514612 – www-servers/nginx-1.6.0 version bump

Bug 514612 - www-servers/nginx-1.6.0 version bump

Summary: www-servers/nginx-1.6.0 version bump

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Server (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Tiziano Müller (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2014-06-23 04:39 UTC by zamabe
Modified:	2014-06-23 23:12 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description zamabe 2014-06-23 04:39:38 UTC

The 1.7 mainline is in the tree, but the 1.6 stable (release-line?) is not yet there.

Comment 1 Johan Bergström 2014-06-23 23:12:06 UTC

(In reply to zamabe from comment #0)
> The 1.7 mainline is in the tree, but the 1.6 stable (release-line?) is not
> yet there.

Hi. As of 1.7 we will only provide the latest upstream recommended series (also called mainline). For people looking for older ebuilds, we've set up an overlay. You can read more here: https://github.com/gentoo/nginx-overlay.

This overlay will hopefully be available through layman shortly.

Even if you don't agree to our reasoning, we unfortunately won't add older versions. There were a few technical arguments (avoiding slot:ing for one) which together with upstream recommendation motivated our decision.