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If you want to be able to build and maintain a server for a year or two, |
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then shouldn't you perhaps built an internal rsync server that doesn't |
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update? then you can rebuild whenever you like and it's under your |
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control. |
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I think 2 years is excessive, but I definately think the idea of a |
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frozen tree is imperative for a gentoo server. |
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Chris |
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On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 18:00, stephen white wrote: |
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> On 12/02/2004, at 11:10 AM, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> > * All ebuilds in this 'frozen tree' are guaranteed to be available for |
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> > a |
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> > certain period of time so admins can plan their upgrades more |
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> > accurately. |
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> There should be multiple baselines, so I can rebuild servers to what |
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> Gentoo was a year ago, two years ago, or 6 months ago. If I have a 2 |
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> year old server, I shouldn't be forced to update packages because I |
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> want to rebuild the system to clean it up. |
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