Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp

[David Seifert]

On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 15:40 -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> On 5/10/17 3:29 PM, David Seifert wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 22:24 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> > > Ühel kenal päeval, K, 10.05.2017 kell 15:01, kirjutas Anthony G.
> > > Basile:
> > > > On 5/10/17 11:08 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:04:54AM +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness
> > > > > > @gen
> > > > > > to
> > > > > > o.org> wrote:
> > > > > > > I maintain quite a few ppc stage3's for uclibc and
> > > > > > > musl.  I
> > > > > > > would
> > > > > > > appreciate keeping ppc as is.  It is still a useful arch
> > > > > > > for
> > > > > > > many
> > > > > > > devices today, eg. some high end Mikrotik routers.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So are you willing to do the work? There are currently 68
> > > > > > open
> > > > > > keyword
> > > > > > requests (oldest one reported in 2011) and 48 open stable
> > > > > > requests
> > > > > > (oldest one reported in November).
> > > > >
> > > > > +1000
> > > > >
> > > > > If we are going to keep ppc as a stable profile, someone
> > > > > needs to
> > > > > do the
> > > > > keywording and stabilization for it.
> > > > >
> > > > > William
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > the current plan by Soap et al is to drop all keywords except
> > > > for
> > > > @system and leave the profiles stable.  this works for me and
> > > > addresses
> > > > your concern.
> > >
> > > Are we talking about dropping all keywords besides @system things
> > > from
> > > ppc to ~ppc or completely?
> > > I guess the latter as the former doesn't solve keywording lag?
> > >
> > >
> > > Mart
> > >
> >
> > The latter, as that is the only way to restore sanity. I will be
> > preparing a list.
> >
>
> So let's make sure we're on the same page -- here's my understanding.
>
> 1) For @system packages, we will have KEYWORDS="ppc" for the stable
> versions and KEYWORDS="~ppc" for the rest.
>
> 2) For non @system packages we will remove both ppc and ~ppc
> keywords.
>
> 3) If for some reason I need to add back a package to build/maintain
> stage3/4, I will rekeyword myself, but other than that, we will *not*
> balloon the keywords.
>
> 4) I will take on the responsibility of stabilizing ppc @system
> packages
> if need be.
>

That's the plan, correct.