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On 11/13/2013 01:58 PM, Francesco R. 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/
> 
The goal is to be able to update a device for a year.  Not updating at
least once a year is not supportable, and should be discouraged.  I'm
sorry for your pain, I really am, but I hope that it pushes you to
update twice a year instead of zero times.

Thanks,
Zero

> thanks, Francesco Riosa
> 
> 
> 

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