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Developers, |
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Here's an important status update. |
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As of right now, the latest test version of Portage on CVS is a bit flaky. |
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Unfortunately, I've been very busy over here and haven't had a chance to tackle |
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Achim's Portage buglist yet. So, if your current Portage is working perfectly |
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-- great -- and don't upgrade to the latest version just yet. I'll get the |
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bugs fixed as soon as I can, and I'll let you know when Portage is ready. |
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Secondly, if you have been using any 2.4 kernels below 2.4.2, then it's very |
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likely that your ReiserFS filesystems are slightly corrupted. Unfortunately |
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for us, there were a number of major bugs in the supposedly stable ReiserFS |
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code prior to 2.4.3. For this reason, cvs.gentoo.org is now back on ext2 for |
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the time being, until I ensure that 2.4.2 ReiserFS with namesys patches have no |
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problems. If you are storing critical data on your Gentoo Linux system, please |
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back it up immediately -- and remember that Gentoo Linux should not be used on |
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production systems until version 1.0_final is released. If you are using it in |
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a production environment (like me), then be prepared to deal with things like |
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this -- you're on the bleeding edge. |
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It is very likely that kernel 2.4.4 or 2.4.5 will end up being the first real |
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stable 2.4 series kernel. Which should coincide nicely with the next release |
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of Gentoo Linux. |
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Best Regards, |
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-- |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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