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From: kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:04:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DFF8BC0.3070602@badapple.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308566016.3409.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On 6/20/2011 3:33 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
>
>
> On Monday, June 20 at 10:03 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said:
>
>> There is no such option, but you can get expired ebuilds from
>> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/cat-egory/package
>
> Sigh.  2011 and *still* using CVS?!

	Infrastructure has a project to move to Git, but I've not tracked 
progress. I will say that moving a whole project with hundreds of 
developers, build scripts, push scripts, pull scripts, web site links, a 
decade of commits, etc is not simple.

This is one of the better articles on the real world issues of changing 
your VCS.
http://lwn.net/Articles/409635/

kashani



      reply	other threads:[~2011-06-20 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-20  8:43 [gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages Frank Schwidom
2011-06-20  9:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-20 10:33   ` Albert Hopkins
2011-06-20 18:04     ` kashani [this message]

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