On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 14:01 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > the way release media (i.e. stages) is created was always a dark art no one > knew anything about (except a few core people). then catalyst came along and > it inherited a lot of the dark baggage (and none of those core people) >
Yeah, when drobbins split, alot of the answers to "why is this done like this" went with him. Not that its his fault though, a lot of his hacks were necessary at the time. > theres no point in getting angry at people over 'lack of bugs' and such ... > people just dont know how things 'should be done' because this is just the > way it's *always* been done (at least as long as they've been here) ... that > probably includes zhen :). i myself have asked questions about why certain > things are done in a stage1 and no one replies (-> no one knows, the people > who do are long gone) > I ask myself the same questions ;) Every now and again, I go through the code for stage1 creation and go "wtf?", then try to fix what is broken the best that I can. I am very open to patches, as Mike can attest to, so if anyone sees something that is broken and has not been fixed by either myself or Chris, please file a bug and mail the both of us. There is always a better way to do something. > i'll happily work with you in getting bootstrap.sh up-to-speed with stage1's > that include a full /var/db/pkg ... i dont think many here have been around > long enough to know how much work (read: hacks) it took in the past just so > that people going from a stage1 didnt have to build their toolchain > (gcc/glibc) twice. nor should a toolchain be built twice imho. > -mike Ewww, hacks. Anyway, from what I have read, it looks like default x86 does not need a set of 2.4 stages, right? I could have missed something in the last 80 mails in this thread though ... Cheers, //John -- John Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Gentoo Foundation Trustee | Release Engineering Manager | Catalyst code monkey --- "When people learn no tools of judgement and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown" - Stephen Jay Gould
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