Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: improve file system mounting and unmounting in OpenRC

2015-07-28 Thread Diamond
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 17:26:10 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > - Currently, we have to skip over certain file systems that we can't > unmount during shutdown. With the new approach, if the mount script > mounts a file system during boot, it will be able to unmount the > same filesystem during shut

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] check-reqs.eclass: fail check-reqs_memory() for virtual rather than physical RAM

2015-06-03 Thread Diamond
On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 21:32:34 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Swap is horrifically slow. It's better to fail than to use swap for > stuff... > Is it better to fail when you have already lost several hours in compilations? Or is it better to use some additional parallel swap on a bunch of HDDs o

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item review: SquashDelta syncing support

2015-05-15 Thread Diamond
On Fri, 15 May 2015 08:23:27 -0700 Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Michał Górny > wrote: > > Starting with Portage 2.2.19, a new SquashDelta syncing method has > > been introduced. It is meant to provide lightweight and efficient > > solution for stable systems. The who

Re: [gentoo-dev] A question to Russian Gentoo Developers Community about import software substitution

2015-05-08 Thread Diamond
On Sat, 09 May 2015 02:05:58 +0600 "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" wrote: > I'd also prefer, but it is not that possible as you imagine. There is > such thing as certification in Federal Security Service (FSB) and so > on. And there is only two such distributions: Alt Linux and Rosa > Linux (if not t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

2015-04-14 Thread Diamond
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 05:33:44 +0200 Yanestra wrote: > Hi, > > after a talk with some of the persons present here, it appears, Gentoo > Linux is actually something like a Freemason lodge. > > Many secrets, inaugurations, and obviously magic. > > People, I can only conclude you are not sane. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Current Gentoo Git setup / man-in-the-middle attacks

2015-03-30 Thread Diamond
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:57:45 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > The Gentoo tree is not verified anyway: mirrors distribute it via > http, rsync and ftp. And using https for that will create a > tremendous stress on mirror's CPUs, so this is a bad approach. > Not to mention that https itself is very

Re: [gentoo-dev] Current Gentoo Git setup / man-in-the-middle attacks

2015-03-29 Thread Diamond
On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 18:41:33 +0200 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Hi! > > > For the current Gentoo Git setup I found these methods working for > accessing a repository, betagarden in this case: > > git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/betagarden.git > (git://git.gentoo.org/proj/betagarden.git) > (git

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Policies for games dirs, new group "gamestat" for sgid binaries

2015-02-25 Thread Diamond
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:44:28 +0100 hasufell wrote: > So if a project ignores the community, the council, the QA team AND > violates GLEP39, we allow that, because they still do commits? It looks like I can't edit https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Games/Ebuild_howto, is it a bug? gamesenv func

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Diamond
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 08:36:54 -0800 Brian Dolbec wrote: > > 1. Why autosync is disabled by default? This broke current > > default for emerge --sync. And if users added overlays, they > > most definitely want them to by synced by default as well. > > So I propose to set auto-sync=yes by default.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Review: news item and script for CPU_FLAGS_X86

2015-01-23 Thread Diamond
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:45:34 -0600 Ben Kohler wrote: > > I think this should be in an ebuild. You mentioned that it's only > needed ONCE, but it's needed ONCE for everytime one install gentoos, > along the same lines as mirrorselect. A couple of years from now, do > we want users to have to di

Re: [gentoo-dev] Review: desc/cpu_flags_x86.desc

2015-01-18 Thread Diamond
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:28:27 -0600 Gordon Pettey wrote: > > > Because Intel and AMD support it via different cpuinfo feature names. > It is popcnt on Intel, and abm on AMD. The description of the flag > should also mention that it is included in feature "abm" on AMD CPUs > (and Intel CPUs, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Review: desc/cpu_flags_x86.desc

2015-01-18 Thread Diamond
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:44:05 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to commit the following flags as cpu_flags_x86_desc. > The list combines global USE flags with some local USE flags I've been > able to find. > > > 3dnow - Use the 3DNow! instruction set > 3dnowext - Use the Enhan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Review: desc/cpu_flags_x86.desc

2015-01-18 Thread Diamond
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:13:46 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > > 3dnow - Use the 3DNow! instruction set > > 3dnowext - Use the Enhanced 3DNow! instruction set > > Those are kinda mostly dead (no new CPUs have them anymore) > My CPU still has them. > > > mmxext - Use the Extended MMX instruc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: maintainer-needed@ packages need you!

2015-01-09 Thread Diamond
On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 01:16:57 +0400 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > It should be noted that at least in Linux skype is much harder to > install and use since it requires pulseaudio and I don't use > that sh^W stuff. So skype reqires its own LXC container set up > which is doable, but costed me a day (wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-sources - should we stable?

