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On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 21:56 -0800, davecode@××××××××××.net wrote: |
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> > The stage tarballs are *never* ~arch. We have talked about doing automated |
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> > builds, but we're not releasing them for public consumption, since there will be |
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> > absolutely *zero* QA done on them. |
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> Of course not; I didn't mean you replace official releases with ~arch! |
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> I only meant that, like Debian et al, there be regular tarballs for |
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> eager testers. That seems more sensible that starting testing from a |
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> year-old tarball. Some others might test in kexec/vmware/chroot or |
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> whatever. |
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Ehh, we'd never release ~arch tarballs. If we were to do something like |
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this, it would be weekly stable tarballs. There's no guarantee that |
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~arch is even consistent. With stable, there's at least the testing of |
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the arch teams. |
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> > why exactly do PPC boxes need the newest everything? |
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> Sigh. I'd rather not go there. Suffice to say ~arch is why we're here. |
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> The current ~arch is turning into 2008.0 anyway, so that's what where |
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> we can help QA Gentoo. |
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No, it isn't. |
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I think your idea of how Gentoo releases work is a bit skewed. |
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Everything comes from stable. Always. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Games Developer |