Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping older versions around
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:56:32
Message-Id: 4F264CEB.4060905@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping older versions around by Donnie Berkholz
1 On 1/30/12 6:17 AM, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > Agreed with a slight modification — once you've kept the old
3 > {stable,~arch} version around for a reasonable amount of time (say 30
4 > days), you should be safe pulling it.
5
6 Agreed with a slight modification ;-)
7
8 Please make sure that at _any_ given moment you have an ~arch ebuild
9 that has spent 30 days in ~arch (unless it's already stabilized).
10
11 If you remove such an ebuild after 30 days without stabilizing it, you
12 can still create a situation where no ebuild can be stabilized because
13 the existing ~arch ebuilds are too recent.

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