-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Myrhillion wrote: | Actually, gentoo also has another method that is meant more like | debian's stable, testing (I think.. never have run debian just talk so | not positive about this).. | | You can set in your make.conf your architecture to x86, this gives | "production/stable" release versions of the software. | If you want the hottest released ebuilds, you can change it globally to | ~x86. | | If you want specific packages to be newer and maintain other software as | production, you can set it in /var/portage/package.mask (or something), | don't have access to my gentoo atm for exact path. You basically list | the ebuild app-misc/f-spot ~x86 and then "emerge f-spot". | | If you're using x86 and there is only a ~x86 version available as an | ebuild, it is listed as masked and won't install if you run "emerge | app_name". | | I had stuck with production on my laptop since 2002 when I first | installed gentoo (haven't reinstalled yet) on my dell inspiron 8100. | I have had some issues with gcc updates and kernel recompiles, such that | were a bit thorny over profile changes though, nothing insurmountable | with a little time. | I have slowly allowed some ~x86 ebuilds in namely, mono and nvidia | related ebuilds. | | That said, my laptop is not "production". I dink around on it, and run | it in linux when I can (dual boot xp). | | Doug Taggart |
Having used various versions of gentoo (x86, ~x86) and Debian (stable, testing, unstable) I think I can say 'x86 is to ~x86 as stable is to testing (or unstable)' is just not true (I doubt x86 was meant to be a parallel of Debian stable. Maybe testing). x86 is certainly more stable than ~x86, but its really not the rock hard 'never touch this no really don't breathe on it' that Debian stable is =] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDyZMawsRpgTiXSOERAoq8AJ92gVOCLyMfckp351pUHw5XEHZbeQCgwij6 bWKwZDm2Qz3Mtr0UxXbGovs= =5xSM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
