Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Graham Murray
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:49:32AM +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: mdev would need to switch to the netlink hotplug interface. I think that's quite unlikely, since mdev is not a

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-editors/xemacs and app-xemacs/*

2012-07-14 Thread Hans de Graaff
If you are looking to pick up ~130 packages in one quick move, then wait no longer and add yourself to the xemacs herd! You'll get app-editors/xemacs and all the packages in app-xemacs/* You will inherit a few open bugs, but nothing high priority. XEmacs editor and package release happen quite

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Sylvain Alain d2racing...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, about the Mdev stuff, Slashbeast from Funtoo.org started that project a while ago. https://github.com/slashbeast/mdev-like-a-boss I think that it's actually working pretty good on his box. Some Coredevs

[gentoo-dev] Recruitment process is moving back to quizzes

2012-07-14 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dear Gentoo Community, If you are not a recruit, mentor, or wannabe mentor you may stop reading now. We (recruiters) decided to revert back to the quizzes for the recruitment process. The web application does not work as we expected. There are a

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-laptop/omnibook

2012-07-14 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org (14 Jul 2012) # Does not work with recent kernels (#339758) # Does not build (#426542) # Removal in 30 days app-laptop/omnibook - -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using array variables in qt4-r2.eclass

2012-07-14 Thread Davide Pesavento
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:26:58 +0200 Davide Pesavento p...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] + # backward compatibility for non-array variables + if [[ -n ${DOCS} ]] [[ $(declare -p DOCS 2/dev/null 21) != declare

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Duncan
Graham Murray posted on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:13:56 +0100 as excerpted: Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: Do you realize this would effectively kill linux in the embedded device area? Udev, even without the systemd code, is simply to large for embedded devices. But surely most

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using array variables in qt4-r2.eclass

2012-07-14 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:29:59 +0200 Davide Pesavento p...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:26:58 +0200 Davide Pesavento p...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] + # backward compatibility for non-array

[gentoo-dev] sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer

2012-07-14 Thread Doug Goldstein
sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer. This is the preferred NSS LDAP by RHEL6. I just haven't been using it and haven't been keeping up with releases. I'm only aware of two bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287727 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234555 One is asking

Re: [gentoo-dev] Recruitment process is moving back to quizzes

2012-07-14 Thread Peter Stuge
Hi, Markos Chandras wrote: We (recruiters) decided to revert back to the quizzes for the recruitment process. The web application does not work as we expected. I've been considering recruitment for many years and I made my first effort to prepare for recruitment about two years ago, but I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Peter Stuge
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Seeing all the trouble some people have taken to make their systems work with mdev just to avoid having to use an initramfs, I really wonder how much effort it would have taken the simple task of learning one step more when updating kernels and switch to use an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: [snip] Anyone who tries to argue that initramfs would be good for me to have on my systems should brace themselves for a mouthful of foul swedish language coming their way! ;) I don't think anyone has argued it's good for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Peter Stuge
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: An initramfs it's just now the only supported way (by udev and systemd) to have a separated /usr partition. Yes sure. I considered separate partitions in the 90s, let's just say that I don't see the problem that many on the internet cry about. Using multiple

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer

2012-07-14 Thread Matthew Thode
On 07/14/2012 02:49 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer. This is the preferred NSS LDAP by RHEL6. I just haven't been using it and haven't been keeping up with releases. I'm only aware of two bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287727

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Duncan
Canek Peláez Valdés posted on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:29:19 -0500 as excerpted: If your /usr is in the same partition as /, then udev and systemd supports your configuration *without* an initramfs. I have it like that in a couple of servers, and actually I only use an initramfs in my laptop and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: BTW, any gentooish documentation out there on rootfs as tmpfs, with /etc and the like mounted on top of it, operationally ro, rw remounted for updates? That's obviously going to take an initr*, which I've never really

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:57:41 -0400 as excerpted: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: BTW, any gentooish documentation out there on rootfs as tmpfs, with /etc and the like mounted on top of it, operationally ro, rw remounted for updates?

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer

2012-07-14 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Matthew Thode prometheanf...@gentoo.org wrote: On 07/14/2012 02:49 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer. This is the preferred NSS LDAP by RHEL6. I just haven't been using it and haven't been keeping up with releases. I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer

2012-07-14 Thread Matthew Thode
On 07/14/2012 09:17 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Matthew Thode prometheanf...@gentoo.org wrote: On 07/14/2012 02:49 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: sys-auth/nss-ldapd is looking for a maintainer. This is the preferred NSS LDAP by RHEL6. I just haven't been using it and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Recruitment process is moving back to quizzes

2012-07-14 Thread Ben de Groot
On 15 July 2012 04:46, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Markos Chandras wrote: understand that quizzes is not an ideal way to hire people either, but they worked ok for all these years I don't know.. Subjectively I don't think they work ok at all, since I still haven't finished them even