5.9.2005, 22:09:28, Stuart Herbert wrote: > I kept PHP5 masked for those 14 months, and (as Jakub and others can > confirm) most of the feedback has been limited to "unmask that > puppy" (sometimes put in stronger terms ;-) There were some bugs from > users who had found issues, but not many.
Well, yeah - and the same goes for e.g. MySQL-4.1; the only thing you get from p.masking popular packages is a be-weekly bug like "WTH is this still masked, upstream says it's stable and best version released yet which everyone should upgrade to" ;p Real testing from users comes when it goes to ~arch, then they start screaming "hell, it broke my box, why isn't this p.masked, it's so buggy!" :) So, unless we have a *lot more* devs to do thorough testing of p.masked ebuilds (totally unfeasible to test all the PHP5 features e.g., if you have some 3 people in php herd), then it's largely up to users to do the testing in ~arch. p.mask ebuilds will be tested by really *few* users, so most of the bugs will stay unnoticed until this is moved to ~arch. > Rather than unmask the packages before they were read, I changed to > another approach. I moved the work out of Portage into an overlay > instead. This worked well. It has attracted a bunch of regulars to > #gentoo-apache who have spent the last few months finding the bugs that > existed, and making sure that they're fixed and stay fixed. It looks > likely that we'll get some new devs out of that too :) Absolutely. The overlay made the whole thing get into portage *much* faster then all those months in p.mask. -- Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCEBA3D9E Primary key fingerprint: D2D7 933C 9BA1 C95B 2C95 B30F 8717 D5FD CEBA 3D9E ... still no signature ;)
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