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| From: | Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o> | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors | ||
| Date: | Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:12:31 | ||
| Message-Id: | CAGfcS_kg2u=v6uXdYjQUvUFmkOTdJV0imfX1tgj+v+poP=a0UA@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors by "Francesco R." |
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| 1 | On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Francesco R. <vivo75@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 | > |
| 3 | > long story short |
| 4 | > having a portage-20130126.tar.bz2 snapshot (before the EAPI 5 switch) |
| 5 | > greatly simplified the upgrade of an old server on a client. |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | > Why not keep a copy on the servers? I mean |
| 8 | > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/ |
| 9 | > |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Going back in time with portage is the easy part - it is in CVS. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | The real problem is all the distfiles themselves, especially things |
| 14 | like out-of-tree patch tarballs hosted by devs. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Rich |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors | Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors | Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors | "Francesco R." <vivo75@×××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors | Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o> |