Retain one older google-chrome-unstable ebuild in portage?

jeffk · l33t Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 671

For the google chrome maintainers (Mike Gilbert floppym is in changelog), would it be possible to retain at least one older versions of google-chrome-unstable? in portage?

Recent versions have been buggy but usable, mostly lockups with Flash on my ~amd64. -unstable users know what they're getting, no complaints. However, the most recent www-client/google-chrome-unstable-39.0.2171.2_p1 is crashing frequently on even simpler non-flash pages. At times like these, an older version would be a helpful downgrade.

FWIW, I used to try to maintain multiple chrome channels (stable,beta,unstable), but was unsuccessful keeping profiles in sync. It became easier to just use Firefox as the secondary browser.

Thanks,
Jeff

kurly · Apprentice Joined: 02 Apr 2012 Posts: 260

They could, but Google removes the old builds from their server the instant a new build is released. The license prohibits mirroring the builds, so there is effectively no legal use for old builds (unless you already have the old files).

jeffk · l33t Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 671

Ah, request withdrawn, in that case. Thanks.

Roman_Gruber · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 8:09 am Post subject:

There is something called local overlay.

Check e.g. gentoo wiki / the search engine of your choice about local overlay / layman ....

just put one of those ebuilds there and keep the distfiles thats it.