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On Sun, 2005-15-05 at 17:18 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> for example, when i broke binutils in unstable with a gcc4 patch, i noticed |
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> that it's hard for users to *easily* recover from this ... we developers end |
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> up scrambling to build a bunch of binary packages for a variety of compatible |
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> compiler/libc combinations so the user can just wget the file and run `emerge |
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> binutils.tbz2` and be on their way |
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I had exactly the same problem recently and I had a hard time finding a |
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fitting tbz2 since the package was part of the stages and not the GRP. |
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Just having packages built as part of a stage3 uploaded somewhere |
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as .tbz2s on the mirrors would already be a good first step and isn't |
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much more work for the release teams. |
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Would erescue just be static "tar xjvf ${file} -C /" or do you want |
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something more intelligent that would also update the portage db ? |
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Olivier Crête |
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tester@g.o |
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x86 Security Liaison |
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