On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 10:21, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 09:00, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:17:06 -0500 Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > | I've posted GLEP 19 which talks about the inclusion of a new 'stable' > > | tree in portage that is updated on a periodic basis and only contains > > | security and major bugfixes out of cycle. > > > > Something that just occured to me... Do most upstreams keep old versions > > of packages available for several years? Or would we have to mirror all > > distfiles rather than just our current small subset? > > I would think that we would need to mirror everything that is provided > in the stable tree.
It's pretty easy to imagine things with licenses that prohibit mirroring would be difficult, if not impossible, to have in our stable tree. Donnie
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