Sabayon Frozen - Community Repositories

[DanySK]

I created a repository for those who don't want to get weekly updates, and prefer to stay with a more static system. I called it Sabayon Frozen, details about it are available here.

I'm open to comment, suggestions, whatever!

[svantoviit]

Thank you for the effort!

When 11 is out and you want "hop" from the frozen 10 to 11, will you only have to change the 10 to 11 in the conf file?
Like this:

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repository = sabayon-frozen|Sabayon 11 Frozen Repository|rsync://sabayon-frozen.apice.unibo.it/11|rsync://sabayon-frozen.apice.unibo.it/11

?

Suggestion: Would be handy, if the file had a How-To introduction on where to put the file and how to change to the frozen repo and eventually back.

[DanySK]

Thank you for the effort!

Thank you for using it!

When 11 is out and you want "hop" from the frozen 10 to 11, will you only have to change the 10 to 11 in the conf file?
Like this:

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repository = sabayon-frozen|Sabayon 11 Frozen Repository|rsync://sabayon-frozen.apice.unibo.it/11|rsync://sabayon-frozen.apice.unibo.it/11

?

Yes, I expect I will do exactly that.

Suggestion: Would be handy, if the file had a How-To introduction on where to put the file and how to change to the frozen repo and eventually back.

You're right: I will add these information in the Frozen 11 config file. Thank you for your suggestions!

[DanySK]

Please note: I updated the file and switched to http: it looks like the server performs much better with that protocol.

[wolfden]

I shall make this a sticky

oh and edited the title so it's understood.

[DanySK]

I shall make this a sticky
oh and edited the title so it's understood.

Thank you
If you can, maybe change it to "Sabayon Frozen - Community Repositories" so I will only update this thread upon new Frozen repositories creation

[wolfden]

I shall make this a sticky
oh and edited the title so it's understood.

Thank you
If you can, maybe change it to "Sabayon Frozen - Community Repositories" so I will only update this thread upon new Frozen repositories creation

and Done

[dagurasu]

This is great. Thanks! Rolling release is fun, but for real work, when you need a new package now and can't risk downtime short term, it can be a serious and routine annoyance, usually just meaning you can't get the package you want when you want it.

Ok you asked for suggestions. An obvious enhancement is to back-port crticial fixes when possible in a way that rolls as few packages forward as possible... and maybe also non-critical fixes that are very useful but which have little or no impact on dependencies. This essentially creates something like a stable branch and a rolling development branch. This obviously is much more volunteer work though than just providing static repositories, which is already quite useful.

Edit:
Of course I should have read the link first. Now I see you already covered that point. Still, this is nice. Maybe the idea will get mainstreamed!

[DanySK]

Yeah backports would be very useful, but as you said they require manpower! Never say never, if the idea is useful and people want to improve the repo with backports or other features, I would be very happy.
The important thing is to *never* introduce issues due to upgrades.

[sabayonino]

Hi

for a full compatibility with "froze" I suggest to edit /etc/entropy/repositories.conf

and set

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official-repository-id = sabayonlinux.org

to

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official-repository-id = sabayon-frozen

This will be the "main" repository priority

if you want to downgrade something :

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# equo install <package_name>:;sabayon-frozen

Syntax

equo <option> <package-name>::<repsotory-id>

example for firefox :

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equo search firefox
>>  @@ Cercando...
>>      @@ Pacchetto: www-client/firefox-17.0.1 branch: 5, [sabayon-frozen]
>>         Disponibile:   versione: 17.0.1 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revisione: 0
>>         Installato:    versione: Non installato ~ tag: N/A ~ revisione: N/A
>>         Slot:          0
>>         Homepage:      http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
>>         Descrizione:   Firefox Web Browser
>>         Licenza:       GPL-2 LGPL-2.1 MPL-2.0
>>      @@ Pacchetto: www-client/firefox-18.0 branch: 5, [sabayonlinux.org]
>>         Disponibile:   versione: 18.0 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revisione: 1
>>         Installato:    versione: Non installato ~ tag: N/A ~ revisione: N/A
>>         Slot:          0
>>         Homepage:      http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
>>         Descrizione:   Firefox Web Browser
>>         Licenza:       GPL-2 LGPL-2.1 MPL-2.0


If I want to install Firefox 17 and not 18

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 equo install firefox -p
>>  @@ Risorse sbloccate, andiamo!
>>  @@ Questi sono i pacchetti selezionati:
>>    # (1/1) [sabayonlinux.org] www-client/firefox-18.0
>>     Versioni: Non installato / NoTag / NoRev ===> 18.0 / NoTag / 1
>>      Azione:          Installa
>>  @@ Pacchetti coinvolti: 1
[...]


entropy try to install FF-18.0 but I won't

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# equo install firefox::sabayon-frozen -p
>>  @@ Questi sono i pacchetti selezionati:
>>    # (1/1) [sabayon-frozen] www-client/firefox-17.0.1
>>     Versioni: Non installato / NoTag / NoRev ===> 17.0.1 / NoTag / 0
>>      Azione:          Installa
>>  @@ Pacchetti coinvolti: 1


Now you can mask sfirefox for all sabayonlinux.org versions if you want :

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# equo mask www-client/firefox::sabayonlinux.org
>>  ## [M] www-client/firefox::sabayonlinux.org
>>     -> www-client/firefox-18.0
>> Have a nice day.


Syntax to mask or unmask a package :

equo <comand> <package-name>::<repository-id>