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Hello! |
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On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Dean Stephens <desultory@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 09/09/17 12:23, R0b0t1 wrote: |
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>> On Saturday, September 9, 2017, Johnson Steward <i@××××××××.moe> wrote: |
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>>> Hello, |
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>>> I've been messing with Gentoo FreeBSD these days and, finally, got to the |
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>> current latest version available. As upgrading is really a tiring process |
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>> (lots and lots and lots of bootstrapping the tool chain and bunches of |
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>> blocks in the current stages), I'm thinking of sharing my currently working |
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>> system as a staged for further testing for those who are interested. |
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>>> Yet I can't come up with an appropriate location for the stage4 to be |
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>> hosted. 1.4GB is obviously too large for a pastebin even if |
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>> bzip2-compressed, and consumer-level cloud storage providers like Google |
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>> Drive or OneDrive will create unnecessary chaos when trying to actually |
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>> install the system (virtually impossible to interact with that |
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>> JavaScript-based system within the FreeBSD livecd), and I don't have an |
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>> account for Google Cloud Storage or AWS either. |
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>>> Is there a suitable location to host such a stage? I'm currently not a |
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>> Gentoo developer, yet I really want my work to benefit the Gentoo FreeBSD |
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>> community. |
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>>> Thanks, |
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>>> |
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>>> Johnson Steward |
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>> Contact desultory@g.o. |
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> While I am willing to help people find suitable avenues for |
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> contributions to Gentoo; that reply, especially unqualified and coming |
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> barely half an hour after the initial post was made, rather strongly |
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> implies that I would be the right point of contact to actually get the |
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> stages hosted. That is simply not the case. |
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I realize there may be more suitable points of contact. I suppose I |
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can see now how that might be the case now. |
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> I would, at best, have directed them similarly to how robbat2 did, |
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> probably while lacking some of the details which he posted. Further, |
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> they were already posting on gentoo-dev, so they were inquiring |
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> somewhere that is virtually assured of reaching suitable persons. |
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I am not really certain as to the purpose of gentoo-dev, so my |
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apologies. Sometimes developers use it and sometimes they do not. |
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There have been technical posts which have languished before. I may |
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have been too quick to reply, as you have said. |
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> So, please, if you are going to suggest to others that they contact me |
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> to help them find a suitable point of contact, do not do so on |
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> gentoo-dev (as they have almost certainly reached suitable persons |
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> already), and make it explicitly clear that I would only be helping them |
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> find a suitable point of contact with which to proceed. |
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I did not think to clarify. At worst you would have gotten all of the |
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information up front and had to refer him to someone else. I can't |
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imagine he would have minded, but I apologize for taking liberties |
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with both of your time. I am only trying to help, sir. I apologize for |
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not being very smart. Some day I hope do accomplish something useful |
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but it seems a long way off. I pray for that day every day, but I may |
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have to wait until I go to Heaven. |
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Respectfully, |
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R0b0t1 |
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