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From: Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:47:49
Message-Id: 440C9135.5090300@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles by Stuart Herbert
1 Stuart Herbert wrote:
2
3 >Why not have the directory structure follow the package category
4 >structure? E.g. the distfiles for package foo/bar goes into the
5 >directory ${MIRROR_ROOT}/foo/bar?
6 >
7 >This should be easy enough to support in Portage, and if applied to
8 >the /usr/portage/distfiles directory too, would solve a few other
9 >problems. It also has the advantage of grouping the distfiles in a
10 >way that users would find natural to browse.
11 >
12 >There is the problem of what happens when a package moves, but I think
13 >that's easily solved too.
14 >
15 >
16 this has been discussed before.
17 summary: tarballs could be used by more than one package. this way
18 you'll manage to increase the disk space demands for our mirrors.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles "Jan Kundrát" <jkt@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles Stuart Herbert <stuart.herbert@×××××.com>