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On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 29.10.2011 12.39, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: |
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>> If the upstream is dead I have no clear idea what to do, but maybe |
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>> infra could set-up something download.gentoo.org where we could keep |
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>> all the files with their sums and gpg sign from us gentoo devs to |
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>> ensure their validity. |
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> The files should stay on our mirrors as long as ebuilds refer to them. |
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> When no ebuilds refer to them do we have any need for the files? |
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> Regards, |
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> Petteri |
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I think the point that is made is that you have a package that has a |
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dead upstream but for some reason we keep it in the tree. In that case |
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the only copy of the src may be on our mirrors. The real answer IMHO |
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is to fork it and put it on some hosting (doesn't need to be Gentoo |
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hosting, code.google.com / github / whatever.) |
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The mirrors are not designed to persist that kind of data; so folks |
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get upset when the only copy of the source is deleted by the mirror |
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service. |
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