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From: rob holland <robh@g.o>
To: Matt Thrailkill <xwred1@×××××××××.net>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Weekly News Letter - "Where is Gentoo Linux 1.4"
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:26:20
Message-Id: 62420000.1056535645@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Weekly News Letter - "Where is Gentoo Linux 1.4" by Jon Portnoy
1 Matt,
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3 Gentoo doesn't use cvs tree's in the way that (for example) I know OpenBSD
4 does. Generally there is no use of branches at all, everything is in HEAD.
5 (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong).
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7 The stable/unstable stuff is done using keywords in portage, rather than
8 handled using tags in CVS. The reason being that only developers use CVS so
9 the branches would be irrelevant to the users, they'd just get whatever
10 branch the rsync mirrors were "tuned to".
11
12 The gentoo system is one big lump (no offense intended) rather than one
13 quick moving lump (HEAD) and a slow moving one (1_4_STABLE) al la obsd.
14
15 I hope that clarifies/helps.
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17 Regards,
18
19 Rob
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21 --
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23 robh@g.o / robh:irc.freenode.net
24 http://cvs.gentoo.org/~robh/robh@××××××××××.asc

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