From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26224 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Apr 2003 09:09:40 -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 23586 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2003 09:09:40 -0000 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:09:38 +0200 From: Fredrik Jagenheim To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030415090938.GE441@pobox.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <1050272714.30123.5.camel@localhost> <200304140100.51467.rainer.groesslinger@gmx.net> <20030414073218.GB441@pobox.com> <1050332821.31618.10.camel@localhost> <20030414123954.46e3135b.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> <20030415062146.GA20860@datalap.aamit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030415062146.GA20860@datalap.aamit.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: Fredrik Jagenheim Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there a process for marking ebuilds stable? X-Archives-Salt: 29104bb9-04ce-46be-a244-93f28739a6bd X-Archives-Hash: 7c7023ea83b4df39baf435df00e8a900 On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:21:46PM -0700, Abhishek Amit wrote: > While we may not(we being users of wms only) use desktop > enviorments, KDE and GNOME are still in the default USE flags. ALSA > is also in there(/etc/make.profile/use.defaults). I think that the > defualt flags should be the basis of testing, and note I am writing > this from mutt in flxbox. But, remember that the default flags are what maintainers usually are running. So a tinderbox system would only test exactly what the maintainers are testing, and thus wouldn't give any idea of how good an ebuild was. I have no statistics or not even investigated it, but I have a hunch that most ebuilds fail because of; *) Forgotten dependencies *) virtual dependencies satisfies another package than the maintainer are running *) Strange USE flags I don't think it would be feasable for a tinderbox to test all the possible combinations for every new ebuild. Although, a tinderbox would be nice for maintainers that doesn't have access to sparc/powerpc architectures to test that their packages atleast build on them. But gentoo perhaps already has a couple of servers that can be used to manually test different archs? //H Btw, if you're using mutt... Can't you investigate if there are some way to make your editor do linebreaks? ;) -- To segfault is human; to bluescreen moronic. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list