From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4ql5-00059M-JJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:00:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7G1xIkB001143; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:59:18 GMT Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7G1tnmT002238 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:55:50 GMT Received: from mac.com (smtpin02-en2 [10.13.10.147]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout14/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j7G1uOhQ003350 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.105] (cpe001217fa060b-cm0013718c1a36.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [70.24.10.222]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin02/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j7G1uMbA027583 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? From: Paul Hoy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20050816131017.CBC2.NICK@rout.co.nz> References: <1124153934.13157.11.camel@localhost> <20050816131017.CBC2.NICK@rout.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:56:21 -0400 Message-Id: <1124157381.11637.20.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2562fc63-382e-4ffb-b5e5-94df0f660367 X-Archives-Hash: 2b8bcc0e7949b6751f7a72cec83d9b33 On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 13:11 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:58:54 -0400 > Paul Hoy wrote: > > > Coincidently, I received a bunch of Fedora 3 & 4 email > > updates earlier today, which shows that Gentoo is behind 23 out of 24 of > > the updates, some of them quite significantly. Most of them are > > KDE-related files, > > > That confirms my thoughts (which i posted yesterday). > > So can you clarify, is that 23/24 packages are behind on x86 or on ~x86? > > i.e. would an ~x86 gentoo be ahead or behind fedora? > > My original email was 23/24 packages for x86. However, after reading your email, I compared the first 10 kde updates with ~x86 releases. It came out that Fedora was ahead 50 percent of the time or both distros shared the same release versions. In case I'm doing something incorrectly, you can also view the updates at http://fedoraproject.org/infofeed/ Of course, this new comparison is between testing releases and so-called stable Fedora releases. There is a Fedora extras/unstable list (Fedora Core 4 Testing Updates) for that, but I don't receive that one. It also should be noted that the updates I listed happen to be mostly for Fedora 3, not Fedora 4. I compared some Fedora 4 releases the other day and shared them with this list and Fedora was ahead 90 percent of the time (out of about 10 recent release comparisons). Finally, after doing a ~x86 compare, I noticed that fedora-announce-list is slow to announce updates as most of the actual updates took place around the beginning of August by Redhat people. Not sure why that is. Paul > -- > Nick Rout > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list