Re: [gentoo-dev] Need guidance for updating CHOST

2006-09-13 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 07:40:01PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > Is there a "Readers Digest" version you can give the userreps so we > can at least answer the question properly when it comes up? The current version is text only and ugly, but at least there is one and from the feedback i got so far

Re: [gentoo-dev] Toys for arch / release people

2006-09-13 Thread Francesco Riosa
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [...] > I remain, Sirs, your most humble and obedient servant, ^^^ LOL -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] [Council] #gentoo-council

2006-09-13 Thread Danny van Dyk
Just a short note: The new council will be showing more presence in #gentoo-council. This means: even when no meeting is taking place you can reach us all together on IRC to discuss Gentoo development or to point out problems. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gen

[gentoo-dev] using -j1 with distcc?

2006-09-13 Thread Aron Griffis
From bind-9.3.2-r4.ebuild: # idea from dev-libs/cyrus-sasl if has distcc ${FEATURES}; then einfo "You have \"distcc\" enabled" einfo "build with MAKEOPTS=\"-j1\"" jobs="-j1" else einfo "build with MAKEOPTS=${MAKEOPTS}" jobs="" fi emake $

Re: [gentoo-dev] using -j1 with distcc?

2006-09-13 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:34:52AM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: > From bind-9.3.2-r4.ebuild: > > # idea from dev-libs/cyrus-sasl > if has distcc ${FEATURES}; then > einfo "You have \"distcc\" enabled" > einfo "build with MAKEOPTS=\"-j1\"" > jobs="-j1" > else >

Re: [gentoo-dev] AutoMake and paralle safe makefiles [WAS: using -j1 with distcc?]

2006-09-13 Thread Alec Warner
Aron Griffis wrote: From bind-9.3.2-r4.ebuild: Unless somebody can explain how this is valid, I'll go ahead and fix the bind ebuilds (where "fix" means "use -j1 unconditionally since the Makefiles aren't parallel safe"). Aron If I'm using Autotools, aren't they smart enough (given that I spec

Re: [gentoo-dev] AutoMake and paralle safe makefiles [WAS: using -j1 with distcc?]

2006-09-13 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 16:51, Alec Warner wrote: > If I'm using Autotools, aren't they smart enough (given that I specify > the proper headers, and source files and whatnot) to generate parallel > safe makefiles?  Or is it a shot in the dark as to whether it works or not? If you use automak

Re: [gentoo-dev] AutoMake and paralle safe makefiles [WAS: using -j1 with distcc?]

2006-09-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:51:47 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Aron Griffis wrote: | > From bind-9.3.2-r4.ebuild: | > | > Unless somebody can explain how this is valid, I'll go ahead and fix | > the bind ebuilds (where "fix" means "use -j1 unconditionally since | > the Makefiles aren'

Re: [gentoo-dev] using -j1 with distcc?

2006-09-13 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 07:52 -0700, Brian Harring wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:34:52AM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: > > From bind-9.3.2-r4.ebuild: > > > > # idea from dev-libs/cyrus-sasl > > if has distcc ${FEATURES}; then > > einfo "You have \"distcc\" enabled" > > ein

Re: [gentoo-dev] using -j1 with distcc?

2006-09-13 Thread Aron Griffis
Brian Harring wrote: [Wed Sep 13 2006, 10:52:17AM EDT] > Similar trickery in app-office/openoffice, although they enable -jN if > distcc is enabled, else -j1 ... > > Always wondered how that was valid, just avoid OO compiles enough it > wasn't something I ever got around to looking into :) The

Re: [gentoo-dev] using -j1 with distcc?

