Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree

2012-03-30 Thread Kent Fredric
On 30 March 2012 17:08, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: in the install handbook gives /usr/local/portage as an example overlay directory. I thought it was implicit that one shouldn't edit or create files in /usr/portage because they may be overwritten by the system e.g. during an

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree

2012-03-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 29-03-2012 22:12:40 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: For example, my /usr/portage/ on this system looks like this: portage/ tree/ profiles/ - tree/profiles/ distfiles/ packages/ layman/ it is a big improvement over the current

Re: [gentoo-dev] Arbitrary breakage: sys-fs/cryptsetup

2012-03-30 Thread Amadeusz Żołnowski
Excerpts from Samuli Suominen's message of 2012-03-29 19:59:17 +0200: I've been told dracut is able to handle this. Unverified. Dracut doesn't need anything built static. -- Amadeusz Żołnowski signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
Will start to reply but will take some time as I don't have much this days :( El mar, 27-03-2012 a las 20:01 +0200, Sven Vermeulen escribió: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:49:00PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to create a separate partition

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mar, 27-03-2012 a las 14:34 -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev escribió: On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 20:01 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:49:00PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to create a separate partition for

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mar, 27-03-2012 a las 14:53 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 27/03/12 02:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org The partitioning scheme is something that the user needs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Arbitrary breakage: sys-fs/cryptsetup

2012-03-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/30/2012 10:56 AM, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: Excerpts from Samuli Suominen's message of 2012-03-29 19:59:17 +0200: I've been told dracut is able to handle this. Unverified. Dracut doesn't need anything built static. Thanks for verifying. Expected nothing less. I've reopened the

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2012-03-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mar, 27-03-2012 a las 16:05 -0400, Alec Moskvin escribió: On Tuesday 27 March 2012 14:34:03, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 20:01 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:49:00PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't

[gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-30 Thread Axel
Hello, I would like to wish you all a happy birthday, 10 years already since first release (Gentoo 1.0)! Here is a little thing [1] we made to celebrate it. Recipe: two layers of Génoise (for each: 6 eggs, 180g sucre, 180g farine, vanilla sugar), between layers and on top: full cream with beaten

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/30/2012 04:00 PM, Axel wrote: Hello, I would like to wish you all a happy birthday, 10 years already since first release (Gentoo 1.0)! Here is a little thing [1] we made to celebrate it. Recipe: two layers of Génoise (for each: 6 eggs, 180g sucre, 180g farine, vanilla sugar), between

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-30 Thread James Broadhead
On 30 March 2012 14:25, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 03/30/2012 04:00 PM, Axel wrote: Hello, I would like to wish you all a happy birthday, 10 years already since first release (Gentoo 1.0)! Here is a little thing [1] we made to celebrate it. Recipe: two layers of Génoise

Re: [gentoo-dev] If anyone is intrested in helping around with Xfce...

2012-03-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/22/2012 07:50 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 03/22/2012 03:29 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 03/22/2012 09:25 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: If anyone is intrested in helping around with Xfce we have 2 bigger tasks on going: 1) Pass --libexecdir=${EPREFIX} to all plugins installing to

[gentoo-dev] RFC: oDesk License

2012-03-30 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Find attached a license for an application I'm using. I've already cleared that redistribution of the package is okay. [1] I didn't see anything in there much more than the standard don't blame us if your system blows up, and some fairly standard

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: oDesk License

2012-03-30 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/30/2012 12:08 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: Find attached a license for an application I'm using. I've already cleared that redistribution of the package is okay. [1] I didn't see anything in there much more than the standard don't blame

[gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Yao
I wrote sys-freebsd/virtio-kmod (bug 410199) while studying Gentoo/FreeBSD as part of an attempt to port gptzfsloader to Gentoo Linux. naota wrote an improvement that would be useful to send upstream. However, the GPL-2 license poses a problem according to conversations that I had in #gentoo-dev.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license

2012-03-30 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:34:26 -0400 Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: I wrote sys-freebsd/virtio-kmod (bug 410199) while studying Gentoo/FreeBSD as part of an attempt to port gptzfsloader to Gentoo Linux. naota wrote an improvement that would be useful to send upstream. However, the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Yao
On 03/30/12 13:34, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:34:26 -0400 Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: I wrote sys-freebsd/virtio-kmod (bug 410199) while studying Gentoo/FreeBSD as part of an attempt to port gptzfsloader to Gentoo Linux. naota wrote an improvement that would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license

