Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 19 -- Gentoo Stable Portage Tree

[Paul de Vrieze]

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On Tuesday 03 February 2004 01:24, Christian Hoenig wrote:
>
> Hi Paul, though I'm not the 'you', I will give my statement here.
>
> Long time ago I thougth about having an unstable/stable and mature
> kind of flag here. The point is, that sometimes changes from ~arch to
> arch occur and a short time later a return to ~arch is needed because
> the responsible dev overlooked a point which became clear by the
> community.
>
> A jump from for example 'x86' to 'stable:x86' (which could also be
> denoted as !x68) should only occur if it 'seems' to be testet from the
> community for at least some days!
>
> I hope you did get my point, if not, get back to me :-)

My point is that we want 1 flag. So if a package has the following 
keywords:
KEYWORDS="stable x86 ppc ~sparc ~hppa"

It would be included into the snapshot for x86 and ppc only. It is very 
uncommon for an ebuild that is stable enough to go into the snapshot to 
be accidently marked stable for an arch. Also we will have QA over the 
snapshot before it is released. This QA will at least involve making all 
packages (for a GRP tree). As we are dealing with a snapshot it is 
actually easier to ensure that things compile because a lot of variation 
is taken away. You can ensure that you only have say openssl-0.7 so you 
don't get problems with openssl-6

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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Mail: pauldv@g.o
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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