As is, the default USE flags for a desktop profile lead to a compilation > failure when unattended due to this, which is very very bad. I'm not even complaining about

[gentoo-dev] Re: why? pciutils with zlib use-flag went stable on x86

2007-07-29 Thread Sven Köhler
>>> Why did you provocate this breakage? >> Which breakage? It didn't install a gzipped pci.ids here. > > That is with USE=hal. Crap... Oh! So USE="hal" forces pciutils not to use zlib? And so the check, which the hal ebuild performs, should be modified to check for USE="hal" rather than for USE

Re: [gentoo-dev] New (old) Developer: Dimitry Brad (diox)

2007-07-29 Thread Sven Vermeulen
But for the rest: always welcome Dimitry ! ;-) Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: why? pciutils with zlib use-flag went stable on x86

2007-08-02 Thread Sven Köhler
> There are many more ebuilds than just hal which fail with a compressed > pci.ids file. And many of them are non-obvious. It took me more than > I little bit of effort after the zlib USE flag was first added to the > pciutils ebuild to figure out why so many packages where failing... Oh! Really

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Staff Developer: Maarten Bressers (mbres)

2007-08-28 Thread Sven Vermeulen
stinguish between K and C). Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] jmbsvicetto is now Sparc AT Subproject Lead

2007-10-18 Thread Sven Vermeulen
subproject from its beginning, and he was willing to > become its lead when I begged him to do so. Please give him the usual > Gentoo words of encouragement for which we are so well known. My condolences to Jorge... Or isn't that the encouragement you were looking for? *g* Hit the bug(

[gentoo-dev] [portage] "download as"-feature

2007-10-18 Thread Sven Köhler
want to discuss, before i make an RFE in BugZilla) Greetings, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: [portage] "download as"-feature

2007-10-20 Thread Sven Köhler
>> In an ebuild, i'd like to specify an "download as"-filename. That means, >> out there, there is a file called "http://host/myprogram-1.2.3/patch01"; >> which i'd like to download as "myprogram-1.2.3-patch01". > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177863 > > We're planning to support that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Good-bye

2007-11-25 Thread Sven Vermeulen
getic new developers ;-) Anyway, have fun and we'll sure see you around! Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-27 Thread Sven Vermeulen
g features from the package manager." Most of the time, the user is happy with the answer ;-) Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Removal of articles.xml from website

2005-06-09 Thread Sven Vermeulen
dated view that has been superseded by newer methods). Wkr, Sven Vermeulen [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/articles.xml -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>> pgpICJ5jJ7KWy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of articles.xml from website

2005-06-09 Thread Sven Vermeulen
articles. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>> pgpBll241KmyQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removal of articles.xml from website

2005-06-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ut a note on top stating This article was originally published at the IBM DeveloperWorks website. and we get the agreement of the authors we should be all right. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo Project <<&

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Removal of articles.xml from website

2005-06-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:39:57AM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > I know from Daniel that DW takes the exclusive rights to publish the > articles for the first X months (I believe it was 6 months, but don't take > my word on it). We are allowed to republish those articles later (a

[gentoo-dev] GDP: Mid-year status update

2005-06-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
ly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or SwifT on irc.freenode.net. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/status/status_20050307.xml [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/doc/doc-policy.xml#doc_chap4 [4] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml

[gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Wegener
ke the default-darwin profiles which use ARCH="ppc" and USE="ppc-macos" but the ppc-macos flag can be removed by using USE="-ppc-macos" in the environment. Or selinux profiles, to force the selinux flag to be turned on. Comments? Cheers, Sven -- Sven Wegener Gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Wegener
st the cascading aspect of the profiles. > Question: with use.force, what happens if a flag is both masked and > forced? Does it get turned on, get turned off, or get portage to > complain and abort? Good question. I would prefer to turn the flag off and make portage print a message.

