Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rite: mask www-misc/zoneminder

2020-04-05 Thread The Bit Pit
On 4/5/20 5:54 AM, Joonas Niilola wrote: # Not maintained in Gentoo, doesn't build for 2 years, has only # deprecated version present in Gentoo. Has a huge number of open # bugs. Removal in 30 days. #642952 www-misc/zoneminder This appears to be an active project.  There is a plugin for *zonemin

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: acct-user/... modifies existing user sometimes

2019-12-16 Thread The Bit Pit
On 12/15/19 5:31 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Without more information, all I can say is that there's probably a better way to do whatever these users are doing that doesn't involve modifying a system user. But regardless, Michał's answer is the right one if you decide that you do want to modify

[gentoo-dev] RFC: acct-user/... modifies existing user sometimes

2019-12-14 Thread The Bit Pit
acct-user/mythtv modifies the existing user if that user is not logged in. Mythtv has been around for years and users have created specialized configurations for the mythtv user. They do not like changes to the mythtv user when upgrading. A couple of solutions: 1) the ebuild does not depend o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to cardoe being MIA

2019-09-20 Thread The Bit Pit
On 9/13/19 10:25 AM, The Bit Pit wrote: On 9/13/19 9:44 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, The following packages are now up for grabs since Undertakers have not received any reply nor seen any activity from cardoe: media-libs/libhdhomerun [v] I use media-libs/libhdhomerun with mythtv. I can

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to cardoe being MIA

2019-09-13 Thread The Bit Pit
On 9/13/19 9:44 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, The following packages are now up for grabs since Undertakers have not received any reply nor seen any activity from cardoe: dev-util/crash [b,v] media-libs/libhdhomerun [v] I use media-libs/libhdhomerun with mythtv. I can update and test this dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reserve mythtv user UID 103

2019-08-25 Thread The Bit Pit
On 8/25/19 12:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 9:10 AM The Bit Pit wrote: On 8/24/19 5:11 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 5:28 PM The Bit Pit wrote: Group is not needed. mythtv uses the video group. This is already in my pull request #12763 to bump to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reserve mythtv user UID 103

2019-08-25 Thread The Bit Pit
On 8/24/19 5:11 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 5:28 PM The Bit Pit wrote: Group is not needed. mythtv uses the video group. This is already in my pull request #12763 to bump to version 30.0 patch. I added myself as proxy maintainer to acct-user/mythtv I assume it is in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reserve mythtv user UID 103

2019-08-24 Thread The Bit Pit
8/24/19 3:52 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 08:35 -0500, The Bit Pit wrote: I like your suggestion. UID 117 is a better choice for mythtv. I suppose you want user+group, correct?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reserve mythtv user UID 103

2019-08-24 Thread The Bit Pit
I like your suggestion.  UID 117 is a better choice for mythtv. On 8/24/19 7:22 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, The Bit Pit wrote: I selected UID 103 since my system used it before digital ATSC signals were available in the USA. Archlinux uses 103 for minio, so better choose

[gentoo-dev] Reserve mythtv user UID 103

2019-08-23 Thread The Bit Pit
Howdy, I'm a Proxy Maintainer in training. I'd like to reserve a user mythtv for media-tv/mythtv. It is used for a daemon server mythbackend. I selected UID 103 since my system used it before digital ATSC signals were available in the USA.