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Hello All |
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Well, on 2 of my 3 ppc boxen portage has died today (and I was blamed on |
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killing it by doing a ^C which is supposedly the cause all my problems - |
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accccccck). |
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There are far too many things going on inside portage right now to keep up to |
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things, so until the new version of portage drobbins has talked about is out |
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(possibly some time next week) and I can redo all my boxen I will not be |
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doing much of anything in portage. |
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We HAVE to educated x86 people immediately on not killing our ARCH and/or |
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ebuilds in general. It is simply just NOT ok to push a new ebuild with |
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absolutely no testing unless it is a simple typeo fix, etc. |
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I have been fighting this losing battle pretty much by myself for the past |
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week and don't have time tospend like this on things. With Pieter still out |
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of comission, Doc and daybird are going to be sparadically avail over the |
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summer and trance just getting up to speed on things it leaves myself and |
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kainz (who is up to his eyeballs working in kernels right now) to hold down |
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the fort. |
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I have been fixing 4-5 builds/mask problems daily (that are most often fixups |
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for bad updates pushed by other devs), not to mention working on new ebuilds, |
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etc. Those 4-5 things are things that work one day, next day they are broken |
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and has happened almost every single day since I started as a dev. |
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I updated my portage tree on one machine today (tree was 3 days old), and |
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there were over 100 (one hundred) changes to the portage tree in 3 days, this |
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is getting rediculous...for example , (still unkown how or why even after I |
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spent most o the morning digging thru cvs logs) binutils got opened up to the |
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world today with a version that (thanks goodness it didnt actually try to |
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install itself) would have literally destroyed functionality on all ppc |
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user's machines that installed it, irrecoverably. Things are out of control, |
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we need QA and we need it _NOW_ damnit! |
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I also ask (on behalf of peeps in #gentoo-dev) that anyone making changes to |
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packages or packages.mask filesplease put your name and date in with a |
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comment on ALL changes. This applies to all developers and since 2 ppc devs |
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(no names ;) broke this rule within the last 12 hours I was asked by drobbins |
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to metnion this to the peeps in question. ;) |
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Overly frustrated and taking a break |
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Gerk |