Is pkg quarterly really needed?

[Mathieu Arnold]

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.


-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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