From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A927A138A38 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:17:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B248221C00D; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:17:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B9C7AE02DF for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:17:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.138] (CPE002401f30b73-CM001cea3ddad8.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.224.181.112]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: axs) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8C7B333E28E for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:17:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <511D6283.8030106@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:17:39 -0500 From: Ian Stakenvicius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130129 Thunderbird/17.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] RFC: Graveyard project References: <511D5D6D.9010608@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <511D5D6D.9010608@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7aed8892-57e1-41a3-847f-d05f93ad9652 X-Archives-Hash: 3fd4ecdcd45bd821674f2f53046d3281 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 14/02/13 04:55 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > On 02/14/2013 04:31 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> Hi guys and girls, > >> We hereby announce the formation of the Graveyard project [1]. It >> aims to provide users with an overlay for packages removed from >> portage. Users are expressly invited to partake in this project, >> to help maintain the graveyard overlay [2]. We will also help >> organize a central space to host distfiles that are no longer >> mirrored by Gentoo and have a broken upstream link. We use the >> #gentoo-dev-help channel on Freenode for coordination, as well as >> our project space on the wiki [3]. > > What exactly is wrong with the current cvs attic space? I've > salvaged old ebuilds and it was a completely painless process. > As has been discussed, the attic is fine for ebuilds and stuff saved in files/ , but patchsets and distfiles (when the upstream src_uri becomes invalid) are not available. The graveyard overlay hopes to alleviate that. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlEdYoMACgkQ2ugaI38ACPDq1AD+PjKwu8FiUUQRFpgu5RBdE65Z /ROSMfshRZ/iHTCinq0A/RwwoFZZNL149rbbeCXwk/Bvjk3uMBF2Vn4NlonW/koR =6yUY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----