Re: [gentoo-mips] Restore stable keywords on @system

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498818 debates the need to
> restore the stable keywords to the @system packages in order to ease
> the build of stage3 tarballs. Right now there is a little bit of
> hackery (read masking) when we build the tarballs since not all the
> latest packages build on MIPS. However, in my opinion, restoring the
> stable keywords on MIPS add extra maintenance effort to an already
> understaffed team by requiring us to test both the latest ~arch and
> the latest stable of all the packages in the @system set.

I've definitely experienced ~arch problems when building stages. Now
that you and Anthony have taken over those tasks, I don't think my
opinion about which is easier (stable @system, or masking versions
during stage building) is relevant.

I think that you're probably right about the added problems of
attempting to keep a stable @system. Other stable architecture teams
aren't really able to keep up and I'm not convinced that we should
try.

I haven't powered on my MIPS machines since I moved houses in August,
and I'm not likely to come into lots of new free time to help
stabilize things.