Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-12-03 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Friday 01 December 2006 13:47, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Actually, we would have to review the process, since not everything that > gets a security bug ends up with a GLSA. My current loose rule is that > if it deserves a GLSA, then it deserves and update, but I don't know the > exact criteria

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-12-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 07:22 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Steve Long wrote: > >>> There'll always be GLSA's to respond to. That's another issue that > >>> needs to be handled w/ a slow-moving tree. Are you going to restrict > >>> changes in the slow-moving tree only to changes against a GLSA? >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-12-01 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Steve Long wrote: There'll always be GLSA's to respond to. That's another issue that needs to be handled w/ a slow-moving tree. Are you going to restrict changes in the slow-moving tree only to changes against a GLSA? That's what we've said. I don't have a problem with this at all. The slow-

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Long
>> There'll always be GLSA's to respond to. That's another issue that >> needs to be handled w/ a slow-moving tree. Are you going to restrict >> changes in the slow-moving tree only to changes against a GLSA? > > That's what we've said. > I don't have a problem with this at all. The slow-moving

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread George Prowse
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:01:11 + "Stuart Herbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 11/29/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > As of this release, I kept a copy of all of the distfiles for the | > entire release, and can make a DVD of it, on request. This |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Mike Doty
Stuart Herbert wrote: On 11/29/06, Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stuart Herbert wrote: I have a couple of locations where I could store backups, depending on size and projected growth. I suppose it'll have to wait until 2007.0 though so we can actually gage it as opposed to speculating w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 11/29/06, Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stuart Herbert wrote: I have a couple of locations where I could store backups, depending on size and projected growth. I suppose it'll have to wait until 2007.0 though so we can actually gage it as opposed to speculating wildly. If anything ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Mike Doty
Stuart Herbert wrote: [snip] Thank you. Do we have backups in place covering these files? Have we tested the backups to confirm that they actually work? I have a couple of locations where I could store backups, depending on size and projected growth. I suppose it'll have to wait until 2007.0

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 11/29/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the arrangements should you go under a bus on the way home > from work tonight? You'd like that, wouldn't you? That was _completely_ uncalled for. "go under a bus" is just a phrase that's commonly used here in the UK (because

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:01:11 + "Stuart Herbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 11/29/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > As of this release, I kept a copy of all of the distfiles for the | > entire release, and can make a DVD of it, on request. This | > fulfills our requiremen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Stuart Herbert wrote: On 11/29/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As of this release, I kept a copy of all of the distfiles for the entire release, and can make a DVD of it, on request. This fulfills our requirements with the GPL. What are the arrangements should you go under a b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:01 +, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On 11/29/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As of this release, I kept a copy of all of the distfiles for the entire > > release, and can make a DVD of it, on request. This fulfills our > > requirements with the GPL. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 11/29/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As of this release, I kept a copy of all of the distfiles for the entire release, and can make a DVD of it, on request. This fulfills our requirements with the GPL. What are the arrangements should you go under a bus on the way home from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 02:21 -0500, Alec Warner wrote: > The bonus is that we then need to have a fetcher that runs over the main > tree and all supported release trees, and this of course increases > mirror size as we now have distfiles in the tree from a year ago to > support a year old release

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 06:37 +, Steve Long wrote: > .. The one > > disadvantage to my design is it needs infra. It needs it's own > > repository and rsync. > > > What does that entail? Would a co-located server suffice? Sure. It would be much better to simply use what we currently have, tho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Steve Long wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: From your post we need to add: - strip all USE flags that aren't used from use.mask (per-profile) - strip all packages that aren't available from package.mask (per-profile) What language is the script implemented in? The current script is actually 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-28 Thread Alec Warner
Steve Long wrote: .. The one disadvantage to my design is it needs infra. It needs it's own repository and rsync. What does that entail? Would a co-located server suffice? (If it gets popular, I'd imagine those mirroring current rsyncs etc would want to mirror the releases as well.) On

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-28 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > I have a script which already does several things: > > #1. grabs "best_visible" for stable on each arch > #2. repeat for each SLOT > #3. purge unnecessary files from FILESDIR > #4. strip to only "stable" profiles from profiles.desc > #5. purge unnecessary USE from use.lo