possible blocker in 7.8.696

2012-07-31 Thread H. William Welliver III
I was doing some testing of external modules last week and was having problems. At the time I chalked it up to being a corrupt build environment, but now I'm not so sure: The problem is that installation of an external module happens only after a successful verification, and it appears that the

Re: Packagers?

2012-07-31 Thread Bill Welliver
I was just looking around, and it appears that there are a few different RPMs floating around: Repoforge, 7.8, RHEL, CentOS, ScientificLinux https://github.com/repoforge/rpms/tree/master/specs/pike Robert Hinn, 7.6, OpenSUSE http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/6717536/dir/opensuse/com/p

Re: Packagers?

2012-07-31 Thread Lance Dillon
i could create rpms...do we a spec file already, or should i use one of the ones i have already (or create a new one if the other ones arent suitable )? Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

Packagers?

2012-07-31 Thread Peter Bortas @ Pike developers forum
Magnus Holmgren makes Debian packages. RPMs doesn't get done outside of Roxen packaging. (Hi all.)

Re: New 7.8 release candidate: 7.8.696

2012-07-31 Thread Bill Welliver
Well, I'm a 7.8 user but generally not on Linux :) That said, I think that shortly after we get this release out the door, I'll start getting ready for another release round. I have some things I'd like to fix related to the build process, so that will take a little while, but my goal is to hav

Packagers?

2012-07-31 Thread Bill Welliver
Do we have anyone handling Debian packages, or RPMs or the like? I know Grubba does an ebuild but was wondering if there are any others that need to be prepared for a new release? Bill

Re: New 7.8 release candidate: 7.8.696

2012-07-31 Thread Tobias S. Josefowitz
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Bill Welliver wrote: > I'm inclined to agree; my goal is to get a new release out every 3 months, > so even if we don't hold this release for this change, it won't be very long > before the process starts all over again for the next one. I'm not a user of 7.8 anyw

Re: New 7.8 release candidate: 7.8.696

2012-07-31 Thread Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum
Hm, you mean that you used the "mkdir" command in sftp? Weird if that doesn't honour umask... Or maybe it's just that you set the umask in a script that is not run by non-interactive logins?

Re: New 7.8 release candidate: 7.8.696

2012-07-31 Thread Bill Welliver
Makes sense. I realized that the umask problem on pelix (is it still called pelix?) is because I created the directories and uploaded them using sftp. Getting sftp to honor my umask is probably a losing battle (and I've fixed permissions for other directories created by different folks there, a

Re: New 7.8 release candidate: 7.8.696

2012-07-31 Thread Bill Welliver
I'm inclined to agree; my goal is to get a new release out every 3 months, so even if we don't hold this release for this change, it won't be very long before the process starts all over again for the next one. Bill On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) de

Re: New 7.8 release candidate: 7.8.696

2012-07-31 Thread Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum
Doesn't seem like a blocker to me.

Re: New 7.8 release candidate: 7.8.696

2012-07-31 Thread Tobias S. Josefowitz
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Bill Welliver wrote: > Hello all, > > I've prepared a new stable release candidate (beta) for everyone's building > pleasure. 7.8.696 may be downloaded from: I always come in with stuff like this at bad times, but how about including 03c2dbbab0b4529359c5caa2763ff9

Re: New 7.8 release candidate: 7.8.696

2012-07-31 Thread Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum
There's a script bin/tarfilter.pike which cleans up the persmissions of the generated tarfiles, so that's taken care of. :-)