Re: [gentoo-dev] About current ppc/ppc64 status

["Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org>]

On 07/25/14 15:50, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El vie, 25-07-2014 a las 15:38 -0400, Anthony G. Basile escribió:
>> On 07/25/14 15:28, Pacho Ramos wrote:
>>> That is the reason for me thinking that maybe the way to go would be to
>>> do the opposite -> keep only base-system and a few others stable and
>>> drop stable for most of the rest. This big effort could be accomplished
>>> in a week by other developers willing to help (like me) and would solve
>>> the issue for the long term. I guess that is what HPPA team did in the
>>> past and I think it's working pretty well for them (in summary, have a
>>> stable tree they are able to keep stable). That will also help people in
>>> ppc* teams to know that the remaining stabilization bugs, apart of being
>>> much less, are important enough to deserve rapid attention, as opposed
>>> to current situation that will have some important bugs mixed with tons
>>> of stabilization requests of apps that got ppc stable keywords years ago
>>> and are currently no so important.
>>>
>> Yes, please let's just do base system stable.  I've been randomly taking
>> care of ppc but nothing systematic.  Its pretty spotty.  But at the same
>> time I don't like the idea of just loosing all the stabilization effort
>> on the base system, so that might work best. Something to think about
>> for mips too.
>>
>>
> Nice, one think we would need to discuss is what do we consider base
> system :/
>
> I guess packages maintained by base-system, toolchain and... xorg-server
> and co... what more
>
> Not sure if we could have a list of current stable tree for ppc*, once
> do we have that list, ppc* teams can drop from that list what they want
> and we get a new list that will be the final result. What do you think
> about that?
>
>

At the very least, its what's needed to build the stages with catalyst.  
I would think we should start with base/packages, but I don't want to 
limit it to just those because I at least need a more for building and 
maintaining.  Where should we start to compile such a list?

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