Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4.1 and GRP

[Luke-Jr]

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Since we are (probably) moving to having the GRPs themselves on the mirrors 
(and not ISOs), this is probably better accomplished by simply making new 
GRPs for every (major) release of commonly GRP'd packages and keeping them in 
a "current" directory.

On Monday 15 September 2003 03:59 pm, Brad Laue wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> A concern of mine about many Linux distributions is that in the long
> haul between binary releases of a distribution, the packages included
> with the release can become quite old. In Gentoo's case, if one GRP
> installed their system nine months from now and emerge -u'd, they would
> be faced with a considerable number of packages to update (I wouldn't be
> surprised if it was all of them).
>
> The Gentoo 1.4.1 release re-ignited my curiosity on this topic. Will
> there be regular interim releases between major upgrades, or will
> releases like these solely fix bugs?
>
> If the latter, can a GRP ISO be created say, every two months? This
> would only add ~500MB per architecture involved, since there wouldn't be
> any need to archive the older versions of the ISO.
>
> Realising that Gentoo is of course a source-based distribution, quickly
> and easily installing the latest and greatest by using emerge -k, then
> optimizing by rebuilding incrementally has surely sparked a great deal
> of additional interest in the distribution.
>
> What does everyone think?
>
> Brad
>
>
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