really to pkg people

[Steven Hartland]

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!
>
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