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From: Rigo Ketelings <rigo@××××.nl>
To: Christian Skarby <christian@××××××.no>, maurerl@××××××××.edu
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the freeze?
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 06:51:30
Message-Id: 200210091331.00838.rigo@home.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the freeze? by Christian Skarby
1 For those who cannot wait, I made a lot of builds lately:
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3 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=new+ebuild&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailreporter1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=rigo%40home.nl&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
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5 Please help me test them,
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7 ;-) Rigo
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11 On Wednesday 09 October 2002 12:11, Christian Skarby wrote:
12 > > I wrote this in the middle of a thread on the forums, and it was
13 > >
14 > > suggested I ask here:
15 > >> That said, are we sure the freeze is so necessary? I presume it's so a
16 > >> static Portage state can be used for testing the install CD. Why not
17 > >> just use a snapshot of the frozen tree, test with that one, then have
18 > >> it be the one included on the stage-3 CD?
19 >
20 > The freeze is initiated in order to get rid of bugs from existing ebuilds.
21 > Mon 07 Oct 2002, 0800 GMT:7420 bugs down (4932 fixes), 1448 to go
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23 > And well, I believe we'd like all ebuilds in portage to work properly, on
24 > the other hand there are probably a lot of new ebuilds coming up from
25 > external developers that is waiting on bugs.gentoo.org for inclusion when
26 > the freeze is lifted. I believe those will be tested before they are
27 > included into the live portage tree. Looking forward to the time when the
28 > bugs are sorted out and new ebuilds once again are made availiable through
29 > rsync.
30 >
31 > Christian
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38 > gentoo-dev@g.o
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the freeze? Evan Read <eread@×××××××××.org>