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On Friday 26 April 2013 15:23:42 Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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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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> >> |
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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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ah, yeah, we do this a lot in ChromiumOS |
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-mike |