Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-31 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/22/2013 07:24 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 22 August 2013 11:01, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I think the result of a policy like this would be that stable

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-31 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 1. September 2013, 03:02:47 schrieb Rick Zero_Chaos Farina: On 08/22/2013 07:24 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 22 August 2013 11:01, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I think the result of a policy like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Jeroen Roovers schrieb: Mixing stable and testing is precisely what package maintainers (hopefully) do when committing new versions: building and running new software on a known to be stable platform on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-24 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:28:24 +0100 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Wow! That is something we actively encourage people to avoid. Mixed systems are totally unsupported and I am sure quite a few bugs are closed as invalid when a mixed system is detected. Mixing stable and testing is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-24 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Jeroen Roovers schrieb: Mixing stable and testing is precisely what package maintainers (hopefully) do when committing new versions: building and running new software on a known to be stable platform on the premise that the new software is likely to be merged into the stable branch (before

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-23 Thread Christopher Head
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:28:24 +0100 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Wow! That is something we actively encourage people to avoid. Mixed systems are totally unsupported and I am sure quite a few bugs are closed as invalid when a mixed system is detected. It may work on regular

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Sergey Popov
21.08.2013 22:28, Alexis Ballier пишет: Instead of dropping them entirely to ~arch, maybe something in between could be done: Said arches could start moving to ~arch the leaf and less important packages. E.g. we have (had?) a lot of sparc keywords on sound packages or ppc keywords on ocaml

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/22/2013 08:38 AM, Sergey Popov wrote: 21.08.2013 22:28, Alexis Ballier пишет: Instead of dropping them entirely to ~arch, maybe something in between could be done: Said arches could start moving to ~arch the leaf and less important

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 22 August 2013 01:19, Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Is there an alternative? afaik a profile can be either stable,dev or exp. I can't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Markos Chandras
On 22 August 2013 11:01, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 22 August 2013 01:19, Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Is there an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Ben de Groot
On 22 August 2013 18:01, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 22 August 2013 01:19, Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Is there an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 22 August 2013 11:01, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I think the result of a policy like this would be that stable keywords would get dropped on most peripheral packages, but system packages might still keep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Markos Chandras
On 22 August 2013 12:24, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 22 August 2013 11:01, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I think the result of a policy like this would be that stable keywords would get dropped on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Michael Weber
On 08/22/2013 01:28 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: On 22 August 2013 12:24, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 22 August 2013 11:01, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I think the result of a policy like this would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Markos Chandras
On 22 August 2013 13:17, Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org wrote: Having a mixed setup isn't that absurd as you want it to be. And forcing users to not use it renders all package.{accepted_,}keywords granularity moot. It's like nailing them to debian stable or debian testing w/o backports or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Sergey Popov
22.08.2013 16:26, Markos Chandras пишет: On 22 August 2013 13:17, Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org wrote: Having a mixed setup isn't that absurd as you want it to be. And forcing users to not use it renders all package.{accepted_,}keywords granularity moot. It's like nailing them to debian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Michael Weber
On 08/22/2013 02:26 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: On 22 August 2013 13:17, Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org wrote: Having a mixed setup isn't that absurd as you want it to be. And forcing users to not use it renders all package.{accepted_,}keywords granularity moot. It's like nailing them to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/08/13 06:19 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: What's the point of that? Most users need more than what @system provides so after they deploy the 'stable' stage3 they will start pulling ~arch packages that were never tested against the stable

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:47:18 +0200 Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org wrote: On 08/22/2013 02:26 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: I said that it is a combination not well tested so we do not encourage this. Users are free to do whatever they want. Actually every other post is about keywording special

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 22 August 2013 12:24, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Do we actually have examples of this happening? I've never had problems with a mix of stable and ~arch keywords. Granted, I'm not running ~arch on most

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Donnerstag, 22. August 2013, 13:28:24 schrieb Markos Chandras: Do we actually have examples of this happening? I've never had problems with a mix of stable and ~arch keywords. Granted, I'm not running ~arch on most libs. Wow! That is something we actively encourage people to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:03:35AM +0200, Michael Weber wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/22/2013 08:38 AM, Sergey Popov wrote: 21.08.2013 22:28, Alexis Ballier пишет: Instead of dropping them entirely to ~arch, maybe something in between could be done:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-22 Thread Jack Morgan
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 01:30:59PM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:09:55 +0200 Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords - s390

[gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Markos Chandras
Hi, It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status. I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords - s390 - sh - ia64 - alpha - m68k - sparc The manpower on these arches is below acceptable levels and they often block stabilizations for many months.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords - s390 - sh - ia64 - alpha - m68k - sparc +many. Cheers, Dirkjan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Ultrabug
On 08/21/2013 01:04 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: Hi, It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status. I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords - s390 - sh - ia64 - alpha - m68k - sparc The manpower on these arches is below acceptable levels and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:09:55 +0200 Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords - s390 - sh - ia64 - alpha - m68k - sparc +many. ++many. If any

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 21-08-2013 a las 12:04 +0100, Markos Chandras escribió: [...] If I get enough positive feedback on this, I will propose this in the next Council's agenda. + :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Mikle Kolyada
21.08.2013 15:04, Markos Chandras пишет: Hi, It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status. I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords - s390 - sh - ia64 - alpha - m68k - sparc +1 for that. Perl herd has *really* many work with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread heroxbd
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org writes: I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords - s390 - sh - ia64 - alpha - m68k - sparc I support this proposal. I only have an old sparc box at hand. They are no longer major as time goes, IMHO.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 08/21/2013 07:04 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: Hi, It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status. I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords - s390 - sh - ia64 - alpha - m68k - sparc Mips, as you know, has been ~arch for a while and we've been

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Markos Chandras
Mips, as you know, has been ~arch for a while and we've been doing just fine with it. We can't pretend, however, that this doesn't shift some burden to the user. One example is perl where some modules need 5.12.4 (the current stable) and cannot use 5.16.x (~arch). On mips you might emerge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Ben de Groot
On 21 August 2013 19:04, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status. I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords - s390 - sh - ia64 - alpha - m68k - sparc ++ And consider adding ppc and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
21.08.2013 15:04, Markos Chandras пишет: Hi, It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status. I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords - s390 - sh - ia64 - alpha - m68k - sparc The manpower on these arches is below acceptable levels

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status. I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords - s390 - sh - ia64 - alpha - m68k - sparc I want some level between

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status. I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Markos Chandras
On 21 August 2013 16:32, Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status. I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords - s390 -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Michael Weber
On 08/21/2013 01:04 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: The manpower on these arches is below acceptable levels and they often block stabilizations for many months. This also causes troubles to developers trying to get rid of old versions of packages. I am CC'ing Mike and on this to draw his

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: The proposal is to drop stable keywords on arches that cannot keep up. Do you feel this is not the case on alpha? I'm not sure if that's my claim. I'm worried because I think it might be a disaster for alpha (and perhaps

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Is there an alternative? afaik a profile can be either stable,dev or exp. I can't see how we can implement something between stable and dev. And what would that represent? It may or may not be stable? If this is the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Manuel Rüger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/21/2013 05:56 PM, Michael Weber wrote: On 08/21/2013 01:04 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: The manpower on these arches is below acceptable levels and they often block stabilizations for many months. This also causes troubles to developers

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Alexis Ballier
Instead of dropping them entirely to ~arch, maybe something in between could be done: Said arches could start moving to ~arch the leaf and less important packages. E.g. we have (had?) a lot of sparc keywords on sound packages or ppc keywords on ocaml ones because at some point (~10 years ago)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Markos Chandras
On 21 August 2013 19:28, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Instead of dropping them entirely to ~arch, maybe something in between could be done: Said arches could start moving to ~arch the leaf and less important packages. E.g. we have (had?) a lot of sparc keywords on sound packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:03:30 +0100 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 21 August 2013 19:28, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Instead of dropping them entirely to ~arch, maybe something in between could be done: Said arches could start moving to ~arch the leaf and less

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Markos Chandras
On 21 August 2013 20:10, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:03:30 +0100 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 21 August 2013 19:28, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Instead of dropping them entirely to ~arch, maybe something in between could

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

2013-08-21 Thread Ben de Groot
On 22 August 2013 01:19, Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Is there an alternative? afaik a profile can be either stable,dev or exp. I can't see how we can implement something between stable and dev. And what