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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Migration plan for prefix/linux 13.0 profiles?
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:28:34
Message-Id: 5122AB0C.603@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Migration plan for prefix/linux 13.0 profiles? by Fabian Groffen
1 On 02/18/2013 10:13 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 17-02-2013 11:38:41 -0800, Zac Medico wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> The prefix/linux/${ARCH} profiles currently inherit from the deprecated
6 >> 10.0 profiles. There are at least a couple of options for migration:
7 >>
8 >> (1) update existing profiles in-place (not nice for people running
9 >> pre-EAPI-5 portage)
10 >
11 > This should hardly be anyone in Prefix (I think)
12
13 You would know better about it than I.
14
15 >> (2) deprecate prefix/linux/${ARCH} profiles, and add
16 >> prefix/linux/13.0/${ARCH} profiles to replace them (this is
17 >> analogous to the approach used for non-prefix profiles)
18 >>
19 >> I would suggest to go with (2), in order to make things smooth for
20 >> pre-EAPI-5 portage users.
21 >
22 > Yes, but given that we've always been on bleeding edge, I'd be fine with
23 > (1) as well. But if someone wants to implement (2), I'm not going to
24 > block that in any way.
25
26 Well, if you decide to go with (2), you should probably first update
27 bootstrap-prefix.sh [1] to use a newer portage version, since it
28 currently uses prefix-portage-2.2.01.20837.tar.bz2 which doesn't support
29 EAPI 5.
30
31 [1]
32 http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/browser/trunk/prefix-overlay/scripts/bootstrap-prefix.sh?format=txt
33 --
34 Thanks,
35 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-alt] Migration plan for prefix/linux 13.0 profiles? Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>