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

[Lars Wendler]

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

> 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.

IMHO not even the worst problems as long as devs stop removing files
they consider as "deprecated" or "old". I keep everything in my
dev-space I ever put in an ebuild that landed in our official portage
tree. Of course this only works as long as you reference that place in
the affected ebuilds. Once you go the route to use mirror://gentoo in
ebuilds as SRC_URI people are screwed as soon as the ebuild vanishes
from portage.
I'd love to see this (mis-)behavior being more vigorously discouraged
in Gentoo-land...

Cheers
-- 
Lars Wendler
Gentoo package maintainer