On 06/21/2013 11:47 PM, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:54:46PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
The bug where this was discussed is
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338739
Thanks for the link, unfortunatly, things have changed since then, with
stable kernel releases happening much more frequently now (instead of
about ever 2-3 weeks, it's now, 1-2 releases a week.
So the chance for an arch team to mark anything is going to be tough.
greg k-h
I've been following, but I can't say I've been following closely. I'm
on the stable{,-commits}@vger list and the rate at which this stuff is
coming is too fast for human consumption.
We could just drop stabilization of vanilla-sources and have people
follow ~arch. That might be closer to the meaning of ~testing vs stable
in other packages: other upstreams push out releases they consider
stable, but we don't consider them stable within Gentoo until our QA
team tests.
Another reason for dropping all vanilla-sources to ~arch is that we have
some Gentoo specific needs that upstream will not and should not accept,
eg we are making greater use of extended attributes in our package
management, so we need end-to-end copying of xattrs. This means
preserving certain namespaces (beyond security.* and trusted.*) on tmpfs
for emerge. Gentoo users that use vanilla-sources will loose those
xattr values making vanilla-sources ~ with respect to the rest of Gentoo.
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