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On 06/21/2013 11:47 PM, Greg KH wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:54:46PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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>> The bug where this was discussed is |
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>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338739 |
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> Thanks for the link, unfortunatly, things have changed since then, with |
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> stable kernel releases happening much more frequently now (instead of |
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> about ever 2-3 weeks, it's now, 1-2 releases a week. |
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> So the chance for an arch team to mark anything is going to be tough. |
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> greg k-h |
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I've been following, but I can't say I've been following closely. I'm |
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on the stable{,-commits}@vger list and the rate at which this stuff is |
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coming is too fast for human consumption. |
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We could just drop stabilization of vanilla-sources and have people |
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follow ~arch. That might be closer to the meaning of ~testing vs stable |
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in other packages: other upstreams push out releases they consider |
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stable, but we don't consider them stable within Gentoo until our QA |
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team tests. |
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Another reason for dropping all vanilla-sources to ~arch is that we have |
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some Gentoo specific needs that upstream will not and should not accept, |
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eg we are making greater use of extended attributes in our package |
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management, so we need end-to-end copying of xattrs. This means |
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preserving certain namespaces (beyond security.* and trusted.*) on tmpfs |
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for emerge. Gentoo users that use vanilla-sources will loose those |
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xattr values making vanilla-sources ~ with respect to the rest of Gentoo. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. |
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Chair of Information Technology |
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D'Youville College |
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