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From: Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] exploits and portage snapshots
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:02:29 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309200902.29688.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1064007351.5558.191.camel@localhost>

That's what another user recommended but looking at the script shows that it 
just finds the latest snapshot (portage-20030914.tar.bz2 in this case), 
extracts it locally at then rsyncs against the local copy. That latest copy 
is now 6 days old.

On Saturday 20 September 2003 06:35, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> emerge webrsync should fix him right up.
>
> On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 11:15, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > There's a person on gentoo-user questioning where he can get a portage
> > snapshot later than portage-20030914.tar.bz2 as he wants to update
> > openssh but can't emerge sync due to his firewall.
> >
> > How are the snapshots generated? Automatically once a week? Maybe a
> > snapshot should be manually generated whenever a security fix is added to
> > portage to cater for this situation?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jason
> >
> > --
> > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-20  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-19 15:15 [gentoo-dev] exploits and portage snapshots Jason Stubbs
     [not found] ` <1064007351.5558.191.camel@localhost>
2003-09-20  0:02   ` Jason Stubbs [this message]
2003-09-20 14:21     ` Jason Stubbs

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