Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles

[Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)]

Hi all,

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@×××××.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just wanted to write here a clarification regarding self-produced
> distfiles, such as patchset tarballs, SCM snapshots and the like. Some
> people seem under the impression that the correct way to host these is
> to use mirror://gentoo/ and copy them on /space/distfiles-local on
> dev.g.o. Please don't do this.
>
> If you produced the file yourself, and it doesn't matter if the file is
> reproducible (unless it is reproducible to sha512 identity), please use
> the public_html directory in your dev.gentoo.org home to host these.
> This makes sure that the file won't be deleted from all its sources if
> the ebuild is removed (or more likely replaced) from tree. Ask the Emacs
> team how "easy" has been to recover gentoo-syntax files before.

So, after all that, I'm not really clear if we are enforcing this, or not.
A have a patchset. I put it in my devspace as suggested here. Is this
right or should I still use the mirror://gentoo as the devmanual
suggests?

Thanks,

-- 
Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)
Gentoo Developer