[gentoo-embedded] Bumping ebuilds

[gentoo-embedded] Bumping ebuilds

[Ed W]

Hi folks

I'm using gentoo for some "embedded" (actually probably "small" is a
better phrase) builds and have ended up hacking around a number of
ebuilds, uclibc probably being the most interesting one

Does some developer have time to help get some of these updates pushed
through?  I can help with the basic ebuild updates, but I need someone
with inside knowledge to help guide how we handle some of the patching
issues?

Who is the uclibc maintainer right now?

(FWIW: uclibc 0.9.32 is a massive improvement over what is in portage
right now. Almost everything compiles out of the box and I even seem to
have iconv/locales support working from uclibc...)

Thanks

Ed W

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Bumping ebuilds

[Dennis.Yxun]

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Hi Ed W:
  I'm not gentoo dev, and actually not uClibc guy ;-)
But I do suggest you file a bug on http://bugs.gentoo.org
  so people who see may help

Dennis

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com> wrote:

> Hi folks
>
> I'm using gentoo for some "embedded" (actually probably "small" is a
> better phrase) builds and have ended up hacking around a number of
> ebuilds, uclibc probably being the most interesting one
>
> Does some developer have time to help get some of these updates pushed
> through?  I can help with the basic ebuild updates, but I need someone
> with inside knowledge to help guide how we handle some of the patching
> issues?
>
> Who is the uclibc maintainer right now?
>
> (FWIW: uclibc 0.9.32 is a massive improvement over what is in portage
> right now. Almost everything compiles out of the box and I even seem to
> have iconv/locales support working from uclibc...)
>
> Thanks
>
> Ed W
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-embedded] Bumping ebuilds

[Ed W]

On 07/07/2011 09:30, Dennis.Yxun wrote:
> Hi Ed W:
>   I'm not gentoo dev, and actually not uClibc guy ;-)
> But I do suggest you file a bug on http://bugs.gentoo.org
>   so people who see may help

There are lots of open bugs there.  The appeal is to find developers who
can commit the fixes?

Ed W

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Bumping ebuilds

[Peter Volkov]

В Срд, 13/07/2011 в 11:55 +0100, Ed W пишет:
> On 07/07/2011 09:30, Dennis.Yxun wrote:
> > Hi Ed W:
> >   I'm not gentoo dev, and actually not uClibc guy ;-)
> > But I do suggest you file a bug on http://bugs.gentoo.org
> >   so people who see may help
> 
> There are lots of open bugs there.  The appeal is to find developers who
> can commit the fixes?

There is possibility to maintain packages via proxy-maintaining[1]. As
for uClibc I can help you as a proxy, although it'll take some time for
me to review changes you wish to have in the tree.

[1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/wiki/ProxyMaintainer

--
Peter

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Bumping ebuilds

[Ed W]

On 24/07/2011 12:05, Peter Volkov wrote:
> В Срд, 13/07/2011 в 11:55 +0100, Ed W пишет:
>> On 07/07/2011 09:30, Dennis.Yxun wrote:
>>> Hi Ed W:
>>>   I'm not gentoo dev, and actually not uClibc guy ;-)
>>> But I do suggest you file a bug on http://bugs.gentoo.org
>>>   so people who see may help
>>
>> There are lots of open bugs there.  The appeal is to find developers who
>> can commit the fixes?
> 
> There is possibility to maintain packages via proxy-maintaining[1]. As
> for uClibc I can help you as a proxy, although it'll take some time for
> me to review changes you wish to have in the tree.
> 
> [1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/wiki/ProxyMaintainer

Sure - I don't really have time to act as a gentoo developer at present,
but that also seems true of a lot of the -embedded dev team.  I'm making
a bunch of local ebuilds and it would be useful to feed those upstream
and try and get them into the main tree as quickly as possible.

For sure I can feed bugzilla, but there are plenty of bugs there already
- closing them is the issue, not opening more...

I'm using uclibc, slightly newer than latest release.  Actually with
this I see VERY few problems with other ebuilds and my local patch tree
has shrunk to near zero.  Pushing that out to tree would be highly
desirable, but I only have x86 to test with - we need some non x86
testers to prove things

Note that uclibc feel that they release infrequently enough that every
release should be considered stable and no one should be lagging the
latest release.

How can we make this happen?

Ed W