Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: vmware team needs help
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/15/15 01:55, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 02/14/2015 06:38 PM, Christopher Head wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 21:49:56 +0200 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: You don't have to participate to the discussions in the mailing lists :) You can just contribute code! Even a single patch a month or so is better than nothing Forgive me for hijacking the thread, but, the “or so” in the above isn’t all that flexible. See section 3.k of http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1chap=3. No one is going to boot you for inactivity if you have nothing to do. You might get an are you alive? email, but assuming you answer within a few weeks, all my work is done is the best reason to be doing nothing. That is true yes. There is a difference between I have nothing to do and I am not interested in doing anything anymore. If you only maintain one package and you commit once a year so be it :) It's a volunteering project so nobody can actually force you to maintain a certain rate of commits per $time. In case you appear inactive, people will send you a fair amount of emails over a significant period of time before they start the retirement process - -- Regards, Markos Chandras -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJU4GiyAAoJEPqDWhW0r/LCOxIQAIULbBbIys7eY41a4IwyKjOS LeuMXTAhiNbnB0/NAnjo+l9gxTxgCE3XRT42qjyIR3ChaoBZAcntOKfgLJ4EVuON jdGdCryUQd6Mii2tCgyvrw83gCVLvLMXdHdVKr7J5kE+NFdiQnDYNNaPnOmOhGWA Xr2ybAIJui+KayJbxFDHDPQVEflibrdezHI2WOhRqUgOQS3yCZhUI8q560YNh0dD P8EeVe6M16rJUNXzWzwXKS2Mf577/mZUoShzQOkD3f4O+5HwvNR8Bzl6qTpH4id9 7TeFdc7/8+QVIHOMZHctNSJu4f/tavLJp+5qH1t6XmLauqN2uZGJF8/7L+hdf2/N /5nP7MZn2/oh3AEEqp9guBUQY/QiWMC8rpwih0nP3agKGstoNJFPybFM0xVB7cdh 9f/dXBrgC8ZKh7LwXn+se+NAz2TMynigpzMdBvnvodBPEQaaCTC0yLiTxW1KmfkB FHyA6GKDocRhpNqpzARyqFOcQHSgWPfXATeos+g3ZVyyr4iaMNtS3n/lukkpmxM4 tOthWwEeaocNn8D/S2DRyq0otSFv2SNhStatNXbXZxO1QpCNxlhSxZMFQ8tpmm0o eqcDXWiDcQ3B7XagjvftO+RDY3CYbpsUQLUSKwprA6lBzs5UuFcezlE+NRO++myN Bo1Q+RDmdGfUaalpvkZt =CTYj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: vmware team needs help
El sáb, 14-02-2015 a las 20:19 +0100, Michał Górny escribió: http://cgit.gentooexperimental.org/ Thanks, I wasn't aware of it :D
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in games-board/stockfish: stockfish-6.ebuild metadata.xml Manifest ChangeLog
Dnia 2015-02-15, o godz. 09:43:24 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:10 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: Rich Freeman: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: A team is clearly violating GLEP39 and you don't care: When did I claim to not care? That's my interpretation of the council mocking those who have brought up issues by saying: * we cannot hold votes, because no one wants to join To me it sounds like an excuse, because you really were unable to make them actually do a vote. First, the council isn't holding votes FOR the games team. The council is giving the opportunity for people to join the games team and vote. That didn't happen. What's your proposed solution? Clearly we're unable to make them actually do a vote, which everybody knew going into this. It might not have occurred to you, but nobody in Gentoo can make anybody do anything. Let's lastrite all games. This will solve all our issues, and perhaps when someone is actually willing to start over we'll get things into sane state. -- Best regards, Michał Górny pgp08kxBTc1bV.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] vmware team needs help
Andreas, I can only attempt. I am not a good programer more of a security person. I am in the process of taking my dev tests now. But if I was going to help maintain anything VmWare would be a prime example since I use it extensively for work (although on Mac). Yury German GLSA Coordinator Gentoo Security Team Email: bluekni...@gentoo.org PGP/GPG Key ID: 8902 1D26 2C89 6FC4 A819 982C 06C1 1799 3500 1B8 On Feb 12, 2015, at 5:03 PM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi all, I'm the only dev left in the vmware team who is taking care of VMware Workstation and friends. Or more precisely, not taking care of it these days, since my non-Gentoo workload is increasing and since VMware Workstation is not really the highest thing on my Gentoo priority list either (though I use it regularly). We could really need some help here... Things to do are e.g. * vmware-workstation, vmware-player, vmware-modules major version bump * tracking and applying patches to vmware-modules for newer kernels * sorting out the screwed-up bundled library situation ... :( We have an overlay that can be used and is used for user contributions. The only real alternative is to treeclean and tell people to use the bundled installer. No idea how well this works. Talk to me if interested... Best, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer perl, office, comrel, council signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in games-board/stockfish: stockfish-6.ebuild metadata.xml Manifest ChangeLog
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:10 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: Rich Freeman: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: A team is clearly violating GLEP39 and you don't care: When did I claim to not care? That's my interpretation of the council mocking those who have brought up issues by saying: * we cannot hold votes, because no one wants to join To me it sounds like an excuse, because you really were unable to make them actually do a vote. First, the council isn't holding votes FOR the games team. The council is giving the opportunity for people to join the games team and vote. That didn't happen. What's your proposed solution? Clearly we're unable to make them actually do a vote, which everybody knew going into this. It might not have occurred to you, but nobody in Gentoo can make anybody do anything. -- Rich
[gentoo-dev] Re: vmware team needs help
Btw, what is the appropriate place to discuss vmware overlay related issues?
