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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Stablizing portage 2.1
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 22:25:19
Message-Id: 44568A71.9020303@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Stablizing portage 2.1 by Alec Warner
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4 Alec Warner wrote:
5 > Marius Mauch wrote:
6 >> Alec Warner schrieb:
7 >>> Why Branch at 2.1_pre9?
8 >>> Manifest2 is already in the tree and needs refinement. Branching at
9 >>> pre7 is also a canidate, but i would rather press for keeping manifest2
10 >>> in the tree and fixing up it's code instead.
11 >>
12 >> Why not pre10?
13 >>
14 >
15 > Because pre10 seems to introduce repoman problems that haven't been
16 > solved and I've like to break out the RC's soon.
17 >
18 > Zmedico did a lot of things with usage of global variables, however I
19 > think that getting all that tested ( especially in scripts that we don't
20 > keep track of ) is detremental to getting portage stable. I agree that
21 > it's an important step; however it's just code cleanup. It is not
22 > necessary for 2.1.
23 >
24 > I'm looking at the diff from pre9 and pre10, and I will backport any
25 > bugfixes if that makes everyone happy.
26 >
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28 In my cleanup of globals I took special care to maintain backward
29 compatibility. I have mr_bones_ and halcyon doing profiling to
30 track down the cause of the repoman performance issue. It should be
31 a simple fix when we find the problem.
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33 Zac
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Stablizing portage 2.1 Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>