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PPC Stages and GRP testing is in progress. |
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On 07 Jan 2004, at 21:46, John Davis wrote: |
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> Additionally, if you want livecds for your arch, *please mail Daniel |
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> CC the list your kernel .configs and bootloader info ASAP.* |
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I've cc'ed trance, he's our most qualified person to provide info about |
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these things. |
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> There is no guarantee that you will get a livecd if you do not do so - |
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> you have been |
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> warned. |
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Could you elaborate on this? What do you mean by 'getting' a livecd? |
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Is your request intended for people building/integrating/testing livecd |
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support for architectures other than intel/amd? Additionally, has |
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anyone successfully build a livecd for these architectures? Has the |
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catalyst/genkernel code been frozen now? I would like to reiterate that |
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I stated a few weeks ago that the 01/01/2004 deadline for stable ppc |
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livecd building was unrealistic, here's why (again): |
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Unlike for x86, gentoo ppc developers need to 'guess' what minimal set |
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of kernel .configs and minimal set of livecd configurations will work |
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to provide the same level of support as distributors who have access to |
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the machines, and thus can guarantee support. PPC depends heavily on |
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community feedback for that reason. It's like the chicken and egg |
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problem: you can't test ppc .configs for the range of machines they |
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work on without a livecd and you can't test the livecd without a good |
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.config. This process is very frustrating and time consuming. Also, |
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there is no such thing as a virtual machine on PPC, that is able to |
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boot an iso without burning it. So: you have to build, burn and test, |
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rebuild, reburn, retest until you get to a fixpoint (where changing |
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something doesn't improve things). This takes time (at least a few |
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days) and that time needs to be made available in your schedules. |
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Please keep that in mind for scheduling future deadlines. You had been |
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warned before ;-) |
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Frankly, to me your last sentence reads like a threat that you or |
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somebody else intends to be very hard on deadlines and start finger |
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pointing, even though I stated before they were unrealistic at least |
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for the domain I'm managing. Any fingers pointed at me will be rerouted |
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to what I've said before. I don't think any ppc developer (volunteers, |
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including myself) deserves to be punished for releng scheduling issues. |
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This isn't a ppc is holding back gentoo issue, because as everyone |
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knows ppc would be the first to applaud multi-architecture initiatives. |
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This is just a matter of correct scheduling. |
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Pieter |
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