[gentoo-dev] Add midi useflag to base profile defaults
As per summary. I've introduced th emidi useflag for alsa-lib and alsa-utils in the recent versions of ALSA to enable/disable sequencer (MIDI) support, as most of home users probably wouldn't need it. Unfortunately the version of alsa-lib where midi can be disabled is still masked because there are packages that needs to be fixed not to die badly when it is disabled (for instance KMix does not complete configure because the whole ALSA test is using snd_seq_open function); also, some packages might require midi support with alsa useflag enabled (kdelibs for instance). For these reasons I'd like to maintain the default out of the box behaviour consistent with the one we had before the introduction of midi useflag, leaving the users the choice to disable it entirely or partially (see bug #163531, where an user requested for alsa-driver to have a midi useflag too -- to avoid building MIDI support in ALSA kernel drivers too). If nobody disagrees with this, I'll be adding midi useflag to default USE in base in three days. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Sound, ALSA, PAM, KDE, CJK, Ruby ... pgp8mpzxspWC6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-p2p/ldcc
Okay, removal cancelled as we have new patch to make it work. Thanks truedfx! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-dev] GOOD HOME REQUIRED -- Poweredge 2950 :)
Hiya All, I seem to be making a habit of 'For Sale' notices lately; guess I like to keep decent hardware within the community, and see it continue to run Gentoo :) I have a Dell Poweredge 2950 of the following spec: * 2 x Intel Xeon 5110, 1.6GHz/4MB, Dual-Core * 16GB FB 667mhz Memory (8 * 2GB DIMMs) * 2 x 73GB SAS, 1rpm 3.5" * PERC 5/i RAID Controller, 256MB Cache, Battery Backup * x6 Backplane, will take SAS *or* SATA hard drives * Redundant Power Supplies (2 x 750W) * 24x CD-ROM Drive * Riser with PCI-X Support * DRAC V (Dell Remote Access Controller) * Rapid/Versa Rails, Cable Management Retail Price : £4850 + VAT Looking for: £3500 (private sale, no VAT) I will consider all reasonable offers. System is brand new, 100% working, only powered on for testing its all OK! Includes all cables, CDs and documentation which came with it - most of which is still shrink wrapped as my first action was to drop in a Gentoo LiveCD ;) Just been informed (possibly mistakenly, hope so!) that I owe my University about £750 for summer accommodation, plus I'd like to clear a bit of debt - that's my primary reason for sale, although the system is also a bit surplus to my personal requirements! I live in Aberystwyth, in the United Kingdom, and it'd be shipped with ParcelForce / UPS; I'm happy to ship anywhere within the UK or EU. General questions about the unit, feel free to mail the list; anyone interested in buying the system or making me an offer, mail me privately. Thanks, -- Alex -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-dev] Changing the new-dev quizzes
Hi all. Recruiters have been talking about changing our quizzes for a very long time as most of the questions are a bit outdated and the quizzes doesn't cover any new material from the last 2 years approximately. What we'd like to do is make a big pool of questions that we can randomly draw 20 questions from (or some other arbitrary number) and have each recruitee do slightly different quizzes that way. It's my hope that this will: - help cover more areas - avoid the copy/paste syndrom that we're sometimes seeing - help make sure that the mentor spends more than 30 minutes on mentoring (yes, some mentors are fairly bad in this regard) - make it more interesting for recruiters as well as devs mentoring several people (less repetition) But to do all this we need some help from interested parties to create a big pool of questions. To make this possible we've set up a [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias where we can discuss the form of the future quizzes as well as quiz questions. Mike Doty has a few ideas on the application side of things and will write those up later today. But for now interested people should add themselves to the alias (if you're a dev and have access to that) or contact me on irc or by email so I can possibly add you. I'm not only looking for current devs but a strong knowledge of ebuilds, eclasses etc. is required. Regards, Bryan Østergaard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: 2.6.19 going stable in 1 week
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:08:47 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > Quoting Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I would strongly advise against considering 2.6.19 stable >> until this bug has been fixed. > > From the Changelog of 2.6.19.2 > > commit 54e25b0460e6b1100e7ef9c0ac801bdce83921c0 > Author: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri Dec 29 10:00:58 2006 -0800 > > [PATCH] VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback > > Sounds like the one to me... Sure does! -- hendrik -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] media-sound/lilypond needs a maintainer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexandre Buisse wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 22:58:11 +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: > >> Now that agriffis retired, this package is orphaned and has quite a >> couple of stale bugs... Anyone interested, please see this link: >> >> http://tinyurl.com/26gczq > > Well, if really no one wants it, I guess you can add it to text-markup, > since it's TeX-based (iirc). That said, I personnally don't have time to > give it the love it seems to need. > > /Alexandre I'm working on the 2.10.x bump, so unless someone wants it more I'll take it, Marijn -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFthR7p/VmCx0OL2wRAhVqAKDBiYSSUeN1dU+SX4y1U/q9BlNilACeIWVu 1JRTAenfR+gJ5tTYEq2N/4I= =yExB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:10:22 +1100 Daniel Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While hanging around lca07 it was mentioned how bandwidth hungry > Gentoo is. > > Given a lot of the world is still on dialup this could increase the > potential userbase for Gentoo. > > As such the project idea is Automated Xdelta Generation. > > principles: > no manual generation of xdeltas by gentoo devs > simple user usage (FEATURES=xdelta) > avoiding digesting problems > remain compatible with existing ebuilds > > user interface: > > FEATURES=xdelta emerge ~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.20 > found /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2 > fetching linux-2.6.19_xdelta_2.6.20.xdelta > generating linux-2.6.20.tar > digest /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.20.tar matches Problem: would need to store Manifest entries for uncompressed distfiles as well, not exactly a trivial change. Also portage would have to know about possible delta paths (how to get from .19 to .20), that needs a completely new support infrastructure Anyway, you want to talk with ferringb about this (and take a look at glep 25). Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-p2p/ldcc
# Raúl Porcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (23 Jan 2007) # Pending removal 22 Feb 2007 # Old, upstream dead, doesn't work with latest version of # dev-libs/tvision, which is the only version available that compiles. # Bug 146465 net-p2p/ldcc -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
