[gentoo-dev] Mentor request

2016-10-18 Thread Kevin Simmons
Hello gentoo-dev, In general, I could use a mentor I can ask questions of and get answers from. I have been a tinkerer/user only of Gentoo in the past and am now wanting to be more involved. I have been using the Developer Guide for assistance. But specifically for now... I requested to fill

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with GitHub Pull Requests the easy way

2016-10-18 Thread Kent Fredric
On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:45:05 -0500 Matthew Thode wrote: > Does pram allow you to pass options to git > am (signedoffby for instance)? It doesn't presently allow arbitrary arguments, and it would probably be wise to avoid need for such arguments and prefer convention

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with GitHub Pull Requests the easy way

2016-10-18 Thread Matthew Thode
I've been using the curl into git am method for a while now, it's nice to see it's not just me :D Does pram allow you to pass options to git am (signedoffby for instance)? -- -- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with GitHub Pull Requests the easy way

2016-10-18 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/18/2016 08:03 PM, Benda Xu wrote: > > This will be an important reference. Please consider adding it into the > wiki after we reach a wider consensus on how to merge pull request on > github. It's been there for a long time:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with GitHub Pull Requests the easy way

2016-10-18 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Patrice, Patrice Clement writes: > [...] Very enjoyable write-up. I completely agree with you. This will be an important reference. Please consider adding it into the wiki after we reach a wider consensus on how to merge pull request on github. Benda signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with GitHub Pull Requests the easy way

2016-10-18 Thread Peter Stuge
Patrice Clement wrote: > We should strive for keeping a clean and linear history. I agree with you. > Cherry-picking is not my go-to solution as far as I'm concerned. > It requires a bit of setup and is clearly tedious: you must know > in advance the full SHA-1 of commit(s) you want to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Local workarounds with no reported bugs

2016-10-18 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:09:44 +0200 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 10/17/16 09:23, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hello, everyone. > > > > I'd like to point out a major problem in Gentoo: there's a fair number > > of developers who add various local workarounds to problems they meet > >

[gentoo-dev] Dealing with GitHub Pull Requests the easy way

2016-10-18 Thread Patrice Clement
Hello fellow Gentoo developers and subscribers of the gentoo-dev mailing list, I've been wanting to write this email for a while but for some reason never got round to doing it due to lack of motivation and time. I will be discussing many topics in this email revolving around git essentially. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-misc/bumblebee and x11-misc/virtualgl up for grabs

2016-10-18 Thread NP-Hardass
On 10/18/2016 03:32 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > I don't have much interest on this packages anymore and, also, my local > setup has not the ability to check their functionality, hence, feel > free to grab them > > Thanks > I'll take this if no one else wants it. Happy to take a co-maintainer if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: games-strategy/freeorion

2016-10-18 Thread NP-Hardass
On 10/16/2016 03:15 PM, Thomas Kahle wrote: > Hi, > > games-strategy/freeorion is a space empire and galactic conquest > game inspired by Master of Orion (though not a clone): > http://www.freeorion.org > > I cannot maintain it anymore, the main reason being that I don't > have a gentoo machine

[gentoo-dev] x11-misc/bumblebee and x11-misc/virtualgl up for grabs

2016-10-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
I don't have much interest on this packages anymore and, also, my local setup has not the ability to check their functionality, hence, feel free to grab them Thanks

[gentoo-dev] Re: Local workarounds with no reported bugs

2016-10-18 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 10/17/16 09:23, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I'd like to point out a major problem in Gentoo: there's a fair number > of developers who add various local workarounds to problems they meet > and don't bother to report a bug. Worst than that, this applies not > only for upstream

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-18 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
On Tue, 2016-10-18 at 12:45 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:54 AM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > > > > On 11/10/16 15:42, Tom H wrote: > > > > > > > > > You can use exactly the same text in 40_grub that you'd use in > > > grub.cfg and have the latter generated. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:54 AM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 11/10/16 15:42, Tom H wrote: >> >> You can use exactly the same text in 40_grub that you'd use in >> grub.cfg and have the latter generated. > > That's a useful tit-bit .. thanks! You're welcome. I doubt that the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds

2016-10-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:43:40 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > No its a PMS requirement as you said not visual as I was saying... PMS doesn't cover multiple repository stuff in much detail. We didn't want to mandate Portage's historical weird overlay behaviour, so it

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add vcs tag

2016-10-18 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le mercredi 12 octobre 2016 à 09:44 -0700, Robin H. Johnson a écrit : > > [...] > @@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ >   >   >     module|cpe|cran|ctan|freecode|freshmeat|gentoo|github|gitlab|gitoriou > s|google- > code|launchpad|pear|pecl|pypi|rubyforge|rubygems|sourceforge|sourcefo > rge-jp|vim)