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Ciaran McCreesh: Paludis 0.72.0 Released

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:09:27 +0000

Paludis 0.72.0 has been released:

Changed documentation and Git URLs from paludis.pioto.org to paludis.exherbo.org.
Gentoo’s new boost.python library names are now recognised.

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Bryan Østergaard: Open Source Days - Second call for speakers

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:25:02 +0000

The second and final call for speakers just went out for the Open Source Days conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Noteworthy news compared to the first call is:
- We moved the conference a week to make sure we have plenty of room for speakers, visitors and sponsors. The conference is going to take place at march 10 and 11 with training happening on march 9.
- We added information about conference size and being somewhat ambitious we're hoping to reach previous heights of 800-900 people.
- Extended the deadline for talk proposals. Deadline is now january 27th.
- User groups interested in a community booth also needs to start planning. Deadline is february 13th but you need to start thinking of activities, manning the booth and so on.

More information and details to be found on opensourcedays.org

Don't miss Denmarks biggest open source event!

Wulf C. Krueger: Multilib migration after The Great Merge (optional)

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:36:02 +0000

Disclaimer: The entire migration procedure as described below is completely optional. If you don’t need or want multilib/multibuild/multiple C targets support, you can ignore this email.
We won’t force anyone to use it. I’m only going to use it on my desktop myself. :-)

We’ve now merged all multilib branches into master (this will go down into history books as “The Great Merge”!).

Thus, we don’t have any separate branches in our official and dev repositories anymore and if you still have a multilib branch in your repository, please merge it, too.

Now is a good time to write an updated multilib migration guide so, without further ado, here we go:

Switch to the multibuild profile in arbor.conf (${location}/profiles/amd64/multilib)
Ensure that CHOST is not set in bashrc, and note that CFLAGS will apply to all C targets. You can use MULTIBUILD_C_{32,64}_USER_C{,XX}FLAGS for individual C targets.
Re-install/update sys-apps/skeleton-filesystem-layout
Install sys-libs/glibc[bootstrap], note that this should pull in sys-devel/bootstrap-gcc, too. (This is going to take a long time.)
Install sys-devel/gcc[-openmp] (This is potentially going to take a long time, especially if you have the java option set.)
Install sys-libs/glibc[-bootstrap], you can let Paludis purge sys-devel/bootstrap-gcc while doing so.
Adjust your options to include the C targets you want and re-install any packages accordingly. You might have to re-install lots of package dependencies to fulfill a newly selected target’s requirements. (I simply did a cave resolve -e world)

Best regards, Wulf

Ciaran McCreesh: Paludis 0.70.2 Released

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:44:03 +0000

Paludis 0.70.2 has been released:

Assorted bug fixes.
Generation of thin Manifests is now supported.

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Ciaran McCreesh: Theres something horribly wrong with Gentoo

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:24:07 +0000

After a couple of months of it being switched off, the PSU in my Gentoo box decided to let its magic smoke escape. I made the mistake of replacing it, and now I see this:

* virtual/rubygems
    ::gentoo                  1 {:ruby18} 2 {:jruby} 3* {:ree18} (4)KR {:ruby19} (5)K {:rbx}
    virtual/rubygems-3:ree18::gentoo
    Description               Virtual ebuild for rubygems
    Homepage
    Herds                     ruby
    Use flags
        ruby_targets
            (ree18)           Build with Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.x

That someone thought that that was in any way a good idea pretty much sums up everything that’s wrong with Gentoo. I’m seriously considering just abandoning Gentoo support now — there comes a point when the accumulated bad design decisions would cost more to fix than the total worth of the product, and this plus the Python eclass are suggesting to me that Gentoo has passed that point.

Filed under: gentoo, paludis Tagged: gentoo, ruby, wtf

Bryan Østergaard: Open Source Days 2012: Call for speakers

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:59:04 +0000

Open Source Days is Denmarks biggest open source conference and it's only 3 months away now. We are therefore looking for interesting speakers.

The conference has two focus areas, namely:

startups (everything related to startups / small business and open source software)
green technology (recycling, monitoring etc.)

Besides these two focus areas we also have several tracks with general technical talks. These tracks can cover everything from office packages to interesting new programming languages, network administration or other more technical areas.

See www.opensourcedays.org for the full announcement.

Ciaran McCreesh: Paludis 0.70.1 Released

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:17:37 +0000

Paludis 0.70.1 has been released:

‘cave search’ now has a ‘–case-sensitive’ option.
Assorted bug fixes.

Filed under: paludis releases

Ciaran McCreesh: Paludis 0.70.0 Released

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:46:35 +0000

Paludis 0.70.0 has been released:

‘cave sync –suffix’ is now known as ‘–source’ (although the old version is still supported for compatibility). The short version is
still ‘-s’.
Command-line arguments that have a short version and can be negated with ‘–no-*’ can now be negated in short form by using ‘+’ instead of ‘-’, for example ‘+x’ for ‘–no-execute’.
Manifest files for E repositories are now generated with the lines in the same order as Portage.
The SHA-512 and Whirlpool functions are now supported in Manifest files.
The hash functions used to generate Manifest files can now be controlled by either the repository itself or user configuration.

