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I like the idea of having a basic ISO as we do now, then having the GRP |
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packages on the mirrors in their respective release directory. The |
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-current idea sounds pretty good to me, also. We would of course want |
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to keep the portage snapshots in the release directories so they stay in |
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sync. |
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On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 12:52, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> Since we are (probably) moving to having the GRPs themselves on the mirrors |
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> (and not ISOs), this is probably better accomplished by simply making new |
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> GRPs for every (major) release of commonly GRP'd packages and keeping them in |
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> a "current" directory. |
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> On Monday 15 September 2003 03:59 pm, Brad Laue wrote: |
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> > Greetings all, |
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> > A concern of mine about many Linux distributions is that in the long |
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> > haul between binary releases of a distribution, the packages included |
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> > with the release can become quite old. In Gentoo's case, if one GRP |
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> > installed their system nine months from now and emerge -u'd, they would |
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> > be faced with a considerable number of packages to update (I wouldn't be |
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> > surprised if it was all of them). |
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> > |
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> > The Gentoo 1.4.1 release re-ignited my curiosity on this topic. Will |
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> > there be regular interim releases between major upgrades, or will |
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> > releases like these solely fix bugs? |
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> > |
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> > If the latter, can a GRP ISO be created say, every two months? This |
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> > would only add ‾500MB per architecture involved, since there wouldn't be |
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> > any need to archive the older versions of the ISO. |
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> > Realising that Gentoo is of course a source-based distribution, quickly |
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> > and easily installing the latest and greatest by using emerge -k, then |
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> > optimizing by rebuilding incrementally has surely sparked a great deal |
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> > of additional interest in the distribution. |
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> > |
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> > What does everyone think? |
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> > |
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> > Brad |
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> Luke-Jr |
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> Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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