Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] Stable Keywords?

[Peter Ansell]

On 22/11/2007, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote:
> On 21-11-2007 07:55:04 -0600, Jeremy wrote:
> > True, and we are adding more obscure platforms often. I don't know how
> > many people use ia64-hpux for example, but it *seems* that I am one of
> > the few if only besides haubi because he has done alot of work on the
> > tree for me. I don't have time or resources to maintain a stable branch
> > by myself and report back to you.
> >
> > Maybe here is a better solution:
> > Make the "auto-sync" script mark everything ~arch until it has been
> > tested by some members of the community then we could create a stabilize
> > request on b.g.o. - if people want to devote some time to it, they can
> > and they can lead the effort.
>
> That's sort of the current solution without stable keywords.  If there
> are people that want to do the job, fine with me, syncing will always
> produce a new ~arch ebuild, not sure what I should do for the updates
> inside an ebuild (like an added patch - could break).  Something tells
> me I should keep it stable if it was, otherwise I probably break the
> deptree.

It is not as likely that patches to "stable" ebuilds will break in
most cases, though it is always possible. I would go with keep a given
version stable after patching unless someone reports a bug with it, as
there aren't the resources to do rechecks on every patch on every
ebuild for the prefix.

Peter
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