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On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:59 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> >> |
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> > If I'm not mistaken, comments #4 and #5 (the last two comments) pertain |
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> > to you. |
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> Well, yes, but they don't say anything (to me) as best I read. Or |
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> maybe I don't understand how the folks that work in those areas talk |
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> these days. |
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I believe what comment #4 is saying is that while, |
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sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.12 fixes the issue that version is not in ppc |
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stable. |
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I believe what vapier is saying, albeit crudely and tersely, in comment |
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#5 is that he did is job (which was to fix the bug) and if you need the |
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fix in stable then you need to file a ppc stabilization bug. Presumably |
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vapier doesn't handle ppc stabilization bugs so he's passing the buck. |
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> Basically it seems it's broken for ppc, the folks in that thread |
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> understand it's broken, and then what? Those comments were two months |
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> ago. |
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If the author of comment #4 hasn't already done so, I would recommend |
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that you file a ppc stabilization bug for baselayout-1.12.12. |
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> I'm lost. |
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HTH |
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> I went back to kbd-1.13-r1and the problem is gone but then another |
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> problem appears where it cannot map character code 0 to some other |
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> value. I've lost that message for now as I start MythTV automatically |
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> and cannot get back in the console becuase of X messages but it's in |
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> the bug system somewhere. I found it earlier this morning. |
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Ok... but that's a separate issue... |
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> Anyway, I think the two sides (x86/amd64 && ppc) aren't consistently |
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> handled and that these folks know it but haven't fixed it for some |
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> reason. I only ran into it because of an update to a machine that's |
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> been gathering dust. |
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Not wanting to go in to a long discussion (too late for that I guess) |
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there is basically the "regular" dev folks, who presumably vapier |
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belongs to, and then there are the arch teams (the above is 3 sides, |
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actually; not two) who handle testing and stabilization on a particular |
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platform. These are not always the same people and, as often the case |
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in the Gentoo development world, one side doesn't necessarily know/care |
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what the other side is doing. Even between the arch teams there is |
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little "consistency" i.e. the x86 arch team doesn't care what's |
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happening in the ppc world. Vapier handles the software, but he doesn't |
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necessarily mess with the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable. That's why he's |
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requesting you open another bug for that. |
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