Re: [gentoo-dev] Review: Apache AddHandler news item

2015-04-05 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Published a slightly improved version now: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/gentoo-news.git/tree/2015/2015-04-06-apache-addhandler-addtype If there's anything wrong with it, please mail me directly (or put me in CC) so there is zero chance of slipping through. Thanks! Best, Sebastian

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 81 bugs

2015-04-05 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 81 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] Re: New website: Where the .... is the ....ing documentation link?

2015-04-05 Thread Duncan
Daniel Campbell posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2015 22:58:40 -0700 as excerpted: Aside from the Devmanual, most of Gentoo's docs are on the wiki, so you could make a bookmark and setup a search shortcut for it. Just bookmark the following address in Firefox:

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] fetch(): fix support for digest size=None

2015-04-05 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-04-05, o godz. 10:57:57 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On 04/05/2015 12:59 AM, Michał Górny wrote: It seems that the code initially supported fetching without size 'digest' but it got broken over time. Add proper conditionals to avoid ugly failures in this case. If

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] ro_checker: skip parents of EPREFIX dir (bug 544624)

2015-04-05 Thread Zac Medico
The ro_checker code added in commit 47ef9a0969474f963dc8e52bfbbb8bc075e8d73c incorrectly asserts that the parent directories of EPREFIX be writable. Fix it to skip the parents, since they are irrelevant. This does not affect the case where EPREFIX is empty, since all directories are checked in

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] ro_checker: skip parents of EPREFIX dir (bug 544624)

2015-04-05 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 21:28:07 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: The ro_checker code added in commit 47ef9a0969474f963dc8e52bfbbb8bc075e8d73c incorrectly asserts that the parent directories of EPREFIX be writable. Fix it to skip the parents, since they are irrelevant. This does not

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] fetch(): fix support for digest size=None

2015-04-05 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 21:47:12 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: From: Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org It seems that the code initially supported fetching without size 'digest' but it got broken over time. Add proper conditionals to avoid ugly failures in this case. Signed-off-by:

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2015-04-05 23:59 UTC

2015-04-05 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2015-04-05 23:59 UTC. Removals: media-plugins/vdr-pcd 2015-03-30 13:33:19 hd_brummy app-admin/eselect-audicle 2015-03-31

[gentoo-dev] Re: Review: Apache AddHandler news item

2015-04-05 Thread Duncan
Sebastian Pipping posted on Mon, 06 Apr 2015 01:29:19 +0200 as excerpted: Published a slightly improved version now: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/gentoo-news.git/tree/2015/2015-04-06- apache-addhandler-addtype If there's anything wrong with it, please mail me directly (or put me in CC)

[gentoo-dev] Re: New website: Where the .... is the ....ing documentation link?

2015-04-05 Thread Duncan
Alec Warner posted on Sun, 05 Apr 2015 09:33:24 -0700 as excerpted: No need to shout. Apology to you and others. And thanks. While I am of course familiar with CAPS=shout, I always considered it entire phrases or whole sentences in caps, not single words, which was simply emphasis. But it

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-fs/evms

2015-04-05 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
# Maciej Mrozowski reave...@gentoo.org (06 Apr 2015) # Does not link against latest ncurses and no interest to fix it. # Superseded by LVM2 and all clusters should be migrated by now. # Removal in 30 days. sys-fs/evms I kept it in tree for a while longer for volumes migration purpose, but all

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] repoman: change metadata.dtd protocol to https

2015-04-05 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 23:31:25 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: The old http uri redirects to the new https uri, so use the new https uri directly. X-Gentoo-Bug: 469888 X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469888 --- bin/repoman | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News item for net-firewall/shorewall all-in-one package migration

2015-04-05 Thread Ian Delaney
On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 04:12:17 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Thomas D. posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2015 22:09:36 +0200 as excerpted: Title: New net-firewall/shorewall all-in-one package But I'm not wedded to either idea; they're just what I came up with off the top of my head.

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-05 Thread hasufell
On 04/05/2015 01:17 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: If you're going to fork a library, and don't intend to keep the packages API-compatible, then change the filenames. What is so hard about this? LIbressl was even an outside fork, so it didn't come with any of the baggage of we're the real libssl

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-05 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 5 April 2015 at 05:44, Paul B. Henson hen...@acm.org wrote: I guess I'll just let this simmer for now and see how things develop. My preference (I think, at least at the moment) would be for both implementations to be able to coexist, like openssl and gnutls. It looks like that's the way

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: Since as you point out the two packages are vastly API compatible, it makes them ABI incompatible and conflicting. ++ If they really want to improve the security of function calls that they consider inherently

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: extending pkgmove (slotmove) actions to apply transitionally to ebuilds

2015-04-05 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2015-04-04, o godz. 21:36:37 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org napisał(a): But in the worst case, your hack can cause a broken dependency graph. On the one hand, above mentioned =app-misc/foo-1:0 matches all versions affected by the slotmove, so it

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-java, dev-java/sun-j2me-bin

2015-04-05 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot ch...@gentoo.org (05 Apr 2015) # A 32-on-64 Java VM is no longer considered necessary and a multilib # icedtea-bin would be preferred anyway. sun-j2me-bin depends on this # but it has been superseded by Oracle's JME and I doubt we'll ever # need that either. Removal in 30 days.

