[gentoo-dev] Re: udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Duncan
Richard Yao posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:35:22 -0500 as excerpted: Having a builtin is a good idea, but the implementation as a mandatory dependency on kmod is not. The plan is to reintroduce it as an optional dependency, so that distributions (and Gentoo users) that do not want it can avoid

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 02:54:38AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 05/09/2012 06:36 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:51:37PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: I foresee a new udev fork then. Please feel free to do so, the code has been open since the first day I created it.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 03:08 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 02:54:38AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 05/09/2012 06:36 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:51:37PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: I foresee a new udev fork then. Please feel free to do so, the code has been open since

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 03:10:08AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: You are the one claiming that this is our official fork. None of us are. It's on the Gentoo github site, and it has the Gentoo Foundation copyright all over all of the files in one of the branches, reviewed by you. I think I would be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 18/11/2012 00:08, Greg KH wrote: But if this fork is now the official Gentoo fork, owned by the Gentoo Foundation, and it's the way forward that Gentoo the distro is going to take with regards to how the boot process works on the system, then I have something to say about it, as it affects

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 03:19 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 03:10:08AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: You are the one claiming that this is our official fork. None of us are. It's on the Gentoo github site, and it has the Gentoo Foundation copyright all over all of the files in one of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:19:21AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 03:10:08AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: You are the one claiming that this is our official fork. None of us are. It's on the Gentoo github site, and it has the Gentoo Foundation copyright all over all of the files

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 18-11-2012 a las 00:27 -0800, Greg KH escribió: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:19:21AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 03:10:08AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: You are the one claiming that this is our official fork. None of us are. It's on the Gentoo github site, and it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 18/11/12 10:21, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 18/11/2012 00:08, Greg KH wrote: But if this fork is now the official Gentoo fork, owned by the Gentoo Foundation, and it's the way forward that Gentoo the distro is going to take with regards to how the boot process works on the system, then I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Richard Yao posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:35:22 -0500 as excerpted: Having a builtin is a good idea, but the implementation as a mandatory dependency on kmod is not. The plan is to reintroduce it as an optional dependency,

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 18/11/12 07:19, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: Having a builtin is a good idea, but the implementation as a mandatory dependency on kmod is not. The plan is to reintroduce it as an optional dependency, so that distributions (and Gentoo users) that

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: I understand the bizarre need of some people to want to build the udev binary without the build-time dependencies that systemd requires, but surely that is a set of simple Makefile patches, right? And is something that small

[gentoo-dev] net-misc/openconnect up for grabs

2012-11-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
As talked with Dagger via mail, feel free to get it Thanks signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 18-11-2012 a las 11:13 +0200, Samuli Suominen escribió: On 18/11/12 07:19, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: Having a builtin is a good idea, but the implementation as a mandatory dependency on kmod is not. The plan is to reintroduce it as

[gentoo-dev] Apache team is inactive

2012-11-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
apache team is currently composed by nelchael (that is inactive since May 2012) and trapni (that is not taking care of that packages) If you are interested please join. If it's still inactive in next week, I will assign apache bugs to maintainer-needed (I am still unsure about if, in that case,

[gentoo-dev] lastrite: dev-vcs/gitosis, dev-vcs/gitosis-gentoo (dead upstream)

2012-11-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
# Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.org (18 Nov 2012) # Dead upstream, replaced by gitolite dev-vcs/gitosis dev-vcs/gitosis-gentoo -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85

[gentoo-dev] Some trapni packages up for grabs

2012-11-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
As Trapni is not taking care of them at all, we (retirement team) decided to drop him from their maintainership to reflect reality and give others the opportunity to know they need a maintainer and get them if possible: media-sound/teamspeak-server-bin - assigned not to proxy-maint as looks some

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 11/18/2012 04:48 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: El dom, 18-11-2012 a las 11:13 +0200, Samuli Suominen escribió: On 18/11/12 07:19, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: Having a builtin is a good idea, but the implementation as a mandatory dependency on kmod

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
By the way, Diego, what is you current point of view on Gentoo default init system? i.e., what do you personally prefer to see as default init here: SystemD or OpenRC? [Just asking because all you angry answers to some devs make me think that you're on SysD side, when tons of Gentoo users and

