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From: Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:52:15
Message-Id: 1295643062.2644.0@NeddySeagoon
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 On 2011.01.20 02:55, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
2 > Il giorno mer, 19/01/2011 alle 20.07 -0500, Rich Freeman ha scritto:
3 > > Forward going? Or, should we go ahead and start retroactively
4 > > updating ebuilds that have mirror:// in them right now? Presumably
5 > > without a revbump over something like this...
6 > >
7 >
8 > I wouldn't mind if it was done retroactively, but I'm not going to
9 > ask
10 > right now for all the ebuilds in tree right now to be converted. If
11 > you
12 > do happen to pass through a bunch of old ebuilds and edit them anyway
13 > please do update them to use long-term-reachable URLs.
14 >
15 > --
16 > Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
17 > http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
18 >
19
20 Diego,
21
22 A few questions ...
23
24 How does this work when a developer leaves and his account is removed.
25 This will break the links to ~/public_html.
26
27 What about our GPL obligations to provide sources?
28 That carries on even after an ex developers ~/public_html has been
29 deleted.
30
31 --
32 Regards,
33
34 Roy Bamford
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