Is pkg quarterly really needed?

[Mathieu Arnold]

Le 20/04/2017 à 13:04, Julian Elischer a écrit :
> On 20/4/17 5:15 pm, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>> 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... ?
>>
>>
>> What purpose would that serve ? I mean, they would not be updated.
>
> exactly! that's what is often needed...  something that is not updated..

I still do not understand, if you need something that is not updated,
then do not update...

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Mathieu Arnold