inaccurately even for non-Bugzilla bugtrackers.
But of course that is just a minor detail, Bug is fine too. Fixes is
maybe misleading in certain cases (e.g. a partial fix or revert).
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unset DISPLAY
export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
to make it fall back to curses, or use eselect pinentry to select curses as
default.
Interestingly, git requires GPG_TTY if eselect-pinentry is set to gtk-2 or
qt4, but repoman doesn't.
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is hapless is maybe a pessimistic view on the
situation. But if all were fine, why some organizations think they need
certificate pinning again?
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x11-libs/libXaw3dXft is up for grabs, as the x11 team is not interested
in maintaining this package.
The only reverse dependency of this package is media-gfx/xpaint.
were less useful and have been last-rited.
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to have an easy way
of switching to ffmpeg (A+B+E).
In case the default is changed to ffmpeg, 21% would want to have an easy
way of switching to libav (B+D+F).
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/viewtopic-t-1010096.html
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# Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org (10 Jan 2015)
# obsolete and vulnerable, bug #532086
# removal in 30 days
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.9*
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.10*
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.11*
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.13*
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.14*
# Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
.
I also don't think that GLEP 48 mandates that QA informs anybody about
their actions in any way.
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solution? Should LINGUAS try to imitate POSIX or BCP-47?
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-touch functions, but this is not supported.
Check your kernel configuration that CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ALPS is enabled.
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, such as pkg_pretend()
check or blocking offending packages from cross-${CTARGET} category.
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consumers of ssl to the new SSL use expand system.
What do people think?
I think a better name for the USE_EXPAND would be CRYPTO_PROVIDER (or
similar) instead of just SSL, as the libraries are not strictly used for
SSL but also for other forms of crypto (e.g. [1]).
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and rtmpdump
requiring matching flags?
It could be enforced if an eclass does the actual choice of crypto
provider in a reproducible way. That would be not trivial though.
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Michał Górny schrieb:
Dnia 2014-06-11, o godz. 15:30:26
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org napisał(a):
3. There is no clean way of enforcing SSL provider match between
packages. Wasn't this thread initially about curl and rtmpdump
requiring matching flags?
It could be enforced
transition to
sys-power/upower-pm-utils and systemd users to sys-power/upower-systemd
or something similar.
And please keep such changes out of stable until proper documentation is
in place (and the 30 day period has elapsed, etc.)
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Samuli Suominen schrieb:
On 03/06/14 17:45, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
Samuli Suominen schrieb:
On 03/06/14 16:53, Rich Freeman wrote:
So, I get why you did it, but my concern is that when you tell
portage that non-systemd users shouldn't use this package, portage
helpfully solves
For ImageMagick specifically, the MAGICK_OCL_DEVICE environment variable
could be set per[1].
Another option would be to hide the existence of the GPU OpenCL device
from the applications using the OCL_ICD_VENDORS variable.
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[1] http://www.imagemagick.org/script
kickbanning people (ops enough, after all).
We had -m for a short period this year already. AFAIR users then came
into the channel and asked support or ebuild development questions, so
it was reverted to +m.
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, download
and install the whole thing. If disabled, just print the URLs in a log
message, so the user can download themselves if they wish.
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Due to voip lack of active maintainers:
Not co-maintained with anyone else:
dev-libs/jrtplib
media-libs/libj2k
media-libs/libmimic
net-libs/iax
net-libs/sofia-sip
net-misc/asterisk-rate_engine
net-misc/asterisk-spandsp_codec_g726
net-misc/astmanproxy
net-misc/ser
net-misc/sipsak
net-misc/sjphone
to the overlay but that was cleared
10 days ago.
Once he starts pushing new ebuilds to the overlay, I will add him as
proxy maintainer in metadata.xml.
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[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/80638
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
. Whether you call what is not stable
unstable or testing does not matter, as Gentoo does not
differentiate between the two. FWIW, I think that using the word testing
implies some sort of path to stable, which is not the case with many
packages. I prefer to say unstable.
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There was an extensive discussion about this topic (whether packages
unfit or not intended for stable should enter ~arch, or even the tree)
some time ago, which I don't plan to restart. Suffice to say, consensus
was not reached.
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the platform changes too much).
At least for x11 maintained packages, we don't support mixing of stable and
unstable parts of X in the way that you suggest.
We don't mind however whether the rest of the system is stable or not.
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didn't want those patches before they were
submitted (not necessarily accepted) upstream.
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would run into address space limitations.
Those who suffer most currently are browser folks, who resorted to some
tricks and workarounds[1] to stay afloat a little longer. FWIW, the problem
is not limited to Linux[2].
