Re: update commands / world file pollution Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable sys-devel/gcc USE flag changes WAS: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: ChangeLog toolchain.eclass

2013-01-18 Thread Michael Weber
On 01/18/2013 08:36 AM, Benedikt Böhm wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org mailto:x...@gentoo.org wrote: I'd like to drop one strong suggestion about configuration management that might be beneficial here: use version control software! or even

Re: update commands / world file pollution Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable sys-devel/gcc USE flag changes WAS: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: ChangeLog toolchain.eclass

2013-01-18 Thread Benedikt Böhm
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org wrote: I wonder if anybody uses unattended [backup+]emerge as cron job. I'm really temped to do so, but with users relying on these machines I'm always chicken-out. i've refrained from doing unattended upgrades for a long time,

Re: update commands / world file pollution Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable sys-devel/gcc USE flag changes WAS: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: ChangeLog toolchain.eclass

2013-01-18 Thread Michael Weber
On 01/18/2013 09:28 AM, Benedikt Böhm wrote: i've refrained from doing unattended upgrades for a long time, but i'm quite confident in updateworld these days and i usually test it on 2-3 machines and then let the other 50+ machines do it unattended and it has been working fine so far ... good

Re: [gentoo-dev] New, shiny EAPI=5 profiles: volunteer, procedure, preparations

2013-01-18 Thread Ultrabug
Thanks for your work mate ! On 14/01/2013 21:24, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: [CC'ing this to core so noone can complain afterwards.] Since 48h did not lead to any responses positive or negative, I'll start implementing the procedure as given in the original e-mail (quoted below). As also said

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrites: app-misc/secure-delete, app-misc/ccal, www-apache/mod_vhs, app-portage/epm, www-apps/online-bookmarks, sys-apps/i2c

2013-01-18 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Paul Arthur junk+use...@flowerysong.com wrote: Yes. This is the exact same issue secure-delete has, since it uses the same approach. shred is just as useful as srm (in fact it's more useful, since it doesn't mandate the full, useless run of 38 passes that srm

Re: [gentoo-dev] New, shiny EAPI=5 profiles: volunteer, procedure, preparations

2013-01-18 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/12/2013 09:47 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: 10) add 13 to the selectable Versions in Bugzilla. Not that anybody cares, but 10 and 10.1 are in there. Maybe we could drop these values (dropping the field might need a change in the code) to

Re: [gentoo-dev] New, shiny EAPI=5 profiles: volunteer, procedure, preparations

2013-01-18 Thread Markos Chandras
On 18 January 2013 10:51, Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/12/2013 09:47 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: 10) add 13 to the selectable Versions in Bugzilla. Not that anybody cares, but 10 and 10.1 are in there. Maybe we could drop

[gentoo-dev] Re: New, shiny EAPI=5 profiles: volunteer, procedure, preparations

2013-01-18 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 18/01/2013 21:51, Michael Weber wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/12/2013 09:47 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: 10) add 13 to the selectable Versions in Bugzilla. Not that anybody cares, but 10 and 10.1 are in there. Maybe we could drop these values (dropping

[gentoo-dev] On tinderboxing

2013-01-18 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 18/01/2013 07:12, Duncan wrote: Now with a bit of luck, the amount of logs to sift through for an ffmpeg-targeted tinderbox would be much less than those generated by tbamd64 (which uses glibc-2.17 and gcc-4.7), so let's say we end up with a total of 10/12 hr of work all in all? I wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-18 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 09/01/2013 23:13, William Hubbs ha scritto: All, as you probably know by now, udev-197 has hit the tree. This new version implements a new feature called predictable network interface names [1], which I have currently turned off for live systems, because it will require migration on the

Re: update commands / world file pollution Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable sys-devel/gcc USE flag changes WAS: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: ChangeLog toolchain.eclass

2013-01-18 Thread Benedikt Böhm
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org wrote: On 01/18/2013 09:28 AM, Benedikt Böhm wrote: but - and that's quite important i guess - i only use my own clone of the portage tree which i sync from time to time and i also keep different versions stable, etc. HEAVY

Re: update commands / world file pollution Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable sys-devel/gcc USE flag changes WAS: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: ChangeLog toolchain.eclass

2013-01-18 Thread Benedikt Böhm
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Benedikt Böhm hol...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org wrote: On 01/18/2013 09:28 AM, Benedikt Böhm wrote: but - and that's quite important i guess - i only use my own clone of the portage tree which i sync

Re: update commands / world file pollution Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable sys-devel/gcc USE flag changes WAS: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: ChangeLog toolchain.eclass

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 03:13 AM, Michael Weber wrote: I wonder if anybody uses unattended [backup+]emerge as cron job. I'm really temped to do so, but with users relying on these machines I'm always chicken-out. I used to, up until around 2006-2007 ,

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 07:24 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: Since for servers predictable names are useful and for desktop (which usually have only one ethernet that never change) Is it possible to set desktop profiles to still use ethX, and base profile to

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-18 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:33:13AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 07:24 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: Since for servers predictable names are useful and for desktop (which usually have only one ethernet that never change) Is it

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 09:54 AM, William Hubbs wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:33:13AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 07:24 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: Since for servers predictable names are

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-18 Thread Markos Chandras
On 18 January 2013 04:24, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2013 14:44:14 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:35:12 -0500 James Cloos wrote: CM == Ciaran McCreesh writes: CM That's what's known as doing it wrong. You should be querying CM your