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Wegener
package.mask. That's rarely used, but that's the way cascading profile work in portage. May the force be with you, Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Linux Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgpigbISibGmy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Wegener
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:40:34PM -0500, Kito wrote: > what about just a use.env? I find that a little bit misleading. Sounds like "use this environment" or so. Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Linux Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgpjQajdyL9gj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Wegener
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > Sven Wegener wrote: > > >use.force might not be the best name, but it's what we do with it for > >most of our users. Being able to -flag in /etc/portage/profile/use.force > >is just because /etc/port

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Wegener
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:34:05AM +0300, Sami N??t?nen wrote: > On Monday 13 June 2005 23:54, Sven Wegener wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:40:34PM -0500, Kito wrote: > > > what about just a use.env? > > > > I find that a little bit misleading. Sounds like &q

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-14 Thread Sven Wegener
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:46:22PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > Sven Wegener wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > > > >>Sven Wegener wrote: > >> > >> > >>>use.force might not be the best name, but it's w

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-14 Thread Sven Wegener
gestions in this thread, but none of them actually matched the purpose of the file. At least in my opinion. use.force matches it best, but the "force" part is a quite hard term. How about use.profile? Because these USE flags are activated or needed by the profile. -- Sven Wegener Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-15 Thread Sven Wegener
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:50:13PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sven Wegener wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:56:43PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: > > > >>I'm in favor of this. Would you mind calling it

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-15 Thread Sven Wegener
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:16:18PM +0200, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:40:48 +0200 > Sven Wegener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We just had a short discussion over in #gentoo-portage and the > > idea of an use.force file for profil

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Matthias Schwarzott (zzam)

2005-06-18 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 09:03:09PM +0200, Benjamin Judas wrote: > I'd like to welcome another potential member of the German Conspiracy, > especially since he shares the same general taste for music as me. We're doomed -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND and IUSE

2005-06-19 Thread Sven Wegener
ent USE settings. Same is for LINGUAS, but using the USE flags the user knows on emerge -pv with which language support the package was compiled. Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Linux Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgp39zvYjMEer.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: Unmasking of gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre3

2005-06-24 Thread Sven Köhler
bug reports and the feedback that I have seen from the gentoo-user > mailing list has been positive. Last time i used revdep-rebuild, i saw that revdep-rebuild does check things twice, since therere symlinks like /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/lib. It this "fixed" in the new version?

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-27 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:22:09PM -0700, Michael Curtis Napier wrote: > I have already taken the quiz in conjunction with another non-forum > project. You are correct, it was easy. /me checks his archives "... after a couple of tries." =) -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38 round two

2005-06-29 Thread Sven Vermeulen
t; replies from gentoo staff and not official from other moderators, > giving the idea of valid technical support from the gentoo staff > moderators. There is no such thing as an official Gentoo reply. You can have replies from Gentoo developers, but no Gentoo reply. Wkr, Sven Ve

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE 3.4.1 keyworded stable on x86, amd64

2005-06-30 Thread Sven Vermeulen
lps you a bit on choosing interesting KDE ebuilds: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>> pgpk6vONkXn81.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] *DEPEND mismatches

2005-07-05 Thread Sven Wegener
But please one after the other, this is just an initial test. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgphkVXD5qV5M.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEPEND mismatches

2005-07-05 Thread Sven Wegener
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 08:12:31PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > you should def whitelist for DEPEND only: > app-arch/zip > app-arch/unrar > dev-util/jam > media-gfx/nvidia-cg-toolkit > games-util/loki_patch I added them to the list of packages being safe to be used in

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Michael Curtis Napier

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Vermeulen
After a long marathon of requests and quizzes, runner 972 has just crossed the finish. We had an exclusive interview with Michael Curtis Napier who likes to call himself curtis119 because his first 118 egos all failed miserably. Michael is an old rot in the ICT business (yo! guys! we have a nerd

