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From: David Grant <davidgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: treecleaner removals
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:22:15
Message-Id: d18977190610011119h731a88aala756530292e2b0d2@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: treecleaner removals by Alec Warner
1 On 9/28/06, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer wrote:
4 > > Tach David, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID)
5 > >
6 > > David Grant schrieb:
7 > >> On 9/28/06, Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o> wrote:
8 > >>> +++ Mark Stier [28/09/06 15:35 +0200]:
9 > >>>> How about entering the removed ebuilds into bugzilla under an
10 > adequate
11 > >>>> section?
12 > >>> I think my original reply got lost, so just in case - seems like a
13 > time
14 > >>> for sunset overlays ;0
15 > >> or sunrise rather...
16 > >
17 > > New packages not yet in the tree -> sunrise
18 > > Old crufty packages removed from the tree -> sunset
19 > >
20 > > Got it?
21 > >
22 > > V-Li
23 > >
24 >
25 > There is a TreeCleaner Project overlay; but I was planning on placing
26 > tools in it; I may be convinced to add the ebuilds (and their files)
27 > that we clean to it; assuming it doesn't take anyone that long to do it;
28 > the problem being for some things that live only on our mirrors; the
29 > ebuilds won't work as the files get purged after two weeks. Let me
30 > consider this though; if we can script it somehow it would maybe benefit
31 > others (a treecleaner poopy overlay for Layman also...)
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35 That would be an awesome idea. I have never been a fan of cleaned ebuilds
36 moving to the CVS attic and I have had to fetch some old ebuild and
37 associated patches from the portage's CVS Attic on 2 occasions and it was a
38 major pain.
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42 David Grant
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