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On 02/17/2013 04:03 PM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: |
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> In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I |
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> have no interest) because they appears understaffed. |
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> Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, for SH since |
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> the dev- machine[1] is a bit slow; well, I discovered we have no |
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> ISO[2] available and there is no handbook[3] for it. |
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> The same thing is for S390/S390X/M68K/. So how I am able to install |
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> one of that _supported_ arches if there isn't any sort of guide? |
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> An interesting fact is that we have an handbook for MIPS[4], a |
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> declared unsupported architecture (does not make sense for me). |
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> Another example is that we have no stable keyword on GCC/glibc for |
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> m68k and I don't know if I need to use another compiler or another |
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> libc. |
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> Checking on bugzilla I saw no report for some of those arches, so |
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> for me that _partially_ means that probably there are very few |
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> users for those arches on gentoo. |
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> Now, imho, we have 2 choice: |
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> 1)Support them with an iso or at least a manual if we can't do an |
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> handbook 2)Lose the stable keyword and don't waste manpower |
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> anymore. |
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> What do you think about? |
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> Ref: [1]: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/dev-machines.xml [2]: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml [3]: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/#doc_chap2 [4]: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook- |
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> mips.xml?style=printable&full=1 |
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First you need to tell us what arches you think they are considered |
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'minor' and/or understaffed so we can finally document that. Then, in |
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my opinion, the ideal approach would be to just drop the stable |
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keywords for them. |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang |
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