Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files

2011-11-02 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 11/02/2011 08:33 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > I currently count 19 relevant files. If we keep the 100k limit and rotate > yearly, this will be doable by hand in the foreseeable future and any attempt > at automating is a complete waste of time. > > Opinions, flames, ...? > Just an observ

[gentoo-dev] Re: ChangeLog in eclass dir (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-02 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 01:41:29 +0100 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 01:42:44 Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 01:11:46 +0100 > > > > "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > > > as there was only positive feedback to this suggestion, I'll create a > > > ChangeLog file in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ChangeLog in eclass dir (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-02 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 01:42:44 Ryan Hill wrote: > On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 01:11:46 +0100 > > "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > > 1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? > > > In my personal opinion this is missing there, if only for historical > > > reasons... S

[gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-02 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Dear all, > 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a certain size > (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog) the file is "rotated" similar to /var/log > logfiles. I.e. the current file is renamed with a date extension and a new > file is started. This has the benefit that the archived file i

[gentoo-dev] Re: ChangeLog in eclass dir (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-02 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 01:11:46 +0100 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > > Dear all, > > > 1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? > > In my personal opinion this is missing there, if only for historical > > reasons... Should we still start one? > > as there was only positive feedback to

[gentoo-dev] Re: portability.eclass: dead egethome, egetshell, is-login-disabled funcs ?

2011-11-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 26 October 2011 19:40:24 Mike Frysinger wrote: > i can't see any ebuild/eclass using egethome, egetshell, > is-login-disabled from portability.eclass. anyone have a reason for > keeping these before i punt them ? hmm, seems a few packages in the tree want this functionality. but the

[gentoo-dev] ChangeLog in eclass dir (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-02 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Dear all, > 1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? > In my personal opinion this is missing there, if only for historical > reasons... Should we still start one? as there was only positive feedback to this suggestion, I'll create a ChangeLog file in the eclass directory during t

[gentoo-dev] CCPL-Attribution-2.5 added to licenses

2011-11-02 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
It appears that when adding any new license, one needs to send a notice to gentoo-dev. I have added CCPL-Attribution-2.5 (see attachment or http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/legalcode) and added it to the FREE-DOCUMENTS license group (same as CCPL-Attribution-3.0, acked by Robin Jonson)*.

[gentoo-dev] enew{user,group}: killing off [extra] argument

2011-11-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
when i first wrote enew{user,group} oh-so-long-ago, the reason for the [extra] arguments was the assumption that i am short sighted. i figured someone would come up with some creative need for passing additional flags that i couldn't possibly think of. however, in the ~9 years since, all i hav

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest signing

2011-11-02 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 01:03:21PM +0100, enno+gen...@groeper-berlin.de wrote: > I followed the threads about manifest signing with interest and even had > a look at the manifest signing guide [4]. Sounds nice at first view. > But, please correct me, if I'm wrong. I didn't find a place where these

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest signing

2011-11-02 Thread enno+gentoo
Hello, Am 29.09.2011 17:02, schrieb Anthony G. Basile: > Hi everyone, > > The issue of Manifest signing came up in #gentoo-hardened channel ... > again. Its clearly a security issue and yet many manifests in the tree > are still not signed. Is there any chance that we can agree to reject > unsi