[gentoo-dev] Last rites: ruby18-only packages in dev-ruby

2013-07-21 Thread Hans de Graaff
With Ruby 1.8 End-Of-Live upstream we are starting the preparations to remove it from the tree, together with all relevant packages. The list below contains all packages in dev-ruby that are marked as ruby18-only. If you use any of the packages below with a newer ruby version then please open a

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs (ruby applications)

2013-07-21 Thread Hans de Graaff
Over time a number of packages have ended up in the ruby herd due to maintainers leaving and being dropped from metadata. These packages really need dedicated maintainers who understand what these applications are meant to do and who can do proper testing for them. As such, I'll be adding

[gentoo-dev] Lastrites: media-libs/openinventor, dev-cpp/libebt, sys-kernel/ksymoops, net-p2p/bitstormlite, net-p2p/mutella, dev-cpp/IceE

2013-07-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
# Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org (21 Jul 2013) # Doesn't compile with gcc-4.7 (#414143), lib is no longer # opensource or free. Removal in a month. media-libs/openinventor # Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org (21 Jul 2013) # Doesn't compile with boost-1.50 and with automake-1.13 # (#425448). Removal in a

[gentoo-dev] vserver herd is empty

2013-07-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
Will remove the herd if nobody joins in a week. Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-07-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
Due sbriesen lack of time: app-cdr/mkcdtoc app-text/sigil dev-db/lib_mysqludf_fPROJ4 dev-db/lib_mysqludf_json dev-db/lib_mysqludf_log dev-db/lib_mysqludf_preg dev-db/lib_mysqludf_stem dev-db/lib_mysqludf_stat dev-db/lib_mysqludf_str dev-db/lib_mysqludf_sys dev-db/lib_mysqludf_ta

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-07-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
Due phosphan lack of time: app-admin/lcap app-admin/fetchlog app-misc/mepl app-text/epstool dev-db/vbisam dev-lang/tinycobol dev-util/cdecl media-gfx/sane-backends media-gfx/sane-frontends media-libs/libemf net-analyzer/prelude-nessus net-ftp/weex net-mail/libdbx net-mail/vacation

Re: [gentoo-dev] sgml herd has no maintainers (again)

2013-07-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 21-06-2013 a las 18:35 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: El dom, 17-03-2013 a las 11:02 -0400, Mike Gilbert escribió: I just dropped myself due to lack of interest. If anyone cares for any of the packages please take them over. Will dissolve it next week if nobody joins then

Re: [gentoo-dev] gdesklets herd is empty

2013-07-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 16-06-2013 a las 11:38 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: Feel free to join to it or will be removed in two weeks Thanks! The following packages are up for grabs then: gnome-extra/gdesklets-core x11-plugins/desklet-Genesis x11-plugins/desklet-ImageSlideShow x11-plugins/desklet-Mouse

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-07-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013, 11:10:26 schrieb Pacho Ramos: Due sbriesen lack of time: (...) media-gfx/exiv2 kde team can take this, however we'd be happy about co-maintainers... gnomies? :) -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES=userpriv usersandbox by default?

2013-07-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mar, 03-07-2012 a las 10:02 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:45:26 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 07/02/2012 01:36 PM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: Il 02/07/2012 22:01, Zac Medico ha scritto: On 07/02/2012 12:48 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: El lun,

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 31-03-2012 a las 17:33 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: On 03/31/2012 04:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:42:50AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's the one I use

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-07-21, o godz. 13:42:17 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org napisał(a): El sáb, 31-03-2012 a las 17:33 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: On 03/31/2012 04:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:42:50AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: About

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 21-07-2013 a las 13:57 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: [...] 5. I have doubts about 'emerge -1vDtu @world' speed. It is very subjective feeling but I feel like reiserfs was actually faster in this regard. However, space savings would surely benefit our users. I also feel it faster (or,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-07-21 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 21/07/2013 10:10, Pacho Ramos wrote: media-gfx/iscan-data media-gfx/iscan I'll pick up these two (soon as my laptop gets back working).. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-07-21, o godz. 14:06:12 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org napisał(a): El dom, 21-07-2013 a las 13:57 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: [...] 5. I have doubts about 'emerge -1vDtu @world' speed. It is very subjective feeling but I feel like reiserfs was actually faster in this regard.

