On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Francesco R. <viv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > long story short > having a portage-20130126.tar.bz2 snapshot (before the EAPI 5 switch) > greatly simplified the upgrade of an old server on a client. > > Why not keep a copy on the servers? I mean > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/ >
Going back in time with portage is the easy part - it is in CVS. The real problem is all the distfiles themselves, especially things like out-of-tree patch tarballs hosted by devs. Rich
