From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24, DMARC_MISSING,FREEMAIL_FROM,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.81]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14oU56-0007MZ-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 11:43:32 -0600 Received: from fwdtmp0.sul.t-online.com by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14oU4R-0006MX-06; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:42:52 +0200 Received: from helios.bagwan (320095285153-0001@[217.80.39.219]) by fwd00.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14oU4R-1I2Ka8C; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:42:51 +0200 Received: (qmail 12773 invoked by uid 0); 14 Apr 2001 20:26:07 -0000 Received: from sadchitananda2.bagwan (HELO gentoo.org) (achim@192.168.2.1) by helios.bagwan with SMTP; 14 Apr 2001 20:26:07 -0000 Message-ID: <3AD88590.67EF0128@gentoo.org> From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask References: <20010413151846.A6982@cvs.gentoo.org> <3AD864AC.F157EDCD@gentoo.org> <20010414102010.B25655@cvs.gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 320095285153-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: achim@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sat Apr 14 11:44:02 2001 X-Original-Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:14:56 +0200 X-Archives-Salt: c824207e-8aaf-4473-ba22-9beca680819c X-Archives-Hash: 0a85a8018eac268ec414d0b8d91835d6 > The purpose of this design philosophy is to help ensure a working system without > putting unnecessary restraints on the user. Apologies for not explaining this > earlier; I thought you understood the concept behind the packages file. In any > case, I hope you like the design -- personally, I think it's a good approach. Hmm, ok my idea whould mess up the idea of the packages file. Here is an alternative to the package.mask concept. We can start tagging packages in the cvs tree. So by default you whould checkout the latest rc instead of the in development versions. If you want to add a development version to your system you can checkout manually. Instead of using the gentoo version number for tagging we can use "stable" for all packages not in development. This should be sufficient for the beginning, but in the future I think we need to use the version numbers. The past shows that it is a nice idea to have an allways up to date system, but some updates can create lots of unexpectable bugs. To avoid messing up all our users system, we can instead maintain our different releases separate and make only security fixes to them. So you can allways have a secure rc4,rc5 1.0 1.1 .... achim~