Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 19, reloaded (again)

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 05:52, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> The only "extra" thing we've talked about so far is a separate rsync module
> that has the --delete option removed (but is otherwise identical to the
> gentoo-portage module)
> 
> Come up with a better way to *guarantee* ebuilds stay in the tree for a
> minimum length of time and I'm all for it.  

Fork into a completely new module.

Take any and all ebuilds which are marked as stable for a particular
arch, remove any ~arch keywords, and split it to a gentoo-$version
module.  Since it is a separate module, the ebuilds will always be
there.  Since it was taken from the release snapshot for each arch,
it'll also match what is done on the release media, making bug hunting
even easier.  You use ~arch for any backports or bug fixes that do come
along, but don't guarantee either.

Here, we're using the SYNC variable to control the tree, rather than a
profile.  This means we can support multiple profiles on the same tree
easily, and also keeps ebuilds around for as long as we keep the tree
around.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer
Gentoo Linux

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