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On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 17:06, Dylan Carlson wrote: |
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> On Friday 02 July 2004 4:29 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > A "tested profile" would also have to include specific versions, |
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> > otherwise there is no way that a person could properly certify the |
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> > validity of the test. |
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> I agree. The profiles only list ~70 packages and those versions aren't |
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> pinned. Although maybe they should be. The difference between the |
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> versions in a tested configuration/profile and what ends up getting |
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> installed later should include security updates (backported security |
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> fixes) -- which is not something we do right now... |
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...and I doubt that we ever will. Gentoo tries to remain as much like |
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the upstream packages as possible, which means we're more likely to |
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require an upgrade than to back-port a patch. This is the exact reason |
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why any plans for an enterprise version of Gentoo all focus on being a |
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separate project from Gentoo proper. I know for a fact that I don't |
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want to waste the precious development time that I have doing the |
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mundane task of back-porting patches to some old version of a package |
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that I've long since forgotten. |
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> My point is that I believe we could address this (at least in part) by |
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> pinning versions in profiles, and having repoman block commits that |
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> attempt to remove ebuilds that are required by a profile. It's not a new |
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> idea. This, instead of branching CVS. Although I'm not opposed to that |
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> idea either, but IIRC some devs are... |
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Pinning versions in the profiles sounds pretty cool, but it turns |
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*every* package maintainer and arch maintainer into a profile |
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maintainer, which I think is a bad idea. It also bloats the portage |
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tree, since there would be multiple versions of every ebuild, compared |
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to the one or two for most packages that we have now. I still think |
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that the "pinned" tree should be a separate branch. |
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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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