Re: [gentoo-releng] Gentoo 2004.1 Release

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 16:32 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> For me, this could best be implemented outside the gentoo project. We could
> then list binary distro's based of gentoo or something like that. We then
> need to add support for better binary dependency checking to portage, but it
> should be possible to pull it off. Full continuously updatable like debian is
> hard though and much of that work should be done by the developers of such a
> gentoo based distro.

I think it could be implimented in Gentoo, however, the first thing that
needs to happen is frozen trees with only security updates.  This is of
great desireability for our enterprise users.  Once that is done, adding
binary support to that frozen tree is fairly easy.  For instance, lets
say we have a new frozen tree with every release.  So right now the
newest tree would be 2004.1.  We could start by offering just the grp
packages (and their security updates).  A person can always move up
trees (maybe down, but that would be harder) and the highest tree would
be the unstable tree (our current stable tree).  This way there would be
binaries (GRP) on each tree except unstable.  Of course, this is not
continuously updateable as debian is.  However, is can be argued that
continuously updateable is not a "Good Thing" TM.  So to recap, frozen
trees with security updates would be a HUGE step towards a binary based
distro. After the frozen trees all we need to do is expand our GRP
offerings.  BTW, the nice thing about this is that even if a binary
isn't available on your tree, you can still always use good ole source
packages.  AND, if one of the binaries isn't built the way you like,
just rebuild it from source.  What do you think?

Nathaniel


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