Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/30/2011 11:39 PM, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > On 12:02 Sat 30 Apr , Samuli Suominen wrote: >> >> "Every new file, and modification to existing file should have an entry >> in ChangeLog." to skip the proper ChangeLog-less removals. > > There is something I can't undestand reading al

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla - New Default Status Workflow

2011-05-01 Thread Christian Ruppert
On 04/30/2011 10:40 AM, Christian Ruppert wrote: > On 04/28/2011 04:07 PM, Christian Ruppert wrote: >> So once again: >> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/docs/en/html/lifecycle.html >> >> *Every* new bug filed by a user without editbugs will have "UNCONFIRMED" >> (old NEW) as fixed status. >> *If* we don

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla - New Default Status Workflow

2011-05-01 Thread Christian Ruppert
On 05/01/2011 11:39 AM, Christian Ruppert wrote: > On 04/30/2011 10:40 AM, Christian Ruppert wrote: >> On 04/28/2011 04:07 PM, Christian Ruppert wrote: >>> So once again: >>> >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/docs/en/html/lifecycle.html >>> >>> *Every* new bug filed by a user without editbugs will have "

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 30-04-2011 11:46:37 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html > > There doesn't seem to be a common opinion on what the policy for > ChangeLog entries is. See: > > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f829da2375f1ceab766a800913

[gentoo-dev] git? [was: Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs]

2011-05-01 Thread Eray Aslan
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 12:06:47PM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > ... the time alone if you have to stop on each package to wait for > echangelog to get done just doubles the amount of time you have to put > into committing them. That's just not worth the effort. Won't moving the tree to git will

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 01-05-2011 12:06:47 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > ... the time alone if you have to stop on each package to wait for > echangelog to get done just doubles the amount of time you have to put > into committing them. That's just not worth the effort. Dude, you should have stuck with your argumen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 12:06 Sun 01 May , Samuli Suominen wrote: > So not only they are rather useless, and information you can easily get > from sources.gentoo.org, they take your time as well. Then, let's change it to: "Every new file, and modification to existing file should have an entry in ChangeLog. Though

Re: [gentoo-dev] git?

2011-05-01 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 13:09 Sun 01 May , Eray Aslan wrote: > What is it really that is holding us up? A dev to spearhead the move? I had the same question yesterday but after checking [1], I can tell that it's not so simple as it seems when you first think of it. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33

Re: [gentoo-dev] git?

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag 01 Mai 2011, 12:54:52 schrieb Panagiotis Christopoulos: > > What is it really that is holding us up? A dev to spearhead the move? > > I had the same question yesterday but after checking [1], I can tell > that it's not so simple as it seems when you first think of it. > > [1] https://

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag 01 Mai 2011, 11:06:47 schrieb Samuli Suominen: > ... the time alone if you have to stop on each package to wait for > echangelog to get done just doubles the amount of time you have to put > into committing them. That's just not worth the effort. Ever heard of opening a second terminal?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Peter Volkov
В Вск, 01/05/2011 в 13:44 +0300, Panagiotis Christopoulos пишет: > On 12:06 Sun 01 May , Samuli Suominen wrote: > > So not only they are rather useless, and information you can easily > get > > from sources.gentoo.org, they take your time as well. > > Then, let's change it to: > > "Though not

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-libs/libmnl: libmnl-1.0.1.ebuild ChangeLog

2011-05-01 Thread Peter Volkov
В Вск, 01/05/2011 в 12:25 +, Fabian Groffen (grobian) пишет: > grobian 11/05/01 12:25:59 > Fix econf call for Prefix: don't mix Prefix compatible and incompatible code > src_configure() { > econf \ > - --libdir=/$(get_libdir) > + --libdir="${EPREFIX}"/$(ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-libs/libmnl: libmnl-1.0.1.ebuild ChangeLog

2011-05-01 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 01-05-2011 17:04:18 +0400, Peter Volkov wrote: > В Вск, 01/05/2011 в 12:25 +, Fabian Groffen (grobian) пишет: > > grobian 11/05/01 12:25:59 > > > Fix econf call for Prefix: don't mix Prefix compatible and incompatible > > code > > > src_configure() { > > econf \ > > -

[gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Duncan
Fabian Groffen posted on Sun, 01 May 2011 12:00:17 +0200 as excerpted: > Attachment not shown: MIME type chemical/x-genbank; filename > ChangeLog.gen Had to laugh at that one. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 01-05-2011 14:55:24 +, Duncan wrote: > Fabian Groffen posted on Sun, 01 May 2011 12:00:17 +0200 as excerpted: > > > Attachment not shown: MIME type chemical/x-genbank; filename > > ChangeLog.gen > > Had to laugh at that one. =:^) Apologies, the .gen extension apparently made the MIME matc

Re: [gentoo-dev] git? [was: Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs]

2011-05-01 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Sunday 01 of May 2011 12:09:15 Eray Aslan wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 12:06:47PM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > ... the time alone if you have to stop on each package to wait for > > echangelog to get done just doubles the amount of time you have to put > > into committing them. That's j

[gentoo-dev] Virtual for tftp server

2011-05-01 Thread Maxim Koltsov
Hi, Assuming we have a package, that want to have any tftp server on system, no matter which one exactly, what must we set in DEPEND? I think creating virtual for tftp server would be nice. Maxim

Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtual for tftp server

2011-05-01 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/01/2011 03:04 PM, Maxim Koltsov wrote: > Hi, > Assuming we have a package, that want to have any tftp server on > system, no matter which one exactly, what must we set in DEPEND? I > think creating virtual for tftp server would be nice. > Maxim

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc portage news item

2011-05-01 Thread William Hubbs
All, the trigger has been pulled so to speak -- the news item is now in the tree. I did not have any links for the last paragraph (the section that referred people to other places for support etc), so I had to remove that. As far as I know, we are moving forward with stabilization on 2011/05/08.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtual for tftp server

2011-05-01 Thread Maxim Koltsov
I'm going to add such a package to the tree tomorrow, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365605. Can you write ebuild for this virtual, because i'm not familliar with new-style virtuals yet?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtual for tftp server

2011-05-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 1 May 2011 23:04:54 +0400 Maxim Koltsov wrote: > Assuming we have a package, that want to have any tftp server on > system, no matter which one exactly, what must we set in DEPEND? I > think creating virtual for tftp server would be nice. If it doesn't care about what the tftp server is,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtual for tftp server

2011-05-01 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Maxim Koltsov wrote: > I'm going to add such a package to the tree tomorrow, > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365605. Can you write ebuild > for this virtual, because i'm not familliar with new-style virtuals > yet? > > Just create an package "virtual/tftp-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 12:06:47PM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > ... the time alone if you have to stop on each package to wait for > echangelog to get done just doubles the amount of time you have to put > into committing them. That's just not worth the effort. This argument sucks; if the tool

Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtual for tftp server

2011-05-01 Thread Maxim Koltsov
2011/5/2 Ciaran McCreesh : > If it doesn't care about what the tftp server is, presumably that means > that the package itself doesn't actually use the tftp server (and if > it did call the tftp server, it would need to know the syntax for each > individual package, so it wouldn't be a virtual). So

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Markos Chandras
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 12:00:17PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 30-04-2011 11:46:37 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html > > > > There doesn't seem to be a common opinion on what the policy for > > ChangeLog entries is. See:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtual for tftp server

2011-05-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 17:01, Maxim Koltsov wrote: > 2011/5/2 Ciaran McCreesh: >> Since suggested dependencies don't exist yet, what's wrong with just >> elogging a message suggesting the user install a tftp server of their >> choice? > > I think this is uncomfortable for user. i dont think so. i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:08:31PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: > Since most ( if not all ) of us use the same message on the Changelog > and on the commit log, it probably worth the effort of having the rsync > servers create the Changelogs before populate the portage tree. Having > the servers d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Markos Chandras
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:33:25PM -0700, Brian Harring wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:08:31PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: > > Since most ( if not all ) of us use the same message on the Changelog > > and on the commit log, it probably worth the effort of having the rsync > > servers create

[gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Duncan
Markos Chandras posted on Sun, 01 May 2011 22:08:31 +0100 as excerpted: > Having the servers do that, will also allow us to provide cut down > Changelogs ( lets say keep that last 10 entries ) so we can provide a > more minimal portage tree, size wise. What about cutting it to the largest whole n

[gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Duncan
Markos Chandras posted on Sun, 01 May 2011 23:49:06 +0100 as excerpted: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:33:25PM -0700, Brian Harring wrote: >> On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:08:31PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: >>> Since most ( if not all ) of us use the same message on the Changelog >>> and on the comm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:23:40PM +, Duncan wrote: > What about having a dedicated server-based changlog-signing key? That's > still a lot of signing with a single key, but as you observed, the hazards > of a loss of integrity there aren't as high as with most of the tree > content. It'd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Brian Harring wrote: > Get at that key, and you've got the tree, versus the current form, > crack all signing keys and you've got the tree. Well, more like get any one of the keys and you get the tree, since portage only validates that a trusted key signed a packag

