Re: [gentoo-alt] Dropping ia64-linux - anyone care?

2011-11-22 Thread Jeremy Olexa
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Burcin Erocal wrote: > I needed to add the profile for ia64. After that, initial bootstrap > went fine (build portage & baselayout-prefix). Then 148 of the 150 The ia64 profile is there, what went wrong exactly? -Jeremy

Re: [gentoo-alt] Dropping ia64-linux - anyone care?

2011-11-21 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:38:13 -0600 Jeremy Olexa wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Burcin Erocal > wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:29:00 -0600 > > Jeremy Olexa wrote: > > > >> Fabian and I discussed dropping ia64-linux support. Time to face > >> reality, we don't use it and we don't te

Re: [gentoo-alt] Dropping ia64-linux - anyone care?

2011-11-21 Thread Jeremy Olexa
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: > On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:29:00 -0600 > Jeremy Olexa wrote: > >> Fabian and I discussed dropping ia64-linux support. Time to face >> reality, we don't use it and we don't test it... Does anyone out there >> care about ia64-linux? > > I do. :) >

Re: [gentoo-alt] Dropping ia64-linux - anyone care?

2011-11-16 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 16-11-2011 16:07:26 +0100, Askar Bektassov (Аскар Бектасов) wrote: > Jeremy, > > Is there any possibility to see the usage statistics of the downloaded > files? Basically no. Even if you can see how many times a file is downloaded from a mirror, you cannot tell whether that user is a Prefix a

Re: [gentoo-alt] Dropping ia64-linux - anyone care?

2011-11-16 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:29:00 -0600 Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Fabian and I discussed dropping ia64-linux support. Time to face > reality, we don't use it and we don't test it... Does anyone out there > care about ia64-linux? I do. :) There are still many scientific users who have itanium boxes left

Re: [gentoo-alt] Dropping ia64-linux - anyone care?

2011-11-16 Thread Аскар Бектасов
Jeremy, Is there any possibility to see the usage statistics of the downloaded files? Maybe, this can turn out to be one of possible ways to see the actual demand for ia64-linux. Just to have a quantitative evidence of what we are dropping (qualitative is already there, "we don't use it and we do

[gentoo-alt] Dropping ia64-linux - anyone care?

2011-11-16 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Fabian and I discussed dropping ia64-linux support. Time to face reality, we don't use it and we don't test it... Does anyone out there care about ia64-linux? -Jeremy