Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-02 Thread Ben de Groot
On 1 April 2014 21:58, Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 13:13 +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: On 1 April 2014 06:16, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello, all. The late multilib ppc issues made me re-check our stable masks on abi_x86_* flags and,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-02 Thread Ben de Groot
On 2 April 2014 07:38, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/01/2014 01:13 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: On 1 April 2014 06:16, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello, all. The late multilib ppc issues made me re-check our stable masks on abi_x86_* flags and, honestly, I'm not sure if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wed 02 Apr 2014 17:14:02 Ben de Groot wrote: On 1 April 2014 21:58, Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 13:13 +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: On 1 April 2014 06:16, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello, all. The late multilib ppc issues made

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-02 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 17:25 +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: I'm strongly considering reverting these changes in the packages I maintain. I'm tired of having to deal time and again with multilib breakage. Either that, or someone else can take over primary maintainership. Ben, if you are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 20:58:30 -0400 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Now let's just continue to ignore the existing multilib-portage work so we can claim it's irrelevant, while shifting the conditions for accepting

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-02 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm strongly considering reverting these changes in the packages I maintain. I'm tired of having to deal time and again with multilib breakage. Either that, or someone else can take over primary maintainership. I'd be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-01 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 04/01/2014 01:54 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Also, I don't see that it should be an issue, but do you think this might affect catalyst runs --- I have to ask because repairing/reconfiguring seeds is a lot of work. Well, I think this mostly depends on whether you want multiple multilib ABIs in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-01 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 04/01/2014 07:40 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: On 04/01/2014 01:54 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Also, I don't see that it should be an issue, but do you think this might affect catalyst runs --- I have to ask because repairing/reconfiguring seeds is a lot of work. Well, I think this mostly

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-01 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 13:13 +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: On 1 April 2014 06:16, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello, all. The late multilib ppc issues made me re-check our stable masks on abi_x86_* flags and, honestly, I'm not sure if we're doing things the right way. That

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 13:13 +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: In my opinion your multilib approach introduces an unnecessary degree of complexity, which --as has been shown here again-- is prone to breakage. It would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-01 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 31/03/14 06:16 PM, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, all. The late multilib ppc issues made me re-check our stable masks on abi_x86_* flags and, honestly, I'm not sure if we're doing things the right way. First, a quick summary. Let's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-01 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-04-01, o godz. 11:12:11 Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org napisał(a): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 31/03/14 06:16 PM, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, all. The late multilib ppc issues made me re-check our stable masks on abi_x86_* flags and, honestly, I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-01 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-04-01, o godz. 00:16:17 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org napisał(a): Your thoughts? Following the feedback on the mailing list, IRC and bugzilla, and some of my own thoughts, I'd like to put a few important extra points I've missed in the original mail: 1. playing with the masks will

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-01 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 04/01/2014 01:13 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: On 1 April 2014 06:16, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello, all. The late multilib ppc issues made me re-check our stable masks on abi_x86_* flags and, honestly, I'm not sure if we're doing things the right way. That said, I have an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-01 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 04/01/2014 10:43 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 13:13 +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: In my opinion your multilib approach introduces an unnecessary degree of complexity, which --as has been shown

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Now let's just continue to ignore the existing multilib-portage work so we can claim it's irrelevant, while shifting the conditions for accepting it whenever it is convenient, while silently adding the competing method

[gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-03-31 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, all. The late multilib ppc issues made me re-check our stable masks on abi_x86_* flags and, honestly, I'm not sure if we're doing things the right way. First, a quick summary. Let's consider dev-libs/elfutils that has a dependency on app-arch/bzip2. If we're building 32-bit elfutils, it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-03-31 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 03/31/2014 06:16 PM, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, all. The late multilib ppc issues made me re-check our stable masks on abi_x86_* flags and, honestly, I'm not sure if we're doing things the right way. First, a quick summary. Let's consider dev-libs/elfutils that has a dependency on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-03-31 Thread Ben de Groot
On 1 April 2014 06:16, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello, all. The late multilib ppc issues made me re-check our stable masks on abi_x86_* flags and, honestly, I'm not sure if we're doing things the right way. That said, I have an alternate idea inspired by the ppc breakage.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-03-31 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-03-31, o godz. 19:09:44 Anthony G. Basile bluen...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On 03/31/2014 06:16 PM, Michał Górny wrote: That said, I have an alternate idea inspired by the ppc breakage. I'm thinking of replacing the amd64 abi_x86_32 mask with a global stable mask of all abi_*_*