Re: [gentoo-dev] laying out arch profiles

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Thursday 05 July 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 12:31 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > maintaining arch things across multiple operating systems is boring me so
> > i'd like to start moving to profiles that outline arch-specific details
> >
> > for example:
> > default-linux/parent:
> > 	../base
> > default-linux/sh/parent:
> > 	..
> > 	../../arch/sh
> > arch/sh/parent:
> > 	..
> > arch/parent -> none
> >
> > all of the arch-specific details would be moved out of base/ and into
> > arch/ (like altivec, sse, sse2, mmx, etc...) and then they can be
> > unmasked in the respective arch/$arch/ subdir
> >
> > this would be for 2007.1+ profiles and we can leave the old things in
> > place until we phase out 2007.0 and older completely
>
> This is actually something I was already planning on working on setting
> up.  To avoid conflicting with the current profiles, I was planning on
> making a new profile tree.  I wasn't planning on using it for 2007.1's
> official media, though, but rather just /experimental stuff, since I'd
> rather get much more testing on it before it goes "live" as the default.

you proposing we rearchitect it all or just for testing purposes before going 
live ?  i can see both ...
profiles/frags/
  libc/uclibc/
  libc/gclibc/
  arch/amd64/
  arch/sh/
  kernel/linux/
  kernel/bsd/
  kernel/bsd/freebsd/
  kernel/bsd/openbsd/

profiles/default-linux/amd64/parent
  ../../frags/arch/amd64
  ../../frags/kernel/linux
  ../../frags/libc/glibc
  ..
-mike

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