Filed under: paludis releases

Wulf C. Krueger: Exherbo – my goals for the remainder of 2011 & 2012

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 08:44:29 +0000

(Disclaimer: The following is just my personal opinion and what *I* want to achieve for Exherbo. It’s fairly likely not everyone will agree with everything I’m going to state. :-) )

We’ve come a long way with Exherbo since we started:

- We have a pretty much complete set of packages to use Exherbo on desktop, notebook and server systems.

- With exheres-0, we have a very powerful and useful EAPI.

- We’re now a rather “stable” Linux distribution in that we don’t usually break things every other week anymore.

- We’ve stopped actively discouraging people to try Exherbo.

That said, I still have a few goals I’d like to see achieved:

- Join the Open Invention Network (OIN).

For some months now, I’ve been in discussions with the OIN and I’m happy to say that we’re going to join them. I hope (and am confident) we’ll get this done in 2011.

- Set up a structure that would allow us as a project (in contrast to individual developers) to accept donations.

Currently, Exherbo doesn’t really have any means to accept donations as a project. Sure, as individuals, we can accept them (e. g. a generous donator (who wants to remain anonymous) gave me a very nice server which we’re now using for Exherbo) but Exherbo as a project can’t.

There are several ways to accomplish this:

- Join an umbrella organisation that accepts donations on our behalf.

- Create an organisation for Exherbo ourselves.

Personally, I’d strongly prefer to create an organisation ourselves, e. g. as a German “eingetragener Verein” (“e. V.”), a (non-profit) registered association.
We’d be independent from weals and woes of any umbrella organisation and we’d have much more freedom to deal with anything concerning donations, laws, etc.

Since becoming a registered association would require some effort and actually cost money (in the case of an e. V. about EUR 75 to 120), I’d be willing to do the paperwork and pay for it myself.

(To be completely honest, I would not be willing to work and/or pay for joining some umbrella organisation.)

- Creating a “Developer’s Manual”.

We do have exheres-for-smarties and it’s really good but it can’t really stand alone. We still expect people to be at least somewhat aquainted with that thinG… That needs to change!

Thus, one of these days I’m going to start working on a real, full-blown “Developer’s Manual” which will incorporate everything you need to create and work on exheres.

- Getting multilib/multibuild to work

We’ve had multilib branches for what feels like aeons. People have worked on multilib (spb, myself, compnerd & others) and they seem to have given up.

I’m not sure what’s wrong with our current approach (if you do, please comment on it here) but I know I really want to see the day when we can finally merge the multilib branches back to master.

Should that turn out to be impossible, we should get rid of them for good but we need to finally do something about multilib/multibuild.

- A stable exheres-1.

As I said in the introduction, exheres-0 is fairly stable by now and, I think, pretty much feature-complete (maybe with the exception of multilib/multibuild).

Thus, I’d really get to the point where we formally declare that and make exheres-0 into a stable exheres-1 EAPI.

This is mostly a symbolic goal but I think it would give us, Exherbo, a slight increase in credibility and confidence.

- Participation in Google’s Summer of Code.

For three years we’ve been trying to get accepted into Google’s Summer of Code. This year, I’ve lead the third attempt to get accepted and, according to Google, we almost got there.

In 2012, I’m definitely going to try again by employing the improvements Google suggested. I do want Exherbo to participate in GSOC – and if it’s the last thing I’ll ever do! ;-)

(This, too, is more of a symbolic achievement but it’s important to me and it would potentially help Exherbo achieve some sound technical goals as well.)

- Exherbo entry on Wikipedia

Entirely symbolic, this goal is just here because i think we’re nearing the point where Wikipedia’s guidelines about notability, etc. will be met.

- Working on patches

My personal pet peeve. We really need to improve on working on patches.

I’m not sure we’ll be able to achieve all these goals but I’m going to do my best to make all of these become reality for a bright future for Exherbo!

Ciaran McCreesh: Paludis 0.68.0 Released

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:59:29 +0000

Paludis 0.68.0 has been released:

Licence groups are now supported.
Various bug fixes.

Filed under: paludis releases Tagged: paludis

Ciaran McCreesh: Paludis 0.66.0 Released

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:12:59 +0000

Paludis 0.66.0 has been released:

The short options for ‘cave owner’ and ‘cave print-owner’ have changed.
Support for directory whitelisting for exheres-0.
Various bug fixes.

Filed under: paludis releases Tagged: paludis

Ciaran McCreesh: Paludis 0.64.3 Released

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:18:31 +0000

Paludis 0.64.3 has been released:

Fixed a bug where a ! inside a || ( ) could cause a segfault.
Assorted minor bug fixes and compiler compatibility changes.

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Ciaran McCreesh: Paludis 0.64.2 Released

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:43:00 +0000

Paludis 0.64.2 has been released:

The Python bindings now cover various additional things.
CONFIG_PROTECT is now available for merge-check hooks.
When using Portage format configurations, userpriv is now available.

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Ali Polatel: pinktrace-0.1.2

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:00:00 +0000

pinktrace-0.1.2 is released with a minor change to recognize Linux-3.0 and a new function pink_name_lookup_with_length()

Ciaran McCreesh: Paludis 0.64.1 Released

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:36:01 +0000

Paludis 0.64.1 has been released:

‘cave resolve –keep if-same-metadata’ now thinks “cat/pkg[a][b]” and “cat/pkg[b][a]” are “the same”.
Support for Portage-format configurations has been improved slightly.

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