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Hi Haubi, |
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I'm not sure I've spent enough time thinking about these things to |
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give you very good feedback, but as an enterprise-ish user, I'm pretty |
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excited about the direction you're going. |
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Perhaps I've misunderstood your proposal, but I guess I'd prefer a |
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solution for stabilization of packages that doesn't require me to make |
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any alterations to the upstream ebuilds. If I could simply "apply" |
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keywords to package versions from e.g. /etc/portage/package.whatever, |
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that'd be simpler. My work then is just in maintaining an overlay with |
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special packages/package versions required by my systems, and bumping |
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up the stable versions of critical packages, and not with merging |
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ebuild changes. |
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If I've misunderstood something, perhaps you could walk me through a |
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possible workflow? |
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Cheers, |
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Peter |
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> do we already know how to do Prefix keywords in the main tree? [1] |
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> Based on [2] I've hacked up some glep draft [3], although without any |
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> Prefix pointers (yet). |
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> What do you (Prefix devs and users) think about these definitions by the |
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> means of my glep draft (take "Enterprise" as "Redistribution" here): |
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> 1) "Gentoo Prefix" is a "Redistribution of Gentoo Linux", |
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> and thus the glep applies with: |
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> + PREFIX_KEYWORDS in the ebuilds |
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> + ACCEPT_DISTRO_KEYWORDS='PREFIX' in profile (make.conf?) |
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> 2) "Gentoo Prefix" is a standalone distribution, and does: |
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> + share KEYWORDS in the ebuilds with "Gentoo Linux" |
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> + ACCEPT_DISTRO_KEYWORDS='GENTOO' picks Prefix keywords only. |
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> or |
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> + introduce new PREFIXKEYWORDS in the ebuilds |
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> + ACCEPT_DISTRO_KEYWORDS='GENTOO' resolves to $PREFIXKEYWORDS |
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> + "Enterprise Prefix" would have ENTERPRISE_PREFIXKEYWORDS in ebuilds |
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> IMO, the most convenient/useable/obvious one (in practical sense) is 1), |
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> although the more "correct" one (in political sense?) might be 2). |
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> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/58443 |
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> [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/60566 |
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> [3] http://dev.gentoo.org/~haubi/glep-distro-keywords.html |
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> Thanks! |
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> /haubi/ |
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> -- |
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> Michael Haubenwallner |
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> Gentoo on a different level |
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