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On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 23:31, James Yonan wrote: |
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> Just to throw out an idea on creating a generalization to stable/current (I'm |
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> new to Gentoo, so I'm not sure how much of this has already been done, or to |
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> what extent these ideas have already been made concrete in the portage concept). |
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> Why not create a notion of a distribution "checkpoint"? |
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> A checkpoint is a file that contains all information necessary to build a |
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> particular gentoo distribution as it existed at some point in time, similar to |
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> the idea of a cvs tag, or saving the game before you do something that's |
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> likely to get you killed :) |
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Unfortunately a big problem with this, is that ebuild do not stick |
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around long enouth ... except of course if you do it your side. |
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IMHO, I do not see that we can do it with current implementation |
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of the portage tree, even if we do not cleanup stuff - as if we |
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do not, the tree is going to get *too* big. |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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