Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Sylvain Alain <d2_racing@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-releng] A stage* and distfile download script instead of links
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:12:19
Message-Id: BAY132-W5A7EFA0B183B42DC46940D63A0@phx.gbl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] A stage* and distfile download script instead of links by Chris Gianelloni
1 I think it's best to let the user decide what he wants to download.
2 That really *is* the point of pointing people to the mirrors, directly.
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4 I think that you are right mr.Gianelloni, give the user the choice is the best way :)
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7 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] A stage* and distfile download script instead of links
8 > From: wolf31o2@g.o
9 > To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
10 > Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:12:18 -0800
11 >
12 > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:57 -0600, John Alberts wrote:
13 > > I think it's a good idea too. Just a small script called 'getsources'
14 > > or something that gets a stage tarball and portage snapshot.
15 >
16 > Alright, since people seem hung up on this idea. Which stage tarball?
17 > Regular? uclibc? Hardened? What will you use to determine which version
18 > to even get? The CD itself really has nothing on it to identify the
19 > version, so how will your script know where to go?
20 >
21 > See, computers are good at dumb, repetitive tasks. They tend to suck
22 > hard on anything that requires even the slightest amount of grey matter.
23 > I think it's best to let the user decide what he wants to download.
24 > That really *is* the point of pointing people to the mirrors, directly.
25 >
26 > --
27 > Chris Gianelloni
28 > Release Engineering Strategic Lead
29 > Games Developer
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