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From: "Chad M. Huneycutt" <chad.huneycutt@acm.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stable and unstable branches.
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:28:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D3E3B0D.4000804@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020724063223.25c7e7d1.smiler@lanil.mine.nu

Christian Axelsson wrote:
> How about mask the "unstable" ebuilds in the stable distribution?
> That provides a simple solution for the Debian problem. If you want that
> new bleeding edge ebuild, just unmask it on your own risk. It will probably 
> just be as stable as it is today.
> But to talk against myself on this: 

KEYWORDS will let us do this alot more effectively.  The way they work 
is that an ebuild will have

KEYWORDS="unstable"

to indicate that an ebuild needs to be tested before it can be called 
"stable".  A user can list which keywords they will accept, so if you 
accept "unstable" packages, then those will be available to you.

This is a rough description of how they will work.  We still have some 
details to work out, and I don't have the full picture yet, but expect 
an announcement soon.  We are also using this functionality to support 
the alternative architectures.

Chad




  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-24  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-23 20:06 [gentoo-dev] stable and unstable branches Stefano Peluchetti
2002-07-23 20:21 ` Karl Trygve Kalleberg
2002-07-23 20:58   ` Terje Kvernes
2002-07-23 21:31 ` Christian Bartl
2002-07-23 22:12   ` [gentoo-dev] stable and unstable branches. (auto-bug reports???) Stefano Peluchetti
     [not found]     ` <20020724001127.GC10394@athlon.dolly-llama.org>
2002-07-24  9:28       ` Stefano Peluchetti
2002-07-24  4:32   ` [gentoo-dev] stable and unstable branches Christian Axelsson
2002-07-24  5:28     ` Chad M. Huneycutt [this message]
2002-07-24  8:50     ` Alexander Gretencord
2002-07-24 15:32   ` Fredrik Jagenheim

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