Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 20:44:56 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, re-builders@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New aliases for release-building Message-ID: <20021203044456.D38322A8A5@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <200212030437.gB34bgsW028059@intruder.bmah.org>
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Bruce A. Mah wrote:
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> If memory serves me right, Robert Watson wrote:
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> > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:01:33PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > > >
> > > > In a nutshell, there is now one alias per Tier 1 platform (plus various
> > > > name variations), plus a master re-builders alias that sends to all of
> > > > the platform aliases.
> > >
> > > Bummer. I thought ia64 was still tier-2. I had plans to use it to get
> > > away with future ABI breakages. Ah well... :-)
> >
> > Nope, IA64 is still officially Tier II, but I know we'd all like it to get
> > to be Tier I as soon as possible. Even as Tier II, we can cut a release,
> > and my understanding is that this would be very helpful for a variety of
> > reasons, including political ones.
>
> My bad. Well, you get the idea, anyways.
>
> Bruce.
Well, its academic while the tree doesn't build. :-(
Even more amusing is that *major* surgery is still needed to get it to boot
on the HP boxes that are going into the cluster today.
Cheers,
-Peter
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"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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