Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Simon Stelling
Zac Medico wrote: > What is the best way to propagate information about these two > variable types? For example, we can have a list of variable names > stored in a new variable called "COLON_SEPARATED" that will reside > in either the profiles or /etc/env.d/ itself. Variable names not > listed in

Re: [gentoo-dev] New git.eclass (Take #2)

2006-09-11 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:32:50PM +0200, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: > Hi guys, > > We are planning to add git.eclass as presented in bug #132383 (as > attachment 96300). I also attach it here in case someone wants to > comment parts of it. git.eclass is now in the tree - ferdy -- Fernando J. P

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a confcache maintainer

2006-09-11 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 9/8/06, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After sending this mail, I'll be removing myself from the metadata of dev-util/confcache ; I've tried maintaining the ebuild and supporting confcache usage in Gentoo, but I'm unable to proceed with this task. I'll take it back. Be

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Montag, 11. September 2006 03:44 schrieb Zac Medico: > Hi everyone, > > Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control > the behavior of env-update. The same applies to eselect env. > I'd like to make these variables > configurable so that package maintainers have direct

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 9/9/06, Christel Dahlskjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Drupal has had QA bug #98542 open for over a year now, and has seen no progress in resolving it. It has now been package.masked, and unless someone jumps up to fix the outstanding issues will be removed in 30 days. Why didn't you escalat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Jakub Moc
Stuart Herbert wrote: > On 9/9/06, Christel Dahlskjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Drupal has had QA bug #98542 open for over a year now, and has seen no >> progress in resolving it. It has now been package.masked, and unless >> someone jumps up to fix the outstanding issues will be removed in 30

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 9/11/06, Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Uhm, web-apps has been CCed on the bug since the beginning. Last time I asked, noone wanted to touch the FUBARed ebuild, IIRC. :) The package was masked without Christel (on behalf of QA) posting an advance warning of their actions. That's not t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 9/10/06, Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alec Warner wrote: upstream for that reason Upstream sucks badly here. us because we haven't a tool like the one BaSS wrote for the ebooks. Such a tool would deal with many modules, but not all of them. Some modules require additional dep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Alec Warner
Stuart Herbert wrote: On 9/11/06, Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Uhm, web-apps has been CCed on the bug since the beginning. Last time I asked, noone wanted to touch the FUBARed ebuild, IIRC. :) The package was masked without Christel (on behalf of QA) posting an advance warning of their

[gentoo-dev] Council election master ballot

2006-09-11 Thread Grant Goodyear
Here's the "master ballot" for the election. Confirmation e-mails will follow. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 - confirmation 2b94 - vapier kloeri

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny van Dyk wrote: > Am Montag, 11. September 2006 03:44 schrieb Zac Medico: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control >> the behavior of env-update. > The same applies to eselect env. > >> I'd like t

[gentoo-dev] unofficial council election results

2006-09-11 Thread Grant Goodyear
Running "countify" on the master ballot yields the following results for the new council: vapier kloeri wolf31o2 Flameeyes KingTaco robbat2 Kugelfang These results are unofficial because under some circumstances "countify" has been known to fail. The signature of such

[gentoo-dev] unofficial results -- full ranking

2006-09-11 Thread Grant Goodyear
I'd best give the full ranking for completeness (and for independent verifications): result: option vapier wins result: option kloeri wins result: option wolf31o2 wins result: option Flameeyes wins result: option KingTaco wins result: option robbat2 wins result: option Kugelfang wins result: optio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 11:01 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > Stuart Herbert wrote: > > On 9/11/06, Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Uhm, web-apps has been CCed on the bug since the beginning. Last time I > >> asked, noone wanted to touch the FUBARed ebuild, IIRC. :) > > > > The package was mas

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 21:25 +0100, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > Drupal has had QA bug #98542 open for over a year now, and has seen no > progress in resolving it. It has now been package.masked, and unless > someone jumps up to fix the outstanding issues will be removed in 30 > days. Er, as someon

