Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 2004.0 Profile Deprecated

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 02:08:59PM -0500, Jason Huebel wrote:
> On Friday 13 August 2004 1:58 pm, William Hubbs wrote:
> > I don't see why we need the yearly refreshes either.
> >
> > I like the suggestion of making the names more descriptive in stead of
> > using numbers. Fore example, default/linux/am64.
> > Then, you might have default/linux/am64/gcc34.
> > Suppose that you decide to make the default am64 profile use gcc 3.4.  All
> > you have to do is merge the am64/gcc34 profile into the am64 profile. You
> > could do this type of merging with any revision you want to become part of
> > the default profile, and otherwise not change the default profile at all.
> >
> > What do you think?
> 
> Again I'm concerned that there isn't a built-in revision history outside of 
> CVS using this method.  Since users don't have CVS access, they don't have a 
> convenient way to tell which profile is the "newest".  Since we can't be sure 
> that everyone has moved off a particular profile, we have to keep ALL the 
> profiles around for an extended period of time.  So not having a revision 
> history makes it more difficult to understand what the latest and greatest 
> is.

Hmmm, I guess I'm thinking that for general use the latest and greatest would be /default-linux/<arch>.  Any changes would be in /default-linux/<arch>/<something> for a while, then if it is decided that that change should be made part of the profile for <arch>, it would be merged into that profile then the
/default-linux/<arch>/<something> profile would be depricated.

I guess I'm seeing any subdirectory under /default-linux/<arch> as either a special-purpose profile of some kind, or a way to test changes to the profile before they are put into the main profile for that architecture.

What do you think?

William

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