Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:29:26 +0000 From: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: really to pkg people Message-ID: <dbe956bb-9dd0-d257-16a0-bd4146129a47@multiplay.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <c37a38e7-71e5-8217-6975-147a84ad19dd@freebsd.org> References: <c37a38e7-71e5-8217-6975-147a84ad19dd@freebsd.org>
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If the machines where installed using pkg you can always grab the installs out of the cache (/var/cache/pkg/) on the relevant machines to debug issues. On 28/11/2016 17:21, Julian Elischer wrote: > Is it at all possible for the ports/pkg people to QUIT DELETING STUFF! > > It's most disconcerting when a quarterly collection of packages > disappears and one has nowhere to get new packages that match all the > ones out in the field. Since 10.3 is the latest 10 release and the > release_3 collection is gettign soemwhat dated, it would be nice to > have a stable quarterly set to refer to that is not going to > disappear in 3 months! > > machines get shipped.. they go to customers. They are frozen in time. > If debugging requires a new package, we have to have copied the entire > quarterly set "just in case". because the originals from freebsd have > done a runner. Are they archived somewhere? > > yours > > > grumpy > > p.s get off my lawn! > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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