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> The 2008.0 stages will have whatever versions of packages |
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> are in the tree at the time of our snapshot. |
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Right; that's also what I meant about rolling stage3's. The only |
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difference being that much more careful attention is paid to the |
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official release tarballs, stripping out blockages and the like. |
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> not feasible when you start looking at all the architectures |
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Hm. |
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Portage runs Python bytecodes and bash scripts. Those are portable. |
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The interpreters themselves need zero platform optimization for a |
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bootstrap ("stage3 install"). They can target generic x386 and ppc etc. |
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Just like any commercial software vendor. |
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Following which users could recompile on their targets, if desired or |
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required. Exotic targets could just do it the old way. |
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> That particular blocker isn't exactly hard to get around. |
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For you...but it cost me half a day, then defeat. Please consider that |
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QA feedback. The FAQs failed. I don't even want to know how to fix |
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this. To me, the fix is to embed the interpreters. |
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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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> 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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Thanks again. |
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