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On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> El lun, 20-02-2012 a las 20:02 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: |
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>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:17:30 -0800 |
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>> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > On 02/20/2012 05:03 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: |
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>> > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100 |
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>> > > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > > |
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>> > >> I don't know if this has been discussed before but, what issues are |
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>> > >> preventing us from unmasking gcc-4.6 (and think on a near |
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>> > >> stabilization)? |
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>> > >> |
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>> > >> I have read hardmask message but it simply explains that it's masked for |
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>> > >> testing purposes :-/ |
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>> > > |
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>> > > Grub is the only blocker. I don't want to unmask something that makes |
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>> > > people's systems unbootable. |
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>> > > |
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>> > > I'm also out of ideas and open to suggestions. |
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>> > Stabilize grub-1.99, and modify the grub-0.9x ebuilds to die if they |
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>> > can't find a supported compiler. |
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>> What's the state of 1.99? I know someone was working on it recently. We'd |
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>> also have to update the handbooks. I think it could be several months of |
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>> work to get it ready, and I'd like to unmask 4.6 last September. |
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> As looks like fixing old grub is far away because nobody know what is |
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> causing that issues, probably trying to get grub-1.99 ready for |
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> stabilization would be interesting (we will need to do that sooner or |
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> later anyway) |
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Ubuntu has used grub2 for 3 years, I am considering working on making |
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it stable for at least x86 / amd64. |
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