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Am Samstag, 14. März 2015, 22:25:56 schrieb Robin H. Johnson: |
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> This is a mostly inconsequential issue, but the Git migration provides |
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> us a chance to make a clean break... |
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> |
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> The repository of our ebuilds and the name of the CVS module have been |
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> called gentoo-x86 since the start of Gentoo, because it originally was |
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> only for x86. Here's the very first ebuild added to CVS [1], Portage |
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> v1.1 is also early on [2]. |
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> |
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> On the rsync side, it was originally called gentoo-x86-portage, and then |
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> between the 1.2 and 1.4 release (early 2003), the stages switched to |
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> using the name 'gentoo-portage'; as recently as 2010, various mirrors |
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> were STILL fetching from the name of gentoo-x86-portage, when we |
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> reminded them that they should have switched years ago. |
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> |
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> All of these names have caused some confusion. Trying to explain to a |
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> new user that the Portage tree refers to the collection of ebuilds used |
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> by a PMS-compliant package manager (eg Portage) is problematic. |
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> To that end, I'd like us to brainstorm names for the new |
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> bikeshed^R^R^R^R^R^R^R^R |
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> repository, to go live at the time of the Git migration. |
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> |
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> It will be the single tree that contains what you find today in the |
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> gentoo-x86 CVS module; and on rsync as gentoo-x86-portage and |
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> gentoo-portage. |
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> |
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> Ideally, it should be something that works as a relatively unique |
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> identifier (Portage is bad as it refers to both the package manager and |
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> the tree), and fits easily into discussions, both in-person and online. |
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> |
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> Questions: |
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> 0. What names for the tree/repository. |
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> 1. We have some namespaces in Git: proj, dev, priv, data, sites, exp; should |
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> the tree be in one of those namespaces, a new namespace, or be without a |
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> namespace? git://anongit.gentoo.org/NEW-NAME.git. |
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> [1] |
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> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-mail/mutt/mutt-> 1.2.5-1.ebuild?hideattic=0&revision=1.1&view=markup&sortby=date [2] |
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> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/portage/fi |
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> les/ebuild?hideattic=0&revision=1.1&view=markup&sortby=date#l1051 |
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My proposal would be: |
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gentoo-core |
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Greetings |
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-- |
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Johannes Huber (johu) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer / KDE Team |
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