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org
a
profile.bashrc warning (like from the server profile) that tells users to not
report any bugs about Gnome.
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solutions are acceptable to the Gnome team? :)
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be a misunderstanding here. He only said that if you
want to run Gnome 3.8, then switch to systemd. Because the Gnome team
will not support any other configuration.
He did not say that everyone should install systemd, nor that you need
to support such a configuration.
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a package is 30 days in tree and there is no objection from QA
or security teams then it can go stable.
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. So would you accept ebuild
patches that make it possible to install Gnome 3.8 without systemd again?
Only make it possible, not turn it into a configuration which the Gnome team
supports.
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Mike Pagano schrieb:
Team members working alongside upstream (and downstream) developer Greg k-h
have decided to no longer request stabilization of the vanilla sources
kernel.
How about dropping vanilla-sources and adding a vanilla USE flag to
gentoo-sources?
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Alexander Berntsen schrieb:
On 27/07/13 10:56, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
How about dropping vanilla-sources and adding a vanilla USE flag to
gentoo-sources?
Then we might as well just have a Linux package with a bunch of USE
flags
://bugs.gentoo.org/478382
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on
headless machines (bug 409925 might address this to some degree).
You are right that using always Xvfb would be much less annoying to
someone running tests on his desktop computer.
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proprietary software for development or
communication.
So we shouldn't be present on Google+ at all?
Last I checked, you can use Google+ with a web browser. For hangouts, you
need to install the proprietary google-talkplugin (I don't think a usable
free replacement exists yet).
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having a hard requirement on logind. Could
you please show where that is?
The bug report about this issue states to which extent GNOME 3.8 needs
logind, and contains pointers to the relevant commits.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464944
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is an optional dependency.
You are correct that it is not a hard dependency in a strict sense.
However, suspend support and session management are not obscure
seldom-used functions. So logind becomes a hard requirement for enough
users which justifies calling it that way.
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need init=/sbin/wrappername in CONFIG_CMDLINE in
order to use the wrapper.
However, in case of breakage in the wrapper, you would need to boot a
fallback kernel or access the EFI shell (not all UEFI implementations allow
the latter).
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generally refused to apply the patches to x11 maintained packages
before they had upstream ack first.
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become stable, which are not intended to become so and should have
never been there.
This is why the maintainer can object within 30 days (or so) or block
the stabilization bug with another one which details the reasons why the
package should not be stabilized.
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FEATURES=nounit
(like nodoc/noinfo/noman today).
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command to a future EAPI (like
doinitd today) and make portage install them unless FEATURES=nounit
(like nodoc/noinfo/noman today).
Why all this mess!?
Please elaborate why you think that a dounit command is a mess.
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Mike Gilbert schrieb:
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
chith...@gentoo.org wrote:
Fabio Erculiani schrieb:
Or perhaps all these man pages, I don't need man pages locally but
still most ebuilds do install them. What do we do?
Users who don't want them set FEATURES
it
actually hasn't. Then it launches another instance, effectively creating a
forkbomb.
Though proper use of cgroups does prevent this.
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respawn
then congratulations, you just gave the attacker unlimited tries to guess
the correct address/offset for his exploit.
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are managed
without an equivalent editing of configuration files, or where symlinks are
managed in an upstream approved way.
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and not the symlink
(or have a backup entry ready, but then any gains from switching symlinks
are negated).
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to clarify whether
a change announced in bugzilla counts as proper communication with the
maintainer.
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thing. If you agree with me, what could be done
here? Have pax-mark die in the eclass or mandate || die in ebuilds? This
would probably require pax-mark calls to be conditional on pax_kernel USE
flag or similar.
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# Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org (11 Mar 2013)
# Does not build against modern xorg-server, dead upstream
# Removal in 30 days
x11-drivers/xf86-input-citron
want to know
about the state of GLX/OpenGL acceleration for x86 applications, you
will need x86 glxinfo.
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suggesting it should be disabled by default.
Not that I care about nvidia-drivers, but how about Increase kernel
compatibility at the cost of a supportable system.
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they need them.
Problem is that the tarball cannot be redistributed by us. Now what?
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SRC_URI for the
non-redistributable files can point to upstream gitweb. Although I don't
know happy upstream will be when hordes of Gentoo users start hammering
their servers.
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from upstream exists (via gitweb).
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was the
right one.
Which exact firmware file you need also depends on your kernel version.
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a strict subset of linux-firmware (for enabled modules
— e.g., 3com/typhoon.bin). A way to work around that is to supply
INSTALL_FW_PATH=... to make.
Most if not all such conflicts can be avoided by USE=deblob
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as possible.
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, it is unlikely that the firmware will ever be updated again.
