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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 06:00:00PM -0500, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'd like to begin stabilizing packages on MIPS. I've gotten acks from |
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> Redhatter, leio, and r0bertz, and Kumba doesn't really care. |
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> What's the best method to go about doing this? Stabilize the system |
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> packages, then remove ~mips from ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in the profiles? |
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I'd be waiting until you can do an `emerge system` and come up with a |
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contemporary build without, before dropping ~mips from the profile. |
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At the moment, I think if you were to try it now, you'd be told it can't |
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be done because of packages being masked by unstable keywords. |
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> Should we target package versions that aren't stabilized on other |
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> architectures yet, so that we'll have an extended testing period |
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> before they'll come up for stabilization? That is, can I plan to make |
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> gcc-4.5.1 or something the first restabilized version of gcc, go ahead |
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> and begin testing it, and be ready for stabilization when toolchain |
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> requests it? |
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I'd certainly aim for the highest available version... as by the time we |
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get ready to keyword it, it'll be the highest stable version, perhaps |
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one version behind. |
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I've been experimenting with KDE 4.5.3 ... or rather, it was 4.5.0 and |
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in package.mask when I started... then I hit issues with qt-webkit that |
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seem to be binutils related. Now that I've got that sorted, I've only |
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now just got KDE built and installed... and it looks as if I'll be doing |
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rebuilds of it to try and chase out some bugs. |
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That said, don't focus all your attention on the bleeding edge, be |
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prepared to take a step back. At my old workplace, I recall porting |
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kernel git HEAD (2.6.35-rc? at the time) to an ARM platform and |
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experiencing various issues... I moved back to 2.6.34 and the problems |
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disappeared. |
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I'd sooner be one version back and stable, than bleeding edge and |
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constantly falling over. |
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Regards, |
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Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. |
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Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : |
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' |
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I haven't lost my mind... |
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...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. |
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