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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 23:24:55
Message-Id: de7cbc53-5d7a-8006-8365-edde79485c93@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout by "Michał Górny"
1 Hi!
2
3 > Today you get chastised for using /space/distfiles-local and not
4 > following policy changes. The devmanual states that it's deprecated
5 > since at least 2011, and talks of using d.g.o [1].
6 > [1]
7 https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html#suitable-download-hosts
8
9 Sorry I'm late to the party, but I would like to enquire about what happens
10 if a file with existing filename but different b2sum gets uploaded to
11 /space/distfiles-local now?
12
13 Doing so and updating the Manifest used to be another (not necessarily
14 preferred) method to address upstream remaking release packages.
15
16
17 Best regards,
18 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>