Re: [gentoo-dev] Usage of cp -i to prevent overwriting upstream files

2009-01-31 Thread Luca Barbato
Santiago M. Mola wrote: e) use a hook around unpack on your local system to detect new build.xml for a list of packages. AFAIK, checking changes is part of the bump process, so I think that's a check you can do either at hand, with a script (it's always a good thing to look for new files in

[gentoo-dev] Advice regarding backporting to Gentoo from Tin Hat.

2009-01-31 Thread basile
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It was suggested to me that I write this list about backporting something to gentoo from Tin Hat which is a distro derived from hardened gentoo. First a bit of history: Last year a group of us decided to put together a linux distribution which

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2009-01-31 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Donnie Berkholz wrote: app-misc/colordiff sys-process/iotop I picked up these two. metadata changed. I'll get to the bugs next week sometime. -Jeremy

Re: [gentoo-dev] Advice regarding backporting to Gentoo from Tin Hat.

2009-01-31 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiya Anthony, First off, it certainly sounds interesting and making it more accessible (simple ebuild setup and so on) seems like a good plan even if it doesn't get picked up officially. The best way to start development would probably be an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Advice regarding backporting to Gentoo from Tin Hat.

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Gaffney
basile wrote: Point 4 is what I think would be useful to Gentoo mainstream. The speed one gets from RAM totally beats a LiveCD using unionfs which has to periodically return to the slow cdrom. This is already possible. With current genkernel (genkernel- or genkernel-3.4.10.903), you can

Re: [gentoo-dev] PR Project Activity Issues

2009-01-31 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org wrote: On 01:55 Tue 27 Jan , Alec Warner wrote: Getting Index2 live is I think a different operational issue (that changes to the website are very slow) and really has nothing to do with PR aside from them not nagging