RE: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 final against rc's

["Todd Berman" <tberman@gentoo.org>]

>> Not exactly, you are missing a very important thing your installation
>> had in common with a lot of other peoples.
>>
>> The Portage Tree.
>> Just something to think about :)

>I think you're missing something though -  my system (and your system)
also
>have gcc and python and all the neat gnu utilities like awk, and grep,
and
>bash, etc. These are all *different versions* depending on when you
>last --updated them. The portage tree is also *VERY* different based on
when
>you last ran emerge sync - it changes hourly. My portage tree is
different
>than someone who syncd this AM (as I have not done so for about two
weeks,
>my ram blew up! waiting on RMA.:-(  ) The absolute lowest common
denominator
>that anyone has is the product they installed from - which are the
various
>stages..

Its not so much that I'm missing that, and more that I am attempting to
introduce a different concept of what might quantify a Gentoo 'Release'.

If the 'Release' was based on a snapshot of the Portage Tree (with
security fixes backported of course, most likely major bug fixes as
well), then there would be something uniform and standard to release
against.

--Todd
 


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