Is pkg quarterly really needed?

[Julian Elischer]

On 20/4/17 5:18 pm, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> 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 :-)
2017-Q1, 2017-Q2, 2017-Q3   etc.

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