From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29778 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2004 23:26:18 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 28 Apr 2004 23:26:18 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BIyRU-0003vs-Eq for arch-gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:26:16 +0000 Received: (qmail 16048 invoked by uid 50004); 28 Apr 2004 23:26:16 +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 27439 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2004 23:26:15 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1083193229.1083.14.camel@localhost> References: <1083124338.2585.14.camel@woot.uberdavis.com> <1083188173.8092.3.camel@aquinas.natemccallum.com> <20040428215250.GO13780@mail.lieber.org> <1083189497.2115.3.camel@woot.uberdavis.com> <1083193229.1083.14.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <707D5EFE-996B-11D8-8E7F-0003938E7E46@gentoo.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pieter Van den Abeele From: Pieter Van den Abeele Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:26:13 +0200 To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Gentoo 2004.1 Release X-Archives-Salt: 29e575f9-cc16-48e6-86a6-221f05ed9ec9 X-Archives-Hash: bcbf2eb675a00ca50aa31ba325c6910e Maybe a dumb question, but wouldn't it be possible to just provide GRP instead of the stage2,3 (= one huge GRP tarball anyway). Pieter On 29 Apr 2004, at 01:00, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 17:58, John Davis wrote: >> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 17:52, Kurt Lieber wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 05:36:13PM -0400 or thereabouts, Nathaniel >>> McCallum wrote: >>>> I thought online GRP packages would be with this release, however, >>>> I'm >>>> not seeing GRP packages on any of the mirrors. Am I in >>>> cloud-cuckoo-land? >>> >>> This didn't make it into 2004.1. >>> >>> --kurt >> >> I purposely excluded them because I am working on the following: >> http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen/glep0026.txt >> >> Keep in mind that it is very, very rough. Very. I mean it! You get the >> jist though. Now that 2004.1 is done, I can focus some of my time on >> it >> and make it formal. > > Note that this may make compile time on other-arch boxes a bottleneck, > especially if every change is expected to be provided in GRP form. I > would more strongly support a consistent release cycle for GRPs > (bi-quarterly, perhaps) with exceptions for security or > otherwise-critical updates. > -- > Donnie Berkholz > Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-releng@gentoo.org mailing list