[gentoo-dev] Re: vmware team needs help
On 13/02/15 00:03, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: * sorting out the screwed-up bundled library situation VMware seems to bundle everything they need. Currently, revdep-rebuild triggers false positives for a library that is no longer in portage (libgtop-2.0.so.7 from gnome-base/libgtop-2.28.5; it was removed from the tree.) I'd like to do the same as firefox-bin and other binary packages, and add an /etc/revdep-rebuild/ file: SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/opt/vmware This prevents vmware from triggering bogus revdep-rebuild loops.
[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2015-02-15 23:59 UTC
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2015-02-15 23:59 UTC. Removals: app-vim/zencoding-vim 2015-02-09 00:52:53 radhermit x11-drivers/psb-firmware2015-02-10 10:44:22 chithanh x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix2015-02-10 10:44:22 chithanh x11-drivers/xf86-video-impact 2015-02-10 10:44:22 chithanh x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc 2015-02-10 10:44:22 chithanh x11-drivers/xf86-video-sunbw2 2015-02-10 10:44:22 chithanh x11-libs/libdrm-poulsbo 2015-02-10 10:45:35 chithanh x11-libs/xpsb-glx 2015-02-10 10:45:35 chithanh app-admin/lxqt-admin2015-02-10 13:31:53 yngwin net-misc/lxqt-openssh-askpass 2015-02-10 13:32:28 yngwin games-puzzle/trimines 2015-02-11 20:03:44 mr_bones_ games-action/cylindrix 2015-02-13 10:07:25 mr_bones_ net-analyzer/openvas-administrator 2015-02-14 14:42:10 jlec net-analyzer/greenbone-security-desktop 2015-02-14 14:54:20 jlec Additions: lxqt-base/lxqt-admin2015-02-10 13:18:56 yngwin lxqt-base/lxqt-openssh-askpass 2015-02-10 13:23:13 yngwin sys-apps/inxi 2015-02-10 16:45:30 dastergon dev-python/pyamf2015-02-10 18:27:29 radhermit app-doc/clsync-docs 2015-02-11 03:31:16 bircoph dev-libs/libclsync 2015-02-11 03:35:23 bircoph app-admin/clsync2015-02-11 03:39:24 bircoph dev-ruby/hiera-eyaml2015-02-12 00:13:40 robbat2 dev-ruby/gpgme 2015-02-12 01:19:43 robbat2 dev-ruby/hiera-eyaml-gpg2015-02-12 01:23:41 robbat2 app-shells/mpibash 2015-02-13 23:26:09 ottxor dev-ruby/vcard 2015-02-14 01:06:06 mjo dev-ruby/ruby-ole 2015-02-14 18:58:36 mjo dev-ml/easy-format 2015-02-15 09:07:18 aballier dev-ml/biniou 2015-02-15 09:15:59 aballier dev-ml/yojson 2015-02-15 09:27:34 aballier -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 Removed Packages: app-vim/zencoding-vim,removed,radhermit,2015-02-09 00:52:53 x11-drivers/psb-firmware,removed,chithanh,2015-02-10 10:44:22 x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix,removed,chithanh,2015-02-10 10:44:22 x11-drivers/xf86-video-impact,removed,chithanh,2015-02-10 10:44:22 x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc,removed,chithanh,2015-02-10 10:44:22 x11-drivers/xf86-video-sunbw2,removed,chithanh,2015-02-10 10:44:22 x11-libs/libdrm-poulsbo,removed,chithanh,2015-02-10 10:45:35 x11-libs/xpsb-glx,removed,chithanh,2015-02-10 10:45:35 app-admin/lxqt-admin,removed,yngwin,2015-02-10 13:31:53 net-misc/lxqt-openssh-askpass,removed,yngwin,2015-02-10 13:32:28 games-puzzle/trimines,removed,mr_bones_,2015-02-11 20:03:44 games-action/cylindrix,removed,mr_bones_,2015-02-13 10:07:25 net-analyzer/openvas-administrator,removed,jlec,2015-02-14 14:42:10 net-analyzer/greenbone-security-desktop,removed,jlec,2015-02-14 14:54:20 Added Packages: lxqt-base/lxqt-admin,added,yngwin,2015-02-10 13:18:56 lxqt-base/lxqt-openssh-askpass,added,yngwin,2015-02-10 13:23:13 sys-apps/inxi,added,dastergon,2015-02-10 16:45:30 dev-python/pyamf,added,radhermit,2015-02-10 18:27:29 app-doc/clsync-docs,added,bircoph,2015-02-11 03:31:16 dev-libs/libclsync,added,bircoph,2015-02-11 03:35:23 app-admin/clsync,added,bircoph,2015-02-11 03:39:24 dev-ruby/hiera-eyaml,added,robbat2,2015-02-12 00:13:40 dev-ruby/gpgme,added,robbat2,2015-02-12 01:19:43 dev-ruby/hiera-eyaml-gpg,added,robbat2,2015-02-12 01:23:41 app-shells/mpibash,added,ottxor,2015-02-13 23:26:09 dev-ruby/vcard,added,mjo,2015-02-14 01:06:06 dev-ruby/ruby-ole,added,mjo,2015-02-14 18:58:36 dev-ml/easy-format,added,aballier,2015-02-15 09:07:18 dev-ml/biniou,added,aballier,2015-02-15 09:15:59 dev-ml/yojson,added,aballier,2015-02-15 09:27:34 Done.
