Re: [GSoC] Call for Mentors GSoC 2017

[Clemens Lang]

Hi Jackson,

On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 09:22:03AM +0530, Jackson Isaac wrote:
> I have already started the application process by coordinating with
> Rainer. If we have sufficient mentors and a admin and backup admin(s),
> we can move ahead with the application process.

Thanks for making the effort!

> Please feel free to reply to this thread if you are interested in
> participating as a mentor for GSoC 2017 with The MacPorts Project.
> 
> Call out for mentors and admin from GSoC 2015:
> Jeremy, Clemens,
> 
> Would you like to be the admin/backup admin again this year?
> 
> Clemens, Lawrence, Michael, Rainer,
> 
> There are some of your ideas in the ideas list, would you like to
> mentor GSoC students this year?

Unfortunately I don't feel I have the time required to mentor a student
this year due to work and other commitments. If a backup admin is still
needed, I can do that, though.

If anybody has any questions on the potential tasks that I added to the
GSoC page in the recent year(s), feel free to reach out.

-- 
Clemens

Re: [GSoC] Call for Mentors GSoC 2017

[Jackson Isaac]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Mojca Miklavec  wrote:
> On 7 February 2017 at 16:25, Michael Dickens wrote:
>> I'm up for being a mentor again, for the correct student.
>>
>> Do we have a MP GSoC website up yet? The best I can find is <
>> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode >, which is for 2015.
>
> I guess the idea is to simply fix the contents of that page (fix dates etc.).
>

Yes. Also, feel free to update the wiki with any ideas that come up.

> Many project ideas are still valid, but we should of course add new
> ones (go through the tickets and figure out what ideas are both
> feasible and of great importance to the community :) and potentially
> change some of the old ones (or remove them if no longer relevant).

I think some of the old ideas may not be feasible since with every new
edition of OS, some new features are added and accordingly we might
also have to update/remove those ideas since we might not be
supporting the older versions of mac os.

> Some things from the top of my head (without checking feasibility or
> reasonability):
> - collect statistics from the buildbot jobs, track outdated ports (via
> livecheck), ... to become part of a potential new website
> - come up with a solution to test basic functionality of submitted pull 
> requests
> - create various buildbot jobs that we might need (like
> "automatically" creating a new release etc.)

Mojca, would you like to put these ideas on our Ideas page ? and also
possibly be a mentor :).

> - finish the SAT solver for dependency tracking (started during 2015,
> not sure about the current status)

I am trying to continue the work on it in my free time, need to update
myself as lot of changes were made since I last worked on macports
base.

I had updated the branch with master few months back and now I am
working on merging it with the latest change. Some work need to be
done regarding the libsolv source to match with vendor tarball PR
changes.

Some of the work that were left during that time were uninstall ports,
variants support and to add more fields to the portfile for better
search options that are supported by libsolv. There might be more
things that we could do with libsolv since there has been lot of
additions to libsolv source too which I feel would be easy to
integrate as we now have extracted directories and latest changes can
be pushed without tarring the whole thing and pushing which was an
expensive overhead before.

-- 
Jackson Isaac

Re: [GSoC] Call for Mentors GSoC 2017

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 7 February 2017 at 16:25, Michael Dickens wrote:
> I'm up for being a mentor again, for the correct student.
>
> Do we have a MP GSoC website up yet? The best I can find is <
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode >, which is for 2015.

I guess the idea is to simply fix the contents of that page (fix dates etc.).

Many project ideas are still valid, but we should of course add new
ones (go through the tickets and figure out what ideas are both
feasible and of great importance to the community :) and potentially
change some of the old ones (or remove them if no longer relevant).
Some ideas have already been (partially) implemented

Some things from the top of my head (without checking feasibility or
reasonability):
- collect statistics from the buildbot jobs, track outdated ports (via
livecheck), ... to become part of a potential new website
- come up with a solution to test basic functionality of submitted pull requests
- create various buildbot jobs that we might need (like
"automatically" creating a new release etc.)
- finish the SAT solver for dependency tracking (started during 2015,
not sure about the current status)
- ...

Mojca

Re: [GSoC] Call for Mentors GSoC 2017

[Michael Dickens]

I'm up for being a mentor again, for the correct student.

Do we have a MP GSoC website up yet? The best I can find is <
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode >, which is for 2015.

