On Sun, 2012-12-09 at 15:10 -0800, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 12/9/12 1:17 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > Starting from a question by Markos in #gentoo-portage about whether to > > remove entries in profiles/updates for tree-cleaned packages... > > What's the advantage of doing that?
None, it actually could make it more difficult for a user to know why his old installed pkg isn't available. It was just what started the discussion about cleaning the old updates. Zac suggested this thread for opinions... ... [12:46] <zmedico> dol-sen: you should take a poll on the gentoo-dev ml to see how long people think we should keep them ... [12:47] <zmedico> yeah, seems like it's good to end-of-life them at some point > > > 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. > > I think that complicates the process. :-/ But maybe the advantages > outweigh that. > It does make updating an ancient system slightly more difficult. But that would be the least of the user's troubles compared to some of the pkg updates, tinderbox downloads and manual unpacks that have been needed to be done. But on the other hand how long should we keep that stale info in the tree? See below :) > > 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. > > Yeah, 4 years is ancient and would probably be non-trivial to update anyway. yup, they are > > > -- Most old systems that have been updated tend to be less than that, > > probably about 2 years. > > 2 years seem reasonable. > That works too. FYI... Currently there are updates files in profiles/updates/ dating back to 2004 -- Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org>
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