Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 12/22/2015 03:04 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >>> Do you want to see this fixed? >>> Are you willing to do the fixing yourself? >> I don't have infinite time, and wasting a day documenting things that >> should have been

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Peter Stuge
Patrick Lauer wrote: > my time, spent to work around deficiencies I shouldn't even see - > if other people had done their job. Ah but that's the thing - it *isn't* their job. They are volunteering. That's a very different construct. And yes, you do have to work around deficiencies created by

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 12/21/2015 04:21 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 19:00:45 -0800 > Brian Dolbec wrote: > > >> But, one of the biggest things keeping me from doing more work on it >> when I do have some time, is the fact that barely any of the devs seem >> to care (other than the

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v4] egencache: add --stable-mtime option

2015-12-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 21/12/15 20:57, Zac Medico wrote: > Since the Manifest "stable mtime" behavior could have undiscovered > bugs This isn't exactly very motivating. "Since Foo could have bugs" applies to pretty much any Python code >10 lines. The patch itself

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge getting slower

2015-12-22 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 12:36 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > On 12/21/2015 12:24 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > Lately it feels like emerge has been getting unusual slow to calculate > > dependencies. > > I did a strace while emerge was running and noticed a lot of: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] flat_hash: enable md5 validation for /var/cache/edb/dep (bug 568934)

2015-12-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 22/12/15 08:02, Zac Medico wrote: > For forward-compatibility, add a flat_hash.mtime_md5_database > cache module which is capable of validating cache entries > containing either mtimes or md5 digests (only mtime validation was > previously

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > I'd replace gkeys-gen with a ~10-line shell script ... if I had some > motivation to dig through some old experiments of mine where I managed > to set all parameters for pgp from CLI. Which is all that gkeys-gen > would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 12/22/2015 02:14 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> I'd replace gkeys-gen with a ~10-line shell script ... if I had some >> motivation to dig through some old experiments of mine where I managed >> to set all parameters for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Wiki says: > > "In this guide we are going to show you how to create a GLEP 63 > based OpenPGP Key using > app-crypt/gkeys-gen >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging

2015-12-22 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 12/22/2015 01:08 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> Or just point people at a random email, because that's about as good as >> documentation. > Thank you for writing up a guide/outline. > > You appear to hate mediawiki, but you do realize that you could > probably copy/paste that email into the box

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-video/vmaid

2015-12-22 Thread Michael Palimaka
# Michael Palimaka (22 Dec 2015) # Fails to build. Dead upstream. Masked for removal in 30 days. # Bug 566446 media-video/vmaid

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v4] egencache: add --stable-mtime option

2015-12-22 Thread Zac Medico
On 12/22/2015 12:26 AM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > On 21/12/15 20:57, Zac Medico wrote: >> Since the Manifest "stable mtime" behavior could have undiscovered >> bugs > This isn't exactly very motivating. "Since Foo could have bugs" > applies to pretty much any Python code >10 lines. We could

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] flat_hash: enable md5 validation for /var/cache/edb/dep (bug 568934)

2015-12-22 Thread Zac Medico
Since operations like `git reset --hard` (useful to implement shallow pull) will reset timestamps of all files in the tree, the status quo of using timestamps for validation of cache in /var/cache/edb/dep is sub-optimal. For forward-compatibility, add a flat_hash.mtime_md5_database cache module

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] flat_hash: enable md5 validation for /var/cache/edb/dep (bug 568934)

2015-12-22 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Great! Thanks. Go ahead & push. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWeYZDAAoJENQqWdRUGk8BWy4P/jM8su6UwETWM3WeYYLQ6SwW