Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-12 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/11/2011 10:59 PM, Graham Murray wrote: Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org writes: On 10/11/2011 10:28 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: Francisco raised a possibly valid point in his original message: though packages may not be currently used for anything, but they could contain un-patched security

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:40:23 -0400 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: The other option is to drop udev entirely. As an example, I suggest looking at Alpine Linux http://alpinelinux.org/ It's a lightweight server-oriented distro. It uses busybox's mdev instead of udev, and some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/12/11 05:40, Walter Dnes wrote: Hi all The other option is to drop udev entirely. As an example, I suggest looking at Alpine Linux http://alpinelinux.org/ It's a lightweight server-oriented distro. It uses busybox's mdev instead of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-12 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/12/11 02:44, Ryan Hill wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:52:42 +0100 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Seems like none of you ever bothered to read the bug about pngcrush and what was discussed there. It is getting a little bit

[gentoo-dev] last rites: games-roguelike/fargoal

2011-10-12 Thread Michael Sterrett
+# Michael Sterrett mr_bon...@gentoo.org (12 Oct 2011) +# Upstream has moved to commercial development and +# the latest version doesn't work with newer allegro. +# Masked for removal on 2011 +# bug #369271 +games-roguelike/fargoal

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 05:32:05AM +, Nathan Phillip Brink wrote You can already try out what using mdev instead of udev is like in Gentoo. Just add `sys-apps/busybox mdev' to /etc/portage/package.use, remerge busybox. You must be sure to be using busybox-1.92.2 or later for bug #83301.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Walter Dnes
Goodbye desktop users then. We recently dropped HAL. Now all the magic that was done by HAL (and required udev anyway) is done through udev directly. My system worked just fine before HAL was introduced, thank you. I always had sys-apps/hal and sys-apps/dbus in /etc/portage/package.mask

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:05:15PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote Are you aware of the simple linuxrc approach that I suggested here? http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_20749880f5bc5feda141488498729fe8.xml Thanks for the pointer. I've got a spare box kicking around that I'll try this on.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:  Forking udev is probably not an option.  The udev lead developer is a Redhat employee, and his direction seems to be to drag everybody in Redhat's direction.  Our community doesn't have Redhat's billions. We should

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/12/2011 04:44 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:52:42 +0100 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Seems like none of you ever bothered to read the bug about pngcrush and what was discussed there. It is getting a little bit of a habit to escalate minor problems to flames

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: That's probably why there's no mention in the docs other than the portage manpage.  Now that we have swift back, he's applying some much needed attention to the docs tree and its coming back into shape. =:^) I definitely agree

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-12 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/12/2011 07:10 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: That leads me to another concern. The defaults should be the safe options, and the options should be to make the actions less safe. In my thinking the most conservative options right now are either emerge -uDN world or emerge -uDN --with-bdeps=y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Goodbye desktop users then. We recently dropped HAL. Now all the magic that was done by HAL (and required udev anyway) is done through udev directly.  My system worked just fine before HAL was introduced, thank you.  I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:09:49 -0400 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Goodbye desktop users then. We recently dropped HAL. Now all the magic that was done by HAL (and required udev anyway) is done through udev directly. My system worked just fine before HAL was introduced,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Goodbye desktop users then. We recently dropped HAL. Now all the magic that was done by HAL (and required udev anyway) is done through udev directly.  My system worked just fine before HAL was introduced, thank you.  I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:00:23 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org wrote: Then please continue with udev in package.mask and kindly stop trying to impose your workflow on the rest of the world. Isn't the point here that the desktop / GNOME OS guys are trying to impose their deep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:00:23 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org wrote: Then please continue with udev in package.mask and kindly stop trying to impose your workflow on the rest of the world. Isn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 02 October 2011 16:40:18 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Another example from the X.org packages, installing the proprietary ATI/NVidia drivers will cause downgrades for xorg-server on ~arch systems. Nobody in his right mind is proposing to treeclean them because of this. yes,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 09:26:12 Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Forking udev is probably not an option. The udev lead developer is a Redhat employee, and his direction seems to be to drag everybody in Redhat's direction. Our community

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 08 October 2011 11:07:49 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Il giorno sab, 08/10/2011 alle 11.33 +, Sven Vermeulen ha scritto: - The fix_libtool_files.sh command is now part of the toolchain eclass, so doesn't need to be ran by users anymore Moreover, that should only be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-12 Thread Peter Volkov
В Втр, 11/10/2011 в 19:10 +0300, Samuli Suominen пишет: Samuli pretends here to act as a part of QA team (although he is not). Actually even whiteboard of stabilization bug tells #at _earliest_ 17 Oct and thus there is really no sign for rush. This is the case where QA should voice and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/12/2011 06:30 AM, Steven J Long wrote: Michał Górny wrote: I don't think that passing multiple files to epatch actually improves readability. Simple example: # bug #123456, foo, bar epatch ${FILESDIR}/${P}-foo.patch # bug #234567, baz bazinga blah blah epatch

Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 08 October 2011 18:57:23 James Cloos wrote: SV == Sven Vermeulen sw...@gentoo.org writes: SV - Since 3.4.0/4.1.0, the C++ ABI is forward-compatible, so rebuilds SV from that version onwards should not be needed That is not generally true. I use gcc-4.5 as my system gcc, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:19:25 Samuli Suominen wrote: On 10/12/2011 06:30 AM, Steven J Long wrote: Michał Górny wrote: I don't think that passing multiple files to epatch actually improves readability. Simple example: # bug #123456, foo, bar epatch ${FILESDIR}/${P}-foo.patch

