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On 02 May 2004, at 19:01, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 12:37, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote: |
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>> I haven't seen anything tangible about a beta installer. |
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>> History learns that it will most likely be totally PPC incompatible |
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>> and |
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>> require hours of patching on my part. Hours I'd like to spend on some, |
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>> more thrilling parts such as portage-ng. |
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> Perhaps you or another member of the PPC team could jump in early, |
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> while |
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> it's easiest to deal with any issues, instead of a preemptive |
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> complaint. |
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> Communication is the key here. People without PPC expertise can't |
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> magically make things work on PPC without knowing all the issues at |
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> hand. |
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I noted that projects whose requirements indicate they will be (amongst |
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other architectures) ppc compatible, but are implemented and designed |
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by people without much ppc expertise and whose lead hasn't proactively |
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involved people with ppc expertise, at least for testing (assuming |
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something testable is available), will require a lot of work on my part |
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when they suddenly become obliged (as in: a feature for all the |
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architectures releasing), in this case less than 2 weeks before I need |
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to start building the 2004.2 release. (check releng release roadmap). |
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A few remarks: |
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- The uml/design looks good, but I can't seem to find any code. I would |
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like to point out that release features need to be completed (and |
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tested) before the release is build, which is rather soon, |
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unfortunately. |
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- The ppc livecd differs from the x86 livecd. Can you check your |
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dependencies against our release doc and let me know in advance what |
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needs to be added. That way the ppc livecd is ready by the time you |
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want to include something for testing. |
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- I think the GLIarchitectureTemplate and GLIInstallProfile subclasses |
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need to be implemented by the architectures. Can you let me know the |
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specifics. |
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- X needs to be set up semi-automatically on the ppc X-enabled livecds, |
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Xeasyconf-ng will probably/hopefully change that. |
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- Genkernel is a bottleneck, in theory a new genkernel release is |
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needed for each kernel revision, otherwise the kernel won't be |
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installable. (My suggestion is to include a livecd .config in the |
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kernel ebuild, or drop the user to menuconfig/Xconfig otherwise) |
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- Is there an eta for a beta ebuild? |
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Best regards, |
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Pieter Van den Abeele |
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