From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31666 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2004 15:57:07 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 30 Apr 2004 15:57:07 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BJaNu-0002P1-Id for arch-gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:57:06 +0000 Received: (qmail 12599 invoked by uid 50004); 30 Apr 2004 15:56:51 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-releng-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-releng@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1769 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2004 15:56:50 +0000 From: Nathaniel McCallum To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200404301750.09405.pauldv@gentoo.org> References: <20040429132634.4AADB283B6@meep.gentoo.org> <200404301632.27101.pauldv@gentoo.org> <1083338210.8082.27.camel@aquinas.natemccallum.com> <200404301750.09405.pauldv@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1083340513.8093.29.camel@aquinas.natemccallum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.5.7 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:55:13 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Gentoo 2004.1 Release X-Archives-Salt: 33e6dd2c-cc7e-47ff-b2eb-705f14f6cfc1 X-Archives-Hash: 28e52be1a6467d2c1d658184e9245306 On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 17:50 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2004 17:16, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 16:32 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > > For me, this could best be implemented outside the gentoo project. We > > > could then list binary distro's based of gentoo or something like that. > > > We then need to add support for better binary dependency checking to > > > portage, but it should be possible to pull it off. Full continuously > > > updatable like debian is hard though and much of that work should be done > > > by the developers of such a gentoo based distro. > > > > I think it could be implimented in Gentoo, however, the first thing that > > needs to happen is frozen trees with only security updates. This is of > > great desireability for our enterprise users. Once that is done, adding > > binary support to that frozen tree is fairly easy. For instance, lets > > This disregards the quite essential "incremental" feature. What do you mean by "incremental"? Security updates? or debian-likeness? Nathaniel -- gentoo-releng@gentoo.org mailing list