On 12/9/12 1:17 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > Starting from a question by Markos in #gentoo-portage about whether to > remove entries in profiles/updates for tree-cleaned packages...
What's the advantage of doing that? > I propose that we say, once a year, schedule a tree-cleaning of old > updates files. These updates files could be added to a tarball made > available for download. That way if they are needed to update a system > older than what the main tree has been tree-cleaned to. They can then be > manually downloaded, extracted to the normal location and then run the > "fixpackages" command. I think that complicates the process. :-/ But maybe the advantages outweigh that. > The main question here is what is a reasonable length of time to keep > the updates actively in-tree? > > -- From my experience in the forums, I think any updates older than > 4 years should be subject to tree-cleaning. Yeah, 4 years is ancient and would probably be non-trivial to update anyway. > -- Most old systems that have been updated tend to be less than that, > probably about 2 years. 2 years seem reasonable.
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