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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Migration plan for prefix/linux 13.0 profiles?
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:09:55
Message-Id: 20130219071036.GL6037@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Migration plan for prefix/linux 13.0 profiles? by Zac Medico
1 On 18-02-2013 14:28:28 -0800, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > >> (2) deprecate prefix/linux/${ARCH} profiles, and add
3 > >> prefix/linux/13.0/${ARCH} profiles to replace them (this is
4 > >> analogous to the approach used for non-prefix profiles)
5 > >>
6 > >> I would suggest to go with (2), in order to make things smooth for
7 > >> pre-EAPI-5 portage users.
8 > >
9 > > Yes, but given that we've always been on bleeding edge, I'd be fine with
10 > > (1) as well. But if someone wants to implement (2), I'm not going to
11 > > block that in any way.
12 >
13 > Well, if you decide to go with (2), you should probably first update
14 > bootstrap-prefix.sh [1] to use a newer portage version, since it
15 > currently uses prefix-portage-2.2.01.20837.tar.bz2 which doesn't support
16 > EAPI 5.
17
18 We should also do it for the non-linux profiles, I guess. And the
19 bootstrap is blocked by the darwin problem with more recent portage
20 versions :((((
21 >
22 > [1]
23 > http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/browser/trunk/prefix-overlay/scripts/bootstrap-prefix.sh?format=txt
24
25 --
26 Fabian Groffen
27 Gentoo on a different level

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Re: [gentoo-alt] Migration plan for prefix/linux 13.0 profiles? Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>