From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A830413877A for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:21:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CE0AE0B60; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:19:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from albert.telenet-ops.be (albert.telenet-ops.be [195.130.137.90]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79137E0B58 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:19:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org ([94.226.51.153]) by albert.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id LjKi1o00Z3JKcCE06jKixH; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:19:42 +0200 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:18:11 +0200 From: Tom Wijsman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: williamh@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch Message-ID: <20140630211811.6f9fb7d8@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20140630163235.GA2521@linux1> References: <20140630040153.GA668@linux1> <53B1809F.9070807@gentoo.org> <20140630173654.0c70c367@pomiot.lan> <53B184E3.5040902@gentoo.org> <20140630181345.702381e2@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> <20140630163235.GA2521@linux1> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/AH3YQpLrae0mKeAh92w_81_"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: e1f0f8f3-e42e-4e26-82c6-8956bb83a4dc X-Archives-Hash: cd800951d606233caf350e65daa3a8bf --Sig_/AH3YQpLrae0mKeAh92w_81_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:32:35 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > As said before, ~arch users know that their systems will break > sometimes, so if the package works for you, unleash it on ~arch. If > someone using a configuration you don't have finds that it breaks, I'm > sure it would be reported. Then you could determine whether the bug is > severe enough to warrant a mask. As long as important/core/system packages don't result in a wide scale breakage on ~arch this approach should be fine; we've been doing fine before, so I don't think that this warrants a change in what we do. Just want to note that you can get an idea from previous outages (or similar events like python-exec / UPower) on how much testing is needed. --=20 With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : TomWij@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D --Sig_/AH3YQpLrae0mKeAh92w_81_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTsbf0AAoJEPWZc8roOL/QecgH/1yw9KlWj8duEtkMxA34IYXS S4nVAvq2HoOwqgwU5HfZnd2rjMU2fouEy42fDgw8MhLf8qDVNk+52ti+g3dmOAOQ BLSpdt1/PcMCMxOgjTc4CSKvhK+0O+tGL3ZdnxmwIbzRDPmt6JfAcs/kbU/SzrN/ hwhZRAeZAsOhg193UC2RRQFLoRPMDsNAv5tlfpHm7v6ny5/E0YZ7n6axb69Tt2pi H5s3vRILiuHeoFvCwA/TVOIMg97BcoTeXv73piKo0ENzZRD+iZxiXL5qWAaz27bD WXiHc7R+tiDGOvowFWz+oaW1VDLINmTmGJV+ILG/ZGVR7EVs/4BJsEFwne68o+g= =m+Hp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/AH3YQpLrae0mKeAh92w_81_--