Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Ed W <lists@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] [bugzilla-daemon@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:04:01
Message-Id: 4C333028.1090306@wildgooses.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] [bugzilla-daemon@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)] by Peter Stuge
1 On 06/07/2010 11:30, Peter Stuge wrote:
2 > Hi Enrico,
3 >
4 > Enrico Weigelt wrote:
5 >
6 >> does he speak for all of you ?
7 >>
8 > OSS-QM strikes me personally as an odd solution. It could of course
9 > be the right thing to do just the same, but I guess you will have to
10 > make it more popular before it becomes a de-facto standard.
11 >
12 > If you feel strongly about it (I guess you do) then I would suggest
13 > that you make your own Gentoo overlay with all the packages. That way
14 > it's be easy for anyone interested to test it out.
15 >
16 >
17
18 The concept seems interesting though and as you say, exactly what an
19 overlay should help with.
20
21 I couldn't quickly find the official pages for OSS-QM, but some googling
22 suggests there is a limited overlay available already here:
23 http://repo.or.cz/w/oss-qm-packages.git/tree/GENTOO.overlay.master
24
25 Good luck
26
27 Ed W

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