Hello P.C. The distfiles mirroring system keeps distfiles around for as long as the ebuilds are in the Portage tree that refer to them; once all ebuilds referring to a distfile are removed, the distfile will be removed from the mirroring system in half a week or so. *
Long story short, if you want to have an older version of the Portage tree you will need to have distfiles as well; otherwise you will depend on what upstream and our developer space still provide. * Based on comparing http://dev.gentoo.org/distfile-mirroring/ with the dead files on http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/ -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : [email protected] GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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