On Friday 06 July 2007, Steve Long wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> > this would be for 2007.1+ profiles and we can leave the old things in > >> > place until we phase out 2007.0 and older completely > >> > >> This is actually something I was already planning on working on setting > >> up. To avoid conflicting with the current profiles, I was planning on > >> making a new profile tree. I wasn't planning on using it for 2007.1's > >> official media, though, but rather just /experimental stuff, since I'd > >> rather get much more testing on it before it goes "live" as the default. > > > > you proposing we rearchitect it all or just for testing purposes before > > going live ? > > Er I thought the whole point of a portage tree on the system was to allow > people to mess about with stuff.. Even if not, is there any real conflict > in doing both; ie rearchitect on an offline version, test properly and then > switch to new branch? However long releng need is however long they need > aiui. After the stress of the last few months, is it really such a big deal > if there's no 2007.1- it's not like anyone needs to reinstall is it?
you misinterpret ... me saying "going live" means "release and expect people
to switch to using it on stable systems"
> Speaking of stuff that's holding you back, what's going on with the PMS?
> Aiui several changes to portage await EAPI=1 and i don't see any sign of
> EAPI=0 being finalised. The cia project page shows no commits since April.
> Has it switched to another src-tracker?
nothing i'm prosing is held back by EAPI=1
> > i can see both ...
> > profiles/frags/
> > libc/uclibc/
> > libc/gclibc/
> > arch/amd64/
> > arch/sh/
> > kernel/linux/
> > kernel/bsd/
> > kernel/bsd/freebsd/
> > kernel/bsd/openbsd/
> >
> > profiles/default-linux/amd64/parent
> > ../../frags/arch/amd64
> > ../../frags/kernel/linux
> > ../../frags/libc/glibc
> > ..
>
> Makes a lot of sense when you lay it out like that. Is there a namespace
> issue with profiles/{libc,arch,kernel}?
i thought it looked ugly to have them in the top level. the idea with frags
is that by name only, it should be easy to see users arent supposed to be
using the profile ...
-mike
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