Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On 09/19/2016 10:00 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Kristian Fiskerstrand schrieb: >>> Why are those ebuilds not live? If upstream doesn't do real releases and >>> can't even be bothered to tag the commit that marks a release, then why >>> are you (or someone else) doing all this work?

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:51:37 -0700 Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 09/14/2016 06:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:45:58 -0400 > > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > >> On 09/14/2016 01:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>> > >>> We had a review

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

Kristian Fiskerstrand schrieb: Why are those ebuilds not live? If upstream doesn't do real releases and can't even be bothered to tag the commit that marks a release, then why are you (or someone else) doing all this work? The snapshot scripts could be replaced by a live ebuild and upstream can

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On 09/19/2016 09:51 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 09/14/2016 06:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:45:58 -0400 >> Michael Orlitzky wrote: .. >> > Why are those ebuilds not live? If upstream doesn't do real releases and > can't even be bothered to tag the

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On 09/14/2016 06:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:45:58 -0400 > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> On 09/14/2016 01:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> >>> We had a review of such files before the git conversion: >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/550434 >>> >>> Especially,

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On 14/09/16 12:20 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:41:54 +0200 > Alexis Ballier wrote: > >> >> So, to sum it up, I have to: >> - Open a browser, go to github (*) >> - Find out latest commit hash, copy it >> - (*) Copy the ebuild, setting a 8 digit version

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:41:54 +0200 Alexis Ballier wrote: > > So, to sum it up, I have to: > - Open a browser, go to github (*) > - Find out latest commit hash, copy it > - (*) Copy the ebuild, setting a 8 digit version representing the date > - Open an editor > - Edit

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:04:20 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 09/14/2016 09:50 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > > that might be better, but how do you map date / $PV to commit ? > > > > Well, for that last one, I just looked down the list of commits and > found the last

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:55:06 +0100 James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:53:18 +0100 > James Le Cuirot wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200 > > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > > > > But seriously, once you've googled

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:55:06 +0100 James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:53:18 +0100 > James Le Cuirot wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200 > > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > [...] > [...] > > > > You can't.

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:38:45 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 09/14/2016 09:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > > Guess you never had to maintain packages whose releases are only > > snapshots. They're trivial but it's a waste of time to re-assemble > > all the bits every

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On 09/14/2016 09:50 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > that might be better, but how do you map date / $PV to commit ? > Well, for that last one, I just looked down the list of commits and found the last one that happened before the date of the snapshot. But, if you're creating a new snapshot, it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:53:18 +0100 James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200 > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > > But seriously, once you've googled the repo, you might notice that > > > it's hosted at github, and that you don't need to

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200 Alexis Ballier wrote: > > But seriously, once you've googled the repo, you might notice that > > it's hosted at github, and that you don't need to create your own > > snapshot tarballs any more. Want a snapshot from 20150423? Try, > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On 09/14/2016 09:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > Guess you never had to maintain packages whose releases are only > snapshots. They're trivial but it's a waste of time to re-assemble all > the bits every couple of months when you want to make a snapshot. > > Questions one needs to answer: > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:45:58 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 09/14/2016 01:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > We had a review of such files before the git conversion: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/550434 > > > > Especially, there's a list of "maintainer scripts" in comment

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On 09/14/2016 01:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > We had a review of such files before the git conversion: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/550434 > > Especially, there's a list of "maintainer scripts" in comment #13. > At the time, we didn't do anything about them. There are very few of > such files

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

> On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> * scripts in FILESDIR: In some packages i found scripts which >> doesn't get used by the ebuild, but is probably used for generating >> patches/tarballs. Should i file a bugs about them as i though the >> FILESDIR should be only used for

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:49:22 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Patches: > > * Wildcard patching: Usually i use my "patchtest" script for finding > > obsolete patches and while it still finds lots of false > > positives i also saw a rather odd patching style: Patching via

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On 09/13/2016 02:57 PM, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > > * Redirection: There are quite a few pages which aren't exactly offline, > but only forward the request to the current homepage. (like most > of the gentoo project pages). I haven't touch them yet, but i > would like to

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On 09/13/2016 11:57 AM, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > Hello Gentoo-Team, > > For some time now I'm trying to help improve the gentoo tree. I've > started with fixing some HOMEPAGE variables in ebuilds and now removing > obsolete patches from packages. > Usually (especially with obsolete

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

On 13/09/16 19:57, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > Hello Gentoo-Team, > > For some time now I'm trying to help improve the gentoo tree. I've > started with fixing some HOMEPAGE variables in ebuilds and now removing > obsolete patches from packages. > Usually (especially with obsolete patches)

[gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

Hello Gentoo-Team, For some time now I'm trying to help improve the gentoo tree. I've started with fixing some HOMEPAGE variables in ebuilds and now removing obsolete patches from packages. Usually (especially with obsolete patches) it's quite simple to fix things, however every now and then i