On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 09:18 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> Notice that for almost
> everything, amd64 is barely behind x86...just a minor version
> number/revision or two at most.
That's the ATs hard at work keeping us current ;)
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Homer Parker
Gentoo/AMD64 Arch Tester Strategic Le
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:32 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> It's not magic. We've been handling packages that work on sparc64 but
> not sparc32 for years with a single keyword. Just because you (and,
> from the looks of things, most of the x86 and amd64 developers) don't
> know about some of portag
Stephen P. Becker wrote: [Wed Aug 31 2005, 08:18:53AM CDT]
> We don't "live with that problem on MIPS" because it doesn't exist. If
> something doesn't work in one spot, we dont' stable keyword it...simple
> as that. Also keep in mind that for some stuff, we don't have to test
> on both. For
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:32 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:36:52 -0700 Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | No offense intended, but as a user, I /like/ to actually know that a
> | package keyworded for my arch (segment) is known to work on it in full
> | (IMHO) uncrippled
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:36:52 -0700 Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| No offense intended, but as a user, I /like/ to actually know that a
| package keyworded for my arch (segment) is known to work on it in full
| (IMHO) uncrippled amd64 form, not in some (IMHO) "crippled 32-bit
| special case". I
OK, I've seen this mentioned several times, but never with an explanation
of how to do it, without either causing issues for the one segment, or
holding up keywording perfectly working packages on another segment.
Perhaps it can be done, please explain how if so.
Keep in mind that the *stable*
Stephen Bennett posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted
below, on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:40:02 +0100:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:15:18 +
> Luis Medinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I belive the worse QA is in x86 and not in AMD64 and MIPS. Between
>> AMD64 and x86 there's a lot of differences i.
