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On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 17:41, Jason Huebel wrote: |
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> On Thursday 12 August 2004 2:40 pm, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> > I'm very confused. Some developers tell me that we should use the cascading |
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> > profiles now and that the flat profiles are outdated; |
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This is true. |
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> others tell me that |
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> > cascading profiles are still in development and shouldn't be advised for |
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> > normal usage. |
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Whoever told you this is wrong. |
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> > What's the truth behind this? Do we all need to use the cascading profiles |
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> > and the bootstrap-cascade.sh script or the flat profiles with the |
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> > bootstrap.sh script? |
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Both obsolete and should be removed from the tree in my opinion. |
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> > A very confused Sven Vermeulen |
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> BTW, I'm the sorry b*st*rd that started this... :-) I've gotten a couple of |
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> emails from users saying that the gentoo-upgrading doc tells them to use a |
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> cascading profile for their make.profile symlink. |
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> As I understand it, cascading profiles are in testing by devs and are targeted |
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> for public consumption in 2004.3. If that's the case, then the |
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> gentoo-upgrading doc needs to be changed. |
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cascading profiles have been in production for 2 releases now (atleast |
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for selinux) and they work. |
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Whats pending and this is getting old is somebody from releng unmasking |
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the cascade aware catalyst-1.0.8.1-r1.ebuild. |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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Gentoo (hardened,security,infrastructure,embedded,toolchain) Developer |
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