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-18 Thread Federico fox Scrinzi
On 17/01/2013 14:57, Ben de Groot wrote: Presently we already have a good number of split qt-* library packages in x11-libs. How many? └ ls -d /usr/portage/x11-libs/qt* | wc -l 22 We, the Gentoo Qt team, are of the opinion that the time has come to split all these out into their own

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-18 Thread Christoph Junghans
2013/1/17 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org: Hi guys, Presently we already have a good number of split qt-* library packages in x11-libs. With the arrival of Qt5 upstream has gone a lot further in modularization, so we expect the number of packages to grow much more. We, the Gentoo Qt team, are

Re: [gentoo-dev] New, shiny EAPI=5 profiles: volunteer, procedure, preparations

2013-01-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
FYI, the new 13.0 profiles are now all available in profiles.desc, for now all with status dev (i.e. repoman includes them only when you request developer profile checking). This means the procedure below is complete up to and including point 5) now. Please consider changing your profile

[gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
During the server profile discussion, it became clear that we could clean up the base profiles a bit. This is unrelated to the profile versions, as the change would affect all versions (well, at least without bigger changes). What I suggested and what djc and kensington supported was: *

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 18 January 2013 15:49:38 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: During the server profile discussion, it became clear that we could clean up the base profiles a bit. This is unrelated to the profile versions, as the change would affect all versions (well, at least without bigger changes). What

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Davide Pesavento
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: During the server profile discussion, it became clear that we could clean up the base profiles a bit. This is unrelated to the profile versions, as the change would affect all versions (well, at least without

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Andreas K. Huettel schrieb: * move setting USE=dri and USE=cups from default/linux/make.defaults to targets/desktop/make.defaults I would prefer to keep USE=dri in the default profile. If you want to move VIDEO_CARDS that would be fine with me though. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher

Re: [gentoo-dev] New, shiny EAPI=5 profiles: volunteer, procedure, preparations

2013-01-18 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:37:10 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: FYI, the new 13.0 profiles are now all available in profiles.desc, for now all with status dev (i.e. repoman includes them only when you request developer profile checking). This means the procedure

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-18 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:36:18 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0 transition would be a good moment to finally remove the (also in my opinion rather useless) server profiles. The easiest way to do this

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Patrick McLean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 02:02 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Andreas K. Huettel schrieb: * move setting USE=dri and USE=cups from default/linux/make.defaults to targets/desktop/make.defaults I would prefer to keep USE=dri in the default profile.

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:18:25 -0800 Patrick McLean chutz...@gentoo.org wrote: USE=dri is usually only relevant on desktops, why enable it on all profiles? This question only matters if you expect there to be non-desktops where there are packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Patrick McLean schrieb: I would prefer to keep USE=dri in the default profile. If you want to move VIDEO_CARDS that would be fine with me though. USE=dri is usually only relevant on desktops, why enable it on all profiles? Because it should be enabled when the respective packages are

Re: [gentoo-dev] New, shiny EAPI=5 profiles: volunteer, procedure, preparations

2013-01-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013, 23:20:50 schrieben Sie: On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:37:10 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: FYI, the new 13.0 profiles are now all available in profiles.desc, for now all with status dev (i.e. repoman includes them only when you request

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Markos Chandras
On 18 January 2013 23:29, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Patrick McLean schrieb: I would prefer to keep USE=dri in the default profile. If you want to move VIDEO_CARDS that would be fine with me though. USE=dri is usually only relevant on desktops, why enable it

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:55:07PM +, Markos Chandras wrote: On 18 January 2013 23:29, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Patrick McLean schrieb: I would prefer to keep USE=dri in the default profile. If you want to move VIDEO_CARDS that would be fine with me

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-18 Thread Christopher Head
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:02:48 -0500 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: We might be talking past each other. Sane but minimal is the target. Bottom line is that the question isn't whether a minimal system should have CUPS installed (that would be an argument for putting it in @system -

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:58:22 + Aaron W. Swenson titanof...@gentoo.org wrote: Hell, as discussed, the base profile should contain the absolute minimal flags, and dri does not appear to be one of these. Having graphics support on such a profile is not expected. IMHO it should be moved to

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Markos Chandras schrieb: On 18 January 2013 23:29, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Because it should be enabled when the respective packages are installed, and not depending on the profile the user has selected. Hell, as discussed, the base profile should contain the

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 01:02:04AM +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Markos Chandras schrieb: On 18 January 2013 23:29, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Because it should be enabled when the respective packages are installed, and not depending on the

Re: [gentoo-dev] New, shiny EAPI=5 profiles: volunteer, procedure, preparations

2013-01-18 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:47:09 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013, 23:20:50 schrieben Sie: On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:37:10 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: FYI, the new 13.0 profiles are now all available in profiles.desc,

[gentoo-dev] Separately buildable binary blobs

2013-01-18 Thread Doug Goldstein
How important are separately buildable binary blobs? Rather than speak in terms of app/foo and app/bar, I'll just come out and say its app-emulation/qemu. Due to the nature of the package it relies on firmware blobs to emulate certain aspects of the system (e.g. BIOS). I've been working on making

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: app-misc/secure-delete, app-misc/ccal, www-apache/mod_vhs, app-portage/epm, www-apps/online-bookmarks, sys-apps/i2c

2013-01-18 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: # Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org # Dead since 2003, doesn't work with journaling filesystems. # Also collides with dev-util/smem (#288721). Removal in a month. app-misc/secure-delete FWIW, we also have app-misc/scrub in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/2013 07:02 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Markos Chandras schrieb: On 18 January 2013 23:29, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Because it should be enabled when the respective packages are installed, and