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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 19 -- Gentoo Stable Portage Tree
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 15:40:35
Message-Id: 1075821709.9773.37.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 19 -- Gentoo Stable Portage Tree by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 09:00, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:17:06 -0500 Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>
3 > wrote:
4 > | I've posted GLEP 19 which talks about the inclusion of a new 'stable'
5 > | tree in portage that is updated on a periodic basis and only contains
6 > | security and major bugfixes out of cycle.
7 >
8 > Something that just occured to me... Do most upstreams keep old versions
9 > of packages available for several years? Or would we have to mirror all
10 > distfiles rather than just our current small subset?
11
12 I would think that we would need to mirror everything that is provided
13 in the stable tree.
14
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 19 -- Gentoo Stable Portage Tree Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>