Is pkg quarterly really needed?

[Mathieu Arnold]

Le 20/04/2017 à 11:15, Mathieu Arnold a écrit :
> Le 20/04/2017 à 10:49, Torfinn Ingolfsen a écrit :
>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>> quarterly however is broken because the pkg mirors discard it all at the
>>>>> time of update.
>>>> Do they have to?
>>>> Why couldn't pkg mirrors keep say, the four latest quarterly sets
>>>> all the time?
>>> Because the URL for the latest quarterly is one stable URL.
>> Obviously this has to be changed. As I wrote:
>> "No extra work involved once the setup is configured and tested".
>> So yes, there is some work needed, but it would be a one-time job.
>>
>> If anyone has any real arguments as to why the FreeBSD project can't
>> do it this way, let's hear them.
>> HTH
>
> I am not exactly sure what you are asking for, to keep the previous, not
> updated, quarterly package repositories ? say, in latest-1 latest-2
> latest-3... ?

So, that should be quarterly-1, quarterly-2..., not latest :-)

>
> What purpose would that serve ? I mean, they would not be updated.
>
>

-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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