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On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 09:50:35 pm Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I just wanted to write here a clarification regarding self-produced |
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> distfiles, such as patchset tarballs, SCM snapshots and the like. Some |
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> people seem under the impression that the correct way to host these is |
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> to use mirror://gentoo/ and copy them on /space/distfiles-local on |
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> dev.g.o. Please don't do this. |
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> If you produced the file yourself, and it doesn't matter if the file is |
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> reproducible (unless it is reproducible to sha512 identity), please use |
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> the public_html directory in your dev.gentoo.org home to host these. |
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> This makes sure that the file won't be deleted from all its sources if |
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> the ebuild is removed (or more likely replaced) from tree. Ask the Emacs |
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> team how "easy" has been to recover gentoo-syntax files before. |
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Solution b): update the distfiles-local mirroring script to store a copy where |
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it wont be deleted... |
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The interim solution is the current one with the files being deleted when not |
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used in the tree. |
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I'm sorry but your solution doesn't really seem well thought. I'm used and |
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like to use $P and alikes, sometimes with versionator, in SRC_URI for not |
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having to modify this part when bumping a package. Your solution more or less |
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annihilates this in the case it's bumped by different developers. IIRC at least |
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one of {devmanual, policy, quizzes} mandates to have such scalable SRC_URI's. |
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A. |
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