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

[Corey Shields]

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?

> 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.

> We may have more rsync mirrors than source mirrors, but I'm sure that if
> we offered the options of having stable mirrors without distfiles (just
> the CD and portage tarballs), we'd have tons of those. (The new policy
> of not having cds for p2,p3,p4,p68 really does help too imho)..

I don't see this happening..  I wouldn't want to split the mirroring this way 
either.  (and we are still producing the arch product CD's, just releasing 
them via bt and not on the mirrors)

Cheers,

-C

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Corey Shields
Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team and Devrel Team
Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
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