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On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:11:29AM -0500, John Davis wrote: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2004.1/releng/2004.1.xml> |
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> There are parts of it that are subject to change as the release is more |
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> defined. |
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I'd like to put some documentation-related points in the public. |
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In a perfect world a draft release (with the final portage snapshot and GRP |
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packages and such) would be made, documentation could be tested and then |
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committed so that the final LiveCDs contain the correct documentation. |
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Sadly enough, the world most of us are in isn't completely perfect (dunno |
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about seemant's world though :). |
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First of all, resource-wise it's a bit difficult for me or many other GDP |
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members to download and test (network connection, time, boxes, ...). |
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Second, testing requires some time and ideally the time between a draft |
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release and the final one should be as short as possible. In order to be able |
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to have better documentation released on release (note that this didn't |
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happen on 1.4 and not on 2004.0 either :( ) the GDP needs a bit more |
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information about the LiveCDs that will be released: |
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- Listing of available boot kernels (on LiveCD); per architecture |
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- Listing of available boot options (on LiveCD); per architecture |
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- Output of "find" on |
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+- The LiveCD (mounted) |
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+- The LiveCD (booted - after being inside the gcloop or whatever) |
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`- The other LiveCD(s) |
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Sadly enough, this isn't sufficient. Such information should be available |
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*really* soon _if_ the layout of the CDs will differ from the current layout. |
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Which is going to happen with 2004.1 as GRP will be different. Again. Know |
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that GRP is what has always been broken documentation-wise on releases. |
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Third, the LiveCDs should be as "identical" as possible. I hope this will |
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be the case in 2004.1 (as catalyst creates almost identical LiveCDs, right?) |
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but in 2004.0 the second LiveCD (the one with GRP packages on it) differed a |
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bit architecture-wise (some have a subdir "packages/" in it, others don't). |
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Finally, is it possible to make all architectures release at the same time |
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_if_ the LiveCD structure (and therefor the installation instructions) |
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differ? |
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This is about it. Now to grab some food :) |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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^__^ And Larry saw that it was Good. |
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(oo) Sven Vermeulen |
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