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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Stablizing portage 2.1
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 22:37:34
Message-Id: 44568D7C.10906@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Stablizing portage 2.1 by Zac Medico
1 Zac Medico wrote:
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5 > Alec Warner wrote:
6 >> Marius Mauch wrote:
7 >>> Alec Warner schrieb:
8 >>>> Why Branch at 2.1_pre9?
9 >>>> Manifest2 is already in the tree and needs refinement. Branching at
10 >>>> pre7 is also a canidate, but i would rather press for keeping manifest2
11 >>>> in the tree and fixing up it's code instead.
12 >>> Why not pre10?
13 >>>
14 >> Because pre10 seems to introduce repoman problems that haven't been
15 >> solved and I've like to break out the RC's soon.
16 >>
17 >> Zmedico did a lot of things with usage of global variables, however I
18 >> think that getting all that tested ( especially in scripts that we don't
19 >> keep track of ) is detremental to getting portage stable. I agree that
20 >> it's an important step; however it's just code cleanup. It is not
21 >> necessary for 2.1.
22 >>
23 >> I'm looking at the diff from pre9 and pre10, and I will backport any
24 >> bugfixes if that makes everyone happy.
25 >>
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27 > In my cleanup of globals I took special care to maintain backward
28 > compatibility. I have mr_bones_ and halcyon doing profiling to
29 > track down the cause of the repoman performance issue. It should be
30 > a simple fix when we find the problem.
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32 > Zac
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34 As most people would expect you to, however there are no regression
35 tests to prove you succeeded other than just having people test it.
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Stablizing portage 2.1 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>