On Tuesday 06 December 2005 00:21, Alec Warner wrote: > Jason Stubbs wrote: > > Okay, new suggestion. > > > > Postpone the cache rewrite from above. Have only the minimal mods > > necessary to fix the PORT_LOGDIR/tee bug. Include the other two as is. > > That would be 2.0.54 as per the attached patch. Get that out soon and get > > trunk out masked at around the same time. As soon as 2.0.54 goes stable > > put trunk into ~arch. However, instead of ~arch meaning "regression fixes > > only" we could just limit it to "minor changes only" (ie. no big > > refactorings, rewrites or similar high risk changes) until it is time to > > stable it. > > Postponing the cache rewrite is going to piss a lot of poeple off, just > FYI :) I realize it's a large patch, but it has been tested by plenty > of people, and many of them are waiting for this fix to hit stable > (don't want to patch portage on a production system). Any particular > reason you want it held off (besides it's immensity?)
The delay it would cause for other things waiting in the pipeline. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