2006-09-13 Thread Aron Griffis
Aron Griffis wrote: [Wed Sep 13 2006, 10:34:52AM EDT] > Unless somebody can explain how this is valid, I'll go ahead and fix > the bind ebuilds (where "fix" means "use -j1 unconditionally since > the Makefiles aren't parallel safe"). Maybe this was quick on my part, but I've gone ahead and fixed

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

2006-09-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
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. I would much prefer new files to be treated as if replacing an existing zero l

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Council] #gentoo-council

2006-09-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Danny van Dyk wrote: > Just a short note: > > The new council will be showing more presence in #gentoo-council. > This means: even when no meeting is taking place you can reach us all > together on IRC to discuss Gentoo development or to point out problems. Great! It's good to hear this. But how

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Council] #gentoo-council

2006-09-13 Thread Mike Doty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Danny van Dyk wrote: >> Just a short note: >> >> The new council will be showing more presence in #gentoo-council. >> This means: even when no meeting is taking place you can reach us all >> together on IRC to discuss Gentoo d

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Council] #gentoo-council

2006-09-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 13:09 -0500, Mike Doty wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Danny van Dyk wrote: > >> Just a short note: > >> > >> The new council will be showing more presence in #gentoo-council. > >> This means: even when no meeting is tak

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

2006-09-13 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On 2006-09-11 at 20:30 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > 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

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

2006-09-13 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:47 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > 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. > > I would

Re: [gentoo-dev] using -j1 with distcc?

2006-09-13 Thread Konstantin V. Arkhipov
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 19:30, Aron Griffis wrote: > Aron Griffis wrote: [Wed Sep 13 2006, 10:34:52AM EDT] > > > Unless somebody can explain how this is valid, I'll go ahead and fix > > the bind ebuilds (where "fix" means "use -j1 unconditionally since > > the Makefiles aren't parallel safe

[gentoo-dev] Sunrise trusted committers with bugzilla access

2006-09-13 Thread Stefan Schweizer
To my fellow Gentoo developers, in the Sunrise project we have some users who are ambitious and cotribute more than a few ebuilds. Those regulars have the possibility to take the ebuild quiz and acquire the title "Sunrise trusted committer". Those sunrise committers can use extended bugzilla permi

[gentoo-dev] treecleaner: package.mask cleanup

2006-09-13 Thread Steve Dibb
I just removed these no longer valid entries from package.mask since the packages have been removed from the tree: =net-dns/dnsmasq-2.21 =app-editors/vim-core-7.0_alpha* =app-editors/vim-7.0_alpha* =app-editors/gvim-7.0_alpha* Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 10 September 2006 21:44, Zac Medico wrote: > 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. /etc/env.d makes most sense ... we just have to worry about how to handle th

[gentoo-dev] cleaning up forcing of all autotools

2006-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
i'm going to be fixing the autoconf/automake wrappers so that they no longer require all versions of autoconf/automake ... this will resolve the annoying circular dependency but at the sametime packages need to make sure that if they use autotools, they pull in the correct version -mike pgpUcE

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

2006-09-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 10 September 2006 21:44, Zac Medico wrote: >> 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. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Toys for arch / release people

2006-09-13 Thread Doug Goldstein
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > If anyone has any other suggestions for this kind of user configuration > independent tool, give me a prod here or in #paludis. Writing these is > really trivial and almost certainly worth the effort... > > I remain, Sirs, your most humble and obedient servant, Ciaran,

[gentoo-dev] planet gentoo upgrade

2006-09-13 Thread Steve Dibb
Planet Gentoo's backend got upgraded today, so if anyone notices any weird funkies, please let me know. Thanks for beta-testing. :) Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] app-crypt/cfs needs a temp maintainer

2006-09-13 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
the maintainer of app-crypt/cfs mkennedy is not responding to bugmail and has an open security bug. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142596 Anyone willing to help take care of this package please CC yourself on the bug and provide a bump. -- Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen Gentoo Linux Secur

[gentoo-dev] media-gfx/imagemagick needs a temp maintainer

2006-09-13 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
the maintainer of media-gfx/imagemagick sekretarz is not responding to bugmail and the package has two open security bugs. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143533 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144091 Anyone willing to help take care of this package please CC yourself on the bug

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

2006-09-13 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:22:11PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Comments both on the nature and the specifics of the specification > would be welcomed. In particular, I'd like to know if people think > we're mandating the appropriate degree of specificity and whether we're > providing sufficient