From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9951 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Sep 2003 14:22:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 21472 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2003 14:22:15 -0000 X-WM-Posted-At: mailandnews.com; Sat, 20 Sep 03 10:22:15 -0400 From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 23:21:07 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200309200015.40723.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> <1064007351.5558.191.camel@localhost> <200309200902.29688.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> In-Reply-To: <200309200902.29688.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309202321.07925.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] exploits and portage snapshots X-Archives-Salt: a882f32e-2695-41f8-9e31-48098f471fb8 X-Archives-Hash: b0780d485d8dfc575a63c4d35b813a63 Found the answer of #gentoo-bugs but would have preferred to find it here... I was told that somebody broke the script that automatically creates the nightly (not weekly as I guessed - should have researched first) and that it should be fixed soon. I've given the original enquirer a copy of the net-misc/openssh subtree for the time being... On Saturday 20 September 2003 09:02, Jason Stubbs wrote: > 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 > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list