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On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 15:23, Olivier Crete wrote: |
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> I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one who thinks that stable should |
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> mean frozen, ie not moving and not, slowly moving or somewhat slowly |
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> moving.. |
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> While I'm at it, I propose renaming the GLEP 19 to "Gentoo Frozen |
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> Portage Tree" so people will not think that its about package stability. |
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> On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 15:03 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 14:05, Spider wrote: |
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> > > this is why I'd like to push, once more, for separated "stable" (frozen |
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> > > snapshot basically) and "updates" pushed in a separate repo. If we |
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> > > want others to use this in enterprise, we have to make it easy for them. |
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> > > :-) |
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> > |
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> > To accomplish this would require a change to portage, but I think it |
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> > could be done with minimal work. Allow me to ramble... *grin* |
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> Why not just set SYNC="" (so emerge sync will fail) and use gensync ? Or |
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> does emerge glsa not use overlays or something else like that? |
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I didn't think anything actually used overlays. The emerge glsa was |
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being designed to work like "emerge system" or "emerge world". It would |
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require a regular "emerge sync" step to work properly... at least, that |
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was my understanding. Forgive me if I'm wrong on that. |
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Personally, I think there should be as little change for the user as |
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possible. Breaking "emerge sync" is probably not the best way to go |
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about it. Causing "emerge sync" to perform a slightly different |
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function, though with the same results (getting new ebuilds) is probably |
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the way to go. While I doubt we would be using gensync directly, it |
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definitely gives us a strong starting point. I am going to say that I |
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wouldn't be opposed to using gensync and a separate repository, I just |
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think it ends up being overly complex, as if we're going to be offering |
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it as an "official" Gentoo release, we should add proper support into |
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the tools we already have (portage). Also, using portage and emerge |
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sync for updates allows a user to switch to the "current" tree with |
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almost no work. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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