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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:27:23
Message-Id: 1329816398.2868.1.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking by Ryan Hill
1 El lun, 20-02-2012 a las 20:02 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió:
2 > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:17:30 -0800
3 > Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > On 02/20/2012 05:03 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
6 > > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100
7 > > > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
8 > > >
9 > > >> I don't know if this has been discussed before but, what issues are
10 > > >> preventing us from unmasking gcc-4.6 (and think on a near
11 > > >> stabilization)?
12 > > >>
13 > > >> I have read hardmask message but it simply explains that it's masked for
14 > > >> testing purposes :-/
15 > > >
16 > > > Grub is the only blocker. I don't want to unmask something that makes
17 > > > people's systems unbootable.
18 > > >
19 > > > I'm also out of ideas and open to suggestions.
20 > >
21 > > Stabilize grub-1.99, and modify the grub-0.9x ebuilds to die if they
22 > > can't find a supported compiler.
23 >
24 > What's the state of 1.99? I know someone was working on it recently. We'd
25 > also have to update the handbooks. I think it could be several months of
26 > work to get it ready, and I'd like to unmask 4.6 last September.
27 >
28 >
29
30 As looks like fixing old grub is far away because nobody know what is
31 causing that issues, probably trying to get grub-1.99 ready for
32 stabilization would be interesting (we will need to do that sooner or
33 later anyway)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>