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On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto |
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> <jmbsvicetto@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>> An area that always bothered me was stage3 building, but I think our |
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>>> catalyst docs have improved. I don't know if following the wiki guide |
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>>> leads to a stage3 identical to our published one or not... |
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>> Rich, please make an effort to ask the correct people before making such |
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>> comments that can be misread as meaning that the RelEng team is building |
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>> stages "in secret" or questioning how anyone can be certain about what is |
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>> built. |
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> The only comments I made were: |
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> 1. IN THE PAST I was concerned about stage3 building. |
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> 2. Things have improved. |
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> 3. I am unsure if following the wiki guide leads to a stage3 |
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> identical to our published one or not. |
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> All three remain just as true after your comments. :) I'm certainly |
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> interested in clarification on the last one. It isn't actually enough |
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> to publish a repo full of files - you also have to document how you |
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> use them. That may very well already be documented in the Catalyst |
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> wiki page. |
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I don't know what wiki page you are talking about, but to build stages |
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based on the official specs and using the releng repo, one needs only to |
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put the following into cron to build amd64 / x86: |
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/release/releng/tools/catalyst-auto -c |
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/release/releng/tools/catalyst-auto-amd64.conf |
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/release/releng/tools/catalyst-auto -c |
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/release/releng/tools/catalyst-auto-x86.conf |
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This will use the /release mountpoint to do the building and save of |
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stages. Unless we've fixed it already (I don't think we did), that will |
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fail loudly if it's a symlink - that's why I still have a local fork to |
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build stages on my build server under /home/release. This is something we |
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plan to make more flexible in the catalyst-3 rewrite. |
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> As far as "misreading" goes - people will read what they want to read |
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> into just about anything that anybody says. I try to clearly state |
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> what I mean, and I'm sure I do it imperfectly. If somebody isn't sure |
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> what I mean, they're more than welcome to talk to me about it. |
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I hope the above and the previous email helped address your concerns and |
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cleared any doubts. |
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Regards, |
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Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto |
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Gentoo Developer |
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