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From: "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:16:32
Message-Id: 5283D015.5060102@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors by "Francesco R."
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4 On 11/13/2013 01:58 PM, Francesco R. wrote:
5 >
6 > long story short having a portage-20130126.tar.bz2 snapshot
7 > (before the EAPI 5 switch) greatly simplified the upgrade of an old
8 > server on a client.
9 >
10 > Why not keep a copy on the servers? I mean
11 > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/
12 >
13 The goal is to be able to update a device for a year. Not updating at
14 least once a year is not supportable, and should be discouraged. I'm
15 sorry for your pain, I really am, but I hope that it pushes you to
16 update twice a year instead of zero times.
17
18 Thanks,
19 Zero
20
21 > thanks, Francesco Riosa
22 >
23 >
24 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors Johann Schmitz <ercpe@g.o>