From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1154 invoked by uid 1002); 12 Sep 2003 13:50:40 -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 25656 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2003 13:50:40 -0000 From: Luke-Jr Organization: Gentoo Linux To: Daniel Robbins , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:50:26 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 Cc: swift@gentoo.org References: <1063338242.6405.26.camel@ht.gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <1063338242.6405.26.camel@ht.gentoo.org> GPG-Public-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309121350.36783.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 x86 maintenance release open beta X-Archives-Salt: bfd277c1-b985-45ba-8604-b294e76c9700 X-Archives-Hash: aee2099521c18091a6b67e058350bea5 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Torrents are available at: http://dev.gentoo.org/~luke-jr/torrent/gentoo-20030911/livecd/x86/x86-1.4-2= 0030911-cd1.iso http://dev.gentoo.org/~luke-jr/torrent/gentoo-20030911/livecd/x86/x86-1.4-2= 0030911-cd2.iso Please continue to seed them after the download completes if you have the=20 spare bandwidth. P.S. Sorry if anyone gets this message twice... KMail is being weird today.= :\ On Friday 12 September 2003 03:44 am, Daniel Robbins wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just started uploading a 2-CD 1.4 x86 maintenance release to: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/=E2=80=BEdrobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso > http://dev.gentoo.org/=E2=80=BEdrobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso.md5 > > and > > http://dev.gentoo.org/=E2=80=BEdrobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd2.iso > http://dev.gentoo.org/=E2=80=BEdrobbins/x86-1.4-20030911-cd2.iso.md5 > > This is an updated and improved 2-disc Gentoo Linux 1.4 release for x86 > (generic) systems, and include stages and pre-built packages. The > significant thing about these 2 ISOs is that they contain *numerous* > fixes (particularly install fixes,) a fully up-to-date rebuild of 1.4, > and improved documentation. > > They should be fully uploaded about 5 hours after I send this message > (going to bed while the upload continues :) cd1 is 526692352 bytes; cd2 > is 477585408 bytes. > > *Please* test them (they should already be significantly better than the > official 1.4 CD set.) Report issues here or at http://bugs.gentoo.org. > Assign bugs directly to me (drobbins@gentoo.org). I will re-assign them > to the appropriate parties as necessary. > > Fixes on these CDs as compared to the current 1.4 release: > > - Everything built from a 10 Sep 03 Portage snapshot, containing > hundreds of bug fixes, including those from Gentoo Bug Day 2, as well > as security fixes in several packages. > > - Identical LiveCD runtime as official 1.4 release. This part hasn't > changed. > > - 11 Sep 03 Install docs with numerous fixes, including recent lilo doc > fix. Also contain small tweaks to the docs to get them > synced with the new behavior of this beta (I'll hand a diff to the > docs team for these tweaks so they hit our Web docs before these CDs > hit our mirrors.) See note on "bindist" below for details. > > - PDF documentation at /install.pdf (/mnt/cdrom/install.pdf) as well as > the standard HTML docs. > > - GNOME is now on CD2 (it was mistakenly left off the official 1.4 CD2) > > - genkernel 1.8 with various bug fixes > > - New packages in GRP: > screen, joe, vile, nfs-utils, mirrorselect, ufed > "gtk2" USE var now set for all GRP packages > > - New Portage-2.0.49-r4 release. USE=3D"bindist" hack not needed anymore; > this is reflected in the on-disc install docs. Countless wacky GRP > emerge behaviors fixed due to this fix for how Portage calculates > conditional deps for .tbz2 packages. There should be no more surprise > situations where emerge wants to merge something from source rather > than merging the tbz2 as expected, or issues where emerge wants to > pull in mystery ebuilds like cabextract. > > Technical summary: Portage now uses the USE settings at the > time the tbz2 was *compiled* to figure out whether or not to enable/ > disable conditional RDEPENDs. Before, it was using the "live" USE > settings, which was incorrect and created the need for the > USE=3D"bindist" hack. Portage will now correctly use "live" USE for > ebuilds and "canned" USE for .tbz2s, and will even correctly switch > back and forth in emerge -k situations where a combination of ebuilds > and .tbz2s are merged in one go. > > - GNOME should now pull in xscreensaver, fixing the GNOME startup > warning about missing xscreensaver. > > These CDs should already be greatly improved over the official 1.4 > release CDs (which they will soon replace,) but they still need testing. > We want these CDs to be as refined as possible. All QA testing > appreciated. If you can test them, post here and I'll reply tomorrow > with a list of a bunch of things that need testing. > > For this maintenance release, we will not be touching the LiveCD kernel > or LiveCD runtime environment. We hope to be able to have a rebuild of > the LiveCD environment in the maintenance release after this one. > > Best Regards, > > Daniel =2D --=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Yc8mZl/BHdU+lYMRAn/mAKCR/XUENMA4KAtn1Ffs2uAX37UIvACfbIWG p31TM4S/fd57chm2pKTOaZQ=3D =3DmuR+ =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list