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

[Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn]

Diego Elio Pettenò schrieb:
> 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.
>

http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html claims 
that dev.gentoo.org is not acceptable for hosting main-tree items, and 
they must be moved to mirror://gentoo before release.

Maybe putting a clarification there too would help in avoiding confusion 
regarding this issue.


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn