Re: [gentoo-dev] python module

2005-08-04 Thread Alin Dobre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rene Zbinden wrote: Hi I want to write an ebuild, that installs a python module. After unpacking the zipfile there is only one module module.py. What is the best way to install that package. Is there an eclass that I can use? # The

Re: [gentoo-dev] python module

2005-08-04 Thread Rene Zbinden
Yes in the meantime I found that eclass. The problem was, that there was no setup.py file. I created my own and put it into the files directory. Here is my ebuild: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101296 pyamazon is a Python wrapper for the Amazon web API. Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X plans

2005-08-04 Thread Bertrand Jacquin
that's great :) Thanks for doing that. That's exactly what I done with XCB ebuilds. Maybe some of you don't know xcb, it a remplacement for Xlib. Currently it only available on cvs. I think it couldn't have to be ignore it. Some ebuilds for : http://guybrush.ath.cx/svn/public/portage/x11-libs/

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Eric Brown
Interesting thread. I have used Gentoo in enterprise situations very successfully, and I think the whole QA/live-tree argument is moot. In an enterprise environment, you might have a backup/testing machine to run your updates on first before they went live. You also wouldn't run new packages

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:04 -0400, Eric Brown wrote: Interesting thread. I have used Gentoo in enterprise situations very successfully, and I think the whole QA/live-tree argument is moot. In an enterprise environment, you might have a backup/testing machine to run your updates on first

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Eric Brown
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:04 -0400, Eric Brown wrote: Interesting thread. I have used Gentoo in enterprise situations very successfully, and I think the whole QA/live-tree argument is moot. In an enterprise environment, you might have a backup/testing machine to run your updates on first

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Philip Webb
050804 Chris Gianelloni wrote: -- long interesting account of life in the enterprise snipped -- I want to see Gentoo as an enterprise-capable distribution myself, but I also understand that it is a long, hard road ahead of us and there will still be things we cannot provide as a community

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Brian D. Harring
Long one kiddies... responses inlined, bit more interested in discussion of what's required/desired then your definition of enterprise sucks... (throws on the flamesuit)... On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:35:08PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:48 -0400, Eric Brown wrote:

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/DFBsee

2005-08-04 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
This is my first last rites post, yay :) Ok well I just seen this today and I looked for it: media-video/dfbsee is just a copy of media-video/DFBsee, that doesn't seems maintained anymore. ChrisWhite started moving it but the job is stuck at December 2004. If nobody has a good reason against

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:37 -0500, Brian D. Harring wrote: Elaborate on what you explicitly want out of portage please- the domain concept (aside from being useful design wise) *should* allow groupping of boxes (groupping of domains really) behind it, so you can effectively have a set of

[gentoo-dev] Bugday announcement

2005-08-04 Thread Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alright everybody, here we go again :-) This is my first announcement, so let?s hope I get everything right. On next Saturday it will be bugday again, unfortunately the new bugday website isn't done yet, but the little dwarf sitting under my table

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugday announcement

2005-08-04 Thread Scott Shawcroft
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote: Alright everybody, here we go again :-) This is my first announcement, so let?s hope I get everything right. On next Saturday it will be bugday again, unfortunately the new bugday website isn't done yet, but the

[gentoo-dev] utf-8 fixes for metadata.xml

2005-08-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
I've just gone through and fixed all of the broken utf-8 in metadata.xml files. I think... There was rather a lot of it due to various editor bugs which I'm hoping are no longer an issue. Requests: - Could anyone who can read whatever language 'vi' is please check a few of the category

Re: [gentoo-dev] python module

2005-08-04 Thread Colin Kingsley
Rene Zbinden wrote: Yes in the meantime I found that eclass. The problem was, that there was no setup.py file. I created my own and put it into the files directory. If that works for you then I can't really see any reason why you shouldn't do it, but I find it far easier and cleaner to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-04 Thread Brian D. Harring
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 05:31:43PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: The only things I could see being needed out of portage itself is the ability to control emerge commands remotely, such as forcing an update of apache to $version to resolve a vulnerability. The requirements of portage, or

Re: [gentoo-dev] utf-8 fixes for metadata.xml

2005-08-04 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 04/08/2005-19:15:15(-0700): Robin H. Johnson types On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:13:31AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I've just gone through and fixed all of the broken utf-8 in metadata.xml files. I think... There was rather a lot of it due to various editor bugs which I'm hoping

Re: [gentoo-dev] utf-8 fixes for metadata.xml

2005-08-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: As a vim workaround, maybe force encoding=utf-8 in the gentoo filetype stuff? But utf-8 is supposed to be autodetected, since the default fileencodings always contains utf-8, doesn't it? It is not autodetected only if the file

[gentoo-dev] digest + manifest = new file format

2005-08-04 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is basically a resubmission of Genone's file format merger [1]. The code to handle digests and manifests is currently being designed and rewritten. As such we need two things from the developer community. One is a decision of what the new

Re: [gentoo-dev] digest + manifest = new file format

2005-08-04 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whoopse, should have gone to gentoo-portage-dev, my bad ;) Alec Warner wrote: This is basically a resubmission of Genone's file format merger [1]. The code to handle digests and manifests is currently being designed and rewritten. As such we

Re: [gentoo-dev] utf-8 fixes for metadata.xml

2005-08-04 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 04/08/2005-19:35:01(-0700): Robin H. Johnson types On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: As a vim workaround, maybe force encoding=utf-8 in the gentoo filetype stuff? But utf-8 is supposed to be autodetected, since the default fileencodings always