[gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-02 Thread Brian Dolbec
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 sys-apps/portage-2.2.16 is ready for release and is just waiting for the news announcement about the new plug-in sync system being used and the changes in it's operation. Attached is the news announcement for review. - -- Brian Dolbec -BEGI

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-02 Thread Manuel Rüger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02.02.2015 22:58, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > sys-apps/portage-2.2.16 is ready for release and is just waiting > for the news announcement about the new plug-in sync system being > used and the changes in it's operation. > > Attached is the news ann

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > sys-apps/portage-2.2.16 is ready for release and is just waiting for the > news announcement about the new plug-in sync system being used and the > changes in it's operation. > > Attached is the news announcement for review. You might want t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-02 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 19:24:38 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Brian Dolbec > wrote: > > > > sys-apps/portage-2.2.16 is ready for release and is just waiting > > for the news announcement about the new plug-in sync system being > > used and the changes in it's operation.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-02 Thread Joseph Booker
Note: not a Gentoo dev, just a confused user On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > Note: >If you have default portage settings for location, sync-type then >it should use the backup defaults and sync the gentoo repo still. > What are the 'backup defaults'? A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-02 Thread Brian Dolbec
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 23:21:53 +0100 Manuel Rüger wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 02.02.2015 22:58, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > > > sys-apps/portage-2.2.16 is ready for release and is just waiting > > for the news anno

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Brian Dolbec
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 16:54:37 -0800 Brian Dolbec wrote: > > On 02.02.2015 22:58, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > > > > > sys-apps/portage-2.2.16 is ready for release and is just waiting > > > for the news announcement about the new plug-in sync system being

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Brian Dolbec wrote: > New for git sync-type: > sync-depth = n where n = {0,1,2,3,...} (optional, default = 1) What do these values mean? You should either explain them, or don't mention them at all. Especially, it is not obvious what the value 0 signifies (g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 16:54:37 -0800 Brian Dolbec wrote: > Attached is an updated news item. [...] > Changes: /etc/portage/repos.conf/* > New for all repository types (needed): > auto-sync = yes/no, true/false # default if absent: no/false 1. Why autosync is disabled by default? This b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:37:49 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 16:54:37 -0800 Brian Dolbec wrote: > > Attached is an updated news item. > [...] > > > Changes: /etc/portage/repos.conf/* > > New for all repository types (needed): > > auto-sync = yes/no, true/false # def

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:37:49 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 16:54:37 -0800 Brian Dolbec wrote: > > Attached is an updated news item. > [...] > > > Changes: /etc/portage/repos.conf/* > > New for all repository types (needed): > > auto-sync = yes/no, true/false # d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 18:01:21 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:37:49 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > > 4. I don't fully understand how new plugin system is supposed to > interact with layman. > > I far as I can see, the global goal is to replace layman by new > sync system: i

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] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > You can't fix crap code to both keep the old crap handling while still > giving you new decent handling for the same config. > I think that makes sense, and certainly many upstreams have made changes this large. However, it does make sense

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 20:52:27 +0300 Diamond wrote: > 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 defaul

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage news announcement review

2015-02-03 Thread Brian Dolbec
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 13:25:39 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Brian Dolbec > wrote: > > > > You can't fix crap code to both keep the old crap handling while > > still giving you new decent handling for the same config. >