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/21/2013 01:42 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: Would be possible to generate and provide squashed files at the same time tarballs with portage tree snapshots are generated? mksquashfs can take a lot of resources depending on the machine, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread justin
On 7/21/13 4:26 PM, Michael Weber wrote: On 07/21/2013 01:42 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: Would be possible to generate and provide squashed files at the same time tarballs with portage tree snapshots are generated? mksquashfs can take a lot of resources depending on the machine, but providing the

[gentoo-dev] Peculiarities of gentoo-dev-announce

2013-07-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Just for your general enlightenment, gentoo-dev-announce now silently discards (!) messages without Reply-To header. Thought you might want to know. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc

[gentoo-dev] remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am maintaining it for some months now and it has reached a state where we should think about treecleaning it. reasons: a) bundles tons of libs since ages (security and stability issues, many of them can not be unbundled)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-07-21 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/21/2013 12:41 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013, 11:10:26 schrieb Pacho Ramos: Due sbriesen lack of time: (...) media-gfx/exiv2 kde team can take this, however we'd be happy about co-maintainers... gnomies? :) i can

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 21-07-2013 a las 16:46 +0200, justin escribió: On 7/21/13 4:26 PM, Michael Weber wrote: On 07/21/2013 01:42 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: Would be possible to generate and provide squashed files at the same time tarballs with portage tree snapshots are generated? mksquashfs can take a

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:22 AM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: I am maintaining it for some months now and it has reached a state where we should think about treecleaning it. ++ Maintaining a package in gentoo implies a few things for me: We are able to support it properly which

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread hasufell
On 07/21/2013 07:42 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:22 AM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: I am maintaining it for some months now and it has reached a state where we should think about treecleaning it. ++ Maintaining a package in gentoo implies a few things for me:

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Zac Medico
On 07/21/2013 04:57 AM, Michał Górny wrote: a) unionfs-fuse doesn't support replacing files from read-only branch, Maybe you've got some kind of configuration problem (did you forget to enable the cow option?), because unionfs-fuse seems to work fine for me. -- Thanks, Zac

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 1:55 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: But people should expect that things work somehow in the tree, even on ~arch. Even worse: the stable googleearth builds are unfetchable and that's not how I'd define any stable ebuild in the tree. You'll get no argument from

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES=userpriv usersandbox by default?

2013-07-21 Thread Zac Medico
On 07/21/2013 03:53 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: El mar, 03-07-2012 a las 10:02 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:45:26 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 07/02/2012 01:36 PM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: Il 02/07/2012 22:01, Zac Medico ha scritto: On 07/02/2012 12:48 PM,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES=userpriv usersandbox by default?

2013-07-21 Thread Alex Xu
On 21/07/13 02:25 PM, Zac Medico wrote: On 07/21/2013 03:53 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: El mar, 03-07-2012 a las 10:02 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:45:26 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 07/02/2012 01:36 PM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: Il 02/07/2012 22:01, Zac

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES=userpriv usersandbox by default?

2013-07-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Alex Xu alex_y...@yahoo.ca wrote: userpriv and usersandbox don't work in pypy because os.setgroups isn't implemented there. I had a go at it a while back, but the complete and utter lack of any documentation whatsoever... kinda threw me off. I don't think we

Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

2013-07-21 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-07-21, o godz. 11:00:46 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On 07/21/2013 04:57 AM, Michał Górny wrote: a) unionfs-fuse doesn't support replacing files from read-only branch, Maybe you've got some kind of configuration problem (did you forget to enable the cow option?),

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council constituent meeting 30 July 2013 at 19:00 UTC

2013-07-21 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2013.07.21 15:30, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Hello everybody, [snip] - vote for holding meetings every 2nd Tuesday of the month at 2000 UTC (or 1900 UTC depending on daylight savings) In any timezone in particular? [snip] 1: the open floor is the mailing list discussion, i.e.

[gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread Duncan
hasufell posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:22:24 +0200 as excerpted: solution: Treeclean it and maintain it in an overlay (maybe science-overlay). That's exactly what overlays are for... experimental stuff. What's the pros/cons of overlay vs. in-tree-but-masked for something like this?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread hasufell
On 07/22/2013 12:07 AM, Duncan wrote: hasufell posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:22:24 +0200 as excerpted: solution: Treeclean it and maintain it in an overlay (maybe science-overlay). That's exactly what overlays are for... experimental stuff. What's the pros/cons of overlay vs.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:16 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: pros: - consistency of tree quality - less user confusion (the checksum failures alone get us a lot of bugs every release without people realizing what it means...) and people expect packages to work in the tree - less

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-07-22, o godz. 00:16:31 hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On 07/22/2013 12:07 AM, Duncan wrote: hasufell posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:22:24 +0200 as excerpted: solution: Treeclean it and maintain it in an overlay (maybe science-overlay). That's exactly what overlays

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/2013 12:33 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2013-07-22, o godz. 00:16:31 hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On 07/22/2013 12:07 AM, Duncan wrote: hasufell posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:22:24 +0200 as excerpted: solution: Treeclean

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread hasufell
On 07/22/2013 12:22 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:16 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: pros: - consistency of tree quality does not apply to p.mask'd packages - less user confusion (the checksum failures alone get us a lot of bugs every release without

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 00:35 +0200, hasufell wrote: On 07/22/2013 12:33 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2013-07-22, o godz. 00:16:31 hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On 07/22/2013 12:07 AM, Duncan wrote: hasufell posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:22:24 +0200 as excerpted:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/22/2013 01:03 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 00:35 +0200, hasufell wrote: On 07/22/2013 12:33 AM, Michał Górny wrote: I'd either use a separate single-purpose overlay or add it to science-overlay. If it's a separate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread hasufell
On 07/22/2013 01:20 AM, Michael Weber wrote: On 07/22/2013 01:03 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 00:35 +0200, hasufell wrote: On 07/22/2013 12:33 AM, Michał Górny wrote: I'd either use a separate single-purpose overlay or add it to science-overlay. If it's a separate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 21/07/2013 23:38, hasufell wrote: - consistency of tree quality does not apply to p.mask'd packages p.mask says that the package is in _bad_ quality, explicitly, and you can say how, so does not apply are not really the words I'd use. - less user confusion (the checksum failures alone get

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2013-07-21 23h59 UTC

2013-07-21 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2013-07-21 23h59 UTC. Removals: dev-python/pypy-bin 2013-07-19 17:12:39 floppym rox-extra/downloadmanager 2013-07-21 07:13:21 pacho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Dnia 2013-07-22, o godz. 00:16:31 hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org napisał(a): - users have to run layman -a foo ...I hope they will manage (and the masking reason will be updated to explain where to look for googleearth

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread hasufell
On 07/22/2013 01:49 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 21/07/2013 23:38, hasufell wrote: - consistency of tree quality does not apply to p.mask'd packages p.mask says that the package is in _bad_ quality, explicitly, and you can say how, so does not apply are not really the words I'd use.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread Zac Medico
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: We're starting to drift off topic here, but I've always felt that this is something that could be improved on. I'm not saying that any of this should just be thrown together, but some of the following might be useful: 1.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

2013-07-21 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/22/2013 02:34 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: 2. Overlay package.* (accept one version of one package from a particular overlay, mask all packages in an overlay that aren't explicitly unmasked, don't apply package.(un)mask from one overlay to