On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 18:50, Nicholas Jones wrote:
> > From what I am told, gentoo-src is deprecated and we should be using
> > gentoo/src instead.
> 
> No, not really. That was a push by ex-devs (maybe others) a long
> time ago, and the work was never actually accomplished. Except for
> a limited number of migrations, nothing ever really became of it
> early on. Looks like we have a fair number of organized uses in it
> now.

Well, now you tell me after I went and moved the entire
gentoo-src/releng folder which I had just created to gentoo/src...
*grin*

> We do have 4 repos though... Which developed all around the time
> that the "gentoo" repo came into being.
> 
> gentoo
> gentoo-x86

Too bad we can't rename this one... but that's another story.

> gentoo-src
> gentoo-projects

I didn't even know this one existed until now.  It doesn't look to be
used very heavily.

> Gentoo-projects was created for a reason unknown to me when I
> asked, way back when. Looks like the TLPs took refuge there,
> which is how it looks like it should be.
> 
> Gentoo-src is still used by portage, baselayout, releng, and
> has a number of older projects that could probably be useful
> if revivied.

Well, releng isn't using gentoo-src.  We're using gentoo/src, at least
for catalyst and now the releng folder, which is where I've added the
kernel config files and spec files we will be using for releases.

> A major issue with moving gentoo-src is that the history would
> be lost. (At least, I'm fairly certain it would be, correct me.)
> That would be very unpleasant for portage, as I do use it on
> occasion to verify changes and review committers. I imagine it'd
> be nice to keep the commit logs and nametags for a long long
> while.

I can definitely see why we wouldn't want to move portage itself, being
our bread and butter.  I just wish I had known that my information was
erroneous before I took the hour or two today to move the releng folder
from gentoo-src to gentoo/src.

Oh well...

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

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