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation

2011-10-12 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Saturday 08 October 2011 11:07:49 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Il giorno sab, 08/10/2011 alle 11.33 +, Sven Vermeulen ha scritto: - The fix_libtool_files.sh command is now part of the toolchain eclass, so  

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:38:47 Matt Turner wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 08 October 2011 11:07:49 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Il giorno sab, 08/10/2011 alle 11.33 +, Sven Vermeulen ha scritto: - The fix_libtool_files.sh command is now

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:19:25 Samuli Suominen wrote: On 10/12/2011 06:30 AM, Steven J Long wrote: Michał Górny wrote: I don't think that passing multiple files to epatch actually improves readability. Simple

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:44:53 Alec Warner wrote: If I want to add a patch to the list I might forget to to add the \ admittedly, i hit this every once in a while, and with all the || die being implicit, it doesn't get caught right away. fortunately latest portage will issue a QA

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2011/10/12 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org: On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:44:53 Alec Warner wrote: If I want to add a patch to the list I might forget to to add the \ admittedly, i hit this every once in a while, and with all the || die being implicit, it doesn't get caught right away.  

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Hmm for the command-not-found, it should be fatal not just warning I suppose. I was not even aware of this fancy portage feature :) Tom

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:57:45 Tomáš Chvátal wrote: 2011/10/12 Mike Frysinger: On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:44:53 Alec Warner wrote: If I want to add a patch to the list I might forget to to add the \ admittedly, i hit this every once in a while, and with all the || die being

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Mike Frysinger schrieb: otherwise, Rich summed up things nicely in his later post. If you mean that common sense thing: if there is disagreement about it, then it is obviously not common. The second time the package was removed was even without mask or announcement. well, it shouldn't have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 17:42:47 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Mike Frysinger schrieb: otherwise, Rich summed up things nicely in his later post. If you mean that common sense thing: if there is disagreement about it, then it is obviously not common. you're mixing common with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Mike Frysinger schrieb: The removed qutecom ebuild was not broken at any time. by splitting my reply, you changed the meaning. having qutecom in the tree with a depend on versions that i'm now removing breaks the depgraph. The depgraph is broken after the old versions are removed, not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Nathan Phillip Brink
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:09:24AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 05:32:05AM +, Nathan Phillip Brink wrote You can already try out what using mdev instead of udev is like in Gentoo. Just add `sys-apps/busybox mdev' to /etc/portage/package.use, remerge busybox. You

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/13/2011 02:27 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Mike Frysinger schrieb: The removed qutecom ebuild was not broken at any time. by splitting my reply, you changed the meaning. having qutecom in the tree with a depend on versions that i'm now removing breaks the depgraph. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 10/13/2011 02:27 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Mike Frysinger schrieb: The removed qutecom ebuild was not broken at any time. by splitting my reply, you changed the meaning.  having qutecom in the tree

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 19:27:41 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Mike Frysinger schrieb: The removed qutecom ebuild was not broken at any time. by splitting my reply, you changed the meaning. having qutecom in the tree with a depend on versions that i'm now removing breaks the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 19:58:31 Samuli Suominen wrote: On 10/13/2011 02:27 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Mike Frysinger schrieb: The removed qutecom ebuild was not broken at any time. by splitting my reply, you changed the meaning. having qutecom in the tree with a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:26:12 -0400 as excerpted: My concern with something like dropping udev is that it would make us different from every other desktop distro out there. I'm not aware of any distro packaging Gnome/KDE without udev. Not having Redhat's billions to me is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: How about if we add a `emerge --upgrade` target that is analogous to `apt-get upgrade`? If we hide the new defaults behind a target like --upgrade, rather than change the defaults globally, then it allows people's existing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Thus, the point I'd make and that I believe you were making is not that Gentoo can't be different, or we'd obviously be doing a binary distro like everyone else, but that we pick the differences which we value enough to

[gentoo-dev] Re: Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-12 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:09:56 -0700 as excerpted: On 10/12/2011 07:10 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: The defaults should be [safe] and the options should [flexibly allow less safety where judged necessary]. In my thinking the most conservative options right now are either emerge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 11:09:56 Zac Medico wrote: How about if we add a `emerge --upgrade` target that is analogous to `apt-get upgrade`? isn't that already done with @installed ? `emerge --upgrade @installed` -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wednesday 12 October 2011 11:09:56 Zac Medico wrote: How about if we add a `emerge --upgrade` target that is analogous to `apt-get upgrade`? isn't that already done with @installed ?  `emerge --upgrade @installed`

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/13/2011 03:19 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 12 October 2011 19:58:31 Samuli Suominen wrote: On 10/13/2011 02:27 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Mike Frysinger schrieb: The removed qutecom ebuild was not broken at any time. by splitting my reply, you changed the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/13/2011 03:10 AM, Matt Turner wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 10/13/2011 02:27 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Mike Frysinger schrieb: The removed qutecom ebuild was not broken at any time. by splitting my reply, you

[gentoo-dev] Re: Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-12 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:26:28 -0400 as excerpted: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: isn't that already done with @installed ?  `emerge --upgrade @installed` Well, you'd arguably at least need a -N in there. Indeed. Also, this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-12 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:20:23 -0400 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wednesday 12 October 2011 11:09:56 Zac Medico wrote: How about if we add a `emerge --upgrade` target that is analogous to `apt-get upgrade`? isn't that already done with @installed ? `emerge --upgrade

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 13 October 2011 01:33:07 Michał Górny wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:20:23 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 12 October 2011 11:09:56 Zac Medico wrote: How about if we add a `emerge --upgrade` target that is analogous to `apt-get upgrade`? isn't that already done