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From: "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zerochaos@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:16:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5283D015.5060102@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5283CBD3.1010309@gmail.com>

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On 11/13/2013 01:58 PM, Francesco R. wrote:
> 
> 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/
> 
The goal is to be able to update a device for a year.  Not updating at
least once a year is not supportable, and should be discouraged.  I'm
sorry for your pain, I really am, but I hope that it pushes you to
update twice a year instead of zero times.

Thanks,
Zero

> thanks, Francesco Riosa
> 
> 
> 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-13 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-13 18:58 [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors Francesco R.
2013-11-13 19:12 ` Rich Freeman
2013-11-13 20:49   ` Roy Bamford
2013-11-13 21:18     ` Rich Freeman
2013-11-15 13:17       ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-11-15 13:38         ` Rich Freeman
2013-11-15 15:24           ` Duncan
2013-11-15 15:59         ` Peter Stuge
2013-11-14  0:27   ` [gentoo-dev] " Tom Wijsman
2013-11-14 13:17   ` Francesco R.
2013-11-14 14:01     ` Rich Freeman
2013-11-14 13:19   ` Lars Wendler
2013-11-14 19:49     ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-11-13 19:16 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina [this message]
2013-11-14  4:38   ` Johann Schmitz
2013-11-14 13:09     ` Francesco R.

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