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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] 2007.0 mojo
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:27:33
Message-Id: 1173874550.1137.4.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-doc] 2007.0 mojo by Josh Saddler
1 On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 23:54 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote:
2 > 1) kick out any and all code references to 2.4 kernels, assuming none
3 > are available for that arch -- note that things like vanilla-sources
4 > (which may have been a 2.4 kernel package) are unsupported. 2.6 only as
5 > much as possible.
6
7 No architectures are shipping 2.4-enabled media. You can still do an
8 install for 2.4 on a couple arches, but nobody's shipping it.
9
10 > 2) update kernel install directions: no more "cp vmlinuz foo" or any
11 > more "cp arch/whatever bar". let's get this thing modernized. No need
12 > for it; a simple "make && make modules_install && make install" does the
13 > whole thing for you, no manual intervention is required, beyond reading
14 > grub.conf to make sure it's pointed to kernel /vmlinuz. "make install"
15 > is much better than the cp crap.
16
17 Personally, I don't like this one, but I'm not really the one making the
18 calls here. My main complaint is that it's actually very inconsistent
19 in what it does across multiple architectures. As someone who owns (and
20 uses) 9 architectures, I prefer the manual instructions better as it
21 gives me a clearer picture of what is actually going on behind the
22 scenes.
23
24 > Thoughts? Also, can I get some help in tracking down people from the
25 > alpha, hppa, sparc, and MIPS arch teams on answering a few questions,
26 > such as do they have a packages CD for this release (or any other
27 > CD/media changes), what version will their included kernel be, any
28 > changes to the CFLAGS currently listed at the top of handbook-$arch.xml,
29 > etc. Maybe someone from releng knows all that? Would be much
30 > appreciated, thanks. Well, in addition to finding out the usual "has
31 > anything changed in the install procedures for your arch in this
32 > release". ;)
33
34 Well, all you have to do is ask. ;]
35
36 Alpha and SPARC will have a packages CD.
37
38 I'll get the rest for you today.
39
40 > I figure we have two weeks, tops, to make this all happen, so let's pull
41 > it together and get rolling. I've already added the networked stuff to
42 > draft/ and have begun working on them. Go get 'em! :)
43
44 --
45 Chris Gianelloni
46 Release Engineering Strategic Lead
47 Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
48 Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
49 Gentoo Foundation

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Re: [gentoo-doc] 2007.0 mojo Xavier Neys <neysx@g.o>