Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 04/01/2014 01:54 AM, Micha³ Górny wrote:
>> >Also, I don't see that it should be an issue, but do you think this
>> >might affect catalyst runs --- I have to ask because
>> >repairing/reconfiguring seeds is a lot of work.
> Well, I think this mostly depends on whether you want multiple multilib
> ABIs in stages -- or if you assume that the toolchain is enough,
> and people will build other ABIs as they need.
>
> Though I think that once toolchain switches to abi_* flags (vapier
> seems to show interest in that), we will use.force the necessary ABIs
> on it and its dependencies, so there should be no explicit need for
> change.
>
> However, I guess the toolchain changes will be sent out for testing
> anyway, so releng can check first hand.
I have taken a non-standard approach to the hardened/linux/uclibc 
profiles where I do no inherit from arch.  There was too much cruft in 
arch, so I just mirror the relevant stuff including the abi flag stuff.  
I understand my approach has pros/cons ... but give out the should when 
the change is being tested and I'll see if I'm about to have any 
breakage.   I currently seed at least 12 different 
arches/isa/abi/hard-soft float combinations which would be a pita to fix 
manually on native (read slow) hardware.

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