Cheers! - MLD

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017, at 10:52 PM, Jackson Isaac wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> As you all might be knowing GSoC season has started and they are
> accepting organization applications until February 9, 2017, 17:00
> (UTC).
> 
> I would like to invite you all and know who all would like to mentor
> some awesome students this year to get on-board with MacPorts.
> 
> I have already started the application process by coordinating with
> Rainer. If we have sufficient mentors and a admin and backup admin(s),
> we can move ahead with the application process.
> 
> Please feel free to reply to this thread if you are interested in
> participating as a mentor for GSoC 2017 with The MacPorts Project.
> 
> Call out for mentors and admin from GSoC 2015:
> Jeremy, Clemens,
> 
> Would you like to be the admin/backup admin again this year ?
> 
> Clemens, Lawrence, Michael, Rainer,
> 
> There are some of your ideas in the ideas list, would you like to
> mentor GSoC students this year ?
> 
> Bradley has volunteered to mentor this year.
> 
> -- 
> Jackson Isaac

Re: port -v checksum

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 7, 2017, at 02:07, Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2017-2-7 08:11 , John Patrick wrote:
>> should 'port -v checksum' check all checksum's listed?
>> 
>> just wondering as about to upgrade a port version and it complained
>> about the rmd160, I updated rmd160 with the new checksum but not the
>> sha512
>> 
>> if their an option to force it to check all checksum's listed to I
>> know the Portfile is valid for the new version?
> 
> 'port checksum' should definitely always check all the checksums listed in 
> the Portfile and fail if any of them don't match those of the distfile. It 
> will additionally compute rmd160 and sha256 if those are not listed when it 
> fails, so you can easily add them.
> 
> As Ryan mentioned, sha512 is not currently supported. If port doesn't 
> complain when you use it, it probably should.

Yes, there are a couple ports that already have sha512 checksums listed -- 
apache-ant and jumpcut -- but MacPorts does not check them.

Re: port -v checksum

[John Patrick]

Cheers Josh and Ryan, that exactly covered what I was after.

I added sah512 incorrectly assuming it was supported, and so being
used. Will look into this behaviour more tonight and raise a ticket
with what I find regarding it.

John

On 7 February 2017 at 08:07, Joshua Root  wrote:
> On 2017-2-7 08:11 , John Patrick wrote:
>>
>> should 'port -v checksum' check all checksum's listed?
>>
>> just wondering as about to upgrade a port version and it complained
>> about the rmd160, I updated rmd160 with the new checksum but not the
>> sha512
>>
>> if their an option to force it to check all checksum's listed to I
>> know the Portfile is valid for the new version?
>
>
> 'port checksum' should definitely always check all the checksums listed in
> the Portfile and fail if any of them don't match those of the distfile. It
> will additionally compute rmd160 and sha256 if those are not listed when it
> fails, so you can easily add them.
>
> As Ryan mentioned, sha512 is not currently supported. If port doesn't
> complain when you use it, it probably should.
>
> If this doesn't address your questions, please describe in more detail
> exactly what you did, what happened, and what you think should have happened
> instead.
>
> - Josh

Re: KDE4 ports not built on Sierra buildbot?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 6, 2017, at 17:29, Marko Käning wrote:
> 
> Hi Ryan,
> 
>> On 22 Dec 2016, at 17:07 , Ryan Schmidt  wrote:
>> 
>> Ok but maybe wait until I've deployed a change to the master.cfg that might 
>> help performance.
> 
> have you done that change’s deployment in the meantime?

Yes, whatever change I was talking about was deployed. 

Re: port -v checksum

[Joshua Root]

On 2017-2-7 08:11 , John Patrick wrote:

should 'port -v checksum' check all checksum's listed?

just wondering as about to upgrade a port version and it complained
about the rmd160, I updated rmd160 with the new checksum but not the
sha512

if their an option to force it to check all checksum's listed to I
know the Portfile is valid for the new version?


'port checksum' should definitely always check all the checksums listed 
in the Portfile and fail if any of them don't match those of the 
distfile. It will additionally compute rmd160 and sha256 if those are 
not listed when it fails, so you can easily add them.


As Ryan mentioned, sha512 is not currently supported. If port doesn't 
complain when you use it, it probably should.


If this doesn't address your questions, please describe in more detail 
exactly what you did, what happened, and what you think should have 
happened instead.


- Josh