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On Friday 30 April 2004 17:16, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 16:32 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > For me, this could best be implemented outside the gentoo project. We |
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> > could then list binary distro's based of gentoo or something like that. |
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> > We then need to add support for better binary dependency checking to |
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> > portage, but it should be possible to pull it off. Full continuously |
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> > updatable like debian is hard though and much of that work should be done |
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> > by the developers of such a gentoo based distro. |
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> I think it could be implimented in Gentoo, however, the first thing that |
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> needs to happen is frozen trees with only security updates. This is of |
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> great desireability for our enterprise users. Once that is done, adding |
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> binary support to that frozen tree is fairly easy. For instance, lets |
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This disregards the quite essential "incremental" feature. |
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> say we have a new frozen tree with every release. So right now the |
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> newest tree would be 2004.1. We could start by offering just the grp |
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> packages (and their security updates). A person can always move up |
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> trees (maybe down, but that would be harder) and the highest tree would |
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> be the unstable tree (our current stable tree). This way there would be |
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> binaries (GRP) on each tree except unstable. Of course, this is not |
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> continuously updateable as debian is. However, is can be argued that |
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> continuously updateable is not a "Good Thing" TM. So to recap, frozen |
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> trees with security updates would be a HUGE step towards a binary based |
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> distro. After the frozen trees all we need to do is expand our GRP |
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> offerings. BTW, the nice thing about this is that even if a binary |
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> isn't available on your tree, you can still always use good ole source |
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> packages. AND, if one of the binaries isn't built the way you like, |
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> just rebuild it from source. What do you think? |
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Long way to go to do this right, and some other things probably have a higher |
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priority. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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