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On 10 February 2013 23:02, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> Am Sonntag, 10. Februar 2013, 15:15:43 schrieb Markos Chandras:> |
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>> I suspect most people are interested in understanding what changed |
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>> (since deprecation means that the new thing is better than the old |
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>> one). Moreover, the news item is another way to assure them that |
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>> everything is not as bad as the initial "red warning" might had made |
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>> them think so and "keep calm and use Gentoo" ;-) |
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> OK, here's a news item (actually two, separate for server and non-server |
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> profiles). Since it's a bit late now, I'll commit this or the improved version |
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> after discussion here in 6h (21:00 UTC) unless there are severe protests. |
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> |
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> -- the non-server profile variant (sparing you a lot of Display-If-Profile |
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> lines) |
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> Title: New 13.0 profiles and deprecation of 10.0 profiles |
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> Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@g.o> |
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> Content-Type: text/plain |
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> Posted: 2013-02-10 |
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> Revision: 1 |
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> News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha/10.0 |
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> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha/10.0/desktop |
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> [...] |
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> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde |
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> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/10.0/developer |
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> We have generated a new set of profiles for Gentoo installation. These are now |
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> called 13.0 instead of 10.0. Everyone should upgrade as soon as possible (but |
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> please make sure sys-apps/portage is updated to current stable *before* you |
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> switch profile). |
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> This brings (nearly) no user-visible changes. Some new files have been added |
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> to the profile directories that make it possible for the developers to do more |
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> fine-grained use flag masking (see PMS-5 for the details), and this formally |
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> requires a new profile tree with EAPI=5. |
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> -- the server profile variant (sparing you the headers entirely) |
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> |
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> We have generated a new set of profiles for Gentoo installation. These are now |
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> called 13.0 instead of 10.0. Everyone should upgrade as soon as possible (but |
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> please make sure sys-apps/portage is updated to current stable *before* you |
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> switch profile). |
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> This brings (nearly) no user-visible changes. Some new files have been added |
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> to the profile directories that make it possible for the developers to do more |
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> fine-grained use flag masking (see PMS-5 for the details), and this formally |
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> requires a new profile tree with EAPI=5. |
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> In the course of this change, the "server" profiles will be removed; they do |
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> not exist in the 13.0 tree anymore. You should migrate to the corresponding |
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> parent profile. This may change the default value of some use-flags. The |
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> specific setting in "server" was |
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> USE="-perl -python snmp truetype xml" |
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> You may want to check the setting of these flags after switching profile, but |
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> otherwise nothing changes. |
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> -- |
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> Andreas K. Huettel |
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> Gentoo Linux developer |
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> dilfridge@g.o |
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> http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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Looks good to me! |
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-- |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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Gentoo developer |
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Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin |
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