So technically there is no necessity to keep them.
On the non-technical side, there are users who prefer them over the
linux-firmware package and will be upset if we remove them.
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with the desired
filename(s) and emerge linux-firmware with USE=savedconfig enabled.
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the Intel wifi driver which used to stop working and detach
from the device when firmware loading failed, most other drivers will
reattempt to load firmware every time on bringing up the interface.
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is not too dramatic.
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be turned on in the desktop
profile as wifi, radeon cards etc. are less likely to be present on
non-desktop systems.
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is
added this would have to be updated.
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Diego Elio Pettenò schrieb:
On 13/02/2013 14:38, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/457082
Instead of USE defaults, this could be turned on in the desktop
profile as wifi, radeon cards etc. are less likely to be present on
non-desktop systems.
IIRC some server
-sources.
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Alec Warner schrieb:
Can you even guarantee that /boot is mounted when your package is
installed? That would be my major concern on Gentoo...
And that /boot is the EFI system partition...
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.
If consensus was not required for this decision, then why bother
reaching it at all?
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn schrieb:
* move setting USE=dri from default/linux/make.defaults to
targets/desktop/make.defaults
+1 by dilfridge, djc, kensington, vapier, pesa, hwoarang
chitanh, titanofold, zerochaos wants to keep this in default profile
=== done because it's still 2:1 (see
Ben de Groot schrieb:
On 20 January 2013 23:22, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
chith...@gentoo.org wrote:
Andreas K. Huettel schrieb:
* move setting USE=dri from default/linux/make.defaults to
targets/desktop/make.defaults
I must say that I am unhappy about this. The packages in question
in the desktop profile is not good in any
scenario I can think of.
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Mike Frysinger schrieb:
On Sunday 20 January 2013 10:54:55 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
Yes, I mentioned this in another post already. We can use EAPI=1 IUSE
defaults instead. But this will not change any systems so I fail to
see the point behind this. This will only move clutter from
makes the
PM implementation harder or causes additional work, please point this
out so it can be addressed.
Personally I wouldn't mind waiting until the next council meeting and
keep all changes in the x11 overlay until then.
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Andreas K. Huettel schrieb:
* move setting USE=dri and USE=cups from default/linux/make.defaults to
targets/desktop/make.defaults
I would prefer to keep USE=dri in the default profile.
If you want to move VIDEO_CARDS that would be fine with me though.
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are installed,
and not depending on the profile the user has selected.
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Markos Chandras schrieb:
On 18 January 2013 23:29, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
chith...@gentoo.org wrote:
Because it should be enabled when the respective packages are
installed, and not depending on the profile the user has selected.
Hell, as discussed, the base profile should contain
upstream but are not part of Qt
itself, if such packages exist or are going to exist? Did you entertain
the idea of having qt-base (for qt-core, qt-gui, ...) and qt-extra (for
qca, qwt, ...) categories? This would also address Diego's comment.
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Greg KH schrieb:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:21:29AM +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
Greg KH schrieb:
No, all we need is to enable EFI stub support in the kernel, and
integrate the initramfs using CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE and place it in
some location where UEFI looks for it (/efi
:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10#doc_chap3
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. Bugmail will be sent
to both assignee and CC:. Only for maintainers without bugzilla privileges
they need to ping their proxy to make certain updates to the bug.
x11 team has similar instructions in the metadata for their proxy
maintained package.
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really put them under /var/cache which suggests that
everything in there can be wiped?
Yes.
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to be a pretty high number of unmaintained packages in the tree
if you look at hwoarang's
response to this thread, so I'm not sure how that is going.
Not all maintainer-needed packages are neglected, broken or useless.
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Greg KH schrieb:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:21:29AM +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
Greg KH schrieb:
No, all we need is to enable EFI stub support in the kernel, and
integrate the initramfs using CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE and place it in
some location where UEFI looks for it (/efi
in the catalyst livecd2 target in a nice way, and
file a bug with updated ebuilds for catalyst which add the dependency.
Bug was already reported some time ago
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251719
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mode. Until then, one of the other boot loaders (rEFIt, GRUB 2,
ELILO) might be used.
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boot. But it might still be an acceptable stopgap
measure if the alternative is to not boot at all.
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at
build time instead of runtime. With a customized kernel you typically set
CONFIG_CMDLINE=root=PARTUUID=... or similar.
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become unsupported and users told to use the new profile.
But today that practice is typically not considered for profile changes any
more.
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software (RESTRICT=mirror and/or
bindist), software redistributable only in source form (bindist) or
software that may only be downloaded manually (fetch).
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in order to not surprise users about the sudden loss of their openldap server.
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