Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Cc: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Gentoo 2004.1 Release
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:26:18
Message-Id: 707D5EFE-996B-11D8-8E7F-0003938E7E46@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] Gentoo 2004.1 Release by Donnie Berkholz
1 Maybe a dumb question, but wouldn't it be possible to just provide GRP
2 instead of the stage2,3 (= one huge GRP tarball anyway).
3
4 Pieter
5
6 On 29 Apr 2004, at 01:00, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
7
8 > On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 17:58, John Davis wrote:
9 >> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 17:52, Kurt Lieber wrote:
10 >>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 05:36:13PM -0400 or thereabouts, Nathaniel
11 >>> McCallum wrote:
12 >>>> I thought online GRP packages would be with this release, however,
13 >>>> I'm
14 >>>> not seeing GRP packages on any of the mirrors. Am I in
15 >>>> cloud-cuckoo-land?
16 >>>
17 >>> This didn't make it into 2004.1.
18 >>>
19 >>> --kurt
20 >>
21 >> I purposely excluded them because I am working on the following:
22 >> http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen/glep0026.txt
23 >>
24 >> Keep in mind that it is very, very rough. Very. I mean it! You get the
25 >> jist though. Now that 2004.1 is done, I can focus some of my time on
26 >> it
27 >> and make it formal.
28 >
29 > Note that this may make compile time on other-arch boxes a bottleneck,
30 > especially if every change is expected to be provided in GRP form. I
31 > would more strongly support a consistent release cycle for GRPs
32 > (bi-quarterly, perhaps) with exceptions for security or
33 > otherwise-critical updates.
34 > --
35 > Donnie Berkholz
36 > Gentoo Linux
37
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Re: [gentoo-releng] Gentoo 2004.1 Release Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>