From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j43IfJua004197 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 18:41:21 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DT2Kk-0000RT-NZ for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 18:41:26 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DT2E1-0003Mw-AA for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 20:34:29 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.66.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 May 2005 20:34:29 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 May 2005 20:34:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 11:37:47 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <4274ACD1.9020003@gentoo.org> <4274B10C.5060507@longlandclan.hopto.org> <42763F57.6080206@flaska.net> <42764CF6.4020608@gentoo.org> <4276513D.5060200@flaska.net> <42765654.3010404@gentoo.org> <1115136614.889.281.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 522f742a-853a-4490-bff4-4843a64129b4 X-Archives-Hash: 9cebde8547e4cc9b295568893f4de651 Chris Gianelloni posted <1115136614.889.281.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net>, excerpted below, on Tue, 03 May 2005 12:10:14 -0400: > I think an easier solution would be a portage rescue set of profiles. > These would be minimal profiles not designed for actual use, but only for > performing a portage update for those people that lag too far behind. The > idea would be a very tiny profile, per arch, that is not cascaded. I like! In some cases, they may be combine-able, as well multiple archs to a profile, if they are sufficiently minimal. They could remain for some time to point people to if/as necessary. My idea for an archive was that this should be pretty low traffic, and would get it off the rsync mirrors and clean out the profile tree, making things less confusing. However, put them in a single "emergency-profile" subtree, and make them tiny enough, and it would do almost as well, while at the same time still being conveniently located in the portage tree. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list