[gentoo-releng] Re: ppc outlines for the release

[Daniel Ostrow]

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> Although ppc64 is able to use multilib, we would do separate
> releases.  Well, we could include two squashfs on the LiveCD
> and boot separate kernels, but that will only stress our
> mirrors as every ppc-user has to download stuff he (mostly)
> does not need.

Agreed. ppc and ppc64 will have separate livecds for this release.

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> ppc32 is missing a 2005.1-profile!  This is urgent and must
> be done soon, so that I can test it.  Changes would be to
> create profiles for G3, G4, Pegasos, rs6k and OldWorld.
> Mostly some USE-Flags must be set or another default
> bootloader.
>
> ppc64 has a nice new profile, but it seems that there are
> some hickups ;-)

The new profiles are in and all under
default-linux/ppc/2005.1/{ppc,ppc64}. Check them out while they are
still hot.

> We want to cut the support of too many stages and GRP-sets.
> My aim is:
> * ppc32-generic (ppc60x, G3/ppc75x)
> * ppc32-altivec (G4/ppc74xx)
> * ppc64

Speaking only for ppc64, we have MANY potential targets and have yet to
finalize a decision on what we will be providing stages for, what will
be going on the main mirrors and what will be hitting bit-torrent. The
multilib targets are still a bit too fresh in my opinion to be
considering making something as popular as the G5 stages multilib only,
chances are that there will be both 32 and 64-bit userland releases.
Multilib stuff is probably going to be bit-torrent only, or maybe just a
stage1 that users can build off of. There are a lot of choices out there
and I'm trying to be conscious of our mirror space.

Regarding ppc32 I see the following as a good target:

Generic ppc32 stage1
Generic ppc32 stage2
G4 stage2
Generic ppc32 stage3
G4 stage3
Pegasos stage3

This leaves users the ability to create a G3 optimized system off of the
Generic stage{1,2}. 

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Thanks,

--Dan