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On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 10:21, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 09:00, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:17:06 -0500 Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o> |
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> > wrote: |
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> > | I've posted GLEP 19 which talks about the inclusion of a new 'stable' |
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> > | tree in portage that is updated on a periodic basis and only contains |
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> > | security and major bugfixes out of cycle. |
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> > Something that just occured to me... Do most upstreams keep old versions |
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> > of packages available for several years? Or would we have to mirror all |
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> > distfiles rather than just our current small subset? |
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> I would think that we would need to mirror everything that is provided |
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> in the stable tree. |
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It's pretty easy to imagine things with licenses that prohibit mirroring |
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would be difficult, if not impossible, to have in our stable tree. |
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Donnie |
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