Hello. On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:30:25 -0400 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 08:17 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On 21 July 2006 04:26, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > > Duncan wrote: > > > > I don't see it as... annoying; I see it as... challenging! =8^) > > > > > > > > Seriously, computing is my hobby, and as such, it needs to remain a bit > > > > challenging from time to time, or it would cease to be of interest. > > > > > > Just out of curiosity, are there three "versions" -- stable, testing and > > > unstable -- or just two -- stable and unstable? > > > > Three. > > Umm... what's the other KEYWORDS set, then? > > I know of 3 actual sets, but they're different than you think. > > arch - stable > ~arch - package is stable, but the ebuilds needs testing > -arch - package is known not to work on this architecture I think Duncan asked how many package "versions" are there, has given examples the debian way and according to that Ed answered "Three.". arch - stable ~arch - testing M+ - unstable But who knows.. > > Beyond that, there is package.mask, which is supposed to be used for any > packages that have had only limited testing, shown poor stability, or > have unresolved security problems. > > -- > Chris Gianelloni > Release Engineering - Strategic Lead > x86 Architecture Team > Games - Developer > Gentoo Linux > -- Algardas -- [email protected] mailing list
