From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ja7Ua-0005LW-6l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:50:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78CC6E04D9; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53ACDE04D9 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8410266314; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:50:26 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-qa] splitting up package.mask Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:51:15 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Steve Dibb References: <47D9EA1D.5070602@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <47D9EA1D.5070602@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7202192.UBhFZhXsah"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200803140651.15897.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 34acf72f-4739-4663-ab0d-340d94ecce05 X-Archives-Hash: 6988c37d4ce78bbf896d83523a30a2b8 --nextPart7202192.UBhFZhXsah Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 13 March 2008, Steve Dibb wrote: > Because package.mask in CVS for profiles is so huge, I think it might > help it to get organized if we split it up a bit. > > halcyon had a good idea for the scheme: testing, broken, removal. That > seems to sum up the main 3 reason that a package would be masked. > > Right now there are 679 entries in package.mask. The reason I came up > with the idea was to find a way to make it easier for treecleaners to > quickly see which ones they were working on. > > I'd like to take the discussion to -dev but wanted to get QA's thoughts > first. I haven't looked into whether or not this is technically > feasible at all. i think the real solution here is allowing masking in a package -mike --nextPart7202192.UBhFZhXsah Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUAR9pYo0FjO5/oN/WBAQK4qxAAvQclYXi9izqCFAYnh2CKxZcC0xoaYPxI 0aX1SHPAhweXtNPvhLLDl7KPaaqAtNRZazA0Bn6tcj7hK7BDzNCaBa1RTMsJKXvL H9fYO/wlQywDzyCFrii2zc/u4R5zsNt8pgG4sNgKA+Mf3fVHfjMkysXN00OzAdna IHOzw0Y+2C7RlTjz8DnWvMxO+2tqnExPW5ZgpTotaYpNmX3WTGQJSC/LnlQGnKf5 vv0ElKq+tz+fRoP+F9w9Jy4sQmcsp9mAiJ99rUuqVPfp5b9/KchKODyl7qIStCgy jx9x4MsSJ69Ibm9viiH9Wd4s40dhyITRe9D8aHB1HhXK8HKRf0qNwp9WB+UDe39a nO5fe/vU3H5HTYwslp1N/FJqz3CD6u2qzFkuKRycC3b2svJVkECosI8w0Z1N0C5u vFYUaOyuYktlR8WLAvn8xJvxnJBOcDU+Art1/qYu3Qk7Rd+hLOat/Zq7oTSklLrF 98PnLpta3vzCWSOXu2PEYabgyGc753r9sjQU5NFweR52tO8kYvpxQEgwRsBV0/fu dpEe4DaHHfsDpwhB3py8Wc0Kk4ZMokSf2HSIHGiM4W9YLjBXCqOOgUVHgFg9HdN2 lx75lTepfrVdN4RH5jY694zESrzkPQRbwXgBkBVQyaoTdPvQgQpYwYN336c4oC4g m5lxYcFdhbg= =pE8o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7202192.UBhFZhXsah-- -- gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org mailing list