Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: usrmerge script

2021-03-23 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 10:23:11AM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 2021-03-21 at 12:39 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > > All, > > > > the following is a script which will migrate a Gentoo system to the usr > > merge layout. This is similar to the unsymlink-lib tool used to migrate > > a system

[gentoo-dev] Cleanup of sunrise remains

2021-03-23 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, Sunrise was discontinued on June 2016. [1] Its remains confuse our users. There are several places, where sunrise is still advertised. Now it is time for the final shutdown. [3] I suggest to move the ebuilds [2] to an archive somewhere for 6 months for the unlikely case that there a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2] gstreamer-meson.eclass: New eclass required for gstreamer-1.18.0+

2021-03-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 2021-03-23 at 13:44 +0100, Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier wrote: > Gstreamer switched to meson in 1.16.0 and removed autotools support in 1.18.0, > this eclass is an update of gstreamer.eclass. > > One significant change between autotools and meson is that in the latter we > don't have easily

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2] gstreamer-meson.eclass: New eclass required for gstreamer-1.18.0+

2021-03-23 Thread Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
Gstreamer switched to meson in 1.16.0 and removed autotools support in 1.18.0, this eclass is an update of gstreamer.eclass. One significant change between autotools and meson is that in the latter we don't have easily extractable semantics in the buildsystem to get a list of plugins with extraneo

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 6:54 PM Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > > Council decided years ago that we don't support separate /usr without > > > an initramfs, but we haven't completed that transition yet. > > > > Which doesn't imply that we deliberately break things. > > That's right. Though we shoul

[gentoo-dev] Two package up for grabs

2021-03-23 Thread Lars Wendler
Hi community, already quite a while ago, base-system team had decided to no longer maintain the following packages: sys-fs/reiser4progs (up to date, 3 open bug reports) sys-libs/libaal (required by reiser4progs, no open bug reports) From those three open bug reports against reiser4progs, two

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: usrmerge script

2021-03-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 2021-03-21 at 12:39 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > the following is a script which will migrate a Gentoo system to the usr > merge layout. This is similar to the unsymlink-lib tool used to migrate > a system from the 17.0 to the 17.1 profiles. > > I'm attaching it here to get som

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-23 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hi Andreas, On 2021/03/23 00:54, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >>> Council decided years ago that we don't support separate /usr without >>> an initramfs, but we haven't completed that transition yet. >> Which doesn't imply that we deliberately break things. > That's right. Though we should at some po