2012-03-30 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 01:52:18PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote: The improvement is to the ebuild itself. It is a variable containing a list of directories upon which the module's build system depends. I spoke to naota and he doesn't have any problem sending this upstream, so I sent an email

Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Yao
On 03/30/12 13:52, Richard Yao wrote: I want sys-freebsd/virtio-kmod to be BSD-2 licensed, but I do not expect the version that enters the portage tree to be BSD-2 licensed unless people clarify that it is okay to license ebuilds under something other than the GPL-2. To clarify, I would like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Yao
On 03/30/12 14:00, Jon Portnoy wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 01:52:18PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote: The improvement is to the ebuild itself. It is a variable containing a list of directories upon which the module's build system depends. I spoke to naota and he doesn't have any problem sending

Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license

2012-03-30 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Richard Yao wrote: what do you mean by 'relicense' ? for ebuilds, you'll have to ask permission to all contributors to this area, and, afaik, the foundation owns copyrights so it has a word to say too. if you mean the 'LICENSE' field of ebuilds, then this is not the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license

2012-03-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: Ebuilds in the Portage tree must be licensed under the GPL. This is part of the Gentoo Social Contract [1], so I guess it won't change anytime soon. And IMHO, we would be ill-advised to allow different licenses for

[gentoo-dev] suspicious code in gnustep eclasses

2012-03-30 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
This is from gnustep-base.eclass: egnustep_doc() { if [[ -d ./Documentation ]] ; then # Check documentation presence cd ${S}/Documentation if [[ -f ./[mM]akefile || -f ./GNUmakefile ]] ; then emake ${GS_ENV[@]} all || die doc make failed

[gentoo-dev] haskell-cabal.eclass suggestions

2012-03-30 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
Those are really just nits, but I thought I'd share what I've noticed. cabal-mksetup() { local setupdir if [[ -n $1 ]]; then setupdir=$1 else setupdir=${S} fi rm -f ${setupdir}/Setup.{lhs,hs} echo 'import Distribution.Simple; main =

Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Yao
On 03/30/12 14:47, Ulrich Mueller wrote: I fail to understand what the license of the ebuild has to do with the license of the package itself. It has nothing to do with the license of the package. That is completely separate. This has to do with the license of the ebuild itself. FreeBSD Ports

Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Yao
On 03/30/12 15:12, Rich Freeman wrote: If there are specific pains associated with not being able to submit patches upstream or such, please do point them out and I'm sure we'll consider what can be done to accommodate this. However, if this really is a one-off situation then we're probably

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-themes/qgtkstyle

2012-03-30 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org (30 Mar 2012) # Unmaintained. Replaced by x11-libs/qt-gui[gtkstyle] # Removal in 30 days x11-themes/qgtkstyle - -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license

2012-03-30 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: On 03/30/12 14:47, Ulrich Mueller wrote: I fail to understand what the license of the ebuild has to do with the license of the package itself. It has nothing to do with the license of the package. That is completely

Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license

2012-03-30 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 03/30/2012 15:36, Richard Yao wrote: It has nothing to do with the license of the package. That is completely separate. This has to do with the license of the ebuild itself. FreeBSD Ports inspired Daniel Robbins to create Portage. The issue that is our ability to share FreeBSD-specific

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-30 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 03/30/2012 10:44, James Broadhead wrote: Remember when Gentoo had version numbers? (even though they got stuck at 1.4 for ages?) D'awww Maybe it's time for Gentoo-2.0? At that glacial pace, we should catch up to Firefox's versioning shortly before the heat death of the Universe. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Yao
On 03/30/12 16:19, Alec Warner wrote: I doubt you can get the content re-licensed under a different license. You may be able to convince folks to add an additional license (|| (GPL-2 BSD-2)). That way Gentoo keeps its GPL-2 and freebsd can have the code as BSD-2. Dual-licensing is fine by me.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Yao
On 03/30/12 17:15, Joshua Kinard wrote: Maybe it's time for Gentoo-2.0? I think we should wait for Portage 2.2 to be stabilized before we declare Gentoo 2.0. @preserved-libs is enough of an advance that I think claiming 2.0 would be merited, if only for the attention it would draw at Phoronix.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-30 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: On 03/30/12 17:15, Joshua Kinard wrote: Maybe it's time for Gentoo-2.0? I think we should wait for Portage 2.2 to be stabilized before we declare Gentoo 2.0. @preserved-libs is enough of an advance that I think