[gentoo-dev] Reminder: open season on robbat2's packages

2012-11-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Over the years, I've come to be the maintainer a huge number of packages (~300 or so, and I just gave up ~100 of those back to relevant herds). Many of them are from inheriting packages when other developers have retired - the upstream may also be dead, but there is nothing that supersedes the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Matt Turner schrieb: Then udev switched to kmod as a build-time dep. I could no longer package.provide kmod as I had module-init-tools, because it was required to /build/ udev. For no valid reason on my system. Like any unnecessary feature that can be used to load an exploit, it's worse

[gentoo-dev] Re: Apache team is inactive

2012-11-18 Thread Markos Chandras
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: apache team is currently composed by nelchael (that is inactive since May 2012) and trapni (that is not taking care of that packages) If you are interested please join. If it's still inactive in next week, I will assign

Re: [gentoo-dev] About unresolved bugs assigned to mobile for ages

2012-11-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 29-10-2012 a las 12:16 +, Markos Chandras escribió: On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 28/10/12 14:26, Pacho Ramos wrote: Hello I would like to know about mobile team status and also show that this team has important bugs

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due mobile herd removal

2012-11-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
app-admin/longrun app-laptop/fnfx app-laptop/hdapsd app-laptop/ibam app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools app-laptop/radeontool app-laptop/spicctrl app-laptop/tp_smapi app-laptop/tpb app-misc/gpsdrive app-mobilephone/obex-data-server media-libs/sbc net-misc/xsupplicant net-wireless/acx-firmware

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18.11.2012 06:00, Richard Yao wrote: but we are doing AGILE development, so long term goals have not been well defined. [...] With that said, Linux distributions are victims of people continually trying to reinvent the wheel with no formal

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rich Freeman
Wow, that's some kind of thread you started... :) I'll respond in general to a bunch of stuff on this list by topic. COUNCIL MEETING On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, that's a nice summary, but, what is the end result here? Speaking as somebody who was

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov m...@mva.name wrote: So, I really hope, that Gentoo will not obey RedHat's will and will not force SystemD as default init system, and not drop pretty OpenRC to trash. And I hope, that ryao's eudev will be most used (if not default)

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Kacper Kowalik
On 18.11.2012 08:57, Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:19PM -0800, Alec Warner wrote: 1) systemd-udev will require systemd. Stated by the systemd maintainers themselves as a thing they want to do in the future. Some users don't want to use systemd. We could go into detail as to why;

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-gfx/nvidia-cg-toolkit/files: 80cgc-opt-2

2012-11-18 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:43 AM, justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: On 16/11/12 09:48, Samuli Suominen wrote: does this mean it puts the binary-only package, nvidia-cg-toolkit, to the default search path when you call the linker (compiler)? please don't do that, it is counterproductive with the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-gfx/nvidia-cg-toolkit/files: 80cgc-opt-2

2012-11-18 Thread hasufell
On 11/18/2012 03:08 PM, Peter Alfredsen wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:43 AM, justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: On 16/11/12 09:48, Samuli Suominen wrote: does this mean it puts the binary-only package, nvidia-cg-toolkit, to the default search path when you call the linker (compiler)? please

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-gfx/nvidia-cg-toolkit/files: 80cgc-opt-2

2012-11-18 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 18/11/12 16:11, hasufell wrote: On 11/18/2012 03:08 PM, Peter Alfredsen wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:43 AM, justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: On 16/11/12 09:48, Samuli Suominen wrote: does this mean it puts the binary-only package, nvidia-cg-toolkit, to the default search path when you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 18/11/2012 03:11, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: [Just asking because all you angry answers to some devs make me think that you're on SysD side, when tons of Gentoo users and Gentoo devs are on non-SysD-related udev side.] The fact you're asking means you really haven't been following

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 18/11/12 17:04, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 18/11/2012 03:11, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: [Just asking because all you angry answers to some devs make me think that you're on SysD side, when tons of Gentoo users and Gentoo devs are on non-SysD-related udev side.] The fact you're

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 18-11-2012 17:16:18 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: Nobody has ever provided a valid reason for using sep. /usr in the ML either. No need for a reason. It is a fact that it is in use *right now*. (Existing systems/installs that are not to be phased out anywhere near soon.) Fabian --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 18/11/2012 07:16, Samuli Suominen wrote: I'm still happy enough with building udev out from systemd tree and letting sep. /usr consept from 90s to finally die in favour of simplifying the system. The BIOSes have been upgraded last century to support booting from larger partitions, the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
To be honest, in my opinion, «killing of separate /usr» can reasonable be continued by moving all it's content to / (/usr/bin - /bin, /usr/lib - lib, and so on) in despite of all objections, as it was invented just because of disk space exhaustion. 18.11.2012 22:16, Samuli Suominen пишет: On

