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Bug 17926 - Incorrect URL for portage snapshots
Summary: Incorrect URL for portage snapshots
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Gentoo Linux FAQ (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Docs Team
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Reported: 2003-03-21 08:03 UTC by Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)
Modified: 2003-03-24 21:27 UTC (History)
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Description Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-03-21 08:03:39 UTC 
The FAQ mentions that you can download portage-snapshots from
http://cvs.gentoo.org/snapshots. However, this link doesn't work (anymore).

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-03-22 18:50:53 UTC 
this is right
snapshots are on every GENTOO_MIRRORS avaiable

the next thing is, that i don't like the whole "What if rsync doesn't work for me? "

when you download the snapshot every day and unpack it, there are phenomical things emerge does.
there are 2 ways out: 
1) add that the directory should be removed every time (Attn, the distfile is too in there -> make.conf distfile overlay)
or
2) portage 2.0.47+ contains emerge-webrsync, which fetches the snapshot, unpack it and rsync the portage tree with the snapshot 

when asking me, i prefer the 2. option more !!!
Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-03-23 05:34:31 UTC 
The snapshots are really in www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/snapshots (ofcourse, they are mostly also in the mirrors).
Comment 3 Jorge Paulo (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-03-24 21:27:45 UTC 
Updated URL for portage snapshots to 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/