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEPEND mismatches

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 06:19:01PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:00:24AM +0200, Sven Wegener wrote: > [snip] > Could you possibly split the stuff into two files? > one for RDEPEND.only and one for DEPEND.only? http://dev.gentoo.org/~swegener/qa/depen

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEPEND mismatches

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
h check is done to catch runtime-dependencies being in DEPEND but missing in RDEPEND and the other way round. Sven -- SVen Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgpsTQuY7LF0Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] No automatic RDEPEND=DEPEND for ebuild and eclass anymore

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
more attention and result in cleaner dependencies. - eclasses don't have the automatic RDEPEND=DEPEND thing, the change will streamline ebuilds and eclasses to be treated equally. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgpvSMIMrVoek.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] src_configure

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
in a much better way. Regards, Sven [1] ./configure && make && make install -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgp1wcyK7Q2kr.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
[1] support and it might as well be used to get backward compatibility for the RDEPEND=DEPEND[2] changes. Cheers, Sven [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/29510 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/29509 -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] src_configure

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:14:55PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: > Sven Wegener wrote: [Wed Jul 06 2005, 08:04:04PM EDT] > > I'm writing this mail to bring you a thought we had over on freenode > > in the #gentoo-portage channel. We would like to split up > > src_comp

Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:41:43PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 06 July 2005 08:20 pm, Sven Wegener wrote: > > We would like to introduce a new ebuild variable named EBUILD_FORMAT, > > seems like the name is much longer than it needs to be ... what's wro

Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
es that count as being addicted to Gentoo? Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgp9UtaGwrBIx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] No automatic RDEPEND=DEPEND for ebuild and eclass anymore

2005-07-08 Thread Sven Wegener
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:07:42PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: > On Thursday 07 July 2005 02:40, Sven Wegener wrote: > > For the ebuild part the plan is to remove the automatic RDEPEND=DEPEND > > setting from portage. > What's the timeline for this? Are we talking about

[gentoo-dev] Re: upgrade's and rc-scripts

2005-07-22 Thread Sven Köhler
> Out of curiousity, has any put any thought into some automated method > or hook for allowing restarting of rc-scripts on upgrade/re-emerge of > a package? > > Other question is if any such hook is even needed. > So... thoughts? I don't really have any input on it, aside from I'd > like to ga

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dynamic Modularization

2005-08-02 Thread Sven Vermeulen
sible though, sometimes packages have the required support code in their own code; trying to separate that from the "core" is a difficult and time-consuming job. If upstream doesn't do this, it would be a pain for Gentoo to perform and maintain. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Food For Thought: Bugzilla Localization?

2005-08-03 Thread Sven Vermeulen
sources to put in it; I'd rather use translation teams to continuously keep translating interesting stuff, like documentation but also help with the localisation of Portage if that ever comes this far. Translating bugs is such a waist of resources... Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documen

[gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-03 Thread Sven Köhler
at fast - and they doen't release a new distribution every few months (like SuSE does). So i'd say: use Debian, if you have a relativly normal system to maintain, use Gentoo if you have the time - and never ever use Redhat or SuSE. Thx Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-03 Thread Sven Köhler
>>>In my humble opinion, Gentoo is missing too many points to be an >>>enterprise Linux. We commit to a live tree. We don't have true QA, >>>testing or tinderbox. We don't have paid staff, alpha/beta/rc cycles. >>>We don't really have product lifecycles, since we don't generally >>>backport fixe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devconference archives

2005-08-15 Thread Sven Vermeulen
e distribution is guaranteed. But Gentoo can surely use propriatary products. Whether or not we want to is a different question. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>> pgp5Ev8262LeA.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] init.d-scripts don't see stuff from /etc/profile.env

2005-08-23 Thread Sven Köhler
to ignore /etc/profile.env for init.d-script and what's the gentoo-way of loading the all or specific variabled from /etc/profile.env? Thx Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

2005-08-23 Thread Sven Köhler
> The termcap method is provided by libtermcap-compat. Most applications > which use this method only do so as an option for systems where terminfo > is not available -- for example, for Vim, terminfo vs termcap is a > compile-time option. The termcap database is limited, generally out of > date an

