Re: [gentoo-user] question about binhost's

[Michael Mair-Keimberger <m.mairkeimberger@gmail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1715 bytes --]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 09:32:45PM +0000, thegeezer wrote:
> On 17/11/14 21:01, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I was setting up an binhost recently and i couldn't found any
> > information how to keep old builds.
> > Usually, for example a newer version of tcpdump gets build, the old
> > build will be deleted. Only different slots were keeped. However, I 
> > want to keep these old builds but I haven't found an option for that. 
> >
> > Is it even possible to keep these? If not, anyone know why? if it's not
> > possible there must be a reason and i couldn't think of anyone...
> >
> 
> um, these _are_ kept until you run
> # eclean packages
> unless i'm missing something ? 
> 
> so you can still emerge -K old-apps/package
> 
> for an example, in my /usr/portage/packages/app-shells on my laptop i have
> # ls -lah
> total 6.8M
> drwx------  2 root root 4.0K Oct 14 21:02 .
> drwx------ 76 root root 4.0K Nov 17 10:51 ..
> -rw-------  1 root root 1.2M Sep  5 10:43 bash-4.2_p45.tbz2
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.2M Sep 26 20:52 bash-4.2_p48-r1.tbz2
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.2M Oct  1 14:33 bash-4.2_p50.tbz2
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.2M Oct  2 22:22 bash-4.2_p51.tbz2
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.2M Oct  6 10:09 bash-4.2_p52.tbz2
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.2M Oct  9 23:50 bash-4.2_p53.tbz2
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 8.4K Oct 14 21:02 push-1.6.tbz2
> 
> 

Hmm, that's interesting.
I just checked another binhost and they clearly were kept. I don't
know why it doesn't work with mine but it's definitely a problem with my system.

Gonna check what's configured wrong.

Anyway, thanks for the hint.

-- 
greetings
Michael Mair-Keimberger

[-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 819 bytes --]