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Duncan
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:14:48 +0100 as excerpted: Matt Turner schrieb: Then udev switched to kmod as a build-time dep. I could no longer package.provide kmod as I had module-init-tools, because it was required to /build/ udev. For no valid reason on my

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 18/11/2012 07:34, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: To be honest, in my opinion, «killing of separate /usr» can reasonable be continued by moving all it's content to / (/usr/bin - /bin, /usr/lib - lib, and so on) in despite of all objections, as it was invented just because of disk space

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
The fact you're asking means you really haven't been following anything I've been doing lately. Nope ;) I knew that, but as far as I read some of your emails, it was thoughts that you protect udev+sysD integration and followed udev's functionality downgrade. So your whole rant picking up on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 18/11/2012 07:43, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: And, by the way, I doubt, that people laugh about eudev (previously named udev-ng) creation. Mostly they just can't understand why gentoo devs created third udev's fork, where it was already done (and maintained) fork for LFS (somewhere on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Luca Barbato
On 11/18/2012 04:34 PM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: To be honest, in my opinion, «killing of separate /usr» can reasonable be continued by moving all it's content to / (/usr/bin - /bin, /usr/lib - lib, and so on) in despite of all objections, as it was invented just because of disk space

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 18-11-2012 07:42:40 -0800, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Also, I doubt anybody would argue that it's not commutative (move to /usr, move to /) — it's just pragmatic, most stuff uses /usr anyway as base, so the move / - /usr is infinitely less painful than /usr - /. You end up with a symlink

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 18-11-2012 07:47:22 -0800, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 18/11/2012 07:43, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: And, by the way, I doubt, that people laugh about eudev (previously named udev-ng) creation. Mostly they just can't understand why gentoo devs created third udev's fork, where it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Luca Barbato
On 11/18/2012 04:47 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: But yes, many more can't understand that... and neither do I. Then would be nice if everybody shuts up, let people play with their toys and if something useful happens evaluate the result. According to the people that asked me to help the whole

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 18/11/2012 07:54, Fabian Groffen wrote: It's your choice to participate on those social platforms. Please don't make it our problem. It doesn't add anything useful to this discussion. It adds. Because, while I don't know about you, I rely on Gentoo on my job. And many others do, too. And

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: open season on robbat2's packages

2012-11-18 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 18/11/2012 03:11, Robin H. Johnson wrote: net-libs/libmonetra Maybe time to get rid of this one? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341721 -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rafael Goncalves Martins
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Kacper Kowalik xarthis...@gentoo.org wrote: On 18.11.2012 08:57, Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:19PM -0800, Alec Warner wrote: 1) systemd-udev will require systemd. Stated by the systemd maintainers themselves as a thing they want to do in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Fabio Erculiani
It depends on who is actually laughing I'd say. just my 0.01c. -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
El 18/11/12 04:39, Greg KH escribió: Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the Copyright branch that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal under all countries that follow the normal body of Copyright Law. It should be removed right now before someone gets

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: If these organizations aren't governed by Gentoo they should have some disclaimers, saying that the projects hosted there aren't sponsored by Gentoo, but this udev-ng/eudev/whatever thing does the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 07:26:17 -0500 as excerpted: I'm sure all of the options will be offered as options for as long as people care to take care of them. With the number of anti-systemd posts on -dev I don't see openrc going away anytime soon. I'm sure the default will

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rafael Goncalves Martins
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: If these organizations aren't governed by Gentoo they should have some disclaimers, saying that the projects hosted there aren't

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Hey guys, Just read through this entire thread, and one concern still rings loud and clear -- what is the purpose of this fork? The various responses I've read so far are something like: - Because Linus yelled a lot when udev/Kay broke firmware loading. Except both Linus and the udev people

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:48:33AM +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote: El dom, 18-11-2012 a las 11:13 +0200, Samuli Suominen escribió: On 18/11/12 07:19, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: Having a builtin is a good idea, but the implementation as a

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: Yeah, but I think that there's a big difference about any developer being allowed to create a project under the gentoo umbrella and create a project and claim it as Gentoo sponsored without any review of

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rafael Goncalves Martins
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: Yeah, but I think that there's a big difference about any developer being allowed to create a project under the gentoo umbrella and