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:01:02 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Stuart Herbert wrote: | > On 9/11/06, Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >> Uhm, web-apps has been CCed on the bug since the beginning. Last | >> time I asked, noone wanted to touch the FUBARed ebuild, IIRC. :) | > | >

Re: [gentoo-dev] unofficial council election results

2006-09-11 Thread Wernfried Haas
I'd like to send my unofficial congratulations to the new council then. Also thanks to the folks who did the technical stuff behind the vote. Btw, how many people actually voted? cheers, Wernfried -- Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne at gentoo dot org Gentoo Forums: http://forums.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread George Prowse
On 11/09/06, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:01:02 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Stuart Herbert wrote: | > On 9/11/06, Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >> Uhm, web-apps has been CCed on the bug since the beginning. Last | >> time I asked, n

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Zac Medico wrote: > We can store them in /etc/env.d/ itself. The env-update tool could > be hare coded to consider COLON_SEPARATED and SPACE_SEPARATED as > being implicitly within the SPACE_SEPARATED class. The tool would > make one pass to accumulate those two variables, and then another > pass

Re: [gentoo-dev] unofficial council election results

2006-09-11 Thread Grant Goodyear
Wernfried Haas wrote: [Mon Sep 11 2006, 11:23:03AM CDT] > I'd like to send my unofficial congratulations to the new council then. > Also thanks to the folks who did the technical stuff behind the vote. > > Btw, how many people actually voted? 121 -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council election master ballot

2006-09-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:27:39 -0500 Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Here's the "master ballot" for the election. Confirmation e-mails | will follow. And here're the graphs that you've all come to know and love, showing once again that Condorcet is a brilliant system for picking out peo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Alec Warner
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:01:02 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Stuart Herbert wrote: | > On 9/11/06, Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >> Uhm, web-apps has been CCed on the bug since the beginning. Last | >> time I asked, noone wanted to touch the FUBARed

[gentoo-dev] Results now more official

2006-09-11 Thread Grant Goodyear
Thanks to fmccor, we now have additional confirmation of the results using STV, with a minor wrinkle: My results agree. I showed a difference in the 7th position (jaervosz for Kugelelfang), but on closer examination, I see that this comes about because of a tie vote. I.e., I show a s

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:44:23 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control | the behavior of env-update. I realise GLEP 24 is considered not going very far, but in the interests of what *has* been done on it... Is it worth contin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council election master ballot

2006-09-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:27:39 -0500 Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Here's the "master ballot" for the election. Confirmation e-mails > | will follow. > > And here're the graphs that you've all come to know and love, showing > once again that Condorcet is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council election master ballot

2006-09-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:59:46 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > And here're the graphs that you've all come to know and love, | > showing once again that Condorcet is a brilliant system for picking | > out people who aren't unpopular rather than people who are popular. | | Thanks

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: >> We can store them in /etc/env.d/ itself. The env-update tool could >> be hare coded to consider COLON_SEPARATED and SPACE_SEPARATED as >> being implicitly within the SPACE_SEPARATED class. The tool would

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:44:23 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control > | the behavior of env-update. > > I realise GLEP 24 is considered not going

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Roy Marples
On Monday 11 September 2006 14:07, Stuart Herbert wrote: > I have new ebuilds for drupal, and a number of modules (I think I got > up to 'f') locally. I'll get them into the webapps overlay, so that > folks can test them, and help out. I'm more than happy for you to take Drupal instead of me :) H

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Monday 11 September 2006 03:44, Zac Medico wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control > the behavior of env-update. I'd like to make these variables > configurable so that package maintainers have direct control over > them. The variables bre

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Monday 11 September 2006 03:44, Zac Medico wrote: >> What is the best way to propagate information about these two >> variable types? For example, we can have a list of variable names >> stored in a new variable called "COLO

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 9/11/06, Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm more than happy for you to take Drupal instead of me :) However, is there any reason that the main drupal ebuild cannot stay in portage? No reason at all, that I know of. Drupal's a package I can't really work on; I work for a company that

