Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 16:07:40
Message-Id: 1210176381.15938.15.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage by Mart Raudsepp
1 On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:23 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
2 > I do realize one would remove build-time dependencies and the toolchain
3 > on an embedded system on deployment anyway, but this means gcc USE=nocxx
4 > USE flag is pretty much useless, while it would be nice to use it to
5 > ensure that nothing sneaks in during development that depends on the C++
6 > standard library easily instead of finding things break later.
7
8 It's a pain in the ass for Release Engineering, too. At this point,
9 we're looking into how we need to modify the bootstrap sequence to
10 accommodate people using lzma for system (and lower) packages.
11
12 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220074
13
14 We're already getting reports of this due to someone deciding that it'd
15 be a good idea to use lzma for our daily portage snapshots without any
16 discussion here. Luckily, we still have the other tarballs to use, too.
17
18 --
19 Chris Gianelloni
20 Release Engineering Strategic Lead
21 Games Developer

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature