[gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Long
Duncan wrote: > Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:23:09 > +: > >> Excellent; pkgcore really sounds great- is there any possibility that >> it'll become the new portage? > > Possibility, yes. It's not certain, as there are mul

[gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree

2006-12-01 Thread Duncan
Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:23:09 +: > Excellent; pkgcore really sounds great- is there any possibility that it'll > become the new portage? Possibility, yes. It's not certain, as there are multiple contenders (paludis is

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

2006-11-29 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 20:10 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > By "didn't see", he means he was so busy participating in his favourite > game of Chris bashing that he didn't get around to reading any of the > relevant material first... Could be, or (as happened here) mails arrived at different time

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

2006-11-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:01:37 -0700 "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 11/29/06, Stuart Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > On 11/29/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > Maybe you should read the replies you got the first time you made | > > this claim on this list

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

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/29/06, Stuart Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On 11/29/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you should read the replies you got the first time you made this claim > on this list [1]. Many thanks for these links. I didn't see your original email. Wanna add a

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

2006-11-29 Thread Stuart Herbert
Hi, On 11/29/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe you should read the replies you got the first time you made this claim on this list [1]. Many thanks for these links. I didn't see your original email. Best regards, Stu -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-11-29 Thread Alec Warner
Stuart Herbert wrote: Just because we didn't take the time out to stop and make sure you were personally comfortable with the change doesn't mean we didn't prepare for it and announce it. I'm sorry that you've gone with the "I always know best, you're a fucking chump so shut the fuck up" type

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

2006-11-29 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 18:11, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > Except it was announced before we even made the snapshot, > > Sorry, I've looked, but the only announcement I found on gentoo-dev > was posted two days before gcc-4.1 was stabilised [1].  I must have > missed the earlier announcement?

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

2006-11-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Stuart Herbert wrote: Sorry, I've looked, but the only announcement I found on gentoo-dev was posted two days before gcc-4.1 was stabilised [1]. I must have missed the earlier announcement? Do you just ignore the rest of the thread when responding to individual emails? About 2 hours ago, some

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

2006-11-29 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 11/29/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm sorry, but how the hell do you know? You are not a member of Release Engineering, and have *NO CLUE* what we do over there. What we release isn't the only thing we do. Then this is a great opportunity to set the record straight, by

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

2006-11-29 Thread Josh Saddler
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > While I truly appreciate your ability to give your opinion, I don't > care. As I said, I am working on this concept as an experiment. It is > being done by Release Engineering. We aren't really *asking* anyone for > their opinion. We're simply stating what we plan on w

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

2006-11-29 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 11/29/06, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From other developers, most of which were releng members? I get most of mine from users, who are normally kind enough to submit the required patches at the same time. It's stupid to "blame" releng for the stabilization of gcc-4.1.1. We

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

2006-11-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 08:37 +, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On 11/28/06, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You make it sound like releng doesn't care at all about non-desktop > > packages. > > That wasn't how it was meant. Was simply meant as a statement of > fact. Releng activities

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

2006-11-29 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 09:37, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > Gcc 4.1.1 wasn't a last minute change. > > I can't agree with you there.  It doesn't matter how many months of > planning and work you guys put into getting gcc-4.1 fit for stable. > If you're doing it off in your own little corner of t

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

2006-11-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Stuart Herbert wrote: On 11/29/06, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The 3-4 weeks of releng filing a ton of "doesn't build with gcc-4.1.1" bugs wasn't a big enough clue? :) No. We get those all the time; there's always someone trying out an unsupported release of gcc. From other d

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

2006-11-29 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 11/29/06, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The 3-4 weeks of releng filing a ton of "doesn't build with gcc-4.1.1" bugs wasn't a big enough clue? :) No. We get those all the time; there's always someone trying out an unsupported release of gcc. Also, the arch teams (or at least th

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

2006-11-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Stuart Herbert wrote: > b) Release trees have a nasty habit of picking up last minute changes > (such as gcc 4.1) to suit the release, not stability. Gcc 4.1.1 wasn't a last minute change. I can't agree with you there. It doesn't matter how many months of planning and work you guys put into g

