From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29391 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Nov 2002 14:46:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29381 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2002 14:46:01 -0000 From: "Riyad Kalla" To: Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 07:43:22 -0700 Message-ID: <002a01c290a3$2cd39d10$d628c480@rsk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Subject: [gentoo-dev] Release/Stable/Dev X-Archives-Salt: e8b43301-b05c-45aa-a07a-a909db424e7e X-Archives-Hash: e792d08986a6dd4df0a88691715e159a This is more of a "how does this work" question: I notice so much activity on this list all the time with new packages and new ideas and new ebuilds, etc. etc... And I realize that the idea of a "release version" of Gentoo isn't the same as RedHat or Mandrake where there is a snapshot in time of a code base that is deemed a "release", its sort of this every-growing and changing repository of ebuilds. This is cool and everything, but it also makes it hard for people that need to get a "stable release quality" version to say slap on a production server... So for example, if I download Gentoo 1.4, and install it today, and my coworker downloads gentoo 1.4 and installs it 2 weeks from now, we *might* have different systems cause when he emerged his original system, some of the packages had changed... (is this an accurate assessment?) How do I combat this? Say if I'm interested in a rock-solid snapshot of Gentoo without going through an ungodly amount of administrative setup and mirroring of the snapshot etc.? I realize that rock-solid is relative sometimes, but I'm more asking along the lines of say gcc gets update from 3.2 to 3.4 (hypothetically), and everyone knows that 3.2 is more stable, and there are some growing pains going on with 3.4, BUT 3.4 is the current ebuild... That sort of deal, so when I install gentoo on a new work station, I want to keep the versions of Gentoo static across all machines, or atleast in synch with eachother. There is a flat-out question in the paragraphs above and then some hidden sort of every-day use questions, sorry if things seem a bit unclear, its only because I'm a bit unclear on how to use gentoo in a "release" fashion, even though portage seems to be an ever changing mass. (portage is the software right? How do I refer to the repository of ebuilds? "the portage tree?") Thanks! -Riyad -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list