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On 29 March 2012 08:21, Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@g.o> wrote: |
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> 'Support' is the keyword here. The repositories are regenerated given |
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> machinesan 'emerge --sync' and can be considered as temporary as the |
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> packages themselves are impermanent. Further, the repository isn't |
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> required to persist. If somebody really wanted to be hard on our |
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> infrastructure, they could do an 'emerge --sync' at boot to repopulate |
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> /var/cache/gentoo-repos/. |
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Though of course, if anybody has custom stuff in say, /usr/portage/local/ |
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which they make by hand, nuking /usr/portage will make you *Very* |
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unpopular. |
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As will I be if I have /usr/portage/distfiles under /usr/portage/ and you |
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nuke /usr/portage including distfiles. |
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I could download distfiles again, but sorry, bandwidth is not free in every |
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country, and neither is the time wasted by redownloading it all. |
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Kent |
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perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) |
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for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" |
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http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz |