Re: [gentoo-dev] About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-07-30 Thread Joseph Jezak
On 07/30/2014 06:26 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: On 07/29/14 22:16, Jack Morgan wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 04:29:51PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: On 07/26/14 09:44, Pacho Ramos wrote: El sáb, 26-07-2014 a las 09:37 -0400, Anthony G. Basile escribió: On 07/26/14 09:28, Pacho Ramos

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion related with dropping keywords policy

2010-06-11 Thread Joseph Jezak
Hello Let my explain the problem and my suggestion to handle it better (at least from my point of view) with an example: Sometime ago I bumped bluez version from 4.39-r2 to 4.60, with that bump, a new and *optional* RDEPEND on sys-libs/libcap-ng was added. Since libcap-ng was not

Re: [gentoo-dev] URGENT: exotic arches need Qt 4.5.3 stabilization

2009-11-09 Thread Joseph Jezak
Ben de Groot wrote: I am of the opinion it is irresponsible to leave vulnerable versions of Qt with known security bugs any longer in the tree. The Qt team therefore requests that arches that have not done so already move quickly on stabilizing Qt 4.5.3, see bug 290922 and 283810. We

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations

2009-11-05 Thread Joseph Jezak
In the past when smaller arches were not that active we used to mark Java packages stable after testing by at least one arch team. The probability to find arch specific issues in something like Java is not so high so I think arrangements like this are acceptable when the arch teams have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations

2009-11-04 Thread Joseph Jezak
Ben de Groot wrote: What about ppc64? They are MONTHS behind on stabilization, even for security bugs (see bug 281821 for example). The Qt team feels this is no longer acceptable. We propose that any arch that can't keep up will be demoted to experimental status. ppc is also fairly far

Re: [gentoo-dev] Updated handbooks for autobuilds

2009-10-04 Thread Joseph Jezak
Joshua Saddler wrote: There. I did the x86 and amd64 handbooks (networked, anyway; who cares about networkless). They're now ready for the 10th anniversary. I'm pretty sure. I also did the x86 quickinstall handbooks. GDP, and interested devs who can contribute patches to Bugzilla: Please

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone interested in maintaining the Gentoo Handbooks?

2009-10-03 Thread Joseph Jezak
For what it's worth, I've got an updated PowerPC handbook pretty much ready to go (still missing some sections that I want to add for the PS3). However, I haven't gotten around to figuring out what all of the XML replacement variables are currently and if they were going to change to reflect

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for x11-misc/xac

2009-08-09 Thread Joseph Jezak
Diego E. Pettenò wrote: # Diego E. Pettenò flamee...@gentoo.org (09 Aug 2009) # on behalf of QA team # # Fails to build with recent linux-headers (bug #241484, # October 2008). # # Removal on 2009-10-08 x11-misc/xac It builds fine on PowerPC and is still useful there. I never really

Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Is PPC support being dropped for Gentoo?

2009-06-29 Thread Joseph Jezak
Jeff Rush wrote: I've just --synced on my PPC box (Kurobox HG) and now there is no PPC profile directory: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/ppc/ but the profiles for the other various CPU types are present. Did PPC get dropped or become something optional that I need to enable

Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Playstation3 port status woes

2008-11-25 Thread Joseph Jezak
Nelson Batalha wrote: Hi! Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:33:49 +1100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-ppc-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Playstation3 port status woes I intend to spend some time on this over the next few weeks. Anything I can do to help take some of

Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Playstation3 port status woes

2008-11-24 Thread Joseph Jezak
Wes wrote: Hello, I'm wondering, who is the maintainer of the PS3 port? I have a few issues I'd like to raise. One being the fact that it's been built targeting entirely the wrong ppc arch. Several sources I've come across state that the pipelines are so different, that doing this

Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Playstation3 port status woes

2008-11-24 Thread Joseph Jezak
Wes wrote: Thanks for the response! I see now. I think the problem from my perspective then is that the docs need to be updated a bit, as they all point to the 'experimental' sections of the mirrors, which only contain old 970-targeting ps3 stage4's. I see now that 'releases' has more

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEVELOPMENT* mail list, right?

2007-04-08 Thread Joseph Jezak
Michael Cummings wrote: When you pop into your mail client of choice and find 50+ unread messages in the last few hours, you know what kind of day [EMAIL PROTECTED] is having. Don't suppose we could get on with that silly topical thing of development? Surely there's a usenet channel where

Re: [gentoo-dev] New ALSA maintainers

2007-03-28 Thread Joseph Jezak
I have suggested that herd support for the kernelspace side (alsa-driver) be slowly reduced, by redirecting users who file bugs against it to reproduce with the in-kernel drivers, and then let kernel For what it's worth, the PPC team has been suggesting the use of the in-kernel drivers for a

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Matti 'mabi' Bickel

2006-10-22 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please give him a warm welcome! Woohoo! Thanks for all your hard work as an AT Matti, I know I'll be happy to let you commit on your own now. ;) - -Joe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with

Re: [gentoo-dev] What would Freud say? New developer; Mike Kelly!

2006-09-05 Thread Joseph Jezak
Heh, a fellow Gentoo dev here in Pittsburgh! Looks like there's three of us now! :) Welcome to Gentoo Mike Kelly! -Joe -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] PPC Meeting Summary - 2006-04-30

2006-05-02 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi devs, The PPC team had a meeting on Sunday, April 30th. I've attached a summary for those interested. Logs are available by request, (at least until I get them added to ppc.gentoo.org). Thanks, - -Joe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary

2006-04-11 Thread Joseph Jezak
My 2 cents from LWE: It was really nice to see the huge turnout of Gentoo devs, we had one of the more busy booths and it's a testament to our community that so many of us were there. Besides that, O'Reilly rocks, the guys from Slashdot really do sit around and play XBox 360 all of the time,

Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?

2006-02-28 Thread Joseph Jezak
I can't say if there are any problems, as I didn't received a bug for a long time. The only thing that's nasty: we don't have any good utf8-fonts for the console. I think that's acceptable. The only issue related to that we really have is this bug, which is annoying but not fatal:

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-12 Thread Joseph Jezak
Homer Parker wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 23:02 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: As of now, amd64 has 20 ATs, 6 of them became devs, 1 is inactive. The rest stayed AT. The oldest of the remaining has been AT since February, the youngest since Aug 23, so I think it definitively is. And

Re: [gentoo-dev] New AT

2005-06-30 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Homer Parker wrote: It seems the PPC peeps have done it again, it's with great pleasure that I announce their newest AT, nixnut. Please give him a warm welcome to the team. I know JoseJX said he had plenty of work for him, so he might be

Re: [gentoo-dev] New AT

2005-06-23 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Homer Parker wrote: It is with great please I announce the newest Arch Tester, and the first non-AMD64 AT. Johannes Traub (_bambam on IRC), has become the first PPC AT. Please give him a warm welcome to the team. Congrats Johannes! Now,

Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

2005-06-08 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Agreed, the PPC team is very good at arbitrarily marking things stable whenever they feel like it, and often times before the maintainer does. This is not usually our policy. However, because we moved GCC-3.4 to stable before many arches, there

[gentoo-dev] PPC Meeting Summary - May 28th, 2005

2005-05-29 Thread Joseph Jezak
) Release Engineer Liason: Lars Weiler (Pylon) Security (PPC): Michael Hanselmann (hansmi) Security (PPC64): Markus Rothe (corsair) Profile Maintainer: Daniel Ostrow (dostrow) Documentation Lead: Joseph Jezak (JoseJX) 2. Pre-Release and 2005.1 Release