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On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:34:14 -0500 |
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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:42 AM, Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> |
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> > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:00:16 -0500 |
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> > "Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> However, what alternative do we have to throwing the patches up in |
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> >> a devspace? |
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> > mirror://gentoo, aka /space/distfiles-local/ |
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> That isn't a great option. This has been discussed previously: |
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> https://lists.gt.net/gentoo/dev/224673?do=post_view_threaded |
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> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html#suitable-download-hosts |
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> I would point out that a devspace isn't the only alternative - |
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> anything stable would be reasonable. |
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So... 6 years later... still no solution ? Kid me not. |
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I don't see what any other hosting style changes here: next time infra |
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checks pecker homedirs, everyone will spend time manually removing old |
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distfiles. For archival of sources, there has always been |
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gentoo/src/patchsets. For extreme cases, there's distfiles-whitelist. |