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From: "Alexander Færøy" <eroyf@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: reduce conflicts, separate keywording from ebuilds
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:09:06
Message-Id: 20070219110429.GA3709@osiris.HTX
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: reduce conflicts, separate keywording from ebuilds by Stefan Schweizer
1 It was discussed at the last council meeting... Proposed by jokey.
2
3 On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:54:55AM +0100, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
4 > To my fellow arguing Gentoo developers,
5 >
6 > due to the recent conflict concerning keywording I want to propose to
7 > separate keywording completely from ebuilds. The keywords would reside
8 > in a special file in profiles/, maybe even in more than one file to
9 > allow more granular permissions. For example only mips developers can
10 > access
11 > the mips keywording file then.
12 >
13 > The arch team can then decide themselves which ebuild they want to mark
14 > ~arch and they can take care of possible new dependencies themselves.
15 >
16 > Also currently kde keywording/stabling needs ~300 commits. The problem
17 > being that all changes files also get transferred in a rsync. A separate
18 > keywording file would be the only one changed thus greatly reducing the
19 > sync time.
20 >
21 > comments?
22 >
23 > Best regards,
24 > Stefan
25 >
26 > --
27 > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list
28
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30 Alexander Færøy
31 Bugday Lead
32 Alpha/IA64/MIPS Architecture Teams
33 User Relations, Quality Assurance

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[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: reduce conflicts, separate keywording from ebuilds Stefan Schweizer <genstef@g.o>