From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j43GANkN025778 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 16:10:23 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j43GAWWr001584 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 12:10:32 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 3 May 2005 12:10:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <4274ACD1.9020003@gentoo.org> <4274B10C.5060507@longlandclan.hopto.org> <42763F57.6080206@flaska.net> <42764CF6.4020608@gentoo.org> <4276513D.5060200@flaska.net> <42765654.3010404@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ieWn5GdXkVnmHklnnXiV" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 12:10:14 -0400 Message-Id: <1115136614.889.281.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 X-Archives-Salt: fc16a339-c37d-4348-9194-f3cabc3ba558 X-Archives-Hash: 8ab22d4162c1a66e59e13b82b728711e --=-ieWn5GdXkVnmHklnnXiV Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 08:21 -0700, Duncan wrote: > Is there a convenient profile archive somewhere? If not, perhaps one > should be created, and at deletion from the tree, the profile dir in > question is replaced with a file (or the empty dir with only that > file) pointing to the archive. This archive could then keep the last > workable profile snapshot around for another six months or so, or perhaps > even forever, given the cost of storage now days. The pointer to it in > the tree could then be removed 30 days or 6 months after the profile > itself was removed, /forcing/ action on any laggards. I think an easier solution would be a portage rescue set of profiles. These would be minimal profiles not designed for actual use, but only for performing a portage update for those people that lag too far behind. The idea would be a very tiny profile, per arch, that is not cascaded. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-ieWn5GdXkVnmHklnnXiV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCd6JlkT4lNIS36YERAj+vAJ9Qgw1cIaiZnrHtq8B0xkeNHMmgWgCdH/Gm ep1AGF9aEs+RDHa72kkORSo= =neqs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ieWn5GdXkVnmHklnnXiV-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list