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

2005-08-23 Thread Sven Köhler
> See, certain terminal emulators lie about their TERM setting. Usually > it's things that aren't xterm pretending to be an xterm, although rxvt > sometimes crops up too. Examples of things pretending to be xterm > include Konsole, Gnome Terminal. > > The logic behind it goes like this: > > * We

[gentoo-dev] Re: init.d-scripts don't see stuff from /etc/profile.env

2005-08-24 Thread Sven Köhler
> The init script will not see those variables when it is run by /sbin/rc > which is in turn run by init which is what happens on boot. The > environment is empty then, and if you want to reproduce it accurately > for your tests, you should do: > > env -i /etc/init.d/test restart > > It doe

[gentoo-dev] Re: init.d-scripts don't see stuff from /etc/profile.env

2005-08-26 Thread Sven Köhler
> Perhaps the init script loader should be changed such that the environment > variables from the shell calling the script are ignored, and an > environment equal to that when being called by init is used. Definitely. There shouldn't be two different environments depending on whether a init-scri

[gentoo-dev] Re: why does gcc-3.4.x depend on gcc-3.3.x / libstdc++?

2005-08-28 Thread Sven Köhler
>>I must say I have been wondering about this for a while too. >>A solution might be add some sort of flag to packages that are binary, >>and then let portage install libstdc++ the first time you install this >>kind of package. > > You mean, like have binary packages depend on > virtual/libstdc++-

[gentoo-dev] Re: init.d-scripts don't see stuff from /etc/profile.env

2005-08-30 Thread Sven Köhler
> I've been looking into this and the only easy solution I can find is to > move /sbin/runscript.sh to say /lib/rcscripts/sh, change it to > source /etc/profile and then create a new /sbin/runscript.sh like so > > #!/bin/sh > > /bin/env -i \ > CONSOLETYPE="${CONSOLETYPE}" \ > IN_BACKGROUN

[gentoo-dev] Re: init.d-scripts don't see stuff from /etc/profile.env

2005-08-30 Thread Sven Köhler
> init.d scripts should have a pure env given to them ... which means, they > should be run with `env -i` and have only whitelisted variables given to them > (and everything that appears in /etc/conf.d/$service /etc/conf.d/rc > and /etc/rc.conf) ... Now that may be too few variables. At least t

[gentoo-dev] Re: init.d-scripts don't see stuff from /etc/profile.env

2005-08-30 Thread Sven Köhler
>>>init.d scripts should have a pure env given to them ... which means, they >>>should be run with `env -i` and have only whitelisted variables given to >>>them (and everything that appears in /etc/conf.d/$service /etc/conf.d/rc >>>and /etc/rc.conf) ... >> >>Now that may be too few variables. At le

Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-06 Thread Sven Vermeulen
anted) inputs: stability and maintenance architecture. And it keeps backwards compatibility. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>> pgpT9m5nSrswk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Lukasz Damentko

2005-09-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:21:30AM +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote: > > Is staking, poking out of the eyes and burning of hands considered a > warm welcome? :-) > Must have missed a few memo's. I thought only YoswinK was allowed to do this. Welcome on board, rane. Sven Vermeu

Re: [gentoo-dev] FAQs for maintainer-wanted ebuilds

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Vermeulen
elopment is possible and the resource is shared on multiple web nodes. Not to mention that GuideXML URLs don't suck and are a lot easier to remember. You just need to know the name of the document: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ whereas with dev.g.o URLs, you have http://dev.gentoo.org/~//

Re: [gentoo-dev] default logger

2005-09-28 Thread Sven Vermeulen
I'm not on the I'net right now, but if you annotate the [gentoo]/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-install-tools.xml file you'll see a bunch of reasons over the past few changes. Afaik, most architectures prefer syslog-ng. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Gentoo Foundation Trustee

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