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Il 13/11/2013 20:12, Rich Freeman ha scritto: |
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> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Francesco R. <vivo75@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> long story short |
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>> having a portage-20130126.tar.bz2 snapshot (before the EAPI 5 switch) |
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>> greatly simplified the upgrade of an old server on a client. |
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>> Why not keep a copy on the servers? I mean |
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>> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/ |
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> Going back in time with portage is the easy part - it is in CVS. |
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> The real problem is all the distfiles themselves, especially things |
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> like out-of-tree patch tarballs hosted by devs. |
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> Rich |
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Rich, that made me smile, none of my remote machine has cvs since a |
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_very_ long time say 2006. |
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We are speaking of box that have troubles to emerging anything new, plus |
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me and most of the internet barely remember cvs up :) |
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I do highly appreciate the suggestion to keep a @system distfiles |
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snapshot (once a year + portage snapshot would be a bone), but that it's |
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not strictly needed, just a 40MB bzipped files on a public directory and |
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maybe some change to the cron that wipe old files. |
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cheers, |
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Francesco R. |
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