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From: "Francesco R." <vivo75@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 14:17:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5284CD5B.50502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_kg2u=v6uXdYjQUvUFmkOTdJV0imfX1tgj+v+poP=a0UA@mail.gmail.com>

Il 13/11/2013 20:12, Rich Freeman ha scritto:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Francesco R. <vivo75@gmail.com> 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/
>>
> Going back in time with portage is the easy part - it is in CVS.
>
> The real problem is all the distfiles themselves, especially things
> like out-of-tree patch tarballs hosted by devs.
>
> Rich
Rich, that made me smile, none of my remote machine has cvs since a
_very_ long time say 2006.
We are speaking of box that have troubles to emerging anything new, plus
me and most of the internet barely remember cvs up  :)

I do highly appreciate the suggestion to keep a @system distfiles
snapshot (once a year + portage snapshot would be a bone), but that it's
not strictly needed, just a 40MB bzipped files on a public directory and
maybe some change to the cron that wipe old files.

cheers,
Francesco R.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-14 13:17 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. [this message]
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
2013-11-14  4:38   ` Johann Schmitz
2013-11-14 13:09     ` Francesco R.

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