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From: "Manuel Rüger" <mrueg@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage-2.3.2 stable request?
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2016 12:57:00
Message-Id: 378b82b3-da82-87dd-6d18-bfbfed7123e5@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage-2.3.2 stable request? by Zac Medico
1 On 05.11.2016 00:15, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 11/04/2016 03:55 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
3 >> On 11/04/2016 03:47 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote:
4 >>> On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 13:53:02 -0700
5 >>> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
6 >>>
7 >>>> On 11/04/2016 01:43 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
8 >>>>> On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 13:19:39 -0700
9 >>>>> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
10 >>>>>
11 >>>>>> On 11/04/2016 01:14 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote:
12 >>>>>>> On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 15:55:23 -0700
13 >>>>>>> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
14 >>>>>>>
15 >>>>>>>> In about a week, portage-2.3.2 will be eligible for a stable
16 >>>>>>>> request.
17 >>>>>>>>
18 >>>>>>>> The only potential problem that I've noticed is the complaint
19 >>>>>>>> about changes from bug 552814 causing issues for people using
20 >>>>>>>> git sync with overlay filesystems, but setting sync-depth = 0
21 >>>>>>>> gives those users a workaround. There's also bug 597838, about
22 >>>>>>>> the sync-depth setting being ineffective, but I only know of a
23 >>>>>>>> couple of people that have been able to reproduce that.
24 >>>>>>>>
25 >>>>>>>> So, do we want to do a stable request portage-2.3.2 when the time
26 >>>>>>>> comes?
27 >>>>>>>
28 >>>>>>> I'm not sure. Do we -r1 it adding a patch or two and ask it be
29 >>>>>>> stabled?
30 >>>>>>
31 >>>>>> There are just 4 commits since 2.3.2, and they all look good.
32 >>>>>> Maybe we should just cut a 2.3.3 release and wait another 30 days
33 >>>>>> (we also need to stabilize app-crypt/gkeys since it's needed by
34 >>>>>> emerge-webrsync now).
35 >>>>>
36 >>>>> Wouldn't it be better to have a really working version of gkeys
37 >>>>> before it's stabilized? Like one that could be used without having
38 >>>>> to create custom configuration files and/or run it as root?
39 >>>>
40 >>>> Well, gkeys stabilization is not really mandatory, since
41 >>>> emerge-webrsync has a --insecure option.
42 >>>
43 >>> Why don't I/we work on whatever changes are needed to merge the
44 >>> meta-manifest code to both portage and gkeys. I'll push out another
45 >>> release. I also had some initial code that added gkeys use to verify
46 >>> the pkg Manifest file, but I don't know if that is needed still, the
47 >>> meta-manifest system will need to run a verify at the end of the sync.
48 >>>
49 >>> We'll have to poke Robin some more to get some new infra keys setup.
50 >>>
51 >>> If I have to, maybe I'll create some ansible scripts to run the dev
52 >>> seeds update on vulture, transfer it to my system to push --sign to
53 >>> api.g.o or break down and get Kristian to help me get key forwarding
54 >>> better setup so I can do it from vulture.
55 >>
56 >> Sounds good, but I think we should cut a portage 2.3.3 release before we
57 >> make any more changes. Maybe do a release branch that includes
58 >> everything except the emerge-webrsync change.
59 >
60 > Let's just revert the emerge-webrsync patch, so we can tag a 2.3.3
61 > release on the master branch.
62 >
63
64 Will repoman be released with the same tag as well or is the portage and
65 repoman version not going to be syncronized?
66
67 Cheers,
68
69 Manuel

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