From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13818 invoked by uid 1002); 12 Sep 2003 03:40:13 -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 23104 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2003 03:40:12 -0000 From: Daniel Robbins To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Cc: swift@gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-uy9SgLhJISEPaGIMvQpN" Organization: Gentoo Technologies, Inc. Message-Id: <1063338242.6405.26.camel@ht.gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:44:02 -0600 Subject: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 x86 maintenance release open beta X-Archives-Salt: 2926063b-1591-444b-b7b7-c67eca88dd4f X-Archives-Hash: 0656e0c7f7c5728213d9ed90aa4e9836 --=-uy9SgLhJISEPaGIMvQpN Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, I've just started uploading a 2-CD 1.4 x86 maintenance release to: http://dev.gentoo.org/~drobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso http://dev.gentoo.org/~drobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso.md5 and http://dev.gentoo.org/~drobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd2.iso http://dev.gentoo.org/~drobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd2.iso.md5 This is an updated and improved 2-disc Gentoo Linux 1.4 release for x86 (generic) systems, and include stages and pre-built packages. The significant thing about these 2 ISOs is that they contain *numerous* fixes (particularly install fixes,) a fully up-to-date rebuild of 1.4, and improved documentation. They should be fully uploaded about 5 hours after I send this message (going to bed while the upload continues :) cd1 is 526692352 bytes; cd2 is 477585408 bytes. *Please* test them (they should already be significantly better than the official 1.4 CD set.) Report issues here or at http://bugs.gentoo.org. Assign bugs directly to me (drobbins@gentoo.org). I will re-assign them to the appropriate parties as necessary. Fixes on these CDs as compared to the current 1.4 release: - Everything built from a 10 Sep 03 Portage snapshot, containing hundreds of bug fixes, including those from Gentoo Bug Day 2, as well as security fixes in several packages. - Identical LiveCD runtime as official 1.4 release. This part hasn't changed. - 11 Sep 03 Install docs with numerous fixes, including recent lilo doc fix. Also contain small tweaks to the docs to get them synced with the new behavior of this beta (I'll hand a diff to the docs team for these tweaks so they hit our Web docs before these CDs hit our mirrors.) See note on "bindist" below for details. - PDF documentation at /install.pdf (/mnt/cdrom/install.pdf) as well as the standard HTML docs. - GNOME is now on CD2 (it was mistakenly left off the official 1.4 CD2) - genkernel 1.8 with various bug fixes - New packages in GRP: screen, joe, vile, nfs-utils, mirrorselect, ufed "gtk2" USE var now set for all GRP packages - New Portage-2.0.49-r4 release. USE=3D"bindist" hack not needed anymore;=20 this is reflected in the on-disc install docs. Countless wacky GRP emerge behaviors fixed due to this fix for how Portage calculates conditional deps for .tbz2 packages. There should be no more surprise situations where emerge wants to merge something from source rather than merging the tbz2 as expected, or issues where emerge wants to pull in mystery ebuilds like cabextract.=20 Technical summary: Portage now uses the USE settings at the time the tbz2 was *compiled* to figure out whether or not to enable/ disable conditional RDEPENDs. Before, it was using the "live" USE=20 settings, which was incorrect and created the need for the USE=3D"bindist" hack. Portage will now correctly use "live" USE for ebuilds and "canned" USE for .tbz2s, and will even correctly switch back and forth in emerge -k situations where a combination of ebuilds and .tbz2s are merged in one go. - GNOME should now pull in xscreensaver, fixing the GNOME startup warning about missing xscreensaver. These CDs should already be greatly improved over the official 1.4 release CDs (which they will soon replace,) but they still need testing. We want these CDs to be as refined as possible. All QA testing appreciated. If you can test them, post here and I'll reply tomorrow with a list of a bunch of things that need testing. For this maintenance release, we will not be touching the LiveCD kernel or LiveCD runtime environment. We hope to be able to have a rebuild of the LiveCD environment in the maintenance release after this one. Best Regards, Daniel --=-uy9SgLhJISEPaGIMvQpN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/YUECffezrJ9WV/IRAkcwAJ0Sn2fLxjvJJAe+urFTadkn8NcdSQCffnvP LVTna4xzY3Sf0MOtmY/xRc0= =Y+Hm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-uy9SgLhJISEPaGIMvQpN--