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sun, 1 May 2011, Markos Chandras wrote: > Since most ( if not all ) of us use the same message on the > Changelog and on the commit log, it probably worth the effort of > having the rsync servers create the Changelogs before populate the > portage tree. A separate ChangeLog has the advan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Markos Chandras
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 07:43:48PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Brian Harring wrote: > > Get at that key, and you've got the tree, versus the current form, > > crack all signing keys and you've got the tree. > > My personal feeling is that we should keep the change

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Markos Chandras
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 02:04:57AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Sun, 1 May 2011, Markos Chandras wrote: > > Ten is way too small. Chances are that after one round of > stabilisations the ChangeLog entry for the last real change to the > package will be gone. We should keep at least one

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Markos Chandras
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 04:31:08PM -0700, Brian Harring wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:23:40PM +, Duncan wrote: > > What about having a dedicated server-based changlog-signing key? That's > > still a lot of signing with a single key, but as you observed, the hazards > > of a loss of int

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2011-05-01 23h59 UTC

2011-05-01 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2011-05-01 23h59 UTC. Removals: sci-libs/libgeda2011-04-25 13:35:52 tomjbe media-plugins/gmpc-coveramazon 2011-04-27 20:40:50 angelos media-plugins/gmp

[gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Sun, 01 May 2011 19:43:48 -0400 as excerpted: > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Brian Harring > wrote: >> Get at that key, and you've got the tree, versus the current form, >> crack all signing keys and you've got the tree. > > Well, more like get any one of the keys and y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sun, 1 May 2011, Markos Chandras wrote: > >> Since most ( if not all ) of us use the same message on the >> Changelog and on the commit log, it probably worth the effort of >> having the rsync servers create the Changelogs before popu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:50:01AM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > I don't get why someone would want to edit ChangeLogs. Could you list > some use-cases besides editing of typos? One that I have seen before was the change of a URL for users to migrate their data, when upstream changed the URL. Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:50:01AM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> I don't get why someone would want to edit ChangeLogs. Could you list >> some use-cases besides editing of typos? > One that I have seen before was the change of a URL for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild

2011-05-01 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:12:27 +0300 Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 04/30/2011 11:03 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html [..] > It no where in the link you provided mentions ChangeLog is required > for removals. Removing an unused eb

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:12:01 +0400 Peter Volkov wrote: > В Сбт, 30/04/2011 в 12:02 +0300, Samuli Suominen пишет: > > On 04/30/2011 11:46 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: > > > I propose a simple new text: "Every commit should have an entry in > > > ChangeLog." > > Nonfunctional commits should not be reco

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 1 May 2011 13:43:25 -0700 Brian Harring wrote: > Beyond that... I suspect *everyone* would appreciate optimization > done to echangelog. From a quick look... seems like it's cvs status, > than a cvs diff. Trying to collapse that into a single op, falling > back to status might not be a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:21:37 +0300 Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > Taking the latest portage snapshot from a mirror, the sum* of the > apparent sizes of all its files (forgetting directories, filesystems. > overhead etc.) is ~189Mb. The sum of ChangeLog files is ~66Mb, that > is a ~35% fracti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 2 May 2011, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > I don't get why someone would want to edit ChangeLogs. Could you > list some use-cases besides editing of typos? Fixing typos should be enough reason alone. It also happened to me more than once that I specified a wrong bug number, or that I add

Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtual for tftp server

2011-05-01 Thread Maxim Koltsov
2011/5/2 Mike Frysinger : > i dont think so.  i cant see RDEPENDing on a random tftp server being > terribly useful here, and it certainly isnt a requirement.  elog it > and be done. > -mike > Ok, please take a look at net-misc/ris-linux. It's used for network installing windows, therefore user wil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 01-05-2011 19:43:48 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > My personal feeling is that we should keep the changelogs as-is, and > include removals, until we're on git. Then we should re-evaluate. git doesn't magically solve all the problems! -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-05-01 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 02-05-2011 02:04:57 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > Having the servers do that, will also allow us to provide cut down > > Changelogs ( lets say keep that last 10 entries ) so we can provide > > a more minimal portage tree, size wise. > > Ten is way too small. Chances are that after one round