On Tuesday 06 December 2005 11:29, Zac Medico wrote: > Ned Ludd wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 23:06 +0900, 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. > > > > I think it would be wise to reconsider the cache fixes. I know you have > > been away from irc for a while now and have missed the daily events, > > but most of the people we have interacted with are expecting the cache > > updates in .54 (alot of people complaining about the hanging at 50%) > > > > The code has been pretty well tested and seems safe on the surface. I > > think ferringb's testing has shown that the cache updates use about 14M > > of ram where the existing code (as of .52.x) uses about 80M of ram. > > But still, it's annoying to be stuck with only 2 tiers. Why not put a > snapshot of trunk in the tree and package.mask it? Wouldn't that make > everyone happy?
That's what I'm thinking. Given that the people that are being asked to stable 2.0.53 are complaining that the ldconfig fix and exec/tee fix aren't in it, I'm certain that 2.0.54 would likely go stable *before* 2.0.53 if it is pushed out soon. If the SHA1 stuff is dropped, I can pretty much guarantee it. And as soon as it goes stable, trunk can be pushed into ~arch. Doing it this way, the cache rewrite gets into ~arch at pretty much the same time but all the other bits get added along with it. Sure it will mean that there will be a bit of a delay before it gets into stable but if we can speed up the release cycle the delay won't be by very much. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
