[gentoo-releng] GRP for amd64

[Jason Huebel <jhuebel@gentoo.org>]

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Well, I've been fighting with GRP building for two days and haven't figured 
out why xfree is suddenly being merged for amd64.  We haven't used xfree 
since before 2004.1.

So I'm in a catch 22 now.  I can't figure out what's causing xfree to merge, 
even with the help of wolf3102 and roger55 (thanks for the help guys). So I 
figured I'd just allow it to merge and remove the binary tarballs when it was 
done. But when I allow it to merge, some of the patches are failing to apply 
(and thus the ebuild fails).  Compound that with the fact that either the 
digests for xfree 4.3.0-r6 are screwed up in portage or the patch tarballs in 
spyderous' devspace have changed.

Frankly, I'm tired of fooling with it when I don't know of a single amd64 user 
who uses GRP.  The deadline for 2004.2 is only hours away and GRP is the only 
thing that isn't complete.

So, I'm making an executive decision for my arch. GRP isn't going to be 
available for amd64 in time for the 2004.2 release.  If someone complains, 
I'll get something out after the release, but I don't expect to hear anything 
from users. Hell, low-end amd64 machines can bootstrap in under an hour. :-)

Later!
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Jason Huebel
Gentoo/amd64 Strategic Lead
Gentoo Developer Relations/Recruiter

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