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection

2006-09-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
A while back it was agreed that it would be a good idea to standardise certain aspects of package manager behaviour. We thought it'd be a good idea to start with something easy so that we can iron out any kinks in the process... So... Attached is a first draft of an attempt at standardising how co

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 17:10 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Now why does it not surprise me that you of all people are encouraging > people to complain about Christel? Is there something you'd like to get > out in the open? > I've been watching you spew for a while. When are you going to get ov

Re: [gentoo-dev] Results now more official

2006-09-11 Thread Seemant Kulleen
Congratulations to the new council. I hope for a lot of progress this year outta you guys :) Thanks, -- Seemant Kulleen Trustee, Gentoo Foundation Developer, Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection

2006-09-11 Thread Chris White
On Monday 11 September 2006 15:22, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > * Otherwise, try again with ``._cfg0001_name``, then ``._cfg0002_name`` and > so on (base ten is used for the number part) until a usable filename is > found. For what purpose are the older cfg[number]_name files kept around? I ask be

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection

2006-09-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:02:53 -0700 Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Monday 11 September 2006 15:22, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > * Otherwise, try again with ``._cfg0001_name``, then | > ``._cfg0002_name`` and so on (base ten is used for the number part) | > until a usable filename is found

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection

2006-09-11 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 04:02:53PM -0700, Chris White wrote: > On Monday 11 September 2006 15:22, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > * Otherwise, try again with ``._cfg0001_name``, then ``._cfg0002_name`` and > > so on (base ten is used for the number part) until a usable filename is > > found. > For wha

[gentoo-dev] GIMP 1.2 has gotta die

2006-09-11 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, Just had an irc-talk with allanonjl and I'm now co-maintaining gimp. I want to remove old gimp 1.2 soon (a bunch of bugs could be closed and we could get rid of that symlink-hack for the bins). If you have any objections, cry now (but expect that I want you to maintain that stuff if you cry)

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection

2006-09-11 Thread Michael Cummings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > * If no existing file with the intended target name exists, or if the existing > file has identical content to the file to be installed, the file to be > installed > is installed as normal. Just one poor dev's opinion, bu

Re: [gentoo-dev] GIMP 1.2 has gotta die

2006-09-11 Thread Michael Cummings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hanno Böck wrote: > Hi, > > Just had an irc-talk with allanonjl and I'm now co-maintaining gimp. > I want to remove old gimp 1.2 soon (a bunch of bugs could be closed and we > could get rid of that symlink-hack for the bins). If you have any objectio

Re: [gentoo-dev] GIMP 1.2 has gotta die

2006-09-11 Thread Hanno Böck
Am Dienstag, 12. September 2006 02:46 schrieb Michael Cummings: > Looks like that will break media-gfx/frontline (=media-gfx/gimp-1.2*) > and gimp-freetype-0.2-r3 (also =media-gfx/gimp-1.2*). frontline is dead upstream, has no metadata and last changelog-entry is about a year old, so I suspect th

[gentoo-dev] [adopt-a-dev] New Resource Offers and Requests

2006-09-11 Thread Thomas Cort
Below are all of the community member offers and developer requests made in the last 7 days. As always, the full list of offers and requests can be found on our project page http://gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/adopt-a-dev/index.xml -Thomas Community Member Offers ===

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Lance Albertson
Alec Warner wrote: > Stuart Herbert wrote: >> On 9/11/06, Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Uhm, web-apps has been CCed on the bug since the beginning. Last time I >>> asked, noone wanted to touch the FUBARed ebuild, IIRC. :) >> >> The package was masked without Christel (on behalf of QA) po

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-11 Thread Alec Warner
Lance Albertson wrote: > Alec Warner wrote: >> Stuart Herbert wrote: >>> On 9/11/06, Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Uhm, web-apps has been CCed on the bug since the beginning. Last time I asked, noone wanted to touch the FUBARed ebuild, IIRC. :) >>> The package was masked without Ch