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] fetch(): fix support for digest size=None

2015-04-05 Thread Michał Górny
It seems that the code initially supported fetching without size 'digest' but it got broken over time. Add proper conditionals to avoid ugly failures in this case. --- pym/portage/checksum.py | 2 +- pym/portage/package/ebuild/fetch.py | 7 --- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Contribute squashdelta syncing module

2015-04-05 Thread Michał Górny
The squashdelta module provides syncing via SquashFS snapshots. For the initial sync, a complete snapshot is fetched and placed in /var/cache/portage/squashfs. On subsequent sync operations, deltas are fetched from the mirror and used to reconstruct the newest snapshot. The distfile fetching

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-05 Thread hasufell
On 04/05/2015 06:44 AM, Paul B. Henson wrote: On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:31:53PM +0200, hasufell wrote: Not anymore. We will go for libressl USE flag for the same reason there is a libav USE flag now (working subslots etc). Um, ok. That still only allows one or the other to be installed

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Paul B. Henson hen...@acm.org wrote: They're pretty much decided on allowing both openssl and libressl to be installed concurrently and for a given application to use one or the other. The specific method for that packaging system is what they call a prefix;

Re: [gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ?

2015-04-05 Thread Jason Zaman
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 08:49:51PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2015-04-04, o godz. 13:47:47 Alex Brandt alund...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On Saturday, April 04, 2015 14:41:37 Philip Webb wrote: I read the recent thread re the new app-eselect. Doing my weekly system update, it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Importance of SLOTs on Java dependencies

2015-04-05 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 My preferred solution would be create a revbump that solely amends (R)DEPEND, leaving the KEYWORDS exactly as they are. Sounds good to me (as long as repoman agrees :). - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: making repoman complain about USE dependencies that lock packages at old version

2015-04-05 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-04-05, o godz. 19:32:01 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On Sun, 5 Apr 2015, Michał Górny wrote: This is quite a Portage patch topic but since devs are known to be unhappy about any change, I would like to start a bikeshed first. The idea is to make repoman/pcheck

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: making repoman complain about USE dependencies that lock packages at old version

2015-04-05 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: What are your thoughts? Sounds useful to me! Cheers, Dirkjan

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 2:35 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: You are ranting at the wrong place. If you want to make a difference, take this to the openbsd mailing lists. It seems unlikely that this would make much of a difference. I think that allowing this package to create another

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-05 Thread hasufell
On 04/05/2015 03:25 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: Since as you point out the two packages are vastly API compatible, it makes them ABI incompatible and conflicting. ++ If they really want to improve the security

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Dynamic USE dependencies

2015-04-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Martin Vaeth mar...@mvath.de wrote: One suggestion around this problem would be to use different directories for these two types of use-flags, say package.use and package.use.needed. I still think we need a better long-term solution, but the workaround is

[gentoo-dev] Importance of SLOTs on Java dependencies

2015-04-05 Thread James Le Cuirot
Hello all, Firstly, I would like to take this opportunity to remind all devs touching ebuilds with Java .jar dependencies about the importance of restricting these dependencies to specific SLOTs. There is no cross-platform or even platform-specific location for Java .jar files so each distro

Re: [gentoo-dev] New website: Where the .... is the ....ing documentation link?

2015-04-05 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: TL;DR: (1) Please consider either making Documentation a top-level-menu link (preferable), or at least change Support to Support and Documentation. (2) On the documentation lander page, add a one big list link to a

[gentoo-dev] RFC: making repoman complain about USE dependencies that lock packages at old version

2015-04-05 Thread Michał Górny
Hi, This is quite a Portage patch topic but since devs are known to be unhappy about any change, I would like to start a bikeshed first. The idea is to make repoman/pcheck complain if the newest ebuild matched by version+slot restriction of dependency atom can't satisfy the USE dependency, or in

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: making repoman complain about USE dependencies that lock packages at old version

2015-04-05 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sun, 5 Apr 2015, Michał Górny wrote: This is quite a Portage patch topic but since devs are known to be unhappy about any change, I would like to start a bikeshed first. The idea is to make repoman/pcheck complain if the newest ebuild matched by version+slot restriction of dependency

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] fetch(): fix support for digest size=None

2015-04-05 Thread Zac Medico
On 04/05/2015 12:59 AM, Michał Górny wrote: It seems that the code initially supported fetching without size 'digest' but it got broken over time. Add proper conditionals to avoid ugly failures in this case. If we're handling this case, then we should probably not assume that the dict contains

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Dynamic USE dependencies

2015-04-05 Thread Martin Vaeth
Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/02/2015 09:32 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: Out of curiosity, what is keeping us from having USE flag dependencies handled dynamically, in the same way that package dependencies are? It's already able to adjust USE automatically via autounmask support.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: making repoman complain about USE dependencies that lock packages at old version

2015-04-05 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 18:50:10 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: What are your thoughts? if the version+slot restriction on foo in bar-1.ebuild contains foo packages that don't have bar useflag then it's an error in bar-1.ebuild (I think pms is pretty clear about this) Alexis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-05 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 5 April 2015 at 19:59, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: It seems unlikely that this would make much of a difference. I think that allowing this package to create another ffmpeg vs libav mess is a mistake. To be honest, the upstream developers should be fairly in the known regarding my

Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status

2015-04-05 Thread hasufell
On 04/05/2015 08:59 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 2:35 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: You are ranting at the wrong place. If you want to make a difference, take this to the openbsd mailing lists. It seems unlikely that this would make much of a difference. It