On Tuesday 24 of May 2011 16:45:08 Christian Kauhaus wrote: > Am 24.05.2011 09:37, schrieb Ramon van Alteren: > > In addition to puppet and our own frozen portage snapshot+overlay, we > > use agaffneys install scripting to install servers over the net + a > > standard tftp + dhcp netbooting setup. > > We have a lot of Gentoo servers at our company, too. To get stable installs > and avoid too frequent updates, we also freeze the portage tree. The > problem is that some distfiles disappear really soon on the upstream > mirrors. Does anyone know of a fallback mirror which keeps distfiles > longer as usual? If there is none, we could possibly provide one by > ourselves... > > Regards > > Christian
If you have your own rsync server just drop --delete option from scipt, so rsync will not remove files that were deleted upstream. -- Cheers Dawid Węgliński