From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2278 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Apr 2003 00:51:19 -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 7738 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2003 00:51:19 -0000 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 02:51:15 +0200 From: Spider To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030411025115.5c48e19a.spider@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20030410185711.GA29951@cerberus.oppresses.us> References: <200304100013.30307.gentoo@mchsi.com> <20030410092759.14d8e24c.spider@gentoo.org> <3E9679E0.8040905@caddr.com> <20030410185711.GA29951@cerberus.oppresses.us> Organization: Chaotic X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Nonb=.KvparYLTRN" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary release of gentoo X-Archives-Salt: 0cb8127a-1273-4ec8-98fb-463246cada1b X-Archives-Hash: dcc893839f3e0bdfa9df62a1f6e607dc --Nonb=.KvparYLTRN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit begin quote On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:57:11 -0400 Jon Portnoy wrote: > Put buildpkg in FEATURES and you'll have binary packages just as good > as RPMs built automatically every time you merge something. not 100% really, since theres no automatic signing/hash of the packages (rpm has this, good feature) as well as some rebuild dependencies might not be resolved.. foo depends on gal, but gal removes the softlinks and forces dependencies to rebuild or retain the old version.. such things should ofc. be resolved (gal is a problemchild in general) but, we lack that functionality. Theres a few other "good" things about the rpm format, although it isn't as flexible as our packages are ;) But, my point was about distribution of this. how/wether it is a good/bad and even doable thing //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end --Nonb=.KvparYLTRN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+lhGFZS9CZTi033kRAhj5AKCGgBqacUezTVXMtjJvjGYgAnAi1ACfYIgm KQ4+Q2LS8Pw86zpWAcQepfU= =lEbD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nonb=.KvparYLTRN--