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On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:50:06 +0200, Al <oss.elmar@××××××××××.com> |
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wrote: |
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>> How to go forward: |
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>> - I suggest that you maintain your own overlay on an external site. |
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>> We can |
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>> add your overlay to layman's configuration. This will allow you to |
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>> work |
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>> independantly of us and will allow your platform to mature before |
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>> devs |
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>> accept it. I think this is the best compromise for all parties |
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>> involved. If |
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>> you don't need any patches then you don't need an overlay and can |
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>> simply add |
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>> another keywrod to your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable. |
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>> |
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>> -Jeremy |
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> |
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> Hello Jeremy, |
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> |
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> there is nothing wrong in this for me. The only thing I am afraid of |
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> is, to be accused to provide a fork of Prefix, if I start hosting |
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> things on extern servers. That is not my intend. |
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> |
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> I also hope that more people join in, once things become usefull for |
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> them. Most people don't become interested in a matter for mere |
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> exercise or their brain. That requires, that I need to host some kind |
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> of usefull products based on Prefix. |
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> |
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> The other thing is, that I want to get some fixes into |
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> portage/eselect |
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> sources. The typical problem is, that things break, where a path |
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> evaluates to start with a double slash. While on Linux that doesn't |
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> makes a difference on Cygwin it does. |
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> |
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> Al |
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Well, it is not a true fork if you are working with upstream to get |
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your patches in. Then it is just a staging ground. Just like the Gentoo |
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Prefix "svn tree" is a staging ground for Gentoo Linux, eventually they |
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become one (in theory). |
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The workflow is something like: |
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-Take sys-apps/portage from Gentoo Prefix and put it in your overlay |
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-Work on patch in your overlay (your sandbox). |
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-Once patch is working, submit it to dev-portage (mainline) if possible |
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and then it trickles down into Gentoo Prefix's version. |
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-Remove sys-apps/portage from your overlay and rely on it being in the |
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Gentoo Prefix tree now that it needs no patches. |
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Same for other apps, including other upstreams that are not Gentoo. |
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With this plan, the major bottleneck is you so you get to decide how |
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fast you are going to work on issues. Otherwise, the Gentoo Prefix devs |
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(myself incl) are your bottleneck and you can see that we don't need |
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more stuff to do (230 open bugs, maintaining tree, migrating packages, |
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etc) |
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-Jeremy |
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