Il 13/11/2013 20:12, Rich Freeman ha scritto: > 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 Rich, that made me smile, none of my remote machine has cvs since a _very_ long time say 2006. We are speaking of box that have troubles to emerging anything new, plus me and most of the internet barely remember cvs up :)
I do highly appreciate the suggestion to keep a @system distfiles snapshot (once a year + portage snapshot would be a bone), but that it's not strictly needed, just a 40MB bzipped files on a public directory and maybe some change to the cron that wipe old files. cheers, Francesco R.
