[gentoo-dev] installer project status

2005-08-05 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I'm posting this to gentoo-dev in addition to gentoo-installer, but please take any conversation over to the gentoo-installer ML. I know we've been saying that the LiveCD for the installer would be done in a few weeks for the past 5 months or so, but now it will only be a few more weeks. Just ki

Re: [gentoo-dev] utf-8 fixes for metadata.xml

2005-08-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 19:15:15 -0700 "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | vim-6.3.084 still breaks them, unless you set encoding=utf-8 in your | vim settings. It's the same bug I spoke to you about earlier today. Bleh, I just figured that one out. The best way around it is to export LC_ALL

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-05 Thread Lance Albertson
Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: > On Friday 05 August 2005 11:07, Brian Harring wrote: > >>Might be better stating what's needed... >>A) people know what they're inadvertantly getting themselves into > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~jaervosz/glep19.html > > >>B) something might be bloody simple to s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 01:50 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > | eg. If I want to change the subnet mask or default router on 50 machines > | on my network, I should be able to do so via a simple interface and have > | the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-05 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Friday 05 August 2005 11:07, Brian Harring wrote: > Might be better stating what's needed... > A) people know what they're inadvertantly getting themselves into http://dev.gentoo.org/~jaervosz/glep19.html > B) something might be bloody simple to somebody, and they pick it off >when they may

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed change to base.eclass: patch || die

2005-08-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 29 July 2005 15:56, Dan Armak wrote: > base.eclass (which inherited by many other eclasses) has an src_unpack > supporting patching from patchfiles listed in $PATCHES. However, today, if > patching fails the process doesn't abort. About this, there are still problems about committing a ch

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-05 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:59:23AM +0200, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: > On Friday 05 August 2005 03:40, Brian D. Harring wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 05:31:43PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > It's not an overnight thing, glep19 (stable portage tree) addresses a > > > > chunk of conc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-05 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Friday 05 August 2005 03:40, Brian D. Harring wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 05:31:43PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > It's not an overnight thing, glep19 (stable portage tree) addresses a > > > chunk of concerns when/if it's implemented, but I'm a bit more > > > interested in the the other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: | eg. If I want to change the subnet mask or default router on 50 machines | on my network, I should be able to do so via a simple interface and have | the work done automatically. That's why we added c3 and clusterssh to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] digest + manifest = new file format

2005-08-05 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 5/8/2005 4:36:40, Alec Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Problems with all of these include the same problems as the cascaded > profiles, some goofball doesn't upgrade for a year, syncs with new > digests...how does he get his portage upgraded? An upgrade path should > be provided and