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Very interesting. A great example of how something can be both Gentoo |
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and Not Gentoo. This is 100% Gentoo unlike Funtoo or Sabayon, but it |
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brings in some of their advantages. Gentoo doesn't prevent us from |
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having multiple package variants and this leads to cool stuff like |
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being able to have a set of layman repositories that ebuilds graduate |
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through in stages, from 'dev' to 'test' to 'stable'. |
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And this is why I feel so strongly about Gentoo + Git + CI |
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While github may not be the right place and raw 'git' not the right |
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tool. I am a big fan of how phabricator + arcanist provides workflow |
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guarantees on top of using git, such as the 'must pass the linter |
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rules + tests' workflow and how it can track and reference external |
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repos side by side with the repos it hosts. |
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I feel the future belongs to Gentoo as steward of the ebuild format, |
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portage and related tools more than as a 'meta distro'. CI is the |
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force multiplier, when anyone who wants to build a "Gentoo powered |
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distro" has a documented set of tools they can use to 'stand up the |
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infrastructure' for things like package QA using a CI Server, a Binary |
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Package build server/server farm, and Binary Package hosting for the |
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build artefacts. By rights Gentoo not Debian, Arch or Fedora should be |
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the Distro of choice for creating experimental niche distros from but |
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we lack the kind of tools to make it 'easy' for people to do. I'm |
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currently experimenting to see how many of these I can prototype |
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inside Docker containers or LXC images and it looks quite promising. |
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The future looks bright for Gentoo. :-) |
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On 17 December 2014 at 01:15, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Well, |
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> For all of those who are interested in Continuous Integration, especially |
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> with the demise of Tinderbox, Look at what I just stumbled (googling) |
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> across |
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> "Zentoo Linux also provides a bunch of experimental overlays for special |
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> setups (like Continuous Integration system needing X11 and browsers) and for |
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> testing experimental new packages. " |
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> [1] http://www.zentoo.org/ |
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> I have not had a chance to look it over, but at first glance it seems |
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> some folks are already taking (CI) ideas to the next level? |
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> interesting, |
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> James |
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