On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 20:45 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> a) Drop all keywords but those of mips. Leaves mips and, more > >> importantly, its users with a vulnerable and unmaintained set of > >> packages. > > > > ...and break the tree spectacularly, causing huge amounts of pain for > > your fellow developers when they encounter horrible repoman output when > > they try to do anything. > > Can somebody clarify to me why would it cause this? Maybe I just miss > something.
He's making the assumption that this sort of thing would be done improperly and would cause other developers issues. I went and created a tiny script[1] to change mips KEYWORDS to ~mips in the tree, and created a patch[2] against the current CVS tree. Were the Council to choose this course of action, the work is mostly done. [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~wolf31o2/killmips.sh [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~wolf31o2/mips_to_testing.patch -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer
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