On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:45, Nick Rout wrote: > 1. The current version of gentoo is 2004.0. gentoo 2004.1 is tentatively > scheduled for 28 April. Thanks to Luuk for pointing this out. This is of > little significance to users with existing systems, as an 'emerge -u > world' will pull in all new functionality. However it is of significance > to installing from binaries, as we hope to do for the min-fest. This is > because 2004.1 should see the release of a new set of up to date > binaries for each architecture, meaning less recompilation to get a > given system updated. There will also be a huge lot of downloading if we > want to have all of the architecture's binaries available for the fest. > Lets see, about 5G I think. > > So should we: > > a. ignore this and use 2004.0, leaving a significant amount of > recompiling to do; or I would seem to me that there is a goodly amount of grunt available for the distcc farm, so this option is quite possible.
> b. use 2004.1 and do 5G of downloading between 28 April and 1 May > (assuming the release is on time, that the mirrors get them sooner > rather than later, etc etc,) Too tight a time frame. > c. delay two weeks (I will be away on the weekend of the 8th) and do > 2004.1 at a more leisurely pace? Probably the most sensible. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
