Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] preserve-libs.eclass: Split off preserve_old_lib from eutils.

On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 10:35:23 -0500 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:23 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > I have seen this is only used by: > > app-arch/xz-utils > > dev-libs/gmp > > dev-libs/libpcre > > dev-libs/mpc > > dev-libs/mpfr > >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dropped EAPI 2/3 support in virtualx.eclass

Justin Lecher posted on Sat, 06 Jan 2018 13:23:12 + as excerpted: > As there are no consumers [1] of the virtualx.eclass using ancient EAPIs > I dropped support for EAPI=2/3 > > Best, > Justin > > 1) https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/eapi-per-eclass/virtualx.eclass/ > > > diff --git

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

On 01/06/2018 11:11 PM, Anders Thomson wrote: > Thanks. Which of the requirements requires transport to be in a > particular manner? I see implications on pm, but nothing on > transport. tl;dr; the PM knows which packages are installed on the specific system, a specific feed does not (although

[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: net-misc/bopm

Hi, everyone. Due to proxied maintainer taking a prolonged break, the following package is up for grabs: net-misc/bopm FWICS, this package is dead since 2015 [1]. If you're still using it, that notice recommends switching to hopm [2] which you can package for Gentoo!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

On January 6, 2018 9:30:51 PM GMT+01:00, Alec Warner wrote: >On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 2:51 PM, Anders Thomson > >wrote: > >> >> >> As a non-dev... >> > >> >In fact, it is the PM that would do the filtering, before filling >the >> >list of unread

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 2:51 PM, Anders Thomson wrote: > > > As a non-dev... > > > >In fact, it is the PM that would do the filtering, before filling the > >list of unread news items in... > > How come news' transport is tied to the pm / package tree at all? It would >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

As a non-dev... > >In fact, it is the PM that would do the filtering, before filling the >list of unread news items in... How come news' transport is tied to the pm / package tree at all? It would seem more natural to fetch news using e.g. rss and have a reader (which i can configure) sort

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Ciaran McCreesh < ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 08:18:19 -0500 > kuzetsa wrote: > > On 01/06/2018 05:05 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > >> On Sat, 6 Jan 2018, Duncan wrote: > > >> $ equery b news.eselect > > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 08:18:19 -0500 kuzetsa wrote: > On 01/06/2018 05:05 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >> On Sat, 6 Jan 2018, Duncan wrote: > >> $ equery b news.eselect > >> app-admin/eselect-1.4.10 (/usr/share/eselect/modules/news.eselect) > >> So in that case it's not the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving the support for minor arches and less common profiles in CI

Am Samstag, 6. Januar 2018, 12:10:53 CET schrieb Michał Górny: > Hi, everyone. > > I think most of us agree that support for minor arches in Gentoo > is suboptimal, and that we've pretty much been focusing on avoiding > the problem than really solving it. > I think it would help here to get the

[gentoo-dev] Dropped EAPI 2/3 support in virtualx.eclass

Hi all As there are no consumers [1] of the virtualx.eclass using ancient EAPIs I dropped support for EAPI=2/3 Best, Justin 1) https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/eapi-per-eclass/virtualx.eclass/ diff --git a/eclass/virtualx.eclass b/eclass/virtualx.eclass index d66149b70ba..38e629eef4f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

On 01/06/2018 05:05 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sat, 6 Jan 2018, Duncan wrote: >> $ equery b news.eselect >> app-admin/eselect-1.4.10 (/usr/share/eselect/modules/news.eselect) >> So in that case it's not the PM, but eselect. > In fact, it is the PM that would do the filtering, before

[gentoo-dev] Improving the support for minor arches and less common profiles in CI

Hi, everyone. I think most of us agree that support for minor arches in Gentoo is suboptimal, and that we've pretty much been focusing on avoiding the problem than really solving it. At this moment, we have 8 arches with stable profiles: alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 x86 We have 8

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-cdr/{b5i,ccd,nrg,uif}2iso, app-cdr/bchunk

Hello, The following packages are now up for grabs due to their proxied maintainer retiring: app-cdr/b5i2iso app-cdr/bchunk app-cdr/ccd2iso app-cdr/nrg2iso app-cdr/uif2iso Those are practically zero-maintenance packages -- they're very old, probably don't need any updates and were bumped to

[gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

> On Sat, 6 Jan 2018, Duncan wrote: > $ equery b news.eselect > app-admin/eselect-1.4.10 (/usr/share/eselect/modules/news.eselect) > So in that case it's not the PM, but eselect. In fact, it is the PM that would do the filtering, before filling the list of unread news items in

[gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

Michał Górny posted on Sat, 06 Jan 2018 00:55:58 +0100 as excerpted: > W dniu pią, 05.01.2018 o godzinie 23∶09 +0100, użytkownik Kristian > Fiskerstrand napisał: >> On 01/05/2018 10:28 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: >>> On 2018-01-05 15:16, William Hubbs wrote: If we have a default expiration,