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In Gentoo terms, 'testing' and 'unstable' are mostly synonymous, |
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so using the two names for different purposes is confusing. Use |
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'degraded' instead. |
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Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> |
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--- |
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glep-0072.rst | 18 +++++++++--------- |
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1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) |
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diff --git a/glep-0072.rst b/glep-0072.rst |
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index a0aa5d5..6fdee6b 100644 |
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--- a/glep-0072.rst |
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+++ b/glep-0072.rst |
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@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ a) An architecture loses its stable status (imagine c128), but |
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about a broken stable dependency tree. If we do that, repoman does however |
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also not check ~c128 consistency, meaning that the ~c128 dependency tree |
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will soon be broken as well due to negligence. Given arches.conf as |
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- described below, one could set the architecture c128 to "testing" status |
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+ described below, one could set the architecture c128 to "degraded" status |
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and keep stable profiles. This results in stable keywords being ignored, |
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but consistency of the ~c128 dependency tree is still enforced. |
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@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ b) An architecture prepares for becoming a stable architecture (think arm64). |
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as the stable dependency tree is not complete yet, the profiles need to be |
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set to dev/exp, and again this brings the danger of the ~arm64 dependency |
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tree getting inadvertently broken. Again the combination of setting the |
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- architecture to "testing" in arches.desc and profiles to stable helps. |
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+ architecture to "degraded" in arches.desc and profiles to stable helps. |
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Finally, at the moment the "semi-official" algorithm to figure out if an |
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architecture is stable in the colloquial sense (e.g., requires stabilization |
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@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ are ignored. Every blank line is ignored. Otherwise the file consists of two |
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whitespace-separated columns: |
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- first column: architecture name (keyword) |
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-- second column: one of the three values ``stable``, ``testing``, ``unstable`` |
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+- second column: one of the three values ``stable``, ``degraded``, ``unstable`` |
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Additional columns are ignored to allow for future revisions of this document. |
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amd64 stable |
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x86 stable # not for long |
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- mips testing |
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+ sparc degraded |
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m68k unstable outdated |
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Initial value in the gentoo repository |
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-------------------------------------- |
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On introduction, the setting will be ``stable`` for all stable architectures, |
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-``testing`` for all architectures where "inofficial" stable keywords are |
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+``degraded`` for all architectures where "inofficial" stable keywords are |
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maintained and are present in the repository by the arch teams (sh, s390, |
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...), and ``unstable`` everywhere else. |
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@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ by profiles.desc (and ``-d`` / ``-e`` switches). |
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This is the current behaviour and shall be the default if nothing is specified |
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for an architecture. |
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-testing |
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-~~~~~~~ |
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+degraded |
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+~~~~~~~~ |
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When a profile of an architecture is tested, then repoman treats ``arch`` |
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in ebuilds as ``~arch``, and tests consistency only for ``~arch``. |
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@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Which profiles of the arch are tested is still controlled by profiles.desc |
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(and ``-d`` / ``-e`` switches). |
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A new switch for repoman may be provided to temporarily upgrade |
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-an architecture from ``testing`` to ``stable`` status (for architecture team |
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+an architecture from ``degraded`` to ``stable`` status (for architecture team |
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work). |
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unstable |
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@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ arches.desc present and old system |
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Utilities ignore the unknown file. |
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Repoman and other tools may emit surplus dependency errors when profiles are |
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-checked on arches that are ``testing`` (they check the consistency |
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+checked on arches that are ``degraded`` (they check the consistency |
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of the stable tree alone, which may fail, since ``arch`` is supposed to be |
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treated like ``~arch``). This affects only development work and can be fixed |
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by updating repoman. |
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2.26.0 |