Starting from a question by Markos in #gentoo-portage about whether to remove entries in profiles/updates for tree-cleaned packages...
I propose that we say, once a year, schedule a tree-cleaning of old
updates files. These updates files could be added to a tarball made
available for download. That way if they are needed to update a system
older than what the main tree has been tree-cleaned to. They can then be
manually downloaded, extracted to the normal location and then run the
"fixpackages" command.
The main question here is what is a reasonable length of time to keep
the updates actively in-tree?
-- From my experience in the forums, I think any updates older than
4 years should be subject to tree-cleaning.
-- Most old systems that have been updated tend to be less than that,
probably about 2 years.
This should allow a reasonable amount of time for a user to update an
old system.
Thoughts?
--
Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org>
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