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On 14/02/13 04:55 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: |
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> On 02/14/2013 04:31 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: |
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>> Hi guys and girls, |
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>> We hereby announce the formation of the Graveyard project [1]. It |
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>> aims to provide users with an overlay for packages removed from |
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>> portage. Users are expressly invited to partake in this project, |
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>> to help maintain the graveyard overlay [2]. We will also help |
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>> organize a central space to host distfiles that are no longer |
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>> mirrored by Gentoo and have a broken upstream link. We use the |
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>> #gentoo-dev-help channel on Freenode for coordination, as well as |
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>> our project space on the wiki [3]. |
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> What exactly is wrong with the current cvs attic space? I've |
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> salvaged old ebuilds and it was a completely painless process. |
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As has been discussed, the attic is fine for ebuilds and stuff saved |
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in files/ , but patchsets and distfiles (when the upstream src_uri |
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becomes invalid) are not available. The graveyard overlay hopes to |
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alleviate that. |
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