From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJ78V-0003NH-AR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:01:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68D67E04BA; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:01:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from heisenberg.zen.co.uk (heisenberg.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.141]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40207E04BA for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:01:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [62.3.120.141] (helo=spike) by heisenberg.zen.co.uk with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JJ78S-0002us-GY for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:01:20 +0000 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:01:09 +0000 From: Roy Bamford Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <479BD99A.8010408@gentoo.org> (from zmedico@gentoo.org on Sun Jan 27 01:08:42 2008) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.3.22 Message-Id: <1201438879l.2698l.0l@spike> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-Heisenberg-IP: [62.3.120.141] X-Archives-Salt: 3a21ffe4-93cf-406d-a737-73061bc2ee59 X-Archives-Hash: a7b6e1cbd6df0ddff5625177641e33ec -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2008.01.27 01:08, Zac Medico wrote: > Now that the whole tree has been converted to Manifest2 format we can > remove the old digest files from the tree so that it is pure=20 > Manifest2 format [1]. Any > users who still have a version of portage that doesn't support > Manifest2 (less than sys-apps/portage-2.1 or stages prior to 2006.1)=20 > will still be able to use a script to generate the old digests if=20 > they want to upgrade an old system [2]. > [snip] > If there are no objections then I don't so any reason not to go ahead > and add the manifest1_obsolete sometime in the near future. Thoughts? >=20 > Zac >=20 > [1] > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0044.html#removal-of-digest- > files > [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/converting- > manifest2.xml >=20 >=20 Team, We need to get news items out, on gentoo.org, in the GWN and on the=20 forums or everyone with an old portage will be unhappy. Some users will=20 still be unhappy anyway but we can point to the news and say we tried=20 to tell you. If link [2] will be around for a while, we can us it in an=20 mzbot factoid too. No objections ... just plenty of publicity. - --=20 Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHnICfTE4/y7nJvasRAjWlAKCowpUt9i1CpdmqD7UyB6DXxzgOcQCg7+k0 t4RRbBHMuGSOhySOhmLV2II=3D =3DPvBz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list