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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] keywording of new style virtuals
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:25:33
Message-Id: 4E14C314.5050304@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] keywording of new style virtuals by William Hubbs
1 On 06.07.2011 22:45, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:17:28PM +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >> On 06.07.2011 21:55, William Hubbs wrote:
4 >>> All,
5 >>>
6 >>> from my previous discussion, I am about to put a new virtual in the
7 >>> tree. Do I need to use the same ~arch/30 day wait/stabilize cycle I
8 >>> would normally use even though the default package the virtual will
9 >>> bring in is stable everywhere?
10 >>>
11 >>> I'm thinking I can take the virtual straight to stable in this situation,,
12 >>> but I want to be sure.
13 >>>
14 >>
15 >> Nothing stable should be using the virtual at the time of commit so
16 >> what's the benefit of going stable fast? Repoman should also be
17 >> preventing commits straight to stable. I would stable the virtual at the
18 >> same time as someone stable starts to use it (which probably means the
19 >> 30 day period).
20 >
21 > Actually we could use it faster than that. I want to add a
22 > virtual/service-manager (see http://bugs.gentoo.org/373843) for
23 > sys-apps/openrc and sys-apps/systemd then add it to the system set, so
24 > it would be used immediately everywhere.
25 >
26 > That will also make it possible for folks using systemd to remove
27 > openrc from their systems if they want to do so, which they
28 > can't right now because baselayout has a PDEPEND on openrc.
29 >
30
31 I don't see why one would need to hurry with changing the system set. On
32 the contrary I would proceed more cautiously than usual.
33
34 Regards,
35 Petteri

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