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From: Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Rolf Eike Beer <eike@×××××××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywordreqs and slacking arch teams
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 02:40:45
Message-Id: 2B1E46E2-A1D6-4EAB-962E-FEB258B815A3@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywordreqs and slacking arch teams by Rolf Eike Beer
1 On January 2, 2020 6:35:08 PM EST, Rolf Eike Beer <eike@×××××××.de> wrote:
2 >Am Freitag, 3. Januar 2020, 00:25:06 CET schrieb Mike Pagano:
3 >> On Thursday, January 2, 2020 3:32:12 PM EST Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
4 >> > > - Allowed a simple "Add keyword(s) <y..> for package <x>"
5 >interface,
6 >> > >
7 >> > > that intelligently created an issue and a target list, and then
8 >once
9 >> > > the list was built, constantly ensured the list to be valid, or
10 >> > > determined automatically when sub-work was completed and
11 >reducing the
12 >> > > published list automatically, and then responded to potential
13 >issues
14 >> > > based on changes in git, ( as opposed to being only triggered
15 >when
16 >> > > the bug was touched )
17 >> >
18 >> > As someone who does both keywordings and stabilizations regularly
19 >on hppa
20 >>
21 >> > and sparc I think I must share a bit of my experiences:
22 >> <snip>
23 >>
24 >> hppa is making us keep old kernels around [1]. Should the kernel
25 >team be
26 >> doing more to get your attention then CC'ing hppa on all of the
27 >kernel
28 >> STABLEREQ bugs [2]?
29 >
30 >I only run vanilla-sources since there are still lot of cache
31 >corruption
32 >problems in hppa kernels, or whatever makes them flaky.
33 >
34 >Linux pioneer 5.4.6-parisc64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 27 10:23:09 CET 2019
35 >parisc64
36 >PA8800 (Mako) 9000/785/C8000 GNU/Linux
37 >Linux voyager 5.4.6-parisc #1 Fri Dec 27 15:46:43 CET 2019 parisc
38 >PA8600 (PCX-
39 >W+) 9000/785/C3600 GNU/Linux
40 >
41 >So _I_ personally would say just drop old kernels, but that is in no
42 >way
43 >authorative.
44 >
45 >Eike
46
47 Ugh. gentoo-sources is just a patch (trivial) on top of vanilla-kernel sources of each stable and LTS version.
48
49 --
50 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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