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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 19 -- Gentoo Stable Portage Tree
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:19:42
Message-Id: 20040203140034.78a69e4b@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 19 -- Gentoo Stable Portage Tree by Kurt Lieber
1 On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:17:06 -0500 Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | I've posted GLEP 19 which talks about the inclusion of a new 'stable'
4 | tree in portage that is updated on a periodic basis and only contains
5 | security and major bugfixes out of cycle.
6
7 Something that just occured to me... Do most upstreams keep old versions
8 of packages available for several years? Or would we have to mirror all
9 distfiles rather than just our current small subset?
10
11 --
12 Ciaran McCreesh
13 Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org
14 Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 19 -- Gentoo Stable Portage Tree Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>