Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the freeze?

[Evan Read]

I have two (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8828) - depends on
8827.

Get them at http://eread.freeshell.org/ebuilds.php.

Let me know what you think

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 21:31, Rigo Ketelings wrote:
>
> For those who cannot wait, I made a lot of builds lately:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=new+ebuild&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailreporter1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=rigo%40home.nl&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
>
> Please help me test them,
>
> ;-) Rigo
>
>
>
> On Wednesday 09 October 2002 12:11, Christian Skarby wrote:
> > > I wrote this in the middle of a thread on the forums, and it was
> > >
> > > suggested I ask here:
> > >> That said, are we sure the freeze is so necessary? I presume it's so a
> > >> static Portage state can be used for testing the install CD. Why not
> > >> just use a snapshot of the frozen tree, test with that one, then have
> > >> it be the one included on the stage-3 CD?
> >
> > The freeze is initiated in order to get rid of bugs from existing ebuilds.
> > Mon 07 Oct 2002, 0800 GMT:7420 bugs down (4932 fixes), 1448 to go
> >
> > And well, I believe we'd like all ebuilds in portage to work properly, on
> > the other hand there are probably a lot of new ebuilds coming up from
> > external developers that is waiting on bugs.gentoo.org for inclusion when
> > the freeze is lifted. I believe those will be tested before they are
> > included into the live portage tree. Looking forward to the time when the
> > bugs are sorted out and new ebuilds once again are made availiable through
> > rsync.
> >
> > Christian
> >
> >
> >
> >
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