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

2006-11-29 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 11/28/06, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You make it sound like releng doesn't care at all about non-desktop packages. That wasn't how it was meant. Was simply meant as a statement of fact. Releng activities are currently exclusively desktop-oriented. Until that changes, releng

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

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Stuart Herbert wrote: On 11/28/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As I have said, I've mentioned several times the idea of doing a "release tree" to go along with each release. The release tree is not the basis for this. a) Releases (and the releng work that goes into it) are exc

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

2006-11-28 Thread Stephen P. Becker
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:56:47 -0600 "James Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This looks good on the surface, Chris, but what happens in the case > where somebody wants to use the Release tree, but also wants (or > needs) one or more packages from the Live tree, and doesn't want to > switch comple

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

2006-11-28 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 11/28/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As I have said, I've mentioned several times the idea of doing a "release tree" to go along with each release. The release tree is not the basis for this. a) Releases (and the releng work that goes into it) are exclusively desktop-orient

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

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Gaffney
James Potts wrote: This looks good on the surface, Chris, but what happens in the case where somebody wants to use the Release tree, but also wants (or needs) one or more packages from the Live tree, and doesn't want to switch completely over to the live tree? If I understand what you want to do

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

2006-11-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 14:56 -0600, James Potts wrote: > This looks good on the surface, Chris, but what happens in the case > where somebody wants to use the Release tree, but also wants (or > needs) one or more packages from the Live tree, and doesn't want to > switch completely over to the live t

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

2006-11-28 Thread Caleb Cushing
they could pull the more current ebuilds and put them in an overlay. also correct me if I'm wrong isn't it possible only to sync certain parts of the tree using excludes. maybe some additional functionality saying only sync package X for updates. On 11/28/06, James Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

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

2006-11-28 Thread James Potts
On 11/28/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 16:18 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > One method could be to snapshot all package versions at the time that > Release Engineering make a release, building a package.mask file out of > it masking out all packages of high

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

2006-11-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 16:18 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > One method could be to snapshot all package versions at the time that > Release Engineering make a release, building a package.mask file out of > it masking out all packages of higher revisions (i.e. having '>CPVR' > entry for every package

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

2006-11-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 13:02 +, Stuart Herbert wrote: > I think the original poster hit the nail on the head. The real > barrier preventing a slower-moving tree is cultural. Somewhat. As I have said, I've mentioned several times the idea of doing a "release tree" to go along with each release

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

2006-11-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 11:33 +, Steve Long wrote: > > In any event, what I'd like to raise is the issue of having a > > (semi-)official version of gentoo that lags behind the cutting-edge distro > > for stability. Is this feasible? > > > > Apologies if this is already being discussed elsewhere.

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

2006-11-27 Thread Marius Mauch
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:33:58 + Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In any event, what I'd like to raise is the issue of having a > > (semi-)official version of gentoo that lags behind the cutting-edge > > distro for stability. Is this feasible? > > > > Apologies if this is already being

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

2006-11-27 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:02:17 + "Stuart Herbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/27/06, paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can't take workload out of the picture since it's the main issue > > here. Stable tree means backport fixes and I don't see this > > happening as it can't be automa

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

2006-11-27 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 11/27/06, paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can't take workload out of the picture since it's the main issue here. Stable tree means backport fixes and I don't see this happening as it can't be automated: "Stable tree means backport fixes" is an assumption, not a requirement. It's one rea

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

2006-11-27 Thread paul
Steve Long schrieb: >> In any event, what I'd like to raise is the issue of having a >> (semi-)official version of gentoo that lags behind the cutting-edge distro >> for stability. Is this feasible? >> >> Apologies if this is already being discussed elsewhere. >> > I appreciate that there is GLEP 1

[gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-27 Thread Steve Long
> In any event, what I'd like to raise is the issue of having a > (semi-)official version of gentoo that lags behind the cutting-edge distro > for stability. Is this feasible? > > Apologies if this is already being discussed elsewhere. > I appreciate that there is GLEP 19 according to earlier dis