Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:56:08 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass <aimass@yabarana.com> To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> Cc: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD.org pkg mirror for older versions? Message-ID: <CAHieY7S5m3xrObqx%2BSQ5x710T%2BiUPjm5VazCpJGjbuVeZ0FHiA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <63b9c024-fb97-1160-c98b-70ee38fe793f@nomadlogic.org> References: <CAHieY7QNY%2B-hAZJ45Nk73k8S9nS9E1xAxj0auo-6kPdBb==9=w@mail.gmail.com> <8a151ed5-ebce-aad5-714f-457309059d6e@kicp.uchicago.edu> <YFzhEObOXTx1JijJ@geeks.org> <CAHieY7TjDkd2kdt3wAYO-q5fn_SQ221Z2BAezisY1EdDvZ7Fqw@mail.gmail.com> <63b9c024-fb97-1160-c98b-70ee38fe793f@nomadlogic.org>
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That's a great approach, thanks for the suggestions. In the past I never suffered this since I've mostly worked with ports but I didn't know I would have these issues by switching to pkg. It seems retarded that we don't have archives, honestly. On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:23 PM Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote: > > > On 3/26/21 7:07 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > Yeah agreed. I can't believe these are not maintained long-term and that > no > > one has ever volunteered to host them. > i think that's what the quarterly branch is supposed to achieve, or at > least give some cushion for those who don't want the latest and greatest. > > you can roll your own pretty easily. for example you can use the files > in /var/cache/pkg/ and periodically store them somewhere safe. > obviously rolling back like this breaks all promises of working pkgs > since dependencies and the base freebsd system itself evolves over time. > > alternatively, and this is what i've done myself, is have a poudriere > setup that uses git for the ports tree. then i can rewind the entire > ports tree to a specific revision and ensure all dependencies are > aligned when building an old version of a critical pkg. > > -pete > > -- > Pete Wright > pete@nomadlogic.org > @nomadlogicLA > >
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