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On 06/26/2011 05:46 AM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> I need to appologise for the last comment I made in my previous message |
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> about you not discussing this issue. I see that you did mention it, but |
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> it was before I came on board. |
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> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-catalyst/msg_78cd6eae401bfa7a499418bc6cbc225e.xml |
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> I hope you will accept my appology. |
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Yes, no problem. |
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> However, I would still like to know why this conversion was needed; |
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To increase the fun maintaining it for present and future. |
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Run "make && man ./files/catalyst.1" to see how much better it looks now |
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than a few days ago. I wouldn't have spent time on improving it at |
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*roff level. |
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> all |
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> we had to do was update the manpage. The conversion does make it more |
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> difficult for us to generate reproducable tarballs, which means that for |
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> gentoo's qa policy someone always has to keep the tarball we use in |
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> their dev space and we have to point to that tarball with SRC_URI. |
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I'm not following. We have to keep the tarball on mirrors anyway. Not? |
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No generated files means maintaining some things at several places. |
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Without the generator, mips2 and mipsel2 would still be listed on |
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catalyst's webpage. |
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> But, that would not be necessary if we generate the tarball from the git |
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> repo e.g. the way openrc does. |
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Alright. I don't want to limit myself to a static man page (or live |
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with generated files under version control). |
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Best, |
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Sebastian |
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