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: vmware team needs help
Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2015, 18:19:22 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 13/02/15 00:03, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: * sorting out the screwed-up bundled library situation VMware seems to bundle everything they need. Currently, revdep-rebuild triggers false positives for a library that is no longer in portage (libgtop-2.0.so.7 from gnome-base/libgtop-2.28.5; it was removed from the tree.) I'd like to do the same as firefox-bin and other binary packages, and add an /etc/revdep-rebuild/ file: SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/opt/vmware This prevents vmware from triggering bogus revdep-rebuild loops. It's much worse than that. It also triggers @preserved-libs, there's a bug about it. What I would like to do, given infinite time, is * introduce a use-flag bundled-libs, default on now, off later * for USE=bundled-libs, fiddle with the library paths so it's 100% clear to portage and everything else that vmware needs to load libs from /opt/vmware (there's another bug about it) * for USE=-bundled-libs, remove all bundled libs during installation if possible Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2015, 18:29:25 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Btw, what is the appropriate place to discuss vmware overlay related issues? Best is probably #gentoo-virtualization on freenode. And yes there's also now a mirror on github. Just give me some time please, I still need to sort out LibreOffice 4.4 and some other stuff first... -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-dev] Re: vmware team needs help
On 15/02/15 20:20, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2015, 18:29:25 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Btw, what is the appropriate place to discuss vmware overlay related issues? Best is probably #gentoo-virtualization on freenode. Any non-realtime place?
Re: [gentoo-dev] missing opengl dependency header
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:46:17 +0100 Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-...@laposte.net wrote: I've compiled love2d-0.9.1 from the sources with Gentoo. We cannot fix what you do while you work around the package manager. If it has an ebuild that fails, then we can help you. This mailing list certainly isn't the right place to seek support with that, and the bug tracker might be neither if no ebuild controls that build attempt. In fact, /usr/include/GL/glext.h is a relative symlink to ../../lib64/opengl/global/include/GL/glext.h Please file a bug report if that is still appropriate. jer
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-libs/libusbhp: ChangeLog Manifest libusbhp-1.0.2.ebuild metadata.xml
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Patrick Lauer (patrick) patr...@gentoo.org wrote: patrick 14/12/31 05:21:11 Removed: ChangeLog Manifest libusbhp-1.0.2.ebuild metadata.xml Log: QA: Remove package with invalid copyright you do not go reverting code without actually talking to people. if you feel like a revert is necessary, then file a bug. putting a QA tag at the start of the commit message doesn't give you a pass. Normally I'd side with you on this...but I'm fairly sure repoman doesn't let you commit packages to the tree missing these headers. This leads me to believe you didn't use repoman, or ignored it? -A -mike
[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-libs/libusbhp: ChangeLog Manifest libusbhp-1.0.2.ebuild metadata.xml
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Patrick Lauer (patrick) patr...@gentoo.org wrote: patrick 14/12/31 05:21:11 Removed: ChangeLog Manifest libusbhp-1.0.2.ebuild metadata.xml Log: QA: Remove package with invalid copyright you do not go reverting code without actually talking to people. if you feel like a revert is necessary, then file a bug. putting a QA tag at the start of the commit message doesn't give you a pass. -mike
