Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager OT

2005-05-08 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 04:51:36PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | If a dev doesn't have adequate knowledge for a particular package he | shouldn't be fscking with it in the first place. So there said package | can sit, having only the ability to install to / just like it always | has until

[gentoo-dev] distfiles whitelisting

2005-05-08 Thread Brian Harring
Just a friendly reminder, if you are placing files on the distfiles mirrors that are not claimed by an ebuild in the tree, you need to whitelist the files- just add the files to /space/distfiles-whitelist-current on dev.gentoo.org , and the files will be left alone for 6 months, or until

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-08 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 12:47:05AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: 6 Portage must disallow the creation of binary packages where all dependencies are not in the same PREFIX. First level, second level... ? I'd rather see the deps/prefix data slapped into the binpkg, and tracked alongside, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-07 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 02:39:20AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: 'tweak' is too mild a term... As far as I can tell I'm the only person who's bothered to actually even try to look at this from an ebuild perspective Surprisingly, not quite true (was fun stating it I'm sure though). -- not

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-06 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:28:49PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: The problem isn't the packages. The problem is the ebuilds. Agreed, although seemed to take a bit of dancing to get done to the fact that yes, changing the prefix has a good chance of working. From there, we're back to the old two

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-05 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:48:49AM -0500, Brian Harring wrote: default being use or use/local or whatever the hell Wow. no more posting at 3:50 am... meant usr for above, pardon. ~brian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:11:03PM -0500, Brian Jackson wrote: Well, I've got a bug open to have a different variable like ROOT that portage would read config files from. Maybe you could jump on that bandwagon, and see if you can make things work that way. Assuming you're referencing

Re: [gentoo-dev] upcoming mirror cleansing

2005-04-24 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 04:55:14PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 08:49:59AM -0500, Brian Harring wrote: Hola all. [snip] under 'Deletions for Sunday May 01 2005' unknown: portage-2.0.51.20.tar.bz2 sandbox-1.2.tar.bz2 Perhaps a major glitch here, since

Re: [gentoo-dev] upcoming mirror cleansing

2005-04-23 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 05:54:40PM +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: Brian Harring wrote: Why this matters- around 10,000 files out of 28,600 files will be removed from the mirrors network. Either A) no ebuild claims that distfile. it's orphaned on our mirrors B) RESTRICT=fetch is set

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:36:19AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing or testing software packages. Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.1 (the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:36:19AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing or testing software packages. Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.1 (the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 06:39:41PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Daniel Drake wrote: - I'm manually configuring a package that I want installed in ebuild-fashion. I know when an ebuild runs econf it passes many configure parameters to achieve this (installation into /var/tmp, etc.). It

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND additions

2005-04-15 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 08:53:41PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Friday 15 April 2005 15:14, Jason Stubbs wrote: If this actually scared anybody (that received it), my apologies. I was confused about bugs. Fixing the flat profiles will be problem either. The bug is that 2.0.50 will die if

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