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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] New policy: 'files' directory must not be larger than 32 KiB
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:21:02
Message-Id: 20171220152048.1b0077da@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] New policy: 'files' directory must not be larger than 32 KiB by Rich Freeman
1 On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:34:14 -0500
2 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:42 AM, Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
5 > wrote:
6 > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:00:16 -0500
7 > > "Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@g.o> wrote:
8 > >
9 > >> However, what alternative do we have to throwing the patches up in
10 > >> a devspace?
11 > >
12 > > mirror://gentoo, aka /space/distfiles-local/
13 > >
14 >
15 > That isn't a great option. This has been discussed previously:
16 >
17 > https://lists.gt.net/gentoo/dev/224673?do=post_view_threaded
18 >
19 > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html#suitable-download-hosts
20 >
21 >
22 > I would point out that a devspace isn't the only alternative -
23 > anything stable would be reasonable.
24
25 So... 6 years later... still no solution ? Kid me not.
26
27 I don't see what any other hosting style changes here: next time infra
28 checks pecker homedirs, everyone will spend time manually removing old
29 distfiles. For archival of sources, there has always been
30 gentoo/src/patchsets. For extreme cases, there's distfiles-whitelist.