[gentoo-dev] Re: Portage-2.0.51 Stability Testing

[Duncan]

Nicholas Jones posted <20040912023012.GA14248@××××××.net>, excerpted
below,  on Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:30:12 -0400:

> So...... We need testers. And a lot of them. I've sent out
> emails in the past highly recommending that devs use 2.0.51
> for continued development and repoman fixes, but now I need
> general use testing.

As a user, I recently /etc/portage/package.unmasked and upgraded to the
2.51 series here, after I saw you urging it on all the developers.  Pretty
smooth, here! =:^)

The biggest problem I've seen is documentation -- the man pages are now a
bit dated.  I know updating them for a devel version isn't all that
worthwhile as features may be dynamically changing during development. 
However, as 2.51 appears to be stabilizing now, perhaps updating the man
pages is in order?

In particular, I noted the emerge instructions mentioning
/etc/portage/virtuals (now /etc/portage/profiles/virtuals, perfect example
of why documenting a development version is attempting to hit a moving
target <g>) and then went to look up any other changes I might have missed
under man portage, but found it hadn't been updated yet.  As I said, not
unreasonable for a development series, so I didn't worry about it. 
However, if it's now stable enough you are looking for user-testers, IMO
it's time to update the man pages as well.

I hadn't thought about /usr/share/doc/portage* for a changelog and etc,
and had already been frustrated (several times) by lack of a useful
changelog for portage in the usual portage tree location, so that's useful
info here!  I'm now off to read it!

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