Re: [gentoo-dev] How to force homedir on enewuser

2008-01-18 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:46:58 +0100 Hanno Böck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the correct way to handle this? I'd suggest that enewuser might get some force-parameter that tells it to delete and recreate the user if it already exists. Thoughts? Tell the user to do it manually in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

2008-01-18 Thread Fabian Groffen
First and foremost: thanks for the work! On 17-01-2008 13:47:28 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: overlays.gentoo.org [3]: - Moving between machines - Git service is already on the new machine - Anonymous SVN is changing from http:// to svn:// - Trac being replaced [2] Footnotes: 1. You do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

2008-01-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:37:35AM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: First and foremost: thanks for the work! On 17-01-2008 13:47:28 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: overlays.gentoo.org [3]: - Moving between machines - Git service is already on the new machine - Anonymous SVN is changing from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

2008-01-18 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 18-01-2008 01:21:21 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: If a transition period would be available, I could make Portage alarm users to fix the SYNC variable to reflect the new URL. I also need to add/fix/change Portage's support for this new URL scheme. You're syncing directly from overlays

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to force homedir on enewuser

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 18 January 2008, Marius Mauch wrote: Hanno Böck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the correct way to handle this? I'd suggest that enewuser might get some force-parameter that tells it to delete and recreate the user if it already exists. Thoughts? Tell the user to do it manually

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to force homedir on enewuser

2008-01-18 Thread Roy Marples
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 06:41 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: right, there is no way (by design) to force these settings on an already created user. if the old path really truly should not be the old value, you can do something like this in pkg_setup: if [[ $(egetent passwd user | cut -d: -f6)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

2008-01-18 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 18-01-2008 03:32:36 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: The problem is that emerge --sync obfuscates that SVN is being used underneath. Some (most?) users will not have a clue they are using SVN. How about rolling out a prefix-portage update that just kicks them into updating it? That's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 17 January 2008, Robin H. Johnson wrote: anonvcs.gentoo.org: anoncvs, anonsvn, anongit - Anonymous SVN is changing from http:// to svn:// [1] overlays.gentoo.org [3]: - Anonymous SVN is changing from http:// to svn:// i'd point out that http:// syncing is usable from behind

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

2008-01-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:46:28AM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: On 18-01-2008 01:21:21 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: If a transition period would be available, I could make Portage alarm users to fix the SYNC variable to reflect the new URL. I also need to add/fix/change Portage's

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Seeking questions for a user survey

2008-01-18 Thread Steve Long
Joe Peterson wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:56:36AM +, Steve Long wrote: Ryan Hill wrote: I agree, though year of birth might be interesting. Income and children are a bit too private. ++ in general although I do think parenthood (if responsible) is as relevant as age. A 28 year

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Seeking questions for a user survey

2008-01-18 Thread Steve Long
Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:56:36AM +, Steve Long wrote: Ryan Hill wrote: I agree, though year of birth might be interesting. Income and children are a bit too private. ++ in general although I do think parenthood (if responsible) is as relevant as age. A 28

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Seeking questions for a user survey

2008-01-18 Thread likewhoa
I totally agree with not asking such personal questions which really are not going to help the foundation, what we need to ask are questions that relate to the distribution, it's developers user community as a whole. one question regarding children that I see as being appropriate is: Do children

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Available hardware

2008-01-18 Thread Rémi Cardona
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto a écrit : Christian Faulhammer wrote: | Hi, | | Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Daniel Ostrow wrote: | As I am no longer an ebuild dev (real life job got in the way) I | have a whole slew of hardware that I'm willing to ship to any | gentoo dev for the cost of shipping

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Seeking questions for a user survey

2008-01-18 Thread George Prowse
Steve Long wrote: Joe Peterson wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:56:36AM +, Steve Long wrote: Ryan Hill wrote: I agree, though year of birth might be interesting. Income and children are a bit too private. ++ in general although I do think parenthood (if responsible) is as relevant as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Seeking questions for a user survey

2008-01-18 Thread Joe Peterson
Steve Long wrote: My apologies if I caused you any offense, Joe. I fully agree that choosing not to have children is just as mature as deciding to procreate, and more mature than simply drifting into parenthood. No offense taken, and I agree about the drifting into thing. My wife's brother

[gentoo-dev] Re: Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

2008-01-18 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2. Trac doesn't scale well enough, as users of the existing overlay machine have noted performance problems before. Being replaced with ViewVC and as yet undecided which Wiki application. Am I right that Wiki content is not migrated? V-Li -- Christian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

2008-01-18 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 1/19/08, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understand correctly, the performance of svn under apache is better than the svnserver The other way round. We are talking about read-only anonymous repository, right? But I will take your word for it :) Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

2008-01-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 12:26:44AM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On 1/18/08, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008, Robin H. Johnson wrote: anonvcs.gentoo.org: anoncvs, anonsvn, anongit - Anonymous SVN is changing from http:// to svn:// [1]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

2008-01-18 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 1/19/08, Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My core concern with the SVN http://, was the crappy performance it provided compared to svn://. The main rsync tree has never been available for iterative syncing via http://, just had tarball snapshots and deltas instead. If I understand

Re: [gentoo-dev] Concerns about WIPE_TMP change

2008-01-18 Thread Mark Loeser
Stefan de Konink [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How stupid anyone could be that stores anything in /tmp. I think it is a problem to change the default behavior of a system that in essence will result in data loss. I think this might just be a communication problem. You seem to be contradicting

[gentoo-dev] Concerns about WIPE_TMP change

2008-01-18 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, I joined this mailinglist because of my concern pointed in: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206604 How stupid anyone could be that stores anything in /tmp. I think it is a problem to change the default behavior of a system that in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

2008-01-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 06:41:44PM +0100, Christian Faulhammer wrote: 2. Trac doesn't scale well enough, as users of the existing overlay machine have noted performance problems before. Being replaced with ViewVC and as yet undecided which Wiki application. Am I right that Wiki content is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Seeking questions for a user survey

2008-01-18 Thread likewhoa
Your suggestions are ideal and don't get to personal, thanks for the feedback and corrections. On Jan 18, 2008 8:54 PM, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: likewhoa [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:20:08 -0500: one question regarding children

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Available hardware

2008-01-18 Thread Pierre-Yves Rofes
On Fri, January 18, 2008 1:43 pm, Rémi Cardona wrote: Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto a écrit : Christian Faulhammer wrote: | Hi, | | Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Daniel Ostrow wrote: | As I am no longer an ebuild dev (real life job got in the way) I | have a whole slew of hardware that I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

2008-01-18 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 1/18/08, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008, Robin H. Johnson wrote: anonvcs.gentoo.org: anoncvs, anonsvn, anongit - Anonymous SVN is changing from http:// to svn:// [1] overlays.gentoo.org [3]: - Anonymous SVN is changing from http:// to svn:// i'd

[gentoo-dev] Re: Seeking questions for a user survey

2008-01-18 Thread Duncan
likewhoa [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:20:08 -0500: one question regarding children that I see as being appropriate is: Do children in your household use Gentoo? Yes No It's to complicated for them Prefer not to answer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

2008-01-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 01:01:04AM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On 1/19/08, Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My core concern with the SVN http://, was the crappy performance it provided compared to svn://. The main rsync tree has never been available for iterative syncing via