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From: rd <rdg@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev <gentoo-portage-dev@g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage-ng / Lost ebuilds?
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:30:28
Message-Id: 1070594948.24977.10.camel@gen2rd.web
1 Referring to the following below, is portage-ng going to address this
2 very serious issue as related to applying JUST security updates to
3 "stable" production gentoo boxes?
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6 Losing Ebuilds (a.k.a. the joys of openssl-0.9.7!)
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8 Have a look at this problem around old computers doing security updates,
9 and running into trouble when the older ebuilds for a certain package
10 have been deleted from the tree as older versions.
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12
13 thanks,
14 rdg
15
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17 Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes!
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21 gentoo-portage-dev@g.o mailing list

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage-ng / Lost ebuilds? Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>