Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2012-12-10 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: gentoo-x86/profiles/updates $ LANG=C ls -1 --sort=time [long list omitted] old entries are done in different context (comparing to 2012): - some packages change names 2 or 3 times - slots have different meaning moreover: - if you set

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2012-12-10 Thread Benedikt Böhm
Due to limited time and resources these packages are up for grabs: - app-shells/shish - dev-db/mysqltuner - dev-libs/dietlibc - dev-libs/gecode - net-analyzer/bwm-ng - net-analyzer/nagios-check_mysql_health These packages have been reduced to herd maintainers: - media-libs/libraw -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2012-12-10 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On 12/10/2012 12:10 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: I propose that we say, once a year, schedule a tree-cleaning of old updates files. These updates files could be added to a tarball made available for download. That way if they are needed to update a system older than what the main tree has

Re: [gentoo-dev] borked release media

2012-12-10 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Greg KH schrieb: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:21:29AM +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Greg KH schrieb: No, all we need is to enable EFI stub support in the kernel, and integrate the initramfs using CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE and place it in some location where UEFI looks for it

Re: [gentoo-dev] borked release media

2012-12-10 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I really would like Gentoo to support a self-signed secure boot framework (obviously this would be for after the system is installed). https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444830 You can see how such framework works by

Re: [gentoo-dev] borked release media

2012-12-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 11:57:13PM -0500, Fernando Reyes wrote iirc the minimal install CD ISO is capable of booting from a USB device or any removable media by just running the following commands. # isohybrid image.ISO # did if=image.ISO of=/dev/sdb bs=8192k sdb being your removable

Re: [gentoo-dev] borked release media

2012-12-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 06:37:56PM -0800, Greg KH wrote Not necessarily, as I'm finding out with real hardware. My only options on the box I have is to either zero out all keys, or specifically tell the BIOS what binary to run (doesn't need to be signed, and can not be changed after telling

Re: [gentoo-dev] borked release media

2012-12-10 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:31:25AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 06:37:56PM -0800, Greg KH wrote Not necessarily, as I'm finding out with real hardware. My only options on the box I have is to either zero out all keys, or specifically tell the BIOS what binary to run

Re: [gentoo-dev] borked release media

2012-12-10 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: Matthew's frontend shim code is nice and tiny, but the one I am referring to provides the ability to enroll your own keys in the BIOS, which shim does not. I just tried shim in OVMF, and it provides an interface to enroll keys /

[gentoo-dev] Getting EAPI 5 *use.stable.mask to work in gx86?

2012-12-10 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, I think we're mostly aware what the use and benefits of the *use.stable.mask files are. They would be at least really useful in Python ebuilds, where we have to either: a) forcedly stabilize a particular Python implementation (like pypy), b) don't support it all, c) or just keep two

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting EAPI 5 *use.stable.mask to work in gx86?

2012-12-10 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/12/12 04:27 PM, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, I think we're mostly aware what the use and benefits of the *use.stable.mask files are. They would be at least really useful in Python ebuilds, where we have to either: a) forcedly

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting EAPI 5 *use.stable.mask to work in gx86?

2012-12-10 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:01:34 -0500 Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/12/12 04:27 PM, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, I think we're mostly aware what the use and benefits of the *use.stable.mask files are. They would be at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting EAPI 5 *use.stable.mask to work in gx86?

2012-12-10 Thread Zac Medico
On 12/10/2012 01:27 PM, Michał Górny wrote: 1) duplicate most of the major profiles. Make an EAPI 5-enabled wrapper profiles which will provide the *use.stable.mask files. Require users to migrate to those profiles after getting an EAPI 5 capable package manager (how?). Possibly mask the