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I personnally would like to see stage tarballs updated more frequently |
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if an arch receives a major update in system, like gcc or glibc, even |
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if this is only an r patch because these are a pain to install, and by |
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update I mean something new goes stable. Such releases are infrequent, |
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but make it painful when doing a new install because you know that you |
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have to rebuild world from the start. |
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On 3/1/07, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) <hkBst@g.o> wrote: |
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> Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> > Also, what's the point? Everything you use to install from the minimal |
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> > is fetched from the internet. The only thing that an updated minimal |
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> > would give us is a slightly more hardware support during the install. |
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> This slightly more hardware support is almost always what new boxen need. Of course people can |
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> install Gentoo from another more up to date other distro, but wouldn't it be better if that were |
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> optional and not mandatory? That if people have new hardware which is not supported by their own |
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> distro, that they can pop in the latest gentoo cd and know that if there is any distro whose |
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> install cd supports their hardware, that gentoo will too? |
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> There would also be many more chances to fix things, since these images would be relatiely short |
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> lived. Since each image would be more similar than the previous one than our current 6 months apart |
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> releases are to eachother, testing could be spread out more. And our users would get more chances |
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> to help us test. Releng might not have to take a snapshot and try to stable it a la debian. Instead |
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> all developers could work together to fix bugs in stable found by users testing the install cd. |
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> Marijn |
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