Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 19, reloaded (again)

[Olivier Crete]

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:45 -0500, Corey Shields wrote:
> On Monday 09 August 2004 04:33 pm, Olivier Crete wrote:
> > The whole point of a stable tree is to be stable.... rsync just doesn't
> > offer the same kind of guarantee.. Having security updates separate from
> > the "released" distribution is also a must imho. And this approach would
> > make that easy... This does not stop us from adding updates to the
> > overlay, it just makes it much easier for admins to control which
> > updates they want and which ones they dont...
>
> How do you plan to do updates (non-security) with this solution?

just replace the tree entirely "rm -rf /usr/portage, tar xjvf
newportage.tar.bz2 -C /usr/portage" for "major upgrades"... or using an
overlay for minor local stuff... I like the idea of keeping my
"official" tree pure and then having nicely separated overlays.

> > The idea of profiles (if I understand it correctly) is that every
> > package that is part of stable must be added to a file (thousands of
> > them).. And then every maintainer must make sure that he does not delete
> > the stable package for every arch in every version. We already see
> > people deleting the stable versions for less used arches... And if
> > stable uses a separate tree, then there is really no point to profiles..
>
> There is more to profiling than this.  We can use profiles to mask down to the
> level we want, regardless of what the maintainer does.  The purpose of the
> seperate rsync module is so that stable packages do not get deleted, so that
> wouldn't be an issue.

I think we agree that this can't stay in the main tree. But then if its
separate, we can just re-keyword package instead of playing aroudn with
a profile... Since its a whole separate tree.


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Olivier Crête
tester@g.o
Gentoo Developer


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