Re: Linaro PPAs and backports / release cycles

2011-01-21 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote: > I'm curious to hear what packaging methods would be used for things like > the toolchain which have consumers beyond ubuntu. Are we saying this > will only be Ubuntu packages or is there consensus around providing > static tarballs ? For output

Re: Linaro PPAs and backports / release cycles

2011-01-21 Thread Peter Maydell
On 21 January 2011 13:22, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote: > I'm curious to hear what packaging methods would be used for things like > the toolchain which have consumers beyond ubuntu. Are we saying this > will only be Ubuntu packages or is there consensus around providing > static tarballs ? > > I as

Re: Linaro PPAs and backports / release cycles

2011-01-21 Thread Ramana Radhakrishnan
> Agreed. I'd like an easy way of getting pre-built binaries of all the > stable enough Linaro outputs. On the toolchain side this would > include the latest monthly releases of Linaro GCC, GDB, and QEMU in > native and cross versions as appropriate. A single PPA for the whole > of Linaro would

Re: Linaro PPAs and backports / release cycles

2011-01-21 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: > - the overlay ppa is the only one that should be enabled for Linaro release >images [...] I like the clear limits you're setting to the overlay PPA (rejecting any other concurrent overlays) > As for the 'tools' ppa, I had envisioned this as the

Re: Linaro PPAs and backports / release cycles

2011-01-20 Thread Tom Gall
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:10:08AM +1300, Michael Hope wrote: >> Agreed.  I'd like an easy way of getting pre-built binaries of all the >> stable enough Linaro outputs.  On the toolchain side this would >> include the latest monthly releases

Re: Linaro PPAs and backports / release cycles

2011-01-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:10:08AM +1300, Michael Hope wrote: > > To my mind the important constraint is that there should be some > > relatively easy thing > > that we can say to someone 'and this is how you get a stable Linaro'; > > and by that I mean the whole > > thing - a set of tools that bui

Re: Linaro PPAs and backports / release cycles

2011-01-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 07:30:35PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > As a followup to IRC conversations around backports, releases and QA > today, I'd like to hear what others think of our Linaro PPAs. I'll > start with some history and proposals: > We created a fairly ad hoc PPA layout for the 10

Re: Linaro PPAs and backports / release cycles

2011-01-20 Thread Michael Hope
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:44 AM, David Gilbert wrote: > On 20 January 2011 18:30, Loïc Minier wrote: >>        Hey >> >>  As a followup to IRC conversations around backports, releases and QA >>  today, I'd like to hear what others think of our Linaro PPAs.  I'll >>  start with some history and pr

Re: Linaro PPAs and backports / release cycles

2011-01-20 Thread David Gilbert
On 20 January 2011 18:30, Loïc Minier wrote: >        Hey > >  As a followup to IRC conversations around backports, releases and QA >  today, I'd like to hear what others think of our Linaro PPAs.  I'll >  start with some history and proposals: To my mind the important constraint is that there sh

Linaro PPAs and backports / release cycles

2011-01-20 Thread Loïc Minier
Hey As a followup to IRC conversations around backports, releases and QA today, I'd like to hear what others think of our Linaro PPAs. I'll start with some history and proposals: We created a fairly ad hoc PPA layout for the 10.11 cycle, with ppa:linaro-maintainers/tools ppa