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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next prev 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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