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From: "Francesco R." <vivo75@gmail.com>
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long story short
having a  portage-20130126.tar.bz2 snapshot (before the EAPI 5 switch)
greatly simplified the upgrade of an old server on a client.

Why not keep a copy on the servers? I mean
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/

thanks,
Francesco Riosa