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Hi Phil, |
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On Thursday 22 September 2005 12:00, Phillip Berry wrote: |
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> Just wondering if there has been any progress on the stable portage tree? |
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If you're thinking about GLEP 19 nothing much has been accomplished for quite |
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a few months now. I think all involved parties have too much to do already. |
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> Also, syncing the normal tree removes old versions of ebuilds, obviously |
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> this is inappropriate for a production environment where for various |
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> reasons it is sometimes neccessary to stay at an arbitrary version of an |
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> application. The loss of the ebuild specific to the legacy version of the |
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> application is a pain, will the stable tree retain older versions of |
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> ebuilds instead of removing them? |
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You could keep them in your own portage (overlay) tree and only sync with the |
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official as necessary. |
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> Also, will security updates ever be backported? |
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If manpower permits, but with the current manpower situation I think it is |
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unlikely. |
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> As is i said, i'm just wondering... |
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Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (Jaervosz) |
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