Re: Gentoo GNU/Hurd thread in Gentoo Forums

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 04:54:47PM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:

> What I pursue with this question is whether a Gentoo GNU/Hurd would be
> easier to maintain up-to-date with usual Gentoo repositories and
> whether it would be possible to avoid situations like we are in at the
> moment: some packages are broken and a lot of stuff does not work
> (emacs, for example).

Note that most of these breakages are a result of new package versions
being uploaded, but our buildds slacking, or problems preventing the
build of the newer versions alltogether. This results in conflicts
between the newer arch-independent packages and the older hurd packages.

This kind of problems could be effectively prevented by use of a
"testing" repository, where only known working combinations of packages
are allowed to migrate. This would require some work though to set up
and maintain -- working on Gentoo GNU/Hurd instead might very well be a
better investment of time :-)

-antrik-