[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal: new item

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal: new item

[Sam James]

From: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>

Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
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+Title: Cache-enabled sync mirrors only for official repos
+Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
+Posted: 2025-10-07
+Revision: 1
+News-Item-Format: 2.0
+Display-If-Installed: app-eselect/eselect-repository
+
+Due to increasing maintenance costs and complexities, Gentoo is going to
+stop providing the cache-enabled git syncing mirrors found in the
+gentoo-mirror GitHub organization [1], and CI services for third-party
+repositories. We will continue providing mirrors for a curated set of
+official repositories, including ::gentoo, ::guru, ::kde, and ::science.
+The remaining mirrors will be removed on 2025-10-30.
+
+Users who have previously added repositories using
+<app-eselect/eselect-repository-15 may need to readd these repositories
+with >=app-eselect/eselect-repository-15, in order to update their sync
+URIs.  For example, the following can be used:
+
+	eselect repository remove ${repository}
+	eselect repository enable ${repository}
+
+Once the mirrors are discontinued, we are going to remove them entirely
+in order to trigger sync errors for the remaining users, and ensure
+that they are not stuck on non-updated mirrors.
+
+This change does not affect users who have not used eselect-repository
+or the gentoo-mirror repositories.  It does not affect the availability
+of these repositories via >=app-eselect/eselect-repository-15
+and repositories.xml -- the official upstream sync URI will be used
+instead.
+
+[1] https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal: new item

[Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier]

[2025-10-07 06:45:23+0100] Sam James:
>+
>+Users who have previously added repositories using
>+<app-eselect/eselect-repository-15 may need to readd these repositories

Nit but I think "re-add" would be a lot more readable than "readd".

Best regards

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal: new item

[Michał Górny]

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On Tue, 2025-10-07 at 11:53 +0200, Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier wrote:
> [2025-10-07 06:45:23+0100] Sam James:
> > +
> > +Users who have previously added repositories using
> > +<app-eselect/eselect-repository-15 may need to readd these repositories
> 
> Nit but I think "re-add" would be a lot more readable than "readd".
> 

Sure, done that.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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