Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Review: news item and script for CPU_FLAGS_X86

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 01/23/2015 03:22 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Dnia 2015-01-23, o godz. 14:26:48
> Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> napisał(a):
>
>> On 01/23/2015 02:13 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> To help you enable the correct USE flags, we are providing a Python
>>> script which generates the correct value from your /proc/cpuinfo [1].
>>> The Python script can be downloaded and executed using the following
>>> command:
>>>
>>>   $ wget -O - dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86.py | python
>>
>> Can we not encourage people to pipe stuff from a plain-http website into
>> an interpreter?
>
> Find a better solution.
>

Is there an easy way for users to verify our signatures against the keys
in LDAP?

Even `wget --no-check-certificate` would be a big improvement. Or since
Firefox seems happy with the dev.gentoo.org certificate, we could just
ask them to download it with their browsers.

Longer term: can we make wget like our SSL certificate?


>> But that's not the biggest problem with the wget thing: the first time
>> someone runs this it's going to fail.
>>
>>   $ wget -O - dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86.py | python
>>   ...
>>   Unable to determine PORTDIR, please set it before calling this script
>
> Don't you have Portage installed?

I do.

  $ emerge --info | grep PORTDIR
  PORTDIR="/var/cache/portage/repositories/gentoo"


>> Now they get to download it again. Perhaps a bigger problem:
>>
>>   $ echo $PORTDIR
>>   /var/cache/portage/repositories/gentoo
>>   $ python cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86.py
>>   Unable to determine PORTDIR, please set it before calling this script
>
> Did you export PORTDIR?
>

No, but the error says to set it, not export it =)