[gentoo-dev] Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:

> The policy, that as chithanh pointed out needs to be updated, is
> just going to cause more grief by the time you want to pick up the
> old files for whatever reason. Ulrich (ulm) and Christian (fauli)
> knows how much a pain it becomes.

<irony>
Oh, that was easy: We found some forgotten distfile mirrors that
hadn't been updated for several years. And for the files then still
missing, we sent a plea for help to -dev (or was it planet?) and had
them mailed to us by users.
</irony>

Thanks again to our users who had helped us at the time.

Ulrich