From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JLXqh-0003Kd-E5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:57:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A83CE0460; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 05:57:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349FDE0460 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 05:57:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6587C663D7 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 05:57:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.509 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.509 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.508, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tgwNeKO+gfpP for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 05:56:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CF6066491 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 05:56:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211DC8F48B for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 00:56:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from web5.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.214]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:56:50 -0500 Received: by web5.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id C66C24C35F; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 00:56:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1202018207.31718.1234762467@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: rwnQ0edMbEAPvKRanlf3ZX1owlmFrOLzJqme2dGHCt46 1202018207 From: davecode@nospammail.net To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface References: <1202013069.18679.1234757825@webmail.messagingengine.com> Subject: [gentoo-releng] Re: Free-standing Portage / Recent stage3 tarballs / Beta In-Reply-To: <1202013069.18679.1234757825@webmail.messagingengine.com> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:56:47 -0800 X-Archives-Salt: 2c87c5a9-b546-4147-9581-cc23b28592ca X-Archives-Hash: 33c0edbc72ab683a13c65b664357b3ca > The 2008.0 stages will have whatever versions of packages > are in the tree at the time of our snapshot. Right; that's also what I meant about rolling stage3's. The only difference being that much more careful attention is paid to the official release tarballs, stripping out blockages and the like. > not feasible when you start looking at all the architectures Hm. Portage runs Python bytecodes and bash scripts. Those are portable. The interpreters themselves need zero platform optimization for a bootstrap ("stage3 install"). They can target generic x386 and ppc etc. Just like any commercial software vendor. Following which users could recompile on their targets, if desired or required. Exotic targets could just do it the old way. > That particular blocker isn't exactly hard to get around. For you...but it cost me half a day, then defeat. Please consider that QA feedback. The FAQs failed. I don't even want to know how to fix this. To me, the fix is to embed the interpreters. > The stage tarballs are *never* ~arch. We have talked about doing automated > builds, but we're not releasing them for public consumption, since there will be > absolutely *zero* QA done on them. Of course not; I didn't mean you replace official releases with ~arch! I only meant that, like Debian et al, there be regular tarballs for eager testers. That seems more sensible that starting testing from a year-old tarball. Some others might test in kexec/vmware/chroot or whatever. > why exactly do PPC boxes need the newest everything? Sigh. I'd rather not go there. Suffice to say ~arch is why we're here. The current ~arch is turning into 2008.0 anyway, so that's what where we can help QA Gentoo. Thanks again. -- davecode@nospammail.net -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org mailing list