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>>>>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> Currently RESTRICT=mirror and RESTRICT=bindist are independent of |
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>> each other. I wonder if the former should imply the latter. |
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>> Is there any package where the files in SRC_URI cannot be mirrored |
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>> (i.e., redistributed), but where the built package can be |
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>> distributed? |
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> i've used RESTRICT=mirror in the past when the files were really |
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> large (like games or toolchain source tarballs) and upstream already |
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> had a good mirroring system. in both cases, there was no binary |
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> redistribution restrictions. |
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> so my answer would be no: we have two independent knobs and let's |
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> keep them that way. |
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Right. And as was pointed to me on IRC, another legitimate case for |
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mirror restriction are packages in overlays whose distfiles are not on |
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mirrors. Then it obviously makes no sense to check mirrors for it. |
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Ulrich |
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