2015-01-02 Thread Diamond
On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:25:56 -0500 Mike Pagano wrote: > Are there solid arguments for stabilizing any version of > gentoo-sources? I think the valid arguments for not stabilizing > gentoo-sources can be garnered from the thread about not stabilizing > vanilla-sources[1]. > > This is in no way

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/3] Remove parallel run support from multilib & multibuild

2014-12-13 Thread Diamond
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 09:44:21 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-12-11, o godz. 11:36:29 > Michał Górny napisał(a): > > > Hello, everyone. > > > > Following a similar change in distutils-r1, I would like to remove > > the parallel run support in multilib eclasses, and effectively from > > mu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: net-im/linpopup, app-office/teapot, net-irc/bitchx, sys-power/cpufrequtils, x11-plugins/gkrellm-cpufreq, media-sound/gnome-alsamixer, sys-devel/ac-archive, net-misc/emirror

2014-12-11 Thread Diamond
On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:05:31 +0100 Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Regarding the gkrellm-plugins, looks like Fedora is supplying this > one: > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gkrellm-freq.git/tree/gkrellm-freq.spec > > I rewrote ebuild for gkrellm-gkfreq plugin a bit https://github.com/cerebru

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: net-im/linpopup, app-office/teapot, net-irc/bitchx, sys-power/cpufrequtils, x11-plugins/gkrellm-cpufreq, media-sound/gnome-alsamixer, sys-devel/ac-archive, net-misc/emirror

2014-12-09 Thread Diamond
On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:05:31 +0100 Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Regarding the gkrellm-plugins, looks like Fedora is supplying this > one: > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gkrellm-freq.git/tree/gkrellm-freq.spec > > I recreated gkrellm-gkfreq-2.3.ebuild in my overlay https://github.com/cerebrum/d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: net-im/linpopup, app-office/teapot, net-irc/bitchx, sys-power/cpufrequtils, x11-plugins/gkrellm-cpufreq, media-sound/gnome-alsamixer, sys-devel/ac-archive, net-misc/emirror

2014-12-09 Thread Diamond
On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:05:31 +0100 Pacho Ramos wrote: > El lun, 08-12-2014 a las 14:46 -0500, Rich Freeman escribió: > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Michael Orlitzky > > wrote: > > > > > > It doesn't look like it's going to work so well without > > > cpufrequtils. There's a new homepage with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: net-im/linpopup, app-office/teapot, net-irc/bitchx, sys-power/cpufrequtils, x11-plugins/gkrellm-cpufreq, media-sound/gnome-alsamixer, sys-devel/ac-archive, net-misc/emirror

2014-12-08 Thread Diamond
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:07:24 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/03/2014 07:28 AM, Diamond wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:38:44 +0100 > > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > >> > >> # Pacho Ramos (01 Dec 2014) > >> # Upstream dead for a long time, use

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: net-im/linpopup, app-office/teapot, net-irc/bitchx, sys-power/cpufrequtils, x11-plugins/gkrellm-cpufreq, media-sound/gnome-alsamixer, sys-devel/ac-archive, net-misc/emirror

2014-12-03 Thread Diamond
On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:38:44 +0100 Pacho Ramos wrote: > > # Pacho Ramos (01 Dec 2014) > # Upstream dead for a long time, use sys-power/cpupower > # instead. Removal in a month. > sys-power/cpufrequtils > x11-plugins/gkrellm-cpufreq > Give us an alternative before removing x11-plugins/gkrellm-

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news item review] bash-completion-2.1-r90, version 2

2014-11-20 Thread Diamond
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:18:01 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, developers. > > I'm planning to commit this news item before >=2.1-r90 goes stable. It's pretty strange, but after the last "emerge -1uDN world" system update I lost bash-complition. It was removed (app-admin/eselect-bashcomp-1.3.6

Re: [gentoo-dev] Git copy detection (was: My masterplan for git migration...)

2014-09-18 Thread Diamond
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:29:41 -0700 "W. Trevor King" wrote: > > So Git works great, and GitHub's web UI doesn't support all of Git's > bells and whistles, so… switch to a different VCS? Personally, my > conclusion is “just use Git from the command line”. It's not like > you're abandoning long

Re: [gentoo-dev] Git copy detection (was: My masterplan for git migration...)

2014-09-18 Thread Diamond
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:08:11 -0700 "W. Trevor King" wrote: > Git can check for copies if you like: > > $ git clone git://github.com/cerebrum/dr.git > $ cd dr/ > $ git show --find-copies-harder 311df9b04 > … > copy from games-strategy/openra/openra-20140608.ebuild > copy to games-stra

Re: [gentoo-dev] My masterplan for git migration (+ looking for infra to test it)

2014-09-18 Thread Diamond
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:00:59 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > What would you propose? The problem you raise is just as much an > issue with cvs. I don't get a continuous history across revbumps in > cvs today, so I don't really see a problem with moving to git. I don't know what to propose. I stumbl

Re: [gentoo-dev] My masterplan for git migration (+ looking for infra to test it)

2014-09-18 Thread Diamond
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:04:55 +1200 Kent Fredric wrote: > What's more, you can in fact do: > > git mv foo-1.ebuild foo-2.ebuild > git commit > > and you can still easily tell git to show that as a difference in a > log. > > Example script to emulate this and example output: > https://gist.githu

Re: [gentoo-dev] My masterplan for git migration (+ looking for infra to test it)

2014-09-17 Thread Diamond
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:51:56 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > > In general you want each commit to represent a single "change." That > might be a revbump in a single package, or it might be a package move > that involves touching 300 packages in a single commit. Is it right that you are going to mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2014-07-20 23h59 UTC

2014-07-21 Thread Diamond
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:25:02 + "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > Removals: > net-misc/curl 2014-07-15 09:29:56 blueness Is this a joke? Isn't curl as basic package as wget?