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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About current ppc/ppc64 status
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:56:08
Message-Id: 53D2B6A0.4070009@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About current ppc/ppc64 status by Pacho Ramos
1 On 07/25/14 15:50, Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > El vie, 25-07-2014 a las 15:38 -0400, Anthony G. Basile escribió:
3 >> On 07/25/14 15:28, Pacho Ramos wrote:
4 >>> That is the reason for me thinking that maybe the way to go would be to
5 >>> do the opposite -> keep only base-system and a few others stable and
6 >>> drop stable for most of the rest. This big effort could be accomplished
7 >>> in a week by other developers willing to help (like me) and would solve
8 >>> the issue for the long term. I guess that is what HPPA team did in the
9 >>> past and I think it's working pretty well for them (in summary, have a
10 >>> stable tree they are able to keep stable). That will also help people in
11 >>> ppc* teams to know that the remaining stabilization bugs, apart of being
12 >>> much less, are important enough to deserve rapid attention, as opposed
13 >>> to current situation that will have some important bugs mixed with tons
14 >>> of stabilization requests of apps that got ppc stable keywords years ago
15 >>> and are currently no so important.
16 >>>
17 >> Yes, please let's just do base system stable. I've been randomly taking
18 >> care of ppc but nothing systematic. Its pretty spotty. But at the same
19 >> time I don't like the idea of just loosing all the stabilization effort
20 >> on the base system, so that might work best. Something to think about
21 >> for mips too.
22 >>
23 >>
24 > Nice, one think we would need to discuss is what do we consider base
25 > system :/
26 >
27 > I guess packages maintained by base-system, toolchain and... xorg-server
28 > and co... what more
29 >
30 > Not sure if we could have a list of current stable tree for ppc*, once
31 > do we have that list, ppc* teams can drop from that list what they want
32 > and we get a new list that will be the final result. What do you think
33 > about that?
34 >
35 >
36
37 At the very least, its what's needed to build the stages with catalyst.
38 I would think we should start with base/packages, but I don't want to
39 limit it to just those because I at least need a more for building and
40 maintaining. Where should we start to compile such a list?
41
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43 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] About current ppc/ppc64 status William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>