From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXyj8-0002Ny-KJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:27:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9CBQxNc010374; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:26:59 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9CBP5ZA009691 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:25:05 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so250314ugc for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:25:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ee/freL8OqY1neiMYh1xunr3RHfupPT5wYNPEYqgG7eaCsGaINF9U27BIZLa8j6yu/5d2/b26cNlfTTdEdwbSj5uBjkTNUxWOEDvxf93km8VlJf88UT9Wu3yuE9wqJdGWbWYic3+h2R9KJpf1eoerldKMEW6+fYiR7fHcgkka6I= Received: by 10.66.222.9 with SMTP id u9mr2526341ugg; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:25:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.232.4 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <81bfc67a0610120425t2c50691cl64ed2e3132d90c1f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:25:04 -0400 From: "Caleb Cushing" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users In-Reply-To: <1160594017.10524.18.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1160056361.6289.17.camel@party.homenetwork> <1160398042.10496.16.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <1160419368.6362.5.camel@party.homenetwork> <1160423118l.10540l.4l@spike> <1160431074.6362.9.camel@party.homenetwork> <452BB22D.30106@gentoo.org> <81bfc67a0610110918y44187435l54c6b3b2bbb3893f@mail.gmail.com> <1160594017.10524.18.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> X-Archives-Salt: dcad1661-eac5-425e-ab47-fd29390e2d77 X-Archives-Hash: 8f3bb92173ac3781b47541520dc52164 I know what unsupported means chris. what I'm referring to though are bugs that would affect i686 as well. but possibly get closed because a dev, like yourself, requested emerge --info and saw it was build on < i686 and closes it for that reason. probably RESOLVED WONTFIX . On 10/11/06, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 12:18 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote: > > I fear the idea that valid bugs may be closed do to a -march=i586. > > If they're a bug dealing with an issue only present on < i686, then yes, > they likely would be, at least for release media, unless you also > provide a patch. This is what being "unsupported" means. Now, if you > give me a patch for some bug that only affects < i686, I'll apply it, > provided it doesn't break >= i686, but I simply don't have the time to > support < i686 with the release media anymore. > > By the way, the stage1 tarball and Minimal InstallCD are both built as > "i386" and will remain that way for the foreseeable future. > > -- > Chris Gianelloni > Release Engineering Strategic Lead > Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams > Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee > Gentoo Foundation > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list