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:22 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: So here is the question I'll pose. Is it worth all of that extra work for us to support separate /usr correctly, or should we just tell everyone to start using initramfs or, if they don't want to use initramfs and they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Peter Stuge
Duncan wrote: kmod itself is trivial in size time and space requirements, but it's the principle as much as anything, and in the case of an unneeded module loader there's an additional security concern as well I'm afraid this is flawed. If you want to hinder modules from being loaded then you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: open season on robbat2's packages

2012-11-18 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le dimanche 18 novembre 2012 à 11:11 +, Robin H. Johnson a écrit : net-nds/nsscache sys-auth/nss_ldap If nobody else want them and I don't forget about them, I'll take care of these. -- Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-18 Thread Stelian Ionescu
On Sun, 2012-11-18 at 17:19 +, Duncan wrote: Diego Elio Pettenò posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 07:47:22 -0800 as excerpted: On 18/11/2012 07:43, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: And, by the way, I doubt, that people laugh about eudev (previously named udev-ng) creation. Mostly they just

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Peter Stuge
Rich Freeman wrote: I think that there's a big difference about any developer being allowed to create a project under the gentoo umbrella and create a project and claim it as Gentoo sponsored without any review of the council. I agree that it can exists in the Github account, or even in

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rafael Goncalves Martins
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: Yeah, but I think that there's a big

[gentoo-dev] gstreamer eclass review

2012-11-18 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Hi list, gstreamer-1 has been around for some time now and it is needed for gnome 3.6 to enter the tree. Since gstreamer devs have been a bit busy irl, a few guys from gnome herd decided to take a look at it and try to bump everything. I had an itch to scratch wrt current eclass writing so I

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Duncan
Peter Stuge posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:00:59 +0100 as excerpted: Forget about the loader. Your knob is in a different configuration, specifically CONFIG_MODULES=n in the kernel. Just to note now that the specific topic has come up, yes, I am aware of and have that kernel option set to

[gentoo-dev] Re: gstreamer eclass review

2012-11-18 Thread Duncan
Gilles Dartiguelongue posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:06:30 +0100 as excerpted: It's admittedly a style thing thus pretty much up to the author, purely bikeshedding in the original sense of the essay's trivial color choice, but... # Even though xz-utils are in @system, they must still be added to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 11/18/2012 2:39 PM, Duncan wrote: Peter Stuge posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:00:59 +0100 as excerpted: Forget about the loader. Your knob is in a different configuration, specifically CONFIG_MODULES=n in the kernel. Just to note now that the specific topic has come up, yes, I am aware of

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Rafael Goncalves Martins Hmm, pretty cool! Then I can create a stupid project, put it on gentoo infra and claim it as being Gentoo sponsored. Good to know, thanks! Just

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due beandog retirement

2012-11-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
app-misc/dailystrips app-misc/gramps dev-php/PEAR-PEAR dev-php/pear games-misc/fortune-mod-mormon games-misc/fortune-mod-scriptures media-libs/libbluray media-tv/ivtv-utils media-tv/ivtv media-video/mplayer-resume sys-fs/mhddfs x11-themes/gdm-themes Some of them are co-maintained but, if you want

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gstreamer eclass review

2012-11-18 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le dimanche 18 novembre 2012 à 20:45 +, Duncan a écrit : Gilles Dartiguelongue posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:06:30 +0100 as excerpted: [...] But as I said up top, that's (mostly, the pattern matching vs string matching will occasionally bite if you're not on the lookout for it) trivial

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gstreamer eclass review

2012-11-18 Thread Alec Warner
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Gilles Dartiguelongue posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:06:30 +0100 as excerpted: It's admittedly a style thing thus pretty much up to the author, purely bikeshedding in the original sense of the essay's trivial color choice,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: open season on robbat2's packages

2012-11-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 08:11:49AM -0800, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 18/11/2012 03:11, Robin H. Johnson wrote: net-libs/libmonetra Maybe time to get rid of this one? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341721 Gone. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee Infrastructure

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 11:59 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: All I'm asking is some kind of coherent mission statement. How can we define a mission statement when we are still in the process of understanding the codebase, what it does well and what it can do better? A project announcement should answer

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 12:37 PM, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: Yeah, but I think that there's a big difference about any developer being

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2012-11-18 23h59 UTC

2012-11-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2012-11-18 23h59 UTC. Removals: app-crypt/cryptoapi 2012-11-15 18:15:12 pinkbyte x11-misc/pnmixer2012-11-17

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: On 11/18/2012 11:59 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: All I'm asking is some kind of coherent mission statement. How can we define a mission statement when we are still in the process of understanding the codebase, what it does

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 01:51:14AM -0600, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote ... systemd is a cross-distro project: every major and many, many minor distros have had people contributing to systemd. last i heard even two debian devs have commit access to the repo, among many others. systemd upstream

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:52:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote Yes, I know all about the firmware issue with media drivers. It's now resolved and fixed, in two different ways (the kernel now loads firmware directly, and on older kernels, udev has fixed the issue.) So that's no longer an issue for

[gentoo-dev] Copyright issues (Was: udev-ng?)

