On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Christophe Lincoln
<pankso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
He is a small resume of the situation and why I'm working on cookutils
and not just make 4.0
* From end of last year wok was fozen but update never stops
* When I was in holiday in december/janury some people decided to
use an experimental tools as main build tools, it broke a lot of
things and delayed to release cycle.
* Tank was crashing a lot and then FSF said they cant' handle the
load so we had to find and put in place a new server (Thank again
to Thomas, the box work like a charm) and this delayed again the
release cycle.
* When I realize that and realize the huge and incredibale work
done on Tazwok in the same time, I thought "ok we cant revert that
we must give this tazwok-exerimental it chance"
* It's what we done and we used new Tazwok on Tank, but 3 month
later new tazwok was still not running as a build bot and is
difficult to maintain on Tank for me and other tank maintainers..
* Worse, with last cooking we got a lot of kernel panic, this is
very bad. With help on the forum we found that thes kernel panics
was caused by a change in kernel processor type.
* To fix this kernel issue I changed linux config, but then API
change and a lot of packages must be rebuild (that normal and I
was ready to rebuild them) so I wanted to rebuild toolchain on
tank with tazwok and it fails 3 times. This was to much and the
first reason to start new cookutils.
* I all this time I got private mail and read here on the list
complain about new tazwok to difficult to use and improve if you
not a guru: second reason to code cookutils.
* Finaly, we want a build bot working on tank before 4.0, because
we want a build bot for stable and cooking, this let us send
upgrade to stable easily and got packages builded automaticaly.
The goal is not the release for release but to release a stable
version, so we will release when ready. I think it's not a problem
since SliTaz have 5 years now and we NEEDED huge change is build system
because they was wrote when slitaz had 300-400 packages but handling
nearly 3000 package is an other story.
Now we need help to test cookutils and in a few times (say 10 days) we
will need packages testing. I also think Godane would apreciate help on
Tazwok since Gokhaley a less time to debug it now and also would
apreciate help on test slitaz source DVD.
Hope it's help to clarify the situation,
- Christophe
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