Bug 679814 – Rename repository snapshots to gentoo-YYYYMMDD

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 574752
• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure

[Description Ulrich Müller 2019-03-08 21:53:02 UTC]

https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20180729-summary.txt:

> Default locations for repositories, distfiles, and binpkgs
> ==========================================================
> [...]
> 
> - Vote: Change the name of the Gentoo repository snapshot (currently
>   portage-YYYYMMDD) to gentoo-YYYYMMDD.
>   Accepted unanimously.

This needs to be implemented. Preferably the old name should be kept as a symlink, in order not to break backwards compatibility with clients.

[Comment 1 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2019-03-09 19:50:36 UTC]

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #0)
> https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20180729-summary.txt:
> 
> > Default locations for repositories, distfiles, and binpkgs
> > ==========================================================
> > [...]
> > 
> > - Vote: Change the name of the Gentoo repository snapshot (currently
> >   portage-YYYYMMDD) to gentoo-YYYYMMDD.
> >   Accepted unanimously.
> 
> This needs to be implemented. Preferably the old name should be kept as a
> symlink, in order not to break backwards compatibility with clients.

I'm happy to add a new name. We will never delete the old name. We are unlikely to add N new names, but we went nearly 20 years with the previous one.

-A

[Comment 2 Michał Górny 2019-04-16 10:29:59 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 574752 ***