2012-11-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:06:50AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: COPYRIGHT I think this issue is best dealt with on the side - it has no bearing on any of the really contentious points here. I note that the owners of the copyright on udev have announced to the world that (emphasis mine):

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 08:50:07PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:52:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote Yes, I know all about the firmware issue with media drivers. It's now resolved and fixed, in two different ways (the kernel now loads firmware directly, and on older

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 08:13:55PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 01:51:14AM -0600, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote ... systemd is a cross-distro project: every major and many, many minor distros have had people contributing to systemd. last i heard even two debian devs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright issues (Was: udev-ng?)

2012-11-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: True, but removing a copyright line doesn't change the real copyright of a file, although it is generally considered something that you really should not do at all (see your local copyright laws/rules for details.) Agreed that

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 11/18/2012 10:06 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 08:50:07PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: It's a bizarre development model, I know. :) Works better than Windows' model: http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html (Okay, old, and I know MS has since

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 18/11/2012 19:38, Joshua Kinard wrote: Correct me if wrong, but didn't the issue start with udev wanting to put the PCI ID database/file into /usr/share from /etc? Then kmod was changed to link against libs in /usr/lib, and then udev made dependent on kmod? I think that led to a scenario

Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright issues (Was: udev-ng?)

2012-11-18 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 09:58 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:06:50AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: COPYRIGHT I think this issue is best dealt with on the side - it has no bearing on any of the really contentious points here. I note that the owners of the copyright on udev have announced

Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright issues (Was: udev-ng?)

2012-11-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:05:05PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/18/2012 09:58 PM, Greg KH wrote: an on-topic discussion about copyright thread response from me snipped We develop open source software in public repositories. A developer decided it would be helpful to change the software

[gentoo-dev] Re: gstreamer eclass review

2012-11-18 Thread Duncan
Gilles Dartiguelongue posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:59:44 +0100 as excerpted: Anyway if you read all that up and only mailed about this, I guess you found no problem with the rest, right ? Yes, but I already admitted to bikeshedding the easy stuff, so I'd honestly not assign too much review

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:42:11PM -0800, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 18/11/2012 19:38, Joshua Kinard wrote: Correct me if wrong, but didn't the issue start with udev wanting to put the PCI ID database/file into /usr/share from /etc? Then kmod was changed to link against libs in /usr/lib,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright issues (Was: udev-ng?)

2012-11-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:29:35PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: True, but removing a copyright line doesn't change the real copyright of a file, although it is generally considered something that you really should not do at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright issues (Was: udev-ng?)

2012-11-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:21:20PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/18/2012 11:22 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:05:05PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/18/2012 09:58 PM, Greg KH wrote: an on-topic discussion about copyright thread response from me snipped We develop

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 18/11/2012 20:28, Greg KH wrote: But note, we are moving that file out of pciutils (and the usb.ids file out of usbutils) and they will eventually be generated from the udev package itself, as it holds the master hardware database. But that's a totally different topic than the one at hand,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: open season on robbat2's packages

2012-11-18 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 18 November 2012 16:41, Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] media-sound/dbmeasure I'll take this one, since it's tangentially related to PulseAudio. Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 11/18/2012 11:28 PM, Greg KH wrote: Yes, it was always in /usr/somewhere. And the pci.ids file came from the pciutils package, not udev. But note, we are moving that file out of pciutils (and the usb.ids file out of usbutils) and they will eventually be generated from the udev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: open season on robbat2's packages

2012-11-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:43:44AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 18 November 2012 16:41, Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] media-sound/dbmeasure I'll take this one, since it's tangentially related to PulseAudio. Speaking of PA, are you still upstream? If so, can you please

RE : [gentoo-dev] Ohloh Organizations - Gentoo Linux

2012-11-18 Thread eva
That's probably some topic for gentoo-project ml.