[gentoo-dev] Any devs attending Mysql User Conference?

2005-04-16 Thread Matthew Marlowe
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 06:39:41PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Daniel Drake wrote: > > - I'm manually configuring a package that I want installed in > > ebuild-fashion. > > I know when an ebuild runs econf it passes many configure parameters to > > achieve this (installation into /var/tmp, etc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Drake wrote: > - I'm manually configuring a package that I want installed in ebuild-fashion. > I know when an ebuild runs econf it passes many configure parameters to > achieve this (installation into /var/tmp, etc.). It would be nice if I could

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ebuild to reflect a dated tarball that's a CVS snapshot, e.g. foo-3.2.1_p20050416 or foo-20050416. Then do FEATURES=digest emerge foo, and it'll create the digest for ya and update. Carefully combined with FEATURES like keeptemp and keepwork, this could do nearly what you suggest. Usin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:36:19AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing > or testing software packages. > > Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not > brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Robert Paskowitz wrote: > Also, if you planned on using a setup > like this, there wouldn't really be a need to have the source in your > home directory as well. I hack on the source in my home directory. I take automatic backups of my home directory. I don't really want to hack in /usr/portage/di

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Jason Cooper
Daniel Drake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing > or testing software packages. > > Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not > brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.1 (the latest version) is i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Robert Paskowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Portage doesn't contain many cvs ebuilds. Writing one might not be that much > hassle, but why should I have to? We already have functional ebuilds to build > that particular package, and I have some slightly newer source code (e.g. in > my homedir)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Francesco Riosa wrote: > Why do you semply add a "cat-ego/pack-cvs/pack-cvs.ebuild" near > "cat-ego/pack/pack.ebuild" without get bothered with virtual and similar > you can simply unmerge and remerge the brother package. > There are many examples of merging from cvs in portage tree. Portage doesn

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Brian Harring wrote: > [...] and write an ebuild [...] I'm thinking in terms of making things as easy as possible. I'd rather not have to go to the effort of writing an ebuild for every package (and maybe some of its deps) that I want to hack on. > If > you're after basically having the unpack f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Francesco Riosa
Daniel Drake wrote: >Hi, > >Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing >or testing software packages. > >Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not >brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.1 (the latest version) is installed on my >syste

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:36:19AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing > or testing software packages. > > Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not > brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing or testing software packages. Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.1 (the latest version) is installed on my system, but more recently, they fi

[gentoo-dev] USE flags names that make sense for boost lib suggestions needed

2005-04-16 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, im currently changing the boost build process so users who require boost only as a dependency of another app only get release versions, developers would get debug versions as well (another ~40-90MB varying from system to system it seems) USE=debug i

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Herbie Hopkins (Herbs)

2005-04-16 Thread Herbie Hopkins
heh, thanks everyone. Rule Britania! On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 20:44 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > Congratulations, Herbie! > > Alex Howells wrote: > > Congratulations :) Welcome to the team, if we keep getting UK developers > > into Gentoo/AMD64 at this rate we'll outnumber the Germans soon :D >

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Herbie Hopkins (Herbs)

2005-04-16 Thread Simon Stelling
Congratulations, Herbie! Alex Howells wrote: > Congratulations :) Welcome to the team, if we keep getting UK developers > into Gentoo/AMD64 at this rate we'll outnumber the Germans soon :D Swiss to power! ;) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Herbie Hopkins (Herbs)

2005-04-16 Thread Alex Howells
On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 20:12 +0200, Jan Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 07:08:02PM +, Alex Howells wrote: > > Congratulations :) Welcome to the team, if we keep getting UK developers > > into Gentoo/AMD64 at this rate we'll outnumber the Germans soon :D > > > That will never happen! :

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Herbie Hopkins (Herbs)

2005-04-16 Thread Jan Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 07:08:02PM +, Alex Howells wrote: > Congratulations :) Welcome to the team, if we keep getting UK developers > into Gentoo/AMD64 at this rate we'll outnumber the Germans soon :D > That will never happen! :-p -- Jan Brinkmann : Gentoo Developer (Amd64, Java, PPC, Sound,

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Herbie Hopkins (Herbs)

2005-04-16 Thread Alex Howells
Congratulations :) Welcome to the team, if we keep getting UK developers into Gentoo/AMD64 at this rate we'll outnumber the Germans soon :D -- Astinus On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 16:17 +0100, Tom Martin wrote: > Hi all, > > Gentoo/AMD64 is swelling ever more as another developer joins the ranks. > His

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Herbie Hopkins (Herbs)

2005-04-16 Thread Marcus D. Hanwell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Martin wrote: >Gentoo/AMD64 is swelling ever more as another developer joins the ranks. >His name is Herbie Hopkins and he IRCs as Herbs. Congratulations Herbie - great to have another UK based dev on board too ;) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Herbie Hopkins (Herbs)

2005-04-16 Thread Homer Parker
On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 16:17 +0100, Tom Martin wrote: > Gentoo/AMD64 is swelling ever more as another developer joins the > ranks. > His name is Herbie Hopkins and he IRCs as Herbs. Congratz Herbie!! -- Homer Parker Gentoo/AMD64 Arch Tester Operational Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Herbie Hopkins (Herbs)

2005-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Forman
On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 16:17 +0100, Tom Martin wrote: > Herbie is proficient in C and Bash, and has made a number of patches for > various projects already. He's from Essex, England, and he's finishing > his Ph.D at the Royal Holloway in Maths/Cryptography at the age of 27. > He takes an interest in

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Herbie Hopkins (Herbs)

2005-04-16 Thread Tom Martin
Hi all, Gentoo/AMD64 is swelling ever more as another developer joins the ranks. His name is Herbie Hopkins and he IRCs as Herbs. In his stage as an Arch Tester (AT) he rebuilt a few emul packages so that 32 bit GTK applications will have working themes, amongst other improvements that a lot of y

[gentoo-dev] New "virtual/jabber-server"

2005-04-16 Thread Gustavo Felisberto
Right now there is just one jabber server in the tree marked as stable, it is net-im/jabberd . But there already is ejabberd in the tree (going to be ~x86 soon). Most of the transports available right now depend on having jabberd 1.4 installed to run, but the next wave of transports are not depend

[gentoo-dev] Re: Moving the updated apache and associated ebuilds back into package.mask

2005-04-16 Thread Duncan
Elfyn McBratney posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 16 Apr 2005 06:56:34 +0100: > A number of people have suggested putting these updated ebuilds back into > package.mask, or lessening the impact of the upgrade from current stable > apache to the new ~arch apache. So, I would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving the updated apache and associated ebuilds back into package.mask

2005-04-16 Thread Paul Varner
On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 06:56 +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > The way I see it, we have three options: > - package.mask (downgrades for those early adopters) > - keep the same layout (/etc/apache2/conf, etc.) and wait until 2.2 is out to >change it > - have the newer apache ebuilds migrate fro

Re: [gentoo-dev] reply-to munging

2005-04-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrea Barisani wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:52:33PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >>Something has changed recently. I'm no longer getting both. >> >>If I go back to a post from April 2 and hit reply all, I get @gentoo.org >>and @robin.gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-dev] reply-to munging

2005-04-16 Thread Andrea Barisani
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:52:33PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andrea Barisani wrote: > | There's no reference to @gentoo.org and our main MX server is > rewriting @gentoo.org > | to @lists.gentoo.org every time. Are you seeing @gentoo.org in