-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 February 2004 01:24, Christian Hoenig wrote: > > Hi Paul, though I'm not the 'you', I will give my statement here. > > Long time ago I thougth about having an unstable/stable and mature > kind of flag here. The point is, that sometimes changes from ~arch to > arch occur and a short time later a return to ~arch is needed because > the responsible dev overlooked a point which became clear by the > community. > > A jump from for example 'x86' to 'stable:x86' (which could also be > denoted as !x68) should only occur if it 'seems' to be testet from the > community for at least some days! > > I hope you did get my point, if not, get back to me :-)
My point is that we want 1 flag. So if a package has the following keywords: KEYWORDS="stable x86 ppc ~sparc ~hppa" It would be included into the snapshot for x86 and ppc only. It is very uncommon for an ebuild that is stable enough to go into the snapshot to be accidently marked stable for an arch. Also we will have QA over the snapshot before it is released. This QA will at least involve making all packages (for a GRP tree). As we are dealing with a snapshot it is actually easier to ensure that things compile because a lot of variation is taken away. You can ensure that you only have say openssl-0.7 so you don't get problems with openssl-6 Paul - -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAH3RdbKx5DBjWFdsRAgGmAKDRyBunn7Q1zsGmSWrG6UGxRmbE9QCghnql 7TMWtvrjL9puyF3LFuf2sIA= =dmDP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
