Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-08 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Samstag, den 07.02.2009, 15:23 -0800 schrieb Zac Medico: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano Müller wrote: Am Montag, den 02.02.2009, 12:34 -0800 schrieb Zac Medico: For the digest format, I suggest that we use the leftmost 10 hexadecimal digits of the SHA-1 digest.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-08 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano Müller wrote: Am Samstag, den 07.02.2009, 15:23 -0800 schrieb Zac Medico: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano Müller wrote: Am Montag, den 02.02.2009, 12:34 -0800 schrieb Zac Medico: For the digest format, I suggest

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-08 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 00:59 -0800 schrieb Zac Medico: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano Müller wrote: Am Samstag, den 07.02.2009, 15:23 -0800 schrieb Zac Medico: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano Müller wrote: Am Montag, den

Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)

2009-02-08 Thread Federico Ferri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: ${PORTDIR}/tags/games/puzzles/ksudoku - ../../../kde-base/ksudoku ${PORTDIR}/tags/games/puzzles/sudoku/ksudoku - ../../../../kde-base/ksudoku ${PORTDIR}/tags/dying/amarok - ../media-sound/amarok - -- I like the tag idea. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)

2009-02-08 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Federico Ferri mescali...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: ${PORTDIR}/tags/games/puzzles/ksudoku - ../../../kde-base/ksudoku ${PORTDIR}/tags/games/puzzles/sudoku/ksudoku - ../../../../kde-base/ksudoku

Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)

2009-02-08 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Federico Ferri mescali...@gentoo.org wrote: tags - packages is a many-to-many relation. Aren't tags _made_ to be many-to-many? ie, symlinking can allow that kind of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)

2009-02-08 Thread Federico Ferri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: I like the tag idea. I don't like tag as described above. I feel having tags organized in hierarchical way is inappropriate. that just makes another organization of packages in categories. KDE and OLPC are looking towards

Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)

2009-02-08 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 23:41 +0530 schrieb Nirbheek Chauhan: On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Federico Ferri mescali...@gentoo.org wrote: tags - packages is a many-to-many relation. Aren't tags

Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)

2009-02-08 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 18:59 +0100 schrieb Federico Ferri: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: ${PORTDIR}/tags/games/puzzles/ksudoku - ../../../kde-base/ksudoku ${PORTDIR}/tags/games/puzzles/sudoku/ksudoku - ../../../../kde-base/ksudoku

Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)

2009-02-08 Thread Angelo Arrifano
I would keep existing categories and add a new TAG metadata to existing ebuilds. Something like TAG=kde music player lyrics lastfm visualization for amarok, as example. A public list of *ALLOWED* tags would be published on our www infrastructures. Then during the portage metadata regeneration

Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)

2009-02-08 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 08/02/2009 20:07, Angelo Arrifano a écrit : I would keep existing categories and add a new TAG metadata to existing ebuilds. Something like TAG=kde music player lyrics lastfm visualization for amarok, as example. If anything, this sort of extra information should go to metadata.xml.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-08 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano Müller wrote: Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 00:59 -0800 schrieb Zac Medico: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano Müller wrote: Am Samstag, den 07.02.2009, 15:23 -0800 schrieb Zac Medico: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcement of The G Palmtop Environment ebuilds

2009-02-08 Thread Petteri Räty
Angelo Arrifano wrote: [ -z ${GPE_MIRROR} ] GPE_MIRROR=http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source; [ -z ${GPE_TARBALL_SUFFIX} ] GPE_TARBALL_SUFFIX=gz SRC_URI=${GPE_MIRROR}/${P}.tar.${GPE_TARBALL_SUFFIX} Use [[ here. # @FUNCTION: gpe_src_compile # @DESCRIPTION: (Cross-)Compiles a GPE

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-08 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 12:36 -0800 schrieb Zac Medico: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano Müller wrote: Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 00:59 -0800 schrieb Zac Medico: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano Müller wrote: Am Samstag, den

[gentoo-dev] Devaway for me, for a whole year period(military service)

2009-02-08 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
Hi fellow devs and users, As some of you may already know, I won't be around this year, cause I have to join the greek army, starting from tomorrow morning. Feel free to touch my ebuilds. I will be in contact (via mail) with Marijn Schouten (hkBst) in case you want to hear any news of me. Keep

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: fox.eclass update

2009-02-08 Thread Matti Bickel
Hi, shame on me, here i'm wondering why noone replies... Sorry, i failed to send the updated patch o.O Here's the patch again w/ your suggestions included. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email preferred (key 4849EC6C) --- /usr/portage/eclass/fox.eclass 2008-10-12

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-08 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano Müller wrote: Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 12:36 -0800 schrieb Zac Medico: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano Müller wrote: But if your target is to reduce the size of the metadata cache, why store the hashes of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:23:18 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: Well, usually you don't keep intermediate or generated files in a VCS, so why the metadata? People who distribute overlays commonly ask if it's possible to distribute metadata cache with the overlay. Using a format

[gentoo-dev] Re: Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)

2009-02-08 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:07:58 + Angelo Arrifano mik...@gentoo.org wrote: I would keep existing categories and add a new TAG metadata to existing ebuilds. Something like TAG=kde music player lyrics lastfm visualization for amarok, as example. A public list of *ALLOWED* tags would be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)

2009-02-08 Thread Federico Ferri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Hill wrote: I've always thought it would be cool to have user-created tag clouds, del.icio.us-style, on packages.g.o. I expect this would be a hell of a lot of work to set up however. initially, packages could be automatically tagges, based

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-08 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:23:18 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: Well, usually you don't keep intermediate or generated files in a VCS, so why the metadata? People who distribute overlays commonly ask if it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:43:01 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: Sticking metadata cache files under version control really is a perfect example of doing it wrong... Well, if you want to use timestamps, the alternative is to distributors to use a protocol which preserves timestamps.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-08 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:43:01 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: Sticking metadata cache files under version control really is a perfect example of doing it wrong... Well, if you want to use timestamps, the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:03:48 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: No, it's just encouraging bad development practices. It seems like you're making a rather arbitrary judgment. Not storing generated content under revision control is hardly an arbitrary judgement. It's a well accepted

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-08 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:03:48 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: No, it's just encouraging bad development practices. It seems like you're making a rather arbitrary judgment. Not storing generated content under

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:27:54 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: Which is offset and more by the massive inconvenience of having to keep track of and store junk under version control. I think you're making it out to be worse than it really is. Like I said, I think we have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-08 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:27:54 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: Which is offset and more by the massive inconvenience of having to keep track of and store junk under version control. I think you're making it out to

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2009-02-08 23h59 UTC

2009-02-08 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2009-02-08 23h59 UTC. Removals: sys-kernel/hppa-sources 2009-02-06 03:14:44 jer profiles/default-linux/hppa 2009-02-06 05:40:23 jer net-p2p/azureus

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devaway for me, for a whole year period(military service)

2009-02-08 Thread Dale
Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: Hi fellow devs and users, As some of you may already know, I won't be around this year, cause I have to join the greek army, starting from tomorrow morning. Feel free to touch my ebuilds. I will be in contact (via mail) with Marijn Schouten (hkBst) in case