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On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 21:34 +0200, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote: |
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> I noted that projects whose requirements indicate they will be |
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(amongst |
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> other architectures) ppc compatible, but are implemented and designed |
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> by people without much ppc expertise and whose lead hasn't |
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proactively |
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> involved people with ppc expertise, at least for testing (assuming |
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> something testable is available), will require a lot of work on my |
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part |
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> when they suddenly become obliged (as in: a feature for all the |
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> architectures releasing), in this case less than 2 weeks before I |
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need |
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> to start building the 2004.2 release. (check releng release roadmap). |
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> A few remarks: |
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> - The uml/design looks good, but I can't seem to find any code. I |
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would |
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> like to point out that release features need to be completed (and |
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> tested) before the release is build, which is rather soon, |
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> unfortunately. |
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Code is in cvs under the gentoo/src/installer/ directory. It will be |
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tough to get the installer included in the 2004.2 release as we are |
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trying very hard to structure it so that it will be easily portable to |
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other architectures. |
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> - The ppc livecd differs from the x86 livecd. Can you check your |
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> dependencies against our release doc and let me know in advance what |
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> needs to be added. That way the ppc livecd is ready by the time you |
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> want to include something for testing. |
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All we really need is python and then whatever partitioning utility will |
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be used (preferably pyparted, currently marked only ~x86, but probably |
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works on other arches). |
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> - I think the GLIarchitectureTemplate and GLIInstallProfile |
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subclasses |
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> need to be implemented by the architectures. Can you let me know the |
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> specifics. |
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We have debated this. Esammer has me working on delegation instead. |
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However, I'm beginning to think that it will take much more time to use |
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delegation instead of inheritance. I'd like to eventually move to that |
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model (delegation) as it is generally a better design. |
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> - X needs to be set up semi-automatically on the ppc X-enabled |
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livecds, |
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> Xeasyconf-ng will probably/hopefully change that. |
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There is no X/GTK/KDE based GUI yet, so we don't need that yet. |
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> - Genkernel is a bottleneck, in theory a new genkernel release is |
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> needed for each kernel revision, otherwise the kernel won't be |
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> installable. (My suggestion is to include a livecd .config in the |
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> kernel ebuild, or drop the user to menuconfig/Xconfig otherwise) |
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Agreed. Warpzero and I are writing a GLEP for genkernel. |
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> - Is there an eta for a beta ebuild? |
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Not yet... However, I want to try and get one out soon. I'll talk to |
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esammer about this. However, I don't suspect that alpha builds will |
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have non-x86 support. That will probably be a beta feature. |
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Nathaniel |
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