From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13736 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Sep 2003 16:38:53 -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 8783 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2003 16:38:53 -0000 From: Chris Gianelloni To: brad@gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1063641562.12338.7.camel@Discovery.brad-x.com> References: <1063641562.12338.7.camel@Discovery.brad-x.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-onYOBzy7N2lv3z8QcYgP" Message-Id: <1063643761.2993.50.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 15 Sep 2003 12:36:01 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4.1 and GRP X-Archives-Salt: f9973f37-4085-49a0-8417-9f9e4ab047bd X-Archives-Hash: dc10268fae9c7e5aa0649a7eab30bb67 --=-onYOBzy7N2lv3z8QcYgP Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 11:59, Brad Laue wrote: > Greetings all, >=20 > A concern of mine about many Linux distributions is that in the long > haul between binary releases of a distribution, the packages included > with the release can become quite old. In Gentoo's case, if one GRP > installed their system nine months from now and emerge -u'd, they would > be faced with a considerable number of packages to update (I wouldn't be > surprised if it was all of them). >=20 > The Gentoo 1.4.1 release re-ignited my curiosity on this topic. Will > there be regular interim releases between major upgrades, or will > releases like these solely fix bugs? >=20 > If the latter, can a GRP ISO be created say, every two months? This > would only add ~500MB per architecture involved, since there wouldn't be > any need to archive the older versions of the ISO. >=20 > Realising that Gentoo is of course a source-based distribution, quickly > and easily installing the latest and greatest by using emerge -k, then > optimizing by rebuilding incrementally has surely sparked a great deal > of additional interest in the distribution. >=20 > What does everyone think? It sounds great, but I think we're battling now with a problem of us taking up way too much space on our mirrors. In fact, there is a thread discussing the removal of the ISO images. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Developer, Gentoo Linux Games Team Is your power animal a pengiun? --=-onYOBzy7N2lv3z8QcYgP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/ZepxkT4lNIS36YERApCJAJ9rWjvZtOFEi0T9Osj2g/ez6lo90QCdEngj TRDq44K0W0Zx+r+kuDcYuU4= =iaVT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-onYOBzy7N2lv3z8QcYgP--