From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QYj1q-0004Tp-Q7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:16:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F46B1C18C for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:16:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2A71C11C for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:04:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (173-8-169-73-SFBA.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.169.73]) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C031C9FAFC3A for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DFF8BC0.3070602@badapple.net> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:04:48 -0700 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages References: <20110620084327.GA6013@BiggerBoxer> <20110620100300.441db66d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <1308566016.3409.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1308566016.3409.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1a5f2098e03a24705757bdfe6d84a1a7 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