From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoTeG-0003Z7-W4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:06:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j61M4sEv003289; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 22:04:54 GMT Received: from smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j61M1ncH018150 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 22:01:49 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j61M2hEA012321 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 18:02:43 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 18:01:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] profiles cleanup From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <42C5BA24.8020704@gentoo.org> References: <42C5BA24.8020704@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-lAQat3dTuBHJ5QitisLg" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 18:01:43 -0400 Message-Id: <1120255303.13274.4.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-Archives-Salt: f25133bb-2623-42f8-a0ef-95023e8a89fc X-Archives-Hash: 00c1b9e0108d6f130aa29f98f9139c86 --=-lAQat3dTuBHJ5QitisLg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 23:48 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > I've just removed a few deprecated profiles for amd64, and saw that > there are still quite a lot of non-cascading profiles around. > The following profiles say they have been removed by 2005.04.01: >=20 > default-sparc-1.4 > default-sparc-2004.0 > default-sparc64-1.4 > default-sparc64-2004.0 >=20 > I hope this is not an April Fool's joke ;) > There are also many other profiles which are probably deprecated for > ages, but don't contain an information about when they will be taken out > of portage. >=20 > Other possible candidates for a clean-up: >=20 > default-alpha-1.4 > default-alpha-2004.0 > default-ppc-1.4 > default-ppc-2004.0 > default-ppc-2004.1 > default-ppc-2004.2 > default-ppc64-2004.2 > default-x86-2004.2 > gcc33-sparc64-1.4 > hardened-x86-2004.0 >=20 > I didn't check them all, so I may be wrong, but some of them are > deprecated for over a year now. >=20 > There are also some cascading profiles which are really old and probably > should be removed. Last time that I checked, each arch needs at least one non-cascaded profile, due to older versions of portage not working with cascaded profiles. Either this, or users will not be able to upgrade from old installations that have not been upgraded for some time. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-lAQat3dTuBHJ5QitisLg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCxb1HkT4lNIS36YERAjY5AJ4zXe5D5X+pLvZ+0HYp7ljPwI3tkgCglldJ tA1M+1Fn8ZpEc7ngR5WEQp0= =hn6R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-lAQat3dTuBHJ5QitisLg-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list