Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] RESTRICT=parallel for builds that can't be executed in parallel

2010-04-14 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:45:20AM +0200, Michaaa GGGrny wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:12:08 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: Should we add a RESTRICT=parallel value for ebuilds that can't be built at the same time as other ebuilds? Brian says we need it for things like

Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation

2010-04-14 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org wrote: I rather like the changelogs auto-generated. A method to link my git commit to bugzie would be awesome. I *do* envy debian and others for the auto bughandling they have. Previewing more than a raw number would also reduce

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] RESTRICT=parallel for builds that can't be executed in parallel

2010-04-14 Thread Justin
On 14/04/10 04:12, Zac Medico wrote: Hi everyone, Should we add a RESTRICT=parallel value for ebuilds that can't be built at the same time as other ebuilds? Brian says we need it for things like xorg-server which calls eselect opengl. There is at least one other example which benefits from

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] RESTRICT=parallel for builds that can't be executed in parallel

2010-04-14 Thread Duncan
Brian Harring posted on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:10:16 -0700 as excerpted: RESTRICT=parallel is basically a big lock that forces building to go down to one specific build/merge job- it's not at all fine grained. That said, I'm not convinced it's worth actually *trying* to be fine grained. Stuff

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] RESTRICT=parallel for builds that can't be executed in parallel

2010-04-14 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:06:56AM +, Duncan wrote: Brian Harring posted on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:10:16 -0700 as excerpted: RESTRICT=parallel is basically a big lock that forces building to go down to one specific build/merge job- it's not at all fine grained. That said, I'm not

Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation

2010-04-14 Thread Matti Bickel
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org wrote: I rather like the changelogs auto-generated. A method to link my git commit to bugzie would be awesome. I *do* envy debian and others for the auto bughandling they have. Previewing more than a raw

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] RESTRICT=parallel for builds that can't be executed in parallel

2010-04-14 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:46:15 +0200 Justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: There is at least one other example which benefits from singlular build, atlas libs. They run a benchmark suite to create platform specific headers, which is heavily influenced by the system load. So having RESTRICT=parallel

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] RESTRICT=parallel for builds that can't be executed in parallel

2010-04-14 Thread Duncan
Justin posted on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:46:15 +0200 as excerpted: On 14/04/10 04:12, Zac Medico wrote: Hi everyone, Should we add a RESTRICT=parallel value for ebuilds that can't be built at the same time as other ebuilds? Brian says we need it for things like xorg-server which calls eselect

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple emerges in parallel (was: [RFC] RESTRICT=parallel for builds that can't be executed in parallel)

2010-04-14 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:10:16 -0700 Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: Running multiple emerges in parallel is already a bad idea. The solution for that case is for the new/second emerge to feed the request into the original emerge (or a daemon). Although such solution will be useful

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple emerges in parallel (was: [RFC] RESTRICT=parallel for builds that can't be executed in parallel)

2010-04-14 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:20:18PM +0200, Michaaa GGGrny wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:10:16 -0700 Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: Running multiple emerges in parallel is already a bad idea. The solution for that case is for the new/second emerge to feed the request into the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple emerges in parallel (was: [RFC] RESTRICT=parallel for builds that can't be executed in parallel)

2010-04-14 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:10:29 -0700 Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: Running multiple emerge's in parallel is unsafe due to the fact they've got two potentially very different plans as to what is being done, and that there is no possibility to ensure that pkg D that PM-2 is building

[gentoo-dev] Re: Multiple emerges in parallel (was: [RFC] RESTRICT=parallel for builds that can't be executed in parallel)

2010-04-14 Thread Duncan
Brian Harring posted on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:10:29 -0700 as excerpted: The next thing is aborting merges. When running multiple emerges, aborting one of them is as simple as pressing ^c. With daemon, we would have to implement an ability of aborting/removing packages in runtime -- and that

[gentoo-dev] proxy needed.. for a non-dev maintainer on net-news/liferea

2010-04-14 Thread Sebastian Pipping
hello! lifera is maintainer-needed at the moment. iskren slavov is here to help out but he'll need you as a dev to proxy him for now. he's started working on an ebuild in his gentoo-hosted overlay, already [2]; contact info's up there, too. please step up if you can do this. thanks in

Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy needed.. for a non-dev maintainer on net-news/liferea

2010-04-14 Thread Victor Ostorga
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:31:34 +0200 Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: hello! lifera is maintainer-needed at the moment. iskren slavov is here to help out but he'll need you as a dev to proxy him for now. he's started working on an ebuild in his gentoo-hosted overlay, already

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/icon-theme

2010-04-14 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: I think that the packages that currently depend on one icon theme, could instead just depend on that virtual. For example, xfce works fine without the xfce theme, provided some other theme (like gnome or tango) is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [looking-for-man-power] Packaging RedHat/Fedora tools and libs

2010-04-14 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:34:46PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: app-admin/authconfig (just checking, this is the nsswitch.conf changer right?), if so, then add to below. net-misc/fcoe-utils sys-apps/hbaapi