Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable Python stage repair thread

2010-12-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Sadly, it's not done yet. Please collect related bugs into this tracker: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347639 Sebastian

[gentoo-dev] [Volunteers needed] Communicating use (and existence) of USE_PYTHON

2010-12-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello, to better communicate USE_PYTHON we could use: - a portage news entry - notifications from within ebuilds - a users guide counterpart of http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/developersguide.xml - mentioning in 'man make.conf' This is overdue and has some urgency. Are you

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Volunteers needed] Communicating use (and existence) of USE_PYTHON

2010-12-03 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 03-12-2010 11:35:14 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: to better communicate USE_PYTHON we could use: - a portage news entry why portage? - notifications from within ebuilds - a users guide counterpart of http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/developersguide.xml - mentioning in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer notes in metadata.xml?

2010-12-03 Thread Peter Volkov
В Срд, 01/12/2010 в 17:35 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò пишет: Il giorno mer, 01/12/2010 alle 17.02 +0300, Peter Volkov ha scritto: Comments inside are better suited for this task - you see/update notes as you edit ebuild. How many ATs/arch maintainers will look _within_ the ebuild when

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Volunteers needed] Communicating use (and existence) of USE_PYTHON

2010-12-03 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:35:14 +0100 Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: to better communicate USE_PYTHON we could use: The first question that comes into my mind is -- why do we need to communicate that? I think that USE_PYTHON is a pretty specific variable which should be used only if

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Maintainer notes in metadata.xml?

2010-12-03 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno ven, 03/12/2010 alle 14.50 +0300, Peter Volkov ha scritto: Same logic applies for metadata.xml. Personally doing AT work I always review ebuild. At the same time I never opened metadata.xml, so I don't see your point. Have you read my post? I said to make _repoman_ spew the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Volunteers needed] Communicating use (and existence) of USE_PYTHON

2010-12-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 12/03/10 12:50, Fabian Groffen wrote: On 03-12-2010 11:35:14 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: to better communicate USE_PYTHON we could use: - a portage news entry why portage? I'm speaking of GLEP 42. No idea if pkgcore or paludis support these. That's why i said portage.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Volunteers needed] Communicating use (and existence) of USE_PYTHON

2010-12-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 12/03/10 13:05, Michał Górny wrote: The first question that comes into my mind is -- why do we need to communicate that? I think that USE_PYTHON is a pretty specific variable which should be used only if specially required (i.e. to keep multiple Python versions ready for use). What needs

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Volunteers needed] Communicating use (and existence) of USE_PYTHON

2010-12-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 12/03/10 13:23, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Good point. Still, as of now that's where to put USE_PYTHON. ^^^ referring to /etc/make.conf itself. I'm unsure if that's a reason strong enough to add it. ^^^ referring to the man page of 'make.conf'. Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Volunteers needed] Communicating use (and existence) of USE_PYTHON

2010-12-03 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:29:14 +0100 Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: Depending on how fast we can fix that, communicating status quo before that may still help reduce user frustration. Especially as we have an unmasked 2.7.1 in tree for a few days now. Then the question would be --

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Volunteers needed] Communicating use (and existence) of USE_PYTHON

2010-12-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 12/03/10 14:16, Michał Górny wrote: Then the question would be -- if that version causes so much trouble and requires a careful re-consideration of upgrade schema, why didn't anyone mask it yet? I didn't dare to. Sebastian

[gentoo-dev] Re: [Volunteers needed] Communicating use (and existence) of USE_PYTHON

2010-12-03 Thread Matthew Summers
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello, to better communicate USE_PYTHON we could use:  - a portage news entry  - notifications from within ebuilds  - a users guide counterpart of   http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/developersguide.xml  -

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Volunteers needed] Communicating use (and existence) of USE_PYTHON

2010-12-03 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/03/2010 07:05 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:35:14 +0100 Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: to better communicate USE_PYTHON we could use: The first question that comes into my mind is -- why do we need to communicate that? I think that USE_PYTHON is a pretty

[gentoo-dev] eclass review for Gnome 2.32 and waf ebuilds

2010-12-03 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Hello list, please find attached a couple of patches that have been worked on in the gnome overlay for both gnome 2.32 release (gsettings integration), better EAPI=3 support - although I believe work is not complete, prefix feedback would be most welcome - and various cleanups that are long

Re: [gentoo-dev] eclass review for Gnome 2.32 and waf ebuilds

2010-12-03 Thread Cyprien Nicolas
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 21:25, Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: Please also find in these patches a proposal of a waf-utils eclass in order to put waf related build management into an eclass. There is a couple of ebuilds already in tree all doing things on their own and I had a

Re: [gentoo-dev] eclass review for Gnome 2.32 and waf ebuilds

2010-12-03 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le vendredi 03 décembre 2010 à 21:54 +0100, Cyprien Nicolas a écrit : On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 21:25, Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: Please also find in these patches a proposal of a waf-utils eclass in order to put waf related build management into an eclass. There is a couple

[gentoo-dev] [rfc] Sane defaults for USE_PYTHON, patch to python eclass

2010-12-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello! Current situation = Without specifying USE_PYTHON in /etc/make.conf ebuilds based on the python eclass will install packages for no more ABIs than the two active versions on the 2.x and 3.x lines. To give an example: with Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.1 installed and 2.7 set as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable Python stage repair thread

2010-12-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello! In the mean time I have sent the attached patch to people involved with building Gentoo stages. Before further taking action on/with that patch I am waiting for their response. I am now posting it here in order to let you know about this change in status and to give potentially

[gentoo-dev] Re: eclass review for Gnome 2.32 and waf ebuilds

2010-12-03 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:25:21 +0100 Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: Le vendredi 03 décembre 2010 à 21:54 +0100, Cyprien Nicolas a écrit : On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 21:25, Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: Please also find in these patches a proposal of a waf-utils eclass

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable Python stage repair thread

2010-12-03 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. On 03-12-2010 23:34, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Hello! In the mean time I have sent the attached patch to people involved with building Gentoo stages. Before further taking action on/with that patch I am waiting for their response. I've

[gentoo-dev] Re: eclass review for Gnome 2.32 and waf ebuilds

2010-12-03 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno ven, 03/12/2010 alle 19.46 -0600, Ryan Hill ha scritto: This has come up enough times that we should write some common code. Or resume the idea to simply provide a separate variable for number-of-jobs rather than relying purely on MAKEOPTS. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — “Flameeyes”

[gentoo-dev] Re: eclass review for Gnome 2.32 and waf ebuilds

2010-12-03 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:29:45 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno ven, 03/12/2010 alle 19.46 -0600, Ryan Hill ha scritto: This has come up enough times that we should write some common code. Or resume the idea to simply provide a separate variable for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Maintainer notes in metadata.xml?

2010-12-03 Thread Peter Volkov
В Птн, 03/12/2010 в 13:12 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò пишет: Il giorno ven, 03/12/2010 alle 14.50 +0300, Peter Volkov ha scritto: Same logic applies for metadata.xml. Personally doing AT work I always review ebuild. At the same time I never opened metadata.xml, so I don't see your point.