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Hello P.C. |
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The distfiles mirroring system keeps distfiles around for as long as |
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the ebuilds are in the Portage tree that refer to them; once all |
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ebuilds referring to a distfile are removed, the distfile will be |
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removed from the mirroring system in half a week or so. * |
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Long story short, if you want to have an older version of the Portage |
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tree you will need to have distfiles as well; otherwise you will depend |
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on what upstream and our developer space still provide. |
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* Based on comparing http://dev.gentoo.org/distfile-mirroring/ with the |
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dead files on http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/ |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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E-mail address : TomWij@g.o |
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GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D |
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GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D |
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