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On 19/03/18 18:48, Toralf Förster wrote: |
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> honestly. |
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> When I started with my tinderbox 2 or 3 years ago I had often a fair |
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> amount of manual work to made to get an image up and running - moslty |
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> tweaking USE flags to get blockers being solved. This yielded into a |
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> growing list of fixed USE flags settings for certain packages. |
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> But over the time this list became small and smaller and eventually this |
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> month I kicked off the last few lines (famous last words?). |
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> Said that Gentoo has IMO a lot of success stories to tell too (beside |
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> the usual grumblings and annoyances) - and the quality of the Gentoo |
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> tree is IMO an example of that. |
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> /me was just in the mood for a statement like this |
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I think I speak for many readers of this list, in echo'ing a big |
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thank-you for your efforts on the Tinderbox project. Gentoo has been |
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slow to move to more automated testing methods, and this is a huge leap |
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forward in this regard. Hopefully, moving forward there will be less |
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human effort required to extend and maintain the tree of packages on |
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which we depend, and together with QA, huge strides forward are being |
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made to achieve this end. |
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It is quite useful to have a consistent means to test packages, and to |
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this end, hopefully we can eliminate some of the randomness that having |
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a very flexible build system creates! |
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Onwards and upwards ... |
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