Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors

[Tom Wijsman]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:12:24 -0500
Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Francesco R. <vivo75@×××××.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > long story short
> > having a  portage-20130126.tar.bz2 snapshot (before the EAPI 5
> > switch) greatly simplified the upgrade of an old server on a client.
> >
> > Why not keep a copy on the servers? I mean
> > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/
> >
>
> Going back in time with portage is the easy part - it is in CVS.
>
> The real problem is all the distfiles themselves, especially things
> like out-of-tree patch tarballs hosted by devs.

The mirroring system could be adjusted to keep around @system distfiles
for a longer time, or alternatively snapshot them when the above
snapshot is made; which should be able to solve this problem.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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