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On 09/09/17 12:23, R0b0t1 wrote: |
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> On Saturday, September 9, 2017, Johnson Steward <i@××××××××.moe> wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> I've been messing with Gentoo FreeBSD these days and, finally, got to the |
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> current latest version available. As upgrading is really a tiring process |
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> (lots and lots and lots of bootstrapping the tool chain and bunches of |
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> blocks in the current stages), I'm thinking of sharing my currently working |
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> system as a staged for further testing for those who are interested. |
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>> Yet I can't come up with an appropriate location for the stage4 to be |
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> hosted. 1.4GB is obviously too large for a pastebin even if |
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> bzip2-compressed, and consumer-level cloud storage providers like Google |
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> Drive or OneDrive will create unnecessary chaos when trying to actually |
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> install the system (virtually impossible to interact with that |
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> JavaScript-based system within the FreeBSD livecd), and I don't have an |
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> account for Google Cloud Storage or AWS either. |
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>> Is there a suitable location to host such a stage? I'm currently not a |
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> Gentoo developer, yet I really want my work to benefit the Gentoo FreeBSD |
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> community. |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> |
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>> Johnson Steward |
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> Contact desultory@g.o. |
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While I am willing to help people find suitable avenues for |
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contributions to Gentoo; that reply, especially unqualified and coming |
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barely half an hour after the initial post was made, rather strongly |
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implies that I would be the right point of contact to actually get the |
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stages hosted. That is simply not the case. |
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I would, at best, have directed them similarly to how robbat2 did, |
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probably while lacking some of the details which he posted. Further, |
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they were already posting on gentoo-dev, so they were inquiring |
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somewhere that is virtually assured of reaching suitable persons. |
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So, please, if you are going to suggest to others that they contact me |
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to help them find a suitable point of contact, do not do so on |
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gentoo-dev (as they have almost certainly reached suitable persons |
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already), and make it explicitly clear that I would only be helping them |
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find a suitable point of contact with which to proceed. |
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> Thank you for your work. There's still lots of things that are harder than |
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> they should be. |
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> Cheers, |
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> R0b0t1 |
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