-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 14/02/13 04:55 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > On 02/14/2013 04:31 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> Hi guys and girls, > >> We hereby announce the formation of the Graveyard project [1]. It >> aims to provide users with an overlay for packages removed from >> portage. Users are expressly invited to partake in this project, >> to help maintain the graveyard overlay [2]. We will also help >> organize a central space to host distfiles that are no longer >> mirrored by Gentoo and have a broken upstream link. We use the >> #gentoo-dev-help channel on Freenode for coordination, as well as >> our project space on the wiki [3]. > > What exactly is wrong with the current cvs attic space? I've > salvaged old ebuilds and it was a completely painless process. >
As has been discussed, the attic is fine for ebuilds and stuff saved in files/ , but patchsets and distfiles (when the upstream src_uri becomes invalid) are not available. The graveyard overlay hopes to alleviate that. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlEdYoMACgkQ2ugaI38ACPDq1AD+PjKwu8FiUUQRFpgu5RBdE65Z /ROSMfshRZ/iHTCinq0A/RwwoFZZNL149rbbeCXwk/Bvjk3uMBF2Vn4NlonW/koR =6yUY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
