From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:58:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdQ38HhuyWQ=HTG_H5rtuf7JSiJ-hZkb1r1wkb-o=S8Z4_N-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1401171358360.3646@star.inp.nsk.su>
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:02 PM, <grozin@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Sorry for following up myself,
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, grozin@gentoo.org wrote:
>>
>> OK, let's be conservative. Python and Perl scripts may break on some
>> arches (I'd say it's a rare exception, perhaps 1%, but still). But what
>> about
>>
>> dev-java/java-sdk-docs
>> dev-db/postgresql-docs
>> sys-kernel/linux-docs
>> dev-dotnet/gtk-sharp-docs
>> app-xemacs/general-docs
>> dev-util/kdevelop-php-docs
>> dev-util/gnome-devel-docs
>> app-vim/phpdocs
>> gnome-extra/gnome-user-docs
>> gnome-extra/gnome-getting-started-docs
>> dev-php/smarty-docs
>> dev-python/python-docs
>> dev-python/cheetah-docs
>> app-doc/php-docs
>> app-doc/root-docs
>> app-doc/geant-docs
>> app-doc/blas-docs
>> app-doc/lapack-docs
>> app-doc/gnucash-docs
>> app-office/abiword-docs
>> dev-lisp/hyperspec
>> sys-apps/man-pages[-*]
>>
>> and maybe others? They contain no scripts which can possibly break. I'd
>> say they should be keyworded on all arches as soon as they are keyworded on
>> the first arch; the same goes for stabilization. I'd include also packages
>> containing only TeX/LaTeX code - TeX behaves identically on all arches, this
>> was and is its main strength. Also, probably, python/perl/ruby interpreted
>> scripts *which don't load extra libraries* work identically on all arches
>> not in 99% of cases but in 99.99% (0.01% is for cases when the interpreter
>> is broken on a given arch).
>
> Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for such
> packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a package is
> ~noarch, it is automatically considered ~arch for all arches. Similar for
> stable. The maintainer should be able to keyword ~noarch and to stabilize
> noarch. Comments?
>
> Andrey
There's been opposition to this in the past, but I'm in favor of
giving this a shot.
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Thread overview: 135+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-14 21:37 [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy William Hubbs
2014-01-14 21:57 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-14 22:33 ` William Hubbs
2014-01-14 22:43 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-14 23:11 ` William Hubbs
2014-01-14 23:22 ` Jeff Horelick
2014-01-15 0:28 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 23:59 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2014-01-16 0:23 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 0:47 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15 1:08 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 1:11 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15 1:23 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 1:36 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15 2:09 ` William Hubbs
2014-01-15 2:21 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15 2:34 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 2:40 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15 3:26 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 2:46 ` William Hubbs
2014-01-16 7:28 ` Christopher Head
2014-01-16 22:44 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-19 22:31 ` Christopher Head
2014-01-20 0:47 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-23 18:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2014-01-23 19:13 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-23 20:55 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-23 22:38 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-23 22:42 ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-23 23:50 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-24 0:04 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-24 3:04 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-24 3:52 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-24 17:26 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-24 18:10 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-24 19:29 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-24 20:29 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-24 21:55 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-24 10:46 ` Steven J. Long
2014-01-24 18:26 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-25 4:02 ` Duncan
2014-01-26 0:50 ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-26 0:59 ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-26 4:53 ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-26 11:41 ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-26 18:56 ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-26 21:35 ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-27 7:41 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-27 14:52 ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-28 2:45 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-26 22:56 ` Duncan
2014-01-26 23:40 ` Duncan
2014-01-28 12:37 ` Steven J. Long
2014-01-28 12:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-01-28 13:18 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-28 13:11 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-29 3:15 ` Duncan
2014-01-29 6:34 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-15 2:42 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 11:33 ` Sergey Popov
2014-01-15 16:57 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 17:20 ` Matthew Thode
2014-01-15 2:26 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 11:28 ` Sergey Popov
2014-01-15 0:13 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 0:50 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15 1:13 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 23:13 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2014-01-15 0:04 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tom Wijsman
2014-01-14 23:49 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 0:06 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2014-01-15 0:17 ` Anthony G. Basile
2014-01-15 0:43 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 0:38 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 0:46 ` William Hubbs
2014-01-15 1:26 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 11:40 ` Sergey Popov
2014-01-15 17:04 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-16 6:20 ` Sergey Popov
2014-01-16 15:54 ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-16 17:56 ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-16 18:04 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-01-16 18:26 ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-16 20:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-01-16 20:40 ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-16 18:11 ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-16 18:42 ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-16 19:29 ` William Hubbs
2014-01-16 19:59 ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-16 22:49 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 3:48 ` grozin
2014-01-15 4:49 ` William Hubbs
2014-01-15 5:07 ` Robin H. Johnson
2014-01-15 8:03 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2014-01-15 8:18 ` Hans de Graaff
2014-01-15 16:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Palimaka
2014-01-15 9:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2014-01-15 12:51 ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-15 21:41 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2014-01-15 11:24 ` [gentoo-dev] " Sergey Popov
2014-01-15 11:30 ` Sergey Popov
2014-01-15 15:30 ` William Hubbs
2014-01-16 6:17 ` Sergey Popov
2014-01-17 6:06 ` grozin
2014-01-17 7:02 ` grozin
2014-01-17 7:58 ` Matt Turner [this message]
2014-01-17 15:02 ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-17 15:02 ` Michał Górny
2014-01-18 1:35 ` William Hubbs
2014-01-17 15:31 ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-17 16:47 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-17 17:08 ` grozin
2014-01-18 0:34 ` Manuel Rüger
2014-01-17 18:28 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-01-17 23:56 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-18 12:59 ` [gentoo-dev] arch="any" (Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy) Steven J. Long
2014-01-17 17:07 ` noarch packages, was Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy grozin
2014-01-19 8:36 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-19 9:28 ` Add a KEYWORD representing any arch (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy) Pacho Ramos
2014-01-19 9:46 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Add a KEYWORD representing any arch Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-19 10:15 ` Pacho Ramos
2014-01-20 19:25 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-22 15:46 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-01-19 9:48 ` Add a KEYWORD representing any arch (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy) Mike Frysinger
2014-01-17 21:04 ` [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy Maciej Mrozowski
2014-01-15 18:33 ` Thomas Sachau
2014-01-15 19:07 ` William Hubbs
2014-01-16 0:58 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-16 2:32 ` Robin H. Johnson
2014-01-16 5:47 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-19 11:06 ` Thomas Sachau
2014-01-16 6:27 ` Sergey Popov
2014-01-16 7:15 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Palimaka
2014-01-15 19:13 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ruud Koolen
2014-01-15 21:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Martin Vaeth
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