[oi-dev] error in pkg5 - from oi-prestable

Gordon Ross gordon.w.ross at gmail.com
Sat Feb 11 14:11:00 UTC 2012


There's also the difference that "pkg" is real source code, (right?)
where most other things in userland are just build recipes.

If I correctly understood the suggestion for a separate "tools" gate,
then I think that sounds helpful.

Gordon

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Bayard G. Bell
<buffer.g.overflow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 15:11 +0400, Igor Kozhukhov wrote:
>> If it is possible - I'd ilk to see 'pkg' in userland build environment and
>> rebuild it with userland.
>
> I think there needs to be a caveat for developer tools, which need to
> have a more strict dev cycle. We need to have some flagging and tagging
> practices to limit changes to anything that's a part of the toolchain
> for all of userland. I think that might argue for building these tools
> with the userland environment but gating them separately. That also
> makes it simpler to manage them with a distinct cycle. I'm sure there's
> more than one way to do and am happy to talk about alternatives.
>
> We talked at FOSDEM about having an expedited review and commit process,
> but we didn't cover these cases, where I think there was already
> consensus that we needed to do something like this.
>
> Cheers,
> Bayard
>
>
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